Dick Allen

QUOTE (Baron @ Dec 4, 2017 -> 12:52 PM) His criteria is a little stupid though. Apparently small market teams unless your in the LA area...which is now a small market? LA isn't small. Dallas isn't small, SF isn't that small, the Cubs aren't small. The small market didn't apply to more than half.

QUOTE (Baron @ Dec 4, 2017 -> 12:44 PM) Seems like Kenny was surprised/not pleased that they werent given a chance to meet with him face to face in the 2nd meeting. I dont blame him. What I do blame them for is making it appear everyone had some sort of chance, when it is now quite obvious that wasn't the case. I wonder if they even bothered examining half the presentations. When you have $300k to gvie him and the White Sox recent history, you can't blame him for looking elsewhere. KW is mad like I am made after I buy a Powerball ticket and don't win.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Dec 4, 2017 -> 11:28 AM) They're about to talk about the details of the Cubs pitch on The Score. I wonder if the Cubs get them if their moron fans will break out the racist t-shirts again.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 4, 2017 -> 10:26 AM) Yes, Alshon was horribly mismanaged. So was the Robbie Gould fiasco. I said both all at the time of the deal and couldn't be more right. I was okay if you were going to move away for Gould and invest in the future, but Barth was none of those things and Gould's contract was never going to get in the way of making a signing. The only way dumping Gould made sense was if you went looking for a young kicker or you went out and got a better / as good vet for a similar price. By the way, even though I defend Fox, etc and don't think he's the reason we stink...I'm not going to be upset if the franchise goes another direction with the head coach. There are enough things I see on the field that I don't like, but I think everyone had blinders on when it came to Trubisky and just young QB's in general. He has a huge off-season ahead of him and I think this will be Pace's defining off-season. You need to show how you build / invest around a young QB, from the coaching staff to personell, etc. Look at the Eagles and what they did. They have put a lot of things around Wentz to put him in the best position to succeed (and that includes an excellent defense and strong rushing attack...plus weapons at the wideout). Gould is 36 of 38 since the Bears cut him.

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Dec 4, 2017 -> 10:09 AM) Lol how would you want him to go down? For me, it would be the pee tape on youtube.

Otahnis agent is based in SD.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Dec 3, 2017 -> 05:21 PM) "Or a smaller market"... not "and"... maybe we're still in it? Chicago, even though it is essentially for the White Sox, is neither a smaller market or west coast. What I don't understand is why , if some teams were not going to be considered, would they send a note to each team to make a presentation. I am starting to not like his representation.

Someone tweeted Cashman said he preferred smaller market West Coast, so probably Seattle, SF (although is really small market) and SD.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Dec 3, 2017 -> 03:03 PM) Rub it in Robbie. You deserve it. Can you make this up and have it be believable? Bears cut Gould. Sign Barth. Barth is terrible, he is cut, replaced by an injured kicker. Gould comes back to Soldier Field and kicks 5 field goals for the win. The Bears are cursed. Probably a good thing OB and Hampton are preemted today by NU basketball. I am pretty sure at least one of them would leave the studio in an ambulance.

Santos may be out. ODonnell was praciticng place kicking at the half.only the Bears sign still injured kickers.

I don't understand why Cohen just didn't take it out of the end zone. Take a shot.

In hindsight, Jimmy G looks like he would have been a better pick than Ego Ferguson.

Getting blown out by Iowa cost OSU. And I think it is a correct call.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 3, 2017 -> 12:58 PM) I know announcer talk is boring but this color guy is horrific on the bears game. CBS gets an NFC game, 3-8 vs. 1-10. you have to figure bottom of the barrel is going to be calling it

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 2, 2017 -> 02:17 PM) He wouldn't have signed with the Bears and I think you know that. If the Bears tagged him, he would have not had a choice. And if you read his quotes, you will find his refusing to play for the Bears is internet inuendo. He claims he loved Chicago but ultimately left because the Eagles QB situation was better. Read Paces quotes when he left. They put a figure on his value and that was that. He wasn't upset he left. Has anyone ever provided a link where Jeffery said he didn't want to be a Bear? And money talks. If the Bears offered the most money, he wouldn't have left. And to use your line, you know that.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 3, 2017 -> 08:51 AM) You keep saying “I’m not a Trump fan, but I think all of this is made up” in some fashion or another. Why does everyone in this administration keep getting caught in outright lies? If this is all a ruse, then why the cover up? I agree. What republicans should do is think if Hillary won the election and her administration was caught in the exact same thing, would they doubt a cover up? Would they dismiss all of the lies? Would they not be calling her a criminal every chance they had? If there is nothing, why all of the lies? Why all of the omissions on security clearance forms? They certainly don't act like innocent people. There clearly is something there.

The thing with Cruz is everyone knows if the people switched letters after their names he would feel the exact opposite.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 2, 2017 -> 02:02 PM) All whispers were that he would never sign an extension in Chicago, but still think they could have at least franchised him one year. If that is what it took, that is what should have been done. Yes, maybe he didn't deserve it, but the Bears were well under the cap, profits were already locked in, and they needed a lot of receiving help. No brainer. It was a Pace fail.

QUOTE (GenericUserName @ Dec 2, 2017 -> 01:40 PM) I think there is some hope for him to be back for the second half, and there was a similar situation a year or two ago and the guy signed a one year deal with a team option for a second year, both at pretty low salaries. It would give the White Sox the guarantee to have him when he is healthy at a lower salary than if he proves he is healthy while also mitigating the risk because if he can't come back you don't have to pick up the option. I would try to sign Shae Simmons, the other Mariner non tendered. He doesn't throw as hard as Kahnle, but does have potential to be really good. Health, and mechanics have been his issues.

He is supposed to miss most, if not all of 2018.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Dec 2, 2017 -> 01:15 PM) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: President Trump Accidentally Admits on Twitter to Committing Obstruction of Justice https://mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/sta...022705378975744 He really is a moron. Keep on tweeting.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Dec 2, 2017 -> 01:02 PM) Non-White Sox fans find our franchise boring, forgettable, and irrelevant all the time. That is the unfortunate by-product of years and years of losing and the infrequency of appearing in the postseason. It also underscores the importance of the rebuild, because that is the only hope at the moment of reversing that mindset if a sustainable winning ballclub emerges from those efforts. I doubt anyone finds the White Sox as boring as your tired act.

Alshon Jeffery signs a 4 year extension.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 2, 2017 -> 09:55 AM) I don't recall this type of massive tax overall ever happening, let alone repeating it over and over again. It is the philosophy that making the rich richer will benefit everyone. That they will just pass this new found money along. It would be like a drug dealer giving Charlie Sheen cocaine and telling him to hold it for someone else. It never has happened, isn't happening, and will never happen. Cutting corporate taxes will give everyone a raise? 5% of the S&P 500 companies paid no taxes. Trump hasn't paid taxes for 15 years, boasts of being worth $10 billion. Is he passing down his money to the little guy? This is all about keeping their donors happy. But, like anything else, it's the sum of your parts is what counts. Making your poor, poorer, your sick, sicker, doesn't make America great again. The nerve they had actually going on twitter asking what you would do with your $4,000 raise, was incomprehensible. What ever happened to republicans and the deficit?

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Dec 2, 2017 -> 09:29 AM) The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. Before this is ultimately passed, Barrack Obams needs to do people a favor and give a speech touting trickle down economics.. this will be DOA 5 minutes later. What a rouse. but these politicians won't have to worry about funding their campaigns anymore.