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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 10, 2011 -> 10:36 AM) In all the debate about field turf or natural grass, I have yet to see someone bring up the fact that field turf is terrible in the winter. I can only assume that the people writing all of the articles have never even been on field turf and instead are basing their arguments on google searches. I just want to use whatever the Packers do, the weather is similar in both cities and they don't seemingly have the issues.

Life Watched the whole series on Hulu was incredible and so sad to hear it was cancelled.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 6, 2011 -> 04:26 PM) As Rongey keeps saying, Adam Dunn won't come out of his slump sitting on the bench. Mitchell...if he succeeds in the AFL again, might be exactly the impetus he needs. If he fails and is that psychologically fragile, maybe he wasn't the type of player they thought he was coming out of LSU. We'll see. It's the same argument with playing Brent Morel everyday in Chicago or AAA. At some point, they have to produce at the next level. So if he succeeds thats a big push he needed to get going but if he fails it means he is a mental midget?

Do you really need managing experience to be a manager in baseball?? It's not like football/basketball with a bunch of schemes and whatnot, if someone as dumb as Ozzie can take a team to the WS I think anyone with any baseball knowledge can manage.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 6, 2011 -> 10:58 AM) The Bears need to get out of their Soldier Field lease ASAP. Elk Grove, Schaumburg, or Arlington Heights says hi. No way they gout out of their lease after building a new stadium so recently.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Aug 5, 2011 -> 06:59 PM) The Player's Association should treat any player going overseas to play as Scabs. Those guys are weakening the union and is doing a disservice to those role players who arent going to get opportunities to player elsewhere. Yeah, the union if anything wants players to go play overseas so they can make money and holdout long enough for the owners not to screw over the players.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Aug 5, 2011 -> 11:09 AM) We registered our kids for school yesterday and we had assumed that our oldest would be taking Driver’s Ed sometime this year. Turns out since she is one of the younger kids in her class (turns 15 in 9 days) and there are way too many kids in the school district, she doesn’t. We talked to a counselor and there are about 20 kids ahead of her also waiting. But they base it on age so if 20 more kids show up and they are older, they get first dibs. Our only options are either 1) summer school next year 2) an independent driving school at nearly twice the cost or 3) simply waiting to see if an opening shows up before the second semester of school. The first two options require us finding transportation to and from as well. I’m torn because the driving school would be more expensive but she could get all her required driving time in by the time she turns 16. We just have to find a way to get her there for the classes. But there’s still that slight chance that some kids might drop driver’s ed for one reason or another and she could get it through school. Id just wait and get her in the class in summer school or first semester next year, it won't kill your daughter to wait a little while longer no matter what she tells you.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 12:43 PM) I think the comparison is valid. We have no idea of the technology of an alien race, the same as a hypothetical Martian race that has no idea about our technology. Perhaps this race sent out a probe of their own that took hundreds of years to arrive on Earth and it eventually lost control or ran out of fuel or was caught in a storm, etc. To say that anything has no merit whatsoever in a completely hypothetical situation about an alien race that may or may not even exist is sort of weird. So a spaceship that was able to travel across galaxies and suddenly runs out of fuel at Earth is as valid as sending a land rover to the planet next door to us and having it break....

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 10:56 AM) Haven't we lost rovers on Mars? I mean, if there were a race on Mars and they found one of those rovers, couldn't they say basically the same thing you said? I doubt that thing leads anywhere. It's probably a strange rock formation or some crap because it's never anything fun, but it would be so cool if it were a UFO. I think it was about a year ago when they thought they found a monolith on Mars, but it was debunked as just an odd shadow. An alien race would live so much farther than Mars that comparison has no merit what so ever.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 09:55 AM) Anyone have any thoughts on this? Underwater Discovery Sparks Rumors Of Crashed UFO In Baltic Sea Between Finland And Sweden If an alien race has the technology to travel here from however many light years away, I fail to see how they'd manage to crash on our planet.

JA said a few years ago he got so much hate mail he thought he had a towel on his head or something similar to that.... the guy is a disaster and a pos of a person.

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Jul 31, 2011 -> 01:04 PM) I think it's funny that bears fans say they didn't try in the last game against GB last season, then why did most if not all their starters play the entire game? if you really aren't trying then you don't play your top starters (cutler, urlacher, briggs, etc.) in the second half of that game period You can play your starters but it's not the same when nothing is on the line win or lose. So no, they didn't 100% concede the game but I don't give it as much weight if the game had any meaning to the Bears.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 31, 2011 -> 11:44 AM) Kreutz wasn't really that much of a help last season. If they get a better OL to replace him they'll win 9 or 10. Last year's 11 was a fluke. I disagree, Bears got a little lucky last season but they also didn't even try against GB in week17 and had a couple losses against the Seahawks/Redskins that more likely would be wins if replayed.

