Dick Allen

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 17, 2018 -> 08:03 AM) He also grew 3 inches. Obama is 6'1". Photos standing together make them look about the same height. You probably could give Trump a 1/2 an inch on him if you were being generous. Certainly not 6'3". Supposedly he is 6'2" on his drivers license, and people do tend to shrink a bit when they get older.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 16, 2018 -> 01:31 PM) Its funny how many people dont understand what an NDA is. Now they are saying they had a 1 year affair, and Trump promised her a lot of things that never quite happened. Shocking. He was only married to Melania about a year at that time. I wonder how much she gets paid to stick around. She must be NDA'd and prenuped up the ass.

Stormy Daniels, the porn star Trump allegedly paid off, although he denies, has a friend who was on Megyn Kelly today. Her friend stated Stormy told her when it happened Trump was chasing her around in his underwear. That would be a sight.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 16, 2018 -> 12:02 PM) Just two games but man Lavine hasd a shot and he can flat out score. I really hope he stays healthy and can keep improving. Hell with what you all think, I think we got a darn nice core going right now. This team has been quite enjoyable to watch. I was very skeptical, but I have to agree. Levine definitely seems like the real deal. He gets to the rim what appears to be effortlessly. Dunn's shooting is up and down, but everything else except the occassional turnover bug, seems exceptional. Lauri is obviously going to be a great player. Some of these other guys seem to be decent bench pieces. I am not buying the Bulls attracting a top free agent, but if they could, I could see this team as being too good to call it NBA hell. It's almost to a point where if they trade someone, it better help their draft position drastically, because if it is only slightly, a guy like Threekola nailing 3s, is pretty valuable, and could make you worse in the long run.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 14, 2018 -> 12:27 PM) Why not the same standard for the two white pitchers who had all of the tendon, ligament, and muscle injuries indicative of steroid use? Look the other way, the only Cub who ever juiced is Sammy. The other sick thing about it was it was totally ignored until he couldn't put up Little League HR totals anymore.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 16, 2018 -> 11:12 AM) I'm through with this game it's making us all dumber and you're going to make me suspend myself if I keep typing. Your quote: They explicitly chose to do something else That tells me you know for a fact they had other opportunities.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 16, 2018 -> 11:02 AM) So you're saying that Gillaspie and Cordell would have fallen in the 10-15 range had they qualified? Hmmm, so you agreed with me but you can't admit it because you need to pick a fight using an impossible to answer hypothetical. Prove to me that a prospect in the 10-15 range at lower levels was never offered. That's the same thing you just demanded I do just back at you. Give me the list of names who were actually offered since you clearly insist I have that. Show me that no one at that level was ever offered. You asked it of me so you clearly must be able to do it yourself, otherwise you're just picking a fight. No I don't. For the love of God, you said much younger guys in the same range were available to the White Sox. I am pointing out that is very debatable. And, as usual, you can't deal with any possible way you may be wrong. You are the one who needs to show names. You are the one who said these younger guys were available but the White Sox chose a different route. If you were running a team, and you had a 25 year old and a 19 year old rated about the same and you had to trade one, which one would you trade?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 16, 2018 -> 10:51 AM) Here's Cordell coming in pre-2017 at #12 in the Brewers system, found another list with him at #15. Here's Gillaspie at #5 in the Rays system coming into 2017. To fail to recognize what the White Sox did with these deals is pure naivety. OK. That was coming into the season. Gillespie wasn't there anymore. Cordell was hurt and blocked, and will be 26 on opening day. That isn't like a 19 year old top 15 prospect. Coming into 2017, Carson Fulmer was rated #5 on the White Sox, Hansen #9. At the trade deadline, who had more value?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 16, 2018 -> 10:34 AM) You know darn well that's an unanswerable hypothetical question, and you also know darn well that would have been fair value for those guys. No I don't. You are saying they had a choice. You don't know that as a fact. The guys they received have plenty of flaws and are either pretty blocked or of the age it's time to either put up or cut bait. To say a 19 year old 10-15 range prospect could have easily been substituted is pure speculation, and for many reasons, perhaps not true. There's nothing wrong with picking these guys up by the basket full, there is certainly going to be another JD Martinez or Jose Bautista or Justin Turner that becomes really good after scuffling, but teams would rather give these older guys up than the younger ones identified with potential.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jan 16, 2018 -> 10:18 AM) For the first year or two if they can show old games and whatnot that would be cool. Do they have these rights? Say for instance the first year in the off-season they show every win from the 1969 season, that'd be cool but what do they do after that? Then how many people what to watch that? That's why the current NBC Sports channel works. You get other sports programming to cover gaps. And it's 24 hours. They probably would have to show the National Shuffleboard Championship and crap like that, and a bunch of infomercials.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 16, 2018 -> 10:05 AM) One other thing I think that is being missed is that the White Sox had opportunities last year to add guys who would probably have fallen in that 10-15 range, in deals like the Swarzak and Jennings deals. If the White Sox had wanted to get them, they could have targeted guys at the lower levels of the minors, guys who were picked in the 2nd or 3rd rounds the last 2 years, and those guys would have filled in that 10-15 range. They explicitly chose to do something else. The White Sox realized they had another type of asset; they were moving so many big league players out of their system that they had a lot of playing time available at AAA and in the bigs, and they had a lot of open 40 man roster spots. They could instead target guys who were either blocked or who teams had soured on, acquire them, and give them a shot. That's how we wound up with Cordell, Gillaspie, Viera, maybe to a lesser extent Polo. Throw in some of the guys from our org like Engel, Delmonico, Leury - and that logjam at AAA/Big league level is what we have in lieu of depth in the 10-15 range in our prospect lists. Like "B" level prospects, not all of them are going to turn out, but there's very likely a couple of good ballplayers in there. Good teams in the past have found great players this route - giving guys a shot who were blocked elsewhere. This is how the Cubs turned Arrieta into a stud - took a guy the Orioles had soured on and gave him a shot. The key thing we have to do is actually play and develop them. If we acquire these guys and we don't give them a shot, then we have done this exactly backwards. Hence, this is why I go after every idea like "JD Martinez is undervalued we should go after him!" like we're seeing this offseason. We made a decision that we were going to give these guys a shot when we acquired them. If we don't give these guys a shot, then we screwed up every one of those trades. While I agree JD Martinez is not a good idea right now, who are these lower level prospects that would have been in the 10-15 range the White Sox turned down for Jennings and Swarzak?

