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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 05:13 PM) He was pretty steadily between 92-93 on his fastball, and he went from 93 to just over 90 this year. Any injury talk? I didn't realize there was that kind of drop off. This is why the "$12 million" y'all were quoting was scaring the heck out of me as I read it.

The NBA has completed its extended deals with Disney/ABC/ESPN and TBS. Total comes to ~$2.6 billion/year, compared to $900 million a year currently.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 04:04 PM) Do you believe if the Sox spent 50 million this offseason they could contend? If that's all they do no. If they fill some roles via trades, yes.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 01:42 PM) How do you just completely ignore the moronic interception to Marshall in triple coverage? That's pee-wee level stupidity and Cutler does it at least once in 14 out of 16 games a year. And how can you say this is a TEAM loss? f*** that. The offense lost that game. Mostly the players, some on the coaches. The defense basically gave you the first 21 points. Turnovers and short fields. The offense, on their own, did a bunch of nothing, all game. The "vaunted" Bears offense that was going to be near the top of the league. LOL, what a f***ing joke that was/is. Well, at the very least Special Teams played a part in that.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 12:56 PM) That will only prevent people that are full on incubated...you can carry the flu for days without showing a single sign, same goes for Ebola. Having a fever at that moment, or sniffling/sneezing may mean you have the flu, but you can exhibit zero symptoms for days leading to it taking hold, despite being infected. And for the record, I'm not advocating banning flights to/from anywhere, whatever the CDC says we should do, we should do as far as I'm concerned. What's worth considering with ebola is that the "containment cost" on the ground every time it gets here is actually fairly small. With something like the measles, a person infected walks into an elevator and 3 hours later that elevator has infected 20 people. With ebola, you need long-term close contact to transmit it and a cleaning step controls it. If hospitals actually follow the CDC's recommendations, then when people come in complaining they're sick and came back from Africa a week ago, there are 2-3 people you need to monitor and 2-3 locations that you need to clean. The effort you need to contain this is really quite low, all things considered, because of how it is transmitted. The poor performance of the Texas hospital magnified this one case, but even still, Dallas is not shut down. Unfortunately I can't comment on how much business the U.S. does with western african countries and what the impacts would be if they were cut off from air travel, but there's got to be some math spelling out the balance of costs associated with shutting the doors and how that compares with quarantine costs. If, for example, we banned air travel to/from those countries, that could cost a whole lot of lives by shutting down the travel of medical relief as well.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 10:34 AM) I don't think anyone can blame Jay alone for the loss yesterday, our defense is still banged up and Carolina woke up in the second half. The bigger issue and it's also something that will never change about Jay is he constantly making dumb mistakes, and he is just bad at running a 2 minute offense, it offsets the value he provides to the offense, and it doesn't put us in good position to win games. Mind you this is one of the highest paying QB's in the league. (Part of it in the FO's fault for trust in him) Yes, Gould missed a field goal yesterday and Forte had a fumble. But Gould is the 3rd most accurate kicker in NFL history, and Forte is one of the in the league at protecting the ball. Those guys RARELY make mistakes. By the way, the fact that McCown went from looking like a Pro Bowler in 6 games last year to looking like a scrub again in TB this year says something about the talents we have surrounded Cutler with on offense. If you want to say that the game yesterday is the fluke that teams commonly lose during the season, fine, I'm ok with that. That definitely happens. But that game just continued a trend of being a middle-of-the-road team on offense, scoring in the low/mid 20's, that has continued all season. The Bears offense has fallen from #2 in the league to #17 as of now. They're at the top of the NFC North easily if their offense was #5 in the league right now.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 10:53 AM) I hope so. The longer term the deals, the better. A couple of expensive free agent relievers would be a great place to start. My guess is that Scherzer stays, but just a guess.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 10:47 AM) They are such a big regression candidate next year. They could win 75 to 80 games next year, and it wouldn't shock me. They could also spend $50 million+ this offseason and still have a good shot at the AL Central.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 10:03 AM) The thing is, that chip shot miss led directly to a touchdown for Carolina. Who knows what happens if Gould makes it, regardless Carolina doesnt start off with guaranteed good field position. I agree it contributed to the Bears losing, but I can't get past this point. That highly paid Bears offense is 17th in the league in both yards/game and points/game on the season. With where they've spent their cap dollars the last several seasons, that is a recipe for a losing record.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 09:50 AM) Former SC GOP director: Execute anyone who comes into contact with Ebola — ‘it’s just math’ "You mean like what British Airways and Gulf carrier Emirates did?"

