Jack Parkman

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Nov 1, 2017 -> 12:21 PM) Continue to develop the prospects that make up the top farm system in baseball and maybe bring in a flier starter like Bucholz or Pineda for cheap and hope to flip them by August Other than that, call up prospects when ready, develop, and get ready to spend BIG next fall on names like Machado, Kimbrel/Miller, Cody Allen/Kelvin Herrera, and little less on a guy like Carter Capps '19 Rotation: Kopech, Rodon, Giolito, Lopez, Hansen '19 Lineup: SS Anderson, 2B Moncada, 3B Machado, 1B Abreu, LF Jimenez, RF Garcia, DH Delmonico, C Collins, CF Leury '19 Pen: Kimbrel/Miller, Allen/Herrera, Capps, Burdi, Guerrero, Fulmer, Adams (Any starter prospects that don't work out) '19 Bench: C Narvaez, 1B/3B Davidson, INF Sanchez, U Cordell I wouldn't count on Rodon for anything going forward. He just had shoulder surgery, and even though there was no structural damage, nobody knows how it will respond. At best, I'd pencil him in as a LOOGY or late inning reliever, or 5th starter.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 10:46 AM) You have lost your mind. Guys don't get to 500 catches who aren't "good". With their Bears receiving corps, there is a chance almost all of these guys won't be on an NFL roster next year, meanwhile Brady has gotten to throw to multiple guys who will be Hall of Famers. Yes, they do. Only when they play with HOF QBs.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 10:31 AM) I challenge you to find any quarterback who had real success with a group of wideouts who was this historically bad. There are colleges who have better collections of recievers than the bears do right now. He literally has nothing to throw to. Tom Brady himself would look like trash with this offense. Tom Brady won 3 Super Bowls with a bunch of trash receivers. He was so good he could make it work anyway. Don't tell me that the likes of Deion Branch, Jabar Gaffney and Troy Brown were good receivers. They are probably comparable to Kendall Wright in quality.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 10:22 AM) Cam Newton? I could barely find any such players that were epic busts, almost all QBs has 2+ years of experience in college. Akili Smith and Ryan Leaf are two off of the top of my head. And the second comment makes you think, doesn't it? Cam is average. If he's the best you can come up with it just proves my point.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 30, 2017 -> 08:17 AM) Like Peyton Manning. Colts 3-13 his rookie year and he led the league in INTs. Oh that's not the IT factor but the INT factor. Excuse me. Judging a guy with 13 career college starts in his first few NFL games with a lackluster supporting cast is beyond insane. Manning still threw 26 TDs that year. Talk to me when Trubisky a) has a multi-TD game and b) completes more than 50% of his passes, when 62% is the minimum acceptable level for modern NFL QBs. My argument is this: If this guy needs so much time, then maybe you shouldn't have wasted the 2nd overall pick on a guy who isn't going to be able to contribute until 2019. IMO, Deshaun Watson has the "it" factor. Trubisky doesn't. Watson has had a 5 TD game in his 3rd NFL start. (And, IIRC, he had a rushing TD in that game too) My complaint is that Trubisky was a blatant severe overdraft due to position. Watson was the only QB who was a 1st round talent and he probably shouldn't have been taken top 20. Trubisky and Mahomes were 2nd or 3rd rounders. They got overdrafted because of a need at a position. I hate drafting QBs who have only started one season since HS, because they almost always are epic busts. As a matter of fact, I challenge anybody to give me the name of a QB since 1990 who started one season since HS, was drafted in the 1st round and wasn't an epic bust.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Oct 29, 2017 -> 03:08 PM) Trubisky so far in his young career, isn't that great in the clutch. Yep. He doesn't have the "It" factor. We have ourselves another Cutler. Sigh. The great ones, even as rookies, found ways to win games they shouldn't.

QUOTE (Da_Goob @ Oct 22, 2017 -> 05:20 PM) Bears defense 14 points, Panthers offense 3 points. Bears offense 3 points, Panthers defense 0 points.... I'll say the Bears defense dominated. You can keep your empty yards. That game was over in the second quarter. The Bears offense might have looked bad, but they didn't need to look good. They just had to not turn the ball over, which is what they did. Bad would be an improvement over what the offense looked like today. It was so bad that words cannot describe it. A Jonathan Quinn or Moses Moreno lead offense would have been a massive improvement on today's dumpster fire. Quite frankly this is the worst offensive performance I have ever seen by the Bears. That says a lot.

