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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 19, 2016 -> 07:50 AM) Yeah I thought the D Line looked pretty darn good. I thought Bullard,Williams, and that other undrafted tackle that's huge looked good. Pretty certain Ferguson and Sutton will get cut, leaving the emery experience at Alshon Jeffery, Long and Fuller. But the "we had 4 defensive starters out", yeah, that's going to be the regular season. Timu and Anderson were as soft in coverage as ever and we were run all over. We have a thin level of players that win matchups and the rest we have to scheme around. We just have no depth for injuries.

Not a better final drive QB than Connor shaw. Love him

LOL it was a Heyman article mentioning Robin on the hot seat. Hot scoop.

What does it say about Lawrence Holmes show that he promised dirt on the white sox at 9 pm and the nobody bothered to listenanyway. What does it say about sox?

Understatement

Most of the ideas endorsed were terrible but anyway man Navarro is such wasted space. Would much rather bat a worse matchup, because hey, Navarros best is now worse than everyone.

So nice to have an offensive catcher we can throw at him in this situation

So Bears cannot afford a single injury. Their second string oline is terrible.

Meh. Soft middle, no rush, bad vs run. Pretty familiar.

This is much more fun

Sounds like from stone that this is bad and he will not be around for a long time

Sounds like Lawrie is out for year?

With Gawker ending, a salute to my favorite john cook article: http://gawker.com/5918519/the-de-watergati...ican-journalism

I think he got to be starter level in the second half of last year. But defense just had a lot fo guys "doing their jobs" but nobody disrupting. When one level gets to "exceling" then we'll finally get some turnovers.

I need to go coach college pitching and just tell pitchers to stay tall.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Aug 18, 2016 -> 03:06 PM) I thought the memo said they would not renew their contracts or would "substantially reduce their scope of services." Regardless, the sooner we get rid of private prisons the better. Right, they aren't going to extend new contracts and phasing it out: "The goal, Yates wrote, is “reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately operated prisons.”"

So much for that. Kyle Fuller shut down for preseason due to an unspecified knee injury.

In large part due to excellent reporting from Mother Jones, the federal government will no longer contract out prisons to private sector.

Agreed. At least a run longer than 3 yards please.

They should get arrested for assault.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Aug 18, 2016 -> 09:15 AM) He probably just meant he was gonna use his 2nd amendment right and not vote for her

Awesome!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 17, 2016 -> 02:52 PM) So here's my attempt at logic on that draft pick. Take as a given that most picks in the late 20s will not amount to much and the value of those picks on average is ~2 WAR. Most picks in that range are guys who never make the big leagues, and there's what, 1 out of 10 who become a really good player, fair? If you view the guy as a reliever only, which is the only fair interpretation of the guy being rushed up to the big leagues as a reliever and starting his service time this year, then that player has a reduced ceiling compared to a guy who could be a starter. However, if you're evaluating the quality of the pick, both the ceiling and the probability of success matter as well. So yes, his ceiling may be lower, but if you think he has a 20% chance of being a successful reliever, then compared to guys around him with a 10% chance then that's the right pick despite the lower ceiling. But there's one problem with drafting a guy as a reliever and keeping him there. If you draft a guy as a starter and keep him there for several years...if he flops as a starter he could still become a valuable player if you move him to the bullpen. If the White Sox are intending to keep Burdi as a reliever the next 2-3 seasons and he winds up being Daniel Webb, they're not going to be able to convert him into a starter while he's still in this organization because it will take more years than he has options to stretch him out. In other words...you draft a reliever highly, you better be darn sure you're right on him. You better be willing to bet your job on it. Yeah this is my beef with what has taken place since draft. He was drafted and it was "oh Sox must think he can start" then we hear Hostetler say they'll decide in offseason, which makes sense. But if they bring him up it just screams to me that this is the start of his career as a reliever and there will be no attempt to stretch him out in offseason.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 17, 2016 -> 11:02 AM) Something I read said he stepped down in 2007? Before taking over Obama's campaign anyway. Really more funny than anything. If someone had written a script that mirrored the 2016 campaign, it would be rejected by every producer as way too ridiculous and over-the-top. I guess that's possible he was in both, but that was same time as his CAP run. He may have been on board.

Yeah it has been a bit strange but maybe they have a defensive instructor in GF that they like to work with Fisher first.