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The Cardinals should easily make the Super Bowl. No idea about the AFC, the Patriots had it locked down but can't stay healthy.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 26, 2015 -> 07:40 PM) This is a bizarre thread. Are the white sox particularly unusual in having only 1 player playing CF while most teams switch their CFs out? Because I simply sorted teams in the AL by WAR in CF, the stat listed in the thread title, and found the White Sox overall CF is in the bottom 1/3 of the American league over 2014-2015 and looking particularly mediocre with Eaton Team WAR Angels 16.6 Royals 15.1 Rays 14.6 Red Sox 9.8 Astros 8.7 Yankees 8.1 Orioles 7.9 Indians 7.9 Blue Jays 7.4 White Sox 6.6 Athletics 5.5 Rangers 5.4 Tigers 5.1 Twins 5 Mariners 0.4 To be fair, the thread is about OPS+. The top three teams in WAR have Trout, Cain, and Kiermaier, the holy trilogy of outfield defense. How would the teams rank based on OPS+ from the center field position?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 24, 2015 -> 12:24 PM) It amazes me a 32 baseball player is now considered old. If Gordon signed with the White Sox, he would be over a year younger than Carlton Fisk when he signed with the White Sox, and he caught. Carlton Fisk is not the norm you should base your personnel decisions on. Also, greenies and steroids are no longer legal. You can't just compare eras that simply.

So P.K. Subban seems like a pretty good dude. (Warning: this video may cause tears) https://twitter.com/PKSubban1/status/679990515954102272

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Dec 24, 2015 -> 07:54 AM) Edit: sorry not Hossa. All the other FAs that summer. I had almost forgotten about this,but the link below explains this better than I ever could. It wasn't the deal itself but a potentially costly misstep the Blackhawks leveraged to fire Tallon. This was all despite the obvious sentiment that Bowman was groomed as his replacement all along. http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_dadd...?urn=nhl,174746 Yeah, the qualifying offer mishap definitely got Tallon out the door quicker. Pretty convenient timing for the Hawks if you do believe Bowman was getting the job one way or another.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 10:53 PM) Yeah, I don't see it as a bad deal at all, YET. When it was signed, the key was always if he retires after the 2016-2017 season. As many know, in the final 4 years of the deal, Hossa is scheduled to make one million each season, but obviously the cap hit stays at 5.275. I still think it's sort of trending that way, that he hangs them up after that season is over. If that happens, the deal was an absolute home run. If he hangs around when he is 38, 39, ect, they have a huge problem. That's not true anymore though. Those old deals were not grandfathered into the post-lockout CBA. If Hossa retires early, the Hawks will face cap penalties for those extra years to "recapture" the cap savings from the earlier years of the contract. Not franchise-crippling penalties, but they could be a couple million. I would have to look up the exact numbers later (RIP CapGeek). I know that if Roberto Luongo retires early, the Canucks will face cap penalties even though he is now a Florida Panther. That being said, the deal was signed under the old CBA, looked like a great deal and was key to winning 3 Cups, so I'm still confused as to what "mishandling" the previous posts were referring to with Hossa.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 09:50 PM) I also wonder if Casey Close is using the Sox as leverage against the Royals. Not saying that's the case at all, but I wonder... If he is any good as an agent, I would hope he is. That being said, money talks and there is a certain figure Gordon needs to stay in Kansas City. They don't seem willing to reach it yet.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 10:10 PM) Yes. The "organization mishandling" of the Hossa deal was the excuse the Blackhawks needed to fire Dale Tallon and put in Stan Bowman (good move). The Campbell contract was early on in McDonough's tenure and everyone knew it was a bad deal. That being said, the Campbell contract was honestly better than the Bickell one is for the Hawks now. What was the mishandling of the Hossa deal?

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 10:15 PM) No worries. I often try to forget the Campbell contract. The thing is Campbell was a solid player. He was just being paid double what he should have.. At the time though, it was the only way to get established talent to Chicago.

