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QUOTE (Cali @ Feb 12, 2013 -> 11:41 AM) How does everyone else look? Also, didn't these guys really take pride in themselves for 2007 being almost 100% right? Like as a sign that they know what the Sox will always do? Even though they've been wrong most of the time? (or am I thinking of someone else who got full of themselves projection-wise) Will Carroll with BP predicted the Sox to go 72-90 in 2007 and nailed it perfectly, and then he gloated about it because White Sox fans ripped him. The year before he predicted them to do well, but in 2005 he predicted them to win about 70 games again and then they won the World Series. He's an idiot because he suggested it would be largely due to a terrible, terrible pitching staff with a mediocre offense, when the pitching staff was actually pretty good and the offense was absolutely terrible (though the bullpen was pretty terrible that year outside of Jenks). He then predicted something similar in 2008 and ate s*** again. Will Carroll is smart but he's a small, bitter man.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 12, 2013 -> 11:08 AM) On a side not, I bet my manager that Bourn would make over $8m per year, easiest $5 I've ever made. You should have tried to leverage it into $20 or $50. EDIT: Oh, but not easier than the $10 I made last year. A's fan predicted Manny Ramirez would lead the league in doubles, knowing full well he was suspended. I gave him 10:1 odds at $10 that it wouldn't happen.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 12, 2013 -> 10:43 AM) Only people that don't give 110% effort say that. People that say that about people who talk about 110% don't give 110%. Also, pretty sure I just gave 110%.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 12, 2013 -> 10:32 AM) "I don't have a set date," he said. "I'm not coming back until I'm 110%. Who knows when that can be? It can be within a couple of weeks. It could be next year. It could be any day. It could be any time. It's just that I'm not coming back until I'm ready." Rose said that "right now" he's "probably in the high 80s" when asked to give a percentage, adding that he is "far away" from a return. As an aside, I hate this phrase. Just say 100%. You can't physically give or be at 110%.

QUOTE (jhonnydanks @ Feb 12, 2013 -> 09:52 AM) don't stop get it get it IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE BACK

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Feb 12, 2013 -> 08:56 AM) You're right about the White Sox (at least I hope you are), but Cleveland now has an experienced manager who knows how to win, and an excited fanbase that will probably start showing up to the Jake in droves, which will give them more money to spend at the deadline. The pitching is still incredibly suspect. I honestly think it's going to be a race for 2nd place anyways, but crazier things have happened. So long as Ventura continues the work he did last year, the Sox are going to be the most fundamentally sound team in the Central once again.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 12, 2013 -> 08:51 AM) Instead of making the game safer, the NFL just needs to admit that they now realize the game is dangerous. Make every player sign a waiver excusing you from future liability. If the contracts stay in the millions of dollars, I'm sure guys will still line up to play despite the long-term risks. The "safer" you make the game, the more fans you will end up losing in the long run. I was thinking of a waiver myself. All sports should make you sign it. Long time NBA players have to have just terrible ankles and knees, while baseball players end up with terrible backs and shoulders. That's not to say you should stop trying to make technological advancements that improve the health of players, both short and long term, but quit changing the game.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Feb 12, 2013 -> 08:31 AM) At least the Cleveland is trying to improve. It seems like every team in the AL Central made improvements except the White Sox. Your avi is distracting as hell. But it's a good distraction Cleveland went from a 72 win team to an 82 win team, and in the process spent about $120 million. Just like the Royals, who probably went from a 75 win team to an 82 win team. The Sox, meanwhile, have kept their resources so they can spend them at a later time. In the meantime, they upgraded the overall production of 3B last year, added a bullpen arm, and made a couple key resignings. They are trying to build a group that will be able to play into the future, and resigning Youkilis was never going to provide that, and resigning a 35 year old Pierzynski was never going to provide that.

This is like going to the bar to try and hook up with a super hot chick and ending the night with a handjob from a fat chick. It's NOT what you were hoping for, but it'll do.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 12, 2013 -> 07:37 AM) Redick's been fine this year, but you're not dumping a s*** contract and getting a top 10 pick for him. Carlos Boozer has been pretty good this year too, the Bulls should try and get a Melo for him.

