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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 9, 2015 -> 11:27 AM) I like the guy. Dont know if he can pull it off, but I like him Great, Kyle likes the guy. We are screwed.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 8, 2015 -> 04:50 PM) well that makes me like him less. His job is to get the team to the playoffs and the Superbowl, not to appease meatheads. Considering the NFC road to the Super Bowl goes through Green Bay, I am OK with it.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 7, 2015 -> 10:03 AM) I think you mean C-Moon. Thanks, wite. Paul McCartney approves this post.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 8, 2015 -> 10:15 PM) From what I saw, I don't think Wilkins has a prayer in the MLB. The projections may be right but the swing and miss capacity of wilkins was astounding. Not that Danks is going to be any good at hitting but the comment that Wilkins is obviously alot better is not correct. He didn't look like he had any confidence at all. He looked very intimidated to me. Maybe that changes next time in the bigs for Wilkins.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 8, 2015 -> 02:16 PM) Any chance he sticks around on a minor league deal? Especially if his brother isn't traded? I would be surprised if someone claimed him.

Anyone else had this flu strain? This has been 48 of the most miserable hours I can remember in a long time for me. Anyways, I don't know about other states, but a big thing in Indiana that goes into a systems school grades is attendance level. You need to hit 95% total attendance to get the highest marks. So instead of risking really low attendance for crappy days, they just cancel school now and make it up when it is better outside.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 8, 2015 -> 08:46 AM) And my generation has officially become those old people that complain how much harder they had it. My Facebook feed is filled with "Schools never closed when we were young, these kids are so spoiled!" I get the extreme divide. Either they are like OMG KIDS COULD DIE IN THIS WEATHER! Or they are like, BACK IN MY DAY....

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 6, 2015 -> 03:41 PM) Correction...it is not snowing here and it is 80 degrees f*** its cold here. I would have bet on Tex first, but you were on the list.

Chuck Garfien ‏@ChuckGarfien 3m3 minutes ago Derrick Rose on his sore hip: "I should be able to play tomorrow. I'm not worried about it."

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 6, 2015 -> 02:44 PM) At least 1% of Soxtalk live in California/Nevada/Texas. Those are the guys who will post things about how it isn't snowing there and it is 70 degrees....

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 6, 2015 -> 02:35 PM) Weather forecast for Wednesday: 99% chance that at least one of the first five people you talk to will complain about how cold it is. That is pretty low to be honest.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 6, 2015 -> 02:28 PM) He lost like 30 pounds in the offseason right before testing began. Jumping in google, Jose Canseco said he shot him up himself.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jan 6, 2015 -> 02:08 PM) Ivan Rodriguez will be an interesting case. The guy was as obvious of a PED user as there ever was but it seems like everybody just forgets about it the same way they do with Ortiz. Pretty sure he was in one of the steroid reports.

Adam Jahns ‏@adamjahns 15m15 minutes ago League source suggests that Brian Gaine could be Ernie Accorsi's top recommendation for #Bears, especially with Parcells connections.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 6, 2015 -> 01:15 PM) 8.9 % of the voters should lose their voting privileges forever. Sounds like a decent amount of voters didn't vote for the sure fire guys so that they could vote for fringe guys, and still make the 10 vote limit.

Jayson Stark ‏@jaysonst 9m9 minutes ago Biggest HOF voting jumps: Schilling up 48 votes, Raines up 39, Piazza up 29. Biggest drops: Kent minus-10, McGwire minus-8, Smith minus-5

Final results http://baseballhall.org/hof/class-of-2015

Jerry Crasnick ‏@jcrasnick 4m4 minutes ago Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Nomar Garciaparra get enough votes to stay on the ballot.

Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan 3m3 minutes ago Randy Johnson gets in at 97.1 percent. Pedro Martinez at 91.1 percent. John Smoltz at 82.9 percent and Craig Biggio at 82.7 percent. Mike Piazza was at 69.9 percent. He'll be in next year. Jeff Bagwell at 55.7 percent and Tim Raines at 55 percent.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 6, 2015 -> 11:43 AM) Fixed. A versatile big man who sees the floor, blocks shots, and scores at will fits anywhere. Apparently not in one with a legendary ballhog.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 6, 2015 -> 11:42 AM) There is no competitive disadvantage other than they have a lower share of a large market. Many other teams employ the same type of board structure. There are some exceptions, such as the Cubs and Detriot. But that is how a business works. The most important thing they could do is gain a larger share of the market from the cubs. I'm sure they are working on it. This was the big failing of the JR regime. The tried to do the sportsvision network similar to the Yankees but they were too new to the town and didn't realize how bad it would turn out. They didn't have the same dominance that the Yankees did and many fans turned to watch the cubs free. The really interesting thing is the Cubs seem to be following the same history the Sox did, and form their own network, after not being on network TV like they used to. Once the Cubs do form their own network, they won't have nearly the viewing audience as they do now.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 6, 2015 -> 10:43 AM) Gonna shout out to Gasol, who was probably the reason we won last night. His jumpers kept us in it in the first half, and shut down Dwight where Noah could not. Gasol is an absolute perfect fit for this offense.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 6, 2015 -> 09:52 AM) I don't get why he isn't getting more media hype and love outside of Chicago. I know people are talking about him as an all star, etc, but he is also a pretty charismatic guy and great in front of the mic, imo. I hope he keeps taking this steps and really is an elite player. Would be awesome. Tremendous dude. Plus Jimmy has one of the ultimate rags to riches stories in his background as well. The media loves that stuff.

What a load of crap. Baseball ignored this for generations. That isn't our fault. That it the fault of baseball and even the writers who ignored it in order to not burn bridges and sources. Now the writers are frustrated because their ballots are screwed up with too many players because of the divide on how to handle the steroid era. Just because baseball made mistakes in the past, also doesn't mean it is OK to keep making them. Just because we don't know who did in the past, doesn't mean we can punish the ones we know did, and the ones we know, that they knew, they were cheating the system. This false equivalency between the good ol' days and today doesn't fly with me. There is a clear divide between the drugs of the modern era and things like amphetamines of the old days. Baseball made its bed, it can sleep in it.

@globeandmail: #BREAKING: Toronto Maple Leafs have fired head coach Randy Carlyle: http://trib.al/YBEENHE #NHL ”