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QUOTE (CyAcosta41 @ Oct 23, 2016 -> 01:44 PM) Baseball fandom is of course intensely personal -- I live and die White Sox, but also consider myself to be a fanatical devotee of the sport itself and professional baseball generally. Grew up in the 60s where for most serious fans, you were a Sox fan, a Cubs fan, but rarely if ever both. Here's my mindset entering the Series. Let's hear yours. *Sox are a major disappointment at the moment, so who actually wins is of very limited importance. *HONESTLY happy for my many friends and family who have suffered FOREVER. I can be happy for them as people without rooting for THEIR team. I'm certainly NOT. *Could never root for them, but grudgingly respect many in the org -- particularly, Bryant, Rizzo, Zobrist, Hendricks, Maddon, and Epstein (NOT -- Arrieta, Contreras, and Chapman). Hope the Sox learn some hard lessons. *Privately, MOST Cubs fans annoy the heck out of me, particularly their "premature coronation" (WIN the Series, then chirp). *Media love for the plight of the long time Cubs fan is disgusting, yet revealing. See some parallels to politics -- better story because it's about possible happy ending for socioeconomically successful white people. Sox sure didn't get the "world just changed" treatment. *Here, in the safety of this relatively anonymous outpost, I'll admit that I HOPE the Cubs lose in an epic and devastating way. You've got to the Series, Cubs fans; you've won nothing yet. I LOVE having bragging rights even if 2005 is retreating farther and farther into my rearview mirror. It is different though. The Cubs have a bigger and more wide spread fan base. Both locally and nationally. The White Sox were an intensely local story, and not nearly as wide ranging.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Oct 23, 2016 -> 07:02 PM) All that matters is getting enough points to get into the playoffs. Anything can happen once you're in. But you're exactly on point, lots of new players figuring out their role and chemistry with one another. Hawks hopefully will hit full stride later in the season. True. I just hope the talent gels this year soon enough for them to make a run.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 23, 2016 -> 11:34 AM) It's very early but six points in six games sounds a heck of a lot better than four points. This team is going to be very up and down for the first part of the season for sure. The middle of this roster has completely turned over again, and a lot of guys have to learn to play with each other. Especially until the special teams gets figured out, there could be some very ugly nights. This squad as of now is going to have to outscore some people and hope Corey stands on his head.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 23, 2016 -> 08:34 AM) Unemployment figures track underemployment. That is half true. The figures announced on television don't include it. They do track it in other unpublicized numbers.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 22, 2016 -> 05:57 PM) Ettiquette question: I ordered sushi tonite and picked it up, and I did not tip when I picked up. The hostess gave me serious attitude about it, and it definitely left an impression. Should I have tipped? When I used to deliver pizza, people would pick up pizzas and I would cash them out, and I never got nor expected a tip. Is it different with picking up sushi? I'm generally a good tipper, I just learned that this was not a tip situation, at least with pizza I am with you.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 23, 2016 -> 07:38 AM) If you remove the hard drives, you can just toss them in the garbage, that's pretty much the only things there is any information on...the volatile memory shouldn't contain much of use, if anything at all, and nobody would go through the trouble. You can drill holes through your hard drives with a drill bit made for metal/steel, and toss those too. There are so many rare earth metals and other recyclables in there that recycling centers are now paying to get old PCs. You can either pull the hard drives or put a drill hole through them.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 22, 2016 -> 09:07 PM) Hawks win after being down 2 with 2:30 left. I wonder how many fans stayed given the circumstances Nice comeback to get 2 points.

