Bananarchy

QUOTE (MDWhiteSoxFan @ Dec 29, 2015 -> 10:27 PM) Is it weird I read that to the melody of that Alan Jackson song from South Park? Okay I just laughed out loud and woke up my wife.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 29, 2015 -> 10:26 PM) Take it FWIW... http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/schmuck...1229-story.html "Orioles aren't likely to spend $100 million to sign Yoenis Cespedes" He doesn't seem like a Showalter guy at all.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Dec 29, 2015 -> 07:16 PM) Five years of Gordon seems like a good bet for buyer's remorse by year three. But I do wonder why nobody seems to want to hold on to Cespedes. Four teams in four seasons? What's the catch? Where's the trap door? Now, one of those teams is Oakland and they're always moving people. The Mets are a bit of a head scratcher to me. There are some in the New York media who believe letting him walk could be a long term mistake.

What an explosion out of the Hawks tonight. Holy cow.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Dec 29, 2015 -> 09:01 PM) Again, this is the guy who claims to be Tim Anderson's best friend. I know this is fake, for sure, because Tim and I are best friends. ;-)

QUOTE (chw42 @ Dec 29, 2015 -> 08:45 PM) I really doubt this organization will throw Avi out in right field to embarrass himself some more. I like Avi and I wanted him to succeed, but I understand this experiment has ended.

QUOTE (blackmooncreeping @ Dec 29, 2015 -> 07:58 PM) Gordon to Baltimore Cespedes to LAA Sox to now target Upton after missing on Cespedes/Gordon That's from one unsubstantiated guy earlier today on Twitter. Lots of rumors flying fast, who knows! Also, Michael Jordan to come out of retirement, play for Grizzlies.

Toews is making his contract look bad. He hasn't looked the same for a while.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Dec 29, 2015 -> 11:34 AM) Why not though? Didn't Lucas write all 6 together? As much as I didn't like the prequels, until Lucasfilm/Disney says otherwise, the prequels are absolutely 100% canon. Anything mentioned in them as having had happened is canon.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 28, 2015 -> 10:06 PM) I'm interested to see Snoke in person. The hologram makes him look like a giant, but I have doubt that he is that large. Not gonna lie, I was kind of disappointed in his look, a little too gollum for me. Plagueis illustrations all depict him as being really funny looking, and yet Sidious was clearly supposed to have killed him.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 28, 2015 -> 09:20 PM) Of course, I'm just joking around. Has anyone addressed the strange dust/rocks/coal that Ren put his helmet in when he was interrogating Rey? I read something that theorized it has something to do with Vaders funeral pyre I noticed that the second time through. Kind of a "rise from the ashes of his grandfather" vibe. It's a kind of messed up theory, but it makes sense. While I don't necessarily think it's true, I would love it if Snoke turned out to be Darth Plageius. The evidence in favor While Palpatine makes it clear Sidious murdered Plagueis, he admits Plagueis could prevent people from dying the music played over the Snoke scenes in The Force Awakens is the same as the music played when Palpatine tells Plagueis' story in Episode III Only time will tell, but Snoke's identity is critical to the story of the new trilogy.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 28, 2015 -> 08:55 PM) She would be a Skywalker either way Sure, but it more affects the relationship with Ren.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Dec 28, 2015 -> 01:53 PM) I'd guess Anakin's origin is canon since it's from the films. I don't know IF Luke is Rey's father, but it's pretty clear that she was trained, had her mind erased and was stashed on Jakku while Max Van Sydow's character watched over her. Luke probably dropped her off, gave him the map and told them to wait for an "awakening." Also, I'm gonna guess she was the only padwan that survived when the Knights of Ren attacked Luke's Academy. I'm praying that Snoke and the Knights of Ren are dark side users from the outer rim and aren't Sith. I don't know about the brainwashing aspect, but I don't reject the idea that Rey is a Skywalker or a Solo (IMHO, likely a Skywalker). She is different from Luke for sure. She's significantly less headstrong and overdetermined relative to Luke in IV. For this reason, I don't mind that Rey learned quickly.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 27, 2015 -> 11:12 PM) That was not the funnest game I've ever been to, major Christmas hangover Hawks. At least you weren't in Dallas for the game. My family was miserable.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 10:21 PM) What was the mishandling of the Hossa deal? 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

