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Going to close this and move last few posts to the NFL Offseason thread now that FAs are signed.

Donated to the IL-06 district fund through swing left. Cannot believe Roskam could have been a no for the first one and saw the changes and can say this is better.

This wouldn't be my pick if we were to acquire something like this for Butler, but man the Bulls looked so good when they were busting teams out in transition. I would be so pumped if they could somehow land Deaaron Fox in this draft.

Glad to hear of some progress. Fingers crossed we don't hear "Rodon taking a break" anytime soon.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 4, 2017 -> 11:08 AM) How would we have gotten Wade? And despite how much all of us were done with Kirk during his last stint here, he was the best player left after Wade in 03 so not sure the Jay injury forced them to do anything. Yeah, Hinrich was fine. But I think they were less willing to make that reasonable trade up for Wade knowing that they didn't really have a point guard (Crawford was pretty injury plagued at the time, it is amazing, I'd never have pegged him of all those players to be a 18 something year vet)

Question I have been wondering: Jose has seemed very against moving to DH in interviews. I was wondering if now that he's in arb, if that's a consideration. Would it be a big hit if he gets grouped with DH compensation with the arbiter?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 4, 2017 -> 10:25 AM) Stop rushing guys to the bigs, bmags. Jeez Listen, he isn't going to strengthen his arm pitching in the minors.

I can't say that I remember a lot about the 02-03 season but I thought Williams looked like a bust. He had that really nice triple double game but couldn't shoot. yeah, blech, under 40% from the field. http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/willija03.html

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 4, 2017 -> 10:50 AM) This is really the day I've dreaded. My mom is in basic retail, which added health insurance due to ACA requirements. This is the group that I think will be most vulnerable to the new stripped back requirements on Lifetime caps and pre-existing. With her being only 59, it's going to be a lot of crossing our fingers until she hits medicare age if something like this passes.

I thought he'd been back for like 2 weeks but maybe that is too short.

I would not have guessed Holmberg up before Luebke.

Fargo this season is no match for seasons 1 and 2.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ May 4, 2017 -> 09:40 AM) Jay Williams was really good too. When Krause left they had Jay Williams, Curry, Chandler, and Crawford. Back then, there was a lot of pressure for Bulls to get "NBA Ready" college players from winning programs. Voila Hinrich. Voila Gordon. Tyrus Thomas was the one real project Pax took and boy was that a disaster.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 3, 2017 -> 08:45 PM) I think it'll get a CBO score before the Senate gets a hold of it though. If a bill this absurd can pass the house, and all of the "moderate" republicans get in line for it, then something awful is actually going to be made a law.

I've said it before and I've said it again but I firmly believe Krause was actually on verge of a very solid turnaround that Paxson got to ride the wave on. He really did acquire a crapton of assets that Paxson flipped into a bunch of those knicks picks and really only landed on Deng. Would really love to know if Krause would have been able to acquire Wade in 03 at the draft. Crawford/Wade/Chandler...then you have to get into alternative history where we still make the knicks trades... but potential for crawford/wade/deng/chandler core.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 4, 2017 -> 08:33 AM) So if you were raped, your health insurance costs will now go up as a pre-existing condition. That's absolutely insane. I don't think people remember how poor the equity of health coverage was pre ACA changes.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 3, 2017 -> 11:25 PM) You are correct sir, sox were 14th last year, 4th so far this year. http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=...=&players=0 Thanks for finding how to run that. I remember Sox actually were among leaders enacting shifts in 2014 and then seemed to pull back from it. But this year, aside from the amount of htem, they seem to be more "dramatic" I guess. It is interesting to me, as it seems like its working, but industry wise seemed like shifts were starting to be pulled back from.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 3, 2017 -> 08:08 PM) Well, this has to be one of the most boring games of the season. Boring pitchers, no hitting...at least it's competitive? It's the fourth inning

Mizzou just took in grad transfer Kassius Robertson. Shot 40% from 3 at Cannisius.

Another pitcher injury. Marcus stroman just left game with discomfort in his armpit.

This bill is brutal, worse than the first, but they learned their lesson not to wait for the CBO. This is almost astonishingly cynical.

They have been seemingly much more aggressive this year with shifting. We have a much lower Babip than the league and I wonder how much of a driver this is. Have there been any big write ups on our changes? I heard Merk made some comments on it earlier this game.

We had to seriously consider it but the killer part was largely even if we made up our fixed costs (housing/car/etc), I had no idea how I would make up the retirement/savings on my own. It was a huge hit.

QUOTE (steveno89 @ May 3, 2017 -> 12:58 PM) I would let Moncada stay in the minors until at least mid to late June to avoid Super 2 Even though he is hitting well and showing solid power, he still can benefit from working on reducing that strikeout % and on defense He's only 21 years old, and there's not much reason to rush him to the majors Also allows more time for Saladino/Davidson to prove which one is worth making room for.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 2, 2017 -> 09:49 PM) Booker has some strikes going against him. Too close to the pharmaceutical industry. Industrial NE "home territory" doesn't help the Dems expand back into the Heartland, Rust Belt and Near West. The fact that he will inevitably be compared to Obama due to race. Some will feel that it's instead "time" for a woman, Hispanic-American, Asian-American/Indian-American, etc., to have an opportunity. This third paragraph is so hilariously dem thinking. "Oh, if we just get a white southern working class male, we will win the white male working class vote!" ... "What? We put John Edwards on the ticket? How could we lose?"