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I'd rather have Rose take one of those predictable step back jumpers than have Gasol shoot a 3.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Dec 17, 2015 -> 11:43 PM) Worse than Avi? Here's a gif of Avi playing RF last season, I ripped from mlb.tv:

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Dec 18, 2015 -> 09:12 AM) Ken Rosenthal just said on MLBN that an O's beat writer said that the O's aren't spending 100 million+ on a player other than Chris Davis. So now, that is the Angels, Giants, Cardinals, and O's now out on the big OFs. That leaves the Sox, Nationals, Tigers, and Royals that have reported interest in the big 3 OFs. I doubt the Royals will want to spend $100+ million on any of the big name OFers. They've been rumored to offer Gordon something like $12 million a year, which is ludicrous. He's worth at least 4 years and $80 million or 5 years and $100 million. And that's very fair market value at that.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 17, 2015 -> 08:28 PM) Kudos to Lillian for not falling back on the whole LH fascination and advocating for Alex Gordon, haha. (It's pretty amazing how quiet things have actually been on that front, compared to Cespedes and Upton. All you hear is/was what the Cardinals and KC SUPPOSEDLY offered him or initially wanted to offer him, but even that's pretty much unconfirmed. Lots of rumors.) I think the Sox need a guy like Gordon more than Cespedes or Upton. We lack defense and the ability to get on base and Gordon does those two things very well. He may lack power, but between Abreu and Frazier, I think we will have enough pop. The only problem is that Gordon's older (32 when the season starts), a lot of his value comes from his defense, and he's had a issue with his wrist the past few years.

I'd rather give the money to Upton. More likely to walk and 2 years younger. Even in his poor years, he posted around a 110 wRC+. I think he's a much safer pick. He hit 15 homers in Petco last year and a move to the Cell should put him at around 30-35 homes overall.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 17, 2015 -> 04:19 PM) His career OBP is under .330 and last year it was .309. It is the one thing I don't like about Frazier (all of the other pluses outweigh this negative though). Even with that in mind, he posted a .342 wOBA and a +4 WAR. Unless something catastrophic happens, he should post something close to 3 WAR.

Frazier's pretty bad second half has me concerned, but he did the same thing in 2014 and still had a good first half in 2015. I just want a guy who can hit 30 home runs and get on at a .330 clip at third. I think more likely than not, Frazier can deliver that for the next two years.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Dec 17, 2015 -> 10:03 AM) Mourinho sacked. One of the best managers in Europe over the past 10 years gets fired for one bad season. Coaching in soccer is tough. Chelsea has more issues than its manager right now I think His last interview pretty much sealed the deal. The team doesn't want to play for him anymore. It's so weird that they can go from first to near relegation in such a short amount of time.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Nov 26, 2015 -> 11:36 PM) Officiating was just horrendous. Somehow we still won. There were a bunch of blatant holds the Packers got away with that the Bears did not, specifically on one where Young got held on a long scramble by Rodgers.

Even when he was terrible last year at the plate, he got on at a .340 clip. So there's that.

Ryan Howard? Seriously? I'd rather keep LaRoche and hope he can rebound than be stuck with Howard.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Nov 22, 2015 -> 03:10 PM) Broncos did the same thing though. Doesn't mean we should have.

Foregoing that FG earlier cost us the game.

We didn't even try to run the ball once at the 4. Ugh.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Nov 21, 2015 -> 07:13 PM) Is it also on Netflix? Amazon only. For those interested in history or alt-history, it'll be really interesting.

Binged the rest of The Man in the High Castle today. If you have Amazon Prime, it's a must-watch.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Nov 21, 2015 -> 02:08 AM) It's frustrating because sometimes when I turn it on, it gets past the ATT boot and says "Android is optimizing apps...." and then it starts counting towards 93 (the number of apps I have). But at some point it freezes and restarts and then won't get back to that screen. It gives me hope every time it starts doing that, and then it never comes through. My phone is under a year old, so I am not concerned about having a broken phone. I'm concerned about losing my photos/videos that weren't backed up. Plus I would have loved to not have to do all those settings and widgets and custom stuff I did on it. It sounds like you soft-bricked your phone. Have you tried manually reflashing the firmware?

