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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.

Ok....if news like Weiters accepting a qualified offer is going to get burried in this thread, I'm going to close this thread. Real news shouldn't be embedded within here and this is turning into a gigantic catch all that is difficult to follow.

In terms of Cutler, we are going to know a whole lot after the Thanksgiving game. 2 straight games against elite d's (Rams & Broncos) and then a team who has historically given him fits in the Packers (on the road). If we see Jay continuing to stay poised and this offense continue to build, I think at that point, we can start to say he truly is part of a longer-term future. All this said, I think we go 1-2 / 0-3 during this stretch but to me it is more about how we play vs. the end result at this point.

In regards to Bulls cap space, I answered my own question. Evidently not that much. Noah and any other free agent leaves and you either trade Taj or Pau opts out. That gives you enough to go max (based upon where the cap is supposed to go). All that said, I don't really think Durant would want to come play here but him and Butler on the wing would be fantastic.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 13, 2015 -> 10:41 AM) Struggled? Not sure how winning 4-2 is a "struggle." Already this year they've beaten western playoffs teams by 20 (Rockets), 14 (Pelicans), Grizz (50!!!), Clips (4), and the Grizz again (16). Yes, it's early. Yes, they could still lose. But there's really no reason to think they've lost anything from last year and they seem to be even BETTER now. The reigning MVP also appears to be better. Not sure how they aren't the favorites. We can all keep saying "Lebron cuz Lebron" but statistically he's likely to get there and lose, not get there and win. I never said they weren't the favorites. I just said I'm not going to anoint them champions right now.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 13, 2015 -> 10:28 AM) Not sure why not. Last year wasn't a fluke. They beat everyone they played. They're a better team this year with Ezeli starting. Cavs, IMO, are worse with Love given his defensive issues. It'll be tougher to get out of the West, for sure. Spurs will eventually get it together. OKC is going to be tough. Though it looks like the Clips and Rockets are/were vastly overrated. Clips still have the same problems as last year, and Houston, I dunno what is going on there. They struggled against a completely run down Cavs team and had the rest of the west collapse from injuries. Yes, they won and yes they are a great team (and were a deserving champ) but the only team's I ever annoted pre-season were basically the Jordan era Bulls and the Shaq / Kobe Lakers (and that was a poor mans domination) and mistakenly the big three of the Heat.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Nov 13, 2015 -> 10:22 AM) Offensively? Yes. Defensively? He'd be an atrocity. He'd get pick and rolled to death and be forced to play defense in space. Shaq was too big for that. Hakeem and D-Rob would have no problems defensively today. That's fine, pick and roll all you want...Shaq would still be taking the higher percentage shot every single time.