Wilson A2000

There's bodies and there's depth. 26 catches combined is the definition of lack of depth.

Unless someone got cut, he'd be the 7th TE in camp. Seems odd. Bennett, Maneri are locks because of $$$ I would guess. Kyle Adams has experience on the roster and they've been raving about Fendi Onubun since the spring. May be keeping 4 TEs and no FBs. I thought TE was where the Bears had no depth. Wouldn't Pope be an upgrade?

Why not move Castro to 2B? I don't know much about Baez, but I thought Castro's defense was still horrid.

Williams out, Urlacher in talks to rejoin team and become 5th LB. Why not?

Urban Meyer said on ESPN radio today that he has a full-time staff member monitoring his team's tweets. Is that unusual?

What didn't he like? Hub is still holding a grudge against the Bears for losing his radio color job I think. He has very little positive things to ever say.

Of course not. But cheating in order to 'earn' your paycheck wasn't necessary.

When the heads of SEC and ACC officiating looked at the Clowney hit individually, one said it was illegal and he would be kicked out if that happened this year, while the other didn't think it was. You can review these hits though to make sure someone should or shouldn't be kicked out, right?

OK. You should get vilified for wanting something that you agreed you wouldn't get if you did PEDs when you signed your contract.

What the teams agreed to pay them is what the CBA stipulates and what their contracts stipulate including penalties resulting from PED suspensions. ARod has no one but himself to blame. He said he felt pressured to take PEDs in Texas to live up to his record-setting contract - a contract no one twisted his arm to sign.

If Cutler is bad I bet they let him go and rebuild. If he's good wouldn't they just resign him?

True. What are the franchise tag numbers the next two years? $20 million per?

Anyone think Cleveland or Buffalo or Miami or Jacksonville offers Cutler $23 million a year if Cutler performs well and the Bears lose him this offseason?

I guess I have to say it one more time so we all know - Bonds would have been a Hall of Famer before he took steroids. I made that clear from the beginning. But he would not have been the best ever without PED's and I think his career numbers make him the best hitter, if not the best player ever. Someone who went to the level Bonds went to juice and cheat out of sheer jealousy - maybe an unprecedented level of juicing (the repeat offender ARod is close) and became the best ever only because of that does not belong in the Hall. I prefer a Hall of Fame that isn't tainted. You can say that there are people who are in the Hall who cheated. I'm sure there are plenty, but that in no way means we should allow every cheater in from now on. Once a baseball stat becomes a stat I don't think you can wipe it away. Bonds can keep his fake stats, but he needs to be punished. Staying out of the Hall is what I would consider fair. This is one of the deterrents baseball needs to try to stop the current steroid era. Vance, greenies were not illegal for most of Aaron's career. Even if he took them regularly, I would have no problem with it. All the players had access to them and MLB had no problem with them until '71. And the fact that everyone could take greenies legally pre '71 is the point. Greenies were advantageous and they were legally there for the taking. Post 1991 steroids and PED's weren't. I don't know enough law to determine if your DR scenario is considered legal by MLB, but I find it highly unlikely that a guy dumb enough to use a corked bat only took PED's in the DR. Sammy doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. Would they even work well if he was off them during the season and on during the offseason? Don't you need to be on regular cycles?

Why did the Bears sign Ellis and not Idonije? They were making the same money and Idonije could have moved inside.

Yeah, allowing non-whites to play didn't mean [expletive]. We're only comparing types of PED's here, not race

Besides all the bogus circumstantial evidence you use to judge players who aren't 100 years old If by circumstantial evidence you mean testing positive for steroids Something tells me you haven't bought any positive tester's "only one time" or "it was an accident" excuse like you did for St. Henry. St Pettitte. Either way wasn't against the rules for Aaron.

As long as you don't include what happened throughout the 20s and into the early 30s Or in the late 60s when apparently the pitchers were all roided up. There is a reason the most recent era is called the steroid era Because ESPN sucks? No because designer steroids had a far bigger impact on performance than anything before it

Besides all the bogus circumstantial evidence you use to judge players who aren't 100 years old If by circumstantial evidence you mean testing positive for steroids

As long as you don't include what happened throughout the 20s and into the early 30s Or in the late 60s when apparently the pitchers were all roided up. There is a reason the most recent era is called the steroid era

LOL. What shred of evidence do you have that this is not the case? Absolutely nothing. Look, if you guys can't prove this negative, I don't know how you expect Wilson to take you seriously. Don't make a claim if you can't back it up. And you can't back it up.

They weren't really breaking any rules? If by 'any' you mean the rule that says don't take steroids then they were. I'm not romanticizing anyone. It's not romanticizing to say we have no reason to think Hank took amphetamines outside of the one time he said he did which was legal federally and in baseball until 1971.

All this to try to protect steroid era players. They don't deserve that. What happened from 1998-now is unprecedented.

LOL. What shred of evidence do you have that this is not the case? Absolutely nothing.

Is that legal under MLB rules? I just don't think we have to try that hard to excuse cheaters.