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Screw this. All Star Game is voted on by fans for fans to pick players they want to pick. I think it is tremendous for baseball that the Royals of all teams are somehow able to get 8 guys in (as it currently stands). Way to go KC. PS: Yes, my opinion would be different if it were the Yankees. I admit it, but for Kansas City to control the ballets like that, awesome. Great resurgence. I also highly doubt it will end up this way. This should send a shockwave to the other market teams to vote for other guys.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 10:33 PM) I think it has to be Quenneville. Ditka was too stubborn and dictatorial though the 85 Bears team was amazing. Jackson was astounding but he had M.J. Q has three rings. Papa Bear? Phil and then Halas and then Q.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 05:26 PM) Lance Stephenson to Clippers for Spencer Hawes and Matt Barnes. Yuck. I like that move for the Clips. Stephenson is going to come to a veteran lockeroom with a strong head coach. Great situation for him to flourish and he is a total upgrade over Hawes. Barnes toughness will be missed by the Clips but Stephenson is a more dynamic player and gives them a 2nd ball handler which they could use. Also brings them some solid defense. You'd have to think he trends back to being closer to the guy he was in Indiana vs. Charlotte.

This is a pretty consistent trend. We ranked similarly past two years. We are a horrible defensive baseball team and nothing the team did this off-season changed that fact. In fact, they probably only got worse defensively (not better).

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 02:04 PM) Also, keep an eye on his hair. He's contractually obligated to keep it for Game of Thrones. If he changes it at all and is seen in public, that could actually be bad news. IIRC, he has already cut his hair. That was what the Entertainment Weekly article reported. I guess that might mean that Snow comes back, but in the form of his beiwolf (sp?)?

Oh vie. I didn't expect to win as I still have no idea how Fullerton made it, but they weren't losing that game with Esch in their and I thought they were going to take this. Tip my cap to Vandy. Dang though, they got my hopes up, just to crush me.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 12:25 PM) Tyler Kolek went #2 to Miami. Would they have taken Aiken? I think Aiken was undrafted which I really don't understand (since he got drafted this year in 1st round, I have no idea how in the redraft he doesn't get drafted at all. And I am fairly certain if you did a redraft, Kolek isn't getting drafted #2. He's still going in round 1, but he isn't going that early, imo, not with the progress some other guys made.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 12:26 PM) Padres have had some bad injuries this year (Myers, Alonso, Morrow) as well as some of the same black holes that the Sox have (2B/SS) I'm going to guess this move had more to do with new regime eventually wanting to bring in its own guy. Black is a big analytics guy and would be a great hire. That said, I presume he'll sit out the rest of the year and then go somewhere else. All this said, it isn't like he had a stellar track record, record wise, so that might mean he ends up working as a bench coach / pitching coach somewhere.

QUOTE (onedude @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 12:17 PM) He can't just come out and say he'll be back next season...that'll ruin the setup in the show. There are rumors/pics of him being in Belfast for preproduction. I believe season six starts filming within a few weeks...I know the outdoor environment shots for the wall and the North film in late September to November, but I'm sure inside shots and shots on built sets happen during the summer. I am hoping that is the case but he was definitely pretty clear in his interview that he was told he isn't coming back and he mentioned he cried, etc, when he left. That said, he never got a gift for leaving so maybe that is his way of hinting it isn't really over. I hope he's just pulling everyone's legs, would make it that much cooler when he returns!

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 12:17 PM) Hire Bud Black! Interesting that the Pads and Sox, two of the off-season darlings, and both underperforming. Black is gone and as far as I'm concerned, he's a much better manager then Ventura (but I am a big Bud Black fan). All that said, his team was .500 just a day ago.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 11:15 AM) Any idea who the Sox take at #3? I'd reckon Kyle Schwarber or however you spell his name? or did he go 2?

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 08:28 AM) That was the following year. In 08-09 Garnett got hurt and the Magic eliminated the Celtics (after the Bulls and Celtics went 7 games). Orlando also knocked out Cleveland. The Lakers really didn't face a championship caliber team their entire postseason run that year. Your right. That celtics Bulls series was so much fun (even though we were on the losing end). Prime BG!

