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I hope you guys are right. It was around this time last year that our offense looked inexplicably decent despite Matt Barkley starting. But we've been throttled out of the bye week recently.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 6, 2017 -> 12:03 PM) I am struggling to think of a single scenario that would get Congress to finally act. The only one I could come up with is a gunman or two shot up and killed most of Congress on live TV while they were in session. That might not even do it. They would change security rules for entering congress.

And I am not a Bennetti hater! But there are too often times where him and stone are having a painfully unfunny back and forth and you can tell they are thinking "look how funny we are!"

QUOTE (Brian @ Nov 6, 2017 -> 09:32 AM) Dustin was me at the school dance when I was a kid. Minus the cute older girl feeling pity on me. Yeah, they do their best when diving into sentimentality. I liked that he got rejected at first, they are smart. The shows two strengths are it's remarkable casting and smart sentimentality. And the latter is kind of a cheap trick but so, so effective. There are a lot of tropes from 80s film/tv that have been completely ditched but shouldn't have. I just wish they could be retained without always setting them in the 80s.

Benetti did the Mizzou football game this weekend. I enjoyed it. Still keep coming back to the idea that stone is actually bad for him because they seem to think both of their worst tendencies are actually their best.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Nov 5, 2017 -> 07:09 PM) Tell ya what too...CBS made an incredibly great choice replacing Phil Simms (who was like nails on a chalkboard)...with Tony Romo. Romo's been great so far IMO...and has quickly turned in to probably my favorite announcer. He does an incredible job in the booth with some great analysis. I really like him too. Watch every game he does, even Nantz seems looser around him. They still run into each other a bit too much, but Romo has the ability to just ooze how much he loves the game without it just being him hyping up every marginal player. He seems to provide that focus on loving how plays develop and avoids the need to talk up every joe schmo just to explain a single play.

The bulls may end up being watchable enough. Markkanen/Nwaba/Dunn/Lopez all do either exciting (first 2) or highly competent stuff (latter 2). But the long stretches of Holliday/Grant just taking early jump shots are brutal. Maybe Levine cuts down ont hat because he may be the only bulls player capable of going to rim.

The LF stint was mostly because of his shoulder right?

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 10:08 AM) I love Stranger Things. I think the second season was better than the first. I watched it. I honestly held off after the initial bad review on here and it's a stressful show and I just want all the kids to survive. I thought it was about as good as it could be. Wasn't crazy about the two new characters though.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 03:19 PM) Yes, yes they would. Sports franchises are a finite commodity. It doesn't matter that they won't make you a lot of money from operations, you get one and you're super rich and you want to impress your friends. And when it comes time to sell, some other rich asshole that wants to impress his friends will pay more than the financials say the team is worth. https://www.statista.com/statistics/194615/...ins-since-2006/ That it is an investment vehicle doesn't mean the motivation for purchase is an investment vehicle. People buy sports teams because owning sports teams is awesome. That it is awesome is by and large why they can sell it for gobs more (since there are finite amounts of teams and competition is exempt). edit: actually your whole point is my point. You don't buy a distribution company to impress your friends. You...do do that with baseball teams. And if it was expected to be a profit making enterprise instead of operate largely where the profits get sunk back in the team then its favorable regulatory deals would evaporate. It's not a comparable business.

Haha they would not turn down Bogaerts and Bradley

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 03:00 PM) This is absolutely not true. Do you think any modern sports owner says "May I really want to buy the Marlins, seems like a great return on investment!"

Damn I spent 5 minutes looking up brantley stats and jermaine dye stats that I'll never get back.

Please, baseball is not any other business deal and owning sports franchises aren't an investment.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 02:28 PM) Why would you be bitter? He kept the team in town on a team friendly deal. I would have been bitter if he moved the team. I remember listening to the sessions on the radio with many of the legislators singing Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye to the Sox. Uh, yeah, holding the team hostage in order to get taxpayers to pay for his location and then give him a sweetheart lease isn't an altruistic move.

I think we are lucky all that stadium stuff happened 30 years ago. I would be unbelievably bitter if we were swallowing that stuff today.

So I've kinda been wondering but haven't asked. I know there have been rumors in the cards interest, but isn't the OF their strength? And don't they already have a few too many "all hit/no field" players in OF?

https://www.apnews.com/dea73efc01594839957c...ats'-emails AP finds at least one email was manipulated before being released in the Guccifer 2.0 hack.

Certainly better than Grudz

White Sox Talk‏Verified account @NBCSWhiteSox 49m49 minutes ago UPDATE: The window of opportunity fell on Charlie Tilson and he's out for year: http://bit.ly/2iq1naB

TBH this is just the much more comfortable area for house republicans of signalling. They know it's impractical and "wouldn't actually vote for it!", but they get to show their constituents they are TOUGH in protecting the president. The president, of course, can't see that game. So he will start to think he has congressional support, fire mueller, and be surprised when congress has an issue with it.

It would be remarkable if they couldn't pass a tax cut. It's their claim of tax reform that I think is in trouble.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 09:50 AM) Took my wife to the Morrissey show last night. I had a much better time than anticipated. The old guy can still croon. Nice of him not to cancel for once.

Yeah I read that. Also to be clear I'm not trying to make a "vote in your self interest" argument. But given the ethos of republican voters as low tax, raising taxes on them as long as they are in blue states is...interesting. But perhaps their conviction of lower corp tax rate is enough that they would indeed support it.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 09:26 AM) Am I just old or have people not heard that expression before? Granted he butchered it but the expression is "not letting the inmates run the asylum." It just means that you don't let the employees run the business. That's the employers job. He wasn't really calling them prisoners. People have heard the expression, the correct one. But, they also correctly identify how disrespectful it is, especially the way it was butchered. I've heard that applied many times in families to the children, who are not capable of making reasonable decisions! But if my boss were to say that of us, when there are so many better ways of indicating we can't always be making democratic decisions, I'd think "f*** you" too.