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Hard to tell with hawks how much you can judge from the regular season let alone 1 regular season game.

You are all hero worshippers!!! Hero worship!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 08:57 PM) It's game 1, guys. No kidding. Though I wrote off Richards last year in November so heyyy

I'd like my friends to have a World Series. Also wouldn't mind Cubs losing.

Interesting

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 08:24 PM) Cole just shat himself tonight. That's terrible... Literally?

That Schwarber home run and resulting screams made me yearn for playoff baseball I care about

Sooooo this Fisher/Barnes stuff I love twitter and the NBA.

Can't handle Kruk on this broadcast.

If ND does get rid of Kelly because he isn't good enough, they should only do it if they have the next coach in mind and a good shot at them. Nubs firing Pellini was fine, but not having anyone better and getting Mike Riley is what makes change for the sake of change usually end up blowing up in your face.

Was surprised we picked up Barrett Jones. Really thought he was great at Alabama. I know nothing.

Yeah the more we talk the more I think we'd be much better off going with our exact same lineup.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 01:11 PM) I felt "The Martian" was pretty great. The visuals are unbelievable. I have no clue about the scientific accuracies but I bought into it. It was fun, dramatic, funny, and interesting. Very glad it never went melodramatic which other movies would have. I'm relieved Ridley Scott finally made another great movie. The worst people in the world are scientists complaining about hollywood space movies.

Honestly the only trade rumors I believe are the ones that were reported finished and got hung up in ownership (ala garland/erstad and griffey in 05)

I have a hard time believing the team should do anything except ride this core into the ground. Championships are everything, and I'd much rather they try to suck every cup possible from this unit than do a better job prepping for 5 years from now. There are a lot of good teams in the NHL, a lot of rosters I look at and say "wow, they look great". But the Hawks keep winning. This core has that something, you gotta ride with it, deal with the rest as it comes.

I think the basic question is should the government be working toward making voting as accessible and efficient as possible for its eligible citizens. To me that answer is yes. Mobile service sucks. You have to be available during the time it's there and cannot plan on going to a set place. I'd like to see the response if the government was going out of its way to make paying taxes harder what the response would be here when it's affecting you. There's been so much research on behavioral economics, and it's been pretty widely accepted how the smallest deterrant can have huge effects on participation. If you believe the government should be promoting voting, it seems crazy to add more deterrants to the process. This is just justifying something because you don't like the people complaining about the problem.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 08:13 AM) Thanks, bmags! It looks like that theme you found could be useful for nearly everything I want to do, with some tweaking (which I can do). The ability to select a spot on a map and get pick up the geo-location data is an open question, but i can search for that type of tool online by itself. I appreciate your help! Of course, I also need to deal with the database issue. When it comes to web applications and code interfacing with a true database, I just don't have that experience. Yeah, before you purchase it ask the creators of the themes on the forums. They can usually point you in the right direction. if they can't, that's a sign you are buying something that will not be supported long. The database, you'll have to see. My impression would be with a real estate theme they are allowing data to be uploaded through csv or json or something. You can see if that would flow the other way.

Also best of the year: Really enjoyed John Danks 1-0 victory over the Orioles which featured a great defensive game by sox. It was a fireworks game and the atmosphere with all of the kids there was great.

Cali what an awesome observation. I'm excited to see where this goes.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 08:23 AM) Why would anyone that has his family less than two hours away, choose to stay in a hotel room for 6 months out of the year? He could get a driver, it's just the daily commute that he's tired of taking. Plus, Chicago, while a nice city, is not an old person's city. 1) nobody has said he would stay in chicago for 6 months straight. 2) You are arguing as if the only two options are him staying at home for 12 months or being in a hotel in chicago for six. That is not hte scenario. It's why would he fly all over the country for away games rather than "travel" to chicago for only home series.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 08:53 AM) The White Sox have a long term sweetheart lease and have been one of the most profitable teams in baseball the last 25 years. THEY AREN'T GOING TO MOVE. And that deal ends in 2029 and there is no chance anything close to that happens again. I'm not looking forward to that stadium fight.

Honestly this kind of terrifies me. For all we talk about wanting Reinsdorf to step down, I think it's more likely we find an owner try to buy that wants to move us than one that brings in a great new baseball system.

Hinrich is injured so it's not over him

I would be secretly excited about Alex Gordon, somehow ridding ourselves of Melky and rolling with Gordon/Trayce/Eaton in the outfield. I also recognize it would not be a good idea. But I have outfield seats and that would be fun to watch.

I think I'm leaning toward the following "take it on the chin" line up for next year C - Flowers 1b - Abreu 2b - Micah SS - Carlos (still realistic?) 3b - Saladino/Olt OF - Melky OF - Eaton/Trayce OF - Avi/Trayce DH - LaRoche/Avi P- Sale P - Q P - Rodon P - EJ P - Danks It would be rough, but best case scenario you can pull a mets like season and go for it. Realistically it tops out at 78 wins. The next year Anderson is there, Fulmer is there, and you have another year of top ten trade talent.