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Jo Noah, ace recruiter. http://www.csnchicago.com/bulls/pau-gasol-...-i-picked-bulls

QUOTE (daa84 @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 04:53 PM) cutler bailed on his radio show today. Instead Kyle long was on the air and apologized for his words. Polar opposites as people. Cutler is such a classless f***. I'm so sick of him. Eh. Classless is a guy that beats his wife or abuse drugs. Just because Jay doesn't put on a fake air to get people to like him doesn't make him classless. It makes him honest.

Hey let's trade this guy because he sucks! Umm, if he sucks that bad, why would anyone else want him? It isn't like we are some kind of savants here on Soxtalk.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 03:31 PM) If Lebron said, "Rowand44 on soxtalk.com definitely knows his stuff about the NBA and college hoops. Great mind that should be heard", I think you'd reply, "Go F yourself, kiss ass." Ha To be fair, that Rowand guy is kind of an idiot.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 12:26 PM) #FreeMorin Brian Hedger ‏@BrianHedger 29m29 minutes ago Q indicated that Morin is more of a guy without a spot than a guy in his doghouse. We'll see how that situation develops. #Blackhawks

Zac Jackson ‏@FSOhioZJackson 1h1 hour ago LeBron: I don't see a rivalry renewed w/the Bulls right now. We haven't done anything. They're much better than us right now. It's chemistry

JJ Stankevitz ‏@JJStankevitz 1h1 hour ago "Virtually certain" Jameis Winston will go pro after this year, per a report: http://yhoo.it/1uuiu80

Scott Merkin ‏@scottmerkin 60m60 minutes ago Abreu was the only player in the Majors this season to record three hitting streaks of 14 or more games. Abreu topped the Majors in slugging percentage, joining Dick Allen (1974) as the only players in White Sox history to accomplish that feat.,

Freep Sports ‏@freepsports 37m37 minutes ago A soccer player in India has died from an injury suffered while celebrating his goal. http://on.freep.com/1omTkLS

SN article http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2014...=SOC/Twi/SNMain

JOSE ABREU NAMED AMERICAN LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR BY SPORTING NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, October 20, 2014 CHICAGO – Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu has been named American League Rookie of the Year by Sporting News. Abreu, 27, received 149 votes to outdistance Los Angeles’ Matt Shoemaker (4), New York’s Dellin Betances and Masahiro Tanaka (three each) and teammate Marcus Semien (one). Abreu batted .317 (176-556) with 35 doubles, 36 home runs, 107 RBI, a .581 slugging percentage and a .383 on-base percentage in 145 games this season. He led the major leagues in slugging percentage, joining Dick Allen (1974) as the only players in White Sox history to accomplish that feat, and ranked among the AL leaders in OPS (2nd, .964), total bases (2nd, 323), home runs (T3rd), RBI (4th), extra-base hits (4th, 73), average (5th), OBP (5th) and doubles (T10th). Abreu also became the first rookie in major-league history to rank among the Top 5 in his league in each Triple Crown category and joined Hal Trosky (1934), Ted Williams (1939) and Albert Pujols (2001) as the only rookie in history to record 30 doubles, 30 homers and 100 RBI in a season. His 36 home runs set a franchise rookie record, breaking the mark of 35 set by Ron Kittle in 1983, and are the sixth-most in major-league history by a rookie. Abreu’s 107 RBI were the third-highest total by a White Sox rookie, trailing only Smead Jolley (114 in 1930) and Zeke Bonura (110 in 1934). Abreu was named to the AL All-Star Team, the fifth White Sox rookie to accomplish that feat and first since Kittle in 1983, was named AL Player of the Month in April and July and AL Rookie of the Month in April, June and July. He recorded four multihomer games and was the only player in the major leagues this season to record three hitting streaks of 14 or more games. Abreu is the 11th White Sox player to win the honor from Sporting News and first since Gordon Beckham in 2009. The BBWAA will announce its Jackie Robinson Rookies of the Year on November 10.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 10:13 AM) If all parties involved are not still in the playoffs, trades can happen as soon as the regular season is over, but trades before the end of the WS are rare. All transactions during the World Series are highly discouraged. MLB wants all attention on the World Series, and nothing else.

