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Do you have more specifics? Is the issue other debt / obligations and payments their in addition to being behind on the mortgage? Is their equity in the current property or is it negative. Depending on circumstances, their might be a lot of different cards to play, some of which would involve various forms of BK, etc. Not to mention potential government programs.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 2, 2015 -> 04:46 PM) You shouldn't sit somewhere if you are in danger, and especially if you aren't going to watch the damned game. Well in that case, might as well bar 90% of the people from attending the games and cut the revenue (and I'm probably understating that number). Easy to make that statement but I guarantee every die hard fan runs that risk as well. As I've said, the once a year I take my daughter (or the one time ever I took her) I bought seats where she wouldn't be in harms way and I will continue to not buy seats where they aren't in harms way. If a net was put up, I'd sit closer and they'd get more of my $'s. Which, afterall, is the #1 thing these sports franchises are after. Bottom line, when you go to a sporting event, you shouldn't be in danger. Should Nascar have just ignored the safety rules and just told fans if they want to risk dying, get in those seats and deal with it, and if you don't, just buy cheaper seats? No. A sporting environment should be safe both from violence from other fans (harder to control because whacko's can do anything and it amazed me it took as long as it did for stadiums / teams to start having you go through metal detectors) and from being hurt from objects from the field of play. I realize odds are minimal but bottom line, how would any of us feel if it was their kid who got killed at a game because of something so trivial as the lack of a net. And by the way, even the players have nets and protection now because they too are not quick enough to dodge shots coming into the dugout. And also prevent the Mo Vaughn's of the world from ruining their careers.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 2, 2015 -> 03:37 PM) The bright side, of course, is that sets you up for your QB next April. Oh, I'm not complaining. All things considered I am very happy with where we are. We have a legit coaching staff and candidates I have faith in and while everyone panics over the secretiveness of everyone on injuries, I really don't care. Just figure out a way to collect a lot of talent and win. In terms of Pace, I can't really gripe with anything he's done to date and he deserves the benefit of time. We could complain about McDonald but he hedged his financial risk their and he clearly had no idea White was going to be out and big picture, as long as White can play long term, oh well if he loses this year. We weren't winning the superbowl anyway. Plus I have to give him credit for bringing in this coaching staff. Otherwise he didn't have a lot to work with. The key will be hitting in the draft and player development and having smart FA signings. Of course it is all easier if Bears hit the jackpot on a franchise QB, which again, being awful this year might only help. Priorities are going to be significantly increasing the athleticism of the defense and the secondary as well as upgrading the oline and finding a QB (although if you can't find the franchise QB a year from now, not end of the world going with Jay if he regresses back towards the mean / improves in a more run oriented system which takes the ball out of his hands and plays more to his overall strength's.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 2, 2015 -> 12:59 PM) Bringing a glove is fine, and if you are with little kids, or people who don't pay full attention and are close, it could save a lot of trouble. I would rather be required to "lug a glove" to the game in order to sit close than watch behind a net. The net doesn't always save you either. I was in the Scout Seats once in my life. There was a server who would sit on the short wall behind home with his back right up against the net. We kept on asking him to move because he was blocking our view. He would, but would always come back, until a foul ball nailed his back. He wasn't hurt so bad, thankfully, but what a moron. I was about 15 rows back from the Sox dugout on Sunday when a foul ball went into the club level but caromed downstairs and hit a lady right on top of the head. She had no idea it was coming. If you are sitting a row back from the dugout, a glove isn't going to do most people any good. Ability to react is minimal. Not to mention, it is baseball, majority of fans aren't watching every single pitch (especially in the regular season). The baseball experience, for most fans in attendance, includes the joys of catching up with the people you are going to the game with. So glove or no glove, reality is you have a higher percentage of people not paying attention then any other sport, imo.

By the way, if I ignored 2014, he would be my #1 prospect. His minor league track record would be superior and he has the stuff to back it up (as the only year he didn't show the stuff was last year).

