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QUOTE (Dunt @ Dec 2, 2016 -> 04:41 PM) Avi tendered for $3M Jesus Christ. Just awful.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Dec 2, 2016 -> 09:31 AM) I coach HS football and don't have a ton of contacts but I heard this yesterday from some guys: Les Miles made a bunch of demands at Purdue that they weren't willing or able to do and their focus has shifted to PJ Fleck. Fleck is interested in the Purdue job but is holding out for a better offer. Fleck straight up hasn't answered Purdues (or anyones) calls. He will after tonight though. Purdue was getting p**** with him because they wanted it all wrapped up early this week. Don't know if they'll wait for him to finish or move on now.

Kevin Wilson fired. Hmmm. Deeper story there I would assume.

Trump Rallies are back today

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 11:44 AM) Regardless of the different leagues, you can't convince me that best record is not the single best determinant. Interleague record is better.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 11:38 AM) Not as stupid as it was before. All Star Game winner hosting was dumbest thing in sports. It was great for business.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 11:22 AM) Best record of the combatants. They play entirely different schedules. Pretty stupid.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 10:22 AM) We will likely be lumped into the large market players and thus, if it is based on market size, will get treated like the bigger spending clubs vs. the clubs we more or less fit in with from a revenue perspective. Yeah I did indeed misinterpret that initial tweet. I thought compensation was decided on what team was signing your player away.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 02:30 AM) Jeff Passan reported the AP says the MLB All-Star Game will no longer decide WS home field advantage. I'm not a fan of this move. MLB All-Star game is the highest rated of all the all-star games, and players try the hardest. All the other sports all-star games are a joke and no one watches. Agreed with that. Stupid to get rid of it, especially given the major imbalance between leagues.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 30, 2016 -> 10:53 PM) They'll be judged as a large market team in a market dominated by another franchise. Perhaps I'm misinterpreting the rule. But being designated a major market team here doesn't affect our pick or what pick we give up either. Far as I can tell it's not a trading of picks. And if one of our players signs with the Yankees, I don't see why we wouldn't still get the top available pick. I guess maybe it's a very very slight disadvantage in the oft chance we sign guys over 50 million and the other team gets a better pick than deserved because of it

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 30, 2016 -> 09:45 PM) Really screws white Sox, also players can only receive a QO once How does it screw Sox?

Going to come down to who can cheat the system the best

While winning a world series probably doesn't exclude you from being a bad GM, it should exclude you from being all time bad. Also, if you have sources in the front office, you probably shouldn't be bashing them.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 29, 2016 -> 06:46 PM) They said conference titles are only used as tie breakers. Michigan has the much better resume. They said the same thing about head to head. I don't see a tie and their resumes will likely stand on their own. Penn State holds the ultimate card with a win over Ohio State. If they share a win over Wisconsin (Penn State's being on a neutral field), it's a reach to call it much better.

I don't think head to head is a huge deal at all. Got the opposite impression.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 29, 2016 -> 06:30 PM) Michigan has more than a punchers chance to make this thing. Whoever wins the B1G will hop them presumably so I don't think so. Unless Clemson and Washington both lose, which may happen.

