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Why is Semien batting second?

QUOTE (glangon @ Mar 3, 2014 -> 05:16 AM) I may be looking too much into this but to me there is a couple of concerns and a few positives on the back of this. Concerns:- Paulino getting hit for a few. I know its Spring Training and he's coming back from an injury, but this doesn't inspire me and it should spur other rotation candidates. Nestor Molina, continues to get hit off of. I've still to see anything positive from this guy. Positives:- Adrian Nieto - Good to see him producing when needed with the bat. I can't wait until I get to see him hit. Tyler Flowers - It looks to be a different Flowers heading into spring, I know it's early but perhaps we could see a different Flowers hitting when the season starts. The fallen prospects - Guys like Mike McDade, Carlos Sanchez, Andy Wilkins, Keenyn Walker all showing patience at the plate and working the count to their favour. It was these guys who produced for the comeback win. It sounds like Steverson's hitting coaching is starting to pay off early. Lets hope it continues. I'm probably looking into this too much but after the woes of last season and how pathetic some of our so called prized prospects were last season in the minors, it's good to see them showing their potential. You are. Its game number 2 of ST. Pitchers are not throwing their full arsenal out there yet. They are working on location, working on a pitch, etc. Breaking pitches do not have depth in the valley as much as they will up in Chicago. Hence why ST allstars like Brian Anderson will always look great in Arizona. Also people havent been relocated yet to their ST camps. Give it a few weeks when the herd is thinned out before we start projecting. Just my thought.

Seabrook looks like he forgot what end he was at.

I will be there with the family for this game and the game against the Indians on Saturday. Haven't been there in a few years. Lets get this started.

He hurt my feelings, HULK SMASH. That pretty much is the jist of it.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 10:12 PM) http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/30/world/europe...ml?c=homepage-t Anyone think she gets extradited? I believe They won't honor extradition as this is considered double jeopardy.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 23, 2014 -> 01:29 PM) You awesome. He was cheating a lot last year, looking for inside pitches. Pitchers were throwing him breaking balls away, and he was either missing them or rolling over them. That's very fixable. The key is to keep patient and to drive the ball up the middle and to right field on the pitch away. Recognition of the pitch and how to attack it is usually a hard thing for young hitters as they come to the bigs. The breaking pitches are a lot tighter and the break is later. When you cheat like this at times is when scouting reports the second time through will kill you until you adjust back.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 11:39 PM) Phegley doesn't pass the eye test. He has an atrocious looking swing. It has a bad plane, it's forced and it looks manufactured. He's really bad behind the plate. He isn't athletic. He doesn't move well and his reactions are bad. He's also a prime candidate for PED's. Flowers is already a juicer, but his swing, while flawed, is much more natural. It has easy pop and he demonstrated a very good eye in the minors. He moves well behind the plate for a big guy and frames pitches well. He has a much better pedigree. Most likely neither player is the answer, but I would roll the dice on a healthy Flowers. Plus, I made an awful bet on Flowers so I need some redemption. Also, the Sox wouldn't have signed him to a $900,000 deal if he was totally out of the plan. His swing doesnt pass what eye test, yours. Outside of him starting out with an open stance the rest of it is relatively clean. Here is his swing at the point of the contact. And it looks pretty good. Head is down, back knee is bent, up on his toe, the bat is at the point of contact pretty well as well. Could he get into bad habits, sure. But making comments about its an atrocious looking swing is comical.

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ Jan 17, 2014 -> 06:08 PM) Regardless of where Tanaka signs I would still draft a pitcher in June since there's supposed to be so much talent available at both the college and HS levels. If we sign Tanaka it just makes our future rotation look that much brighter with the #3 pick. I would take a pitcher as well. We are pretty damn good at identifying pitchers and developing them. Pitching is always a golden commodity. If you get a stud at number 3 you go for it.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jan 17, 2014 -> 03:56 PM) I heard this on the Score yesterday. Between this and the new mascot, it's a done deal. I can't wait to see the novelty t-shirts the street vendors come up with. Maybe some Cub fans still have their Fukudome headbands that they can reuse. I really wouldn't mind if the Sox weren't in the mix for Tanaka at all. I'm quite content with just the one foreign question mark they're throwing dollars and years at for now. Maybe they should show Tanaka how the Cubs honored the last Japanese player on their team.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jan 17, 2014 -> 04:23 PM) Mainframe stuff. I’m most familiar with Cobol, PL/1, CICS, JCL and Natural. I’ve taken classes for Assembler, RPG, C++, VB, SQL and Python but I’ve never used them in the real world. For some reason I’ve never been able to get a real good handle on OOP. Writing a lot of python these days to interface with networking equipment.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 2, 2014 -> 08:16 PM) Picked up a Jambox Mini yesterday. It is incredible. I bought my wife a Sol Republic Deck for christmas. Just amazing.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 07:36 PM) You folks should have watched postgame press conference as Jay detailed exactly how he deserves as much or blame as anybody for why the Jeffery pass wasn't caught. He said outright that he threw it in the wrong place and made it much harder than it should have been. People act like I'm crazy for expecting excellence from a Chicago QB but we're eager to assume Jeffery makes an unbelievable catch like that would have been. You keep on demanding excellence. Remind me where we have had this hotbed of QB talent that we have seen over the last 20 years piloting our offense. Do you remember the pre-Cutler days. Do you remember the 400 or so QBs that piloted the SS Fail on offense. He hit the receiver in the hands. Thats all a QB can do. Any QB worth his salt is going to blame himself on the post game show. I can imagine the pitchforks and torches if he came up and said, well did my best. Did you see how our defense played. f***, they suck.

