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1 hour ago, fathom said:
Yeah Texas was first team I thought about. Honestly next team I thought about was Cubs and Hendricks, but that would cause the worst spelling ever on this site.
Those were exactly my first two thoughts as well. Hendricks would be very interesting, though if something like Cease, Madrigal, Heuer and good prospect (as you mentioned in another post) could actually get Woodruff, I think long and hard about making that move. Sign a FA to replace Madrigal, and the Sox do so well with findings relievers, I would feel confident in filling Heuer's spot with an in-house candidate (albeit I do love Heuer and don't expect we'd find an exact match for him - but surely we can find someone who can reasonably get the job done).
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LET'S GOOOOO! Love it. Didn't think the Sox would do it.
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3 hours ago, TomPickle said:
I'm not going to stand for this Logan Forsythe slander
Haha, I went to high school with Logan. I had high hopes after those 2015-2016 seasons, and even though he hasn't been good recently, it was still cool to see him have some success in the big leagues, though he clearly didn't help bmags' fantasy team.
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Wow. Did not expect him to be the next man up, but definitely excited to see him pitch. Bad news on Marshall, though. I'm weary of any shoulder injuries, but hopefully Hahn is being truthful when he says he expects to have him back by the Cubs series.
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46 minutes ago, bmags said:
I'm not sure we can every really just do a "players that went here" thing. If we had those picks, we probably don't trade up for montgomery. We made a lot of trade ups last two years, maybe we end up with a lot more guys, more depth.
Yeah, but if people want to determine a winner/loser on the trade (which I'll admit is nearly impossible b/c of the factors you stated - but I got sucked in, so now here I am), then how else do you do it? It gets too hypothetical guessing who we may or may not have drafted with picks, or not trading other picks. And Pace's 1st round track record is terrible anyway - he's 1 for 4. It's difficult to be that bad when you're drafting in the Top 10 all four of those years.
I'd feel safer with Mack than either of those 2 first round picks we gave up. The other picks are small in terms of draft capital. Plus we got the 2nd rounder back.
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15 minutes ago, thxfrthmmrs said:
If you factor in salary, then it's an L for the Bears. That being said, I am not too worried yet, but Mack really need to step up by a quite a bit. It's been an ongoing trend dating back to late last year.
Who knows what will happen with the salary cap next year, but Mack only accounts for 12% of our cap space this year. We can manage that. Even if the cap stays flat or goes down next year, I expect it will jump again in 2022 and beyond.
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6 hours ago, Chisoxfn said:
Since Pagano came in - the defense has just been soft. Its one game, but if Mack continues to dissapear - Bears are really going to regret that deal and Gruden will have actually been right. If the season goes in shambles (way too early to say at this point and I expect this team to be solid at worse) - I would dangle Mack for picks (you won't get what you gave...but there is absolutely going to be a team or two who would look to acquire him and rekindle his magic - cause the raw tools are still there).
But it is one game - hopefully we see everyone take a step forward against the Giants!
I wouldn't worry too much about Mack yet. Even if he has another year like last year, that's still one of the best pass rushers in the league. I can't say that we'll ever live to regret that deal. The trade ended up being:
Bears receive:
- Khalil Mack
- Cole Kmet
- Arlington Hambright
Raiders receive:
- Josh Jacobs
- Blessuan Austin (this pick was traded to NYJ)
- Damon Arnette
- Bryan Edwards
Jacobs is a very good RB , but I'll take Mack over him any day. And obviously it's too early on Arnette and Edwards, but neither of those guys concern me right now. Guess we can revisit this in a year or two, but I still like our end of the deal.
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The 2000 Sox team is the first I ever followed for an entire season from start to finish - I lived in Tennessee, so I had to follow the team by either 1) reading the box scores in the paper every morning; 2) watching the rare game on TV; or 3) catching highlights on ESPN and/or seeing the score on the ESPN bottom line. I was in 6th grade. That's the team who got me totally hooked on the Sox, so I'll also appreciate them.
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Not concerned in the slightest with Mitch. Training camp discussion filler. Let's see what happens during the regular season.
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23 hours ago, greg775 said:How was she after that? Reliable or not?