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 2, 2015 -> 01:39 PM) I'd agree with that, though around 5 is possible. if I am ignoring everything and using FutureSox top 5 as my listing, I am absolutely ranking him ahead of Micah and Spencer Adams and consider ranking him ahead of Montas, primarily because I think Johnson has shown enough in 2015 (and in previous seasons) that probably of being an effective starter is higher vs. Montas who has the bulk of his upside in the pen. So I would say EJ (considering 2014) would be potentially 3rd, absolutely 4th.

Fairly certain we will be really bad. We don't even have any wideouts right now and have zero tackles. This team is set up to be very bad. Defensively you have no anchor's / young proven playmakers. Now the hope is some of those guys emerge but this team is seriously devoid of proven (still in its prime) talent, especially in the secondary.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 2, 2015 -> 09:58 AM) He did a sweet Bill O'Brien impression on Hard Knocks though. That is why I recognized the name. Hate giving up draft picks when we are a rebuilding team.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 2, 2015 -> 09:05 AM) Part of his ERA problem was having zero spring training. Using his higher than normal ERA as a defensive failure is incorrect IMO. He has had his games where he has been ripped very hard. I agree he had his games where he was ripped, but I am referring to the comment on ERA vs. FIP and other metrics. Similarly, we saw Shark has also had extremely wide FIP vs. ERA measures, which along with the wealth of defensive data out their (which suggest for the larger pat of the season we were historically bad and for a portion of the season have been just lousy). Bottom line, this was a really poorly build team to put around a strong rotation. And I b****ed about the defense all off-season, so from that perspective, I'm not being a hypocrite. I did think this team would hit better then it did, so obviously, I can't say I predicted that nor did I predict us to be this bad.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Sep 2, 2015 -> 08:48 AM) I think this is the year that has soured me a bit on ERA. Sale is on pace to easily have the worst ERA of his career, but by pretty much any other metric he's having easily the best year of his career. Strikeouts are way up, walks are down, and if you look at his batted ball profile he's easily giving up the weakest contact of his career this year. Career-best FIP and SIERA, and he's throwing a lot more innings/start this season too. Problem is his .321 BABIP, which is significantly higher than his career average. Quintana also has a crazy high BABIP (.343, second highest in the majors after Gio Gonzalez), yet according to his batted ball profile he's also giving up the weakest contact of his career. Just goes to show you how much our defense sucks. But end of the day, ERA matters, because it reflects what ACTUALLY happened. Bottom line, those runs were allowed.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 2, 2015 -> 06:52 AM) I realize this is really petty on my part to even bring it up, but... apparently this clerk has been married four times. LOL No...not petty. If you are going to claim gays are ruining the sanctity of marriage when you yourself are ruining the sanctity of marriage, then you are a total hyprocrite and any religious / personal stand goes away because you don't act in that manner. What a pathetic person. PS: Not only married 4 times, but her first marriage ended when she got pregnant with twins from someone other then her husband.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 09:08 AM) I don't know that there will be an official investigation, but I think there will be enough backlash to put a dent in Subway's business. I can see some of their least profitable stores closing or switching to another chain. I feel bad for the people who own the Subway by me. They're great people, they designate one day each month for each elementary school in the area and donate all of their profit from the day to the school. Yep - That is the hard part, all of the franchisee's who had absolutely nothing to do with this getting impacted because of some people at the top who made a deplorable decision (allegedly).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 08:57 AM) Do you think that will actually be investigated by someone? I would think a claim like that would result investigations from those on the board at subway (presume they have a BOD). I would think people would lose jobs on it and the company would do an investigation. Any well ran organization would do so...then again, most organizations would have handled this information differently (or so I'd like to think). I'm very confident my organization would have never let something like this happen.

