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Birmingham Barons ‏@BhamBarons 21m TRANSACTIONS: RHP Chris Beck and INF Dan Black have been transferred from @KnightsBaseball to Birmingham. Luis Sierra placed on the DL.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 10:26 AM) The point was about who was better in their prime, not who will have a better career. Konerko's prime lasted about 10 years. If you want to narrow it down to peak, Konerko had back to back 40 homer seasons, backed up with two more years of 30 homers. He even had two more 30+ homer seasons late in his career. Again, I think people are really underestimating how good he was, and how long he was that good.

The fact that we are talking about players from a generation ago kind of makes the point for me.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 09:51 AM) How can you not like this guy and think Thibs could turn him into a solid backup center....Between him and Young I think there's a solid backup center out there. I remember bringing his name up during the college season and I really liked him ever since... Look at the contracts of NBA centers, and tell me why if this guy had the goods, he wouldn't have been a first round pick.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 09:39 AM) McDermott isn't pretty but the dude flat out scores. He has a mini-dirk like presence from the perspective he can score in a mirry of ways and find lots of ways to get shots off (in very awkward positions) and shoot them with a high percentage (and from long range). I'm not saying Doug is Dirk. He is clearly smaller but he has a lot of similar skills as a Dirk from a scoring perspective (back when Dirk was much much younger). In no way am I saying that is who he turns into, but he has some of those skill-sets to potentially be a very good scorer in this league. No idea if he will be able to play good enough D though. And he is EXACTLY what the Bulls need, outside of a second superstar scorer.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 09:18 AM) Abreu is as good right now, as a rookie, as Konerko ever was and pretty close to what Lee was at their respective peaks. Abreu currently has a 149 wRC+. Konerko only had one season that high or better (158 in 2010) and Derrek Lee only had two such seasons (170 in 2005, 150 in 2009). If you want to look at WAR, Abreu is on pace for about 5.3 fWAR this season. Konerko's career highs were 3.7 in 2005 and 3.6 in 2010. Derrek Lee's career highs were 6.8 in 2005 and 5.3 in 2009 with no other season over 4. He's also played 1/3 of a season effectively. Konerko did his damage for a decade and a half.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 09:27 AM) @Real_ESPNLeBrun Hawks signings: Raanta $750,000 AAV, Smith $1.5 M AAV Wow. Raanta for effectively nothing. Very nice.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 09:23 AM) I like Young but I think you are kind of on point here. There is a lot of value in the UDFA's though. However if Craft really does sign with the Pacers I will be forced to hate him. Just go to medical school young man. Bring them into camp, stash them on a D league team, whatever. But don't expect a thing from them because odds are near 100% you never hear from them again.