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 16, 2018 -> 09:38 AM) If I were trying to start a Cubs network, my first goal would be to get as much *exclusive* Bears content as possible. Sign a deal with the Bears that forces CSN/NBCSN to do that embarrassing stuff where they can't show any video of the games, only photos. Don't have Bears staff and representatives come on NBCSN shows. Then you'd have to go to the Cubs channel to get the good Bears content, where they'll have surely poached the best Bears people from Comcast due to the cancellation of some of the Bears programming. I would agree, but if you are the Bears, you are going to have to know this channel will be on all the systems. I just wonder if the ridiculous TV contracts may be a thing of the past. The Cubs are hot right now, but who knows in 5 years, and when they were bad before, their ratings weren't much better than the White Sox. At least when they were bad, they could make some money on one or two of the other teams being decent. Winter programming would be a big time bore on that station.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 16, 2018 -> 09:41 AM) It’s NBC Sports now so I wonder if Comcast even cares Same company.

I still don't understand why DACA is tied into funds for a wall. Trump said Mexico is paying for the wall. According to some, he doesn't lie, it's the reporters who lie when they interpret his remarks incorrectly on purpose. Greg, tell me, when is Mexico wiring the funds?

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 16, 2018 -> 07:57 AM) I did the annual Black Friday deal. Just said $10 because I don’t think the annual option is available anymore. If you are or know someone who is a Costco member, it is on their site.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jan 15, 2018 -> 07:24 PM) The big danger that would come here for the Sox is if you have local cable systems that would elect to dump CSN for a Cubs network to be their RSN, especially if a Cubs RSN would pick up programming. There could be cable systems, on the fringes of CSN's area (say Iowa for example) where they'd much rather take a channel with just the Cubs than one with the Sox, Bulls, Blackhawks, etc. because those other three wouldn't have the pull combined of the Cubs. Here in central Iowa, we only have one RSN (Fox Sports Midwest) and they will not add CSN, despite Cubs AND Sox fans, as well as Bulls/Blackhawk fans. I don't think cable systems would dump the Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks for the Cubs. This is a long term thing. Keep in mind, Cubs TV ratings were pretty bad 3 or 4 years ago. It isn't like the team will never be bad again. We know Comcast would keep them since they own part of the station, and I am sure other systems all have contracts.

I was at the Bulls game today. Stacey King has obviously put on a lot of weight since his playing days, but my is he large. I think he is easily over 400 lbs.

Trump who made fun of a disabled reporter, then denied he ever did. Who , when criticized for not paying taxes iby Hillary in a debate, who replied that make him smart, then said he never said that. Who bragged about grabbing women by the p****. Then said they were just words, lockeroom talk, and denied ever doing it despite multiple accusers, then said he thought the tape of him saying it was probably a fake, now, despite admitting to friends what he said, despite Lindsey Graham acknowledging he crossed a line, is now taunting During, calling him Dicky. and his misrepresentation was s***hole vs.s***house which I posted a few days ago.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 15, 2018 -> 10:58 AM) I really do wish I could say that officiating didn't decide both of those games yesterday, but it was at least as big of a factor as anything else. I'd have loved those games so much more if I hadn't felt the officials wound up with a lot of weak calls favoring the 2 teams that won. The Saints have only themselves to blame.

Maybe Teump will be able to hire Americans to work at Mar a lago and pay them a decent wage with the tax cuts instead of hiring a bunch of Haitians with special visas with these tax cuts. Haitians cleaning Mar a lago? That place must be a s***hole.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jan 14, 2018 -> 04:22 PM) Hmmm. Lots of people at the meeting now saying Trump never said 's***hole'. Interesting. Libel suit? Give them lie detector tests.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jan 14, 2018 -> 04:22 PM) Hmmm. Lots of people at the meeting now saying Trump never said 's***hole'. Interesting. Libel suit? He said s***house.

All the Money in the World was good, not great. I would give Molly's World good because as a heterosexual male Jessica Chastain is nice to look at for 2 hours, but thought in reality it was only slightly above average. This moviepass thing is awesome.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 14, 2018 -> 02:34 PM) But is this Paddy’s strategy or Hahn’s? From what I have heard at Soxfest seminars, and read , it seems to be something in which they agree.

QUOTE (Jack Parkman @ Jan 14, 2018 -> 02:12 PM) The Blackhawks wouldn't partner with the Cubs, because IIRC Wirtz/Reinsdorf have a pretty good partnership due to sharing the UC. The Cubs, will in fact, be on their own because the Hawks and Reinsdorf teams are more in line with each other than they are with the Cubs. Bears really don't matter, because the NFL is purely national broadcasts. I'd love to see this fail spectacularly because they don't have anyone else to put on their channel. They supposedly have had a lot of talks with the Bears about throwing Bears content,on their network. obviously not the games. It will be interesting to see how it works. If it works like the Dodgers and they get billions upon billions but no one in Chicago can watch their games, would that benefit the White Sox in the long run?