brett05
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Such a great call to hire Tony. I was against it until I heard Dan Evans speak about this potential move. He was one of the first to use analytics. He's going to be great for the team. I am all aboard on this move.
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Praying for his family and friends
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18 hours ago, greg775 said:
I have a relative whose net worth is close to $1 million after inheriting money after both parents' deaths. She has no dependents and her husband is dead. She is close to retirement age.
Question: What do she do with that kind of money when she'll need to start spending some of it during retirement years? She currently is working. Is 900,000 to 1 mill enough to live on combined with social security payments that can start whenever she wishes between 62 and 65? I know nothing about money so thought I'd ask you kind folks.
This really depends on her ongoing expenses.
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Plus this is one of those moves that screams to other players, the White Sox will take care of you if you perform
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He has to produce 6.25 WAR over the next three years. This is a great deal. Keeps him working with the Hispanics on the team and also provides needed time for true development for Vaughn if he is still on the team.
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fWAR since 2015... 25.0 Bryce Harper (727 G) 24.9 YASMANI GRANDAL (663 G) 24.6 Manny Machado (793 G)
SWEET!!!
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The ballpark is 281 feet (86 m) to left field, 314 feet (96 m) to center and 262 feet (80 m) to right field. With additional temporary bleachers, the venue held nearly 6,000 spectators for the 2013 Team of Dreams celebrity ball game.
They need dimensions and seats. Gotta be a day game for lighting. Going to need netting to protect the fans from fouls.
No doubt it can all get done, just a lot of work.
But this would be a national game with an up and coming White Sox team.
I really like the idea.
Given how few seats there are, I'd not be shocked if pricing started at $100+ a ticket.
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I'll take Moncada
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Adam hasn't batter yet. I will take Engel
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John Williams Score is out for the new Disney Parks opening next season including some awesome video of the parks.
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20 hours ago, illinilaw08 said:
I also think it's important to note that he intentionally excluded gun deaths by suicide on the other side of the equation. From Harvard - attempted suicide by gun is effective 82.5% of the time. Drugs and cutting are each effective less than 2% of the time. I will shout from the rooftops about how that stat matters any time someone seeks to exclude those deaths...
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/case-fatality/
Shout all you want, the life that is jeopardized is only the suicidal. Yes you eliminate them from the talk.
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23 hours ago, NorthSideSox72 said:
tens of millions? Come on man, in a country of 300 million people, you think 10% or more are saved every year by guns? You can't possibly believe that silliness.
It's absolutely a possibility. It's a deterrent.
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On 11/15/2018 at 11:00 AM, LittleHurt05 said:
Why do you only include non suicidal deaths? I have to imagine many of those suicides would not have happened if a gun was not so easily accessible.
Probably not. They'd just use another method.
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On 11/14/2018 at 8:38 AM, NorthSideSox72 said:
This is untrue because it is non-provable. You are assuming that all incidents involving a gun used in self defense saved a life. Clearly that won't be true - it will be some portion of it. And the part that is non-provable is that there is no way to know which ones. 80%? 10%? 50%? One would literally have to study each incident in detail, and even then still make assumptions. It isn't possible.
The only thing we can say with confidence is that it is a fraction of what you re using here as a measure, that "DGU".
I never said provable.
I used a stat from the government, a supposedly unbiased source.
The only thing we can say with confidence is that there are lives saved, how many is debatable, it could be thousands it could be tens of millions
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21 hours ago, Balta1701 said:
Those estimates run into the same problem of people overestimating things, the numbers that you give are similar to the fraction of Americans who say they were abducted by aliens. The Rand corp did a summary of the available data on this a few years ago, but because the government is blocked from collecting this data by the gun industry, there is never good data on it, and a reasonable person would probably note that my side would be happy to collect more data and the other side is not.
I agree, but again if you take the low number more lives are saved than lost by a multitude margin.
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The fact is guns save more lives than they cost per the CDC it's estimated to be 500K to 3 Million per year saved vs the non suicidal deaths of roughly 13 K by guns.
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I think the time has come to encourage open/concealed carry in every state.
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In the words of Bray Wyatt...
SoxTalk..He's Here!
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Tony La Russa named Manager
in Pale Hose Talk
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I really thought our fan base was much more knowledgeable than they are showing in this thread.