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QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 16, 2015 -> 07:01 AM) $25 is the increase....Not the total premium. It will increase $50/mo. My total monthly healthcare premiums right now are $625/mo.(including dental and vision) Increasing to over $700/mo next year... Presume that is family coverage?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 15, 2015 -> 07:26 PM) if you go back to the Scott Kazmir trade thread there's a large contingent of people who explained to me that Samardzija should be more valued than Kazmir because he's more reliable historically and you'd probably want Samardzija pitching if you had the choice for 1 game. Are you kidding me. I stand by what was said at that time. You were also touting Cueto as being the best guy too...well you know what, just like Shark, he's sucked too. No one saw Shark being as bad as he's been (just like no one saw Cueto falling apart). I stick behind everything I said at the time and given the circumstances, I'd have been very surprised if we couldn't have gotten at a minimum, a similar price as Kazmir, if not slightly more. Had the Sox traded Shark a little earlier (before we went on that mini run), we'd have gotten even more value as the market was devoid of pitching at that time. Easy to make that statement today after Shark has been a complete turd...but lets not pretend that Shark wasn't coming off an extremely strong run of pitching performances when we were dangling him on that market.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 15, 2015 -> 10:59 AM) Let's face it, we NEVER got a big negative media push back on Ozzie because they loved the guy. He made their jobs easy, he gave them quotes, he talked to them. The fact that you have had more than one reporter writing "Ozzie should manage again" articles written in the span of this summer is just ridiculous. No other coach/manager in Chicago has ever gotten this kind of slobbering done to them. It is ridiculous that this part of the story never gets talked about in the media. The guy publicly challenged his bosses, lost the challenge, and then quit on his team. Yet, outside of the days that happened, it is never mentioned when we get these Ozzie wants a job articles. Blah. Winning a world series championship and making the playoffs twice in your run as a manager while posting a .524 record during that span is probably why he gets the benefit of the doubt (on top of his overall friendly relationship with the media). Ozzie did a lot of right but when it ended, it ended big time. Only way I see it happening is if Kenny is gone and you know what, if Ozzie has matured from it, you could do a lot worse. 4 out of the 8 years he won 88 games or more and that would basically be good for at least one of the wild card spots in the new era. Under .500 in 3 seasons, however, 2 of those 3 seasons the team was just 4 games under .500 while the other season the team was pretty bad (18 games under).

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 15, 2015 -> 09:48 AM) Yeah, the "Beckham was traded for a guy who may be decent" doesn't mean Albers would be traded for a guy who would be decent. If it was, the Sox then should get a serviceable pitcher and a starting SS for John Danks considering that's exactly what they got for Jaime Navarro. One month of Matt Albers gets you scraps. Maybe those scraps become a decent player. Odds are, in a year, you forget exactly what the Sox received for Matt Albers. The White Sox are paying the guy. You would think if there was something offered they were even remotely intrigued with, they would have sent him packing. Obviously, there was not. I totally forgot that we got Eldred and Jose for Navarro. What a freaking trade.

You had me at Buddy Bell being replaced Greg

Never thought I'd see this much grammar talk on Soxtalk without a post from me. Either way, I cleaned the title but found the overall story fascinating and it is that story that should get the attention.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 15, 2015 -> 07:04 AM) I liked their offensive game plan at times. Run the ball and give Kaep simple reads. Yep - I liked what they did. Thought they had a really nice offensive game plan and with that defense, they should be able to do that. Minny looked atrocious.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 14, 2015 -> 05:03 PM) Did some more research and think I'm jumping into the previously described job. Did lots on investigating and feel comfortable with it. Congrats and good luck. I don't think I ever realized you were in graphic design.

QUOTE (shipps @ Sep 14, 2015 -> 03:24 PM) I am slow to get too hyped over them. They were solid and should get better but damn we need some light your ass up type of playmakers on defense and I don't know if any of them can be that IMO...maybe Goodman. John Goodman is funny but I don't know if he's a playmaker.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 12, 2015 -> 09:21 AM) Hah. No. To be honest, I have not had any time to keep up with current events recently. Joys of fatherhood, haha. I will say...it is awesome having football back on. Nice on Saturday night when the kid is asleep to be able to watch the tail end of a few of the games. Plus...after a day of running around with the kids, you truly can relax, haha.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 14, 2015 -> 08:54 AM) Yeah, but it isn't as simple as that. The thought process is the Packers are going to gear up to stop the run there and so you are trying to catch them off guard with the pass. It's all a chess game on the goal line. I would have liked to see them run it outside, particularly that little pitch sweep they were running, but I really think the failure was to continue to keep Bennett in to block instead of releasing him into the end zone. The guy is a beast, and one of our most reliable pass catchers, and we didn't really try to get him involved until the end of the game. I agree...most of the game I was wondering where Bennett was. Maybe Pack were all over him? And as Kyle pointed out a couple posts back, with Royal and Jeffrey being out for a while, we shouldn't be surprised that Jay's timing wasn't perfect.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 14, 2015 -> 08:33 AM) The other goal line series where they passed 4 times from the 2 was awful as well. You're running down Green Bays throat all day, you have the ball at the 2 and you decide to throw it 4 times? That was some Trestman like s*** right there. A TD there and the game might be different. I must have been confusing the series cause that was the one that stuck out where I was like, is Trestman back. That was the one where we failed on 4th down...yeah that series was awful.

