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QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 02:24 PM) Since 2003 we've had a winning record twice ('03 and '04) and were .500 once (2013). Outside of those three seasons the Sox have been mostly brutal record-wise. 2 of the worst ST records came in '06 and '08, so it probably won't matter, but it's nice to see regardless. I was listening to Bowden on my drive in this morning and I thought he summed spring up perfectly. Early on, records don't matter, as you get into the middle of spring, they become a bit more important, but the key is you don't want a brutal spring. A great spring, who cares, nothing to get overly excited about, but a bad spring, that can overhang. Be at or slightly above .500 and that is perfect heading into the season. Bottom line, you should only worry if you have an awful start. That said, I remember watching the 05 Sox in spring and they are just brutal during the stretch of games I watched (not sure where they finished) but poor fundamentals, etc. Right now, with regulars playing so little, any result is relatively meaningless, that said, I think wins and positive starts in general, juts help from the "mental" perspective. Everything resets once the season starts and it to me, again becomes important to get off to that good start. More so when you are a team who has opened out of the gates poorly that past few seasons (as it gets the head going...not again). Good start will be key for this club, imo.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 01:06 PM) It gets misused a lot. And really, over 300 kids died. Maybe it shouldn't be reduced to sports joke. I had to google it. Presume I knew that it meant drinking the kool aid and somehow that got turned into a figure of speach from the drink. Did not know the genesis was the jonestown deaths.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 01:51 PM) How come Hillary supporters don't care about her alleged crimes and won't comment on my posts except to point out my disdain for Hillary? That's all I want to know. There are laws in society prohibiting government officials for putting classified information on their private email accounts. People's lives are at stake. If she gets off the hook then please, at least, pardon all those currently in prison for the same activity. Yes, I will shut up if all who are in prison are released for the same activity. I also don't like Hillary's defense in all this. She just says "I didn't do that." "I'd never do that." "This is a partisan witch hunt." Hopefully she'll have to go to trial where those answers won't be good enough. How come Trump supporters don't care about his alleged Trumpism? Okay, I made that up. Seriously, Hillary did something wrong and even referred to it in some emails. I agree that there are issues there, but I'm tired of all of the propoganda on both sides. The liberal media this or blah blah blah. At some point, are the parties going to start working with each other to actually solve issues instead of stand on pedestals and spew nonsense. I watched the democratic debate (I don't know if it was live or what, but was on CNN late last night) and I was like, oh, maybe my alternative choice to Trump isn't so great, maybe I'm better to stick to my write-in approach. The pandering on the liberal side is just crazy to me...I honestly can't believe some of the rheteroic just to ensure you get a vote, but than I watch the righties and they clearly do it too...Trump has mastered it with all of his theatrics. Whole thing is disagraceful in my eyes and I'd like to consider myself a pretty open minded and moderate conservative. But there in lies the problem...that doesn't fly in the "conservative" movement anymore. Everyone is on theory and no one is willing to get anything actually done. I hear it all the time from my old man...liberal media wants you to believe...like hell, I might be a sucker, okay, I am like everyone else in this planet, to some extent a sucker, but I can listen to people talk and I come up to my own conclusions (rational or irrational...rational to me, who the hell knows what someone else thinks) but I have never shook my head more at the state of everything. From the left wanting to hand and promise so many things that are impossible to do to the right who wants to veto every single thing that happened in the past 7 years for some principal. I don't give a f*** about what your going to veto, tell me what you are going to fix, tell me you are going to reach across the aisle and accomplish something. The only people who lose on this war on rhetoric is....you guessed it...the people. None of us win in this game between the right and the left. A healthy balance is critical. Makes you want to re-write the constitution to create some form of an amendment to the bill of rights or something that would somehow help / force parties to work together or something.

‏@BradBiggs Sounds like price tag on LB Danny Trevathan is going to be at or just a little above $7 million per season. That's not a surprise.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 11:30 AM) Very happy about this. Mcphee/Treviathan...heck yeah. I agree, that said, nothing done yet. Also like that we are evidently looking at Vazquez.

Aaron Leming ‏@AaronLemingNFL 4m4 minutes ago Just to clarify, I'm not the first one to pick up the Danny Trevathan signing. Simply passing along what info I received. #Bears Aaron Leming ‏@AaronLemingNFL 2m2 minutes ago #Bears far from done in FA market. DE Akiem Hicks, OL Louis Vasquez & S Rodney McLeod are all names to keep an eye in the coming days.

Benjamin Allbright ‏@AllbrightNFL 54s54 seconds ago As I said earlier, now widely reported, #Bears are finishing up deal with Danny Trevathan

Aaron Leming ‏@AaronLemingNFL 51s51 seconds ago At this point, it would almost be shocking not to see Danny Trevathan & a DL (likely Akiem Hicks) in a #Bears uniform by the end of tomorrow

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 11:14 AM) They might actually be pretty fun to watch next year. They have some talent. And they are also supposedly front runners for Irvin in Seattle. Yes, they are spending a lot of money, but they also seem to have drafted much better in recent years. Good for them.