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 09:48 AM) Even if he does come back as a coach, I think it would be much more likely to be in Arizona than Chicago. I'm fully expecting him to replace Ventura in a couple seasons, all I asked was for him to take a year off for family to make sure it's what he actually wanted to do, and the previous post says he's going to. I figure if I start typing it years beforehand then when it happens I'll have made my peace with it.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 09:43 AM) No but from targeted areas they did. But that was not what was advocated.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 09:04 AM) Imagine where they would be if they weren't lucky enough to find a trade partner for Prince or if the Astros hadn't given up on JD Martinez. Or if Victor Martinez hadn't suddenly turned into the best hitter in the big leagues at age 35. They were really close to missing the playoffs this year. Really were. That's an expensive, flawed team right now.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 08:42 AM) You mean like what British Airways and Gulf carrier Emirates did? British Airways did not ban flights from the entire continent.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 6, 2014 -> 07:31 AM) If they had any type of defense last year, they very well could have. It's ludicrous that some fans are blaming him for yesterday. Yes, that one INT was awful, but he threw for 300 yards and 2 TDs. The defense still coughed up a lead, Gould missed a chip shot, and Forte fumbled. Team loss. Even if Gould hadn't missed that FG, the Bears still put up only 27 points. This team isn't built to win that kind of game against a decent team.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 5, 2014 -> 11:53 PM) Great post. Detroit is going to go crazy money wise trying to fix that bullpen. It'd be nice if their owner gave up and started selling off players like some other teams have done. Would be nice if Detroit became the new Minnie, cheapskates and losers. They do the same basic thing every year, they stack their lineup and rotation and piece together a patchwork bullpen.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 5, 2014 -> 04:25 PM) Mike Shannahan Rick Dennison Ron Turner Mike Martz Mike Tice Lovie Smith Jerry Angelo Marc Trestman? Aaron Kromer? How long before we consider firing the QB? Based on his contract, 2.5 years.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 5, 2014 -> 04:20 PM) The defense was mediocre, IMO. Tucker going to the prevent at the end of the half seemed to give Carolina all the momentum. I don't think the prevent defense worked for a single team this weekend in football. This team is not supposed to win games on defense. The defense is supposed to not lose games so that the offense can win them. That's how it was built.

There'll be a little shifting around from other games, but through 5 games, the Bears offense will be in the bottom 1/2 of the league in both yards/game and points/game at the end of this weekend. Their D will be about 20th in yards/game and 23-25 in points/game, both an improvement over last year, and of course the points/game is impacted by things like special teams and turnovers as well. This defense isn't spectacular but it's been upgraded from last year where it was 29th/30th in the NFL in this categories and reached the level it was supposed to reach for that spectacular offense to carry it to a lot of wins.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 5, 2014 -> 04:10 PM) Yep, hard to win with such a bad defense and special teams. Um...hard to win when your highly paid offense only puts up 24 points (3 in the 2nd half) and turns the ball over what, 3-4 times again?

Sad thing is the Bears D will still have a decent game in terms of yards given up.

really?

Non Bears, but really nice audible on a key 2 point conversion by the neck beard. Audibled to a run up the middle that hadn't been working all game against Detroit because of their DTs, the DTs were out of position, Fred Jackson plows into the end zone to tie the game.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Oct 5, 2014 -> 02:20 PM) Nah I don't want him. He can't stay healthy, strikes out a lot and should be a better hitter than he's shown to be. At his age, it's harder to get better. Much of that is true, but I disagree with the "it's harder for a guy in his mid 20s to get better" claim. That said, I want to see what he can do this year, especially with a new hitting coach. He has gotten worse each of the last 2 years with the bat, one more downgrade next year and you do start questioning what he can provide and you really don't offer him that big contract.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 5, 2014 -> 02:15 PM) The jury's out on how good this D is, but it is most certainly not last year's defense. The thing the Bears have been missing is an offense capable of putting up 28 points per half.