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QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 2, 2015 -> 02:28 PM) I'm a bit confused here. The first one should have been in green. The comments section had a guy that was talking about fWAR being useless. I thought that was funny. Then I stated that I prefer fWAR when comparing pitchers. My bad.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 2, 2015 -> 02:10 PM) I don't pay much attention to it myself. I'm mainly laughing because the Samardzija supporters are arguing on his behalf saying the Sox defense was bad, which it was and is true. But the Sox defense had nothing to do with the 29 cruise missiles launched off the bats of opposing hitters, that's on Samardzija. But hey, he tweaked his mechanics and is all good now. I think fWAR for pitchers is far more useful but that's me I guess.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Dec 2, 2015 -> 01:55 PM) I texted my buddy that coaches at Mizzou: His response: "I have no words" And it was fake. Dammit.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 2, 2015 -> 01:59 PM) Reading the comments about Samardzija on MLBTR was a funny read. Good stuff there. fWAR is useless. Doesn't make sense.

I texted my buddy that coaches at Mizzou: His response: "I have no words"

QUOTE (oldsox @ Dec 2, 2015 -> 10:56 AM) Bosox gave up, what, a second round pick? They don't give up anything. Just $$

Michigan fans....DJ Durkin will be the next coach at Maryland according to SI's Pete Thamel

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Dec 2, 2015 -> 11:54 AM) What team would trade for Manziel? He is trouble off the field and pretty awful on the field. I think the Browns should just admit that they made a typical Browns move in drafting him and just cut him. Browns will most likely do the wrong thing. Jerry Jones would absolutely give them a mid-late round pick for him.

Coaching search at Mizzou is weird. I have a buddy that coaches there. He said that Barry Odom hasn't accepted the Memphis job yet which makes him think he's in line for the Mizzou job. Sonny Dykes interviewed and has a history with the AD. My buddy says that the name he keeps hearing behind the scenes though is Dino Babers. Should be interesting to see what happens.

The Browns are really stupid. Named Austin Davis the starting QB the rest of the season. Oh boy.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Dec 2, 2015 -> 09:37 AM) Price was media fluff rah rah everyone loves Joe Maddon and the cubs crap I thought Zimmerman was the guy they were going to get Yep. I bet the Cubs trade Soler for a young pitcher, sign Alex Gordon or Span or a different OF, and bring back Samardzija.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Dec 1, 2015 -> 11:44 PM) David Price just got paid... dayum! Did anyone anticipate this? Yes. That's about what I thought he'd get. I think Greinke gets more AAV over less years.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Dec 1, 2015 -> 07:27 PM) Q is a much better pitcher than Miller, I think a 1:1 swap would be pretty close. Would love Pollock. Arizona wouldn't give up Pollock for Miller. Pollock put up a 6.6 fWAR last season. He's young and extremely cheap. DBacks should keep him with Peralta and Goldschmidt going forward.

I'll guess this happens: Greinke/LAD Cueto/SF Leake/STL Maeda/Arizona Samardzija/Cubs

Kirby Smart will be the next head coach at Georgia.

White Sox shouldn't have any interest in Chris Carter or Mark Trumbo right? Both available. Don't really fit.

QUOTE (LDF @ Dec 1, 2015 -> 10:40 AM) i know what you mean, ray would be excellent, but the org need for a cat and 3b and even a good dh if 1b is manned, is what i have been looking at. with pitching, i am a minority here, but i still like puk as the #1 player / sp in the whole draft. dang it, i can't wait for the freaking ncaa baseball season to start. the cape cod was really uneventful for me. Chris Okey could be there at #10 as well but it's so very early.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Dec 1, 2015 -> 10:30 AM) The league needs to evaluate how and who they are hiring and making certain they are getting the best possible guys. I think the officials being full-time would help as well. Many of these guys do college games on Saturday and the rules really are pretty different.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 30, 2015 -> 02:42 PM) The story pivots so much from murderous isolated contest where goal is to survive to a wide-spanning "win a civil war". In reality the third book could have been 5 unsuccessful books but eventually you run out of reason for her to be in the games. In lord of the rings, you have a single goal (destroy the ring) that can have so much happen along the way. In Harry Potter, its kill voldemort. These are simple acts that are your ending. Hunger Games could have resolved with the civil war being a handwaving moment "everyone rose up, the city fell in days", but instead they made the plot the civil war and it was a mess. The movie could have changed that but it didn't have the guts. Mockingjay was the worst of the books as well. I really like the series and the first book is a classic but the 3rd story was rushed and you can tell throughout.

