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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 07:10 PM) MotoX has been at 299 with various promotional codes a few different times. I'm talking about the new one. The old one is pretty cheap. I got a 32 GB for $350 a few months back.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 06:58 PM) The new Moto X will probably become price competitive with Nexus 5 off contract after a little while It's $499 off-contract right now. I bet it'll drop to around $400 or maybe even $350 come thanksgiving.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 04:47 PM) Eh...not that interested in getting a 1 yr old phone, unless they drop the price more after the new one comes out. You can get one for about $300 right now. I've seen some good deals on eBay here and there. I'm sure it'll drop to around $250 once the 6 comes out.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 02:13 PM) Chris Boden ‏@CSNBoden 1m1 minute ago CORRECTION: #Bears Allen says he STILL NEEDS to regain 12 of 15 lbs. he lost to pneumonia but confident he'll play Sun. #BearsTalk #BadMath He lost 15 pounds that quickly? Damn.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 01:58 PM) LOL. Again, the Red Sox 3 World Championships disagree with the idea that "sabes" lose, especially when EVERY team uses some form of sabermetrics in today's game. I've never heard of the term "Sabes" before Greg decided to use it.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 11:31 AM) I think I'm going to switch to Tmobile's family plan but only if I can get a non 6 inch nexus. Reason being, its the only phone worth buying out of contract, imo (given its favorable price point to all other phones). With them being willing to give me 208 for my old 4 and buy me out of my sprint contract...I am all in on their family deals. We'd save a lot from my already cheap sprint plan. You can always get a Nexus 5. It's still cheap and works perfectly fine. It should get Android updates for at least one more year. It's looking unlikely that there's going to be a smaller Nexus this year, but no one truly knows yet.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 12:24 PM) He's also going to be just 29 and has a career slugging percentage of .449. Wanting to buy low on him is not a bad idea. Going multiple years is probably not the best idea though. 29 and his body type means maybe 2-3 more productive years.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 10:59 AM) No thanks. Hitting still counts. Its something I will tell stat people a million times over. The ability to actually get hits, matters. Again, Butler had a poor year, but horrid is a stretch and I think when you look over his longer span, you'll see a guy that was very productive and is a flat out good hitter. Great, no, but good, yes, and you know what, I'm sick of how many BAD hitters we've had. Adam Dunn made me sick. His lack of power the last two years really concerns me. I can stomach .270 with a .320 OBP, that's acceptable in this day and age. However, the .380 SLG is unacceptable coming from a designated hitter. He can hit for a mediocre average all he wants, but if he's going to put up an ISO barely above .100, that's not going to cut it.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 11:02 AM) I was watching Butler, and I think I would stay away. He hit a few line drives last weekend, but the ball doesn't have much zip coming off his bat. Maybe I am being a little too simple, but while I think he can come back and hit for a decent average, I think his power is what it is, and that is pretty unacceptable for a guy you really don't want playing the field at all, and a guy who rolls into as many DPs as he does. Butler's issue is that his swing is too flat. Normally, that's a great thing, but Butler is so big and strong that if he just puts more lift on the ball, he'd average more than 17-20 homers a year like he has in his career. He also hits a ton of ground balls. When you're the third or cleanup hitter, you're slower than Konerko, and you hit a ton of ground balls, you're going to ground into a lot of double plays. If you give Butler 600 PAs, there's almost a guarantee he'll ground into 20 DPs.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 10:52 AM) Dude still hit for a good average and had a solid OBP. He was not horrid. Worse then previous years, sure, but horrid, absolutely not. .271/.323/.379 is not horrid out of your DH? If it wasn't for a semi-decent second half, he would have had a sub-.700 OPS. I'd rather have Adam Dunn if that's the Billy Butler of the future.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 10:51 AM) To be frank, the writing seemed to be on the wall with Lester. He should have been pulled a few batters earlier. By the way, I continue to say I would really like Billy Butler. He's a good buy-low candidate. Unfortunately, the guy's a double play machine and he was absolutely horrid for most of the year. If he's a .370 wOBA guy like he was 2 years ago, he's a good DH. If he's a .350 wOBA guy like he was last year, that's acceptable at the DH position. If he hits like he did this year, he's worthless.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 10:17 AM) He did do this, but then he mortgaged the future and traded away offense for pitching. After that he watched his team flounder offensively and get into the wildcard instead of win the division and stay out of a one game playoff. It was the exact opposite of the traditional Billy Beane philosophy. Honestly, I'm not sure what kind of GM Beane is at this point.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 02:18 AM) Great game, wow the Royals have some guys who can run. So many potential goats (Yost, Salvy, Butler getting picked off, etc) but so many heros in the end. Colon made contact on the little chopper to third, scoring the run. Hosmer blasted that ball off the wall late and those other hits he had; Salvy with the game winning poke past third, Finnegan, Aoki actually elevating and hitting the sac fly. However ... Yost. My gosh what a dumb move bringing in Ventura. Overthinking it. You don't bring in a starter who is young and wild in that situation. I can't believe managers do that sometimes in the postseason. Geezus you don't change roles this late in the game. Thank god Ozzie let the players decide it in 2005. Hindsight is 20/20, but I'd have first of all left Big Game James in, which might have turned out a bad decision since he had a pretty lousy game. IF I had to take James out, I'd start the pathetic parade of lefty/righty crap and brought in a lefty. However, that would have used up Finnegan early. It turned out OK for Ned and the Royals, considering almost the entire roster played and so many guys ended up contributing. Paulie said on Mike and Mike the winner of this game would represent in the World Series. I still like Baltimore. OH and by the way this was a victory for Hawk. Sabermetric Beane loses to old school, Mr. Bunt, Ned. Take that, Sabes. Except the Royals didn't score because of bunts...?

