Jake

This is the reason it is so difficult for a short term in prison not to be a de facto lifetime punishment. Go to prison, be raped and beaten, nobody cares, get out, lose all of your rights, have everyone ask why you won't be a productive citizen.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 22, 2013 -> 08:25 AM) But he can just opt out. And then he goes to the Brooklyn...wait, no. He won't be going where he wants. This is a bit out of date, but here's a look at some teams who could have salary cap room this offseason.

I know we've talked about this in the 'Buster before, but there's something very odd about wishing someone to be prison raped.

I'm just going to keep rooting for Adam for now and hope something clicks. I feel like hating him is a bad investment of my emotions since it is unlikely to change anything. Hate Donnie Veal, instead. You won't have to hate him long before he's sent to AAA or released (don't know if he has options)

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 11:33 PM) I have a military style backpack 5.11 rush 24 with honor patches one being the punisher because I happen to like the punisher. The other patch is an american flag. The backpacks prove nothing except they like well made backpacks. Hence the reason I bought mine. My 9 year old is rocking a camo rush 12 with a spiderman honor patch and a zombie patch. I will have to alert the tinfoil society. Welcome to Lindsay Graham's watchlist

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 11:29 PM) If rebuilding is what the Sox have to do then let Hahn do it, no more Kenny Williams veto power BS. Kenny needs to go and give Hahn a real chance to clean up mess Williams left. I don't think Hahn is the right one to clean house, if for whatever reason the organization wanted to do some extensive rebuilding/retooling. I'm sure he is different from Kenny, but he has been a willing participant in the current state of the organization, for better and worse. KW was the boss, but it had always been clear that Hahn had very important input. It is hard to say exactly how much of the roster is the way it is because of Rick, but we can certainly say that it has much to do with him. He will have the same sunk-cost fallacy type of biases and the like that KW would have. That said, let's have this season play out a bit more before we go straight to the rebuild option.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 11:08 PM) Tinfoil is a bit tight I don't see why military personnel being present is proof of guilt. I also don't see the part where those two are without backpacks because they blew them up. Or why all the lines from the two pictures of them mean anything other than that those are both pictures of them.

I think clever GM'ing rebuilds just fine. There is no advantage in being bad. You can rebuild without losing a million games, you just quit spending bad money. We have the payroll and the market to always be somewhat competitive. We can buy superstars if we want to. This isn't the NBA, there is no cap space to clear, Derrick Rose isn't waiting with the number 1 pick.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 10:58 PM) If it hasn't been posted already, http://imgur.com/a/Nx8EU Sigh None of the different theories really fit together very well

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 11:20 AM) I feel like Mad Men is just set on repeat, especially the Pete/Don storylines. Didn't we see the same type of scenes 2-3 seasons ago? Although the Trudy/Pete scene was pretty epic. QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 02:19 PM) I told my mom the same thing. The best stuff so far for me has been the Peggy work stuff. Don is becoming Roger and both Pete and Peggy are becoming Don. Will be interesting to see if and how those characters can divert those paths. Also, is anyone more awesome than Roger Sterling? I f***ing love that guy. QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 02:24 PM) I decided I was done after the opener. I am not interested anymore in a dark take of people never change and redemption doesn't exist. I used to be fine with don's cheating, thinking it was part of his need to keep secrets because of his past. But now his past is pretty much settled, and so it's just that don's a sleezebag except this time he's hurting someone who is a good person and treats him well. I don't find that entertaining. I have a feeling we may get to a more complicated understanding of whether Megan is wholly good or not. One thing about Mad Men is that you will never have a guiltless character. Nobody is supposed to be the hero. There are no heroes.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 06:21 PM) Boozer was very good offensively yesterday. His help defense and positioning was terrible. I'm a pretty big fan of Boozer's and I have to say his defense was bad, even for him, last night. He was not alone in the least, though. Hinrich was god awful and he's usually decent to good.

QUOTE (Elgin Slim @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 04:32 PM) Maybe seeing his team play without him made him realize how "bad" the team is. I think that the Howard situation is just the beginning. These guys think their s*** doesn't stink, which is part of what makes them so good. They see LeBron and what he did and say, "I can do that too." Though Howard got lots of flak for what he did, it is going to take a huge backlash from the fans for these guys to realize that that is a bad idea. Carmelo did it, LeBron did it, Howard did it, they all got flak but in the end they ended up at THEIR CHOICE OF TEAM with better talent than what they had around them at their first team. Whether it works chemistry wise or not is a different story. I think Howard is the cautionary tale, here. He didn't want LA and now he's involved in that complete clusterf*** over there.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 04:24 PM) People have said the same thing about KLove in Minnesota. Of course, he's willing to keep playing and accumulating injuries

Soviets had spies in the Manhattan Project anyway. They had a pretty good idea of the nature of our weapon before the USA whispered in Stalin's ear about a secret weapon.

Only LeBron can pull off the kind of thing he pulled off. Derrick isn't that good. He's great, but he isn't so good that the only way not to win titles is to put absolutely horrible teams around him. If you flipped LeBron and Derrick on this team, the Bulls are the ones winning 20+ games in a row. If you want to see a comparable situation to the one he'd have if Derrick tried to push his way out, see Dwight Howard. EDIT: Also, it makes no sense why he would have suddenly realized how "bad" his team just months after signing that extension, which renders him without bargaining room

This is all Gavin/Robin's fault!!!!!

We're playing like s***, but that list of CLE starters isn't real scary to me

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 04:05 PM) Just like Dunn will not stay below .200 while in a Sox uni, because his career avs before that was .261, right? There's a reason why Dunn's 2011 season was such a surprise...because nothing like that has ever happened. Not without a major injury. I don't think it's fair to think that Kep is going to bat .160 because he's started off poorly this year

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 04:01 PM) Masterson, McCallister and Myers......................one game maybe. Myers went on DL today.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 03:56 PM) I love how we paid a career utility player, to be an everyday starter. When Gordon returns/if Gordon had never been hurt, I'm not sure if that is true. Again, though. Have we played our 20th game? It's one thing to hate on Dunn. He's had a season like this before and the brand of bad he's been is utterly spectacular. Everyone else, though...can we show some patience?

Glad to see we have no reason to play the next 140 games

I like this strategy of "alternate the two left-handed CFs so that neither can get in a rhythm" Or...maybe Tekotte will start tomorrow

I don't see how there are any guarantees that Derrick comes back at the beginning of next year. The threshold for feeling good enough is incomprehensible for us both.

We do not have enough left handed hitting outfielders

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 20, 2013 -> 09:15 PM) I'd have to say his 3 most recent starts are more relevant than what he did 6 years ago. Sure, but I presented 1000 innings of statistics. Not just 2007. Gavin is a fairly well known entity. There is a lot of uncertainty with Axe, and not much that suggests he's worth giving extra starts. I've been as much of a fan of Axe as a person can be -- I think he's an MLB starter. I do not think he's better than Gavin or should be starting instead of Gavin. I also think he should be in AAA or in our bullpen (or maybe flipped for a replacement level-ish bat so he can play for a team with room for him)