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I am in your camp. I don't know that he would be my top choice, but I don't think he is a bad choice and I absolutely think he can win a ring with the southsiders. IT does mean we are having another mgr conversation in 2-3 more years though, but that is okay if they have made the playoffs each of those years and won at least one championship

I will caveat - Dave Roberts makes decisions that go against the pure analytics. It is one of the things people rip on him for from time to time. That said - he is a pro analytics guy. Its just a matter that he isn't a trained robot that only does the analytics. I also don't think the Rays manager always goes with it too. They appreciate analytics for what they are and are very progressive in their use of the tool to help make them better. TLR was always one of the most progressive mgr's in the game in the past as well and had tons of teams that were extremely fun to watch and full of characters (Oakland A's is probably best example...Henderson & Canseco - I mean those are two of the most flashy guys I can remember).

I don't get this - TLR isn't anti analytics and he isn't anti-excitement. None of those are routed in truth. Now he is going to mix what a player is looking like that specific day with the analytics. The combination of the two. Maybe the analytics say pull Snell because of X, but maybe Tony says, look at his stuff today, it is plus plus, that was just a mistake an aberration and thus I'm going to stick with the guy who is looking unbelievable tonight. The above is not being anti-analytics, it is just taking and leveraging other data points into the overall consideration. Call it what you will, but I don't think it is a bad idea. The opposite would be said of a situation where the analytics say keep going, but you are watching a guy just hit into consistent hard hit out after hard hit out. Analytics say don't pull him - but mgr says nope, you are done, I can see you don't have it today, appreciate your grit to grind this out, but now we are going in another direction.

I'm super excited (and surprised) at the NBA announcement to open right before Xmas. As terrible as the Bulls are, I really miss watching my team place basketball. No idea how they are going to pull this off and I do expect we'll see a lot of stars sit as they just manage their body given the short off-season for those teams that went deep into the playoffs, but this path helps get NBA on a pretty good glide path to a normal start of the season for the 2021/2022 season.

I'll like any post from our very own Gregory Pratt!!! The man is a LT legend @Gregory Pratt

Probably best case answer. I don't know that I want the Ball family and Lamelo has his issues, but I think he has upside and Bulls need a playmaker.

And Foles played awful tonight - but there were a ton of times where you literally could see him staring down Nagy for how pissed he was at the playcalling. Not playing with tempo, etc. Going to be interesting. By the way - that was right there with Trubisky's performance against the Saints last year. Oh - and why exactly is Ginn returning punts?

I haven't followed Foles his whole career, but I never remember him making excuses or throwing others under the bus. This is a DAMNING comment from his starting QB. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1320929740690198530 We were talking to Nick Foles yesterday and sometimes play calls come in, and I know I don't have time to execute that play call. And I'm the one out here getting hit... Matt Nagy, he doesn't know how much time there is back here."

Is this team better with Foles vs. Trubisky? Or is it basically the exact same.

Well - Foles can't hit when guys are wide open, they have bad drops, they have stupid penalties, and quite frankly, their players (not named Mooney) rarely win one on one matchups. Oh - and Montgomery is slow and TERRIBLE. HE IS PART OF THE PROBLEM. He is the worst starting running back I can remember the Bears have (and I remember James Allen pretty well - in fact that is probably who he reminds me of; I always remember James Allen never got downfield, he always did a slow stutter jump forward thing that was brutal. Montgomery looks like he's in quick sand a ton. And quite frankly - Nagy does an awful job getting his best players the ball. He's usually scheming to get Patterson way too many touches (his whole career has shown he is an awesome special teams player and a very ocassional gadget player. In no way shape or form should Patterson be getting the # of touches he is getting. And Beast - I think on the play Hicks was smiling, he was smiling because it was an absurd offsides call given how delayed the olinemen jumping off was. Either way - the Bears absolutely railed to make plays. I actually don't think Nagy is an awful head coach, I do think he's an TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR. Like he absolutely sucks at it - that said, the personell suck too. Oline, running backs, blah receiving corps.

Brutal. Not a good decision on that pick. They are not any better with Foles.

I said when they drafted him - I thought it was an unnecessary move.

This is Nagys problem - he gives too many reps to his lesser players. Don’t get cute - If kmet is good, give him the ball. Same with Patterson - we give him way too many carries. I legit can’t remember a worse rushing attack in franchise history than last year and this years bears.

