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peavy44, while your thoughts on the Cubs are scintillating and fascinating and other big words that i dont need to write, they are not really based in reality and have nothing to do with the topic at hand. Lets talk about Quintana, lets not turn it into an argument on why peavy44 is wrong about the cubs and cant admit that they are good.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 27, 2016 -> 02:00 PM) Please tell me that's not Brandofan? lol. IIRC Brandofan has an active account, he has been back for a while now and hasnt caused much trouble at all.

2016. wow

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 27, 2016 -> 11:33 AM) Really??? It looked like an entire preview of pulling out every stereotypical scene from a horror movie that anyone could think of. This is what people have wanted, Ridley Scott to return to "Alien". While he is using a lot of the original as inspiration, the actual story hasnt even been approached yet. Considering they are going to the Engineer's home planet, and will be dealing with the engineers again, I think we can wait to see if this is a shot by shot remake of Alien. I also am looking forward to it, some of the story "leaks" that have come out are exciting if true

QUOTE (southside hitman @ Dec 27, 2016 -> 11:28 AM) Honestly, I bet Yankees are as surprised as all of us about Nightengale's tweets. I wonder if GM's ever get pissed when that happens or just chalk it up as part of the biz? Im sure Cashman understands, he has been playing that game for a long time

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 27, 2016 -> 09:18 AM) If you get money back does that mean that what you get back does not count against the luxury limit? The problem the Yankees have with Robertson is if they go over the threshold, his salary in essence is quite a bit more than they are paying him. Thats right, I forgot they are trying to avoid the repeat offender tax for being over the luxury limit for consecutive years going into 2018

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 27, 2016 -> 09:12 AM) BTW I find it so bizarre Yankees are asking for money. My message board fantasy solution would be a Frazier/Headley swap with sox getting prospects for taking on money. Maybe they are just making the sox "buy" an extra prospect that Hahn wants. We all know the Yankees are not hurting for cash, and never will be.

I still am trying to process Pittsburgh having to clear that salary. Has to be a downer for those fans

QUOTE (hi8is @ Dec 24, 2016 -> 11:40 AM) It's called making a mockery of something absurd, not crying. Chill out SuperAdminMan. lol, you telling me to chill out after repeatedly complaining about your suspension is amusing. You are so handcuffed on this site by all of us SuperAdmins

QUOTE (hi8is @ Dec 24, 2016 -> 11:28 AM) ARRRRRGGGGGG!!! ( side note - be careful, you can be suspended for posting only "poop". Seriously. ) Yea, for three consectutive pages after being asked to stop. But hey, let's keep crying about it

attaboy raBBit

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 23, 2016 -> 12:43 PM) I'm glad I was young when Joe Borchard busted. I don't know I could handle watching a guy hit a .900 ops in charlotte, then decline every year after and look more and more broken. Edit: Well I guess I lived it more with Beckham. IIRC it wasnt a secret that there was a huge hole in his bat, and it would get exposed in the majors. I dont remember people being surprised he fell on his face. Now I am going to go look at his draft and see who was grabbed after him, to torture myself and add some 20/20 hindsight venom edit: wow, kind of an unremarkable draft. 15th pick was Chase Utley, 29th pick was Wainwright. A bunch of nopes and fringe guys other than that

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 23, 2016 -> 11:33 AM) Actually it has not been answered, but yankees are starf**&*&rs Yea, lets not forget that Cashman is still in charge. He has always bought championships, not grown them

I am willing to let him get a shot next year with a drafted QB backup as well. At one point Barkley was a pretty elite prospect, he absolutely has talent.

I think we all are going to have to accept that Drumpf is all about using the presidential office to acquire and consolidate power for himself and whoever is in his circle. If the US benefits from it, well, thats fine.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Dec 22, 2016 -> 11:36 AM) I think the Cubs part is his own speculation since they have the pieces. Pretty much everything Rogers says is speculation based on what he sees in the newspaper compared against rosters

QUOTE (Deadpool @ Dec 22, 2016 -> 10:52 AM) The idea of Forman hiring ANOTHER coach is nauseating. If Hoiberg goes, Gar goes down with the ship. IMO Forman has to go first. This is his frankensteins monster, his creation, all of it. Hoiberg has 3 1/2 more years of pay, and after JR sucked up an extra year of paying Thibs, i doubt he wants to be paying Hoiberg to chill out while he is paying another coach.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Dec 22, 2016 -> 09:08 AM) What I find so very interesting at this juncture is that, unless I missed it somewhere, I've seen nothing come out of the Pirates' camp suggesting Meadows is "untouchable", the way it seemed the message on Bregman and Torres/Frazier was sent out almost immediately by Houston and the Yankees, respectively. Obviously if Meadows is in play in some fashion, that puts Pittsburgh in the catbird seat, as Hawk would say, in this competition for Q's services. And I, for one, am just fine with that, because the various packages from Pittsburgh including Meadows and any combination of some of the other guys they have in their system (I happen to find Newman quite intriguing) seems like a tremendous haul for Q. I could have sworn there was a tweet recently that said they had no intention of trading Meadows because he is the heir apparent to Cutch

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Dec 22, 2016 -> 08:45 AM) Ooooh, Dick, got me again, right? Uh, that would be a no. I just don't like this prospect who is a member of the Pirates. Oh horrors! You will also note he dropped in BA's rankings as well. And to think only a year ago you (and others) were lecturing me from your high horse about the seminal, generational talents of Frazier and Samardzija. LMAO! DA?! I have argued with him a billion times against a billion things but I can assure you that he never talked about the seminal, generational talents of those two. Maybe he said they were better than the options we had, maybe you got it confused when you were talking about the seminal, generational talent of Trayce Thompson and Tyler Saladino

please no blisters

I think i am going to check out The OA and I am going to watch Troll Hunters with my kids when it is released on Netflix tomorrow, cant go wrong with Guillermo Del Toro. Sadly it is Anton Yelchin's final performance, albeit a voice cast role

When you think about it, starkiller base didn't even need to expel that sun energy towards a planet and blow it up. It basically destroyed that solar system just by killing the sun. I just put reality on pause for the most part watching these movies lol, no reason to think about the reality of what's happening

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 21, 2016 -> 12:29 PM) It was the straw that broke the camel's back. Not bush league. Probably should have shaken hands, but how ND conducted itself the last 4 or 5 minutes of the game, that was bush league. I think Fran addressing the coach in the handshake line would have been the appropriate reaction. Walking off the floor in that manner is poor sportsmanship, which is what he is protesting.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Dec 21, 2016 -> 09:07 AM) The Pirates have a ton of young talent on their major league roster and could easily see a big jump in wins without making any other moves. Adding Quintana makes them a legit wild card threat IMO, which is about as good as it's going to get for them for the near future with the Cubs owning the Central. This is the part I dont see. They are probably gonna be looking up at the Cubs and Cardinals for the foreseeable future.

TBH i dont really understand Pittsburgh getting into the bidding at all. They arent a pitcher away from taking back the NL Central. They looked really mediocre at best last season, and dealing some of their top prospects for Q just doesnt really make sense to me. I mean, im all for it, i would love to keep stacking prospects, I just dont really understand this rumor