Thompson with a low avg. but 25 doubles and 17 HR's on the season, I don't know what to make of him. It looks like power increased big time from last season to this season... hopefully next year we see the avg. climb.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 07:53 AM) Against a LH batter? I'd take Ohman happily. Despite a bad start to the year lefties are hitting .200 against him, .588 OPS. Unfortunately though Ozzie has had Ohman face more right handed batters than left this season... I'm mostly ok with Ozzie, it was the overuse of the vintage Sunday lineup and misusing pitchers like Ohman I can't stand.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 05:09 AM) Some managers would kill to have Will Ohman in a close game. Well my post obviously meant with our current bullpen available.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 01:57 AM) That's a fair criticism. Somebody should be axed just over the Dayan mess. But he was talking about in-game decisions. I dont think other managers would put Will Ohman in games that are still close.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 28, 2011 -> 11:30 PM) The Bears are about $35 mil under the cap. You don't want to spend half of that on 1 guy with so many other holes to fill. Even further, in a Cover 2 defense, the CB's play a lot of zone coverage. You wouldn't be utilizing Asomugha properly unless he's playing man coverage. Lovie is always saying that a good chunk of the time we aren't even running the cover 2 defense, it's just the perception people get.

It seemed like a lot of people were complaining about Kreutz during the season saying he wasn't very good anymore, but now losing him would be a disaster?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 07:52 PM) A-rod was not GG caliber and either was Ripken when he moved. Alexei is one of the best SS in the league, he IS legit. A-Rod was GG caliber when he first came to NY...... but I do agree moving Alexei to 3B makes absolute no sense whatsoever.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 04:07 AM) A DH is generally a better hitter than the team's pitcher, but that's just my personal opinion. Adam Dunn probably can be outhit by a few pitchers these days.

I'll take Noel Devine, think he can be similar to Darren Sproles maybe even better.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 06:19 PM) Rowand isn't legit because he only had one good year, but Cotts and Politte, Loiasa and Humber are in your Cooper column. You must be stoned. Well Humber doesnt fall into with other 3 yet, but as far as it goes the other 3 only had a good season under Cooper while Rowand had similar career post wsox. Also Rowand probably was a roider and probably had a part to do with any of his success.

Aaron Rowand isn't legit, he had 1 good season with us and 1 good season after the Wsox but largely below avg. and why would I give him credit for Iguchi or Dye? Konerko also changes his swing every two weeks himself and Loaiza was picked off the scraps, he would of been in AAA or out of baseball most likely before his season with us. Like I said, firing Walker won't fix the offense... but the guy isn't good at his job and I'm starting to think you are related to him.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 08:12 AM) Carlos Quentin had more injury problems in AZ than he's had here? This is exactly what I'm talking about. Walker will never get a fair shake. Dye was much better as a White Sox than a Royal or an A. I don't know why you're laughing at Thome and Thomas. I was preparing for, which btw, I did not get a response, the answer as to which hitters became much better after Walker. I was sure he would mention Frank Thomas, so I countered that with Thome as their conditions were very similar. Uribe wasn't better with Colorado than the Sox, he was slightly better in SF, but not if you took his first 2 White Sox seasons, and he faded just like with the Sox, and I'm not just throw Alexei's name out there. He has hit significantly better than he was projected. That's just a fact. Jermaine Dye was injury plagued for awhile before his time with the Wsox and was a former all star, I don't understand how you credit him being healthy to Walker. Thome/Thomas are both HoF mashers and Thomas has a very unorthodox swing that Walker had nothing to do with. Juan Uribe's 2 seasons in San Fran were better than all but 1 with the Wsox. Alexi is exactly what he was projected, not sure where you are going with that at all. I don't think anyone is going to claim firing Greg Walker is going to automatically fix the offense, but the fact is he is nothing better than below avg. at his job. As far as Cooper in comparison well top of my head. Cooper: Matt Thornton Gavin Floyd Phil Humber Esteban Loaiza Bobby Jenks Jose Contreras Neal Cotts/Cliff Politte(had success with us than out of baseball after) Walker: Joe Crede ???