I was surprised they packed so much into the finale. I was expecting a boring finale. I am going to be crushed if Snow isn't resurrected.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 14, 2015 -> 06:59 PM) Speaking of 86-88, wasn't Dylan Axelrod also on CS-Fullerton? He definitely pitched for a Univ-Cal system school. Not Fullerton. Esch can pitch, that is for sure. Was drafted high himself (some rumblings that he was going to sneak into the back of the 1st but ended up going in the supplemental / comp rounds). His mate, Justin Garza, was just as good as he was with a more explosive fastball but underwent surgery about a month ago. I kept saying he'd have been a great pick but the Tribe grabbed him in the tail end of day 1.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 14, 2015 -> 05:57 PM) Go CS Fullerton! Woot Woot! Freaking rain though. Eschelman was cruising. That said, rain also means Fulmer doesn't throw a ton of innings in at least this game. Plus, if your a fan of the Sox, you want Vandy eliminated so Carson can sign sooner!!! PS: GO TITANS!!!

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 14, 2015 -> 08:31 PM) I'm reminded of the '08 finals when the Lakers didn't have Bynum/Ariza. That '08 Celtics team was great and the best defensive team I've ever seen. But they caught a huge break in those two being out. The next season? The Lakers rolled through everybody with both healthy (though KG missed the playoffs). Didn't they go to 7 games in the finals against that same Celtics team? Or am I confusing a year?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 09:57 AM) Rejected because of The Gage Rule. It's okay...the face isn't taking a day off, he's just going to be hanging out with the family. Anyone that wants to see the mug can come on by.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 09:50 AM) Friday July 3 is a company holiday for me but I'm thinking of taking the 2nd off too. Approved. I'm going to be taking the 6th off (3rd is a company holiday). Rowand and Southsider can work for us on Friday & Monday, respectively, for being jerks who don't want to grant us our time off.

Big game for US tonight against Sweden.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 04:03 AM) Chicago Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg is pursuing San Antonio Spurs assistant Jim Boylen to be his top assistant coach, league sources told Yahoo Sports. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--bull...-013405910.html I like this move. #2 assistant in San Antonio, worked previously with Vogel (who is really good too). I like this. Bulls supposedly willing to let him be the associate head coach.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 12:15 AM) I don't hate RV at all. In fact, if I met RV I would shake his hand vigorously and say "you were one of my heroes and my pops loved you too; way to work back from that horrific injury you had". That said, dude is in the .0001% of dads that can take 3 days off work for graduation and nobody gives a f***. Lot of working class dads out there that would love to do the same. You don't know jack s*** about anyone here bro. Presume what you're gonna presume, but don't get it twisted many of us raising a ruckus here are about as far from "meatball" as it gets. Go ahead with your one liners tho, they go over great with the meatball crowd. You ever seen your pops cry because he has to work and he can't be with you? I certainly have. RV should wake up every day thanking his creator he gets to take 3 days off for his daughter's graduation. I've seen the tears in my working class father's eye when he had to go away from his family. You want to tell me, and others, about what it means to be working class and sacrifice everything and anything for your kids? Get real man. Every dad I know could take the weekend off to go attend their daughter's graduation. And if they worked weekends, then I still don't know a dad who couldn't take the time off to attend.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 03:54 PM) I think it has more to do with the experience. He is probably going to play for a little while so he sees what it's like and what the other ballplayers are like. Then he will transition out of the playing side and into a front office or scouting. I don't think he was actually on the baseball team. That is at least my understanding.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 03:49 PM) Winning a dundy? And no, it's not a huge deal, I just don't get where the advantage is even for the kid. When I was a kid, I certainly wouldn't want it. I wouldn't want people going, oh well, he only got drafted because of his dad. I'd want people to say, man, he earned it (and if I didn't, oh well).

QUOTE (Doc Edwards Shot @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 02:29 PM) Here's one man's humble opinion: Only a lunatic detached from reality would have a problem with a father taking 3 days off of work to fly thousands of miles from one coast of the USA to the other for a big once-in-a-lifetime family event like a daughter's graduation. Fantastic post.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ Jun 10, 2015 -> 05:47 PM) To me, this just demonstrates Robin's lack of passion for the job. I have no problem with a parent attending his daughters graduation. However, any manager who really had a strong commitment to the position (and to the team) would minimize the time away. I doubt there is another manger in the league that would miss 3 games for this occasion. Almost all would miss one. Some would miss two. Missing an entire series just shows that our manager would rather have a vacation instead of working. That's a problem. As a parent, I couldn't imagine not being their for my child like a professional manager is during the course of the season. This is a huge moment for his daughter and I'd be more pissed if he blew her off in favor of the White Sox. Priorities and Robin thankfully has them in the right place.