I am starting to think that the Hotdog vendor Mike North has hijacked a few of the accounts. Because these arguments are a cornerstone of his logic.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 07:29 PM) Jim Miller said it best - "Jay Cutler didn't play badly. But was it great? No it wasn't." There is a matter of expectations here. Jenks and I are expecting greatness. We traded two first round draft picks for greatness. We've been paying him 10 million dollars per year for greatness. We are apparently considering giving him a 50% raise for greatness. It isn't what we're getting. We're getting the same old inconsistency. Too many possessions just given away by poor throws and decisions. In the game and drive where it mattered most, we came up empty. On non-QB matters, this is something to think about: it wouldn't be difficult to flip into a 3-4 scheme in this offseason. Think about the players under contract/we would want to bring back: all 3 corners (not that all three will come back, but that we would want them all), Briggs under contract, and then you have McClellin and Bostic as key cogs on rookie contracts, and then Ratliff/Wootton as some DL we'd probably like to bring back. All of these guys fit in 3-4. I would love Bostic-Briggs as the ILB. You have McClellin as rushing OLB. Corners are good to go. You need new safeties regardless. Ratliff made his name in the middle of a 3-4 line and Wootton is that perfect mixture of DT/DE to fit as a down lineman in a 3-4. Heck, even our 6th round pick Cornelius Washington would look a lot better as a rushing OLB (look at that guy's combine stats, good gracious). Also, Mel Tucker is a rare breed that has coordinated both 4-3 and 3-4 in the NFL. Our scheme today featured McClellin standing up almost the entire time BTW. With the amount of turnover we expect on D and the personnel that are going to stay, this would be the time to change if Emery and/or Trestman really want to do it. Okay, because I enjoy the crazy. What drive are you talking about. Is this the drive where he hits Alshon right in the hands and he dropped it or on the last 38 seconds.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 07:15 PM) Jesus people. Learn to read. Here are the points i'm making: (1) Cutler might have outplayed Rogers in today's game based on stats alone, but at the end of the day one guy led his team down the field and won the game. That's who I think had the better game. It's not like Rogers sucked. (2) in thinking about the future, I don't believe Cutler is a franchise QB or the answer for the Bears, for a variety of reasons which I've spelled out. I'm not opposed to bringing him back, but it has to be at the right price because there are enough weapons for average QB's to win with IF they can also upgrade the defense. (3) the defense blows and clearly made critical errors in the game. They are much more to blame than Cutler. (4) people blaming Tucker for a stupid mistake by the defense on a fumble-TD and thinking Lovie would have stopped that from happening are stupid. I can read and comprehend. I however reject your first premise based on logic and facts. This is how guys that win 20 games with a 5 ERA get Cy Young votes. He is a winner. Stats be damned.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 07:05 PM) It's crazy to think 1-8 is not acceptable? Just show me the video of where he played on defense. And I will assign blame for todays game. I looked and I figured maybe safety. But nope that wasnt him.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:59 PM) Stats mean dick if you don't win. How's Cutler done against the best team in the division? The team that needs to be beat every year to get into the playoffs? Math is hard. Stats lie. f*** its like we have channeled the post game Bears call in show. Cue crazyland.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:54 PM) If Cutler had a QB rating in the 80's and Rogers in the 100's then I would suspect he would make sense. McNown would of outplayed them all. He would of stopped Cobb, picked up the live ball on the field and scored 77 points.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:50 PM) I wanted Jeffery to make that play, but it was by no means easy and shouldn't have been a back shoulder throw. It also is far from a guarantee of a victory, since we were still quite far from a TD even with that catch. Nobody is saying this is all on Cutler or anything like this. Riddle me this: if GB and CHI swapped QBs today, who wins? I'm being told that Cutler outplayed Rodgers, so I suppose GB wins by even more? That play was before GB's game winning drive. Swapped QBs. Is this your Xbox.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:47 PM) Relax people. I don't know how you could say that Cutler played an amazing game today. The only reason we were in it on offense was one of Forte's best games of his life. Cutler played a fine game, he managed it well and made several very good plays, but I want to roll the dice on finding a guy that never loses games like this. I just don't want to pay Cutler to play better than he ever has before again. I guarantee, regardless of what he thinks about Cutler, Trestman will say the offense didn't do what it needed to today. This is a very, very bad GB defense. We have a very, very bad defense. You had to get more points than we did. Plain and simple. I think QB is responsible for a great deal of the scoring that we do. Nobody expected our defense to play well, but we have expected Cutler to play as well as the Aaron Rodgerses of the world for 5 seasons and it never even comes close. The defense chokes on a global scale and you blame Cutler and then tell others to relax. Thats rich.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:46 PM) Did he make the plays that needed to be made? Did he march his team down the field to a victory while his team was losing? When a QB places a ball in the hands of the receiver. Did he do his job? Is there anything else he can do?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:45 PM) How can anyone say this with a straight face when one guy WON THE f***ING GAME and the other didn't? Because people are embracing logic.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:39 PM) We're on the same page. It isn't that Cutler sucked, it's that a 15 million dollar QB wins a game like this, that was there for the taking even with a horrible defense. I'm not going to absolve the defense, but that doesn't mean I don't expect the offense to play over it. I do expect them to score 34 points against a defense that is IMO every bit as bad as ours. He hit Jeffreys in the hands down near the 20. He dropped it. Do you want him to run down there and catch it as well. Logic embrace it.