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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 30, 2014 -> 09:16 AM) McNeil must have 3 months of vacation time. For as much as he has been out, I have no idea how he has anytime left. Hopefully the guy gets better. He obviously has some issues going on.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Jun 28, 2014 -> 11:34 PM) Oh, I see what you meant now. I thought you meant it in the same way as the "last shot fired of WWI" instead of the last event preceding the outbreak of war.

We took the kids to Adult Hell aka Chuckie Cheese's for a reward yesterday. After we were done eating the pizza's we ordered, we walked away for a while and watched the kids play. When we came back to our seats after about a half hour, there were people sitting in our seats, eating our pizza. Without saying a word, the one woman pointed at the other woman, and said her sister said she had ordered it, and to eat it before it went stale. That woman just cracked up laughing.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jun 29, 2014 -> 11:46 PM) There has to be. I wonder from whom we can get an answer. Odds are pretty good you never will.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 29, 2014 -> 08:21 PM) Has any team ever employed a home/road platoon?? Ed Whitson is the name that comes to mind.

QUOTE (Señor Ding-Dong @ Jun 29, 2014 -> 03:52 PM) Wow, that's shocking. To give up on a kid that young, there's probably something else going on to have prompted this move. I can't see us giving up on a young catcher regardless of how little he's played and how poorly he's performed. I would bet on that. Guys don't get quit on that easy without a good reason.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jun 28, 2014 -> 11:55 PM) Absolutely not. The guy is toast at this point. Done beyond done. I am hoping the Hawks wouldn't be "that team" that inevitably offers him a contract based on reputation, experience, blah blah blah. He's bad. yeah I don't even get that one. We just signed Raanta yesterday. Would they trade Crawford and let Brodeur start 50 games?

The first team Melo is meeting with is the Bulls. http://www.csnchicago.com/bulls/report-bul...elo-free-agency

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 28, 2014 -> 10:14 PM) It even happened with Dotel and Linebrink when they were moved out of the 7th and 8th inning, and they were the quintessential experienced/veteran relievers with a track record and pretty huge contracts for relievers. Crain... Thornton... LaTroy Hawkins all come to mind as well.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 28, 2014 -> 09:55 PM) They still had reasonably defined roles when Beli was the closer. They just couldn't handle them. I really don't know why it would freak a major league pitcher out coming in during tje 8th inning vs. the 7th, but if it does, that isn't a guy you want on your roster moving forward. The game will dictate when these guys come in anyway. There are plenty of really good set up men who were horrible in the 9th inning. It happens.

Apparently the Hawks have interest in Brodeur http://www.csnchicago.com/blackhawks/repor...-martin-brodeur

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jun 28, 2014 -> 08:50 PM) "Emulating" the Spurs isn't exactly any easier. How many times are you going to draft a top-10 player of All-Time that plays for 17 years with an extremely limited injury history and acquire 3 more All-Star caliber players while he's on the team? Oh, and get them to take reduced salaries so you can still add other guys to the roster. It starts with their salaries. Look at Duncan, Ginobili, and Parkers salaries for next year. Let me put it this way. Derrick Rose will make more than Duncan and Ginobli... combined.

SUCK THAT SATURDAY!

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 28, 2014 -> 12:07 PM) I think the day Reed was traded, Jones was probably viewed as the closer for 2014. Jones had physical problems in spring training, and obviously he ended up being injured and on the DL after two appearances. It is just an easy way to minimize what missing Nate Jones has meant to the 2014 bullpen.

If his contract is up, why are people worrying about him not being on the air?

Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 19m Eaton's issue isn't specific to 1 issue. "Both my legs felt like you-know-what two days ago." Better today, is 'super-pumped' to play again Eaton has to be better about getting treatment, he said. Tried dealing without, didn't work. 'It falls on me for not taking initiative.'

ChiTribSports ‏@ChiTribSports 4m Ventura on Sox closer: 'We don't really have one' http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/break...story?track=rss …

If nothing else, I love to see that the kid has a special kind of internal fire about playing the game.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jun 28, 2014 -> 10:28 AM) Lol, and that's worked SO well so far. Also, a tangent point, I really hate how the whole "defined roles are the only way anyone can perform" adage is treated like some law of physics. Why do we accept that these guys need to be coddled and handed excuses? Your name is called -- get guys out! That's it! Quit being a weiner and do your goddamn job. The closer is the only guy who really has a predictable timetable anyway. Every other reliever could be called on at any time from the 6th to the end of the game depending upon matchups and how deep the starter goes. The "setup guy" probably gets the 8th inning in maybe 50% of the games, and that's only if he's the right handedness. It's all a bunch of agent crap, IMO. RPs are supposed to go in and get batters out. Don't allow runs somewhere between 8:30 and 10:00 at night. Doesn't matter what inning it's in, and if you're so delicate that you can only perform if you can pinpoint the exact moment that you'll get your ten minutes of work in, then go back to the Bush League. How well would you do if your boss walked in tomorrow and told you that you were doing someone else's job?

Mark this date. Alexei get a day off.

QUOTE (Tmar @ Jun 28, 2014 -> 09:29 AM) Pretty sure I could do that Not even with a driver and golf ball...

QUOTE (farmteam @ Jun 28, 2014 -> 10:35 AM) First, you mean? IIRC, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated June 28, 1914. Considering that is what got it started, I would call it the final one. All of the other scrimishes and pacts etc, all came before that.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 28, 2014 -> 10:31 AM) Rejoice Blackhawk fans. Brandon Bollig is gone!!!!! Apparently he just bought a condo. http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/madhouse-e...lFlowFB_CHBrand

100 years ago today was the final trigger of WWI

MLBRosterMoves ‏@MLBRosterMoves 19m The @Angels have acquired RHP Jason Grilli from @Pirates for RHP Ernesto Frieri.