Buehrle>Wood

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Feb 1, 2016 -> 06:51 AM) Well, this didn't happen. Why did we trust Levine? He excused it away this AM. He said instead the surprise was Thomas being back on the business side of things...lol Guessing he heard a former star was gonna be brought back so he went and reported about Buehrle.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jan 30, 2016 -> 12:43 PM) Drake Spears decommits because he doesn't have the grades. This class just keeps getting better and better. Even if they close "strong" by adding a couple ok players this class is f***ing awful. This class is even worse than Zook's last couple of classes which were both awful. You have to go back to when Ron Turner just stopped even trying to recruit to find a class this bad. It's the worst class of our lifetime. They had a nice visit list lined up but everyone canceled out of it. It's worse than turners classes and I don't see that changing by signing day.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 06:47 PM) Soooo no follow up to this? Doesn't seem so. If there was it would have been during the opening ceremonies. Blame Levine.

Well he's not anymore. That's 4 guys who cancelled this weekend at least. So much for that.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 06:05 PM) I'm at the Hahn/Ventura Q&A and there is NO ONE HERE. LOL! They have killed the enthusiasm for this club. Could not believe it. They scheduled it there for a reason. Only open to hotel package buyers and the earliest seminar so some may be stuck at work. Is Hahn going to be doing any more qandas throughout the weekend?

Wonder what Kiermaier would cost. Probably way too much.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 08:56 AM) http://thefreethoughtproject.com/activist-...cted-cops-kill/ Tangentially related, this man predicted his own death and said multiple times it would be at the hands of the Fresno police I've read a few cases like this before and it's almost always a mental breakdown that leads to acting irrationality and a death or just a flat out suicide (Michael Hastings was a popular one). Not saying that happened here. Would love to read more about it.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 08:31 AM) HF OL/DL Desmond Bland is going to an Arizona JUCO because he can't get in literally anywhere. He'll be in a Power 5 in 2 years. He's a stud. Illinois can hopefully go the JUCO route some. Jihad Ward looked downright lost at times at Illinois. He got coached at the Senior Bowl this week and is probably a top 75 selection now. Not that any of them are potential 2nd rounders like Ward, but sounds like Illinois had a bunch of players impress in the different senior all star game practices. Coaching and all that.

QUOTE (103 mph screwball @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 08:22 AM) I hope Buehrle comes back to play for a year. Not sure if he has anything left. Just one of my all time favorite players. As far as Soxfest, I hope Sox fans can keep the occasion festive and be classy. I don't see the point of b****ing. It is not a town hall meeting. They literally call it a town hall meeting, or at least they did.

I think the q and a will definitely be tense. Pre-2005 levels maybe. Those were the days.

Levine mentioned a soxfest surprise with him. Sounds like it'll be him retiring thought not anything to do with the active roster.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 08:56 PM) Didn't land Carmouche today and Reese is no longer visiting. Lol, of course. Not sure how they lost out on Carmouche with all the need at LB. Have 4-5 Scholes left. Let's save it from complete disaster. Shane Richards- juco OL, ok state verbal. I thonk hell end up in champaign though. Just visited Sadarius Hutcherson- So Carolina verbal would probably be our best commit if they can get him. He's visiting this weekend. Dele Harding- He's pretty much a must. And he should commit to Illinois. Last decent LB prospect were in on since Carmouche chose elsewhere. Was a UT verbal now down to Rutgers and Illinois. Visiting this weekend. Tadarryl Marshall- lot of decent offers and for some reason is visiting illinois this weekend. David Montgomery- Iowa State commit, visiting this weekend. Only rb were in on. Not a position of need but he's a good prospect to see what up anyways. Trevour Simms- Mizzou commit or something, I don't know. He's flipped like 10 times. Land 2-3 of those kids and I'll maybe be okay with the class. Doubt we even do that. Lot of people visiting this weekend, they better get some committs.

Thank god Groce is just a brutal coach. Thought we might actually win for a second.

Is there Friday single day passes?

Nfl should adapt that rule.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 27, 2016 -> 04:45 PM) What do you guys use it for? Music? Weather updates? First off its the best alarm clock in the world. "Alexa, set my alarm to 640 am."...that rolls around "alexa shut the hell up and put on 670 the score". So yeah that's an everyday use for me. Then I'll ask it about the weather today. Sports are a big thing. Alexa, what time do the bulls/sox/hawks play. Alexa what's the score of the Warriors game. Again an every day thing for me. I use it way way more for sports than I would have ever imagined. You start getting random information that you would never get when it takes clicking your phone 5 times to find out for whatever reason. Not touching or holding anything at all is unexpectedly very convenient. Use it for music a lot. It's a good speaker. My only complaint with it is that it does not support Spotify voice control and likely never will. You can play it through Bluetooth though and it has Amazon music and tons of radio and podcast options. I use it to listen to podcasts and audiobooks as well.

Marin seems like hell be up sooner than later unlike a lot of that list. They just need to pick a path for him and stick with it.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 09:01 AM) Eh, they are in on enough guys where the class might not be a complete joke like it is right now but it is going to be a bad class. Definitely

To Cubit's credit, Illinois still in on a lot of targets going into signing day that could take this class up from the very bad level. I guess immediate playing time is alluring to some. They got Stewart Reese on campus somehow this weekend, even though everyone thought he was going to FSU and has an offer from every team in the south. Hope they can get him to committ.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 27, 2016 -> 10:03 PM) Just as likely is you have to move Eaton to LF and Cabrera to RF...but that's just me. There's no ideal defensive solution. Eaton has a great arm. People won't accept that because he's "scrappy" or small or something, but whatever. He'd be fine in RF.

Lucha Underground good first ep tonight for season 2. Still don't like the woman vs man element but whatever

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 27, 2016 -> 12:17 PM) Anyone have an amazon echo? Yeah like Kalapse said I found myself using it a lot more than I thought.

Darling going to be out of a job soon

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 04:39 PM) Eh disagree, we were all told from the beginning that the AD would be hired at the end of January/beginning of February. We were told Jan 21st originally. Obviously didn't happen.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 11:44 AM) I think he's the right kind of guy, just inexperienced, I'd still be fine with him. I'd be fine with Tiley as well, but don't think that's happening. Tiley is overseeing the Australian Open right now. The constant delays make sense that he'd be the hire.