Good move if it's for our elite talent. Their success hurts the Sox an incredible amount, whether people here want to accept that or not.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 11:27 AM) I thought Alex Jones was more just bats*** conspiracy theorist in general than alt-right? I've never seen his show so I don't know if he himself identifies with the term, just that this circle of people eat him up. It makes sense, as far as anti-globalism he's about as mainstream as it gets. I originally thought he was "aliens killed jfk" tier but I think his show is presented in a nightly news format and is largely current events. Edit: It appears his radio show is indeed the aliens stuff but his large online network is in line with what I said above.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 11:05 AM) But they both support Trump, and both have a following. That milo's crew is more interested in posting penis pictures on twitter than meeting at a conference is irrelevant, both have a much bigger platform with possible influence to government. Trump has shown heavy priority to his supporters at all cost, are we going to see Spencer's NPI as toxic, or getting meetings with federal reps? It's not like Spencer was suddenly found to scaremonger, he's been reported on for months. I would just disagree with comparing their potential sphere of influence. Obviously not a perfect metric, but Milo had close to 400k twitter followers compared to 15k of Spencer (although both are gone now). I don't think Spencer is going to influence much of anyone. Milo and the others I have mentioned potentially could and if that scares people, I get it. Talking to people or reading websites to be allegedly associated with the alt-right, nobody cares about Spencer and 95% of them don't know who he is. I do not understand the focus on Spencer other than he's scary, but there's so much else here to criticize that I don't see the help in going after someone with so little influence. Hell Alex Jones is still doing daily shows or whatever, and this same group eats him up. The alt-right name on the whole I now see as an attempt to label the enemy, no different than those very same people naming everyone they don't like a sjw.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 10:53 AM) But you are right, Spencer himself doesn't view Milo as anything more than a fellow traveler:http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/meet-the-alt-right-spokesman-thrilled-by-trumps-rise-w443902 OTOH, they are at a party together here at the RNC. If the supposed leader doesn't consider a perceived leader true alt-right it's probably a pretty good tell there was a branch off somewhere down the road.

It's a term largely used for fear mongering by the media and that's really it at this point. Even the places the media points to as alt-right breeding grounds such as the donald subreddit or 4chans pol the term is largely rejected and no one knows who Richard Spencer is. I don't even know why he's brought up other than that he plays into the fear mongering. Equating him with leading the alt-right movement is like saying Rick Santelli lead the Tea Party. People like Ann Coulter, Milo, Lauren Southern and Breitbart are far more associated with the movement. And while you may find them all deplorable, I don't think anyone is going to associate them with Richard Spencer. He was dug up again to fear monger because the other ones weren't nazi enough to create that vibe despite the media's best efforts.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 09:30 AM) I don't necessarily disagree with your points but quite frankly I'm shocked that you didn't say you wished JT went elsewhere so that Groce's fate was sealed. Your hate for Groce knows no bounds Groce classes: 2017: class 8th (incomplete) 2016: class 101 2015: class 16 2014: class 55 2013: class 14 Those Weber classes 2012: Nothing 2011: Abrams (65), Egwu (76), Shaw (64), Henry (63), Langford (159), Ibby (NR) - class 10 2010: Richmond (29), Leonard (30), Head (80) - class 11 2009: Richardson (97), Paul (101), Griffey (103), Bertrand (122) - class 38 2008: class 152 2007: class 33 2006: class 42 2005: class 56 2004: class 49 So in Weber's last 4 years he was barely doing as well as Groce is now. Yes, 2 top 30 players was impressive in 2010. That said, we had 8 early departures from the 2010 and 2011 classes (with only 1 going to the NBA) and nobody in the 2012 class, just awfulness there. It's crazy how badly Weber burned this program down. Groce has a slight pulse again, we shall see if he can continue to build upward. I think you got your info from 247 who has incomplete data because their site didn't exist back then. Brandon Paul and DJ Richardson for example, were top 50 recruits. #35 and #49 RSCI respectively. That was 3 top 15 years classes in Weber's in his final 4 years. Anyways, my point is not what Weber left (irrelevant talking about Groce's 6th year), it's that Groce isn't even recruiting at a level above him, which we hired him to do and that this type of talent isn't somehow unique for use, even compared to the Weber years.

Criticize people for using Breitbart. Use a Huffington Post article in the same post.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 08:19 PM) Class ranked at #8 a couple of places I saw. Yeah I was saying where it'll end up

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 06:43 PM) Ga Tech was in a similar spot with Paul Hewitt a while back and kept him around because he got Favors. It set the program back big time waiting a few more years. Derrick Favors>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Tilmon Tilmon is great don't get me wrong. But he's not like a Ben Simmons esque program changer. Closer to 25th in the country than 1. The 2018 team probably isn't even better than the team we're running out now. No way we keep Groce if he misses the tournament. This class as it stands will probably be about 12-15th best in the country. That's not even better than what Weber was getting us in his last years. Groce has lowered expectations for this program that it almost seems to be helping him.