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QUOTE (Jack Parkman @ Sep 10, 2017 -> 03:22 PM) Yeah, and it is unfortunate. White was on the score a bunch leading up to 2015 draft, seemed like a good dude and was genuinely excited to be a Bear. It is a shame that his body couldn't withstand NFL football. I really don't like using "bust" for someone who didn't turn into a good player due to career altering injuries. That is not a scouting failure, it is just a fact of football and poor luck. Injuries suck, and football chews a player up and spits them out. Good guy and injuries happen. Too bad. At least he got himself one nice paycheck. Hard for me to blame front office cause we never ever got to see if he actually could be good and it wasn't like he was injured when we drafted him. Guy played in college and then had something crop up and has never been the same since.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 9, 2017 -> 02:18 PM) This just in.....Iowa State still sucks. Nice win for the hawks

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 8, 2017 -> 07:55 AM) So it is your belief that Carlos Rodon has done nothing but "watched television" since his last time out? I have no inside info but when I read this first thing I saw was that maybe he just woke up sore, slept on something wrong and as they got closer to the start and he had loosened up they decided to take the extra cautious route. No basis for that.

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Sep 8, 2017 -> 03:16 AM) I really thought Chiefs had no chance yesterday after the first half. Pretty crazy to see Alex Smith throw a couple deep balls and shred the Pats at Gillette. Many times on this board, I've said that I think Alex Smith is one of the more underrated passers in this league. He's the Rodney Dangerfield of QB's.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Sep 8, 2017 -> 07:51 AM) I work for a Financial investment mutual company now, I honestly wouldn't trust these guys without laws in place that make them specifically call out investments that make them more money. Way too much incentive to screw people over, I just think of the mortgage crisis and how brokers were pushing variable rates because they made 5x as much on them, why wouldn't these guys sell do something similar? Russ...where you working for. Since you reference Mutual, I presume it is an insurance company? Are you at CUNA?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 7, 2017 -> 01:18 PM) I was thinking about this last night. I wonder if his back is 100%. Obviously he has nothing at the plate. Nothing at all. Even defensively, he's made some really nice plays, and is so sound fundamentally ( I admire his practicing backhanded flips before games) but he has booted a few this year he normally has no problem with. I'm convinced something is going on with Saladino. He's no world beater at the plate, but he looked more then solid there over the past two years and has completely cliff dived this year to a point beyond expectation. His solidish bat combined with the defense and versatility is a solid depth guy and he hasn't been that. I presume there is more to the story and we will all hear about it in the off-season. Fundamentally he is such a sound player

Haven't seen anyone talk about it, but Lauri Markkanen is destroying it in the Euro tourney. #1 player on Finland and has been straight balling. Below are some excerpts from an article in the ringer. https://www.theringer.com/nba/2017/9/6/1625...anen-cedi-osman

Or are we just listing that on the report only to switch them to inactive on game day? Wouldn't be shocked if that was the case.

Also surprised Trubisky is the #2 (who will be active).

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 6, 2017 -> 11:44 AM) I would say that Long, McPhee, and Amukamura being listed as active counts as a surprise They are all playing? Wow...color me surprised.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 6, 2017 -> 09:44 AM) Maybe I haven't squared up with how little our WR and QB talent (with Glennon not Trubs tha God) will hurt our offense or schedule, but I am heading into this season feeling pretty positive. I don't know. I just think we could really inflate our performance with power run offense plus TE pass game, and a top 10 defense. Pretty good shot we start the year 1-5 / 0-6. That isn't even indicative of us being bad or anything along those lines but purely on the fact that we are going to be playing teams better than us each of the 1st six weeks. Most of which are significantly better than us.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 6, 2017 -> 08:40 AM) In this day and age of OBP Anderson will always have that glaring weakness along with his Jose Valentin defense. I don't think you kick him to the curb but there are certainly issues to address. Garcia can't seem to stay healthy either so that doesn't help. Jose Valentin made errors, but advanced defensive metrics loved him.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Sep 5, 2017 -> 05:49 PM) Right. And now that he has come around with the bat, he deserves a shot at the SS job. Anderson should not be annointed as the starting SS but should have to earn it. Let them both compete for the job next year. Tim Anderson has put up a .723 OPS in the 2nd half of the season and is coming off a really strong 6 weeks. He also had a cup of coffee last year where he put up a near 3 WAR in

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 6, 2017 -> 06:53 AM) Absolutely brutal, especially for 2 playoff-aspirational teams I presume both teams had a say in things?