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 1, 2014 -> 12:02 AM) Cespedes isn't that good. This loss isn't about losing Cespedes. It's about having a team built on a lot of iffy parts and those iffy foundations crumbling down the stretch. When it came down to it, they're a fortunate bounce of a ball away potentially making a run in a playoff series. Right, he's a 110 wRC+ type of player. But on an Oakland team that was basically built around Brandon Moss and Donaldson after Cespedes departed, the crumbling got a hell of a lot worse. At the very least, you know what Cespedes will give you.

Should have kept Abad in Melvin...should have kept Abad in. Hammel was awful for the A's this year.

Amazing game. What a disaster for the A's. They acquire an ace prematurely for their cleanup hitter thinking they had already won the division in July...only to fall out of contention because of their lack of offense. Then their ace more or less gives up a 4 run lead in a their only playoff game and they end up with nothing. It sucks to be an Oakland fan right now.

I'm fairly certain Hammel is going to blow it here and it'll create a storyline of how Beane's trades were bad... And he does...lol

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 30, 2014 -> 11:51 PM) Nothing like a former blown Rockies' prospect to settle it...or was he with the Indians as part of the Jimenez deal? Can't remember exactly how he ended up with the A's now. I think both Hammel and Pomeranz came from the Rockies' system.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 30, 2014 -> 11:45 PM) Gordon and Perez getting two more chances to walk off with the biggest Royals' win in three decades. Well, Gordon failed. I'm not sure why Melvin is taking Abad out after just one batter in a game that might go on forever... He's bringing in Pomeranz though, who can probably go 4 innings if he needs to. Edit: nvm it's Hammel.

This is easily the best Wild Card game so far. So much back and forth.

That ball Hosmer hit just hung up forever.

Callaspo, the former Royal, with the big hit.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 30, 2014 -> 10:25 PM) Windows 8 was measurably faster than Windows 7, especially on boot-up. I don't think it was hard to use. Launching programs that I didn't have shortcuts for was in effect no different as I was just tapping Windows+S and typing a search term. It's just a matter of where the search terms appeared. I like the live tiles, but they'll be better served in the hybrid start menu they showed off today. MS Office is such a superior product, though, that I decided to dual boot with W8.1 on my Macbook because I loathe the Mac versions so much. With that said, I do like iWorks. They didn't try to make them into MS Office. They made them simpler, different, elegant, and easy to use. I can't do serious work on there, but they're fun to use for simple things. Yeah that is one of the things that made me consider putting Windows 8 on my desktop, but it wasn't a big enough improvement to make me do a complete re-install. I also like how you can get multiple task-bars in Windows 8 if you have multiple monitors.

More bunts, yay! It's warranted in this case though.

Lead-off man on for the A's.