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Which is my concern. I think the Twins and Yankees will get better over the next few weeks (Yankees will get who they want despite their posturing) and if the Sox made their big splash (Lynn), the projected win total isn't going to be moved much by a Hendriks move. I also think if the Angels. say, sign Bauer that they could basically put themselves on an even level. The A's and Rays will likely find value to make up for their losses. Twins, Yankees, Rays, Angels(longer shot), Oakland, and Astros are all teams that I think could be within 2 wins of the Sox projection wise which is a problem. Don't sleep on the Astros; they lose Springer, sure, but Tucker is going to get a full year and he's a stud. I think Whitely is one of the big surprises and break out stars in baseball next year, and the Astros lineup is every bit as good as the White Sox. If the Sox would have signed a viable RF'er, they'd have a little bit of a cushion heading into the rest of the off-season but we didn't so

Because I have the twins and astros players being projected to be worth more than the White Sox. Sox could have taken the lead and been the favorite or second favorite in the AL, but they simply haven't yet. The race is pretty tight between the top 5 teams in the AL. Id argue the Angels are even in the mix but if they don't finally add some depth and get some production out of SP they'll be in trouble again. I'm not overly high on Keuchel next year, and sox have nothing at 4-5 right now. So their rotation is a concern. Position player wise sox are deep but they've still got non-gtees in RF and at 2B. Offensively luis isn't guaranteed next year but he'll be an impact player regardless which is nice.

Behind Yankees, Astros, and Twins. A's and Rays have a few bigger holes to fill first.

Yeah, I still have them as the 4th best team in the AL as of today (depending on rest of off-season) which leaves too much margin for actually missing the playoffs for my liking.

I admittedly wasn't a big reader when I was a kid (meaning I couldn't read a book if my life depended on it). When I hit my twenties, I actually read the first book I recommended above and I became infatuated with not just Native history, but with non-fiction tales that exposed the lies sold to us in our broken educational system. Today I focus more on economics and finance, and the exploitation of all of us - by a very select few - but I'll never forget the book that made me realize that I had been sold a crock of shit in school as a child; no different than how North Korea teach propagated history to their citizens. IDK if you haven't figured it out yet, but citing your middle school and elementary school history classes as your basis of expertise has already told on yourself without anyone ever having to respond.

Two great reads for someone who actually wants to learn about what our ancestors did and the genocide they participated in : "Not Genocide" just the systematic destruction of an entire group of people and their culture.

I'm going to bow out because you clearly just have no idea what you're talking about and you'll just deny until you die which is your right to do. America's broken education system has produced denialist like you in bulk. This guy really said "And hell america is easily one of the least racist in comparison" The entire countries initial economy was built on racism. That racism existed well into the 1950's legally. I'd say give this book a read, but we know that won't happen:

Pal, I thought you were a historian taught about Native history: https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smallpox-blankets#:~:text=An illustration of Ottawa Chief,infecting blankets after peace talks. "An illustration of Ottawa Chief, Pontiac confronting Colonel Henry Bouquet who authorized his officers to spread smallpox amongst native Americans by deliberately infecting blankets after peace talks" The disease spread was a deliberate weapon. I'm sure you knew that though; "just a couple bad apples" lol.

You literally argued that the murder of 95% of the native population over the course of just three generations wasn't genocide. Your exact words were: (Source: https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html#:~:text=Within just a few generations,the population of the Americas.) "although id argue genocide is probably a stretch" Why, because they didn't kill 100% of them. Amazing stuff. The expert on native history is arguing that "Indians" isn't offensive and that genocide is a "stretch."

You have proven through your ignorance within this thread that you weren't taught any actual history of Native Americans; I know you haven't come to that realization yet, but maybe one day...

You know, we could teach about their cultures and past in SCHOOL and not through offensive caricatures that are sold for a profit by teams that aren't even affiliated with the community? I know that's a crazy concept to you.

It's not even just that... he wants to pay the same money, he just wants to get less for it. It One of the more bizarre takes I've ever seen on twitter.

This was as serious tweet written by someone who follows baseball. "I'd rather have the guy for one less year for the same price." Truly amazing mindset from these people who run the White Sox.

Where did I say that? And please spare me your sob story; it's so hard being a white man in America and this world, amirite? You realize I'm about as pastey and white as is humanly possible, right champ? You brought up slavery; this is where the American education system has failed. The institution of slavery in the USA was arguably the most hienous implementation of slavery in the history of studied mankind, and also the latest legalization of it in the developed world. Additionally, we committed mass genocide against Native American's in which now we celebrate via Thanksgiving, yay! I have to go get some work done, so you can be spared anymore responses from me for a while, but I hope you have a deep enough bathtub to catch all your pity, poor white guy, tears.

I know, it's actually much worse because you are claiming "you don't care at all" yet you still want the name to remain unchanged despite you knowing that it offends people - for a fact, you know it offends some natives. It honestly makes you sound intentionally evil. "You don't care" but your opinion is "fuck those people though." When I don't care about things, that means I'm good with doing what makes others feel better. That's kind of what "not caring" means.

Let me help you with this word. Inadvertent means to unintentionally do something. Like when my mother asked the woman at the dentist office how far along she was in her pregnancy when she wasn't pregnant; that is inadvertently offensive. If my mom then went back to the dentists office every time after that and continued to ask that question, it's no longer inadvertent. So, when they made the Indians name they were likely inadvertently offending people. After being told repeatedly that it is offensive to them, if they continued to refer to themselves as Indians, it now becomes deliberately offensive. So if you truly don't want to deliberately offend people, as you are claiming in this thread, then why do you keep posting in defiance? Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

Man, the point is going right over your head. You're upset that natives have an opinion on something that directly impacts them. It bothers you so much so that you're here arguing against their opinion, telling them to be stronger lol. Yet, you're offended by the same thing and it has no direct impact on your life. Truly amazing.

You're clearly offended; you're here in this thread arguing against a decision that impacts your life nilch. You're so offended you felt the need to seek out a study that agreed with you. You're arguing with posters whose opinion is "good with me, I got no skin in the game and might as well be respectful with something that means nothing to me." Racist lolololol

You're not using the numbers; your actually cherry picking numbers to fit your narrative in order to make yourself feel better about your opinion.

Ron and ChiSox are the type of people that tell their wives (if they exist) to pick anywhere they want for dinner because they don't care. Wife picks some place, and they moan and said... "Nooooooo, not that place." SMH, the worst kind of people. ?

You don't want to offend anyone, you're just offended when they tell you that it's offensive to them. Makes sense. Keep that logic flowing.

Isn't this exactly what you're doing? My stance is I don't give a shit about team names, but I respect the people who actually are related to the issue and do care. So if they are going to change it to not offend even 10 people, I'm all good with it because again... it means nothing to me. That's what it actually means when you "don't care."

You're white I'm guessing; which literally explains this. It's very easy to not be offended when you've been the one committing atrocities for the duration of mankind. I know, because nothing offends me, because I've had a leg up in pretty much every aspect of life. And again, you are acting offended that they're changing the team name when you have NO CONNECTION to the team or the name. That makes you significantly more "soft" than people who feel they are being exploited by professional organizations who don't care one bit about educating fans on Native History; because they actually have skin in the game. You have none, yet here you are getting outraged that other people have feelings that aren't the same as yours. Amazing you don't see the irony in that.

You can't acknowledge that your study was done and funded by a team with some serious bias, and that even in that study 10% of Native's were offended. Why do you want to offend 10% of any group of people just to maintain a teams pointless name?