My brother in law's neighbor's cousin's daughter's teammate's mom tweeted that Saad f***ed Rozsival 's sister. That's why Saad was traded.

From that Heyman link:

We signed an outfielder!!!! Chicago White Sox ‏@whitesox 2m2 minutes ago #WhiteSox have claimed outfielder Jerry Sands off waivers from the Cleveland Indians.

QUOTE (South Sider @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 08:17 AM) I'm not like most Hawks fans who are Bowman apologists who think he is the most brilliant mind in the NHL. Even so, it's pretty clear what happened here. There was no "negotiation". There never should have been one, because the Hawks absolutely, positively had to unload Sharp. If a GM pays a dear price for a player that a team has literally zero choice but to trade, then they are an idiot, no matter how good the player. There was no leverage whatsoever for Bowman to even have negotiations. Jim Nill, credit where it's due, stuck to his guns. But that's what he should have done. That's what every other GM in the league should have done. Basically, they tell Stan Bowman "this is the deal, take it or leave it." Bowman can try to negotiate, but the counter to that is "Look, we know the position you are in and you have no leverage. You have no choice but to accept our (terrible) deal or violate the league salary cap". Knowing that, I give Jim Nill credit for actually being the GM that acquired Sharp, but beyond that I don't give him credit for shrewd negotiations because his play was so obvious that even someone like I could see that this was really the only way this could transpire. The big mistake by Bowman was acquiring a player who his coach had zero interest in playing. Obviously we have no idea what other offers were on the table, but Daley & Q was never gonna work.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Dec 22, 2015 -> 09:56 PM) "Dallas won't win in the central" They are a completely different level. Well Eddie O thinks they are one, maybe two D men short. Because you know the Hawks are so deep on the blue line

None of this is gonna matter after the Stars get upset by another Central team in the first round.

Goal Sharpie! Oh, wait... Corey had some nice saves in the 2nd, but probably should have saved both goals

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 22, 2015 -> 09:23 PM) It was the weirdest forced/chosen retirement I can recall. Iirc he didn't want to take less than a certain amount, and I think he didn't want to DH Looking at his stats, he was a lot better hitter in his last season than I remember. .793 OPS, 105 wRC+, 27 HRs, I remember him being done. That being said, his defensive numbers look atrocious on Fangraphs for his last 4 seasons

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Dec 22, 2015 -> 02:39 PM) Tonight feels like one of those games where the Hawks get blown out and everyone overreacts by saying things like "should have kept Sharp" or "bench dat bum Crawford!" Imagine if there is somehow a Niemi no-no tonight, too, the meatheads might explode. Can't remember the last time I was this intrigued by a regular season game, hoping to catch a good portion of it.

Sure they can. To quote the great Jake Taylor, "Just win the whole f***ing thing". Do that 2 or 3 times, then you might steal the city.

He seems like your typical grindy Cardinals FA signing who will end up awesome for them.

QUOTE (LDF @ Dec 21, 2015 -> 12:35 PM) i really wouldn't trust the hawks luck against, Dallas, Kings, and a lot of the eastern teams. The East? Really?

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Dec 21, 2015 -> 11:49 AM) Seriously though, can anyone beat the Hawks in a 7 game series? Only team that can imo is the Kings. I bet Varlamov and the Avalanche can but luckily they won't be in the playoffs anyway.

This is supposedly the card Steve Harvey was given. Not to take away blame from him, but I could see how somebody could screw it up.

QUOTE (LDF @ Dec 19, 2015 -> 10:14 AM) no, 4.5 mil for bickell, 4.0 mil for Johansen, send back Dano plus and the hawks will get a player who is an elite player.... certitude with several yrs under his belt, not a player who needs to get motivated to play his game. That would be a fireable offense if Columbus made that trade.

I picked a good time to watch my rare Bulls game. Let's Go 5 OTs, this is fun!