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more of a general sports media thing, but how do you guys feel about football media embracing gambling so much the past two years. It was crazy to me watching ESPN and seeing how many references to gambling lines, draft kings and even a segment talking about the worst gambling "beats" of the weekend. I find the occasional "oh the last touchdown swung this much money" type stories entertaining, but I found the segment showing sports clips and laughing how it changed from the under to the over last minute kind of weird. It's a sports show, who cares that someone made a bad guess?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 15, 2015 -> 11:48 AM) Yeah, the "Beckham was traded for a guy who may be decent" doesn't mean Albers would be traded for a guy who would be decent. If it was, the Sox then should get a serviceable pitcher and a starting SS for John Danks considering that's exactly what they got for Jaime Navarro. One month of Matt Albers gets you scraps. Maybe those scraps become a decent player. Odds are, in a year, you forget exactly what the Sox received for Matt Albers. The White Sox are paying the guy. You would think if there was something offered they were even remotely intrigued with, they would have sent him packing. Obviously, there was not. No, you are right, it doesn't. But if his success happens at the right time you flip it for a lottery ticket. It will most likely fail, but the more lottery ticket talent you bring into the system the more chances you have something hits. And all you paid for it was a decent reliever in a year where you were terrible. There is zero argument that Matt Albers not getting injured changes the trajectory of the franchise, but the white sox have been rebuilding for 3 years, and absolutely zero of their low-risk vet signings have turned into something they could sell for long-term potential. This is something other teams in similar situations have been able to do successfully, and Hahn has not. His low-risk signings have either been DFA disasters or injured around the deadline. He is either very unlucky, which is possible, or we have terrible pro scouting, which at this point seems very accurate.

I wonder who the surprise NFC team will be. I'm sure popular pick will be rams, but, this looks like a down year in the NFC.

I mean, they both looked pretty bad. That game was super super sloppy.

It's an easy way to add more talent to the system without affecting the long-term goals of the club. The prospect we added for Beckham may actually make it to the big leagues, and who would have guessed. It's cool to mock something very reasonable that the club needs to be doing while rebuilding, though. You are much smarter than us.

Yeah, this is so familiar during Rick Hahn's tenure, the low-risk bullpen piece that works out is injured/just recovering to not be able to trade, not signed beyond one year. So, yay Albers, you helped this non-playoff team during the only months where we coulnd't flip you for longer term value.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 15, 2015 -> 08:38 AM) Carlos hyde sure looked awesome vs that Min defense. SF looked like an entirely different team than last year. That D is probably still going to be good. But this game screams "game one outlier" similar to tennessee's romp of the Chiefs last year.

He is considered human and scrub qb that once reeked for the bears.

Robertson could also find it within himself to overcome adversity and hold 4 run leads

Dude just playing with his junk at first.

At least Gruden knows when to talk.

I mean, I now respect the bad announcing teams. This is just brutal, why is Dilfer yelling?

This. This is great football.

Man Berman and Dilfer are awful

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 14, 2015 -> 08:16 PM) Did you end up doing it yourself? Yes, draining it first allowed me to get it off.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 14, 2015 -> 03:49 PM) This post got lost. What a surprise he has been. Taking preseason performance into account as well, he looks like he can be a potential building block. I really love that the Bears seemingly could have a front 3 in house for years to come for cheap in Will, Ego, and Eddie. In March, I thought the scheme change meant the 2014 class was lost. Their attitude to take the coaching and adjust was a relief. I really think by end of year Sutton/Ferguson/Ratliff will be a hell of a line.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2015 -> 03:22 PM) Immigration seems to work best we economic conditions warrant it. With the general malaise of the economy, it doesn't fly politically, especially with the unsettled questions of immigrations from Mexico polluting the waters for everyone else. Yes, with the slack that is still apparent I can see that. But I do think there are foreign policy considerations here, with what is asked of major allies of US in the area.

Congrats Tex

All - thanks for help with oil change questions.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 14, 2015 -> 10:10 AM) 10th. 8-13 the final 21 should do the trick. I would be pleased if we could finish 10th.

I would prefer all games be on Sunday, personally, but obviously that era is over.

Yes, I was referring to end zone... however my big complaint last year was that we didn't throw enough jump balls deep to our receivers as we had in 2013. Biggest difference to me between two years was lack of big plays on offense.

Romo is still very good and still has that excellent ability to avoid being taken to the turf. So against a bears team that can't generate pressure, he'll have all day.

Things would be easier if we could actually throw a jump ball to Alshon which was not an option.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Sep 13, 2015 -> 09:01 PM) a) There's probably not a huge difference in what you should expect from them offensively in the majors, but Trayce can be valuable with a 90-100 wRC+, whereas Avi cannot, due to his horrendous defence and baserunning. This was all that needed to be said.