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The Bears went from having the hardest schedule in the league last year to the easiest. They were on the wrong end of the close games record. They will be a very popular pick for the playoffs next year. They had very low turnovers last year in a very new defense. Expect that to improve. I will be very disappointed with no playoff birth next year.

That was awesome to read. Especially when I was about to make fun of it thinking it was a paul sullivan article.

*Walks into dealership* "Hi, I'm interested in your Ferrari's. I'm prepared to pay you the price of a volkswagon" *Salesman sells ferrari to man at moderate discount* "Well maybe my 1997 Ford Taurus will get faster this year" *Plays chess*

Embarrassing.

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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 24, 2016 -> 02:58 PM) I know. It's very strange, but the write ups this year didn't match the PECOTAs. I get BP every year, and this year's White Sox section was about as weird as it gets. They spent a couple pages going over their efforts to replace Ray Durham. They even wrote one of the Sox biggest problems was sticking with their young players too long. Said Carlos Sanchez was not a good defensive 2B, but that he had a lot of speed, which he doesn't. Very amateurish. Sounds like they were definitely talking about Micah.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 22, 2016 -> 01:15 PM) Only death was a suicide by cop? That's a pretty high standard to live up to, so yes. The 2014 standoff had a couple murdered cops IIRC. I don't think you are right. They basically refused to act in Nevada and retreated. You may look at all of this as one big situation as well. If we learned one thing from the wire, is that with any criminals you can basically be assured that sooner or later they will slip up. Requires a lot of patience and boredom. I am much prouder of this result than had they stormed the compound, even though they certainly had a right to do that.

Looked like a weak grounder to 2b.

Right, but, again that's where I kind of think Trump has to be the lesser of their evils. Especially when there's a higher likelihood that he completely flips script in GE and starts prescribing more moderate policies.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 24, 2016 -> 02:00 PM) He's just taken the subtext and made it text. I think there is some difference though, how many white supremacist and neo-nazi organizations were openly and proudly endorsing past GOP candidates? Bernie has some leftist supporters that see things almost exclusively through a class lens and tend to discount racial or gender struggles, claiming it's all really a part of class warfare. (brain: ugh, you know I want to say all of them) Answer: "David Duke?" Curious who you guys prefer. Obviously Rubio is kind of just a run of the mill candidate, likely sticks to government norms. But the fact is he's running on a foreign policy platform and that's scary to me.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 24, 2016 -> 01:32 PM) Dipping the bullets in pigs blood to offend their religion. Well, yes that's probably not word for word in Rubios mouth.

Is there a anti-mexican, anti-muslim position that he's made that has not been matched by Rubio/Cruz? Rubio seems to get this pass as most reasonable when he has tacitly or explicitly backed a lot of the same rhetoric.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 24, 2016 -> 01:16 PM) Then they should have spent more money on one of the better players. ^

Well, if it makes you feel worse I've begun to feel like Trump is the best case scenario out of the right's current trio of leading candidates.

Follow-up: or is this how it's always ran?

Question: did the sox try to model Steverson's job after how Cooper ran the pitching instruction organization wide? or did they start using Cooper to run a standard for pitching instruction organization wide around the same time?

Worldwide draft really will be a benefit in that respect.

Yeah his Braves ranking was a headscratcher. You can't spend the whole article acknowledging the weak market for position players and then basically dock them for a lower return than expected for their SS, all the while getting the steal of the winter.

No, they weren't asked to make it easier. They were asked to help allow the FBI gain access to the data in this specific phone. The court order does not ask they make it easier on all other phones that they produce. What happens if they need access to a phone again? Why, they do what they just did, get a court order to do this and if the court deems it narrow and acceptable, provide the necessary resources to help with the law. None of this compliance is new. There is ample, ample precedent here.

Yay, let's kick the football again from lucy.

I blame them for saying no. They are full of crap. Any time you see a silicon valley CEO grandstanding about privacy it's b.s. This is a remarkably narrow court order, I don't believe for a second that they could open up this specific phone. Slippery slope arguments are terrible.

Eh, I'm fine with Saladino. He does 2/3 things well. The rest, yeah.

I have never seen less twitter babble from a town hall.

I believe Adam Dun is the only member of the WSOHL HOF.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 19, 2016 -> 12:41 PM) Micah Johnson hurt his hand taking out an avocado pit. Is out for a week. Trayce better be careful. The avocado struggle is real, highly recommend https://www.everythingkitchens.com/kuhn-rik...CFQ6oaQodruoAWw