QUOTE (Da_Goob @ Oct 22, 2017 -> 05:00 PM) Saying a team shouldn't have won a game when they led for nearly all 4 quarters, including them being up two scores for nearly 3 of the quarters, seems pretty dumb to me. They likely call plays a bit differently if they are down there. They just didn't need to. The Bears defense absolutely dominated Carolina. Panthers offense: 293 Yds Bears offense 153, 70 of which came on one play. Whose defense dominated whom? Gee I wonder? Panthers played sloppy, Bears played putrid. Panthers turned the ball over, which resulted in scores without the offense taking the field. If Jackson steps out of bounds on both of those plays, I doubt that the Bears score more than 3 points. The Bears in no way, shape or form should be holding their heads up high after this win. If I were the coach, I'd tell them that they didn't actually win today, it was a dream and they actually got shut out because that is how poorly they played today. This section of the thread needs more Chubbs Peterson: "You were great out there today, but you weren't that great"

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 22, 2017 -> 04:19 PM) Kozlowski, Hampton and OB currently ripping Trubisky and the coaching staff. Another game you would have thought they lost by at least 40 listening to their show. Now they are complaining about "all the money " they gave to Rueben Randle and wondering why the Bears didn't play their regulars the 4th exhibition game. This stuff is hilarious. They're not wrong. Ron Rivera bungled this game away for the Panthers. There is no way in hell the Bears should have won this game. They won more because of the incompetence of the Panthers more than anything else.

Hey Fox: Tanaka says you have no marbles

If they aren't going to go backwards on the Wild Card game, then same and then top 5, and make the wild card best of 3.

I'm all for keep the Leagues, eliminate the divisions, get rid of the stupid Wild Card game, and top 4 records in each league in a balanced schedule get in to Playoffs.

Rob Schneider says hi.

I'd hate if this brought about the end of the DH because I despise watching pitchers attempt to hit. I hope that it goes the other way. I dont know what the hell people find entertaining about pitchers being an automatic out, for all intents and purposes.

Horseshoe still stuck in the Cubs nether region

Dear Dowell Loggains: Please take the kid gloves off of Trubisky. You're getting s***canned at the end of the season anyway. With where the Bears are, wins are bad for the franchise, so please, let's open up the playbook. Sincerely, Jack Parkman

QUOTE (whitesoxjr27 @ Oct 14, 2017 -> 09:27 PM) You sure? Hahaha. I won't be excited until a Priest does an exorcism on the horseshoe and the Cubs are gone Nah, I won't be sure until they are 3 outs from elimination and Jansen is in the game.

I sense the loosening of the horseshoe.

QUOTE (whitesoxjr27 @ Oct 14, 2017 -> 08:20 PM) Maybe Houston can take the horseshoe out and throw it in lake Michigan. Maybe LA can take it out now, and kindly hide it in the visiting clubhouse at LAA stadium when the Sox visit next year, so the Sox can have it for a while.

I need to call a proctologist to surgically remove the horseshoe stuck firmly up the Cubs ass. Please, why won't they die?

Woooooooooo!!! Eat s*** Cubs!

C'mon Wieters!!!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 11, 2017 -> 05:29 PM) He makes terrible in game decisions that cost him games, that’s why he gets so much grief. Exhibit A was game 3 My point is so does everyone else. Exhibit A: 2016 World Series. Both Maddon and Francona made terrible in-game decisions nightly. Only one of them lost.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 11, 2017 -> 05:05 PM) If Kluber struggles again, the Indians are in trouble. Their pen can't hang with the Yanks. Cap'n Cheeseburger is a good bet to get lit up like a pinball machine though. I'll take Kluber 7 days per week and twice on Sunday.

I don't know why everyone gives Dusty Baker so much grief. Managing a baseball game is like the tallest midget contest. The good ones are the ones that suck the least. Last year's World Series proved that. Francona and Maddon are considered two of the best in the business and they both mismanaged the hell out of that series. Dusty gets his teams to the postseason, and it is a crapshoot from there. He's been more unlucky than anything else.