RockRaines

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 09:48 PM) Even in college it's a bad mix. If he wants a fling, he can get drunk and go after any girl; but, if he REALLY likes this one and wants a relationship, he needs to approach it in a more mature way. I completely disagree. My current relationship was solidified over shots at Franks on Clark at about 3am. If you cannot get sloshed around a girl then you will never be able to show your true self anyway. Vice versa as well.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 12:12 PM) Ugh, what a cock: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writ...p;sct=hp_t13_a4 Blah blah blah, still waiting for his article on the Cam Newton Bag Man he supposedly had. 2 straight BCS wins* for my team yet he bashes them over and over. He's a douche.

Highly ranked recruits are so hit or miss. They could not fullfill expectations and then leave after one year, or they could pan out and leave after one year. The guys that are highly ranked and stick around are the real gems, if you can find them.

No manager really wants a piece of the Cubs seat. Low pay, terrible upper management and basically zero control over anything. You then take a look at your roster and realize last place isnt really that fun (well except for Hou). The Pirates finished ahead of the CUbs this year and next year they are going to be even worse.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 10:46 AM) It would be nice if someone could consolidate the pros and cons for each potential manager in a relatively unbiased post. I don't know enough about any of these men to make any kind of an assessment. Nobody really does, they are all guesses based on history and coaching tree. Honestly I am happy that there arent really any crappy candidates being forced on us at this point because they are cheap. Joey Cora would rank below all of the ones I have heard so far and I always thought he was the heir apparent. FWIW, Davey Martinez has a hitting/bench coach history and doesnt really do much with pitching. We just happen to have a pitching coach already in place and rumors are swirling that Baines may be in line for the next hitting coach position.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 10:28 AM) That sucked so hard. It was doubly great for me since my downstairs neighbors were Illinois fans and they were doing chants and s*** the whole game.

QUOTE (Rex Hudler @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 10:12 PM) Rock, where are you getting your info on Trent Richardson? I had not heard this before but would be very interested in learning more. There was a yahoo pod cast I listened to that seemed legit.

You wouldn't consider OSU a rival? I would put Illinois, Wisconsin and purdue as the buckeyes biggest bball rivals.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 09:26 PM) A lot of the home and commercial security systems have smartphone and internet apps and push notification. Not sure about recording to the cloud directly but I wouldn't see why you couldn't back out up real-time.you could use passive ir for motion sending to trigger thee cameras. there might be some video capture systems out there for residential...video is running continuous but only events around alarms are recorded to save on disk space, you get pre-alarm, alarm and post-alarm to see exactly what triggered it. There are some diy home security forums out there, they might have more direct experience with what you are looking at. Thanks dude. I'll look that s*** up.

They better hope it pans out soon because he's going to run out of schollies.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 04:41 PM) Greg will poll 100 Jayhawks fans and they will claim never to have heard of Dunn or Rios but will be conspicuously wearing their brand-new Miami Marlins glow-in-the-dark gear. After Bill Self and Roy Williams, #3 on their "I'd most like to have a beer with..." list would be Ozzie Guillen, followed by the Reverend Fred Phelps, anyone from the cast of "The Big Bang Theory" and Minka Kelly. LOL. Awesome

Sorry, the yanks have a ton of vets and the A's had personalities too.

Swisher only played 37 games in his entire career at leadoff only 29 with the sox. Probably wasn't the problem.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 04:42 PM) He had a pretty darn good cleanup hitter in 2006 (his best Pre-Ny season). We've had some pretty good hitters ourselves.

Those first 3 years were in Oakland.

