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You guys are surprised by that when they said it was a 3 week injury? He ought to miss at least 1 start from that.

Jimmy scheduled for an MRI Monday on a "hyperextended" left elbow.

The Bulls are just outgunned when they're missing this many pieces. Having no Jimmy out there on defense is leaving too many holes.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Mar 1, 2015 -> 02:34 PM) Aaron Brooks has no business defending Chris Paul or even just defending the pick and roll. Butler was taken to the locker room after an arm injury.

Worked for Bautista.

Something this nation can feel a bit proud about.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 05:28 PM) Why? Recently, Noah has been playing like Noah, Jimmy has been great all year, and Dunleavy is an excellent offensive role player. Taj/Niko/Snell are better than most of the crap in the east. The front court is top 5 in the NBA, top to bottom. Key phrase = "the crap in the east". That's what amazes me about this being a playoff team.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 04:59 PM) You can't call college football or basketball "minor leagues" because the pro leagues have no control over them. Viewing it through the prism of "preparing athletes for pro ball", college football does a better job than college baseball or college basketball - a 13 game season is a heckuva lot closer to a 16 game season in the NFL than a 35 game season in college BBall is to a 100 game NBA season.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 04:53 PM) I think he will comeback, right before the playoffs. Then he will play like s*** for 2 weeks or so because he always has a lot of "rust" in his game returning from injuries, and we will probably get knocked out in the second round. I think it's amazing that this team is still almost certainly a playoff team.

QUOTE (lvjeremylv @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 04:20 PM) Well they weren't the most effective innings, but John threw 193 of them last year and didn't miss a start. You could do a lot worse from a #5 starter. I think he'll be better this year, maybe shave a half run per game off his ERA, and that should allow the Sox to unload him if they pay some of his contract. Though at that point, a #5 starter who takes the ball every 5th day and gives the team an ERA in the 4.25 range isn't a terrible thing to have, even at his salary. These days, anyway. If John does that then suddenly they'd have very little reason to actually move him. He'd genuinely be earning his contract.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 03:56 PM) What minor league does the NFL have? It got some of ESPN's highest ratings ever this year when Ohio State played Oregon.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 02:46 PM) Then keep spending, take the hit for next year and wait for International Draft to kick in. Aren't the penalties losing like 1/2 of the next year's bonus pool? That's a huge hit to take for a single guy..

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 02:36 PM) I would risk that. I wouldn't take the penalties on next year's for one guy.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 10:58 AM) My wife are having a battle over this, so I really hope someone can find some science that proves what I am seeing as being superior, haha. I figure my eyes are more advanced so those seeing blue have more focus and able to see more colors of the color spectrum vs. those who see white (who at some point, all the color's blend to white). Bunch of science versions are out already. Apparently this effect is also why Percival Lowell thought he saw canals on Mars. Another

QUOTE (LDF @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 09:53 AM) thanks. this maybe the strongest this pen has been, how would you compare it to the 2005 pen. Until the actual season happened youd have expected the 05 pen to be weak. He'll their closer out of ST didn't last a month and they went through 3 Closers.

Gar scheduled to give update in 30 min (1030 CST)

