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I do want to say that Colome was fantastic last few years. I just really worried about his shoulder. Hendriks could fail but he's been incredibly effective so he has room to fall, whereas colome if he started to decline already had a bunch of baserunners getting on.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-illinois-covid-19-vaccine-next-phase-20210112-kg3xvkfjfrd4hfju7wwox4tlzq-story.html Pritzker allowing local health depts to move to phase 1b if remaining phase 1a are refusing shot rather than letting vaccine expire.

So Colome made 10.5 million last year. Hendriks is making 11 next year.

Nola was injured a lot. Giolito probably won't feel the same need to hedge risk. But any pitcher with a TJS has to have some concern it blows up.

Illinois starts publishing its vaccination data for today.

excruciatingly pissed I had to be stuck with that hell thread for months and it happens while I'm sleeping.

They were my first thought as well. We don’t trade direct that often but they have been Hahns go-to to make trades workable. 3 way trades are hard and so him and Friedman must communicate well.

Here is one counter though I acknowledge this year we probably could have gone underneath it: - we are paying the bullpen about the same next year and after as we were last few years - Colome was still pretty expensive in arb at 9 and 10 million last two years. - we paid for Herrera and Cishek as MR - we’ve built out MR organically keep them out of save situations where they get really expensive in arb At least when looking at the group as a whole, it made sense to splurge on the bullpen when so much of it was cheap. And it kept the young promising guys in roles that didn’t stretch them. Now, if he really comes at the cost of X on whole roster I agree with your points - but that’s up to sox. Doesn’t have to be the case.

Zach and Coby deserve credit. Unlike v pacers, hawks where they couldn’t score and gave up. Recently when Zach or Coby were off they’ve really tried to make plays for others.

I'm sure it means nothing but I feel like it going on this long makes it less likely they were fired.

honestly the inner battle with me is just severe cynicism that we will be getting a first, second, third choice and will be taking a pretty big risk.

ha well I think they are doing it for castillo but moustakas is our malort shot we need to take with it.

This this this. For Bears, I really hope if they did move they had made feelers. But Smith, Khan, Dorsey, and even eliot wolf all would have my ears up.

This is where it's hard to pick one over the other. The bears offense lacked talent. But we've also seen talent leave and perform much better on other squads. My fav example is Mike Davis, obviously, but he truly looked awful on the Bears, and he was a pretty damn good "Christian McCaffrey-lite" on the panthers. Foles looked horrendous in an offense ostensibly built for him. But then he was playing behind an offensive line that had detioriated because Pace needed to supplement other parts of the roster in worse shape. Overall, it gets down to the fact that when Pace made that trade for Trubisky, hired Nagy, and traded for Mack, it was an "all-in" move that didn't work out. Well, you busted and have to go home. But for the ownership, they have to figure out if it's possible to build some stability because they've tried 3 different coaches and GMs in the 2010s and they all didn't work out.

Sounds terrible.

very descriptive.

Exactly. If you don't like the tweets just ignore them and comment on something else like I have to do with yourwhathurts posts.

blame yourself.

One thing that really bums me out no matter which way we go - if we fire them are we going to get the 10th best candidates? We have by far the worst situation. The benefit of a president is hopefully they give them a longer term deal.

I mean regardless next year will be brutal. There is really nothing the next admin could do aside from gobble up all the signing bonuses with dead cap and get kicked in the teeth next year. There are no trades or cuts that don't take huge sums of a quinn, etc.

They are but the bucs have a good run d and ... Taylor heinecke man

And for as much as certain bears Twitter personalities are raging on Mitch - yeah. Mitch sucks. But the rams with a backup QB and Redskins with Taylor heinicke showed much better offensively. Even bad QB teams can put together better offenses than Nagy can. And his distraction players he’s asked for have already been moved out of the rotation (Patterson). Hes clueless offensively. Absolutely clueless.

I really regret rooting for it

Indeed. The siccing a mob on the capitol to violently intimidate lawmakers to rule your way is technically not in the constitution. So saying "the system works" doesn't make any sense. And when violence becomes acceptible the rules really start to breakdown. Had the OKC bombing happened and half of a party voted to say "yes we should murder all federal employees" still it would also be concerning even if it didn't pass.

I didn't see a lick of this game, and I'm sure after 4 years we're tired of moral victories but I'm more impressed than not on the play this road trip. Short handed against some good teams *(who were also at times shorthanded), but they fought. I do think it was a better idea to invest this year into finding the offensive game of their core players than trying to grind thru 25 victories with Dunn/Shaq Harrison, but yeah, this defense is bad. That said, they are fighting like hell and not backing down. And a nice statline from Pwill though I'm really confused by his poor rebounding numbers. He boxes out just never gets em.