Y2HH
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Just now, Balta1701 said:
Bah, I think Madrigal's replacement is Cesar.
You mean a gold glover with power? Yes so Mad would bat 300, with average OBP and no speed and worse defense. I don’t see the issue?
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3 minutes ago, Chisoxmb35 said:
And Kimbrel could go back to the bad Kimbrel just as easily..especially coming to the AL.
He had like 1/2 bad year(s). He’s a career 2 ERA pitcher. His “bad” time was the exception to the rule.
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1 minute ago, harkness99 said:
yeah this thread is bazaar.... on many different levels
This thread is like a market?! 🤣
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I'd also like to point out that for the few months Yermin was in the majors, he probably made more than a lot of people here will make in the next couple of years. It's not my fault he spent it all on an olympic gold medal he'd wear while striking out.
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2 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:
Releasing a player who has no place going forward is putting them at a competitive disadvantage? Give me a break.
I think his point was, if you apply this "nice guy" rule to Yermin, you're also applying it to anyone and everyone who ever wants a release again...thus the competitive disadvantage.
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1 minute ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:
Yeah, I don't want to turn this into a labor debate but just because that's the "way it is" doesn't mean this organization needs to act that way and doesn't mean they can't show him some respect and grant him the release.
Just because the system is broken and unfair to minor leaguers "by rule" doesn't mean you have to play by those rules. The sox don't have to pay for their minor leaguers living quarters but they do because its the right thing to do. Other teams do not do that.
But what do they get out of granting him his release? If it weren't for the White Sox nobody would even know his name. They're under no obligation to release him because he's unhappy. As part of his employment to the White Sox, it's his job to improve and adapt, not whine and cry because HE cannot fix what's wrong. It's not like they sent him down and benched him, not giving him the opportunity to work out the issue.
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1 minute ago, EloyJenkins said:
so yep...his head got too big. I blame the burger joint and the t-shirts.
Let's calm the hype a bit -- the burger joint was a little local place I grew up near -- it wasn't like McDonald's hopped the Yermin express and named a burger after him like they did for Jordan.
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Haven't posted here in eons -- but the Yermin talk interested me due to the range of opinions on TLR caused it, etc.
IMO, the issue ultimately wasn't TLR, and it wasn't even that Yermin had a gaping hole in his swing when opposing pitchers figured out you don't have to throw him strikes. This is something that could be corrected in the minors. The issue is Yermin bought into his own hype. He went from a guy that stormed out of the gate having fun, to a guy having a local burger named after him in a matter of weeks, to a guy wearing what I can only describe as olympic gold medals around his neck.
I absolutely believe his eye can be corrected with some practice in AAA, but until he humbles himself and realizes he was never THAT good, it isn't going to happen.
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4 hours ago, BrianAnderson said:
Hey look at me - what a smart guy. 17 months ago did pretty well calling it.
Uh, yeah...a virus you didn't know would exist caused this on a global stage. You sure called it.
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18 minutes ago, soxfan2014 said:
Disney is a no-brainer at $93. Just bought some shares. Thought about waiting it out to see if it gets lower and if it does, I might just buy a few more anyway.
The only way to "play" this, is to buy little bits as it falls, rather than trying to catch the falling knife all at once, and plan to hold it for the long term. The market is acting quite irrational right now, and you can see this by how everything is falling concurrently, which makes no sense.
Usually, when stocks fall, things like gold and bonds rise -- but the opposite is happening, and even safe havens are falling apart. Seeing this makes me feel that fear and panic has hit the streets and the suckers are unloaded their stuff at steep losses.
As a rather brilliant investor once said, when others are greedy, be fearful ... and when others are fearful, be greedy.
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While it's impossible to gauge markets, this is likely a once in a decade opportunity. A month ago people were buying Disney @ 153$, and it's currently trading @96$. If you thought it was worth 153$, it's surly worth 96$.
While I'm not a Disney guy, simply because their dividend is trash, a few things I am buying as the market sinks (a bit at a time) -- BP, WFC, OXY, CCL, IBM, UAL
The speculative idea here is to find industries that will be hardest hit by the oil/energy issues combined with the Corona effect, such as air/cruise lines ... while also investing in some safer stuff like Wells Fargo and IBM -- which are paying out MASSIVE dividends, and would still be paying out very nice dividends even in the event they cut them.
I wouldn't recommend anything all at once (this is trying to time the market), just take little nibbles as it falls/fluctuates.
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Nest vs Ring
in SLaM
...as a quick follow up to this...
LOL
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-packed-third-party-trackers
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Nest vs Ring
in SLaM
Ring -- and basically all Amazon hardware products -- are an IOT security nightmare. Their security is either (almost) non-existent, implemented poorly, or relies too much on user knowledge in order to thwart bad actors. In addition, when security flaws are reported to them, they often let them sit far too long before patching, etc.
I don't use and do not recommend the use of Amazon products in any household, and will not until Amazon begins showing they're taking a stronger security focused posture behind their products.
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23 minutes ago, Tony said:
Speaking of being a Disney shareholder, it was SO stupid for me to not buy more before launch. We all knew it would be a huge boom right at the start and their would be a nice bump, I have no idea why I didn't pound it more. So dumb.
Hindsight is always 20/20 in a fickle market -- take a look at Apple for reference. There have been plenty of instances where their stock takes a short term hit because they "only" sold 70 Million iPhones instead of 70.12 Million. Then a year later the stock is at an all time high on nothing more than lessened expectations...
