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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 16, 2015 -> 10:20 AM) It's official, Blackhawks say Kane is attending training camp. You have to think they know something we don't, maybe a resolution is coming soon. They could also be making a horrible misstep.

Week 1 scores, 2014 http://www.nfl.com/scores/2014/REG1 Man, the Patriots are terrible! Boy, the Cowboys just are never gonna compete!

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 16, 2015 -> 01:48 PM) I don't think a lie is "less bad" just because the effect of the lie wasn't as bad. Getting 30 million more Americans health insurance is a good thing, but if you are competent at your job you find a way to accomplish that without screwing over millions of other Americans, or at the very least be honest with them and tell them that they are going to get screwed over. Being competent at your job has no relation to trying to pass a national health care bill through two chambers of Congress. If it was one person just creating a bill to implement and not trying to satisfy Bill Nelson and Mary Landreiu I'm sure we'd have something quite different.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 16, 2015 -> 02:04 PM) The Packers have the luxury of playing in what may be the worst division in football. But they barely beat a Bears team that may only win 4-6 games this year. Its early, but I really expected the Packers to look a lot better last week (even without Nelson). Holy 1 week judgments

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 16, 2015 -> 01:51 PM) I'm sure the union has something to do with 25 men. I'm not sure that's the case, that would open up opportunities for 30 more members.

I wish baseball would increase to 26 men. Carroll was a great assett to have with this staff (rodon/danks bad games, shark bad everything)

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Sep 16, 2015 -> 01:36 PM) I have a hard time believe you don't know what he is talking about. I have been to Minneapolis 5 or 6 times and see a ton of Somalian people there each time and everyone I know that lives there knows about them. Perhaps it's not that he doesn't know that there are Somalis there, maybe it's that he hasn't realized how the Somali refugees have undermined and overturned the Minneapolis way of life. He doesn't even realize how the town has completely changed and been destroyed... My God

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 16, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) It doesn't even matter. There doesn't need to be a higher rate of premium increases or plan cancellations post-ACA. If someone's family got a policy cancelled or had huge rate increases due to the ACA, then the ACA, then "if you like our insurance, you keep our insurance" was as much of a lie as being told that there were WMD in Iraq. If any family anywhere had a policy canceled or had a premium increase it is as big of a lie as the justification for a war that cost billions, killed thousands of american soldiers and created regional instability we are grappling with to this day? Out of curiosity, was it as terrible as before when an additional 30 million Americans could not get health insurance? Or was that okay, but this is comparable to starting a war?

Considering the kitchen sink approach to cost control for this, I do think there should be patience as it is still very early on.

It really is remarkable how these acquisitions of stable consistent vets keep becoming the worst players in baseball as white sox. More bad luck I guess. Nothing we can do.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 15, 2015 -> 08:53 PM) Samardzija has passed Navarro on the dislike list. At least Navarro didnt play ND football. Next up on the list: Nick Swisher Yeah. I'm not sure he deserves it, maybe he just sucks now, but I can't stand him.

I suppose you may all be right, but it seemed starkly different to me.

more of a general sports media thing, but how do you guys feel about football media embracing gambling so much the past two years. It was crazy to me watching ESPN and seeing how many references to gambling lines, draft kings and even a segment talking about the worst gambling "beats" of the weekend. I find the occasional "oh the last touchdown swung this much money" type stories entertaining, but I found the segment showing sports clips and laughing how it changed from the under to the over last minute kind of weird. It's a sports show, who cares that someone made a bad guess?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 15, 2015 -> 11:48 AM) Yeah, the "Beckham was traded for a guy who may be decent" doesn't mean Albers would be traded for a guy who would be decent. If it was, the Sox then should get a serviceable pitcher and a starting SS for John Danks considering that's exactly what they got for Jaime Navarro. One month of Matt Albers gets you scraps. Maybe those scraps become a decent player. Odds are, in a year, you forget exactly what the Sox received for Matt Albers. The White Sox are paying the guy. You would think if there was something offered they were even remotely intrigued with, they would have sent him packing. Obviously, there was not. No, you are right, it doesn't. But if his success happens at the right time you flip it for a lottery ticket. It will most likely fail, but the more lottery ticket talent you bring into the system the more chances you have something hits. And all you paid for it was a decent reliever in a year where you were terrible. There is zero argument that Matt Albers not getting injured changes the trajectory of the franchise, but the white sox have been rebuilding for 3 years, and absolutely zero of their low-risk vet signings have turned into something they could sell for long-term potential. This is something other teams in similar situations have been able to do successfully, and Hahn has not. His low-risk signings have either been DFA disasters or injured around the deadline. He is either very unlucky, which is possible, or we have terrible pro scouting, which at this point seems very accurate.

I wonder who the surprise NFC team will be. I'm sure popular pick will be rams, but, this looks like a down year in the NFC.

I mean, they both looked pretty bad. That game was super super sloppy.

It's an easy way to add more talent to the system without affecting the long-term goals of the club. The prospect we added for Beckham may actually make it to the big leagues, and who would have guessed. It's cool to mock something very reasonable that the club needs to be doing while rebuilding, though. You are much smarter than us.

Yeah, this is so familiar during Rick Hahn's tenure, the low-risk bullpen piece that works out is injured/just recovering to not be able to trade, not signed beyond one year. So, yay Albers, you helped this non-playoff team during the only months where we coulnd't flip you for longer term value.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 15, 2015 -> 08:38 AM) Carlos hyde sure looked awesome vs that Min defense. SF looked like an entirely different team than last year. That D is probably still going to be good. But this game screams "game one outlier" similar to tennessee's romp of the Chiefs last year.

He is considered human and scrub qb that once reeked for the bears.

Robertson could also find it within himself to overcome adversity and hold 4 run leads

Dude just playing with his junk at first.

At least Gruden knows when to talk.

I mean, I now respect the bad announcing teams. This is just brutal, why is Dilfer yelling?

This. This is great football.