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I'll say this, I hope Buehrle is there and I hope he is signing a 1 year deal to pitch for the Sox. If he is going to retire, than I obviously want him to sign but I'm greedy and think he still has more solid baseball left and I'd love it to happen with the Sox.

This would be great. What kept Jennings out most of last year? Presuming it is not a recurring issue, this would be a great buy-low candidate for the Sox, imo.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 08:26 PM) Yeah, he really hasn't been great. Below average although he has been better lately. He has absolutely been good over the past month or so though and is trending upward (which is nice).

Rose looked really good for some stretches thus far. He continues to string together more consistent minutes of aggressive and positive play. Than again, it is the Lakers.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 02:04 PM) Hinrich hasnt played atleast above a decent level since before he was with Atlanta. That has nothing to do with anything. Hinrich was once an above average NBA player. Avi has never been anything but a bum thus far in his career. Hinrich is now in a bench role. People might want to hate on him, but he's still a bench player and when you look at his career statistics, he will go down as one of the better Bulls (I'm not saying he's currently an above average NBA player by any stretch of the imagination). However, I still think he's a quality player to have off your bench.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 01:45 PM) Oh boy. He had better hope so or he will be the next Kirk Hinrich in this town. Hinrich and Avi don't belong in the same sentence. Hinrich is one of the better players in franchise history.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 01:09 PM) Who do the Sox have to trade that's as valuable as McGee? No one that is easily replaceable. He's a 28 year old reliever, who is not a proven closer (and yes, that matters). Yes, he's been good (he's also had some down years too) but it isn't like he's under team control for cheap for 5 years either (he's already in his arb years and is a FA in 2018). So in isolation, Rockies paid Parra roughly 10M/yr (who is worse than Dickerson) and than got a reliever. I'd have argued if they wanted the reliever, they'd have been able to spend Parra's money on something more valuable than McGee (while keeping the better player in Dickerson). I see no logic in where that combination of moves was a good use of Rockies resources. None. Unless they know something none of us do about Dickerson's injury history.

Okay...so you give Parra that money. Dickerson is a better player than Parra and you could have found another reliever for a lot less. This juts totally baffles me (unless they are getting a pretty darn good prospect as well). Over past 2 years, Parra has put up a collective WAR of

So I don't get it. You trade a quality young outfielder for a good reliever. Makes no sense to me. Is a highly thought of prospect also part of this trade with the Rockies? If not, I'm extremely dissapointed the Sox weren't interested in Dickerson. He is young, cost controlled, and when healthy has been a much much better ballplayer than Avi Garcia.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baske...0130-story.html I thought this was an interesting read on Tyrus trying to make a comeback and about his ups and his downs and how he got to where he is now (which is a very good place).

I think more just using the premise for a show (not necesesarily using Lloyd and MJF...I'm going to guess they wouldn't be interested or at least MJF wouldn't be. Lloyd very well might).

Is anyone surprised a network hasn't made a back to the future TV show?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 10:09 AM) Ha, there was enough name dropping in here to make Caulfield proud. The points made are all valid. The excuse that Thibs caused injuries was a poor one. The fact of the matter is, the Bulls happen to have quite a few guys that tend to get hurt. It has been proven consistently. Now Niko's injury has nothing to do with anything and is no indication of him, in particular, being injury prone. But in relation to Rose / Noah / Taj / Hinrich (at this stage), those guys are injury prone. That is a reality.

You are both wrong. Vietnamese. A lot of people think she is Filipino though.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 27, 2016 -> 09:28 AM) Buying/selling used is differently, if business/private sellers want to do that then fine, there shouldn't be as much regulation there. But a new car shouldn't be any different then a TV. Go do online research, do some test drives at designated dealerships or manufacturer's test drive sites, then purchase online or in person at your preference. Dealerships would still have a place in the car selling world, just like Best Buy, Target etc still have a place in the entertainment product world. But having hidden costs, crazy negotiations, etc is just stupid and we should move past that. Saturn did that and while some people liked it, I think others didn't like it. And the reality is, TV's are on sale, etc, all the time. Very easy to have one person pay substantially more for a TV than another, because one person bought from here during X sale or had X coupons, etc. I don't actually think it is that much different than having people negotiate, other than you can more easily see the "sale" price of the TV at the variety of stores or use a tool like froogle or yahoo shopping.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 27, 2016 -> 09:06 AM) I hate that it has the reputation of scamming as well. Not everyone scams but negotiation certainly feels like it sometimes. I literally negotiate everything that I possibly can. The Harley dealer I bought my bike from this summer almost told me to leave. I got them to buy back my used Ducati for way more than I paid for it. I don't really think the sales people are all that scummy...its the finance situation and I'm not sure that Tesla solves that issue. I honestly have no idea how the finance people can lie like they do. It is ridiculous.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 27, 2016 -> 08:09 AM) My little brother tries this. It doesn't work always, but he does have success sometimes and as he says, "what's the harm in asking? the worst they do is say 'no.'" Yeah - depending on what I'm buying, I'll still just negotiate and ask if they can give me x% off or what else can they do.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 02:34 PM) Yes! I geeked out when I saw the graininess of it. I actually hope they keep it to shorter seasons, more British in style. They don't need to do 24-episode seasons anymore. We have 200+ episodes already. Just do the best storylines you have. We don't need filler at this point. The 6-episode run gives them a chance to do a larger arc while staying on point and throwing in a couple stand alones (which were usually the best ones). Maybe limit it to 12-episode seasons. Fully agree with your point on shorter season. Make sure you get quality. 6 is tough cause it almost doesn't feel like enough, 12 might be a little on the long side. I feel like 8-10 is perfect. Ensures every episode is quality while still being able to follow the greater arc. I honestly had forgotten how original this show was and when I saw the initial intro fire up (I haven't watched xfiles since I saw the last of the movies years ago) and it instantly brought me back to when I was a little kid and would watch the show in its earliest years(and sometimes it would cause me difficulty sleeping, haha...parents, what the hell were you thinking). Freaking show aired when I was 10 years old....unbelievable.