Disney easily could have plummeted because fickle traders were expecting 12 Million subscribers instead of the reported 10 Million. Give it time, you'll have plenty of more opportunities to buy it when investors decide to make predictions Disney cannot possibly meet, and then when they don't there will be a massive short-term sell off by plebs that don't understand they're being scammed by these analysts.
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Job Thread
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On 11/7/2019 at 8:57 AM, Iwritecode said:When I first got into coding the first language I learned was COBOL. It's an older language but fairly easy to learn and gave me a good base to learn other languages. Then when I graduated I spent the first 15 years of my career writing it. All the way up to 2015.
You'd be shocked at the number of companies that still use it. My last company was desperate to find coders that knew it because the average age of their IT department was 55+. A lot of companies have literally 100s or 1000s of programs written in COBOL but very few places even teach it anymore. The companies don't want to spend the time/effort it would take to re-write them all either.
So a suggestion... learn COBOL.
My first language was Basic (Commodore 64), and later Pascal, C, C++, and last but not least, COBOL.
Of course, prior to graduation I had fallen into an IT Tech Support/Jr. Infrastructure/Network job and never actually programmed a damn thing after I graduated ... but my original degree was in programming.
From memory, the only way I can describe COBOL to people is like literally telling the computer, "PRETTY PLEASE MULTIPLY THIS DATA FIELD BY THIS DATA FIELD AND GIVE ME THE ANSWERS TO EACH INDIVIDUAL ROW IN A VERY NEAT METHOD." Obviously I'm exaggerating, but it was like trying to speak write programs based in pure English to a computer.
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10 hours ago, ChiliIrishHammock24 said:
If I could have gotten a Tesla for free, I would have.
That being said, the internet came through with perfect quality rips of the show.
I mean, granted, it's Disney, so it's not like they'll miss the money, but you're obviously an adult with means. You should go out of your way to support art/movies/video games you actually enjoy, versus pirating them like you're a high school kid without the means to do so.
I was a big software pirate at one point in my life -- so much so that I was listed in e-mags (of the time) of being one of the top software "traders" in the world. That sort of happened out of what started from necessity -- I simply couldn't afford anything, so I went looking for it in unscrupulous places -- but it blew up into what it became ... which in hindsight was pretty stupid. That said, as an adult with means, if a program, game, movie or television show comes out I actually enjoy, I pay for it now ... because I can, and those that put in the work to create it deserve to be paid accordingly.
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On 10/30/2019 at 9:06 PM, pettie4sox said:
The buster got a lot of people in trouble, mostly because people could not be civil. I don't know the ages of most of the posters but it did have a very youthful chaotic vibe which is sad.
The buster was one of the primary reasons I visited this site -- I still use it to keep up on Sox news, etc., just as I did back then -- but the Buster was where I actually posted and took part in the Soxtalk community. Not all conversations were civil, but overall, they were better than 99.9999% of the Internet in general. While I didn't always agree with everyone here, I at least respected their opinions, and they tended to come from a well-thought line of reason.
Compare that to the comments section anywhere else on the Net -- including practically any Reddit thread -- and you'll see the stark difference in what we had here with the Buster, vs what's available out there.
I wish they'd bring it back.
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14 hours ago, ChiliIrishHammock24 said:
To be honest, I was wasted when I posted that, but looking back at the thread I'm ok with that response since I was collectively referred to as "cute" twice for continuing to look forward to Star Wars content.
Sorry for calling you cute ... won't let it happen again ... cutie pie.
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On 10/27/2019 at 3:12 AM, ChiliIrishHammock24 said:
Fuck you guys, Y2HH said Rogue One was meh. It is decided.
I never said you weren't free to like it, love it, or even declare it as the best movie ever made...
I simply didn't care for [most of] it ... until the end anyway ... the ending may be one of the best sequences in the entire franchise.
Not sure you were aware of this, but the world you live in is full of diverse opinions.
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8 hours ago, ChiliIrishHammock24 said:
The Force Awakens was good. Rogue One was good. Solo was decent. The Last Jedi was the only trash one so far of the newest 4.
Granted, this is subjective because it's opinion, but I wouldn't call them any of them "good" considering the story they inherited and the amazing things they could have done with it.
Force Awakens was okay at best ...
Rogue one was meh, the final five minutes was awesome ...
Solo was meh ...
Last Jedi was flat out dumb as hell considering they squandered one of biggest "returns" in sci-fi history ...
My opinion/scoring system of those above movies is like this:
Empire was exceptional.
If Empire was exceptional, at BEST, Force Awakens (arguably the best of the newer movies) was just okay in comparison.
Like I said, it's cute how hopeful you continue to be.
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2 hours ago, whitesoxfan99 said:
Agreed. This looks like a ton of fun. Hopefully they land the ending.
It's almost cute how hopeful Star Wars fans continue to be despite 57 movies in a row of near total suck interspersed with "moments" where things are just about to get really good, and they find a way to fuck it up.
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10 hours ago, lostfan said:
I'm not in an active mod group, I'm retired
They probably didn't need your services anymore after they closed the 'Buster ... since your full time job was basically suspending me
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On 10/17/2019 at 6:48 PM, lostfan said:
If I had the mod option panel to do it I'd suspend you again just for fun.
Why don't you have it?! I'd have found it funny if I came back here today and found out I'd been suspended. lol
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Don't worry so much about it -- back when they had the Filibuster here, I'd get suspended a few times a year, but they kept letting me return for more.
How did you become a White Sox fan?
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I was born in Bridgeport.