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QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 09:58 AM) Do many 41 year olds come back from a season-ending injury? *calls Bus Cook for confirmation*

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 09:49 AM) You guys are seriously underrating Brett Lawrie. He has been a "disappointment" so far and has been posting near 100 wRC+ with very good defense. Steamer has him posting a 110 wRC+ and 3.0 WAR over 130 games next year. That would be great. He also seems to be injured frequently. That would not be great

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 09:17 AM) Anthony Calvillo maybe? He's only 41. I know this is a joke, but Calvillo is done for the season

Jamie Alexander would be a good Wonder Woman too, but she is currently playing Sif in the Thor movies. Dont know if Marvel would let her walk, not sure if she has a long picture deal with Marvel.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 07:39 AM) Height doesn't really matter, hell Tom cruise has made a career of playing roles he should be too small for. People weren't too happy when they realized he was playing Jack Reacher. DC has to get it right, they have f***ed it up far too many times in their movies.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 08:37 PM) I'm not impressed with her acting chops. The first name that comes to mind, and she will never get the role though, is Megan Fox. She's close to a dead ringer for Lynda Carter. Which doesn't mean it's a bad idea to go in another direction. Megan Fox is 5'4", she is far too small for the role. The goal isn't to look like Lynda Carter, the goal is to look like Wonder Woman, a 6 foot tall amazon woman.

[unsubstantiated rumor mongering] Hector Santiago is retweeting Grandersons charity [/unsubstantiated rumor mongering]

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 07:03 AM) I don't think Emma Stone is quite sexy enough for a role like that...or has the requisite "Marilyn Monroe" figure. Wonder Woman doesnt have a Marilyn Monroe figure at all. She is tall and athletic, an amazon woman. Sure, she is heavy up top, but Marilyn Monroe was pretty curvy. I think Gina Carano would be a good choice, but I dont know if she can act at all. I havent seen Haywire or F&F 6, but I dont think her parts required as talking as much as kicking and punching.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 10:58 AM) Tim was on two world series champions, which means he can never leave SF. there is a greg775 clone in San Francisco that wholeheartedly agrees with this statement.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 10:55 AM) Which coincidentally was the last time Wite nailed anything... touch em all

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 02:01 PM) What can you folks tell us about this Aaron Sanchez, other than the fact that he is a chef on the Food Network? He makes a mean beef brisket

Noah and Hinrich, injured? OMGSOSURPRISED

"Beards vs Birds" in inspired media nicknames

SHIELD had a couple of good deaths last night. I was kind of surprised to see it.

QUOTE (Leonard of Berwyn @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 09:24 AM) How about Charlie Manuel with Jim Thome as assistant, eventually taking over for Manuel. I think Manuel's health is a big issue for him anymore. He would be good, but i just dont know that he could do it.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 09:44 AM) I think Jay is part of the reason the stats on the offensive line look bad. I think he has a slow release and takes too much time to make decisions and while he has good footwork he does not necessarily move well in the pocket to avoid pressure. Football more than any other sport is coaching. Coaching can improve a team greatly. I don't know why Trestman's trajectory is what it is but he seems early on like a Mike McCarthy type that has a system that breeds offensive success. I laos think many people give guys credit because they are working in teh NFL and they may not necessarily be that good (i.e Schiano). Lovie lost his job because he could not figure out how to get someone that could run an offense. He also focused on defense only and the offense blew. His death blow was probably the input he had on Shea McClellan, that reeks of a bad Lovie player evaluation (see Jaron Gilbert). I think a draft and offseason with a defensive slant and things will look better. Also as I pointed out earlier football is all about coaching and Mel Tucker trying to change to the Bears scheme may not have been a good idea after all. He tried to keep it the same as much as possible, even keeping the same verbage in the calls. This was one of the things that was talked about a lot in the preseason.

