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Scott Merkin‏Verified account @scottmerkin 1h1 hour ago Tito Polo had a tooth pulled and was going to miss 5 or 6 days. They felt he had decent amount of AFL at-bats so they started his offseason

Chris Mortensen‏Verified account @mortreport 26m26 minutes ago The vascular surgeons at University Medical Center in NO where Miller had operation are considered "among best in world," source says Bears TE Zach Miller now undergoing an MRI post-emergency vascular surgery to evaluate blood flow and anatomy of injured leg, per sources

MiLB.com‏Verified account @MiLB 16h16 hours ago Top #WhiteSox prospect Eloy Jimenez extends his Dominican Winter League hitting streak to 11 with a two-run double. http://atmlb.com/2zPHMaW

Patrick Finley‏Verified account @patrickfinley 2m2 minutes ago Bears say Zach Miller had successful surgery to repair a torn artery in his knee last night. That is good news.

Thanks for sharing this. It is one of the absolute coolest things I have seen in a long time.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 11:50 AM) How far off do you think we are from competing? I'm hopeful that 2019 can be that year, but a lot of things will need to go right before we know. I'm not taking on a nearly $300M obligation before I feel confident that our team is ready to take that next step, especially when that player has a poor track record of health and has an opt-out clause after three years. I would MUCH rather us just give out a $300 million contract to a guy than to trade for one AND give up key guys to do it. I'd also like the guy to have a better injury history than Stanton and not a have a short term opt out as well.

QUOTE (Jack Parkman @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 10:51 AM) Yes, they do. Only when they play with HOF QBs. This is exactly why I quit listening to sports talk radio.

QUOTE (Jack Parkman @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 10:33 AM) Tom Brady won 3 Super Bowls with a bunch of trash receivers. He was so good he could make it work anyway. Don't tell me that the likes of Deion Branch, Jabar Gaffney and Troy Brown were good receivers. They are probably comparable to Kendall Wright in quality. You have lost your mind. Guys don't get to 500 catches who aren't "good". With their Bears receiving corps, there is a chance almost all of these guys won't be on an NFL roster next year, meanwhile Brady has gotten to throw to multiple guys who will be Hall of Famers.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 10:22 AM) Cam Newton? I could barely find any such players that were epic busts, almost all QBs has 2+ years of experience in college. Hell Tom Brady didn't start at all in college, and look at him.

QUOTE (Jack Parkman @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 09:46 AM) Manning still threw 26 TDs that year. Talk to me when Trubisky a) has a multi-TD game and b) completes more than 50% of his passes, when 62% is the minimum acceptable level for modern NFL QBs. My argument is this: If this guy needs so much time, then maybe you shouldn't have wasted the 2nd overall pick on a guy who isn't going to be able to contribute until 2019. IMO, Deshaun Watson has the "it" factor. Trubisky doesn't. Watson has had a 5 TD game in his 3rd NFL start. (And, IIRC, he had a rushing TD in that game too) My complaint is that Trubisky was a blatant severe overdraft due to position. Watson was the only QB who was a 1st round talent and he probably shouldn't have been taken top 20. Trubisky and Mahomes were 2nd or 3rd rounders. They got overdrafted because of a need at a position. I hate drafting QBs who have only started one season since HS, because they almost always are epic busts. As a matter of fact, I challenge anybody to give me the name of a QB since 1990 who started one season since HS, was drafted in the 1st round and wasn't an epic bust. I challenge you to find any quarterback who had real success with a group of wideouts who was this historically bad. There are colleges who have better collections of recievers than the bears do right now. He literally has nothing to throw to. Tom Brady himself would look like trash with this offense.

So at this point Trump either going to have to claim he is ignorant of everything like Hillary always claims to be, or they are going to have to claim that wasn't really a crime, even tough the AG is indicting for it. Awesome.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 08:19 AM) There was an updated tweet that this surgery was to help save his leg. Really hoping for the best for him here. Saw the same thing. Wow. Hopefully the guy is OK. No idea it was THAT serious.

Chris Haynes‏Verified account @ChrisBHaynes ESPN Sources: The reps of Jahlil Okafor and Sixers working collaboratively to find suitable trade.

Stop me if you have heard this one before... Cubs benefit from a blown call. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-spor...m=.16653de4fbaa

David O'Brien‏Verified account @DOBrienAJC 59m59 minutes ago #Braves were denied permission to interview Dayton Moore, as @jcrasnick first reported. But stay tuned. DOB blog.

Another Jirschele article http://m.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article/259...ess-as-manager/

William Boor‏Verified account @wboor 23h23 hours ago #WhiteSox Seby Zavala with a long HR out to CF 460 feet 113 mph exit velo 34 degree launch angle

The Bulls exercised the options of Dunn, Valentine, Grant, Payne and Bobby Portis.

NBC Sports Chicago‏Verified account @NBCSChicago 3h3 hours ago John Paxson: No easy solution to Nikola Mirotic-Bobby Portis situation -- http://bit.ly/2zbnaxj

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 27, 2017 -> 03:46 PM) Exactly, and this is oft-overlooked by the mainstream press. Basically, if you're fortunate, and he ages well enough that he can still provide surplus value into the back half of the deal, then you lose him to free agency. The ONLY situation in where you pay him all that money is if he ISN'T worth it. So even if you're a gambling type, the upside is limited. Again, just no good reasons to give up a lot for him.

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Oct 27, 2017 -> 02:00 PM) Don't understand how SF benefits from that. That would be the ultimate bail out for the Cubs. I wonder if it makes cash room for Stanton

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 25, 2017 -> 10:01 AM) No one is skipping AA. Let's not be crazy. Yes he had a great year, but in all seriousness, when is the last time you saw ANYONE skip, AA completely? Going back here, while it didn't say it expressly, the context of the conversation had exclusively dealt with skipping from A ball to AAA ball as a position player. That was obviously the conversation going on here so no I wasn't think of pitchers, Rule 5 draft, or players making the team straight out of A ball in spring training. I was very clearly talking about position players skipping A ball to go to AAA as is being proposed here for Seby Zavala. Going back to the Eloy Jimenez conversation to make the point deeper, Eloy it a WAY more advanced hitter, how is also playing one of the easiest positions on the baseball field in LF, yet he was sent to Birmingham and not Charlotte. If any hitter in our system would have skipped AA it would have been him. When you look at the fact that Zavala isn't near the hitter than Jimenez is, AND he is playing the absolutely hardest defensive position to learn in all of baseball, there is an absolutely zero chance that Zavala doesn't either open the season at High A or AA in 2018 if he is a White Sox at that point in time. It just isn't going to happen, and I would bet greg's house on it.

Apparently Niko wants to be traded, but the Bulls have already talked to at least one team about Portis.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 27, 2017 -> 09:33 AM) This week's Mr. Robot was awesome. The season is off to a great start. I like that they are going back and filling in some of the blanks.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 27, 2017 -> 09:13 AM) The amount of money owed to Stanton dwarfs ALL of those. He is basically owed a full free agent contract at best. He has zero surplus value, if teams are giving up large amounts of talent for him on top of taking on that deal, they are fools.