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WHY IS CARCILLO STILL ON THIS TEAM. Nice to see Darling back, but yeah, a TVR return would be great right about now.

A lady came to work today in a shiny red Tesla Model S. I talked her ear off about my obsession with Tesla, both the car company and the inventor (latter led to the former). My next car WILL be a Tesla Model 3.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 30, 2014 -> 09:37 AM) Also go to multiple dealerships if you can. I browsed 3-4 infiniti dealerships back in the day by different owners and they bent over to beat the other one's offer. I firmly believe in having a good relationship with a sales guy or manager and going back for repeat business as well. They are less likely to f*** you if they know you will be the type that will come back after a good deal. That's what my dad does when he buys cars. He sends an email out at the end of the month to all the local dealerships and says he is looking for "xxx". He CC's them all on the email so they can see that they are now engaged in competition with other dealerships. He always gets cars that end up below cost.

QUOTE (dewssox79 @ Feb 21, 2015 -> 12:28 PM) They really need back end defensive help badly. Glencross makes sense. Im curious if Shaw gets dealt. Trading Sharp would be cool. I've only been asking for that for about 2 years now.

Well, no one had any advice on how to recover my LG G2 backup file, so I just decided to go in to Best Buy, but a $650 LG G3, headed over to Chilis for dinner w/ my laptop and restored my backup file on the G2. Then I copied all the files off the phone on my laptop, factory reset the phone, and brought it back to Best Buy 2 hours later. Easy.

QUOTE (MEANS @ Feb 21, 2015 -> 07:03 AM) I thought the girl (Kim, I think) was 17? Ok, apparently she is 18. I was getting confused because he said that line about being 18 to drink, and I was thinking that meant because they had a fake ID that they were under 18, and she looked about 14. I just rewatched the scene and Phillip says to them "You ARE 18, right?", and a girl in the back says "Yeah, we go to Georgetown". So I guess it's not that gross. Still makes me uncomfortable though. She looks like a child.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 21, 2015 -> 12:56 AM) Abreu at an 84 is a f***ing joke. Rizzo is an 86.

Carson Fulmer is from Lakeland, FL. I think that just about settles it.

Vandy Baseball ‏@VandyBaseball Final line for Fulmer: 5 IP, 4 H, 2R/2ER, 2 BB, 6 K

QUOTE (beautox @ Feb 20, 2015 -> 11:35 PM) I'm really looking forward to how this draft shakes out, It appears to be very heavy on college pitching, solid on high school pitching/hitting and very light on collegiate hitting. With the sox picking at 8 and then all the way at 114 and a bonus pool of $5,540,051 it'll be very interesting to see how Hahn and company go about this draft. Personally I like Fulmer a lot, weird arm action, elite stuff and under-sized; all the underpinnings that scream white sox. I'm hoping the sox sign him or if a top arm falls similar to a Lucas Giolito situation snatch him up. If Fulmer is the pick I hope they can sign him under slot a bit and land a Bryce Montes de Oca type. Last years assigned value for #8 was $3,190,800 nearly 58% of the pool this year. The latest Fangraphs Audio with Kylie McDaniel they were discussing that exact AB last year. They said Chris Reed was the best hitter in all of college last year and he just aced him out of the bullpen in that AB. They said Fulmer has the weirdest, most alarming mechanics of all the top college arms. Then McDaniel's said that he is done discounting players with painful deliveries because he has been wrong so far about Tyler Danish. Made me think Fulmer would be such a perfect fit for us. But then again, Ian Happ is doing big things so far. Hitting about .500 through 5 games with 2 HR and 5 RBI.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 20, 2015 -> 02:38 PM) To me, this season has been the worst by far. Nothing really interesting as opposed to the first two seasons. I'm just disappointed that we are halfway through this season and we have yet to see the conversation with Paige that they brought up at the end of last season. That's the biggest thing I am waiting to see.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 20, 2015 -> 01:30 PM) That's just some idiot on Operation Sports. There's no way the Cubs are actually #2. Yeah, I updated my later post. Apparently that was just some random guy at OS who made those rankings based on how excited he is to play those teams. Doesn't explain how the Sox and Padres are 22nd and 23rd, but whatever, at least they aren't official.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 20, 2015 -> 09:45 AM) It is Oscar Gamble days until pitchers and catchers report. That was my choice today, but I couldn't find any pics of him wearing #0 with the Sox.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 20, 2015 -> 10:16 AM) I know they have offered him less, but I believe this is the target his people are aiming at. Is this why a month ago you told us that you thought an extension was imminent? People thought he would have signed that lower deal they offered him?