Whole family got the flu shot today (love how easy they have made it - literally we just pull up in the car, hop out for < 5 minutes and we are done (don't even have to park the car). Hopefully this years shot is pretty effective against the flu - would be a really good year for that to be the case and for it to be a mild mild flu season.

Fair enough - I agree with that.

No offense guys - but the world would be a better place if we stopped just blanketly calling people with different political viewpoints idiots. Makes no one better & not productive. Unless you literally think we should live in a world where you can't be friends with someone who has different viewpoints. Personally - I think that is a boring world and I don't believe things are black and white. Different people have different views and I need to respect that - as long as those views aren't fundamental extremist type of positions. And no - I don't think every person who voted for Trump is an extremist - some certainly are, but many had there reasons and the fact that they voted for that individual does not make them a horrible person. We will never get ourselves back as a country if we continue to have so many people who have basically put themselves in an echo chamber (it is literally the exact opposite of diversity and is scary). Tony - I am not saying that is you - but this country is way too polarized and I hate absolute statements like this. The reality is, there were a lot of people who voted for Trump back in 2016 because well, they figured they had been stuck in their situation forever and maybe that situation had gotten worse and over decades they never saw it get better (Democrat, Republican...didn't matter). So you know what - they decided they wanted to take a shot and go anti-establishment, because you know what, why not, nothing else had helped them (in their own perceived world). I don't get why people can't empathize and respect that and instead just assume every single person who voted for Trump is a steaming pile of dog, poop. Some absolutely are - but that is the human race and those people exist on both sides of the voting spectrum.

For those that worry about whether TLR will fit in with the younger players on this club - given the Sox talked to TA (and maybe a few others) prior to letting Ricky go, isn't it safe to assume RH and gang may ask a few of the leaders to way in as it relates to a potential managerial hire. I don't envision the players making the decision, more just getting a high level reaction if there were any concerns (may even get specific - i.e., would the team be okay with Hinch given what happened or if it was TLR, etc).

But in the playoffs - an extra TOR guy is better than filling your worst position. If they are a defensive blackhole that is a seperate issue, but Engel can cover that even if he can't hit. Just find him a platoon partner and spend on the TOR guy if you can. With this team - I'd spend all my money on pitching.

Bears have to be making a move for Spain of the Bills, who was just cut. Sounds like it had more to do with a disagreement in the lockeroom with coaches/other items than his play. He also worked with Castillo back when he was in Buffalo and well - the Bears line is not good, so if I were them I'd be pretty aggressive in making this move (albeit- in season moves are always tough and olines more than any other position benefit so much from consistency and cohesion). But with the Bears oline - which is putrid (year 2 and running) - I'll take my chances.

Does everyone who suggests Joc would have been better than Mazara realize how bad Joc was in 2020? Dude hit under .200. Both of them stunk in 2020 and we would have complained with either of them in the lineup. But yeah - paying $10M+ for a guy coming off a season where he hit <.200, no thank you (although i do assume he'll bounce back). Bright side is - Joc can play defense.

This - buck stops with him as it relates to people on HIS staff.

I still LOL at everyone who rips Dave Roberts. 3 world series appearances in 5 years as a manager. I don't care how good your roster is - doing that year in and year out is impressive. Not to mention fact he is just really good, use of statistics, ability to manage his players, etc. Like any manager, you can nit pick, but Sox couldn't have been luckier than if Roberts somehow landed on the open market. Anything is possible - but I've followed and watched Dodgers enough to know Roberts is hands down a darn good manager and would just be a stellar fit. Highly unlikely the Dodgers move another direction - especially now that his team just came back to beat the Braves after being down 3-1. But if Roberts were free - he would be by far and away my runaway pick.

This - he is the mgr - he controls what his coaches do / don't do. He and he alone could have and should have stopped it. If the front office was doing other things and had issue with him stopping it, than peace, I'll find another gig. Hinch pointing fingers at others is not appropriate when he KNEW it was going on.

Next 3 weeks are going to be really tough - going to learn a lot about this team over next 3 weeks.

Sorry - I should say a 3rd and a 2nd (cause his pick was a waste as was the 2nd we gave up).