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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.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Oct 26, 2017 -> 06:45 PM) Not really, if Jeter really is under a mandate to get payroll down to $90ishMM. DD certainly has the balls to pull off a trade like that. Stanton and Ozuna?? I'll take those two. It came from one of the Boston papers, by the way. Giving up THAT kind of talent, and taking on THAT contract? What at terrible waste of resources, all for a guy who isn't usually healthy as the center piece? Yuck.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 26, 2017 -> 11:54 PM) This is about opportunity. How could the Mets not have waited a week? They didn't hear rumors Girardi was getting axed? They could have had Girardi in a coup. It would have embarrassed the Yankees big time. The Sox should hire Girardi. Only he, Francona, Maddon are the alleged difference maker managers. Rick Renteria will be fine. He'll be a highly paid coach as long as he wants to coach. He's just fine. But hire Girardi and let him have his way witih all our young talent. And give him some power to suggest trades or personnel moves. Kenny is a joke; Hahn appears to be good. The Sox scouts we know reek and our player development people reek. The only guy who is proven at developing players is Coop. He does a fine job. Nobody else has a track record at all. I am not demanding Girardi be named. Rick R is doing a fine job except for the bunting b.s. But this is a chance to grab him. If he broadcasts a year, you can bet we'll hire him after next season UNLESS as I said before KW is threatened by any big name managing hire, which is possible. He won the war with Ozzie and he knows how miserable the Ozzie years were for him. Peace out. ^ Will somebody come get him?

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Oct 26, 2017 -> 03:41 PM) Rick was never an organization guy. Ozzie and Robin were. Big difference. If Robin wasn't a great white sox player he would've been gone way sooner. They sure didn't look very far before they hired him.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Oct 26, 2017 -> 03:34 PM) Lots of Stanton rumors in Boston. Some combination of Bradley, Bogaerts, Groome, and others for Stanton and either Ozuna or Yelich. Jeter told to get payroll down. Insane. Give me the Boston players every single time.

QUOTE (GenericUserName @ Oct 25, 2017 -> 06:15 PM) Does anyone know how much we make from our TV deal right now? Like saying we'll get $100 million is nice, but if we currently get $75 million its not really that much of an increase and actually might just be matching inflation or new expenses with the better cameras or something. https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/estimated-t...l-30-mlb-teams/

jon greenberg‏Verified account @jon_greenberg 2h2 hours ago Kris Dunn has hand soreness and is out. Zipser got a knee contusion at practice yday and is game time decision.

Colleen Kane‏ @ChiTribKane 17m17 minutes ago WR Dontrelle Inman joined the Bears today but did not practice. Long, Unrein, Callahan all returned to full participation on injury report. 0 replies 1 retweet 1 like

Adam Engel top catches. (click the time link) Chicago White Sox‏Verified account @whitesox 2h2 hours ago Adam covers every Engel of the outfield. Valid proof:

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Oct 26, 2017 -> 01:47 PM) I don't think there's any chance the cheap ass Lerner's fork over the cash that it would take to hire Girardi And if I am Girardi, I am looking for a long term deal to take that job with how quickly they fire people in DC.