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I was so pissed when the Rams took Donald. I thought for sure he was going to fall to the Bears pick. Thought their was no way the Rams would take another dlinemen. Slausson gave Jay a lot of credit, saying he had audibled to those big plays.

RIP. I had many a laugh with and at the expense of Don Vito. Viva La Bam was one my favorite shows during its early run.

I have a smart watch and I like it a lot. I thought they'd be stupid but I love my pebble. Thankfully I got it for free. But simple is often times best and the simplicity of the watch (along with long battery life...think is lasting me on avg 8 days per charge). But getting the little notifications on my wrist is great, especially when I'm busy with the little ones and my wife is asking me a question (at another store or another part of the store) as we are trying to run the weekend errands.

I have engineered wood flooring in my house. We have the distressed stuff (on a concrete slab) and it has held up pretty well thus far (two little ones, etc). If you drop something heavy on it, you'll get a mark (say a pot filled with something) but even then, since the wood is distressed, it is only noticeable by us. About 2.5 years old and thus far would put it in again. I think when you install upstairs you have to be extra careful to ensure you have solid insulation (not sure what you do but I've been in some houses and you could hear a mouse walking on those wood / tile floors above and I presume it was because they didn't put sound deadening in between or went really cheap? Not even sure if it is called sound deadening or what, just using my own make believe words.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 15, 2015 -> 05:57 AM) You should read the Fire Kirk Ferentz Facebook page and those are comments from this year. It is amazing how many Iowa fans can't get in touch with reality. There are posts that say he is being out coached this year. The team has 8 four star recruits on its roster, and no 5 star. When he finally does leave, they aren't going to know what hit them. I don't know what else these people expect. It is really amazing. The team is 10-0 for the first time ever, and some people still can't enjoy it. It is delusional fanboys who think that Iowa should be Ohio State or Notre Dame or Bama. It just isn't realistic. What Ferentz has done at Iowa is awesome (when you look at it from a realistic fan perspective...not some delusional we should win the title). I still think it is crazy that Iowa had a team who in my mind was a national title team (the team that lost to USC in the Orange Bowl or whatever it was). That team had lost to ISU early in the year and crushed everyone. They got destroyed in the bowl against USC (with Carson Palmer) but it was more driven by the fact that no one knew what the hell to do / handle that 7+ week delay. Brad Banks was really good. Its funny cause Ferentz has probably had 4-5 teams that were on paper far superior to this team.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 14, 2015 -> 05:22 PM) Played golf with three Iowa fans today. All I heard was " they would never fire Ferentz". That narrative changes more than any other in conference No...I've made that statement for a long long time. I'm not delusional...I know we won't contend every year, but will be competitive every year with the occasional well above average years and you know what, that is just fine in my book.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Nov 13, 2015 -> 08:10 PM) Bulls win. Hate to say it, but Hinrich was very good in Brooks' role. Terrific game from Noah. The Hoiberg offense ran so much smoother off the bench with Hinrich out their. Last year Brooks had to hijack things cause we had very few scorers off the bench, this year, that will be different (especially when MDJ comes back).

One week at a time boys, but it was nice to get that win against the Rams, it means if we can somehow steal one of the next two, we are in a spot to actually make a run at this thing (given our schedule). Crazy to think that but it is shockingly the case (I haven't actually evaluated playoff scenarios just thinking about our schedule and the fact that it seems like with a few exceptions, everyone is the stink in the NFC).

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 16, 2015 -> 05:28 AM) I think they are just back in the NFL blob of mediocrity. Some weeks you look better than others, most weeks come down to one or two plays. If all of those plays come out in your favor, then people think you are good. Their opening schedule was tough, combined with the Cutler injury made them seem much worse than they really were. I'd also say that even in this game against the Rams, we had two gigantic plays that helped set the tone. That said, we had our own moronic play (which countered the Rams fumble by Mason...ours was dumber in the grand scale), but Foles and the Rams receivers are terrible.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Nov 15, 2015 -> 07:06 PM) Those 2 TD's to Miller and Langford had to be the longest scoring plays by the offense this year. Miller's TD was the longest passing TD in franchise history (according to the telecast).

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Nov 15, 2015 -> 12:28 PM) Langford is an absolute player. If White turns out (huge if), Pace's 1st draft looks strong. That cut back TD Langford had near the end of the game was impressive. More impressive then his other big plays, imo. I really really like Langford and I also think Carey is alright too. Like what we have going. Will be curious to see what sort of added wrinkles we see when Forte is back (to exploit both Forte and Langford). Great win by the Bears. Rams really helped but man our special teams is brutal. Mariani had bonehead decision after bonehead decision.

