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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 08:07 PM) He signed Carl Crawford. I bet if KW signed Carl Crawford last winter most here would have been doing cartwheels. For all of Theo's mistakes, his teams still won. This is the Cubs best hire probably in our lifetimes. He will have advantages in the NL Central he didn't have in the AL East. For $140 million? I'd have been angrier than I was when the Hudson deal went down. Maybe I'd have done cartwheels of anger. Otherwise, no one would have been happy with that deal. And he's also lost his biggest advantage...the money. For 8 years...he's had everyone he talked to in trades knowing that if they didn't trade with Boston, they were a year away from losing their player to Boston as a free agent anyway. And if he blew $15 milion on a failure, he could just spend $30 million the next year to fix it. He has none of those advantages any more. And he also no longer has Hoyer to help him out by sending him all-stars for below market value.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 08:01 PM) Well I was talking about the guys mentioned in the post right above Kyyles but yes, NO BULLS get hurt please. We happy now? Carlos Boozer saw your caps, got scared, and sprained an ankle.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 07:55 PM) Just make sure it's not the one that matters, that pg dude on the Bulls. Um...I think the Bulls are paying $15 million a year to some other dude who may play...this "Boozer"... Thankfully he has no injury history, right?

"It works on so many levels!"

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 06:17 PM) Damn, where did my sarcasm meter go? That's a real useful invention.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 04:25 PM) If you trade Ramirez and Viciedo the target should be grade A pitching prospects. If anyone is silly enough to give up a pair of MLB-ready grade-A pitching prospects for those two, of course you take them...but no team is going to give up multiple big time pitchers for that set of players.

A decrease in the fraction of wealth going to corporate earnings would produce a decrease in total corporate tax collections...but of course, the exact opposite has happened. The thing that would cause a decrease in corporate tax collections is exemptions of course....which is another problem with the current system buried in that graph...the fact that a strong lobbyist can get exemptions or credits for just about anything stuck into the tax code. (#occupy).

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 04:31 PM) How bad did it look? Matt Ryan's looked a lot worse...but this is Stafford we're talking about. Talking about ankle and knee injuries for him on it. Might be a while.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 04:22 PM) I know, that's why he said that's what he would trade them for. I thought it was clear that his first post was sarcastic, then when Marty didn't get it he followed it up with more sarcasm by pointing out how valuable they are. I tried to trade them for Fidel Castro's brother.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 04:14 PM) Am I really the only one reading his posts as sarcasm?? It seemed like he blatantly just called Alexei a top 5 SS and Viciedo a top prospect... And they both are.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 04:06 PM) A top 5 ss and a premium of prospect. Not a whole lot of top 5 SS's available for trade as far as I can tell.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 03:43 PM) Who do you get in return? Raul Castro.

Governor Rick Perry has "No definitive answer" as to whether President Obama's long-form birth certificate is real. He did add that the question is a distraction...but wouldn't actually say yes to the question when given the chance.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 03:18 PM) Well you're not going to run over every single team in the League. But generally, running the ball has not been a problem, especially considering how inadequate they have been in pass protection. Which tells me this is a line with solid makeup/abilities, needs coaching/practice and a scheme to help them develop.

And yet Ryan walked off looking normal.

Matt Ryan just had his foot damn near snapped off.

Complain about the pass protection if you must...but 17 carries, 118 yards, 1 TD for Forte, 4 carries, 42 yards, 1 TD for Barber, in about 35 minutes, doesn't happen if the line isn't controlling the game.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 02:37 PM) Possibly, but they've shown a much greater ability to generate revenues with mediocre or bad products on the field than the White Sox have, which is likely what you'd be enduring during any rebuild. Which means...for the North Side team in particular...rebuilding will cut it in Chicago. The team on the south side...rebuilding is a lot riskier in terms of revenue loss.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 02:27 PM) Why the team on the north side? They're the ones drawing 3 million a year, not the team on the south side. JMO...the team on the North Side has less talent on the field and in the system, with more money invested to get there.

Tony Gonzalez is now #2 all time in NFL career receptions.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 02:17 PM) That's why I hate the "rebuilding" people. A lot of them think rebuilding means totally demolishing the team. That won't cut it in Chicago. Sox have to try to compete/win. The longer the team on the north side thinks "Rebuilding won't cut it in Chicago" the worse off they'll be.

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I check in and the score is 7-2?

Completely empty.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 23, 2011 -> 10:23 AM) I've said this a few times this year, but even if they're a few years away from competing, I really don't want to see Pujols or Prince sign with the Cubs. Personally...especially now that they're spending $10 mil a year on their front office, I really hope they land one of them and let that guy ruin his career while getting $25 mil.