QUOTE (bjm676 @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 08:55 AM) Would anyone be opposed if the Sox traded Avi over the offseason, to make room for Trayce? I know I wouldn't. it may be a bit premature to think he's the starting RF for next year, but it's nice to think they have options if the Avi experiment is a failure. I don't know that I'm trading Avi to make room for Trayce but I'm perfectly fine moving Avi. I think we need to see what Trayce can do but his key to success is going to be how good he is defensively. His bat isn't going to stay this hot and maybe he is one of those guys who the switch finally flipped but nothing in his minor league production indicates he's going to be an above average hitter (his tools do indicate he has potential to be though). However, if he can play elite defense and be an average bat, that works great. Also and this would be fine, he might be a guy who can play well above average defense and mash LHPing and be a very good platoon / bench guy and that is okay too. Obviously I'd prefer scenario #1, although I'd find scenario #2 the more plausible one. Either way, it is a positive as both scenarios would involve Trayce being a productive player for the White Sox. The good thing is, Trayce has the pure talent to be one of those guys whose numbers stay relatively unchanged from MILB to MLB and that could be a good thing cause if he could produce something similar to his career .747 minor league OPS along with the defensive value and that is a guy that will be very valuable on a winning club (and cost controlled). I was listening to Trayce's dad on the radio yesterday and he did confirm that he thinks Trayce is the best pure athlete of the bunch (when he considers his physicality, etc). Keep it up Trayce!!!!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 08:46 AM) I fell in love with Jersey Mike's when I worked downtown. I wish we had one out here where I work now. Subway sucks compared to them anyway. Yeah...Jersey Mike's is so much better. If only they'd put a Jimmy John's closer to my work, then I'd have a 2nd solid option. I hadn't even heard of them and then all of a sudden a bunch of them popped up in my area. A little pricier but so so so much better then subway.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 09:32 PM) apparently subway knew going back in 2008 (NEWSER) – Subway may have known about spokesperson Jared Fogle's alleged desire to have sex with children since 2008. At least, that's what the former owner of a Subway restaurant in Florida tells Business Insider. Cindy Mills, who was a Subway franchisee from 2006 to 2012, says Fogle started calling her every day after she met him at a company event in 2008. She says he would make inappropriate comments, telling her "he really liked them young." Mills says Fogle told her he'd had sex with child prostitutes, some as young as 9, in both Thailand and the United States and even encouraged her to prostitute herself on Craigslist. Mills says she went to executives within the company with her concerns but was ignored. She tells Business Insider she spoke to the CEO of Subway's affiliated advertising company, which employed Fogle, and he told her Fogle had recently met a woman who would hopefully "help keep him grounded." She says she didn't go to police because she feared Fogle's "money and influence" and didn't want to lose her job. Business Insider reports Mills did request to remove all images of Fogle from her restaurant, but Subway denied that request. "Every time I would see him on TV in a commercial with his arms around these children, it would kill me," Mills says. "I couldn't stand it anymore." Welp...if this is true and people within Subway knew about this and ignored it, that is it, I won't eat another subway sandwich again. Jersey Mike's will get my business instead.

I am sure Addidas has lots of attorney's seeing if they can find a contractual breach and get out of paying him the remainder of his contract.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 11:17 AM) Another huge difference between this and the Kane case is Rose's attorneys are calling this story outrageous. Kane's, as far as I have heard, have yet to say he didn't do anything criminal. Yeah - Rose's camp seems to be out in front of this. Admit the relationship but said it was consensual and that their is no basis. Also specifically point out that she is on her 3rd attorney and they are advising her because it is a money grab. That said, none of us know.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 11:10 AM) Let me get this straight, he broke in and slipped something in her drink?? At what point after someone "broke into your house" are you taking a drink? Super fishy. Based upon the case filed...he invited her over to his place and when their, slipped her something in her drink, expecting it to go down at his place. She wasn't interested, took a cab back home, and they followed her to her home and broke in and she has flash memories of what happened and woke up to an awful scene and her roommate (who wasn't home at the time...got home in the AM and their were some people still their...presume Rose wasn't one of them). She also indicates she got a call a month later from one of the people, who was apologetic saying he wasn't aware she was drugged and thought she wanted it (as that is what Rose and his friends do when they are in LA...they find groupies that want to sleep with all of them). Apparently for a long time Rose had wanted her to do things with him and his boys (and I presume since these were messages...their could actually be evidence backing up that stuff). Again, doesn't prove what she is claiming, but even if the rape part isn't true, I presume the other stuff is probably true and is already damning to his image. Her story for why she didn't go to police isn't exactly uncommon (claims to be from a very christian family and was ashamed). One thing that was weird was she indicated a moment where Rose played in a game (2013), which I don't think happened (August 2013). Rose has already admitted they had a relationship and it was non-exclusive.