QUOTE (Two-Gun Pete @ Oct 22, 2016 -> 08:16 AM) While I agree that it would be moronic to trust the mouthbreathers in the Front office to strike a decent deal for any of the team's assets, the problems go deeper than "just" in scouting and devlopment. Remember, these are the imbeciles that thought that hiring RV was a good idea. And to KEEP RV, even after he had clearly failed as manager. These are the morons who orignally wanted Pauly as player manager. These are the cretins that hired Renteria, without having a COMPETITIVE process. These are the idiots who hired an untested newbie in Getz as a departmental director. In sum, the Front office has proven their stupidity over and over again. We could keep going all morning with chapter and verse of examples of moronic stupidity by this front office, in areas OTHER than scouting & development. And for this reason, it would be catastrophic to trust these mopes to trade Q, Sale, or ANY asset, IMO. While having worked an impressive amount of insults into a single post, it is worth noting that none of this is OK on this page. Personal insults are not something we allow here. We try to exist on a slightly higher plane that that.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 07:45 PM) Mike Kitchen has got to be on the hot seat right? This PK is historically bad right now. I know this team lost a lot of their best killers, but still. Oof.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 02:59 PM) A s***load but it does rule. Man this DNS outage is killing everyone today. Everybody is down Our parent company has been a disaster. Been a worthless day.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 02:18 PM) This has been my Saturday 4 out of the last 5 weekends. I finally said enough. So i'm sitting on my ass all weekend to watch football, drink beer and smoke some pork butt in the smoker. Yeah, with the new gig running the website for my high school's athletic dept, it has been a crazy fall. Finally an off weekend as most everything is over.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 04:02 PM) Am I mistaken? I know if we cut him nothing is guaranteed, but for some reason, I presumed if he was hurt, we weren't able to cut him. Am I wrong? Might very well be. Maybe I'm making stuff up because of the whole Colin kaeperneck situation. If someone is hurt, you'd have to come to an injury settlement to cut someone. Though I THINK they mean after this season, and not during it.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 11:14 AM) Name a recent bears injury where the information we were given was correct. I mean even if it were worst case scenario, it should be pretty well healed.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 11:40 AM) Twitter and Facebook didn't exist yet. Message.Boards.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 10:54 AM) Obama was the first politician to use social media as a big part of his campaign too. That was pretty unprecedented in 2008. Now everyone is doing it. Hey I was doing it in 2006!

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 11:17 AM) The combination of more trips to the postseason, including doing so in consecutive years, coupled with two ownership groups that have managed to avoid self-inflicted, fan-unfriendly decisions over this period of time, is the reason for this. They have plenty of them in their past, their fans just don't hold decades long grudges.

Ghastlamp Ball ? ‏@gaslampball 1h1 hour ago @SSS_joshnelson that's the word. They'll hire new business only CEO, but 2 assistants for AJ to keep him honest and organized.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 10:45 AM) Obama said he's the most-photographed person who ever lived, he's probably right. It's not that Bush didn't exist in the internet era, but it took giant leaps under Obama. Yeah, the differences between Clinton to Bush, and then Bush to Obama are just unreal. Ronnie might as well have existed in the stone age.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 10:46 AM) Im guessing Jay plays against the vikings, and they sign someone not named Matt Barkley to be the backup. The only reason Jay wont play is if he actually broke that thumb, but I think he will probably play It has been like six weeks now, right? It has to be about fully healed anyway.

More on the Planet Nine theory. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...1020-story.html

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Oct 21, 2016 -> 09:13 AM) "Next man up" is a cute thing that coaches say but the Bears weren't really in a position to lose so many of their best players in such a short amount of time. On offense they lost Grasu in camp, then Cutler, Sitton, White, Royal, Long, and Langford. The Langford and WR injuries didn't hurt that bad since Howard is better, and they have decent depth at WR, but it's still an overall downgrade. On defense they lost Goldman, McPhee, Trevathan, and Fuller... ouch. That's most of the teeth in their defense. Yeah, pre-injuries I think they would have been OK. Now? They'd get rolled by Cleveland.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Oct 20, 2016 -> 09:26 PM) He could get hurt this year and never play again. Is it really worth risking $25M to MAYBE make an extra $2M next year? I wouldn't think so. It would make a lot more sense to opt out after next year. Yep, this is the big thing. With his skill set, his downside risk is actually pretty significant, while he upside isn't, at least right now. He'd have to go past his 2014 output to really get into big profit territory.

QUOTE (Elgin Slim @ Oct 20, 2016 -> 11:46 PM) This is truth. If anyone thinks the Sox aren't moving when their lease is up, they're crazy. As long as there is a viable destination for them to go to, they're as good as gone. If you extrapolate twitter followers, there are roughly 7 cubs fans for every 2 Sox fans CURRENTLY. To think that ratio won't shrink to 8 or 9 to 1 with a Cubs WS win is insanely naive. Chicago is well on its way to becoming a one team town in baseball. IMO it isn't a matter of if, but when. The Cubs have taken over this city over the last 35 years or so, the only way for the Sox to have a chance is if the Cubs lose games 6 and 7, Lester's arm falls off in ST 2017 and Bryant and Rizzo completely suck going forward for some odd reason, all of which are unlikely to happen. I have yet to see anything better than what they have now proposed.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 20, 2016 -> 09:46 PM) The #2 pick at least. It's Cleveland's sports year, no chance they give up the #1 pick. The Bears will figure out a way to win 5 games.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 20, 2016 -> 08:32 PM) Wonder who the emergency quarterback is? Matt Barkley I think.