Eh, she was definitely more reliable in that she didn't skip work anymore and didn't send me Facebook messages as a means of work communication. Lol. But she wasn't a very good worker.
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12 hours ago, bigruss said:I just had a guy 3 months ago show up for his start date (he was a contractor), he worked the first day. I go home, get a call from physical security at 6:30pm saying his bag and laptop are with them. I'm confused as all hell, but I go in that next morning, pick his stuff up and he doesn't show up at all. I call our contract staff office, they reach out to his vendor and this dude is claiming he lost his luggage on his flight in, so spent Tuesday getting it back. Alright, odd, but I can deal with that. He should have told us he was doing that but first day stuff, whatever.
Well, the dude doesn't show up Wednesday either. We reach out to the vendor, turns out he flew back to Dallas (where he's from) without telling anyone, claiming he got fed up with the airline losing his bag. Now, I have no problem with him taking that 2nd day to get things settled, go buy some clothes at Kohls or something, or shoot just tell me you want to start over next week with fresh clothes and everything, totally would be ok with that. But instead that guy did quite possibly the weirdest thing he could do.
The joys of managing contractors....I just had to fire a guy for travelling and working from China without telling anyone. I work in IT Security, you think we won't catch that or that it's ok to take company property into a country that will absolutely tinker with your machine?
Haha. Good stuff. Some people do strange things.
I once had an intern who did not show up to work on the Friday of her 1st week. Around 11am, I was starting to get concerned. No one at the company knew where she was. About an hour later, her hiring manager gets her on the phone - she's fine. It turns out she sent me a Facebook message at like 7:30am that morning and said she wasn't going to come into work because I hadn't assigned her any work... what?? Sure enough, I log into Facebook (which I never check) and I have a friend request from this girl, along with that message saying she won't be coming in to work. I was floored. Keep in mind she has a company laptop and email, as well as access to my phone # in the company directory. But nah, she decided Facebook was the proper way to contact me. We had a good discussion the next Monday about work etiquette and expectations.
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Excellent. I was planning to go watch the Knights this weekend since they're playing outside of Atlanta. Now I really need to make it happen with Madrigal getting called up.
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On 4/8/2019 at 9:45 AM, NorthSideSox72 said:
I've done the Vatican - it is the only one on the list I've been to. Lux is the one I am least excited about, as others have said something similar - that it just isn't all that different from other places around it.
That's a cool trip idea. Compared to the others, I can understand why Luxembourg would seem the least exciting. That said, I liked it when I went. It was in July, so the weather was nice, warm, sunny. That always helps. I'm glad I went, but I never felt the need to go back even though it was about 2 hours from where I lived.
Also, this would be unrelated to the idea of your trip... but if you have any interest in WWII, or Band of Brothers, Bastogne is very close to Luxembourg. It's maybe a 45 minute drive.
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10 hours ago, caulfield12 said:
Once upon a time, the White Sox had their minor league affiliate there.
John Danks might stop by for a visit, lol.
Can't remember if it was AA (Southern League) or AAA, the team's changed affiliations now a number of times...when I was growing up and then got a job working for the Augusta GreenJackets (Sally League), they were firmly-entrenched with the REDS.
Seems they were a Sox affiliate in the mid to late 80's, if I'm remembering correctly. Then we were with Birmingham.
Yep, there seems to be a higher-than-normal contingent of Sox fans in Nashville (over the age of 30 anyway) due to that old affiliation we had. The Braves dominate the south, but I know some guys who are Sox fans because they grew up going to those minor league games and saw future White Sox players all the time.
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25 minutes ago, Rowand44 said:
Nashville is awesome. If I ever decide to get out of St. Louis that’s where I’m moving.
Same. I've been thinking about moving to Nashville for years. If I ever leave Atlanta, Nashville (along with Austin) is at the top of my list.
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6 minutes ago, maggsmaggs said:
Sox had the best chance in the history of this franchise to add an elite, HOF-type talent in the prime of his career when not many teams in the race and their hands were not tied financially. And they blew it. F this loser organization to the core.
Well said. The stars aligned for this to be our one chance get that type of free agent. The typical big money teams (Red Sox, Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers) weren't in on it, and we still couldn't get it done. I'm disgusted and embarrassed to be a Sox fan.