Jose Valentin. Bring back the stache

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 01:07 AM) Nobody said that, it's actually much better. J'Marcus Webb rated as our best, and his aggregate rating over 16 games would put him as our 5th best this year. PFF does say, though, that our line is still bad at pass blocking. Jay was "under pressure" in 38.7% of his dropbacks this year. Peyton Manning (whose line is on the opposite end of the spectrum) was under pressure on 21% of dropbacks. This is actually a portion of a percent higher than the past two years, but much lower than 2010 when it was off the charts (43%). He was at 22% in Denver as well, btw, and 28% in his first year in Chi-town. Another way to look at it is pass blocking efficiency for our line. On 45.7% of dropbacks, Jay was hurried, hit, or sacked. 22% for Manning. What might really blow your mind is that almost half these hurries/hits/sacks came from Jordan Mills. Replace Mills with an average player (roughly the level of play from Webb last year, fwiw) and our pass blocking rating goes to middle of the pack for the league. This statistic is even worse than Arizona, whose PFF rating is actually much worse than ours. PFF gives relative weights to hurries, hits, and sacks. Jay has been hit and sacked relatively little given the amount of pressures and hurries he's had, which is likely due to scheme and decision-making. Our line seems better because 1. The majority of the bad is concentrated on one player and 2. we have an o-coordinator that can scheme to cover up our weaknesses. Why would you compare Jay to Manning in this situation? Peyton has long been one of the absolute best at getting rid of the ball extremely fast and not taking sacks, to compare the Bears new line to his veteran line just seems disingenuous in comparison. What is the average? How much have the bears improved from last year to this year? And putting the spotlight on Mills doesnt seem fair either. For a kid that wasnt even expected to play, having him out there not false starting and holding his own while he learns on the job is pretty impressive to me.

The bears should sign the Texans recently discarded pot smokers

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 07:24 PM) What will it cost to franchise Cutler? Franchise him for a year or even two, draft a QB, and see what happens. I think it is the average of the top 3 contracts at the position

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 04:53 PM) The reason the Bears offense had been s***ty was due to inept coaching.The reason the Bears defense is s***ty is because the players got old. One is considerably easier to fix than the other. and a lack of actual playmakers. Emery has brought in Marshall, Jeffery, Bennett, and an actual offensive line.

Cutler is smart, and he is tough. He knows he needs to play as much as he can this season to make his bread. This is his big money payday, after this contract, it is very unlikely that he sees another one that will come close to what he gets. this may sound stupid, but I wonder if PEDs are even a safe option for him. IIRC his diabetes makes it so he cant even take most painkillers(ie. why he didnt get a shot during the championship game). I wonder if PEDs would mess with him in the same way

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 04:04 PM) Next year's QB class is really deep and pretty good. It seems like everytime this is said, it does not come true

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 12:53 PM) He wants that white chocolate. I think he probably wants whatever flavor candy he can get, at any time he wants it

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 12:13 AM) GREG, nobody WANTS them, per se, they're just the best possible options or "lesser of two evils." There's just not any top tier 3B available on the free agent market, and the trade market.....there might be guys like Seager and Lawrie but they're going to cost Santiago. Nobody clearly better than Ramirez at SS on the free agent market. And while everyone would prefer to have Brandon Phillips to Gordon Beckham, if you factor in the talent we would have to give up, his age and contract due into his mid 30's, it makes ZERO sense. Waiving Adam Dunn makes no sense....even if you kept Konerko, what LH hitters would we have then to balance out the line-up? Same thing with DeAza....it's Alejandro at $4.4 million or Granderson at $12-15 million, 90% would think the differential's not worth it...and when you add in the length of the contract and it going into his mid 30's again, like Phillips maybe only 3-5% would favor it. The Tigers had two Cy Young pitchers in Scherzer and Verlander, two MVP candidates in Cabrera/Fielder (well, until this year), Torii Hunter, Austin Jackson, Peralta, etc. Then you have Sanchez, Fister, Porcello and Smyly, perhaps the best collection of pitching outside of StL and Atlanta....although some would argue with PLAYOFF Verlander and Scherzer they're the best top 4 in baseball. Eh, they are guys. I wouldnt say those guys make them perhaps the best collection.