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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 15, 2014 -> 07:33 AM) If he was sitting there around picks 9-10 and still thought of fairly highly you wouldn't be interested? If I were thinking about drafting him, I would ask for his medicals ahead of time. If he refused, I wouldn't draft him early.

Christopher Kamka ‏@ckamka 11h Exactly 50% (73/146) of the #WhiteSox home runs this season have been hit by Cuban-born players (Abreu 35, Viciedo 21, Ramirez 15, Nieto 2)

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 14, 2014 -> 09:05 PM) Another beheading today. Again it was the guy with the British accent doing the commentary and I believe the killing. I hope this bastard gets caught and tried for these war crimes. Will be nice to see this guy rot in a U.S. prison after these truly barbaric acts. Bastard. He will be caught... by a drone strike.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Sep 14, 2014 -> 09:34 PM) ^Anyway I guess my point is, there's nothing "we" could have done. It was DeAza's head stuck up DeAza's ass, not anyone else's. DeAza was the only one who could have righted the ship and obviously it took a trade getting him the hell away from this team to allow him to do that, so whatever, good for him but I doubt we did anything poorly. Todd Steverson is the greatest thing ever, obviously he did nothing wrong. This might be the most true thing you have ever posted.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Sep 13, 2014 -> 02:31 PM) The olympic site committed, at least in the states, are a complex legal setup. It's not a technicality. In the City of Chicago, they were completely intermingled and run by Daley's cronies and loyalists.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Sep 14, 2014 -> 08:16 PM) Disagreed. They got a cookie cutter stadium that was built and is pretty easy to renovate. They just built Bacardi at the Park(whatever they're calling it these days), and the neighborhood is improving(more so, the good areas are slowly expanding). The city also won't let them move, especially considering the Rock Island stop at 35th was built specifically for them. I would personally love them to move along the river just south of Roosevelt and Clark as you can have the skyline, lake and feature the Chicago River which no one has done. Another site I would look at is where they were going to build the Spire just off of the top of my head. The Spire is on a tiny footprint.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 14, 2014 -> 10:24 AM) https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/511172861177126912

Just great ABs by Tank and Abreu in the 9th inning. They saw over 20 pitches between the two of them in the 9th.

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QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Sep 13, 2014 -> 04:58 PM) Jose Quintana with the elusive negative FIP for this game! -.018! And damn just missed the record. Send him out for the 8th, let him mow em down again. Well that seem like a pretty obvious flaw with the stat.

Quintana looking real good again.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 13, 2014 -> 03:21 PM) This is as empty as I've seen the park in a long time It is also a game that was scheduled with less than a days notice.

Chuck Garfien ‏@ChuckGarfien 32m Jose Quintana's run support in 84 career starts. It's an epidemic. 0 runs: 13 times. 1 run: 21 times 2 runs: 18 times

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Sep 13, 2014 -> 06:21 AM) The olympic organizing committe is NOT the city of chicago. Nonetheless, it's impractical for 81 games a year. No rail service. No superhighway access(lake shore drive is a war zone on bear games 6 hours before kick off), and too far to walk from the limited rail service that services solder field. Because the OC wasn't acting on the behalf of the City of Chicago? That is a ridiculous technicality.

Man you millennials had it easy if you didn't know what a switch was.

Chicago Bears ‏@ChicagoBears 3h #Bears LG Matt Slauson, C Roberto Garza & FB Tony Fiammetta ruled out of Sunday's game; WRs Brandon Marshall & Alshon Jeffrey questionable.

Comcast SportsNet ‏@CSNChicago 20m Report: #Bears waive Fales, cut Fiammetta and Hayden -- http://bit.ly/1pdeVA4 #BearsTalk

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 04:19 PM) The city bought NO land "or the olympics" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reese_Hospital

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 03:46 PM) I say you very much underestimate teams. There are many players in the NFL that have been arrested for domestic violence, and many of them continue to play I will be disappointed, but not the least bit surprised when it happens to Rice.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 03:40 PM) I agree. Part of the reason no one could see his freefall coming is due to the fact that there's never really been another player like Dunn, at least I can't think of any. Thome was a very different type of hitter although they were both high BB, high K leftys with megalithic power and so that's why they are compared. But there's been a lot of guys who have K'ed at a high rate and walked at a high rate who had a lot of power. Maybe Dunn is more of a Jack Cust or Chris Davis or something in the end. Because Dunn has now existed and his career has been documented, maybe he's a reason you trade your Chris Davis or Ryan Howard or something after they put up a huge year at or just past the age of 30. I'm not sure who you really can even compare Dunn to in terms of a huge guy with a huge uppercut swing and relatively slow bat that nevertheless still can make enough contact to be dangerous (i.e. hit moon shots and get the opposition to pitch to him as if he's dangerous). Really the longevity of Dunn is mystifying. The only reason he ever gets compared to the likes of Thome and not the likes of Jack Cust is the longevity. But his bat speed, swing, and approach (at least with the Sox anyway) don't seem to be the kind of things you would find in a player that sticks around for so long. Maybe Dunn was just a roider the whole time & he quit when he signed here. What do you think? Sadly, it would explain a lot, and be on the perfect timeline.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 03:11 PM) Well that's a pretty piss poor attitude to have towards drinknig for yourself. Do something fun instead! Activities include: -Assemlbing furniture -Disassempling furntiture to re-purpose pieces of furniture for other uses -Sit in lawn and drink in silence. When people speak to you, do not speak back. Just stare at them. -Alternatively, you can tell them to get the f*** off your lawn. -Alternatively to that, you can offer them a beer and make a friend. Unless the person is 12, in which case do not offer them a beer. -Play fetch with yourself. Throw a tennis ball, go and get it, and then when you fetch it, pat yourself on the head and say "WHO'S A GOOD BOY?" and treat yourself to a drink -Set up mannequins dressed like clowns all over your living spaces and then dress like one yourself and scare anybody that comes in. Drink while setting up the clowns. -Watch other stuff on TV These are just a few different ideas. Come up with your own too! I am kind of afraid to know what you are doing to your furniture.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 02:56 PM) Kudos to TMZ for getting the tape. Now TMZ has gotten an NBA owner to be replaced (that was their expose on Sterling), Ray Rice suspended and an NFL owner likely canned. WOW. That's pretty powerful "journalism" work. Unprecedented journalism work. Of course they probably paid for the tape which is journalistically unethical I believe. That said ... Ray Rice can never play football again. He knocked out a woman for gosh sakes. There are no excuses. How could any GM/owner sign off on acquiring Rice in the future? People make mistakes, sure, but you can't sign a person who knocks out a woman with a punch. You just can't. And all these people that are speaking out like the announcer of the Niners who got suspended two games. What are they thinking? That guy got a 2 game suspension for saying stupid things. He will be allowed to play again. Will anyone sign him will be the question.

Speaking of Google maps... The bottom highlight is the footprint of the current park and parking. The eastern one of the area south of McCormick place that includes the former Reese Hosptial site, and some of the McCormick parking, and the park in the south loop that has been referred to.