And just for the record, I love the McDermott pick. If you had to draw up a Thibs player, this is it. He works hard, he hustles, he plays defense as hard as he can, and he can shoot. The guy is one of the best college shooters I can remember seeing. Even with entire defenses scheming around him, he can shoot. At the next level he will see better individual defenders, but not nearly the team defense he saw in college. He is going to get a lot of looks via Derrick Rose. And let's face it, the Bulls need SOMEONE who can score, and that is what this kid does. He scores. The Bulls didn't need another athlete who could jump through the ceiling, but had no skills. They didn't need another shutdown defender. They needed a scorer. They weren't going to get a top player in this draft because of where they were picking, but working up to get McDermott is a really nice get for them.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 06:50 PM) I've read this as well from the Soxtalk people, but I'm still wary. I need to see some evidence that he has swing and miss stuff on a consistent basis before I can get on board. I think people fell in love with the Chris Beck draft pick and are somewhat ignoring the actual numbers to this point. I think it also jives with the fact that the Sox have now promoted him to AAA. If the Sox were worried about this, he wouldn't be there yet.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 02:11 AM) Belgium has the talent to win the whole damn thing so Tuesday will be tough. I can't see there being an easy team at this stage.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 08:57 AM) I know it may be a little crazy to be craving UDFAs (I'm sure Rowand/Kyyle will bring up my love for the "independent worker") but there a few half way decent guys still out there. Patric Young was a guy I thought for sure would be drafted and he makes some sense. If not him then there's 2 other massive centers out there in Jordan Bachynski (7'2") and Sim Bhullar (7'5") that would be very interesting to see what Thibs can do with.. Also wouldn't mind seeing Deandre Kane picked up as the #3 PG behind Rose/?. If you are 7 feet tall, and can't get drafted at all, it is because you f***ing suck. Look what centers in the NBA get paid. If these guys were even decent, someone would have snapped them up.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 09:08 AM) @JayZawaski670 Ben Smith and Antti Raanta back in the fold. Both sign 2 year deals. We'll get numbers at some point today, I'd bet. Good to see. I don't think either is much of a surprise.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 09:22 PM) I think we ought to see what teams will give for Quintana. Don't trade unless it's a big premium price, but I'd take a look. Teams will ask for him, and Rick will give him a ridiculous price. Nothing will come of it.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 07:05 AM) If Abreu and Rizzo don't blow Konerko and Lee out of the water in their primes, then both teams will be very disappointed. If Abreu or Rizzo blows away what Konerko did, I will be really f***ing impressed. Paul Konerko has something like 440 HRs and 1500 RBI for his career. He hit over 40 homers at least a couple of times, plus hit 30 or more probably another half of a dozen times. In this day and age? Those are probably HOF numbers.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 04:53 PM) There's nothing implausible about the explanation given by the IRS. It matches contemporaneous documentation of drive failures, recovery attempts and retention policies. When a faux-scandal involving every person that Lerner emailed or received email from over the period of several years has a few of those drives crash within the window, going with the simplest, documented explanation (drive failure, not cover up) is your best bet. The IRS should turn over any contemporaneous documentation it has of the other drive crashes. With the background I have in trading compliance, this honestly made me laugh. A private firm would be look at millions of dollars in fines for lapse record retention with an excuse like this.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 04:19 PM) You're not actually explaining why the retention policies need to match here. You're just saying that they should. Maybe the retention policies of public agencies should be even longer, given FOIA. But you're not making that case. I presume that there are reasons that the retention length regulations are what they are and that they didn't pick completely arbitrary numbers. You'd need to show what those reasons are and how they're equally applicable to the IRS (or every government agency? I'm not clear on what you're looking for here). They shouldn't match. The government should be held to a much higher standard because their work is public record! The excuses being made for their lack of retention is negated by their own contradictory policies for private industry that isn't a matter of public knowledge.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 04:25 PM) I got a chuckle out of the notion that the government would hold Goldman Sachs's feet to the fire over something Evidently you missed BNParibas.

Embiid just screams bust to me.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 04:08 PM) 1) Again, they changed the policy already. 2) No, there are legitimate IT reasons to choosing a given retention policy. Storage takes space and energy, which costs money. The larger the archive, the harder it is to find anything you need as well (such as appropriate responses to litigation requests or FOIA requests). 3) Corporations typically have retention policies as well, or at least they should. Yes, legal often has a say in there because they don't want to keep things that can come bite them in the ass indefinitely. What they will typically do is put a litigation hold on any data potentially related to an ongoing lawsuit so that it remains in the archives longer than the standard period. But again, there are legitimate IT concerns when determining your data retention period. The federal government should not have a lesser data retention policy because of "IT concerns". That is a BS excuse. It is a public entity. Especially because, again, they REQUIRE THESE THINGS OF PRIVATE COMPANIES. If it were that big of a concern, why do they think it is OK to require MUCH more data retention than they do of themselves, at an exponentially higher cost?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 04:04 PM) Yes, my technical response that it's not wizardry or magic when a hard drive crashes and data is lost would remain the same. Whether or not Federal Agency XYZ should have the same retention standards as whatever industry it imposes some retention standards on is not related to any current political issue. There is zero chance that the federal government would accept such an answer from Goldman Sachs. Why is it is a good enough answer from the IRS? Even getting past the fact that it was very likely intentionally deleted.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 03:53 PM) I can only imagine SS' response would be the exact same if the parties in the situation were reversed. The federal governments actions are public record per the Freedom of Information act, and should be treated as such. Any short retention of information is a joke, especially when you consider what they require of certain sectors of the private sector, who do not have such public records retention considerations. The only reason they do that is so they cannot be held accountable for as much as possible.

ChiTribSports ‏@ChiTribSports 1h Native American group says it will sue Cleveland Indians http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/break...story?track=rss …

Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 1h Abreu owns a 10-game hitting streak, going 15-42 (.357) with four home runs and 10 RBI during that span.

Committed Indians 26 mins · ESPN/TSN insider Pierre LeBrun writes this afternoon that the Blackhawks have checked in w/ Paul Stastny's camp about the top center on the free agent market. Before you get excited/need a cigarette, keep in mind he does not intend to take a pay cut from the $6.6M he made last year. But, with that in mind, most indications are that the Hawks are working the phones HARD right now, and could be very active in the next 7-10 days.