Dick Allen

The classic McNown story for me was Jay Marriotti. He was writing columns that if the Bears didn't draft McNown, they were stupid and heads needed to roll. After they drafted him and he played a bit, he wrote whoever thought drafting him was a good idea needed to be fired immediately.

I can throw harder than Michael Kopech.

I have read many people with this worry, I just don’t see it. If there really was a slam dunk city that could produce higher revenues long term than what the Sox could get in Chicago, someone would save half a billion or so and buy Oakland or Tampa and move them.

It does seem weird a person would call for an FBI investigation if they were lying. It all could be for optics, but there is just too much out there.

If it were a break even business, people wouldn't be paying what they are paying to buy them. JR went with the break even line years ago, and wisely stuck to it. Publicly acknowledging he is making money on the White Sox can only be bad for him.

JR is a lawyer, and the only issue the others have is if he died. They did concede he can do what he wants as long as he's alive. I doubt he has any enemies, even if he wasn't a nice guy. He's made those guys a lot of money. To raise the money, Reinsdorf recruited his friends, relatives and holdovers from Veeck's ownership group. The minimum investment was $250,000 — 1.32 percent stake of the team, according to court records — though Reinsdorf said he waived that for some. They agreed to his plan, which made Reinsdorf the majority shareholder in the team's general partner, which is the controlling entity. The rest of the company is made up of limited partners and minority shareholders in the general partner, none of whom has any control, according to interviews with a dozen of them.

Apparently, no one who owns shares of the White Sox are in their right mind. JR, then his heirs, can do whatever they want. What is interesting is when board members die, they are replaced by no one. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/whitesox/ct-xpm-2013-07-28-ct-spt-0728-white-sox-chicago-sports-20130728-story.html

Theo doesn't need a ton of money personally to buy a team. He puts the group together and sets it up so he has total control, just like JR. He gets a share of the team. Who knows, maybe he cuts a deal based on performance for even a bigger share. Considering his success, he probably wouldn't have a hard time finding investors.

IMO, people are way too hung up on where some random person rates guys. In the end, it doesn't matter. What matters is how he plays.

I wonder why Grassely wasn't upset about the 95 year old Nazi being deported a few weeks ago. That was closer to 70 years ago.

As a lower level judge, she probably doesn't have to hear his name very often, if at all. As a Supreme Court justice, he will be seen and heard a lot. It's easy to sit back and say you should have said something earlier...but it's not like she is the first to say something later on, and there is better than a 0% chance she is telling the truth. It just may be he was out of sight and out of mind, so she could live with that, and now that won't be possible.

As someone who has not been raped, or had it attempted, it would be hard for me to actually know how it affects someone. But she is hardly the first woman who has suppressed this, hoping it just went away. There is always a chance its BS, but she has supposedly passed a lie detector, and coming out with it now really doesn't make her life any easier. The victim shaming is already at full speed. Besides, this should wait until after the midterms if we are going to use the same terms the right used with Merrick Garland.

With what Manafort has to surrender in cash and property, it is enough to fund the Mueller investigation from its beginning through 2019. Really great guy. Very unfair how they treated him.

Who really knows what he is, but at this point, there really is little reason to cut bait. Next year will be big for him. He is either a decent piece moving forward or Hector Noesi. Korea bound.

Nikki Haley has $52k curtains in her NYC apartment thanks to US taxpayers. I wonder if she would have bought them if she was shelling out her own money.

It's all pretty arbitrary though, isn't it? Not all 6 inning outings are going to be the same. And with pitch counts, 100 pitches seems like someone's idea of a nice round number being a magic number, and it also kind of implies everyone is pretty much the same. There are probably guys who should go usually no more than 80 but throw 100 on a good day, and others where 120 wouldn't be too much of a problem, and maybe even 140 if needed once in a while. But people would freak out, and it is a cover your ass issue.

I do think it’s taken out of context. If Anderson really thinks the hitting coach is the reason he isn’t hitting .300 with a .400 OBP, that would be a bigger problem than any of this.

Hawk documentary NBCSC seemed so proud of , pre empted by Cubs postgame show.

If people actually thought a hitting coach can take a bunch of hitters and put another 50 points on their OBP, they are nuts. It might work for a guy here or there, but collectively most pretty much are what they are. We all look at advanced stats, projections and the like. They never seem to be hitting coach or pitching coach dependent. What the Sox need is to acquire hitters capable of higher OBP. I do think Steverson's time might be coming to an end. It's not like he's had a ton of success getting the one or two guys looking legit, but the fact is, if his continued employment is to get low OB guys and make them high OB guys, he is being set up as the sacrificial lamb. To be considered good coaches, at some point, they need to be coaching good players.

He let everyone know Florence is a tremendously wet hurricane.

Crede was having a monster season in 2006, hitting over .300 with a high OBP and would have hit well over 30 homers with GG defense, but his back gave out the final month. It would have been interesting to see what he could have done with his career if he had remained healthy. I am not worried about Moncada yet. I do think he is perhaps a bit too selective and gets himself into holes where an umpire can call him out on anything within a few inches of the zone. A couple of hot streaks may actually get him some calls. One thing we forget is he like Robert missed a lot of time playing games, getting set up to sign a contract,, so that might have hurt their development a bit.

I think they sound bafoonish but for a few minutes here and there, it's pretty funny. OB kept asking why they didn't as Nagy in his interview why KC lost the playoff game when they had the big halftime lead. He claims because they supposedly didn't ask, and that loss was all Nagy's fault, even though he wasn't the head coach, that is the reason why the Bears blew the lead.

OBradovich and Hampton were hysterically pissed off after the game. Total meatball fan ish. It was hysterical. They don't seem to be big fans of Nagy or Ryan Pace or Mitch Trubisky.

sims being the target is a problem. Trubisky's numbers after the first quarter were horrid. They looked so good in the first quarter. The defense looked so good in the first half, then awfulness. Maybe it was the lack of preseason play. They did look gassed, although I doubt playing an extra half here or there would have solved that. I think they will be better as long as the total collapse doesn't destroy them.

Joe Maddon does no wrong. When Lester was struggling and Rizzo was struggling, they had a talk with Maddon, and struggled no more. It does make you wonder why they didn't speak to him sooner.