Hawkeyes baby!!!

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 13, 2015 -> 02:12 PM) His inability to get us a red zone TD infuriates me more than that INT. Thought the pick was just a great play by Clay. OLine still garbage in passing situations. Clay's pick was awesome. Royal had a drop or two, but Jay clearly wasn't sharp. That said, I thought he did a good job throwing away when he had to as well. Not sure how he ended up with such a low completion percentage but I expect the offense will get better as the season goes. The game plan was awesome and I liked how we actually stuck with the run (although it does help that we weren't down 3 td's to start the game). Special teams sucked...gave the Pack short field a few times...they have to clean that up. Gould was money though and O'Donnell had one awesome punt.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 13, 2015 -> 01:23 PM) I was pretty pleased. Do you guys remember last year? I was thrilled. I expected to get beat pretty bad and we were extremely competitive and if a few plays went our way, could have very much won that game. Pack made some great plays on offense and James Jones clearly has a nice fit in Green Bay. Bottom line, I liked the overall game plan and liked the fact that we were competitive against the Packers. Forte was a beast (other then that dropped gimme at the goaline..but he made up for it). Really only series I didn't like was that goal line series where we got bailed out by GB's stupidity.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 11:25 AM) you want that apple stock in your 401k portfolio to rise, right? Damn right I want my apple stock to keep climbing. PS: I have only paid for a phone once...I always just do the free be and I'm hoping I'll be able to get my new iphone for free.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 11:25 AM) Some early drinking this fine day? Nah...when I'm working on analytics and mining data at work, I get a little loopy and my sense of humor gets twisted, haha.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 11:00 AM) A whole lot of the younger generations have no belief in social security being much of an option by the time they retire. I think I liked the article because it summed me up. I also don't ever think of myself as a millennial but I am glad...I'd rather be called a millennial and then a Gen Xer And your comment above, absolutely sums me up. I have zero faith / belief social security will be around and I wish the youth around the country would rise up and support wholesale reform that might actually ensure some of us get something for everything we pay into. I've also long been a proponent of me managing my own retirement (vs. paying it into the social security black box), but I also completely understand why it is a horrible idea, because I've seen how most people manage their money and it is deplorable and sad. And for all I know, I manage my money deplorably (and am just too ignorant to realize it).

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 11:04 AM) we've found your VP Tough...but I'm going with Greg. When his campaign funds dry out, I'll swoop in and have him as my VP. We'll run on a combo platform of "gaging all sabs". PS: I love Greg...a man unfraid to speak his mind, which is exactly what this site is for...also, he created the term sabs, a term I love so much that I actually regularly use it in my weekly convo's with my sports buddies. Note: The "gaging" comment relates to my propensity for blowing up the website in my early days as I changed forum software or ran upgrades.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 10:42 AM) I mean, that's not true. They benefit from being in an awful division and having an elite QB, but they have a lot of talent on that roster too. The Bears might have a better roster (and the Bears roster sucks), outside of Luck, then the Colts. Yes, I'll say it and they do. The Colts have a bit more talent on D then the Bears but Bears offense has significantly more talent then Colts. Colts are extremely lucky they have Luck, who is incredible, and I hope somehow he becomes a free agent and they haven't put it together and the Bears just sign him to a $1B contract.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 10:39 AM) Dont feed the troll. I don't need to be fed...I drive around the country in my solid gold rocket car with a sign that says...re elect president gage. I'm a man of the people...the rocket car was lent to me by former homeless man turned tycoon Chester Lampwick.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/201...lary?cmpid=yhoo Given tihs is a large makeup of the forum demographics...thought you might find this article interesting.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 09:19 AM) I do worry about this, as I've heard more of that talk. In my head, my iphone would be like the iphone 4 i had for 3 ears and worked wonderfully with great battery life. I still use my old iphone 4 (work phone) as a baby monitor. That thing was an amazing phone. I remember when I got the 4s (my first personal iphone), I was like, what a piece of crap. Battery life was the pits.

QUOTE (shipps @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 09:56 AM) What is he referring to? I am lost. Its caues he didn't finish the tweet with "eh". Come on now...all hockey tweets should end in "eh". This is all part of my be more like the Donald movement. On a sidenote...could anyone imagine someone with a name like Southsider or Balta as CEO of Soxtalk? As I run for re-election as president, my goal is make wide spread promises and talk big. I'll even let people pull my hair so they know its as real as "Sammy Sosa's High Heat Baseball".

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 07:43 AM) I can't wait to go back to the iphone with 6s. The HTC One experience was miserable. All of the cool things were of such marginal use and wore out after the first two months. The combo of sprint + htc one probably made things worse, but the things phones should be able to do pretty easily were hard for my phone (had 2 of them after one broke). SO yeah, i'm now the old person who just wants the things he knows and can trust. I too look forward to going back to my iphone in about a month (we'll see what the deals are) from my Samsung. I just think the Apple is less glitchy then the Android and I look forward to the smoothness of the phone. Like you, I'm too old to tinker around with all the little crap (nor do I care). If I was still in high school or college and not married with kids, I'd probably still tinker with the stuff, but priorities change and I just want something that works with ease.