Balta1701

Jeff Dickerson Hey, at least the Bears actually got a sack.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 05:39 PM) Hard for me to blame Mel Tucker for his guys not knowing what fumbles are. I want to see new faces on defense next year, starting with our captain 55 Isn't that exactly what the coach is supposed to take the blame for?

QUOTE (Paulstar @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 04:54 PM) I never predicted that. I only called you out for your response to jerksticks. If anything, this last post of yours would have been a more fitting response to jerksticks. I think they both work...but man am I sick of the "how can we have these guys on this roster they strike out too much!" stuff. We were 15th in MLB in strikeouts, dead middle of the Pack. Boston, who had a vastly better offense than us, had 101 more strikeouts than us. "I don't like watching guys strike out!" isn't a complaint about an offense. Guys like Konerko, Beckham, and Keppinger had low strikeout totals last year and they were some of the most useless players on the roster. It's not Tyler Flowers and Adam Dunn striking out too often that killed us last year. It was Flowers and the rest of the guys not doing the things that they are capable of doing.

Don't see that anyone has pointed this out here. ‏@LaurenceWHolmes 52s OUT for the game. RT @pkaragianis: @LaurenceWHolmes @ZachZaidman any word on nature/severity of Mills injury?

QUOTE (fathom @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 04:38 PM) They should have gone for the first down. It's not like the field position for the Packers would have been great. I'm sure they have good confidence in their defense....right?

That only works in a country which doesn't despise people using their brains.

Quit making me beg then.

Obviously that was the point. If someone there would offer to hire me...I'd be in.

Maybe I don't dislike places until I try them.

Keep hating, I can come up with a lot of worse places to wind up.

QUOTE (Paulstar @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 03:00 PM) My understanding of between them means 150 altogether for both, not 150 for each of them. So I think you make yourself look foolish for trying to make the previous poster look like an idiot. As for which side I'm on... Flowers is not an MLB starting catcher and at best a fringe backup catcher. He can mash bad pitching down in AAA, but he is lost vs. good pitching and to make matters worse he is brutal behind the plate. The only thing going for him is that he occasionally makes contact the leads to a home run (once every 25 AB's or so) and he has a strong arm. Best case scenario is that he turns into a Ramon Castro type of hitter who can mash lefties. But the last thing this team needs is a Ramon Castro (plus almost double the amount of K's) getting 300+ AB's. No team needs that. As far as Dunn goes (and I strongly dislike Dunn as a baseball player), I'd have no problem with him and Konerko platooning at DH as that might actually produce a legit middle of the order bat when you put the two of them together. But back to Flowers, he has no business being on this team, and what makes matters worse is he is getting paid about a million bucks to be one of the worst players in the majors. So you're predicting that between Flowers and Dunn...they will only not make outs 150 times? I think that's equally foolish. Adam Dunn on his own was "not an automatic out" 191 times last year.

Good.

Even when they beat the Cubs?

But I definitely feel a number of posters hold anger towards that city and I'm not quite sure why. Not in the same division as the Bears, Bulls, White Sox, or Blackhawks.

Zero anger towards Cinci on my part.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 01:54 PM) Maybe Jay Cutler won't throw an interception? Heading down to the game now with four layers on. Bear Down! "Same old Jay" - Charles Woodson.

Xavier isn't bad.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 12:14 PM) I dunno man. If Hahn truly believes we can be competitive then how can you have Flowers AND Dunn on the same roster? At least Beckham n Tank can make consistent contact. Dunn and Flowers are automatic outs except for maybe 150 ABs between them. Wow, a player is an automatic out except for 150 AB's? So they hit... .250? How terrible.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Dec 28, 2013 -> 08:48 PM) That's why I'm asking if he can be waived along with amnestying boozer or not No, there would be no way to waive Bynum without paying the remaining year on his contract, and Boozer (or Rose) are the only 2 on the Bulls the Amnesty clause could be used on. It would still eat every cent of cap space the Bulls could have next offseason and possibly make it impossible to bring Mirotic over.

Same thing.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Dec 28, 2013 -> 07:22 PM) What about Deng? And can they waive him and still amnesty boozer? I dunno how that stuff works... Please trade Deng :/ I didn't even consider Deng because Deng expires this year and Bynum doesn't. That's just foolish. You'd need a top 5 pick in return along with Bynum to make that worth doing.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 28, 2013 -> 05:35 PM) Joaquin Benoit to San Diego, 2 years $15.5 mill Why?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 28, 2013 -> 05:28 PM) Why are you of the opinion that this is a playoff ready pitching staff? It is very talented, but it was essentially a league average pitching staff last year. This just isn't true. They were 8th in MLB last year in fWAR. That's a solidly above average pitching staff. It's not great, but if it was teamed with an average offense and an average defense it could pitch this team to the playoffs, or at the worst right on the edge of it. And just to stress...that was 8th in MLB in fWAR with Dylan Axelrod making 20 starts and a couple guys traded away from the staff midseason.

Quitting the Christmas relaxation binge has never been a problem for me before. Back to work next Thursday. Hell, actually got work done today.

One week out of the year I get to stop caring about the drinks. One week, that's all I ask.