I watched a bit of the democratic debate and was flabbergasted by the stat that 1 out of 3 african american males will be incarated in their lifetime. Is that really true. That is astonishing. Or is that stat inflated a bit by multiple offenders (i.e., they take offenders by race and jail visits and than divide by total population by racial profile)? The income inequalities by race are also staggering and it is also amazing how that despite various regimes (dem / republican), they have remained that way for so long. Things that make you pause and wonder whether anything currently on the table from either party really would do anything to help or whether there has to be a much more revoluationary game changer (and no I don't have that answer).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 11:08 AM) David Schuster ‏@Schumouse 12m12 minutes ago Jimmy Butler's knee swelling is down and he's feeling better. Questionable for the next game Hopefully it was "normal" swelling related to coming back from an injury and not anything else.

Bears reportedly leader of the pack for Danny T.

I like the direction if we get Trevathan and Aikers.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 7, 2016 -> 05:04 PM) Colts are crazy. Paying Allen a Ton He was the best FA TE on the market (not that there was many of them). It is why I am a big believer of keeping Marty (unless you get actual value for him via trade). Presume this makes Fleener most achievable candidate.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Mar 7, 2016 -> 01:08 PM) Yeah, I like how there is no wasted time as the group gets closer and closer to meeting Negan. I was expecting an episode or two of characters debating going after the Saviors, etc. The church scene could have been a half episode in previous seasons. Lulling themselves into a false sense of security is just getting us geared up for the season finale. I wouldn't be surprised if two characters get killed off. Yeah - I was shocked at how quickly they moved.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 7, 2016 -> 01:26 PM) It's amazing. I just find it comical that someone in this thread considers himself a non-bandwagoner when there's no evidence to support that. I remember when Ruutu was going to bring back the cup. Zhamnov too. Or when the Bulin wall was going to make us awesome (post 1st lockout). Yep...diehard fan4life Note: I'm referring about myself. I enjoy watching the Hawks and cheer for them and while I wouldn't call myself a bandwagon fan, I'm more of a, don't have enough time for hockey, but in the post-season, I'll watch and cheer my favorite team, but I also won't pretend to know / be able to talk up the game like others (but than I talk to people who are "diehard" and I realize, s***, I know more about hockey than them and I don't even follow the sport, especially not in the regular season, outside of checking scores). I can't stand watching a regular season hockey game..just so diluted. I suppose the same, in many regards could be said about the NBA regular season, but I prefer NBA to NHL in general. In NBA and NHL, playoff product is just so much better and I feel that degree of difference is lesser in the two other major sports.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 7, 2016 -> 12:13 PM) Agreed. The math makes clear that while Trump is still clearly the front-runner, the path to going to convention with the nomination fully in hand keeps getting steeper. The wildcards are A) if Rubio drops out, or B) if Cruz was willing to hand his delegates to Trump at convention. Your allocations of proportional states might be a bit off, as you are going off of historical levels and we have seen recently where Rubio has started to "not get enough" to qualify and thus the split ends up being more along two candidates vs. the multitude of candidates. Don't most upcoming states have like a 20% minimum vote threshold to get any delegates. That wasn't as common in some of the early states (and this is going off of the top of my head). So it could be a little overly punitive to assume a consistent delegate % racked up given current trends. Another wildcard is that Cruz has yet to really prove he can win outside of strong evanglist states (and he has even lost some to Trump).

Another fantastic episode of Walking Dead this past week.

Solid solid signing. I don't know if this is enough, but if things bounce the Sox way they can certainly contend. Favorite, no way. This team is significantly deeper than a year ago's team and I have said for a while I like Avi in the 4th outfield role, taking advantage of match-ups, etc. Jackson solidifies this defense but his offense has had a 2 year downswing, so lets hope he can bounce back a bit vs. continue to trend downward. We still lack very many good position players but at least now, we have less totally negative players.

Wow...this is a great hire for the Illinois.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Mar 6, 2016 -> 03:38 PM) It is the biggest upset in NBA history at least. Someone from Vegas posted that if you parlayed Tate, Diaz and the Lakers with $100, you would've won $32000 Is this a bigger upset than say an 8 seed knocking off a 1 seed in the 1st round of the playoffs?

QUOTE (scs787 @ Mar 5, 2016 -> 06:55 PM) First game I've watched in quite some time. That was a fun 1St half. A lot of solid ball movement. Has it just been injuries that are holding the Bulls down?....Or is the Rockets D that bad? A combination. Was great having Butler and Niko back. At the same time, you still saw the absurd turnovers and to me all the signs of a poorly coached / poorly focused team. The lack of talent due to injuries did play a huge factor in the slide.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Mar 4, 2016 -> 07:17 AM) No chance. I like a 5th is the best they'll do with a 6th most likely. I still am of the personal opinion that I'd want a 4th for him. If I got a 5th, I'd need a future pick as well. That said, it seems very apparent that the Bears believe this is a longer rebuild than a one year build and that we are still a few years away. With that in mind, I think it makes it even more likely we look at QB early on.

Do you think it will be one of the 4 remaining candidates, or will it be someone not currently in the race. If it isn't someone in the race, who do you think it will be? Romney, Jeb, Paul Ryan? Personally, I think if they end up brokered, Kasich is the only standing who I think would have a chance and even than, I'm thinking it will be as the VP (I actually think he would be very high up on Trump's list, to be frank). I will point out, Kasich was on O'Reilly after the debate and very firmly said he is not interested in being the VP (how true that is, who knows). My prediction is if it goes to a brokered convention, it will be Paul Ryan.

Butler officially returning tomorrow. Please, pretty please, do not re-injure that knee. On an unrelated sidenote, I really miss me some Joakim Noah.