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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 02:15 PM) Do you really think it would be empty? I could see plenty of tourists staying there instead of downtown. People come visit friends/family in the area, and they spend more time on the North Side, it would be more convenient than commuting from the Loop. Especially if they can charge quite a bit more for the days when the Cubs are around, having 81 days of high revenue, high bookings per year is pretty darn good for a hotel.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 02:20 PM) Barry Bonds in his steroid prime would have been. We could have brought Mike Trout up...

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 10:49 AM) Pau Gasols stock has plummeted all season long, and this absolutely makes it worse. Not only is he older and has bad knees, but now he isnt even a starter over Earl Clark. Thats just bad. And last night they also pointed out how D'Antoni is sucking the life out of Kobe too by putting him on the opposing PGs. Since that movie was made, Kobes minutes have shot up and his shooting percentage has dwindled, and Kobe even said he was drained. Not good in La La Land. And as a Bulls fan I LOVE IT When Kirk Hinrich goes for 22 against Steve Nash...don't you have to consider putting Kobe Bryant on the opposing team's best backcourt player, whether its' a SG or PG? I mean, what would Rose have done if Hinrich can do that?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 10:33 AM) During yesterdays game they said it could happen today. Yeah...not happening. Weeks still, not days. Not when he hasn't had a full contact practice. I'd actually be kinda furious if they shoved him in there without the equivalent of a training camp. 2-3 weeks of full practice.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 09:54 AM) http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013...-finger-mlk-day They also adjourned at the end of the day "In memory of Stonewall Jackson".

I know it's crazy minutes Thibs...but if he can successfully limit Hamilton's minutes...I'm going to believe he can successfully limit Rose's minutes out the gate. That's going to be fairly important too...you just can't put him in and expect him to go 40 in the first week without dying. The backcourt rotation with him...depends on what you need I guess. Hinrich more of a defender, Nate more of a scorer.

You know...there's an @Charlotte game on Feb. 22 in that after-the AS break area...and I'm within driving distance for that... Of course, there are 2 post AS games before that...@ new orleans...and then @ home versus, yeah, the Heat.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 07:00 AM) One of the better pilots in a long time. I hope the rest of the episodes can maintain the suspense. I kinda disagree, both me and my wife found the plotline/setup to be somewhat predictable here. I'm going to keep watching to see where they go with it, but everything except for the very last twist at the end, I had beforehand.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 04:05 AM) Bottom line, they can't keep playing at Wrigley without major renovations. If Emanuel doesn't allow the restrictions to be removed, I'd just build in the burbs. Ways to utterly destroy a franchise's value: 1. Hold a public lynching in the outfield. 2. Move out of Wrigley Field to a new ballpark in the northern suburbs 3. Officially adopt as the team slogan "Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world".

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 06:06 AM) Sox went 14-4 against the Twins last year, and swept them twice. Won every series against them. Should be no different this year. The Twins suck. That's the real rub. There's always at least 1 team in our division we just flat out refuse to win against. If we could just beat the bad teams and play close to .500 ball against the good teams, we'd win this bloody division almost every year. But there's always that one team we go 5-14 against.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 08:24 AM) Huh? I'd guess he was referencing that speeding ticket he got?

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 11:52 PM) Have a f***ing night Kirk. Carlos Boozer POTW, Kirk Hinrich winning a game handily for the Bulls. panic.

QUOTE (whitesox901 @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 06:59 PM) This. If the hitters play to their career norms (with the exception being the Flowers types who don't have a lot of time under their belt), and the pitching stays healthy, I think the Sox should be the favorites. I don't see them being the "Favorites", because Detroit is legitimately a solid team on paper. If you just do things on paper with people doing kinda what they did last year, but getting Danks back...the Sox become an upper 80's win team and Detroit becomes a low-90's win team with what they're adding.