Does Carson have legit evidence on China helping Syria or is this going to be as pathetic as Trump's evidence on the Mexican government pushing and telling illegals and conspiring to send them to America. I'm going to go with this is another case of the two clowns being, absolute clowns. I never thought I'd find a candidate that I liked less than Trump, but Carson is that guy.

Wow, CNN saying death toll has climbed to 60. Awful.

Dodgers are paying Anderson a ton. He's got to be due for another injury.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Nov 13, 2015 -> 01:57 PM) I wouldn't mind either to be honest. If he does accept, then EJ is definitely out the door. I still think the Sox should be moving Q for position talent (or Sale), so in this scenario, having Shark allows you to still potentially give it a shot at contention (while developing a combo of Fullmer/Montas/EJ). If you stay in contention, great, if you aren't ready, you hope Shark has truly rebounded and you are ideally able to move him for the package we expected to get a year ago (and ideally add more positional talent while opening up another development spot). I figure we know Rodon / Sale / Q are in the rotation, but then you have Danks (who at some point the Sox can move away from now that he's in his final year) and at least one youngster.

All that said, If I'm the Sox, I have no problem having him here for another year as I fully expect a bounce back and him to go back to being the quality player that he is.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Nov 13, 2015 -> 01:52 PM) Off the bench Reports are that if Noah does well (health wise), Hoiberg is planning in moving him into the starting lineup in a game or two.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 13, 2015 -> 01:50 PM) He's resigning for health reasons, so my guess is he's not immediately looking for another job. Yeah - I hadn't realized that. Wish him the best in his battle with cancer.

If he doesn't respond and just ignores, I presume that means he didn't accept, correct? Or is it assume you accepted unless you reject? I presume more then anything he just wants the sox to sweat it.

He will get some longer term offers, but I could easily see where he makes the decision to bet on himself and be able to make a lot more money. Then again, you put a 2nd poor year in and that longer term deal is gone. The sad thing is, it seems that a major driver for him not taking the offer is he had a lot of issues with the White Sox. All players are different, but given he didn't have a history of issues with two different organizations, it makes you wonder about the health of the Sox culture.

If I were Illinois, Pinkel would be the best hire. I realize he's older but he's a very good football coach and should be able to leverage existing recruiting channels. That is my one contribution to Illinois football.

Keith is Chelios reincarnated.

And open up PHT to really all kinds of baseball activity. I ask because their often is a lot of overlap between what is posted their regarding player movements vs. here and part of the depends on who different posters perceive are potential candidates for the Sox? We could also, I suppose, just have a separate off-season forum (kind of like we do at the trade deadline), however, purpose of that is more of during the season you can separate trade discussion vs. actual in season / team performance, but in the off-season that becomes a moot point. Unlike catch-all, where I am selfish to my own interests, I am curious what people think with this and am open to whatever the masses prefer.

Smart move by Wieters. He'd have been a good buy low candidate, but he's probably best off showing his health and restoring his value for a longer term contract.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Nov 13, 2015 -> 12:04 PM) I think you're the only one that complains about this lol. But as others have said, Wieters was a name a lot of guys wanted for the Sox. Yeah...I own the site so I'm allowed to complain about stuff (and can be selfish when need be), but I also receive numerous thank you's and the general sentiment is a preference to not have catch-all's. I'm not saying that it is 90% of the audience, but a majority yes (and their are certainly mods/admins who disagree with me) but its one of the few times that I really don't care. Fact that I've let this drag out this long just is really because thus far this off-season their has been no news so I'm not missing anything. But I come to this site to find out what is going on around the Sox and baseball and when conversations are buried in threads, well quite frankly, it is not good for overall discussion and my goal, among other things for this site, has always been for it to have the best Sox discussion on the web (and overall just great discussion in general as well). Oh and I don't want to have to read 100 posts that I missed while I was gone for a few hours to catch relevant news that may / may not interest me. For example, if I saw a post that said Wieters no longer an option and the news...I'd have known without having to filter through a ton of posts I wasn't that interested in. Whole point of separate threads is it does a better job of, a, seeing what the various discussion topics available are, and b, allows me to focus my time and attention on threads that I personally am interested in (just like it allows other members to focus on threads they personally are interested in). In a giant catch-all thread like the off-season, I might have to filter through 15 posts of 3 people's back and forth in a debate I'm not particularly interested in. And well, I'm a busy person and love this site, but time is money and I want to maximize my experience / knowledge gained from the site while dealing with the fact that I only have so much time a day to spend on the web.