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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 02:58 PM) CNBC report: FBI concluded Russia is trying to undermine election but thought it was too close to election to say so I think it's worth noting that only one official is sourced for that story.

.738 OPS CF is pretty valuable. No need to crap on our ex prospects. I shudder to think how much we are going to give up to get a .750 OPS declining CF.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 12:20 PM) I'll be up in Montreal on business for a few days next week. If anyone has spent time there, what restaurant recommendations do you have? Yes I've had poutine before. I always love perusing the timeout/eater (insert city) articles here when I visit. I went to #8 and it was amazing. But, like any great food city, it is hard to go wrong, and whomever is there will probably have 100 suggestions for you: http://montreal.eater.com/maps/best-montreal-restaurants-38

My friend emailed me the voter guide he received for Los Angeles this election. Holy. Crap. It's like 70 pages.

It's actually "what metaphor can I incorrectly apply to (rahm emmanuel or the clintons) today" Weird definition

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 09:47 AM) http://thebiglead.com/2016/10/30/the-bears...est-of-the-nfl/ The Bears are becoming one of the worst run franchises in the league. Arkush has a hypothesis that this may be a management consultant who is helping McCaskeys value the franchise to sell soon. It makes some sense. The McCaskeys are billionaires without the billions to spend. It is a surprising thing to hear so soon after hiring Pace that they'd get a consultant.

The whole "you have good years with injuries and bad years with injuries" seems to have changed so now it's "you are randomly the one team not affected by injuries" or "you have a lot of injuries". I don't remember last Bears team that wasn't on their 3rd/4th strings across defense and oline.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 09:56 AM) Fangio isn't going anywhere isnt he the 3-4 guy? Firing the head coach and forcing the dcoordinator on the new one is a recipe for the Browns.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 09:47 AM) http://thebiglead.com/2016/10/30/the-bears...est-of-the-nfl/ The Bears are becoming one of the worst run franchises in the league. One thing that kind of worries me is say we do fire Fox, we just went through all the pain removing all of our 4-3 plaeyrs for 3-4. Now we may scrap it again.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 09:16 AM) He's not dumb, so why the vendetta? My post above covers this, but I think it makes most sense here. Comey was a very respected FBI director, but it's that line of thinking that would make him effective to be believed as apolitical that could lead him right to where he was.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 09:10 AM) I can't imagine that Comey didn't know exactly what he was doing and what effect his bulls*** letter would have. I agree with the line that he was acting political, but it was acting political to "protect the office". It sounds like Chaffetz somehow knew that they found a shared laptop from the Weiner investigation, and so my belief is that Comey was worried that Chaffetz would leak out the FBI "has more emails" and is "investigating" Clinton and if she won they would use it as a rallying cry for years. But, obviously, the problem is he didn't give enough weight to how breaking with dept. procedures does the very thing that the procedures prevent against, and now the FBI will have to deal with if this causes Clinton to lose - what do they think will happen if a dem takes office again? 2000 was one thing, but 2016 - if there is any effing evidence of active rigging using instititutional power, damned if it hasn't happened against the democrats. That said, I wish Reid hadn't done his letter. Holder's was better, and when even Joe Walsh is saying this is wrong and unfair, it should get hammered home. A lot of casual voters who may have been likely voters but now will stay home because of this heard "Emails" and "FBI" and that's it. It's too nuanced to get onto local nightly news. Comey is shortsighted as hell.

I don't know if any remember the Vince Gray race, he wasn't a very popular dem, but in his race in mayoral DC race a leak from the FBI came out that he was being investigated in related to a known bribester. Election happened, Gray lost, turned out investigation turned up nothing. This is a good example of the reason why FBI normally doesn't comment on these things. This whole thing has been very annoying because it so plays into the punditry of the media. It has largely come out that there is no way we can evaluate this information because the FBI does not know what's in it themselves, but instead of reinforcing that narrative, it's just going to be the "it looks bad! They have same information probably but it looks bad to undecideds!"

I half-follow things, but I like keeping up on farm. From that casual follow perspective: -It seems like the term "raw" often applies to our LatAm prospects, even as they hit stateside. I feel like this is a little surprising because at this point those prospects may have had up to 2 years of "professional" ball after signing. Are the programs they go into after signing at age 16 professional or are they no different than a high school/club team schedule? If this is wrong, and it's not actually a "thing" that LatAm prospects are more raw stateside then delete my account.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Oct 30, 2016 -> 09:07 PM) This series is going back to Cleveland. Oh man Trying to picture what you guys will be like in a series white sox are actually in.

Glad that's settled.

Considering the cubs fans belief that the only reason they are losing is lack of schwarber, I think they'll be fine with his terrible LF play they respect his bat so much.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 30, 2016 -> 11:02 AM) It seems the one thing the White Sox did right this year was to get their butts kicked by Cleveland early and often this year so that they could make the playoffs. But that one 3 run hr Avi game was great

Apparently the bulls are only 27th in pace but certainly feels improved

Just read a good fangraphs piece that I can't find now that I'm on my phone of how Francona has been able to use his three best relievers at any point (thanks be to miller), while Maddon has barely been able to pitch strop/Rondon/chapman because chapman's primadonna routines and "injuries" to strop/Rondon. I'm not buying the injuries stuff. Rondon and strop have looked good, and it's the World Series, what are you waiting for?

The cubs fans look...really happy.

MCW also looks v good and is getting steals and keeping pace. Looks fine after surgery

Yeah they look amazing. Especially Lopez, he has extended like 10 possessions. Bulls pace is so much better this year.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-...1028-story.html See paragraph 4. I am sympathetic to Comey being forced to update based off of testimony, unsympathetic to lack of info so many other agents willing to divulge OTR

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 28, 2016 -> 04:05 PM) I think he meant Tilson's injury. Liriano took one to the face and missed the 2016 season. He is a lottery ticket. Probably will never make the team. YEah Tilson was who I was asking about.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 28, 2016 -> 03:34 PM) With the injury he had, he very well could be losing a step or two. Not gonna lie, I kinda checked out around this time. Did he go down with a hammy or knee injury?