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So it ended up being the same amount of years and dollars that has been expected for like a year... Glad we wasted an entire off-season to get to that point.
And what's the point of having tons of payroll flexibility if we aren't going to spend it? If we won't pay for Machado now, we will never get a big time free agent with the current ownership group.
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Damn. What a joke.
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Good stuff. Always cool when y'all get the players to guest-write.
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2 hours ago, bmags said:
Probably in minority but I'd rather every bears game be at noon on sunday.
Absolutely. And I feel this way even more now that I'm living in Europe. Games start at 7pm here. So it's like Sunday Night Football every week.
I struggled the first 2 weeks of the year. The next day at work was awful. I was going to bed at 6am, sleeping for 2 hours, and then going into work.
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17 hours ago, Soxbadger said:
What festival? (Im guessing Bonnaroo?)
And Ive seen him 2x. The first was for Yeezus at United Center with Kendrick Lamar as the opener. Kanye was fantastic (he did rant but that is part of his show) and I always regret I didnt get better seats. The second time was his last tour (also United Center). I got much better seats, but he wasnt into the performance at all. It was right after Kim was robbed. He showed up an hour late, didnt rant and seemed out of it. So that show is pretty unmemorable.
So I can completely understand mixed reviews for his performances.
Yep, it was Bonnaroo. Interesting to hear that his normal tour shows can be hit or miss. I sort of understand the festival mishap. Some artists try a little less when in the festival setting. But I wouldn't expect that as much when you're paying full price for his show specifically.
Speaking of Kendrick, I've heard the same with him. I saw him play and he was fantastic. But I've heard people who weren't impressed with his show. Generally, I think rap is tougher to perform in a live setting.
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On 8/20/2018 at 7:25 PM, Soxbadger said:
First album was Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction
First concert was Foo Fighters at Metro in 1994.
Best performances Rolling Stones, Roger Waters. David Gilmour and Kanye West. In the last few years Ive probably been to 50+ shows (more if you count each act at a festival.)
I'm a bit envious that Kanye is in your best performances. He's among my worst. Dude stopped performing and talked for over 20 minutes about a bunch of nonsense and got boo'd. He chanted "Fuck the press. Write what you want" for probably 3 minutes straight at one point. Just over and over. Half the venue was gone less than an hour into the set, including myself, because he wouldn't perform. But I feel like that's so Kanye. He just does whatever he wants.
Fortunately, this was at a music festival, so we just went to get good spots up front for a late night show.
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First concert was The Wallflowers.
For the life of me, I cannot remember my first album. DMB's Under the Table & Dreaming, if not my 1st album, was one of my first, so I'll go with that. I had a lot more mixtapes and/or burned CDs once those came about. I preferred making my own so I could choose what I wanted.
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10 hours ago, Chisoxfn said:
I don't get it? Why is this "only the bulls". What did they do that is so bad? They are committed to paying what they view as a reasonable price for Nwaba and if he gets overpaid / too much, they aren't going to pay it and offer a different path. Part of this is negotiation but part of it is pure strategy and ensuring that David Nwaba isn't the reason you don't have 2 max spots next year.
I'm with you. We don't have any reason to blame GarPax on Nwaba yet. Though the key word is "yet" - I still have zero faith in them until they start making moves that prove they are capable of building a winner. But we'll see.
I'll judge the move once we have any idea of what kind of money Nwaba is asking for. I'm assuming it's more than any of us would like.
NFL Thread 2020-2021
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Agreed. My biggest concern if the power structure stays the exact same is that GMs and coaches make short-sighted, bad decisions when they're trying to save their jobs. We're in salary cap hell and I'm tired of kicking the can down the road. The team is going to be worse next year regardless, so I'd rather take our lumps and put ourselves in better cap position in 2022. But I'm afraid Pace will mortgage the future to save his job - e.g. restructuring deals to have bigger cap hits in future years and handing out big contracts to aging veterans (i.e. like he did last year with Robert Quinn). I'm also afraid he'll continue his ways of trading future drafts picks (and/or multiple draft picks) to move up in the draft to get "his guy," which has consistently not worked out. When he's forced to just keep the pick we have, he's actually drafted really well (outside of Round 1, which is a major problem itself that he screwed up 3 top 10 picks, but I won't go down that path right now).