QUOTE (Cali @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 05:42 PM) Well Kenny was supposedly asking "the moon"... If he had just lowered his standards a little maybe they'd have more to spend on a left handed hitter. It's not like Danks missing the season really hurt the team last year. Danks was also paid diddly squat last year.

QUOTE (Cali @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 04:56 PM) I still wish they'd have traded Danks instead of resigned him last offseason. They'd have a little more payroll flexibility now if he was traded for prospects... The fact that he was resigned ought to tell you a lot about the quality of "prospects" that were being offered for him.

QUOTE (Lamar Johnson 23 @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 03:39 PM) Correct me if I'm wrong...weren't the White Sox the winningest team of the 1980s? (Maybe 1990s?) If so, how many championships did their "sustained success" get them? Neither of these sound correct to me. If this source is right, then the Sox were below .500 for the 1980's. I'm not going to check, I'm just going to assume it was the Braves in the 1990's.

Carlos Boozer named eastern conference player of the week. (Durant for western conference).

For comparison, quick search puts the cost of renovating Fenway at $285 million over the last 10 years.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 11:31 AM) Jobs that pay 50$ an hour don't have lines of people out the door...or they wouldn't be paying 50$ an hour. And jobs that pay competitive wages for their positions don't go complaining to the newspaper about how people aren't applying for them.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 11:17 AM) And i never said the economy was healthy. You and SS are claiming that there aren't people being picky about the jobs they take. I say there are people who are sitting at home rather than taking a lesser job. SS says give me a source. I provide one. You say THOSE jobs don't pay enough. I'm saying it's not a moral failing. It's not a sign of laziness. It's not something a lecture about toughening up is going to solve. It's not even a problem with the employee in that case. The unemployment rate for people with a professional degree or a doctoral degree is ~ 2%. Under 4% for people with masters degrees. So yeah, in that case, people don't need to take jobs that don't pay the prevailing wage...because there actually are jobs available for them which do pay the prevailing wage.

Here's the B-R link. They have Beckham and De Aza in there but not Lindstrom, and they have us at $116 million.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 11:07 AM) There are currently some 3 million unfilled jobs in America right now. You do realize that when a job becomes open, it isn't filled the next day, right? 3 million job openings remains well under the "healthy economy" level of job openings. It was well over 4 million for years during the inadequate 2000's economic growth. And every time you hear a guy say "we can't find people to fill these positions", the first question you should ask him, and the question that never gets asked in that story, is "What are you paying for it". If a guy is running a firm that needs high quality workers, doesn't want to offer training, doesn't offer benefits, pays $13 an hour, and requires a masters degree, then he's right, he'll never find people to fill those positions, because he's not offering a competitive wage for the demands.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 11:07 AM) There is really only one problematic backloaded contract anywhere on their books. Also, he's about $20M too high on payroll (no idea where he gets the $119M number, because it looks like complete fantasy), he seems to think that Rios and Dunn doing well only "help" (LOL), rails on the Keppinge acquisition while failing to acknowledge that almost ANYTHING is an upgrade to what the Sox had there already, and seems to think the team overachieved (never mind their pythag says otherwise, and that only a couple hitters and 1 SP overachieved). Other than that, yeah, great article. Some of his points make a lot of sense of course, sarcasm aside. Paulie is on the wrong side of the curve and may not bounce back, Rios is unlikely to repeat his 2012, Flowers won't likely get anywhere close to AJ's 2012 numbers (then again, neither will AJ), Quintana is a regression concern and Sale and Peavy are injury concerns. All true. Actually, after reading that I thought it was wrong too, then I checked the Baseball-Reference numbers. They have us, right now, at $110 million committed for this year, with arbitration guys bringing that up to $116 million (I don't think they had Beckham's number in there yet). Add in Lindstrom, and yeah, $118 million is pretty close to where they have us.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 11:05 AM) I bet a few...but that wasn't the question now was it? No, but you're pretending it's an important point, that it's somehow an indictment of this generation of people and something that never happened in society before these wussies came along.