Dick Allen

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 26, 2015 -> 09:29 AM) It's just not the time to do this yet. Do something else. Why not market him right away? People were excited he was acquired. Play to the golden domers and anyone else who is a huge fan. His being a local guy plays in as well. Were the Heat not supposed to market Lebron and Bosh until they were on the team for a while? Hyping your product is a good thing. The White Sox sold a bunch of tickets when they signed the new guys. Marketing them doesn't hurt a thing.

How many teams have better OF depth than Bonifacio and Shuck?

QUOTE (shysocks @ Mar 26, 2015 -> 08:46 AM) I feel like the expressions of "yeesh, calm down guys" in this thread now far outweigh any original anger there may have been. You'd have thought there was a riot. It's sort of a dumb idea to give a guy his own cheering section when he's never thrown a pitch for the team, especially when you ripped the idea off in the first place, and especially when you already have an underappreciated guy on the team who has been objectively better. Also that hat is frigging ugly. Also the Shark Cage will not persuade Samardzija to sign here in any capacity. Those are my thoughts. No outrage, just puzzlement and moving on with my life. No it's not a dumb idea. I agree that Q is the better pitcher, but for some reason the public will never buy it, plus Q doesn't fan enough guys to get a section like that. The hat sucks, but so does just about every giveaway that is handed out at venues around the country. People knock over women and children at USCF to get a Chevy t-shirt with a Sox emblem from the Chevy Pride Crew. If the $15 or $20 price for the lower deck seat for a Jeff S. start isn't enough, maybe the $2 hat will entice. Whatever it does, it isn't going to decrease attendance. I don't understand why someone has to have been on the team x amount of games before a team uses them to sell tickets. Not marketing these players is a dumb idea. It has nothing to do with re-signing him.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 02:19 PM) Are you guys talking about service time so they can have more control of him? He's in the same boat Rodon is in. Send him down for 2 weeks, you get him for 7 seasons. I will agree with Boras that if the Cubs are trying to win, baseball will be broken if they keep him in Des Moines until he won't be a Super 2. Boras exploits every loophole he can. He should be very understanding the other side does as well. If he ran a team, he would do the same thing.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 02:15 PM) I honestly think you're right. He threw a 75 pitch bullpen session the other day and I'm not sure how much more arm strength he needs to build. Sure you'd like to see him go 5-6 innings in a Cactus league game before the season but IMO that's all he needs. He could do that next week and come north with the club and be ready to pitch by the 10th. The reports I read and supposedly Cooper verified was they targeted April 12th, but Coop said they could hold off until late April.

I don't see how anyone could be upset with this. It's a $20 lower deck seat, you get a crappy hat, I see people still wearing crappy hats from giveaways 10 years ago. It should draw some more people to the park.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 02:01 PM) Unless he's really good at saving people money. If any of the women involved were friends or relatives of yours, chances are you wouldn't think the Bears should pay him what they will be paying him to play football. One of the problems with this sort of crime is they turn the tables and make the victim the problem. It is pretty text book. They don't want to testify, or they will take a little cash to make it all go away. Maybe he is innocent, but the 49ers should have a lot of information and they just cut him during the season. The bruises on the neck I have a big problem with.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 01:51 PM) Well because he's a football player? That's his job. When accountants get a domestic assault charge and get fired they most likely go to another accounting firm and get a job. If you want to play professional football in the United States, well the NFL is where you go. You have convictions on your record when you apply for a job and they do a background check, most of the time you don't get the job. Of course he has no convictions, but if he was an accountant and he was fired, and it was out in public as this is, chances are he would have a hard time finding employment.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 01:47 PM) I think he should be able to work, just why should he be able to work in the NFL? And if he is able to work in the NFL, I would hope the Bears would be above hiring him.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 01:15 PM) Did you read the affidavit's on the case? They are public. He may have. He may not have either though. Evidence suggests otherwise. They were drinking and having a good time at McDonald's home. Were both drunk. McDonald's story is that they had sex consensually and then they spent the entire day together the following day. He claims to have thought that they hit it off. After she left that night, she said that he took advantage of her while she was drunk. The charge was rape by intoxication. He absolutely could have done that. Maybe he didn't though. I wasn't there. Neither was anyone else. So you don't know, but because the Bears could use a DE, there's a pretty good chance he is innocent. How do you explain the bruises on his fiance's neck?

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 01:05 PM) You know, I have a hard time giving benefit of the doubt here, when the person he called was the director of security who called an off-duty cop, who arrived before the police. Maybe that's what happened...but it certainly smells like b.s. to me. He needed Ray Donovan to make it all go away.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 01:05 PM) I heard that McDonald plans to sue that woman and that they have video evidence that proves the sex was consensual. That was from sports radio yesterday. ARod was going to sue regarding Biogenesis. The authorities alledgedly have the tape and have yet to clear him of any wrong doing. I just wonder if this guy is always so innocent , and really just a victim of women, why the 49ers released him. I'm sure there are some bad guys on the Bears, but they knowingly just signed another.

