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Another mass shooting, another white shooter. I bet these laws would become stricter if they were a minority, but since they aren’t, “there’s nothing we can do!” When Trump was asked today about the gun laws, his comments were “there should have been armed security.” Armed security at a fucking synagogue? Should there be armed security at my local Subway or the train station or the Walgreens next to my house? What a joke.

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There should be three goals this offseason IMO: Pursue the whale free agents (Machado & Harper) and try to land one Add veterans on short-term deals (2 years or less) to fill major holes Continue to add talent to the system by flipping non-essential pieces I feel very strongly that we need to start adding some veterans and begin developing a winning culture to aid the development of our young players. I’m probably in the minority here, but I believe that constant losing can cause guys to press and not make the adjustments needed for long-term success. Additionally, I think it’s important to make young guys earn their spots and not just hand full-time roles to them. As such, I’m all for adding some veterans if the terms make sense. Right now, I think we need to add two starters, one RH reliever, a 3B, and probably an OF. I’m simply not feeling the internal options we have at those spots and would prefer to give those jobs to capable veterans that will take some pressure off the kids and serve as bridges to the next wave of prospects. Again, the key is these have to be short-term deals. If so, I’m all for spending some money now.

Your heart/plan is in the right place. Still I think it would be better if JR sold the team. If he sold the team Hahn and company would be gone.

Okay, in the 50 years before the Texas tower shooting there was routine lynching, firebombs in churches and general terror in black Americans.

Sad stuff. You have to wonder if America's best days are long behind us. Can we become a kinder, gentler nation ever again? I can only imagine the pain in Pittsburgh.

This is a hard day, and I understand responses. I edited the post above, please try to discuss as per the new rules laid out by chisoxfn.

Even Pecota, a projection system that typically underestimates the Sox, was off by 11 full games.

Smith was pretty good IMO.

Machado just stared down his hit that went all the way to the wall and dropped his bat thinking he had a home run, and turned a stand-up double into a single. Not bright.

Almost everything in the bolded graf is factually false. That is probably why you are surprised. The reason the "anthrax" letters to Trump officials didn't get much press is because they were not in fact Anthrax or anything else hazardous, which they knew pretty much right away. It did get quite a lot of coverage until that was known, then it dropped off the radar. Which is what one would expect. The baseball game shooting? That was top story for days and had constant follow-ups and coverage. Not sure why you didn't see it, but it was very much there, big time coverage. The Rand Paul episodes with his neighbors have been covered on and off for the entire time, but that one is also weird because Rand Paul himself has wanted to keep it quiet. His choice I guess. I honestly don't know anything about comedians saying stuff, probably true, that's kinda what comedians do. I find no stories from anything other than wild conspiracy sites about any attempts by ISIS (or anyone else) trying to assassinate Trump. Of course all Presidents get threats, the USSS handles it, and we generally hear nothing about it unless something leaks publicly. And people violate motorcades and other security perimeters pretty regularly, again, for all Presidents, so why cover something like that unless they actually make it close to the President? I mean, that might help explain it, Or the fact that, you know, actual working bombs were sent to like a dozen people from a terrorist. Seems kinda newsy to me.

I mean we don't know anything about this person other then he is really bad at making bombs. I do find it curios though what the media does and does not choose to cover. The individual sending anthrax to Trump officials got maybe a day worth of coverage. The Bernie Bro who shot up Republican lawmakers on the baseball field critically injuring Scalise got maybe a couple of days. Paul was beaten up by his democrat neighbor next door late night comedians made jokes and laughed at his expense. There has been multiple attempts to assassinate Trump from ISIS, to people attacking him during his campaign, to people attempting to breach his motorcade none of which received much coverage. Those are just the physical threats. The NYT recently published an assassination fantasy of Trump. Biden threatened to take him to the woodshed. Booker and Maxine have told their supporters to accost Republican lawmakers wherever they go. They have been surrounded and told the most vile things as they leave work by democrat activists. Griffith held up a decapitated head. Late night comics have made jokes regarding incest. Labeled Melenia a prostitute. To our former AG telling his supporters to assault Republicans. Over 90 percent of the coverage of Trump administration from the media is negative. There has been wall to wall coverage of this singular event for days with no end in sight. My question is why? What makes this act any different then the political violence that has already been occurring? I like everyone else would like the rhetoric toned down what makes me cringe most regarding Trump is the rhetoric but why are we pretending he is the only one with unclean hands in all this? As CNN says facts matter and the fact is there is more then enough blame to go around when Trump said we need to unite the focus in the media and the other side (it's hard to tell the difference) was on how he needed to change there was zero self awareness of the role they played into all this. And until they wake up and realize it's a shared responsibility to be more civil nothing is going to change.