Right move. If we kept him and dropped Gentry, I'd be annoyed. We still might not keep Gentry but at least it isn't for Victor Cruz (who just isn't the player he once was).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2017 -> 08:25 AM) Yeah, I said Tigers, I meant Astros. Houston seems to value their prospects way higher than money. It wouldn't have taken much more prospects to land them a Gray or Quintana, but they didn't. Instead they got an older and way more expensive pitcher who has had some pretty bad years recently, who is signed up for a really long time. Verlander is under contract for 2 more years, which I would not describe as a very long time. That said, I know he has a vesting option in 2020 so maybe that kicks in and it means he's under contract for 3 more years. You also reference him coming off "bad" seasons, but last year he put up a WAR of 6.6 and this year he is basically at 4 (with a few more starts left). The year before he put up a WAR of 2 (over 20 starts) and that was the only year in his career (outside of his rookie year where he threw 186 innings) where he didn't throw 200 innings. I will qualify that by saying it is debatable whether he will get to that mark this year (or not). He should have a shot though (28 innings away). Verlander is still pretty good. Not as great as he once was, but for the Astros, they seemed okay taking on the additional money vs. giving up the prospects for a guy who absolutely makes them a more formidable world series contender, imo.

I'd sign some players who we think we can spin at the deadline. We don't have enough arms in the minors ready to sit in bullpen roles. Not to mention, I just don't think it is good for a team's morale to go into the season with hot garbage everywhere. You want to close out the games you are leading (even if there aren't a lot of them) and you can spin those players for assets. Find a vet closer on a 1yr deal or take a flyer on a few guys.

So nervous about what future 1st round pick Josh Allen does to the Hawkeyes.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 1, 2017 -> 08:02 AM) The Bulls don't own their own 2018 or 2019 2nd round pick. They are eating Pondexter's contract in order to obtain New Orleans' 2018 2nd rounder. This is a good deal. It's ironic though that they traded their 2017 2nd for $3 million and now are eating $3 million plus on Pondexter's deal to acquire a 2nd round pick. Completely agree with you.

I'm okay with it. 2nd round picks aren't crazy valuable but hey, its something. I just don't like when we "sell" them for cash vs. future picks.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 1, 2017 -> 05:42 AM) Shaw got injured. Twice. And Sanchez wasn't available as emergency QB I guess? It is weird that they didnt play Sanchez at all? I presume they know he isn't very good, but you'd have thought you'd let him get some snaps since he has had pretty limited snaps in game action (during the preseason). I recognize he has plenty of NFL experience so that can be fine, but odd that the Bears let Trubisky drop back late in that game after Shaw was hurt twice. At least it didn't seem like there were any serious injuries in the game (even though the game was an epic disaster). But if we were going to get crushed in a preseason game, let it be the 4th one, haha.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 1, 2017 -> 04:59 AM) I absolutely love that this is how the Astros choose to trade their prospects and blow their money on. Hardly the END of the world for them or anything, but man they had many other easier options out there. I hope they lose so bad. I actually think in hindsight, they did well getting Verlander and they got him just in the nick of time. They gave up some talent, but I like what we got from the Cubs more. That said, Tigers did well. I wonder if Harvey played into this at all and the Astros front office decided they wanted to make a major push to try and create something for Houston to be excited for (in the midst of all the tragedy and what will be a long recovery).

QUOTE (Wanne @ Aug 29, 2017 -> 06:31 PM) Sorry guys...that's still a ton of quiche/assets to have to fork over for one guy. I'm on board with staying the course with the rebuild and wait for guys like Jimenez, Moncada, Robert, Rutherford, Burger, etc... to develop. When the Sox are primed for a big run...Stanton will probably be 32 years old. Not that that's old...but I'd hate to be saddled with an albatross contract for someone that age. I sure as hell don't want to give up any of the young talent... 32 years old? That is 5 years from now. If we are talking 5 years to be primed for a big run, things have gone really wrong. To me Stanton should be in his prime when you are contending for a series and he should also help you get to contention faster (as long as you are using cash / lesser prospects to get that piece (I'm not dealing a top 200 guy at the time, since there is a major risk Stanton ops out more near term). If the Marlins wanted something to show face, I'd trade Abreu and Fulmer for Stanton. I like the idea of keeping Abreu around, but I'd be interested in Stanton for being a key piece to our long-term rebuild (who really speeds up the process for 2019 wild card contention with what you hope is an upward trajectory from there).

QUOTE (Soxnfins @ Aug 29, 2017 -> 05:09 PM) May be going against everyone here, but I'd give them Carson Fulmer, especially if the organization projects him as a reliever. Although that could be too high. I'd make that trade without thinking twice. I'd probably be willing to give up Fulmer / Adolfo...those type of guys.