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Flex starter advice (non-PPR, standard scoring): Spencer Ware or Donte Moncrief?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 8, 2016 -> 08:43 AM) Which side wins? Team A Gets Matthew Stafford Sammy Watkins Lamar Miller Team B Gets Andy Dalton Dez Bryant Arian Foster Jay Ajayi Team A has Brady and is starting Dalton for the first four weeks as of today. Team A rather easily IMO. A gets a better fantasy QB, a legit RB1 and a high-upside WR2. Team B gets a worse QB, a borderline WR1 and two RBs in a time share.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Sep 7, 2016 -> 11:06 PM) Do I start Decker or Baldwin in non-PPR, standard scoring. Ugh, I can't decide. Decker projected for 9.1, Baldwin for 9.2. Both the Jets and Seahawks face good defenses (Cincy and Denver), but Denver's cornerback group is appreciably better than Cincy's (https://www.profootballfocus.com/pro-rankin...nerback-groups/). So if you go at it that way, I would take Decker. Also realized Seattle is NOT playing Denver. Don't know what I was thinking. Still would go Decker.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 21, 2016 -> 06:16 PM) Outside of Burdi and Sale, I don't think anyone in the system has an arm like Hansen. There is no reason to not get excited about the improvements he has made so far. I temper my excitement with anything related to Rookie Ball. But, there's no doubt, he's got an elite arm and appears to be harnessing it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 21, 2016 -> 06:07 PM) I think the big difference is that Adams numbers didn't change a ton when he got into the minors. Hansen, besides having 1-1 stuff, which Adams never did, has done a complete 180 since we signed him. Adams was also straight out of high school while Hansen had three years of college.

QUOTE (PolishPrince34 @ Aug 16, 2016 -> 06:14 AM) I have a friend who knows one of the minority owners son who said Reinsdorf has beginning stages of Alzheimer's. Don't know how much of this true, but when is the last time anyone has seen Jerry in public. The past 1 1/2 all you see are email responses from him. I saw him at a wedding last October, and talked with both him and Michael. Jerry was his normal self.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 11, 2016 -> 02:59 PM) WSD just tweeted that Bernstein is saying that the sox ownership is pursuing a sale of the team? Please be true. :pray

QUOTE (ptatc @ Aug 10, 2016 -> 09:54 AM) The only slight sympathy I have is that they want to make the teachers pay their portion of the pension (which they should) in too fast of a time period. Imagine your boss cutting your pay by 7%. It is not the teachers fault that the idiotic politicians decided to pay the teachers portion a long time ago. They should slow the process of cutting their pay. You are absolutely correct. IIRC, CPS had at one time proposed a contract with pension payment increase phase-ins.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Aug 10, 2016 -> 08:51 AM) A friend of mine retired at 53. She will collect $80,000 next year and has essentially a cost adjusted annuity for the rest of her life. For round number sakes, let's say she lives until she is 83. Without adjusting for COL increases, she will receive $2.4 million worth of pension payments (actually higher because of the COL adjustments). For that $2.4 million, because CPS had been picking up 7% of the 9% portion of her salary that goes toward a pension, she paid 2% of her salary each year toward that $2.4 million. This, in a nutshell, is why I have no sympathy for the CPS teachers threatening to strike.

Sample size. He has barely had a week's worth of at-bats. His minor league track record suggests he is nothing more than back-up catching fodder. With that said, he deserves more at-bats than Navarro.

Hoping for the best Jeremy, terrible you and your family are going through this.

The irony is if he had a verbal confrontation with management, KW is as big a headcase as Sale.

If he is traded, I will understand it, but it will be so sad to see a hall of fame-caliber pitcher traded by your team.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 23, 2016 -> 05:29 PM) Pitching Albers is just conceding another game. Pretty poor when an organization is so poor it has to concede a game. Doesn't have anybody to pick up a spot start. Trading Sale is a very bad idea. If you are gonna trade a guy you don't handle it this way. I'm telling you, organizations are quickly evaluating huge-name prospects that they believe will be like Avi, flops. Those are the guys the Sox will acquire. Remember how high a draft pick Beckham was?? This is how you sit in last place for 5-10 years. Making bulls*** trades at the wrong time. Our trade window has already closed for this year as far as I'm considered. Highway robbery coming. At this point, losing games is the best route for the organization. If you are going to rebuild, the name of the game is getting as high a draft pick as possible for 3-5 years.

I am not buying this until Merk or another beat guy tweets it. EDIT: And that has happened. Wow.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jul 23, 2016 -> 09:02 AM) For Chris Sale? The Red Sox just traded a top 20 prospect for Drew Pomerenz. While I'm in agreement with you on your first statement, you're seriously undervaluing him in your second. This is main problem with trading Sale, his value is so high that it is really hard to find the same value in a trade. The Red Sox are not going to gut their entire system for Sale after the Pomeranz deal, in my opinion.

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Jul 23, 2016 -> 03:30 AM) In a deal for Sale with the Red Sox we need to at least be getting Betts or JBJ, and their top 3-4 prospects and a b prospect or two Ya, that's not that happening. Betts and JBJ alone are close to equal in value to Sale over the next 3-4 years due to their contracts and performances. You aren't getting Moncada/Benintendi/Devers PLUS JBJ or Betts. In a deal with the Red Sox, the best you could hope for is one of Moncada/Benintendi, one of Devers/Kopech and a couple other B-level prospects.

Per Rotoworld: Vogelbach a piece I have long wanted from the Cubs since he has no future with an NL team. He is going to be a very solid DH for the next 10 years.

The card has no annual fee so I'm just going to do the small purchases every so often route. Thanks for the input!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 18, 2016 -> 12:27 PM) Leave it open. I closed an account I no longer had use for at $13k line and it dinged my score 100 points. F*cking ridiculous. I should have just left it open. I hate hate hate being in the 700's now. QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jul 18, 2016 -> 12:31 PM) DO NOT CLOSE IT! You will take a hit on your credit score. I know because I have done this before. So let Wells Fargo close the account in 18 months? Won't that ding my credit score too? I hate the whole system...

Here's the backstory, I open up a credit account with Wells Fargo to finance an engagement ring (for the interest-free financing). I paid off the ring before the interest-free financing time period expired, so now I have this account with Wells Fargo and this line of credit I do not and will not use. In the fine print of the terms, I noticed that Wells Fargo will close the account after 18 months of no activity. Should I just close the account myself now and take the credit score hit now (not looking for any major purchases in next 12-18 months)? Or should I let Wells Fargo do it in 18 months' time? Does either option more negatively affect the credit score? Or it is all about timing?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 17, 2016 -> 06:12 PM) Yep. I am going to temper my extreme excitement that a fix really was that immediate and easy, and instead worry that he is just dominating inferior levels... But a 1-1 pick level Hansen would be the Sox best draft pick since stealing and turning Chris Sale into front line starter. This is the right mindset. I've been burned by way too many White Sox prospects who had great Rookie ball numbers and then struggle once they hit A, AA and AAA ball. But it's encouraging to see. Clearly better than the alternative.

Nate Jones is WAY better than Jennings. They aren't even close.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jul 15, 2016 -> 10:00 AM) Well, his last 8 starts have been good to really good. Last 8 starts: 45 innings, 3.80 ERA, 1.44 WHIP. He's missing bats, I'll give you that. But that's a crap ton of base runners.

I just do not like this for his development at all. He seemed like he was just starting to hit his stride as a starter after struggling most of the year, so now we move him to the pen?