Yeah...that sounds really bad. No idea what kind of proof exists but I presume she has a lot of the messages that go with that stuff. I was going to say, one reason I would never say never (aside from the fact that we don't know Rose) is that he doesn't exactly strike you as someone who surrounds himself with the best and the brightest. You would think his brother would have been all over him about stuff like this and would be smarter (since he is the cash train). If rose did this, I hope he loses everything and rots in prison.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 10:16 AM) I think if there is anything to Orsillo changing Sox, it would be for the radio PBP. Stone leaves, DJ or Farmer to color on TV. I don't think a Red Sox tv guy is going to take a radio job. I would presume he could get another tv job no problem. I could see DJ rejoining the booth with Hawk and a new radio guy but I don't even want to think about Farmer on the TV broadcasts on a regular basis.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 10:12 AM) Buehrle is one of my all time favorite players. Everything about the guy is exactly what I love about the game of baseball. I think Mark needs about 275 wins to secure a spot in the hall (or at least have a fighting chance). Anything less then that and I think it will be tough for him. He does have world series win, world series save, no hitter, and perfect game on his resume which helps (along with all star game's, etc). 5 time all star, 4 time gold glover (how it isn't more, I have no idea). But he has no cy young awards (best was 5th place) and no 20 win seasons. In fact, the most wins he ever had was 19 and then 3 16 win seasons and 1 15 win season (so 5 seasons out of 14 full seasons where he won at least 15 games). It could become 6 out of 15 as he is just 2 wins away from 15 wins this year.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 10:10 AM) Let's just say that if any of these rumors come to pass I'll be mighty surprised. Mark If Hawk was on the way out, I just can't see the White Sox approaching him this way (and releasing rumors). I'd think they'd do everything to keep it quiet so that Hawk could say his goodbyes. He may be polarizing but he deserves that. I would expect if the rumors are true, it would be having him replace Stoney (who I think is out) or having him, Hawk and a third person work with Hawk taking more time off (no road games, etc).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 09:03 AM) Yeah, Mark;s chances for the HOF are directly tied to how long he wants to pitch. He's never had a stand out season, but here he is at 212 wins. If he can make a run at 300, does he make it? If Mark wins 300, I think he's a first ballot hall of famer. I realize in this stat world, wins don't receive the value they once did, but 300 wins is still an extremely impressive accomplishment, especially in this era where starters pitch less and less. I hope Mark makes the hall. Easily my favorite player, for the way he approached the game to the speed at which he pitched. If Manfred wanted to solve baseballs issue with game speed, he'd force every pitcher in baseball to model their approach after Mark. I don't get nostalgic about many guys, but Mark is one of them. A true class act on and off the field and the type of ballplayer you would want your kid to emulate.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 08:15 AM) That is what I am saying. There is nothing about a criminal investigation, police involvement etc happening first, instead straight to a lawsuit. Yep. This would appear much different then the Kane case and fact going straight to civil suit makes it even more shady and indicative of a money grab. However, none of us know Rose personally so you never know. I sure hope it isn't true.