So no They Might be Giants in KC?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 08:33 AM) It's running on the same theme that Ta-Nehisi Coates addresses here: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archiv...ologies/359841/ When a single police officer does something, such as the discord in Ferguson, a lot of people including our media is quick to lump all cops together, talk about "police culture" etc. When a bunch of white people riot over pumpkins or the removal of a coach of a football team for covering up decades of child sexual abuse, these same sorts of things don't get said. Those tweets were saying what was said about Ferguson more or less verbatim, just swapping cops for white and Ferguson for Keene.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Oct 18, 2014 -> 07:34 PM) Damn! Was looking forward to watching the Hawks tonight only to find out it's on the local WGN only. Ugh, why do they do that crap? WGN USA is working on getting rid of all sports broadcasting.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 19, 2014 -> 11:32 AM) Fuller (7) is running straight ahead and #3 puts his hands on him from an inside position while Robinson is heading out. At no point is either defending making any sort of effort to cover Robinson. The coaches even admitted they were in man coverage. The guy who is supposed to be on Robinson (#26) isn't being impeded by anybody. Just read the rule. Contact by the offensive player alone isn't enough for a penalty. It has to be contact that impedes coverage of another receiver. That isn't at all what happened. Not even close. I know the rule. I saw the exact same penalty called against my HS out of the bubble screen, and it was still the right call. You can't block until the reciever has the ball. Period. ND7 is out blocking in front of the play. It wasn't even an attempt an an innocent rub. It was a full on block.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 19, 2014 -> 11:13 AM) Look at the play very closely. Both defenders are directly engaging Prosise and Fuller. In Prosise's case it's 100% clear that the defender is using his hands and Prosise is not. Neither of the defenders are making any sort of attempt to cover Robinson. The PI rules specifically states that to be offensive PI, the receiver has to be impeding the defender, but neither defender is making an attempt to move towards Robinson so nothing is being impeded. YOU CAN'T GRAB ONE RECEIVER AND THEN COMPLAIN THAT HE WAS KEEPING YOU FROM COVERING ANOTHER. Well, you can because you're Florida State at home, but in the real world that's not the rule. http://thebiglead.com/2014/10/19/notre-dam...h.R99xdXRq.gbpl On top of all of that, an FSU player took off his helmet while celebrating the penalty call. Even if you think the bogus penalty call should stand, it should have been first and goal from the 6 with 13 seconds left and there is no subjectivity in that rule. The ND receiver directly engages the FSU DB in a block. Shoves him off of the play. It is easy to see. EDIT> Even in that clip you can see ND #7 engage and shove #3 off of the play before the ball is even in the air, let alone caught.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 18, 2014 -> 10:50 PM) OK, nobody ever gets to complain about ND getting all the calls after that. Why? That was an EASY PI call. You aren't allowed to engage a block as a receiver until after the ball has been caught by the other receiver. Otherwise it is called as a pass interference. It is a really easy call. It isn't like the typical rub play where you rub by someone and *oops* I just happened to "accidentally" run into someone, the key being you don't put your hands on the guy... which is still a grey area call. This is an obvious call.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 18, 2014 -> 01:39 PM) Well frankly we are due for striking gold on a flyer free agent because Hahn has been terrible on those so far. I hope it's just bad luck. Zach Putnam is a good one.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Oct 18, 2014 -> 11:47 PM) I agree and I will say I'd take Eaton moving forward. Interestingly enough, both of these guys were towards the top of the league in BABIP with Cain's coming in at a robust and entirely unsustainable .380. Makes his .301 average look a whole less sexy. That being said, last year I had season tickets in the first row of CF and went to the 2nd and 3rd games of the year and was absolutely mesmerized by Cain. I think he's the only defensive player to ever steal and hold my attention like that. When you have that kind of speed, you can sustain a higher BABIP

Unless it was on a minor league deal, I am not interested. That is two catastrophic injuries he is trying to recover from, and who knows how one is going to affect the other. I want no part of him as a part of the team that we would be counting on.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 18, 2014 -> 12:39 AM) We could say the same about joe crede's homer off riske to fend off Cleveland. Not really, no. Regular season vs win or go home game? Not really that similar.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Oct 17, 2014 -> 12:38 PM) No that is not the reason for the comp. The reason is that Tomas has huge power in a right handed bat but struggles to make enough contact to make that power play in the majors. From BA "A righthanded-hitting corner outfielder, Tomas can hit towering home runs thanks to the strength from his thickly-built 6-foot-1, 230-pound frame. Tomas has 70 raw power on the 20-80 scale, and with Jose Abreu already gone, the only player still in Cuba with more raw power than him was Alfredo Despaigne. He has some experience in center field and is a decent runner for his size, but his speed is still below-average and he’s going to be a corner outfielder in pro ball." "Tomas did show some swing-and-miss tendencies at the WBC with an uppercut stroke and trouble handling good breaking pitches. Three months after the WBC, when Cuba took a team to the U.S. last summer to face the college national team, the U.S. power arms were able to exploit some of those holes by beating him with good velocity up and in and getting him to swing through soft stuff in and out of the zone." http://www.baseballamerica.com/internation...as-leaves-cuba/ That description is what draws comparisons to Viciedo. I also remember them talking about how big his arm was, how bad his range was, and how he had some adventures in the OF.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 17, 2014 -> 01:02 PM) Media memes die SO slow. Clearly, our team has no problem dealing with Boras at this point. We can all see that now, right? To be fair, it took until almost the very end of the signing period to sign Rodon and it took us going right up against the signing penalties to get this done. It sure didn't help my view of them at all.

QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Oct 17, 2014 -> 12:51 PM) Let's order likelihoods here: 50% Rodon blows out his arm or under performs and the big pay day that's was so dreaded never matierializes. 15% Rodon plays well. Decides he doesn't want to risk arm injury for 3 or 4 more seasons before hitting free agency so takes a Sale-like deal. 15% 4 or 5 seasons pass, the guy is dominant and seems intent on getting paid big. The Sox get the world from some team in a trade. 15% Boras gets fired by Rodon. 5% He just walks. The Sox get a draft pick (if that's even still a thing in 2022 or 2021). I think your numbers have no merit in reality.