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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 21, 2012 -> 02:23 PM) Congrats Mr. Moderator. Now spam your friends and recruit! Let the bans and power mongering rain down on you all

If anyone is interested... NBA Finals Discussion: http://www.talkbulls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3422 Bulls offseason discussion: http://www.talkbulls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3419 and other good stuff about to happen on TalkBulls

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 21, 2012 -> 08:00 AM) Commit a felony and go to prison. Yes, then you can imagine all of Soxtalk is paying for your training!

I'm in. I really enjoy the basketball discussion from Soxtalk members so I anticipate spending a good deal of time there. Hopefully we can move the Soxtalk NBA discussion all over to that board. I'd consider closing the NBA thread here even, at least once the Finals are over. I can help moderate or whatever you need, but I'll participate enthusiastically regardless.

Here's a player that hasn't been mentioned that may have more value than almost anyone we're talking about -- Alejandro de Aza. He could easily be a big piece of a deal that brings a David Wright type player in. We may regret letting him go, or we may get to see Jared Mitchell roam center field for years and forget about it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 21, 2012 -> 12:23 PM) I think we do, I'm just not sure we want to give them up. If we pay top dollar (figuratively speaking, I mean paying in players) for someone, we are leaving this system with seemingly nothing. I'm not sure whether I'm comfortable with that. However, when we get guys like Jose Quintana, Nate Jones, Alejandro de Aza contributing in a huge way...I almost wonder if our talent evaluation is a little better than we at Soxtalk think it is.

I still don't understand what is hard to understand on here. We have a high dollar payroll and it is hard to take it from high dollar to top dollar without having a lot of people at the games. Kenny isn't b****ing that we are poor, he's saying that if you want to come to him and b**** about how we haven't brought in any additional big dollar players (or why we didn't resign a player like Mark Buehrle), look at the attendance numbers. Of course in this is an implicit admission that he could have spent the current dollars better. But hey, you live and you learn. Had we just developed one more MLBish 3B or another starting pitcher (or just avoided injury/fantastic failure at this position) this team is almost without flaws.

Call him up to the MLB to steal Quintana's "cinderella" thunder

I'm extremely interested in how Conor Jackson is playing defense at 3B. He has a reputation as a terrible defender at both first and OF, if he's somehow improved and can play a viable 3B that could make him immensely valuable to us. The guy has swung the bat pretty well in the MLB before. Not great for a 1B, but certainly okay for a 3B

We tinkered with the rotation to save Chris Sale's arm. How is this hard to understand? It was a short term loss, long term gain decision.

If there's a Thornton for Youk deal, we better get more than Youk in return. There was a point in the season where straight up seemed fair, but Youk has ruined his own value at this point.

I don't think Bynum would work out here. Big egos + laziness + Thibodeau = explosion I don't think Bulls fan understand how valuable Joakim Noah is. Guys that big, that work that hard, play defense like that, score a few points, are not that easy to find. This is why almost every team has some 7 foot guy that can hardly play basketball on their bench.

There should be no rebuilding with this franchise. We have the resources to always put a competitive product out there like we have now. The trick is not to get all emotional if this product doesn't surge to 100 wins and trade away the future for a short term shot at the title of a weak division.

I was starting to think Soxtalk was mad that Gavin pitched well, because now there is nobody to be mad at. GAVIN DA STOPPA

Chicago's handsomest man Dylan Axelrod working in the pen

I know it's no fun to lose the series at home, but we can pretend we took 2/3 at both places.

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QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Jun 20, 2012 -> 04:19 PM) Other than bodyweight exercises (pushups, pullups, etc), what is the cheapest way to start doing some strength training? Can I buy a barbell+weights and do things like squats and lifts without having something like a power rack (assuming I am extremely conservative about how much weight I use)? It's going to be hard to get a heavily weighted barbell to your back without a rack to hold it up and allow you to get underneath the bar. Check things like craigslist, oftentimes people are willing to part with that stuff at far under retail prices (which are sky high). It can be a pain to go pick those types of things up and it's damn near impossible to ship something that heavy without paying a fortune.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 20, 2012 -> 08:57 PM) Thornton get the 7th, or does Ventura put Gavin back out there? Not sure, our coaching staff has basically given pitch counts the finger. However, they have to feel compelled to pull Gavin before anything goes wrong. Tough call

Wow, intestinal and testicular fortitude right there

Great job against Soriano. Now get this guy and finish up the amazing save.

Great changeup.

Wow, tough break there. That could easily have been a single if we played him normally.

The kids can play

lol I love watching Starlin play