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QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jan 17, 2014 -> 03:56 PM) I heard this on the Score yesterday. Between this and the new mascot, it's a done deal. I can't wait to see the novelty t-shirts the street vendors come up with. Maybe some Cub fans still have their Fukudome headbands that they can reuse. I really wouldn't mind if the Sox weren't in the mix for Tanaka at all. I'm quite content with just the one foreign question mark they're throwing dollars and years at for now. Maybe they should show Tanaka how the Cubs honored the last Japanese player on their team.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jan 17, 2014 -> 04:23 PM) Mainframe stuff. I’m most familiar with Cobol, PL/1, CICS, JCL and Natural. I’ve taken classes for Assembler, RPG, C++, VB, SQL and Python but I’ve never used them in the real world. For some reason I’ve never been able to get a real good handle on OOP. Writing a lot of python these days to interface with networking equipment.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 2, 2014 -> 08:16 PM) Picked up a Jambox Mini yesterday. It is incredible. I bought my wife a Sol Republic Deck for christmas. Just amazing.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 07:36 PM) You folks should have watched postgame press conference as Jay detailed exactly how he deserves as much or blame as anybody for why the Jeffery pass wasn't caught. He said outright that he threw it in the wrong place and made it much harder than it should have been. People act like I'm crazy for expecting excellence from a Chicago QB but we're eager to assume Jeffery makes an unbelievable catch like that would have been. You keep on demanding excellence. Remind me where we have had this hotbed of QB talent that we have seen over the last 20 years piloting our offense. Do you remember the pre-Cutler days. Do you remember the 400 or so QBs that piloted the SS Fail on offense. He hit the receiver in the hands. Thats all a QB can do. Any QB worth his salt is going to blame himself on the post game show. I can imagine the pitchforks and torches if he came up and said, well did my best. Did you see how our defense played. f***, they suck.

I am starting to think that the Hotdog vendor Mike North has hijacked a few of the accounts. Because these arguments are a cornerstone of his logic.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 07:29 PM) Jim Miller said it best - "Jay Cutler didn't play badly. But was it great? No it wasn't." There is a matter of expectations here. Jenks and I are expecting greatness. We traded two first round draft picks for greatness. We've been paying him 10 million dollars per year for greatness. We are apparently considering giving him a 50% raise for greatness. It isn't what we're getting. We're getting the same old inconsistency. Too many possessions just given away by poor throws and decisions. In the game and drive where it mattered most, we came up empty. On non-QB matters, this is something to think about: it wouldn't be difficult to flip into a 3-4 scheme in this offseason. Think about the players under contract/we would want to bring back: all 3 corners (not that all three will come back, but that we would want them all), Briggs under contract, and then you have McClellin and Bostic as key cogs on rookie contracts, and then Ratliff/Wootton as some DL we'd probably like to bring back. All of these guys fit in 3-4. I would love Bostic-Briggs as the ILB. You have McClellin as rushing OLB. Corners are good to go. You need new safeties regardless. Ratliff made his name in the middle of a 3-4 line and Wootton is that perfect mixture of DT/DE to fit as a down lineman in a 3-4. Heck, even our 6th round pick Cornelius Washington would look a lot better as a rushing OLB (look at that guy's combine stats, good gracious). Also, Mel Tucker is a rare breed that has coordinated both 4-3 and 3-4 in the NFL. Our scheme today featured McClellin standing up almost the entire time BTW. With the amount of turnover we expect on D and the personnel that are going to stay, this would be the time to change if Emery and/or Trestman really want to do it. Okay, because I enjoy the crazy. What drive are you talking about. Is this the drive where he hits Alshon right in the hands and he dropped it or on the last 38 seconds.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 07:15 PM) Jesus people. Learn to read. Here are the points i'm making: (1) Cutler might have outplayed Rogers in today's game based on stats alone, but at the end of the day one guy led his team down the field and won the game. That's who I think had the better game. It's not like Rogers sucked. (2) in thinking about the future, I don't believe Cutler is a franchise QB or the answer for the Bears, for a variety of reasons which I've spelled out. I'm not opposed to bringing him back, but it has to be at the right price because there are enough weapons for average QB's to win with IF they can also upgrade the defense. (3) the defense blows and clearly made critical errors in the game. They are much more to blame than Cutler. (4) people blaming Tucker for a stupid mistake by the defense on a fumble-TD and thinking Lovie would have stopped that from happening are stupid. I can read and comprehend. I however reject your first premise based on logic and facts. This is how guys that win 20 games with a 5 ERA get Cy Young votes. He is a winner. Stats be damned.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 07:05 PM) It's crazy to think 1-8 is not acceptable? Just show me the video of where he played on defense. And I will assign blame for todays game. I looked and I figured maybe safety. But nope that wasnt him.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:59 PM) Stats mean dick if you don't win. How's Cutler done against the best team in the division? The team that needs to be beat every year to get into the playoffs? Math is hard. Stats lie. f*** its like we have channeled the post game Bears call in show. Cue crazyland.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:54 PM) If Cutler had a QB rating in the 80's and Rogers in the 100's then I would suspect he would make sense. McNown would of outplayed them all. He would of stopped Cobb, picked up the live ball on the field and scored 77 points.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:50 PM) I wanted Jeffery to make that play, but it was by no means easy and shouldn't have been a back shoulder throw. It also is far from a guarantee of a victory, since we were still quite far from a TD even with that catch. Nobody is saying this is all on Cutler or anything like this. Riddle me this: if GB and CHI swapped QBs today, who wins? I'm being told that Cutler outplayed Rodgers, so I suppose GB wins by even more? That play was before GB's game winning drive. Swapped QBs. Is this your Xbox.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:47 PM) Relax people. I don't know how you could say that Cutler played an amazing game today. The only reason we were in it on offense was one of Forte's best games of his life. Cutler played a fine game, he managed it well and made several very good plays, but I want to roll the dice on finding a guy that never loses games like this. I just don't want to pay Cutler to play better than he ever has before again. I guarantee, regardless of what he thinks about Cutler, Trestman will say the offense didn't do what it needed to today. This is a very, very bad GB defense. We have a very, very bad defense. You had to get more points than we did. Plain and simple. I think QB is responsible for a great deal of the scoring that we do. Nobody expected our defense to play well, but we have expected Cutler to play as well as the Aaron Rodgerses of the world for 5 seasons and it never even comes close. The defense chokes on a global scale and you blame Cutler and then tell others to relax. Thats rich.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:46 PM) Did he make the plays that needed to be made? Did he march his team down the field to a victory while his team was losing? When a QB places a ball in the hands of the receiver. Did he do his job? Is there anything else he can do?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:45 PM) How can anyone say this with a straight face when one guy WON THE f***ING GAME and the other didn't? Because people are embracing logic.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:39 PM) We're on the same page. It isn't that Cutler sucked, it's that a 15 million dollar QB wins a game like this, that was there for the taking even with a horrible defense. I'm not going to absolve the defense, but that doesn't mean I don't expect the offense to play over it. I do expect them to score 34 points against a defense that is IMO every bit as bad as ours. He hit Jeffreys in the hands down near the 20. He dropped it. Do you want him to run down there and catch it as well. Logic embrace it.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 06:35 PM) This is a game your QB is supposed to get you. We didn't have a QB that could get us a win like this, at least not on the field You watched that game and think it was Cutlers fault. Really.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 23, 2013 -> 03:46 PM) How about this. Player A 2.88 ERA 8.5 K/9, 7.4 H/9, 2.9 BB/9, 1.155 WHIP Player B 2.78 ERA 6.8 K/9, 7.1 H/9, 2.5 BB/9 1.065 WHIP Those are Surkamp and Axelrod's last years in AAA. One of them pitched in the PCL though.