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 10:48 AM) I see royal blue and black and the bottom of the dress, the top of the dress is royal blue and gold to me. What I want to know is, do people who see the blue have superior vision or is it people who see the white with superior vision cause there is nothing white about that dress. i don't think it has to do with superior, it has to do with the way the contrast is perceived.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 10:17 AM) In 2013 the Giants brought in over $100 million more dollars in revenue than the White Sox did, at $316 million. http://www.forbes.com/teams/san-francisco-giants/ The Giants have a TV deal that adjusts to total revenue - they're not locked into a yearly payment, they get something like 33% of the total TV revenues for their games. That means if they have a lot of viewers, it translates immediately to revenue the next year, they don't have to wait until their contract renews. That also creates a big incentive for them to win- if they're not winning and people aren't watching, their revenues would plummet. They might really struggle with that deal if they tried to do a Cubs style rebuilding or had Astros level "1000 people total watching" games.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 10:10 AM) There could have been a little *something* that was putting a little pep in their step too. Going for the amphetamines?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 10:09 AM) I don't know that I'm completely on board with your belief that Mackowiak in CF in 2006 cost the Sox the division, but I'm completely on board with Anderson being ruined to some extent by Ozzie. I certainly don't think Anderson did himself any favors during that time, but he's a young player and you need to give them a chance and let them fail a few times so that they can learn from those mistakes. Ozzie never did that, lost his faith in Anderson, and then the Erstad experiment began in 2007. I'm one of the few, but I think there's a legitimate chance we see Anderson at some point during the season. People don't have to agree with me, WAR doesn't agree with me, but I'll say this every single time and I'll go to my grave believing this. The White Sox win the 2006 AL Central if Mackowiak plays CF for like 5 games or fewer. He was that bad out there. Every single game he was out there it cost us at least a run, maybe 2. Worse yet, you could see how it hit the pitchers - every game, somewhere in the middle innings, there was at least one ball where you'd say "Anderson would have had that". It would almost always lead to a multi run inning. Because that ball wasn't caught, the pitcher would give up an extra run or two and have to throw another 20, 25 high stress pitches because now they're in trouble and throwing from the stretch. Suddenly the starting pitchers are worse, they're going fewer innings, their ERAs are higher, the bullpen is more heavily taxed, and the rest of the team gets depressed and sloppy because plays weren't being made. Rob Mackowiak in CF was a virus. It went untreated and during the 2nd half of the season the whole team got sick. I totally get...nothing has to agree with me. Advanced stats don't. But that was the season I watched, and I will never stop believing that.

QUOTE (LDF @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 09:58 AM) i am feeling my age, but do you ever think mlb will see that kind of a player who will do that again. I have no idea what has changed. Have pitchers/catchers gotten better at holding players on? I doubt that. Vince Coleman stole at like an 85% clip during his first 3 years when he was stealing 100+, so even the craziest sabermetric person would say "run like crazy" to a player who's succeeding at that rate. The only thing I can guess that might have changed is that the 100+ steal guys were all on steroids or some other drugs. Maybe something became available in the late 70s/early 80s that really worked to keep those guys bodies from falling apart?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 09:58 AM) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hot%20take Perhaps that's incorrect though. This may be a strong take instead. And if it's not apparent, I think greg's post is so obviously over the top absurd, ridiculous, and wrong that I decided to not even bother with an actual response as it appears to me to be more trolling for responses than it does an actual opinion. Here is my actual response: if you feel that it's so damn easy greg, quit your current job and go do it, because teams would gladly pay you millions of dollars a year if you can isolate and identify the top players in the country who will then develop into the top players in the MLB/NFL/NBA/NHL. I'm much less confident in this set of statements than I am in saying we'd have won the 06 Central had Mackowiak never played CF, but I thought Anderson could have had a much better shot had the team developed him better. Between not getting him at bats to struggle through in 2006 and being inconsistent with his playing time afterwards, they never gave him a real solid chance to turn into a big league hitter. There was at least one spring training, I think it was 08? where he looked very different at the plate. More compact approach, more compact swing, then he sat for >2 weeks at the start of the year and by the time he was back in the box he looked like he did the previous years, standing back up with a much longer, slower swing. Never good get into a groove when they would occasionally get into an approach taht worked. yeah, even if that was done better he might well still have busted. Some guys do party their way out of the league, some guys are too stubborn to learn and think they can get by on athleticism alone because that's what they've always done. Still would have had fewer complaints if I thought they did a better job working him.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Feb 26, 2015 -> 03:50 PM) And I've discovered and become infatuated with the J.J. Gargantuan from Jimmy John's. Hands down my favorite "I shouldn't be eating this ever but I'm doing special thing xxxx later today so **** it." lunch food.