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    Spring Training thread

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    3 hours ago, Jack Parkman said:

    He can't stay healthy as a pitcher. Idk how much longer before they just put him in RF and be done with it.

    Ohtani trying to do both diminishes his value as both a hitter and a pitcher. Dude needs to just pick one. IMO he's a better hitter than pitcher.  

    Easy to say. I saw him pitch in person a few years ago before the injury and he was ELECTRIC. Can't just ignore his stuff. Worth making it work if you're them.

    STAR WARS Everything

    in SLaM

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    3 hours ago, Middle Buffalo said:

    I stumbled across Jedi yesterday and watched 20 minutes. Probably haven’t seen it in 10 years. Thankfully it was the first 20 minutes and not the last.

    It holds up remarkably well.  At the risk of heresy, I think it's a better story than Empire.

    Student Loan Debt

    in SLaM

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    10 hours ago, Texsox said:

    The "counseling" that is required for the government back loans is so easy to click and ignore that I doubt 5% of the borrowers actually pay attention. 

    Yeah I don't recall ever hearing it - I have literally as much debt (if not more) as a mortgage!

    Student Loan Debt

    in SLaM

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    On 1/19/2021 at 2:07 PM, southsider2k5 said:

    The idea that we are trusting 17-18 year old kids to be able to see the future and project which jobs and careers will be around in 10/20/30 years to a degree of certainty that many are going to carry six figures (or more) of debt in making that bet is absurd.   These are the same kids we don't trust to drink or drive a rental car, but are fully putting a hundred thousand dollars worth of debt and their careers in the same hands.

    The best economists out there struggled to see the changes in the world during my lifetime.  The fact that we are having kids bet their careers and financial futures on it is laughable.  

    There has to be a better way to do this.

    This is what got me. I took loans upon loans out for grad school thinking the lenders would make it reasonable to pay back - and unlike say a mortgage, no one sits you down and spells all your monthly payments back to you so you know what you're getting into. It's classic predatory lending.

    I have $400K in debt that I will never pay off in my lifetime, and yes it means I will never own a home or be able to have children because it's just not feasible.

    Those were the choices I made - never knew how it would affect me 20 years later...... and counting....

    Hector wrong. Again. - Cruz back with Min

    in The Diamond Club

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    18 minutes ago, turnin' two said:

    I think that most of us (at least speaking for myself here) are trying to deal in reality.  The Sox have made no mention of looking at Eloy like he is a DH at this point, quite the opposite actually.  So while it may be the role for which he is best suited, it isn't in his immediate future.  Especially with Abreu under contract and Vaughn coming up.  That combination will probably be the primary DH in the not too distant future.  

    No one wants to see Eloy get hurt bumbling after a ball in LF, but that's where he is going to be. 

    Esp when it's not like any of us make the lineup cards.....

    Hector wrong. Again. - Cruz back with Min

    in The Diamond Club

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    12 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:

    Jaime Navarro once b****ed about run support after a game he gave up 9 runs.

    And yet Ron Schueler chose him over Roger Clemens going into the 1997 year, where the Sox signed the best hitter on the market and could have dominated with a better staff (and w/o a horribly timed Ventura injury)

    Sox sign Hendriks: 3/$39M - 4th year optional with $15M buyout

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    4 hours ago, knightni said:

    Complete quote: 

    No. 4: “The downtime between hearing from teams and stuff gave me a lot of time to go down rabbit holes online about which way organizations were doing. I may or may not have read all 90something pages of the SoxTalk blog [editor’s note: it’s a forum] that was about me, ’cause it was interesting. I wanted to see the fans’ perspective, and they were largely positive. White Sox fans were by far the most positive in everything that has transpired that I’ve seen online. That was another big thing. You see the fan group, you see the fact at how positive they were, and that was a huge contribution to helping us narrow everything down.

     

    You guys helped him to decide to sign with the Sox.

     

    Good job to all you great posters.

    :cheers

    I'm surprised he thought it was positive!!

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    Old: Mega Hendriks Speculation Thread

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    1 hour ago, Orlando said:

    All for Twitter speculation in a boring offseason but if he’s right he has known something for days that not even a reporter very connected to the Blue Jays does . Plus Codify is still tweeting about Hendriks like he’s available.

     

    Good points - hope you're right. Fingers crossed!

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