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QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Nov 25, 2014 -> 05:18 AM) Why is Snell on the floor at all during the 4th of a non-blowout? Hinrich / Taj injured. Would you prefer Brooks or Moore?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 25, 2014 -> 05:04 AM) Bulls are getting destroyed by the refs again. Wtf Yeah, I feel this way too. Maybe being a homer but west coast trip has been bulls***

I enjoyed zlowe's writeup today. You kind of forget to sit back and go "wow" at the fact that this is the first time in basically 50 years that the Lakers are 1) really bad and 2) have no real hope in sight. You can say "x will probably sign there" and that may be true, but I doubt Durant, if he leaves, goes anywhere but Washington. I don't see who their savior is in the FA market. They really needed to hid on Randle and that foot injury just kills them for sending a message of resurgence.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 24, 2014 -> 04:13 AM) The Bears D played well enough to beat Miami and Buffalo. Yeah well enough but they've won NYJ, MN and TB. Would have won despite bad offense.

The Bears defense has now won three games. Waiting for the offense to get to two.

I'm getting scared Bears may get to 8-8 and what that means.

I just really can't believe how much advocacy there is for Ethier /Kemp. Sox fans, two years removed from celebrating the removal of bloated veteran contracts are falling over themselves to add on bloated veteran contracts for actual valuable veteran contracts.

Hysterical to me watching the offense get nine yards on first down, then losing yards next two downs. Oh sweet now another drop.

Pretty sure I did not advocate rotating below average hitters in the DH, I acknowledged the cost in my post.

He just needs to stay healthy. If he plays 75 plus games and playoffs I think he wins. People don't remember what a dominant big man is like. There's a novelty there.

I will say I'm just somewhat disappointed in that it seemed like this would be beginning of a new team strategy for using our position players. For first time since forever, the possibility that our DH could be switched among 11/12 position players could have happened rather than just having two 1B. In all likelihood finding a LH non 1b for this would have been extremely expensive. But, just feeling a bit of "more of this then, eh?"

That picture off center with a player right on the thirty five does not convince me, sorry.

I mean 1) they were correct calls and 2) it took incredible luck of two missed xp to get to that point. Mizzou dominated. Should not have been close.

QUOTE (SoCalSox @ Nov 23, 2014 -> 02:14 AM) Spotrac had us at just a touch under $51M after the "dead money" of Kep, etc w/o LaRoche. Right now, the Sox have 7 roster spots filled as of right now w/ LaRoche & Duke, so that would be 18 left to fill, so let's say they use 3 spaces via FA, that leaves them with 15 spots to fill which if you times that by $.600M (to be safe vs $.500) you have a total of $9M (forgot to fill LaRoche's spot originally). So if they had $51M accounted for, plus $12.5M via LaRoche and $9M of "the rest of the roster minus 3 FA's", that's a total of $72.5M. Give or take a few mill from ARB, they will be sitting at around $75-77M (b/c I don't see them keeping Viciedo). What about Duke

QUOTE (Jake @ Nov 22, 2014 -> 06:30 AM) I'd like to throw the Blazers a second rounder to get Meyers Leonard. I'd like to see what he could do under a coach like Thibs You are only person in world who'd want that b****face on their team.

It is 12 games in Caulfield chill out.

Duck the refs twice now. Mirotic getting fouled like crazy and nothing.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 22, 2014 -> 04:07 AM) I don't watch much NBA at all, but IMO Mirotic has some major potential. It seems like he has the natural basketball talent, just can he learn how to play the NBA game. His confidence has exploded last few games. Just need his fouls to get under control.

Bulls fans talking s*** as they are getting smoked. Classic.

This is what I thought would happen. Brutal.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Nov 21, 2014 -> 09:23 PM) IMHO This is one of the most important aspects of the minor leagues and "learning to be a professional ballplayer." People to often complain about rushing good players. Most often it helps them in the long run. Beckham should have spent more time in the minors. I really think it would have helped him learn to adjust out of the MLB spotlight. I frankly just disagree that this is a universal rule. Look at Tennis, some are Pete Sampras, who move ahead early and get killed for a few years before dominating. Others do much better always dominating until full maturity and then moving pro. For some, confidence can be really precarious at ages 17-20 where they had been ahead for so many years. When they fail before they are pro, it can really destroy some personalities who may have done better on a different track.

Gonna see a lot of Noah run the offense. Moore can do it if we plug noah at the key.

Got offered tickets to Sundays bears game and declined. No thanks.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 12:50 PM) http://www.providencejournal.com/sports/re...-trend-last.ece “The TV deals are the single most important variable in how aggressive a team can be,” said Cubs president Theo Epstein, whose organization has positioned itself (not sure how the author thinks they've done anything but being forced to wait for the Comcast deal to run its course) to negotiate a new TV deal after 2019. “You can chart a team’s spending in certain offseasons based on the timing of their TV deal and how it big it was. It’s something fans are starting to become more aware of and track, but it’s really a driving force in the industry dynamic that goes unseen.” (A month ago, Epstein told season-ticket holders that the next TV contract will be “the magic bullet, the paradigm-shifter.”)

I think we do need a roider piece of s***.