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QUOTE (maxjusttyped @ May 25, 2016 -> 06:51 PM) Yes. Maximizing the number of PA's given to your best hitters while minimizing the number of PA's given to your worst hitters sounds like optimal lineup construction to me. OK. Just remember to not complain about wasted innings when there is a deadspot every third inning.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ May 25, 2016 -> 06:25 PM) As long as Williams is in the front office, it's the Williams/Hahn front office and they are both at fault. Correct

QUOTE (He Gawn @ May 25, 2016 -> 05:02 PM) Whatever we do, please stop batting Rollins second. He is a momentum killer. It makes 0 sense to have an automatic out batting in between or best hitters simply due to the fact that we cling to some outdated traditional notion of what a 2 hitter should be. Where should the worst hitters bat in the lineup then? Do you put them all in a row at the bottom to make sure there is an inning where nothing happens?

QUOTE (maxjusttyped @ May 25, 2016 -> 05:38 PM) If you wait to promote Anderson until he has a *good* BB/K ratio, there's a chance he'd never get promoted to the majors in the first place. He's posting an above average batting line in AAA and he fills a position of need. Not all development needs to occur at the minor league level. If they think his defense wouldn't be a downgrade from the Rollins/Saladino duo, then I'd be in favor of promoting him very soon. Maybe that's the key. Remember Josh fields? He was ready except for the K rate. Maybe they learned their lesson and will leave him down there to at least work on it at AAA for more than 40 games.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 25, 2016 -> 04:55 PM) He turns 23 on June 23. He had experience playing in college. Why isn't he "ready?" I'd bring him up on June 23. Age does not determine readiness. He isn't ready because he isn't playing the way the organization wants him to when he is ready for the MLB.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 25, 2016 -> 05:50 PM) I see this has become KW's fault again on here. Can always count on that. Like clockwork.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 12, 2016 -> 03:03 PM) That's why NFL teams have been upgrading their in-stadium WiFi and some offer little TVs at certain seats. The Bears offer season tickets holders free NFL RedZone on mobile phones so they can watch at the game. If you have verizon you get more access plus the views of all of the stadium cameras.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 12, 2016 -> 12:23 PM) I go to Bears games for the people watching and stay for the football. At times, I definitely think about how it would be nice to watch at home (and more closely follow my gambling/fantasy action), but I just enjoy the atmosphere of sporting events. I'm with you. I really enjoy going to the games.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 12, 2016 -> 09:52 AM) Soldier Field also sucks to get to. Unless you have a waldron deck pass its awful. I prefer tailgating and leaving to actually going. College games on the other hand... It's easy on the train.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ May 13, 2016 -> 02:36 PM) from Abreu's plate discipline tab in fangraphs (and other notes): -His swings at out of zone pitching are way down. His swinging-strike % is lower than either of his other two years. (he is seeing his usual/career normal amount of in-zone pitches) -Overall contact is higher than it's been in either of his previous two years, as is the case for his in-zone contact. -Compared to the rest of his career, line drive % and ground ball % are both lower than ever. More flyballs. He's more judicious than ever this year. Striking out less than ever, but he's hitting it less hard and when it lands, it's in a glove. Seems to me these go together. Hit it softer, defenders have more time to get to it.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ May 10, 2016 -> 08:03 AM) Nats will regret this contract. They should be saving every dime for Harper right now. He'll be worth the biggest contract in baseball. Pitching is more important than hitting. Also, maybe Washington has already realized that Harper will be beyond their finances with New York, LA and Anaheim fighting for him. It would not surprise me if they already know he wants to go to ones of those primary markets.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ May 10, 2016 -> 08:22 AM) Looking at the 670 lineup: Mully and Hanley: Mully and 1 of the producers are huge Sox fans. They talk Sox a ton. Speigel and Goff: Goff is a Sox fan and Spiegel loves baseball and talks both. They talk a ton of Sox. Boers and Bernstein: Bernstein and their lead producer are both Sox fans, the team is good, and they talk Sox. Laurence Holmes: Is a Sox fan and talks a ton of Sox as well. Levine and Bernfield: Talk mostly Cubs on Saturday mornings but Sox tough to ignore now. Hit and Run: They talk the whole time about both times. Joe O is a Cubs fan but writes about Sox in Daily Herald. I guess we listen to a different Mully and Hanley. This morning it was how they were wrong on Garcia but it has been against the twins and texas where it's a hitters ballpark so he should hit well there. The next topic was how the attendance is awful even for a good team like Boston in town. Granted I only listened to 10 minutes while shaving but that was all they discussed at that time and none of it was a positive.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ May 5, 2016 -> 09:38 AM) Over the past two weeks, Abreu is hitting .308/.373/.462. As I said in this post, his problem has not been swinging at the offspeed low and away, it was always not swinging enough at pitches in the zone. Over the last two weeks he's still swinging at balls, but now he's swinging a lot more at strikes. After swinging at just 63% of strikes after the first few weeks, he's swung at nearly 80% of strikes over the past two weeks (numbers similar to his 2014 season), with great success. Abreu is successful when he swings the bat more often. You can live with him not laying off the pitches low and away as long as he's swinging at the good pitches to hit, which is what has happened during his current hot stretch. He currently has a career-high walk rate and a career-low strikeout rate, so he'll be fine. Keep swinging, Jose. In other words, he has been guessing too much instead of seeing the ball and hitting it. This tends to happen when a player is in a slump.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 5, 2016 -> 07:08 AM) Bruce Wolf, Rich Koz, and Dan Bernstein are the same guy. Prove me wrong. I think you're right! The only difference is the character. One blames the democrats for everything another blames republicans for everything and all three just do whatever they can to get attention.

They won't need one as they usually only use 4 during the World Series.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 10:23 PM) Really sounds like Kyle Long is moving to LT at long last. I think the Bears were dissatified with Grasu and will use slausson at center more if not start him there.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 04:15 PM) If he was bad enough to smoke WEED as a teenager and take MONEY as a college athlete he's likely to be COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROOOOLLLLLLL Every player in this draft has done both of these things. They just don't have asshole stepdads ruining their lives on it. Sad state of society today if that's true.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 12:02 PM) I must be in the minority here. I'm happy the Bears ignored Tunsil. Not worth the hassle/baggage. Agreed.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 10:34 AM) and I imagine really stupid. Usually. I avoid them as well with my season tickets. I sell them on stub hub and make a good dent in paying for next year's season tickets.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 09:40 AM) I am going to guess the Bears pick Henry from Alabama. I could see them going with the other Henry. The TE.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 09:29 AM) If myles jack is there though we gotta take him. Agreed. Even if he only lasts 3-4 years, that is a really good player for that amount of time. A 4 year contract is what a second round pick gets anyway.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 08:54 AM) No. Someone had the photos and hacked his account and sent them out as him. Sorry, I wasn't referring to the photos. I was referring to the admission of the payoffs when someone questioned the validity of the "admission" of taking illegal payoffs.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 08:29 AM) Strange definition of "admit". As if he sending this out on his own I thought it was from his own account that he sent it.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 12:26 AM) Pretty not pumped to get Floyd. Was thrilled when Tunsil was there. Think all of that crap is BS. Does any of that mean he won't play football? No. Hope to God our scouting is right and Floyd is coachable. Would love a lot of players in second round. Brings up some issues when you are stupid enough to get your picture doing drugs and admit to taking illegal payoffs on your own twitter account. All this on top of a previous suspension in college.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 28, 2016 -> 11:03 AM) I'd like a rainout please. Then we get to skip Danks again. I don't think they would not skip Danks again. Going something like 10 days without pitching would not be beneficial for him or the team.