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Truly, truly surprised that going into the offseason with zero flexibility to increase payroll, they decided to go for it instead of offload some key pieces and look for value.

seems streaming wls is giving me steve dahl, who apparently is still alive.

Going to see Lawrence of Arabia on the 70mm screen Music Box set up for Hateful Eight.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 12:11 PM) Carter Capps is most likely having Tommy John Surgery in the near future, so the Marlins need another reliever or two. Putnam, Webb, and Guerrero for Marcell Ozuna? I'm not sure the Marlins care about competing.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 11:28 AM) Personally I love to watch the Hawks play in the Olympics/World Cup, but I will be furious if Chris Sale ever throws a single pitch in a World Baseball Classic. If the world cup of hockey was as lame/tepid as the wbc was, then I'd fully be on board with telling them to skip.

Romney may be a hypocrite, but at least I knew he took the act of governing the nation seriously. As bad as I think the Cruz and Rubio presidencies will be, I at least know they take the act of governing the nation seriously. I can't say that for Trump. He wouldn't be favored to win a presidency but it is just way too high of a probability that he can become president. It's pretty scary, and I felt somewhat relieved at the actual soul searching a number of conservative pundits and thinkers have done since Tuesday. But it isn't enough. But the cat is out of the bag now. We as a nation, know how prone we still are to a demagogue.

Eh - NHL is entertainment, this is entertainment.

They are getting paid less than Adam Laroche.

Eh, I wouldn't expect a comedy trailer to be funny so far out. I'm not sure they should be ever funny. Boiler template for comedy trailer STAR COMEDY NAME setup shot CO STAR physical comedy part bad one liner bad one liner title bad one liner

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 09:54 AM) http://www.stubhub.com/world-cup-of-hockey...ouping/1505616/ Cool, didn't realize they'd be on sale so soon. Not bad.

Glad we have a lot of bullpen fill-ins.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 05:04 PM) Also worth noting that Avi was 119th out of 141 qualified hitters in terms of "fraction of pitches thrown to him in the strike zone". He's down there with legit sluggers who the pitchers are scared of, and in fact saw even fewer strikes than Abreu - in other words, pitchers were also not throwing him strikes. He should have walked a lot when he's getting very few strikes, but he also had the highest %age of swings and misses per total pitches thrown in baseball among qualified hitters. Honestly would liked to have seen Avi leave the bat on his shoulder for a week and see what his OBP was.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 09:36 AM) It's funny to me, that on this Clinton email thing, everyone seems to either be in the "it's nothing, ignore it" court, or the "illegal and she should go to jail" court. Both of these are missing the fact that, regardless of whether or not it was illegal, it certainly showed a stunning lack of good judgment. One does not need to be tech-savvy to realize that perhaps conducting government business at the cabinet level over private email is not a good idea for a myriad of reasons. To me it clearly displays poor decision-making, whether it was intentional or due to just plain stupidity. Oh, I do think it was lack of judgment. But it's hard to know when to pay attention to Clinton scandals after 25 years of things like cattle futures trading, whitewater, vince foster, etc that are constantly thrown around her neck. There's been no new information for over a year, and the email dumps haven't shown anything remotely controversial. But, it's also not like this was a secret. This is dumb to allow different people to handle their government work differently (even if there are guidelines to follow that were not), it needs to be some agencies job to make sure this is happening because for the last decade this continues to happen. OR If there is some legitimate need here, regulate it with guidelines and procedures to follow if you are using your own server. Do I think it's a lack of judgment, yes. A "stunning" lack of judgment, not really. This isn't a Petraues situation of openly passing code words etc to her friends.

How realistic/expensive do you think getting tickets to a game at the world cup will be? I've never been to Toronto out of winter, and love flying porter airlines there. Could be a fun trip.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 08:52 PM) per tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baske...0302-story.html I don't think they'll miss the playoffs unless Jimmy gets hurt again. This team will go as far as he can take them. Ah, but now we are remembering what the Bulls were for all the non-thibs years - treading .500 and making the 7th/8th seed.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 07:15 AM) http://finance.yahoo.com/news/clinton-stil...--election.html What will happen to Sanders' millenial supporters should he lose the nomination?...a big opening for Trump to exploit, more in the sense of dampening their desire to get out and vote for her rather than getting them to cross to another candidate. Remember all of the Clinton supporters that sat out 08 and caused Obama to lose the election?

Remember when we didnt really want to go into 2016 starting TT and now we are talking about trading for him again and would be super pumped.

I still feel like with a smart GM/coach/offseason and the team is close to being fun again.

yes, Hahn is in the longest game of chess to woo the league when he acquires another teams 4th outfielder to replace his AAA fodder RF-er.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 05:58 PM) Estimates last year generally came down suggesting the full Presidential campaign alone will run in the range of $4-$5 billion (half per candidate), with another $5 billion down the ballot, for a $10 billion election season. I don't think you're quite getting how much money is available for these guys. Not really, in the primary for a losing candidate, these guys are going to be relying on a much smaller pool of donors.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 05:11 PM) Honestly, there is so much anger out there against Trump, as long as guys are winning delegates and potentially keeping Trump at bay, the money will keep coming. In my view anyway. I think probably more than if he were a different candidate, but about $120 million of republican donor money was lit on fire by the Jeb Bush campaign. A lot of those guys are probably tapped out.

He'd probably say Mrs. Clinton.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 04:08 PM) I don't quite know what Carson is doing, but he's essentially out of the race. He won't be attending the debate on Thursday and sees no path forward. Not sure what exactly that means and why he hasn't yet suspended his campaign, but that clearly is next. He needs to continue to con seniors out of their retirement money.

Really informative article and quote from DiGenova, an attorney who has been gnashing his teeth at Benghazi for 4 years and contributes heavily to Republicans, and worked for Romney. No actual evidence was provided, just a nice hit piece right as she figures out her candidacy.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 09:17 AM) World Cup Rosters are getting announced today. https://mobile.twitter.com/MarkLazerus/stat...026763563397120 Anisimov and Panarin were named to Team Russia. Teräväinen was named to Team Finland. Dang that's commitment to write out the special characters.