Balta1701

I feel the need to repeat this post from a moderator this morning, to try to stress it. QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 07:08 AM) Oh, and I am dead serious. We've let this whole charade of "Hahn does nothing, he hasn't done anything, thus, Hahn sucks" go on a bit too long. Fact of the matter is that he had already made several moves, including the resigning of Jake Peavy, a minor trade here or there, the signing of Jeff Keppinger, and now 1 year deals with both De Aza and Beckham. I have no problem criticizing upper management, or the manager himself, or players, or anything. However, from this point forward, anything involving Hahn "bring on life support" will be taken as an insult and will lead to suspensions and/or bans.

Surgery for Corey Hart, will miss the first month or so of the season.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 01:01 PM) That's because I have nothing to gain by running every facet of your life under the boot of totalitarianism. Our military establishment and government might stand to gain a little more from that, however. No one has anything to gain by that. But not allowing our cities to be flooded with guns, or not wanting bullying in schools, or whatever the "you're a wussy" line this thread comes from...not wanting that is not wanting the boot of totalitarianism. Not every change in this world leads you to a dictator.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 12:50 PM) I'm not the one who wants to close the thread because I disagree with it. I never call for any of the liberal toons and their barrage of condescending posts and threads to be put in the gutter. And you think you're the only one who ever gets a warning or suspension or closed thread? This has nothing to do with the topic.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 12:45 PM) next step is to get a 'message' from Northside72 explaining that you have offended sensitive Balta and if you would please refrain from such posts 'for at least a little bit'. This s*** ends now. It ends with this post. It ends in this thread. You want to go back to the original post or topics, fine.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 12:41 PM) Censor all who oppose. Or maybe...censor the couple who have no idea how to have any respect in a discussion despite being asked and warned.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 12:34 PM) You are simply proving the wussification theory. QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 12:39 PM) Childish name calling, a symptom of wussification

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 19, 2013 -> 12:34 PM) Why, because it offends you and you are entitled to never be offended on the internet now? You are simply proving the wussification theory. No, because the only thing you ever want to do is be a troll.

I have a feeling it won't be much longer until this thread is closed.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 05:41 PM) Me too. The last parent I remember that we had posting was Brandon McCarthy's dad. Hopefully Grabe's career turns out like that. (Minus the head trauma).

QUOTE (Wanne @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 04:22 PM) There's enough pitching starved teams out there that would give up something decent for Gavin...just doesn't make sense to dump him for cash IMO. Those teams can still get quality pitchers for cash, or at the worst cash and a draft pick, if they want.

One of the life-sized versions of Curiosity will be marching in the inaugural parade.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 05:35 PM) I s*** you not I had "Looks like someone else didn't like black people either..." as my initial joke, but changed it. Poor decision on my part. You should have incorporated the word "Chocolate". Then you'd be really approaching quality.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 02:20 PM) http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/...-nagin/1845617/ Well that's gotta be George W. Bush's fault... Dude, you don't even have your jokes right. With Nagin you're supposed to make the joke about how its racially motivated. Come on, this is the "Chocolate city!" guy!

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 03:36 PM) More power, fewer K's, more walks...it's not unreasonable to think that he could hit .260 next year, and .260 for Beckham probably puts him close to the .725-.750 OPS area. If he could do that, that's a major upgrade to this team's offense and it keeps the team from non-tendering him at the end of next year. This is literally make or break for him with the Sox. Arb year 2 will be $5 million plus if they want to offer it to him, so he needs to play like he's worth >$5 million.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 01:03 PM) This was in response to Balta's post where it says Te'o want the first. The others I guarantee were Samoan's like the AZ Cardinals player, in an attempt to get money, access, whatever. Huh?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 12:46 PM) Well, as much as it pains me to say it, you must not have been watching much Bears football. Sure, the end result was the same (bad offense) but the difference between the insanity of the Martz offense vs the blahness of the Tice offense could not have been of higher contrast. True, one thing that was missing last year were the complete nonsense plays, I'll give you that. I still feel like I was watching a system last year where the Bears were 100% insistent that they could take deep drops and throw the ball down the field while their O-Line was matched up one on one, which was also where I felt the Martz system failed the worst.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 12:42 PM) He succeeded just fine under Shanahan - who was inexplicably fired despite being pretty awesome. Since then, really, I'd find it hard to believe any QB could truly succeed with the calvacade of OC's, schemes, playbooks, and revolving door offensive linemen he's played with in Denver and Chicago. He's a prick, but he's also been given very little chance to succeed. Of course...weird thing I felt is...I don't I've seen much change in the Bears "offensive system" in the last 3 seasons. Last season looked....pretty much exactly like the 2 seasons before it.

The next chapter

How is hiring a guy who might well not even be allowed to coach...a good idea?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 11:57 AM) A gimmick college coach with a total of zero NFL experience (never been any sort of assistant or anything) ought to translate really well to the NFL. He was literally the only name (ok, only reasonable name, the other was Josh McDaniels) that I didn't want the Bears to consider.

Here's also a good summary of the people ripping the Morse deal from the Mariners perspective.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 10:19 AM) No where to play him. That didn't stop the Mariners.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 10:07 AM) I like everything the Browns have done. A long struggling franchise, I hope they've finally found a shot. I really like their defense, and they have some pieces on offense to go with. They've got the Ravens, Steelers, and Bengals in their division right? That's a really tough spot to be in.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Jan 17, 2013 -> 11:29 PM) Why didn't he pitch last season? No one wanted him/no one wanted to pay him whatever he was asking for.