QUOTE (coco1997 @ Nov 20, 2015 -> 09:49 AM) Yankees, Cubs Have Discussed Trade Involving Brett Gardner, Starlin Castro I hope the Yankees realize that Castro isn't a SS long-term. More likely a 2B.

It's hard to argue against Arrieta, he was the middle ground between Kershaw and Greinke. Kershaw had the best peripherals, but his first half "struggles" (for him at least) really skewed his ERA. He was almost just a dominant as Arrieta down the stretch. He had an FIP of 1.47 an ERA of 1.31 in the second half. Even though Arrieta had a 0.75 ERA in the second half, his FIP was a half run higher than Kershaw's. Arrieta's BABIP dropped from .279 in the first half to .205 in the second half. Kershaw had his drop from .305 to .251, but there's still nearly a 50 point BABIP difference between the two. Greinke had the best ERA and was probably the luckiest. IMO, he might have been the least talented pitcher of the 3, but in reality, he was probably more effective than any of them this past year. Pitching's about run prevention and Greinke did that the best between these 3. His incredibly low BABIP might be lucky, but you have to realize he pitched in front of almost the same defense as Kershaw. Of course, different pitchers have different tendencies and may or may not play to the strength of the weaknesses of the defense. It's hard to measure all of these things, but I think I can say that I have no issues with Greinke losing out. I personally think Kershaw was the best pitcher, but I have no issue with Arrieta winning given how dominant he was in the second half. The weird thing is is that Kershaw, in some aspects, was better than Arietta in the same time frame, yet we didn't hear nearly as much about him. If anything, this just means the Cubs will have to pay more for Arrieta during arbitration and when he reaches free agency in 2018.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Nov 15, 2015 -> 01:50 AM) Tough to please everybody in a giant country with different climates, different nationalities, different issues spread out over an entire continent. "But look at Sweden!!!!". Lunacy. Sweden is the size of Bridgeport and almost everybody is Swedish. One has to look no further than our very own Illinois to realize how crazy an idea it is to emulate something like Sweden. Try pleasing both rural Ilinois and Chicago Illinois with policy. Then also get 49 other states with similar disparities on board. It's amazing anything has ever gotten done. Bridgeport: 2.1 sq miles, population of 31,000 Sweden: 175,896 sq miles, population of 10,000,000. Did you confuse Sweden with Luxembourg?

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 16, 2015 -> 02:53 PM) Hah, I actually found that to be bad news. Manning has been awful. Osweiller may be better, and "below average" qb with that defense is very dangerous. I mean, he was absolutely horrendous yesterday, but he was pretty damn good against the Packers. I'd rather play Osweiler than a healthy Manning.

Manning out for the game this week against the Bears. Maybe the Bears can actually go 5-5.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Nov 16, 2015 -> 01:11 PM) There are fundamentalists everywhere, but the problem with Islam is that a not insignificant number of moderate Muslims hold extreme views by our standards. The sample size in that poll isn't very large at 600 and I'm not sure about the soundness of the methodology behind the poll, but even if the true percentages are half of what the poll says, those are troubling numbers. https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/201...-shariah-jihad/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/1...terrorists.html You should probably read up on that first source you referenced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Security_Policy

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Nov 14, 2015 -> 07:18 PM) From that Christian part of the world where they are cutting off people's heads while simultaneously orchestrating mass terror plots and proclaiming "death to the west"? I agree with you. There's a lot of Christian terrorists in Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism Any religion, when looked at by dumbass fundamentalists, can turn bad.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 15, 2015 -> 10:20 AM) I'm not worried about something on this scale happening in the US. In a similar concert venue in the US, those terrorists kill at most ten people before concert-goers who are carrying take them out. In Europe, citizens aren't carrying so there's nobody to stop them from shooting the body count up to a hundred. Real life is nothing like Call of Duty.