Rowand44

Lol, no on the Loyola-Illinois thing. And we do this every freakin year with the valley too. Some of you guys are delusional.

Ya this game rocks

Net had Colgate high but Kenpom didn’t. It’s usually really tough for mid majors given their schedules to be high on kenpom and Loyola is 7 right now and has been top 10 all year.

Ya, like just a bad matchup for Illinois. This Illini team is awesome but as others have said the valley always annoys teams in the tournament and this is the best team since the 1 seed Wichita team. Loyola is REALLY good.

This kind of stuff is annoying. This wasn’t some monumental upset. Any stat based site you want to look at has Loyola in the top 10 and they’re the best defensive team in the country. And that game was a domination from the beginning, the Illinois didn’t have their heads in the game excuse is silly. Loyola is just that good.

Awesome. Thank ya sir!

Did the exact same thing lol.

Ya, I do it through TurboTax and it's just not updated it. But cool beans, thanks for the info!

Ya, same. I basically ran all my stuff and am ready to file but am not actually going to until the 10.2 k exempt is on there and it isn't yet. You'd think that would have been something they'd add in right away.

I wanna go fast.

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Ya, I have some issues with other parts of the team but imo we have the best bullpen in baseball. Just ridiculous.

I...ok. I'll stick with LOL on your whole opinion of this and move on.

Exactly.

LOL. I guarantee if they didn't like him they wouldn't have made those shirts. Dude's are having fun with it, you're 100 percent taking this the wrong way.

Fathom's got jokes!

Never been more proud of us!

I honestly just don't understand the logic of it. This team could be bad in 6 years, they could have a new owner in 6 years, I have no idea and nobody else does either. What I do know is that they're a legit division contender this season who is going to be in a battle all year to win the thing. Those extra games could absolutely be the difference between making the playoffs and not. Put your best damn team on the field from day 1 and don't worry about the service time bullshit.

I'd assume this is the case.

This roster is better than last year's, there's absolutely no doubt about that. But just because it's a better roster doesn't mean they're going to be better than last year's squad. I think some people tend to forget that last season was only a 60 game season where the team pretty much fell apart at the end. Was that just a bad stretch or did they over achieve for a month and a half? I have no idea. I also don't think you can just say hey Vaughn will be better than EE was while saying Hendricks is better than Colome(which he is), while ignoring the fact that he probably won't be better this year than Colome was as a closer for the Sox last season. Look, I'm extremely excited for this season as well and I respect everyone who just wants to enjoy it for what it is but that doesn't mean I'm just going to forget and be pleased with the shortcomings of management here.

That'd be a huge problem if Rick is afraid to trade away a guy because the Tatis deal was botched. I don't think that's the case but if it is, not good. It was a debacle. Every single statistic that was available would tell you Shields was regressing big time and that he was basically done. Obviously Tatis has ended up about 8 billion times better than anyone could have possibly imagined but trading anybody with any talent for Shields at that point was an awful, awful idea.

You know what else has gotten old? Having people complain about Sox fans that are still mad about this whole fiasco. Let people follow their favorite team the way they want to. If it's annoying you that people continue to be frustrated when more details continue to come out then you can just ignore those people. Same idea.

Basically anytime Rick opens his mouth since the Machado disaster.

Not sure if this is going to be Tony’s lineup but it’d be mine.

Can't wait in a few years when Gio is throwing a knuckler and the frisbee.