QUOTE (southside hitman @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 01:00 PM) Another thing I found interesting that I did not include in my article due to relevance to the site content, is Hahn wasn't ready to commit to needing someone to start for Chris Sale. He said that Sale has hit every goal put out for him in his rehab and there is a growing optimism he wouldn't have to miss any starts. Perhaps that is why we haven't heard Shark being named the Opening Day Starter quite yet? The White Sox have already said Sale will not pitch Opening Day. Maybe 6 days later.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 12:45 PM) There's a pretty good chance that Ray McDonald didn't sexually assault that woman. Doesn't seem like that changes anything though. People's torches are out. Based on what?

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 12:53 PM) Yeah, luckily he's just a guy that left visible bruises on his pregnant girlfriend. Yeah but they were only around her neck. He's a great guy. Just ask his mom. That's what George did.

QUOTE (LDF @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 11:42 AM) concerning the farm and minor league, excellent work. i love to read up on these area. btw, do you or any know if they will do it again?? it would be a great update / PR move. Season ticketholders are getting a call either today or tomorrow at noon and it is a Hahn/Bell conversation.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 10:37 AM) K.C. Johnson @KCJHoop · 1h 1 hour ago Rose on whether he's confident he'll play this season: "Oh yeah. I'm not worried about that. I don't have any pain." K.C. Johnson @KCJHoop · 55m 55 minutes ago Rose said he should be cleared for contact sometime this week or next. K.C. Johnson @KCJHoop · 49m 49 minutes ago Rose on Bulls: "We can be really good. It’s just all about everyone being healthy, a little bit of luck and everyone staying together." I wonder why everyone would be healthy and all of a sudden be able to remain healthy once the playoffs start. That is just not realistic.

I think I will have my dad call George McCaskey and tell him what I great guy I am, I haven't ever even been accused of beating or raping a woman. I will work for the minimum. I will even pay for my own gas to meet in Halas Hall.

The cap is going to take a huge leap in a couple of years. How is the timing between Rose's contract expiring , and Anthony Davis being available to the highest bidder? Bring unibrow home.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 24, 2015 -> 07:57 PM) Betting money would be on Bryant, but you never know.....they're going to have to pitch to Jose this year, provided LaRoche and Avisail and Alexei/Conor (to a lesser extent) are forcing opposing to teams to pay for pitching around him, or at least trying to limit him to singles and doubles rather than homers. I read something a few years ago which stated the clubhouse leader in spring training home runs wound up hitting very few in the regular season. Unless he gets hurt, it seems Bryant will break that. I think one sprimg Beltin Bill Melton hit 10 spring homers, and i think he wound up with 6 for the regular season.

QUOTE (shipps @ Mar 24, 2015 -> 04:53 PM) FWIW Mcaskey talked with McDonald's parents before the signing to get a better feel of the man. Also he apparently bought his own plane ticket to fly out and speak with Pace. http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/03/24/bea...ersial-signing/ A millionaire buys a plane ticket to beg for a job that will pay him a lot of money compared to the average Joe. Color me unimpressed. There were 3 incidents with this guy. I know, he is going to sue. Wasn't ARod going to sue? I could see it if it were a piece to get to the Super Bowl, but with where the Bears are at, this move makes no sense to me. Why bring this to the table? Supposedly the Bears comtemplated this for about a week. If you have to think about it for that long, I think the answer should be no.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 24, 2015 -> 03:54 PM) Chef's or Chicken Ceasar Salad(o）？ Chefs hold the dressing. I hate salad dressing. Load up the pepper and I am good.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 24, 2015 -> 03:38 PM) If they were that high on him, he'd still be with the team in camp. If that is the standard they must think more of him than Salado no who was sent packing earlier.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 24, 2015 -> 03:22 PM) Then why waste everyone's time making the comp? A lot more people suck, because they truly aren't good baseball players. The odds are incredibly high that Leury's problem is that he isn't a good enough baseball player to play regularly in the majors, no matter how many ABs he gets. Especially when we have guys who are ahead of him, I can't imagine wasting time on Garcia. He isn't even going to be a starter in Charlotte, which should tell you everything there is to know about Garcia. I made the comp because this is a guy who put up a 1.056 OPS as a 30 year old, and using his age 23 or 22 limited ABs as a reason Leury can't put up a .650 OPS is silly. Besides, the great Carlos Sanchez put up a .569. What kind of OPS do you think Tyler Saladino would have put up if he were in the same situation when he was 22 or 23? We will see if he is going to be a starter. I think the White Sox are a lot higher on him than most here.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 24, 2015 -> 03:10 PM) We could totally go off of the .475 OPS he put in the majors in 2013. 23 year old Jose Bautista (same age as Leury in 2014) .502 OPS 24 year old Jose Bautista (same age as Leury this year) .404 OPS You need to take ridiculously low OPSs with a grain of salt when players clearly aren't ready. There is nothing to suggest he has conquered AAA. Leury obviously isn't Jose Bautista. But a lot of guys do suck in the major leagues when they are 23 years old and hitting once or twice a week.