QUOTE (3GamesToLove @ Feb 20, 2015 -> 07:45 AM) Probably the protagonist needing to seduce a teenage girl? Absolutely. Phillip seducing a 14 year old is gross, in my opinion.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 19, 2015 -> 11:14 PM) It's insane how overrated the Cubs prospects are. Edwards in the top 40 and McKinney almost 10 spots higher than Anderson is just comical. It's still surprising to me that Montas isn't considered a top 100 guy. Don't forget Schwarber is #19. Baseball America is slurping Cubbie Kool-aid HEAVY.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Feb 20, 2015 -> 12:44 AM) I'll be there from March 20th - 25th with the whole family - renting a 4,000 sq foot estate on 2 acres in Phoenix. That timeline on your map? I'd love to get my rusty golf shoes on with ya to have some daddy / bro time. Paul Konerko has a 16,000 sq ft. place in Scottsdale you may be able to rent.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Feb 20, 2015 -> 12:33 AM) Not a big fan of shows/movies that are based before I was even born. I don't like shows/movies FILMED before I was born. I find them often corny and low budget. But I love movies set in the times before I was born. The only real difference in this show that dates it is the cars, TVs, and lack of cell phones. They don't talk any different, the clothes aren't much different, and they still have computers/cell phones. I don't know, I guess if it doesn't interest you then that's fine, I just don't find it a hard adjustment to make. It's not a Boardwalk Empire period piece.

No more days until P&C report! It's here!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 19, 2015 -> 06:43 PM) 18 months ago he was considered one of the top 5 prospects in the game. Hope he makes it back, but you never know. This would definitely seem to push him to 2B when he does come back. I would say they screwed up that top prospect for top prospect swap proposed by the Cardinals a couple years back, but that other prospect was Oscar Tavares...soo....

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 19, 2015 -> 11:23 PM) What about 5/120? I wouldn't be happy, but I'd hope we have a new TV deal in place or Jerry wins the lottery by that point.

The Devs of The Show do a live-stream every Thursday. Today's they did Cubs/Pirates game. Some of the ratings I saw for Cubs pitcherss...... Lester - 89, Arrieta - 84, Hammel/Wood - 79. For reference, I think Sale was like a 92, Samardzija was an 81, and Q was a 74 I think. So they think Arrieta is better than Shark (could be, but seems premature to say that), and Hammel and Wood are almost as good as Samardzija, and both better than Quintana. f***ing laughable.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 19, 2015 -> 09:23 PM) I'd guess 5/140ish with an option if I was a betting man. Yeah, I want NO part of that. Shave about $30M off that deal and I'd be okay.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Feb 19, 2015 -> 07:09 PM) Where did you see that? Operation Sports. http://www.operationsports.com/features/21...report-edition/ EDIT: The guy behind these rankings has reacted to all the hate over the Cubs ranking to inform us that these are HIS rankings, and not those of the game, even though the description of the rankings hints at that. He said he ranks the Cubs number 2 because of how exciting they are. Still a terrible ranking, but at least this won't affect anyone but his reputation when the Cubs are still a sub .500 team.

One of the PS+ free games of February is Thief. Was supposed to be a huge game when PS4 launched, but it got very "meh" reviews. But for free, I'll definitely download it.