Also, they will move to 3 downs, they're making the endzone 20 yards long, and there aren't any more touchbacks. To prevent touchbacks, you have to do some stupid kicky thingy. Football is an inherently dangerous sport. At some point, you begin ruining the integrity of the game with this BS you come up with. If players are now unaware that they can face incredible long term head trauma from playing the game of football, then they are at their own risk.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Feb 11, 2013 -> 03:56 PM) Who are these 6'10 forwards that move like guards? Kevin Durant and? The players are stronger now (although the average size of an NBA player hasn't really changed since the 90s) and the league as a whole is probably a little faster but I don't think that has changed all that much. And we are talking 30+ years ago having one of the best PGs (who, given, was a freak of nature himself) that was 6'9''. This kind of freak of nature has existed before.

QUOTE (Tex @ Feb 11, 2013 -> 03:13 PM) As I said before, I have a lot of empathy for people who have little or no choice in where the work. I do when said people make $250K or less. Three quick examples - lobbyists, scouts, and journalists - sometimes do have to travel anywhere and everywhere for their jobs, and have to be away from their family for days and weeks on end while being compensated relatively weakly. Mark Buehrle is going to get paid $48 million (before taxes) over the next 3 years, and he will have time to go visit the family too every now and then too. I'm far more empathetic towards the minor leaguers involved.

http://www.southsidesox.com/minors/2013/2/..._medium=twitter To me, this is a look into the mind and view of where the Sox plan on heading in the next few years. Refocusing as much as they have on the minor league system is going to pay off tremendously down the road for them, even if they struggle this year.

I'm gonna snag that SSS article and post it in Pale Hose Talk, because it seems relevant to me. Hahn doing "nothing" is Hahn saving money so they can continue to incorporate it into building a minor league system. Absolutely love the Laumann quote too... And they really were drafting a "safe" player when drafting a guy like Jared Mitchell. He's got a shot to be a good player, but right now he screams platoon/4th outfielder. But Courtney Hawkins, Keon Barnum, and virtually the entire 2012 draft sort of signal that.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 11, 2013 -> 01:34 PM) Tommie was a pretty good pick, that is true. It was a shame that injury happened to him. Olsen would have been a awesome pick if the Bears OCs knew what to do with him. Instead he was Cutlers outlet(ie. his Brandon Marshall) and then shipped out with no foresight. So many large misteps in Angelos reign of terror, it is hard to remember the few good things I assume among those good things you are considering Rex Grossman.

I like Danks, but he isn't in the same solar system as the other two talent wise.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Feb 11, 2013 -> 10:30 AM) Well, when you put it that way! I aim to please.

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QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Feb 11, 2013 -> 10:07 AM) No reason you couldn't think of him as Placido Polanco too.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 11, 2013 -> 07:49 AM) Howard has done nothing this season to deserve the attention you are saying he does. The Lakers cant afford to let Dwight get time to get past his little childish hissy fit that has been going on for the last two seasons. I wouldnt pass it to him either, he has been brutal this season. I would pass it to Dwight Howard, but that is because I am terrible at basketball.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Feb 10, 2013 -> 06:16 PM) How about Reid Brignac ? He can play a pretty good shortstop. He's pretty terrible offensively though.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Feb 10, 2013 -> 04:31 PM) Former Bears GM Jerry Angelo believes the two most "intoxicating and overrated trait(s) that teams use to justify their draft picks is speed and/or athletic ability." Angelo believes "speed and raw talent are the real separators between the average and above players," so teams generally fall for players with that natural athleticism. However, Angelo goes on to write that "there are much better ways to evaluate a football player than on just speed or athleticism." Per Rotoworld Says the man who sucked at drafting for Da Bears. He sucked at drafting in the 1st round. I'm not sure any team produced more starting and impact caliber players in rounds 2-7 than the Bears did during his tenure.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Feb 9, 2013 -> 01:50 PM) Anyone else think this means the Bears are asking him to move outside to DE? No, it's him trying to increase his value to all teams, which means more money.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 8, 2013 -> 05:10 PM) And gave one of the most epic trade meltdowns in Soxtalk history. Because Aaron Miles was God's gift to baseball. Pretty sure I was probably pissed about it too.