QUOTE (LDF @ Dec 1, 2015 -> 10:25 AM) in my uneducated, unpro opinion, zach collins is #2 in hitting of the whole draft, well meaning he is an interesting player with power, hitting skills. now some experts are questioning if he will or could transfer his defensive skill to stay as catcher. imp the best pwer hitter is Bobby Dalbec, - 3b and they do not know if he is good enuf to stay at 3b. but when his hitting power is compared to kris bryant - cubs, and stanton of miani, you will need to take notice. but my disclaimer, we as fans need to see another season of college ball and see how they develop. I would say that Ray from Louisville is an early favorite with his ties to the ACE Academy. Should be a fun season with so many high picks

QUOTE (bruni @ Dec 1, 2015 -> 09:46 AM) Given that 3B was a black hole for the White Sox, they should have been on the phone with every team with a possible 3B solution for them at the trade deadline, including Toronto with whom they are familiar from past dealings. Believe me, had they been in real time communication with Toronto on the 31st, they could have made a trade that day with Toronto as Toronto was acquiring Revere. I am sure that he could have been snagged as a same day follow up to the Revere trade. Believe me, Toronto knew good and well that acquiring Revere would require them to dump Valencia and they would have gladly received something vs. nothing. Not hard to make it work if the Sox brass were being proactive-not reactive. No they didn't. They even said so at the time. They wanted to keep Valencia but they couldn't make it work with how their roster was structured. I know you just want this to be the Sox fault though so I'll stop here.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Dec 1, 2015 -> 09:23 AM) Not sure if you follow high school sports other than football but the mighty Mount Carmel Caravan elected to be moved down to AA in wrestling in order to avoid the power programs and essentially guarantee themselves a couple of state champs and a team championship. This would be like them moving down to 5A in football. Greg, Brother Rice would have given Loyola a better game than Marist, they would not have beaten them and palatine was probably a better match up. Marist benefited from insanely dumb seeding/home team rules to get their two tougher opponents at home and easier one's on the road. Not certain what he IHSA plan is moving forward but he sate title games except for 7A were a joke. The best 7A game was round two MC and GW. Harry, I do follow other sports. I coach Football in the SW burbs. Huge wrestling fan and I am aware. Montini is actually 3A for the first time this year though which is good. The 1-32 seeding was a failure in 8A but it worked perfectly in 7A. Libertyville and GW probably would have played earlier with the old system. HF jacked up the whole thing by losing week 9.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Dec 1, 2015 -> 09:19 AM) Fleck contacted Illinois himself to inquire about the job. He is desperate for it. I don't know about Babers. The person in charge of the hire, using her quotes here, "still learning" about the process. The Interim AD, the only one who might know anything about the process, had no say in this at all. They still have not started searching for a permanent AD which is just incompetence of epic proportions. The whole thing is just a disaster. Yikes.

QUOTE (TheFutureIsNear @ Dec 1, 2015 -> 09:02 AM) The only way a Miller trade makes sense is if we trade Q 1st and then circle back to help our staff out...Wonder if a starting package of Micah, Avi, and Montas even gets us in the door though? I will say that advanced stats really don't like Miller (big FIP difference in all 3 years) and a move to the AL and our ballpark could be a pretty bad mix for him. I wouldn't sell the farm for 2 years of him. I don't think Atlanta considers without Fulmer and/or Anderson involved. Sox don't need Miller anyway.

Well reports of Babers to UCF really were premature. Scott Frost is the new HC at Central Florida. I wonder if Babers and Fleck both turned down Illinois through back-channels?