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 10:12 PM) Yes my bad. Campbell was in 2008, Bowman became GM in 2009. My bad No worries. I often try to forget the Campbell contract.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 06:35 PM) Wasn't Tallon still the GM when Campbell and Hossa signed? Wasn't the rumor back then that it actually was Mc Cub who signed Campbell? 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.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 04:12 PM) Correct. But my question still stands for LDF. No one believes that Sharp/Keith relationship had anything to do with Sharp getting moved. The fact is, guys like Seabrook and Keith are too valuable for the Hawks to move them. When you compare Salary to age, Sharp had to go. A lot of this would have been alleviated if Hossa was signed to a real contract, but those crazy contracts were what happened in those days.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 04:06 PM) By reporters, you mean Dan Bernstein and Dave Diehl? Find me a true hockey reporter that confirmed or even documented this locker room fight, and I'll say I was wrong. I can't imagine a team playing together for any part 82 games and there not being some discord in the locker room.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 04:04 PM) Stan Bowman has won three Stanley Cups with the Chicago Blackhawks during his time as GM. But has only orchestrated 2. It's fantastic, no doubt, but let's be real. That team was built (by Dale Tallon) to win one, but Stan added two more.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 04:01 PM) I do not, because it may or may not have happened. LDF was there. Seriously. But yeah, sometimes players argue. Didn't hurt the team last year.

QUOTE (LDF @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 03:58 PM) that was already taken into consideration ..... since you mention that cap, subtract the money including AA contract the new contract, and see how that adds up. the Toews and Kane contract were sign and known of before the playoff. next your discussion of it was expected that sharp had to go.... due to salary. remember the fight in the locker room was after a game when sport writes of different site were there and were quickly escorted out. so yeah, it is really plausible / likely that the FO knew he, sharp had to go. they the hawks valued keith more than sharp. ref Saad, that was totally unexpected and before that, knowing after the SC parade, something is really going to chg. None of this makes any sense. Sharp had to go because the Blackhawks couldn't afford to pay him.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 03:45 PM) 3 The first one was Dale Tallon. Let's not kid ourselves.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 02:49 PM) And neither do you. We have two things to go off of. What some AWFUL site like SportsMockery ran with, or what both Keith and Sharp said about the situation, including Sharp AFTER he was traded to Dallas, and still texting with Seabrook and Keith. I'll choose to believe the latter. But you choose to believe whatever you want. I'm with Tony on this one for sure. Sharp had to go and we all knew he had to go. Hockey is a business. It has nothing to do with personal issues off the ice.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Dec 23, 2015 -> 02:04 PM) How can you say Nill is a better GM than Bowman? Bowman has torn down a great team twice and won 3 cups. He tore down 2010's team and won again in 2013. He tore down 2013's team and won again 2 years later. He has added guys like Shaw, Hjalmarsson, Oduya & Saad (originally), Panarin, Anisimov, etc. What has Nill done exactly? Stan has won two cups, no small feat. However, Nill started with a LOT less. The Blackhawks were going to be good, plain and simple. Nill has taken a team that had nothing and added Tyler Seguin, Jason Spezza, and Patrick Sharp (and the Blackhawks' top defensive prospect) and has created a team that actually runs four deep. Jim Nill did the Hockey equivalent of trading for Jonathan Toews entering his prime. The Seguin trade will go down as the best in Stars franchise history at the end of Seguin's career. Regarding defense, maybe, except it turns out John Klingberg is a stud, so one could say "maybe we shouldn't move for defense if we have this stud and having Hemsky will make Spezza more comfortable. By the way, Spezza is great. He was slow to start last season, but he is certainly worth the garbage Nill through away. He has more points than Toews and dominated the faceoff last night. That sounds an awful lot like making excuses. Dallas was on a second game of a back to back and were a step slower than they normally are.