The real question I have is, are there people that actually go in and just buy the car and don't do much negotiating? The fleet mgr that sold me my car did have an interesting story. When I told him I wasn't financing and was going to pay for it, he asked me over the phone are you going to bring cash and I'm like no, I'll just write a check. So when I went there I asked him, do people really show up with 20+ grand in cash in a suitcase (vs. just writing a check) and he told me about a guy who came in a year ago with a briefcase full of 160K to buy 6 new cars for his family. He wanted it to be a surprise and had to make sure that the total of all 6 cars added up to that amount. Fleet mgr said him and his team were at the dealer until like 3 AM counting the cash (as they aren't a bank so they aren't really equipped to do it). Guy was coming back from doing independent contractor work for the government in Iraq or something like that.

The Powell example is why it will take 10+ years to generate any sort of return, which indicates that the up front costs prior to any potential pay-off are significant. To be able to get these to work, you have to reach the youth cricket levels and convert those top players into baseball players and build them up from there. Than you are going to have to hit some guys who actually make majors, to create a potential pathway for others to look / gravitate towards. All the while you might put in this investment only to see an international draft pop up and thus all that money was spent for not (other than you do have additional contacts). The reality is for this to be successful, baseball should invest in putting together facilities and resources in these parts and make it an MLB platform, leveraging MLB scouting channels and specific teams could send reps, etc, out and provide resources, but the best path to success is MLB driving this vs. individual clubs (and if you are going to grow the game, one can argue this is a good use of MLB's resources (i.e., all the owners essentially pay for this together butin theory benefit from it together as it provides potential path towards expanding market / driving global game).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 01:29 PM) That isn't just who he traded. It is who he passed up to draft less expensive players, and the draft picks they gave up to sign players. It isn't as simple as who they traded away. I would bet that during Kenny's time the Sox actually got more picks or close to more picks than they gave up (excluding last year, which would fall under "Hahn's reign as GM"). Now the whole what you are willing to pay / how much they invested in draft, is completely fair game. I'd also be one who said Sox needed to scout and draft better, but I can argue Kenny did a pretty good job giving up guys at there peak value and getting something for them. Rarely, if ever (Gio is by far the biggest exception), did the Sox give up a piece who turned into an above average big leaguer.

QUOTE (shipps @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 01:38 PM) It has a USB port but doesn't give USB connection option on my monitor. I looked through all the screens on the car monitor and no option for USB connection. Doesnt make sense. What kind of car. Just google how to play pandora through bluetooth on my 20XX Ford Pinto

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 12:41 PM) The only thing I didn't like about the first episode was Joel McHale. I associate him with comedy too much I guess. Will watch ep 2 later. Yeah - I was going to say, I can't stand McHale in it.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 11:42 AM) So how much did you save off the TrueCar estimate? edit: NM, see that in your prior post. So from the true-car / costo / car guru estimate, ended up move them down close to an extra thousand (and my actual price paid was lower than the furthest recorded sale range that they had in there database for my area). I was actually surprised that the costco price was the cheapest starting point of the three. Theoretically, if someone didn't want to spend the time, just using the car services gets you pretty darn close already.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 11:50 AM) My Mazda CX5 uses Bluetooth to play any audio the phone is generating: GPS navigation, Pandora, Google Music, Spotify, etc. Yep...most any of the cars with bluetooh should do it, you just need to make sure when you set-up your phone you also activate the bluetooth audio feature. Do note that to play navigation, you need to typically be on the media section (some cars it will actually interject over normal radio but a lot of vehicles it will only interject on the media connection, meaning over Pandora / Spotify / etc).