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I think debates are growing tired. This national $15 an hour though, I worry about. Bernies backtracking on the "qualified to be president" thing: it does remind me about how much backtracking Bernie may have had to do had he been under the same scrutiny for 30 years. It may be...Shock...clinton-like!

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Apr 14, 2016 -> 03:58 PM) Just caught the post game show and watched the highlights from today. Have to say it's pretty hard to find fault with the way things have started. Hitting is still iffy but I think that's still because the weather hasn't been great temperature wise. Pitching has been superb but to me the biggest improvement has been defensively. They just haven't been making stupid plays on batted balls, they are catching what they can and not making a lot of mistakes. If you can pitch the ball and catch the ball you'll win a lot of games. I may have to figure out a way to get home this summer if this keeps up! Congrats to everyone on the start...keep it going! Mark Agreed. Among the many frustrating things to start the season last year is it felt like we had 2 errors a game at least.

Man this feels good! I feel like every time we've started a season hot good things have happened. Seems like we are always chasing .500

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 14, 2016 -> 11:20 AM) Chargers gotta be excited, this probably gets them Tunsil. QBs going back to back 1-2 really helps bears for this reason. What may have been a DL/LB pick now is an OL, Will be interesting to see what SF does.

This feels awesome. Sweeps are fairly uncommon anyway, but I would have bet soxtalk would have put a 5% or less chance of the sox sweeping the twins to put them at 0-9 during their home opening series. They are defying our expectation in a good way. Let's keep this up. This is the kind of pitching staff I felt like we had, and they are showing it to us.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 14, 2016 -> 10:36 AM) http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/04/13/bul...k-in-nba-draft/ Dang it. I stopped following and assumed we had the kings pick this year. The hits keep coming.

I just don't get it. Basically their summary is that the team failed because of Jimmy/Rose... But their roster construction was insane. A logjam of 5 competent front court players with disparate styles that struggled to play together, and a paper thin backcourt with very little difference in style that struggled to execute pace. Remove the one element that held them together (defense) and "whoa, can't believe that didn't work!"

I am very disappointed Gar Forman is not gone.

Awful lot of noise from BANNED people. NFL thread will be reserved for off the field criminal activity until July, thank you very much.

Granted, he may be super intense during mound meetings and I'm going off of interviews from Brett Austin being terrified of him.

You jerks, I made the NFL draft thread for a reason. Banned. All of you.

So the Rams traded 2 firsts, 2 seconds and 2 thirds for the 1st overall pick, a 4th and a 6th. Tennesse got the dream package in a draft that I don't know anyone saw with a dynamite #1. It helps in that there maybe 3 QBs taken ahead of bears. The pivot point the bears may be able to take advantage of now is the OT and interest among them if they fall.

Rodon on the mound hasn't had the "lose your cool" moments due to a bad walk, etc, that we see from Sale. That's nice to see as I thought he had a reputation for getting over worked up on the mound.

I'm a failure at my own thread. I'm going to ban myself.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 13, 2016 -> 02:36 PM) This is where it may help if one of the QBs drop, hopefully someone is targeting them and wants to move up to grab them. That's a lot of ifs though. But to who? The rams are only team in need of a QB (unless saints make the jump), and the teams around the Rams are unlikely drafters of a QB>

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 13, 2016 -> 02:29 PM) Do the Bears have the leverage needed to trade down and get multiple draft picks if their guy isn't there in the top 12? That's what we're saying. There doesn't appear to be a good trade down partner.

Keep in mind, what likely would have been coming back was picks, as Boston has unprotected Brooklyn Nets picks this year.

Right - I don't see the scenario where a team sees 11 as attractive for the bears to get a deal. If they get a good deal they should definitely do it in this draft. Looking at teams behind them, no idea why any of them would hop over the teams around them. Even if QBs fall...the rams are the only serious threat behind bears for 10 spots.

He didn't make a stink about it at all, you guys just don't get it yet, you slow children.

Deadspin can be exhausting at their same exhasperating tone at everything, but damn if that didn't make me cry laughing. That article from ESPN was garbage. Lots of tell, little show. Did he say he was from Kansas yet? Kansas! That's a state that's not new york!

I don't think Bears are at a good position in draft to trade down. Ravens are in best position, being ahead of San Fran.

If the act of filling out taxes is what annoys people, there is plenty of support to updating that system, and a very well-funded group aimed against preventing that.

That's true, but depressing.

Seems like best case scenario for Bears is a run on QBs, right?

2 weeks away from the most boring 12 hours that I am absolutely captivated by. Seems incredibly difficult to pinpoint the Bears on this one, which is fun.