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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 1, 2016 -> 01:26 PM) Ty Lawson getting bought out. Wouldn't mind the Bulls picking him up to see if he's truly terrible or if he was just terrible for Houston. Can't be worse than what we have. I think.

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Noodle Arm Eaton can hit 100 mph http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-outfiel...-who-threw-100/

I don't understand how your keepers is an entire roster but you still say there will be top 20 pitching talent.

My blue jays fan friend was shocked when we were moving lawrie off third. He said the best parts about him were quick reactions and his arm. But I don't know how that plays at 2nd with the needed range.

I think Mad Max was actually one of the best storytelling movies I've seen in a long time. And I mean that in how the actual filmmaking was telling the story, as opposed to a screenplay and dialogue. The pace was right on. This year we saw filmmakers do an incredible job of keeping their stories moving. Spotlight took an incredibly difficult story to tell, that goes off the rails in so many "serious movies", and was pitch perfect. Same with Big Short. But I don't think those were any more difficult to make than Mad Max. At this point, safe to assume almost all of its audience was familiar but probably hadn't seen Mad Max originals. He set up the backstory with minimal drag, and jumped right into it. I think the "Then who killed the world" line was one of the best in the movies. Looking back, this year with Creed, Big Short, Spotlight, Mad Max and star wars, had to be one of my favorite years in a while. November/December especially.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Mar 1, 2016 -> 10:10 AM) The most depressing thing he said, IMO, was a tidbit last week that didn't seem to jump out to anyone -- when talking about attendance, he said something like "the payroll figure is going to stay the same, so it didn't hurt us there." That, if true, means they do not intend to sign anyone of significance. Which, coupled with the fact that they added literally zero significant free agent salary this year, makes me think that the "big fish" were only ever going to be limited exceptions, and that Hahn was not actually working with much of any budget room to begin with. Frazier's salary is significant, but it was offset by losing Samardzija's. The catcher platoon adds up, but it's less than what they lost in Alexei. The directive of "turn your 75 win team into a contender without adding any net salary whatsoever" just does not seem like a sound line of thought to me. Right. I was fooled, but was right all along. I still think this team is much faster to a playoff birth had we sold this offseason than bought.

Chris Nolan should watch Mad Max over and over again for how to build a unique world without just explaining the rules of the world for 4 hours.

Yeah, Lawrie at 2b scares me.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Mar 1, 2016 -> 09:14 AM) Reminds me of the same stuff that came out last year at this time about Samardzija

Steve's on top of the pulse of the NBA.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdo...0226-story.html Everyone, if a water main has been replaced in the last few years near you, please look into lead testing. Reach out to your alderman and let them know your concern. http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts...y_alderman.html

If Alshon does absolutely not want to play here, I'd take the 2 first round picks for him easily.

QUOTE (southside hitman @ Feb 29, 2016 -> 04:37 PM) Ah, I see our big off-season outfielder acquisition is already paying dividends. Sick lineup of Eaton Fields Abreu Fields again probably Frazier Lawrie Cabrera 90-72 easily

Gary Pinkel has cancer.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Feb 29, 2016 -> 03:13 PM) When Chris Rock did his "man on the street" thing with black people outside a movie theater in Compton, he asked them if they saw (fill in the blank "white" movie). The answer was pretty much "no" across the board. If, as a community, you largely ignore "white" films, how can you be outraged when black actors/films aren't nominated? If you, as a community, don't see the work done by white actors in "white" films, what is your frame of reference for outrage? This brings up a good point, man on the street things are always good frames of reference to understand a community.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 29, 2016 -> 11:36 AM) I guess this makes sense. I have a friend that votes for every Republican on every ticket because he claims to be a "Republican". You make a good point though. I think there are differences though. Kasich and Cruz are from the same party but are very different. I'm with Republicans on smaller form of government and similar issues but I can't go with them on almost any social issue. I could vote for someone like Kasich. I couldn't vote for Cruz. That's all I meant. If you go Republican because you dislike Hillary or go with Hillary because you are afraid of Trump I understand that. But I still think that far too many people ignore what is actually being said by the candidates and go with Democrat or Republican because they feel like they are supposed to. On a local and even state level, it's usually makes a lot more sense to vote on single issues which may not lead you to a single party. But at a national level, hard to see when I would ever vote for republican party. Mark Kirk seems like a nice guy, he may vote with dems every once in a while, but he's never helping things GET to a vote, so he's useless to me.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Feb 29, 2016 -> 02:08 PM) He apologized, it's over. I really don't care about this. Often, people use verbiage like this to hide their racism, but I honestly don't believe Adam Eaton is a racist or anything like that. I just think he may not have known the context for why Chris Rock was giving the monologue he gave.

Decent response, let's move along.

It's not even worth discussing. It gives beltway media hard-ons, but 1) Kasich would never do it and 2) Hillary would never do it. You realize she's basically saying "if I die, I'd rather a republican be president than a dem".

Deal fell thru, he traded for Sano while we were negotiating. I'm fine keeping Arenado, Machado (play him at SS), and Hernandez.

You gotta put the [/color] after your text.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 29, 2016 -> 07:51 AM) I find it odd they offered 2/$17 mill for Fowler (plus a draft pick) but are supposedly not interested in Jackson (likely a guy who may take a one year deal plus no draft pick). I doubt that we don't have interest. They clearly have an unrealistic number for each of these guys that they won't budge on. We clearly offered more than 2/17 for Gordon/Cespedes/upton. I'm sure they are telling Ajax they'll accept him for 1 year 4 million, and soon he'll sign with the cubs and we'll hear "we didn't have a chance, he just wanted to play for the cubs".

John Oliver's Trump bit was very therapeutic. What an embarrassing weekend for American politics this weekend.

QUOTE (aryzner @ Feb 29, 2016 -> 09:00 AM) They love turning a non-story into a story as long as it includes the White Sox. Rosenbloom sucks but he also basically has to write one of these a day. It's not a surprise he can only burp out 2 or 3 dumb lines, especially in slow season. edit: so I'm saying that I don't think they pick on the white sox. Bulls get it way worse right now.