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QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 03:29 PM) Viciedo golfs a low pitch to the warning track in left-center. Not a very good swing. So, not a good swing, on a low pitch, and it goes to the warning track?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 03:23 PM) Any particulars? The theme of ST will be any positives about our winning percentage and how somehow this year it will be indicative of April success and how it should encourage fans to go out and buy season tickets or Pick 7 packages...."how Ozzie wanted to see a lot of young players" in Spring but Ventura's determined to win more March games and translate that to a fast start out of the gate. Considering we'll be playing a lot of young players this year, it'd be really nice if those young players got the work in that they needed.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 02:25 PM) Last years Bulls are worse then this years Bull's as well though. I know they are, but he said that. It'll be a good EC Finals to watch if both teams get there healthy, but I'm not going to call the Bulls the better team until they prove it.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 02:18 PM) I've been thinking it through. Fully healthy and with the Joakim Noah of the beginning of last year, and the one we have now. I think the Bulls are better than the Heat. The problem right now is that last year's Heat are worse than this year's Heat. The Heat are also healthier now and have better depth. And the Bulls...well, Rose and Deng aren't as healthy, and they still dont' have Hamilton in the rotation fully yet. The Bulls "Could be" better than the Heat...but I certainly can't call it yet, and it's going to take beating the Heat to convince me.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 02:08 PM) Making fun of the bathrooms at Wrigley is so lame, the jokes got old 100 years ago. Much like the ballpark.

No, I haven't been to Wrigley in years.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 12:46 PM) I had heard that VJax will get franchised, but today is the deadline so I guess we well find out. Stevie Johnson got $19.5 million guaranteed. Franchising Jackson would basically be a 1 year, $13 million guaranteed deal. Franchising him would basically guarantee him 2/3 of what Johnson got in his entire contract. I can't believe the Chargers would be that financially dumb.

Stevie Johnson numbers: That's what, $8 million a year then and frontloaded? That's not a bad deal at all, and if that's the WR market right now that helps the Bears out some.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 09:27 AM) I would rather they use a couple high picks on receivers and spend big money on their lines. I'm pretty much the opposite. In my ideal world, the Bears sign a top flight FA WR as priority #1, then find a guy who isn't a top flight tackle but who can actually be counted on to play without being the worst tackle in the league in FA to give them 3 guys who can fill tackle spots (Webb, Carimi, FA), then fill a few of the other depth needs (CB, maybe OLB, maybe S, definitely TE, maybe RB) in FA. Then target DE and an additional WR with the first couple picks, in addition to filling whatever needs aren't met. In my view, WR seems to take as long as any position other than QB to actually develop in the NFL in most cases. Thus, if you draft a WR, even in the top round, you are drafting that WR looking for him to be a legit thread 2-3 years down the road. The Bears are in a position where they ought to be competing now, with the veterans they have on defense and a legit QB, and that means to me they need to find their top WR in free agency.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 09:08 AM) I know that all too well. We just spent over $50 going to see The Lorax over the weekend with the kids. Insane. Always indoctrinating your kids with your socialist-environmentalist dogma...

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 09:05 AM) Of course, and its one reason I hope the Bears don't sign Colson. He's going to be paid money based on what he did in the Saints' system playing half his games on turf indoors with Drew Brees throwing him the ball. Thinking he'll put up similar numbers playing on the Soldier Field turf in a different system would be crazy. I think he's probably better than anyone the Bears have, but for what they will have to pay him, stay away. He's one guy who is almost guaranteed not going to live up to the contract he gets. Here's reality for the Bears though...they're in a position where, IMO, they're so thoroughly undermanned at WR that "A guy not living up to his contract" is still an acceptable situation, because that guy could still come off as a substantial upgrade. They might well have to make a guy nearly the highest paid WR in the league, and they're not going to get Larry Fitzgerald out of this FA period...but they just have to give Cutler a weapon on the outside. Even if he only gives them 60-ish catches next year, they have to open up the outside.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 08:51 AM) Check out the historical performances of FA receivers. They are exceptions if they aren't busts. But there's a lot of things that can mean. It can mean that when a team gets a high performing WR, they only let them hit the FA market if they have character issues. It could mean that most teams who sign a high performing WR are signing them in a situation where they don't have strong QB play and that costs the WR his numbers. It could mean that they hold them until they hit the FA market at age 32, and thus the WR doesn't get somehwere new until he's starting to go downhill.

Well, last time the Bulls played the Pacers it was the night that Rose said something postgame about them "Celebrating".

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 08:47 AM) He would have been a FA after 2015, so two? Three seasons if the option is picked up Buying out 3 years of FA for him is a stellar move for Pittsburgh.

My facebook page is lighting up with people saying Earthquake. Magnitude ~4-ish event on the Heyward fault near Berkeley.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 01:13 AM) When Wade fouled out, he was the first Heat player to foul out. In 88 games. f***ing referees. I wonder what the longest similar streak is in NBA history?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 08:10 AM) Pirates sign McCutchen to a six year, $51.5 million contract. Solid. How much FA time does this buy out?

If AJ is traded, it won't be as anything more than a salary dump. You'll probably have a shot at saving $1 million, but probably little more. He's also a 10/5 guy and can veto any trade.

Not fair.

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 4, 2012 -> 08:01 PM) Free agent O-Linemen are money wasters, You get one of two good seasons, then they get too old and expensive. John Tait, etc. Nicks is what, 26?

QUOTE (Felix @ Mar 4, 2012 -> 06:23 PM) Not sure where this was reported, but it's not true. Magic had 2 games with at least 15/15/15 while Larry Bird had another. Doesn't make it any less impressive, but still. I'd also be shocked if Oscar Robertson didn't have more than a few, considering he averaged 30.8 pts, 12.5 rebounds and 11.4 assists per game in '61-62. The announers said that during the game. Hmph, thought they were pretty clear. Must have misheard, my bad.

Jimmy Johns counts also. Various Chicago Pizza joints are constantly missed.

"We better beat f***ing Purdue".

In-n-Out.

Really important for the Lake show to hang on in this game, for the Lakers chances of putting together something this season.