Dick Allen

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 12, 2017 -> 09:58 AM) I think you know the answer to this. The parameters of evil aren't important. We have people suffering here and our leaders think it's more important to give money to other countries. It's pretty funny, the right has been against giving money to suffering Americans for almost ever. They think the mega rich need a few more dollars.

The White Sox near signing of Alex Gordon probably should have given away his demise.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 12, 2017 -> 12:33 PM) The Miami Heat, La Lakers, Boston Celtics, and San Antonio Spurs have made the vast majority of NBA championships post the Jordan era and none of those teams really built themselves by a prolonged tanking strategy. Golden State is the new dominant team and their best players were drafted 7th overall (Steph), 11th overall (Klay), 35th overall (Draymond) and Durant (Free Agency). I already know everyone is going to say, well the NBA doesn't work that way anymore, but all of those teams won a ton of championships without truly "tanking". Wade / Duncan were the two highest picks drafted by any of those teams, but neither were part of a prolonged tank. Duncan was a pure luck of a Spurs team that had its best player dealing with a back injury (David Robinson) and Wade was drafted 5th overall and very quickly the Heat were back out of the lottery (they were only in the lottery the year before they got Wade, when they drafted Caron Butler @ 10 overall). Yes, but Miami and LA did it basically with free agent signings. Milwaukee, OKC, they can't compete for these guys if offered the same money. SA has done a great job, but they did get luck and were bad when Robinson came out, then he was hurt and Duncan set them up for years. Tanking is a problem. I wouldn't mind seeing everyone who misses the playoffs with the same odds at the #1 pick. Maybe pick 3 or 4 or 5 ping pong balls, then slot everyone else by record. It's just typical this may happen right when the Bulls go into full tank mode, although they have had a lot of very high picks and really didn't do what they had to do with them. Plus there were some really bad drafts when they had these picks.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Sep 12, 2017 -> 09:34 AM) On August 25th the Dodgers were 20 games ahead of the Indians. 18 days later and now they're only 4 games ahead. The Indians could very well take the #1 seed. That's nuts. This reminds me of the Sox in 2005. The fade is occurring at about the same time. They will get the ship righted and start sailing soon. The Indians are hot, and that is great for them, but cooling off is going to happen.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Sep 12, 2017 -> 11:55 AM) This has nothing to do with not liking the guy nor thinking he is bad. Quite opposite actually. To be fair, there were a lot of posts about him being bad or at least well on his way to being bad. It wasn't just Ronnie Woo Woo and his annual Abreu is DFA-worthy thread.

Just in time for the Bulls' tanking...lottery reform.

Covey, Fulmer, Lopez, Giolitto, Shields. 4 rookies and Big Game James. I think the post saying the Sox are being outsmarted about how to tank a couple of days ago, needs to be deleted. If they don't lose, it isn't for a lack of trying.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Sep 11, 2017 -> 01:37 PM) I don't know why the CEO of a movie theater chain would be worried about this. They make most of their money off concessions. Most of the cost of the movie ticket goes to the actual people that made the movie. What they are supposedly worried about is people will get used to the low price, and once Moviepass raises their price to survive or goes away completely, people might not pay what they are paying now. Moviepass is paying the theater full price for the ticket.

You need to be within 100 yards of the theater to buy the ticket. But you could go by in the morning for a show at night. You can only see 1 a day, and never the same one twice. I also have read, and don't know if it's true, that the 1 a day is also 1 in a 24 hour period. I haven't tested this yet. Maybe next weekend, but if you went to an 8pm show on Friday, you couldn't go to a 7 PM show on Saturday. You pick the movie off their app, the AMCs by me are listed, no Arc Light. AMC still gets their money.

QUOTE (bjm676 @ Sep 11, 2017 -> 11:56 AM) I was at the game Saturday night. Really fun game. I've never seen a cycle in person, let alone 6 homers. Even rarer, James Shields allowing only 1 run. Shields and Fulmer really pitched well, although SF looked like a team going through the motions. OTOH, a lack of offense does make you look like you don't really care.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Sep 11, 2017 -> 10:44 AM) I signed up for this about 10 days ago and received an email saying that due to backlog and more orders, I wouldn't receive my card for another 2-3 weeks. I look forward to trying it out. I was a little nervous it wouldn't work, if it's too good to be true it usually is, but for $10 figured it's worth the shot, and it works fine.

https://www.moviepass.com/ This is legit. $9.99 a month. You can see one movie per day. Can't see the same one twice. The only problem is you need to be within 100 yards of the theater to get the ticket. I have used it 3 times so far without a problem. They send you a debit card which they load up, when you use their app to tell them what show you want, and you go buy your ticket with that. No 3D or Imax either, and every theater may not be involved, but most near me are.

It's amazing it's only the 6th cycle in team history. The other amazing thing was last week when the Sox went back to back to start the game, it was only the 3rd time ever they did that.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Sep 11, 2017 -> 08:40 AM) Where do you see this? Not doubting it, just trying to find the schedule myself. Gonzo in the Tribune. It was a Cubs article.

As to Melky, a Melky fan wanted him back. I was anticipating Hahn shutting the door, but he did say it was possible, mentioned his popularity and thought he could be a good guy for young players to learn from, even though he later said it may not be a fit. I think it would require a real team friendly deal. If Melky got a legit offer elsewhere, they aren't going to match it from the sounds of it. The Sox will get a boon to their September attendance next year as the Cubs visit Sept 21-23.

Yesterday the Sox, Cubs and Bears were playing home games at the same time. I wonder how many times that has happened.

It doesn't appear Kevin White's body is cut out for the NFL.

They were doing a live shot in downtown Miami this morning and a couple of clowns rode by on bikes. They had the wind at their backs. I wonder if the morons made it back or if they had another spot to go west.

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Sep 10, 2017 -> 03:07 PM) This team can't do anything right. We can't even lose the right games? Always get out tanked by the smarter teams. Not a chance Fulmer is anywhere near this good. What did the Sox do that was dumb? How were they outsmarted? They benched their best pitcher for draft purposes for crying out loud.

The league has figured out Jose Abreu.

I read an article that mentioned the umpire missed 11 pitches his last start. That can't happen. It is amazing there wasn't more damage,

QUOTE (GermanSock @ Sep 10, 2017 -> 07:31 AM) Problem is that he chases a lot, 35% outside the zone swing rate. He needs to lower that number preferably to under 30%. It was a miracle Davidson got to this level of production. It would take even a bigger one for him to be a key player on a contending team.

Samardzija is Javy Vazquez Jr. Advanced stats love them but it doesn't translate in reality. Wastes of money.

This just in.....Iowa State still sucks.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 8, 2017 -> 12:33 PM) The last time that Rodon had a no big deal injury he missed 3 months. He's about to have a little more than that off anyway.