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He's like Robert the Bruce's father in Braveheart.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Aug 22, 2011 -> 03:05 PM) Cleveland would be another interesting destination, and a chance for him to bookend his career. And have him booed every time he comes up to bat?

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 22, 2011 -> 01:16 PM) I found her annoying as a character and the actress is incredibly overrated looks wise. Every line is delivered in the same tone. Big Brother thought Thats the beauty of the POV though. And Emmanuelle is not overrated.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 22, 2011 -> 01:47 PM) I guess if Tebow is a 1st, Pryor being a 3rd isnt all that bad. Still think they are overvaluing these type of players. The difference is Pryor will wind up a 6'5" sub 4.4 receiver, while Tebow will only be at the QB position.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 22, 2011 -> 01:51 PM) Flowers ability has been surprising. After everyone has been panning him I figured hed be terrible. His old swing/stance was much longer than what he's featuring now. Whats surprised me the most is his pitch recognition. He's been very good at taking pitcher's pitches.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 22, 2011 -> 01:52 PM) Which means Buehrle should be more likely to go, not less. If you are going to pull the payroll card, you lose. If you are going to pull the age card, you lose. If you are going to pull their overall ranking card, you lose. Stop bringing logic into Marty's threads, they have no place here. The Sox are dealing Quentin and most likely a starter in the offseason at minimum. Alexei is 100% not one of those players.

Getting rid of Sloan from the main storyline was a mistake.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 22, 2011 -> 10:51 AM) Hopefully some unsuspecting GM will believe Fangraphs this offseason. I keep expecting your posts to improve, and sadly you continue to spew this awful garbage that is disproven by both the eye test and actual statistics. Maybe you should call your "guy on 35th" and ask him what Sox scouts think of Alexei.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 21, 2011 -> 12:44 PM) That is how you rebuild sometimes. That would be one of the worst moves to start rebuilding. Especially since right now your strength moving forward is young pitching that needs stellar defense. Move Alexei at this point is pretty damn dumb, especially when finding a replacement for him would be extremely hard.

Another one of Marty's brilliant ideas. Trade one of the best players in the league at his position while he is still a bargain. Nice work.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 12:34 PM) Ken_Rosenthal Ken Rosenthal Sources: Gillick not an option for #Cubs. Bad news for the Cubs Isnt he dead yet?

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 11:32 AM) Flowers has looked pretty good at the plate. Considering how poorly he's hit in AAA, it's a nice surprise. No telling it will last, but keeping him in there is the only way to find out. His approach surprised me. For example, look at how terrible most of our hitters looked against the Indians pen and their nasty low and away sliders. Flowers didnt even blink when they threw those to him, just took a walk like he's supposed to.

I would be incredibly surprised if their Payroll stayed where it is or went up. I think they are going low with development as their #1 priority.

Anybody watch Kafka last night for the Eagles? Looked damn good to me. I was kind of pissed when the broadcasters said his upside isnt as good as Vince Young's, havent we already seen Vince's upside and it wasnt that great?

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 11:09 AM) How so? Because you just overspent on your draft, fired your big spending GM and stated you are building through your system. Its pretty obvious to me that they arent players for big FA's any time soon.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 11:02 AM) lol 5 minutes? I was on the phone while I got that information, doesnt take that long to put a sentence into google. One sentence gave you 5 unrelated links, you must be a slick google user.

I wonder if that means Wilken is out? Because I will take him. IN fact I'll trade him for Kenny Williams. And I hope the Cubs fans know that this now kills ANY chance of landing Pujols or Fielder.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 11:00 AM) To me, a guy like Kenny Williams would've worked so much better on the Northside for the Cubs as he likes to go after the big name players the Cubs want to get, but he also doesn't overspend in FA. Right now though, not so much. I expect Ricketts to go cheap as he does on everything else since he could barely afford the squad. He'll probably also have someone else pay for their A ball stadium. The Ricketts made their plan VERY clear when they went incredibly overslot in this year's draft for double digit round guys to keep them out of college etc. They are building through the draft whether their fans like it or not. They would rather spend 27 million on amateur players than 27 million in Free Agency.

HOH:

I'm not going to lie, keep him out a few more days, Flowers has been giving some unreal at bats to this team. His swing has been cut down considerably from what it was and he is flat out seeing the ball well.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 10:45 AM) Son of a b****. That is the best thing that could ever happen to that franchise was getting rid of him. Now get rid of Wrigley Field (as well as most of that front office) and I might have to start taking the Cubs alot more seriously in winning. LOL, so true. Hendry had his pluses and minuses, but his "talent" of overspending has no place with the broke ownership.

Wow you are spending alot of time researching something unrelated to football.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 12:14 PM) From the sounds of the officiating I think I would have just left before the brawl started. SO before I watched the video I immediately thought that G'Town would be at fault. But wow, those Chinese kids are dirty and fight dirty. They were clearly the aggressors for the most part and were hitting players with chairs.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 09:56 AM) Well, that's like 1% of what mobileme was meant to be. And you can do that with all newer apple computers/products now. I can even use it to "find my iMac" It's part of iCloud now, since MobileMe is discontinued. Right, but it was a brilliant piece of the puzzle, its actually the only reason I had it since Iphone thefts are rampant in Chicago. At my gym we had one guy clear out the locker room of iphones one day (which was unusual for that gym since its over 50% cops) and they caught him within hours. It was crazy.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 08:48 AM) I've been using iCloud for a while now, since I beta test iOS5, and I have to say that for all of these "cloud" services, Apple seems to have gotten this one right, in a way in which nobody else has. MobileMe was a complete failure, so Apple's not perfect in this area, either. I can now update my iPhone over the air for patches/updates, and if/when I get a new phone, I can restore it over the air, including restoring all application settings, phone preferences, pictures, emails, IM's, iTunes music, etc...all of it without having to plug it in and without a backup at home. All via their iCloud service, I can do a full wireless restore (Edge/3g or Wifi), it then installs all the applications back to where they were and all the settings/high scores or whatever else is still there. A complete restore. It works great. It also synchs to my itunes via wifi now, which has been a long time coming. Mobile me is not in failure for one reason really: The police around here say they find 70 percent of stolen iphones that have that service.