Well the Giants get robbed on a bad fumble call. What's the point in hd high frame rate video if these guys can see s***. Elbow hits ground ball comes out. Bulls***.

Well just picked up an Xbox One on Amazon this morning I should have it on Friday by 8pm. I love tracker websites. Same thing worked for me during the xbox 360 launch.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 30, 2013 -> 05:45 AM) Old Man syndrome Noobs

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 05:49 PM) They thought it was awesome. I obviously didn't turn it off during a lecture, I'm not stupid. But before class started I turned it on, which freaked them and the students out. Then I explained it was my phone and the were amazed. My prof said I should go down the hallway turning projectors on and off scaring teachers. Technology is amazing. Technology is amazing? 30 year old IR games? LMAO This is the participation medal award of pranks.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Sep 16, 2013 -> 08:29 AM) His BA is sinking fast. Down to .264.. What happened? Now looks like the .300 - hitting Gordo that we saw recently is just a figment of our newton. My question is what value an arbitrator will put on Beckham, because I don't see the Sox volunteering tp pay what they would have had he kept hitting. That said, if his slump continues, they will probably keep playing him. This year end slump has to cost him a lot of money. The timing of his wrist injury as well as other injuries that he has went through this year came at a bad time. He looked pretty good start the year and I agree its going to cost him. I however am not ready to hand the job over to the next prospect. We have been woo'd in the past by good to great September numbers. Lets see how it all shakes out over time. Right now its still a cost controlled great defensive 2nd baseman. 3rd base to me is my primary concern.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 15, 2013 -> 02:52 PM) Time of possession killing our defense. That and no pass rush.

Happy Belated my fellow packet crafter.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 11:18 PM) I like Lexi, but he does boot a lot of ground balls. I wonder if Sox should move Lexi to second, Becks to third and let a minor leaguer take over at ss. Kansas the land where logic is lost.