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I think it will come down to injuries and how the oline holds up. If injuries are manageable and aren't to like a critical difference maker on the D and the oline plays solid - I think we are talking about a 10-11 win team. I expect the offense to be better - doesn't take much to be honest. Having real TE's will be huge and Mitch is going to be better than last year and Foles is also better than Mitch was last year. I'm not saying either will be good or great...but better than the play the team got last year.

Congrats Dane on hopefully your first of many many victories!

I also get the construct around - you are going to be careful what you share with the public vs. not. Every president strategically keeps certain things from the public - and there is certainly places for where you draw the line. You wouldn't want the whole country rioting out of sheer of mass panic (i.e., Trump shouldn't have just got out and said - I've seen this thing - its terrible - we are all going to die) but the opposite is just as bad as it created the divide we are all dealing with. Those actions made everything political and there was never any need to do so - he needed to be honest and sincere about the difficulties we were facing but also share a plan and solution to ease the populations minds, etc. Funny part is - if he listened to the experts and got out in front of this and lead through this - he would be easily getting re-elected. Instead....well...nothing more to be said.

I actually thought the same thing - when I read his responses I thought - huh, he actually gets this - I wish he would actually speak this way to the public.

I got got!

FAKE TWEET - IGNORE ME

Uh oh - Is Boylen the new Sox manager?

You would think people would realize in baseball, even the good teams are going to lose a lot of games, and they are going to have losses that are ugly like this one. It happens - you move on and know that in the long run of the season, the talent prevails and this team has that (its why they have the record they do).

Technically he also hit a HR - so without that different story too. Sometimes it is not your not. Chalk it up and move on. Win the next one.

I don't mind the loss. Losses happen - especially in baseball. But seriously - why does Cordero pitch so much, let alone in this high leverage of a situation. Please Rodon and Lopez - please come back and kick butt out of the pen. This team could seriously use that type of awesomeness.

I wouldn't compare Burdi & Covey's stuff. Covey had okay stuff - Burdi has electric stuff. 1k/9 innings but he gets into these funks where he throws some meatballs - hence the 4HR in 11 innings. We are also talking 11 innings and a guy coming back from some pretty serious injuries - command should be expected to be an issue (given how little he pitched). As I said - hopefully he has a good plan for how to keep working on repeating those mechanics. Burdi has thrown some pitches that just dance - like absurd. He just isn't consistent - if teams can sit on his heater - they'll hit him, period. If he's throwing strikes and mixing his pitches - he's unhittable (with the stuff). Whether he can figure it out - I don't know, but I think if he can maintain his health, he can figure out the rest to at least be good (because his stuff is that good).

I agree - he does fill a big void with Goldman out. I just didn't know how much at this point is more based upon his reputation vs. any actual play. But either way - it is the right type of move to make (since the loss of Goldman is huge and while Nichols and others will get a shot - good to have someone like Snacks to help with that because shutting down the run game is huge to enable our pass rush and create the turnovers that will be needed for this team to truly be good). Short fields will help the offense, etc.

You might be right on the Allen Robinson front - I don't know how all of the recent extensions will impact where the Bears stand on Robinson. I like Robinson a ton but I never think you win by paying your wide outs top dollar (you win by having a really good QB who makes his wideouts better and a team needs to be able to find new weapons pretty regularly). That said - with where the Bears are, I don't see how you don't sign Allen - especially since they have so much unused cap space this year so even if you spend more money than you'd like - your actual cost (in terms of future years - can be more manegable if you leverage the cap). On Harrison - is he even any good?

The stuff is there - which is the good part - the repeatability is a challenge. Hopefully he can keep working right now down in Schaumburg and get himself ready. If it is sooner - awesome, if it isn't until next year, fine.

We definitely had a good contingent at those Angel series.

Jimmy Fucking Buckets!!!! Boy was I right about him!!!

Redfin could drive down agent compensation and bend the realtor model - but redfin itself isn't going to be the won who wins that war. They have more overhead than any agent will ever pretend and these are large sizeable, chunky assets. Digital purchases of real estate (as in true digital) is make believe land and Redfin already runs extremely razor thin margins and nearly was shuttered earlier this year. When someone is selling a $500K home and I'm paying $20-25K in commission - the cost might come down, sure, but RedFin isn't going to do it for $1000 so the real question is the differential in value between a red fin agent and someone else. And I can absolutely tell you a good agent will maximize your value, they will make the transaction more smooth, etc. Most real estate transactions have hiccups - in a fully digital era, ill prepared agents aren't capable of handling those items and a real estate purchase is literally about as stressful of a purchase any family/person will make. You might still make money on redfin - not getting into a construct on the valuation of the stock as I don't follow the stock closely - but your broad based generalizations will prove flat wrong. That said - that is the beauty of these types of conversations - I also could be flat wrong

He still is coming back from an injury that knocked him out a month.

And 3 times the stuff. You can't even compare the electricness and the crispness of each others pitches. And that isn't a knock on Lopez. Lopez has good stuff - not great, or elite, good. Cease has elite stuff (but a slight frame that will likely always hinder his true-up side as that frame will have to impact his ability to go deeper into games). Cease has to develop at the major league level - but his stuff maintains throughout the game.

I tend to agree - my hope is they have a plan in place for what he's going to work on and than we'll see him back in a couple weeks. He has the stuff, just needs to get everything figured out ultimately.

You know they are about to announce he has signed an extension - or at least that is the widely ranging view. I could be wrong - but I'll just assume your post will be followed with a press conference where Pace announces the extension.

Except for Moncada. Which is what I think Yerm is asking, did Moncada specifically come out and say it. Otherwise - to your point Mike, anything we have is pure speculation.

Does anyone remember 2005 - where the Sox only deadline move was Geoff Blum (one of the most unlikely of world series heroes). Could Dyson be Blum and have a key moment as a pinch runner and be just enough?

Why can’t I have both. And what do I care if it takes Kopech until 2022 to be a stud. That is still worth it’s weight in gold. There is zero reason to be crazy urgent this season unless there is a stellar deal to be made (meaning well below market pricing).

He will work his way back in the minors - but that is okay and will get a service year back. He will be working out etc and should be in fine shape. Why wouldn’t we want a talent like that to help support this young team filled with elite talent. Did I mention he has better stuff than anyone on the club - and it isn’t even close either.