Swishers numbers by year (OBP and OPS): .322 .768 .372 .864 .381 .836 .332 .743 .371 .869 .359 .870 .374 .822 Such a shame Ozzie hated him.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 04:11 PM) Am I the only one remembering how this franchise loses consistently to inferior talent? Or the team that loses to the Falcons with a 22 second scoring drive as time wound down? At best Lovie is an average coach who keeps getting flukey winning seasons just as his firing is imminent. We should have hired Rex Ryan to extend the Ryan legacy here in Chicago. Maybe Rob will come this way once he's had his fill with Dallas. My question would be, when is it exactly when we have superior talent? We've almost always been a below avg offense.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 01:13 PM) I don't have experience with wireless systems, but here's a Bosch guide on selecting CCTV cameras that may help in picking out lenses, types etc. Bosch is going to be top-of-the-line, but I don't think they offer anything wireless (susceptible to jamming). So outside of what I want to do for my condo building, I am also looking for this: I am storing my motorcycle, my scooter and sea-doo all in the garage of my house in Michigan. I wanted to set up maybe 2 IP cams in the house, one by the bikes and one by the garage to catch anyone trying to steal my s***. Does anyone have any experience with setting up webcams like that to possibly record motion footage in the cloud?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 03:05 PM) You know, if Swisher had actually hit, it probably would have been a tolerable solution for a year or two. Probably, however he couldnt hit, but only with the White Sox.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 01:48 PM) I just don't see why people thing Lovie is a good coach. Under his tenure they've had 3 ok season, on mediocre season and 3 losing seasons. I'm sure this will be a fourth losing season. They guy is average all the way. Without any offensive support and horrific drafting in 7 season he has won his division 3 times and the conference once. Thats pretty damn good for a coach whose expertise is his defense. You have to admit if he would have been given even a respectable offense half of his tenure they would have won at least one more divisional title and maybe more.

You cant fault Kenny for acquiring Swisher when the guy left here and went right back to his old self.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 01:12 PM) The Eagles dominated their division for the better part of the 00's. 5 NFC championship games in an 8 year period. The Bears have 2 in the last 23 years. The Packers have 5 in the same 23 year period but 2 rings. So no, I wouldn't say they are even. The Bears are a perennial Super Bowl Contender as much as the Bucs or Panthers are. In the NFL any team can get hot and make a run for a season. But anyone paying attention to the Bears knows that they haven't been Super Bowl quality since '85. 2006 was a fluke and 2010 was an even bigger fluke. Edit: and all 2 NFC championship games and one SB appearance despite having 2-3 HOF players on defense/special teams (Urlacher, Hester and Gould) and a top ten defense for about 6 years straight. It's pretty f***ing pathetic really. I was specifically saying contenders in Lovie's tenure. The Eagles have the same number of division titles in that time frame, more playoff appearances and the same number of Super Bowl Appearances. Not saying they are remotely as good as the Eagles have been, but just clarifying the time frame I was looking at.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 01:02 PM) Agreed on Soldier Field. I guess just seeing where this season is headed put me at my snapping point. I want nothing more than for the Bears to dominate, and this regime has f***ed it all up. As I've stated many times, they've been competitive despite the defense. If the f***ing GM could have brought in just a few players over the course of the last 5 years, instead of bringing in a QB and saying "good luck", we'd be looking at a f***ing monster. The Bears are in a position to waste by far their most talented QB in my lifetime. It sucks.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 12:55 PM) My point is that you see those teams try to address their holes and fix their problems. You see the Packers giving Rodgers elite tools (hell, their 4th WR would be our best by far), you see the Eagles, through multiple QBs and players, cycling in talent. Don't get me started on the Patriots. The Bears have needed to do two things the past many years. Address the offensive line with real talent, and get an elite WR. They blatantly ignore it and throw has-beens and never-weres at us year in and year out, while the fans just go back to the same old line of "Grossman sux!" "Cutler sux!" etc etc, when they've never been given the tools to succeed. You see the past decade as competing? I see the past decade as one big wasted f***ing opportunity that could have been the best era in Bears' history. The opportunities, especially last season (no cap), and this season (players available by the bushel), have been plentiful to fix the glaring holes on this roster and take the next step. The Bears, yet again, ignored everything they needed, only this time they cast off their best receiving threat in Greg Olsen, too! It's beyond frustrating. I agree with these parts of your post. I still think they've been just as competitive in spite of all the garbage from Bears management. I stated yesterday that one of their biggest errors was in contruction of the new Soldier Field. It was one of the worst business moves in all of the NFL.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 10:52 AM) Dude, the Packers have been a consistent Super Bowl threat for like 15+ years. QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 10:56 AM) Would it then be fair to say the Bears have been a super bowl threat for Lovie's entire tenure? QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 11:01 AM) No, because they certainly haven't, that's my entire point. This is all I am addressing in your posts Steve. Since Lovie has started the results of the teams have been extremely even, so I think even with the god-awful management and horrific offensive teams we have watched, they have still been just as big of a Super Bowl threat as the Pack and certainly other teams as well.