Dick Allen

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.

ESPN.com has an article on him, trying to figure out where he wants to go. It has if he wants this he will choose that, if he wants that he will choose this scenerios . They mentioned just about every team except the White Sox. Of course it is 50/50 at best whether ESPN knows the White Sox exist.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 07:12 PM) Makes leaving Peter and Guerrero off roster even more of a head scratcher They are going to be adding some people.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 03:10 PM) They also have a few former Japanese players in the front office as well. He's supposed to be a good kid. Doesn't do anything but play baseball. But I do wonder if the whole "winning because of me" thing is something that teams really want to hear. For what he costs now, it's a no brainer, but if he were able to get 9 figures, if that is true, it would make me pause a bit. Right now, for the sheer bargain money maker he will be, if any team isn't interested, they need a new front office.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 02:57 PM) https://twitter.com/thestevenwoods/status/936609044248137728 @thestevenwoods I’ve heard from someone in the know that Otani doesn’t want to join a big market team that’s ready to win now. He wants to be THE guy that brings a team to glory and doesn’t mind a rebuild. Know any teams like that? https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20171201...9-nksports-base This article in Japanese indicates that Otani has narrowed his list to 5 teams: the Dodgers, Yankees, Padres and two unnamed teams. Not sure if either of these things mean anything, but just putting it out there. The more I hear about bringing the team to glory, the more I think SD is where he goes. I think his agent is based there. West Coast. Rebuilding team with some talent, and hard to beat the weather. Although if that is BS, the Yankees have to have the upper hand, and he did almost sign with the Dodgers out of HS>

QUOTE (G&T @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 02:18 PM) The fact that he had to plea guilty to anything means there were very bad charges. The level of cooperation is also telling. If the potential crimes were small, he wouldn't be facing jail time in exchange for cooperation. It's now being reported he went to Jared. Bring them down. Jared was going to fix everything. Why does he have a security clearance again?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 01:49 PM) No, that's how these sort of deals work. They're charging him with something fairly minimal, but the plea agreement specifically says "this isn't all that we know." Flynn is well aware and I'm sure discussions included numerous other charges they were ready to bring if he didn't cooperate. I suspect they are using his son as a pawn here.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 10:56 AM) Trump's former national security adviser is being referred to as a "former Obama administration official" by Trump's team, and the WH bizarrely seems to think this is the one possible charge against Flynn and doesn't reach anyone within the White House. Okay. Obama warned Trump about Flynn. That makes it even more hilarious. But his base believes everything out of his mouth.

Flynn was nothing more than a low level coffee boy. BTW, I think early next week, the cost of this investigation is going to come out. It will be interesting to see how many of the GOP will have the nerve to say we can't afford it. But like Ted Cruz with Franken/Moore, you know they will be crying about it.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 10:29 AM) But we already kinda see that with state and local sales taxes, it ends up regressive with the lower end of the income scale paying a lot more of their income on a percentage basis than those higher up the scale. The wealthy spend more in total dollar figures but much less as a percentage of their income. It would be a massive windfall for them to switch to more of a "flat" tax system like that without having a whole lot of other taxes like EU countries do. Yes. If you make a lot of money, it's really, really good for you. If not, not so good.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 10:15 AM) Yes. Hell, yes. LOCK THEM UP. Trump's hush money payments to Flynn must have met a snag.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 1, 2017 -> 09:53 AM) The EU uses a large value added tax to purchases. This makes sense to me. Tax people on how much yhey use. They wouldn't need the massive tax code. My brother lives in Switzerland, and that is pretty much how it works there. Very little income tax, but everything you buy is ridiculously expensive.