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Good trade for LAA. I think he would've been a good get for the Sox.

Would you guys do a Frankie Montas and filler for CarGo, Q for Andrelton Simmons at SS, and sign one of Upton or Cespedes??

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Nov 11, 2015 -> 11:25 PM) Braves trading SS Simmons to NL West team? I would love to get someone like him.

Sox are going to need to trade pitching to get young cost controlled position players. It'll have to be Q, Rodon and that sort. Reds are shopping Brandon Phillips and Alrodis Chapman.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 09:24 PM) Fans want the big hits, because they are sexy. Honestly, our rankings have been good enough to win with, but we aren't winning. If we are winning more then we won't care as much when we miss out on the 5 stars going to Duke/KU/UK, that's just the game today. Plus, we win more we'll eventually get a few of those guys. The thing is, Illinois is not winning. Groce's main thing was supposed to be recruiting. His coaching was always just ok. He's done about as well as everyone expected coaching wise, but he couldn't hold up his end in recruiting. If they wanted recruiting classes like they have now, they were better off with Weber because he's a better X's and O's coach.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 09:58 PM) I assume most fans expect higher quality classes. I do. But I guess some people are happy beating out USC on recruits.

But can he play god dammit?

Zobrist got caught looking too much at his hit. Should've been a triple.

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 08:42 PM) These guys probably want 3 or 4 year deals to move their families, etc. Sox will get whoever's left when the music stops playing. Sounds about right.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 06:23 AM) This is so false, do you even follow recruiting? Yeah I do. Or please cite to me how they beat out Kansas for Cliff Alexander. Or how they beat out other teams for Jalen Brunson, Xavier Simpson, Carlton Bragg, Elijah Thomas and Jawun Evans. Don't worry, I'll wait.

LBJ has a bad back. My prediction, by Thanksgiving, he takes a month or two sabbatical. Either way, I don't see the Bulls getting passed the Heat or Cavs.

That was a horrible semester for grades. I went to the parade and rally. It was phenomenal.

I liked the PPV alot. Rollins did as good as you could against a guy like Kane. Divas match was surprisingly good until that botch at the turnbuckle. Looks like Nicki returned the favor on Charlotte outside of the ring. Only matches I didn't like were Owens vs Ryback and Rollins vs Kane. I thought Reigns and Bray put on a good show as well as Taker vs Brock. Hopefully this leads to the Undertaker leading the Wyatt family, resurrecting Kane, and then it somehow leads to a Sting vs Taker match.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Oct 25, 2015 -> 07:11 PM) Illinois has 6'6 wing Kipper Nichols on an official visit right now. Previously committed to Tulane. They probably have a realistic shot at him, but anytime Illinois goes after a recruit another big school wants, they lose plain and simple.

I remember Nuke. Best old school poster, especially in that '05 season. He made game threads phenomenal and whenever it seemed like the Sox were going to crap, he'd come out of nowhere with some funny stuff.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Oct 24, 2015 -> 12:49 PM) I listen to Chocago sports podcasts sometimes when I'm at work, and here's a summary of what I heard this week: I downloaded the waddle and Silvy show from Tuesday (on location with Urlacher). Kaplan, Silvy & Jesse Rodgers were all pretty confident that the Cubs would win game 3. Waddle's assessment of Schwarber in the outfield was that he isn't as bad as everyone says. Silvy is upset that Sox fans were not rooting for the Cubs. He says that he was pulling for the Sox in2005. I'd love to hear those shows so I could verify that myself. On the score, listening to Bruce Levine after the series was comical. He's about as bad as the worst dumb caller when it comes to possible trades. According to him, Solef is an AL player because he's prone to injuries. Castro is a guy that a few teams really want and he can be a good SS. Schwarber is a really hard worker, so he'll improve in the field wherever that play him. The Cubs will target Shark (who Levine has a total stiffy for) because he will be much less expensive than some other guys out there. I heard him on two different shows (I listen to the score interviews podcast), and he was in full fanboy mode. I've managed to avoid mocking my Cub fan friends, but I'm so happy they lost because of all the douchebaggery in the media. I still remembered when I pissed off Waddle and Silvy on Facebook by calling out their interview methods.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 24, 2015 -> 03:23 PM) This morning Levine was suggesting Quintana for Baez or Soler straight up I'd do Q for both.

That was horrible by the ump in the 9th. Even my Royals friend said why did Escobar get MVP, it should've been the ump and he started cracking up.

Gibbons made a mistake taking out Price too early.

I don't think there is a type the Sox should be spending their money on. If they don't play SP or 1B, the Sox need to look at upgrades at all positions. Cespedes would represent a large upgrade in the OF. Whether or not you agree with his plate philosophy, it's a start. The plan to rebuild is simple. 1)Acquire as much talent as possible. 2)Trade away pieces that don't fit for more talent.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 21, 2015 -> 07:46 AM) They should have gone before Thibs. We will see. It is really hard to take much out of preseason games, especially when they aren't playing with their entire roster, but it is interesting J G Buckets plays 37 minutes on Monday night then 32 on Tuesday in games that don't count, and not a word about the Mayor running his players into the ground. Thank you. I said it when Thibs was fired and they did nothing in the offseason. By simply firing Thibs and hiring Hoiberg, you are flat out saying, Thibs was the only problem and not roster makeup. If Hoiberg doesn't make it farther, then the target is on your back because you have consistently done nothing to fill the holes, in 12 years you have yet to make a trade which netted you useful talent back, you haven't been able to sign a big time free agent (which means that flexibility bulls*** you keep touting is just that, BS) and you have the same core from 2008 Gibson, Noah, Hinrich, Rose. In the end, they have not taken any risks and the only trades they have done is for cap purposes. I don't know how they've gotten a pass this long, especially Paxson. And it's not like his last few drafts have been great.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 21, 2015 -> 08:44 PM) I think the Heat will be pretty good, but their bench is awful compared to ours and Cleveland's. Strongly disagree. Last year their bench was awful, this year it's pretty nice. With the problems the Bulls will have defensively, I actually like the Heat and Bucks more. Just for the record, keeping Noah at C would still equal the same defensive problems, that guy is done. Dragic Wade Deng Bosh Whiteside Green McRoberts Winslow Anderson Chalmers Bucks are really long defensively and they use their defense to create their offense. They kinda remind me of the 90s Bulls teams in terms of length

I'm rooting for the Jays since I wanna see Canada win. At the same time, they just haven't clicked all postseason.

I don't care if the guy is an analytics type if our team doesn't have the talent which I don't think this team does for the most part.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 10:23 PM) So the Bulls might suck without Thibbs. Who would have saw that coming? Not John Paxson