Everything posted by Stinky Stanky
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2020 NBA Offseason Thread
First pre-season game tells us the Bulls are the same as last year, don't have the three point guns to compete in the modern NBA. Don't defend it very well either. And they're soft in the middle. Wendell needs to find a position. Right now I'm not sure why he's on the court.
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So let's talk about Quintana shall we
The Cubs pitching coach turned that wicked slider of Q's into a strikeout pitch. Credit where credit is due. Velocity be damned.
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Len Kasper is new White Sox radio play by play announcer
Purposeful and unnecessary. Unless you don't buy the "Jonesing to do radio at half the money story" and think he was pushed out. Then it makes sense.
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Sox sign Adam Eaton 1 year, $7m plus option
I don't mind seeing some Engel. He deserves it. Controlling Adam's urges to be a dick should be easier with no supporting network of other dicks for him to play stupid for. A former HS teacher once told me that he looked around a class on the first day and if he only spotted one jerk kid, he knew things could be kept rolling smoothly. More than one? Problems galore. The money saved on Adam can be used for arm(s). I wanted Mazara back anyway. I think his "strep throat" gave him a one-year Get Out Of Jail ticket. Call me crazy, but I'll be checking back in this fall.
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Passan: Springer to White Sox not happening
Don't confuse me with facts. ?
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NFL Thread 2020-2021
Defense lost the game, clear as can be. Mitch was OK and the OL held together, for the most part. Better thinking on a White Sox site than the Bears' FO.
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Len Kasper is new White Sox radio play by play announcer
Now it's starting to make sense. And for Chris Meyers, Marquee guy and picture of amiable mediocrity. He had to know that he was out or somehow demoted, IMO. Otherwise this doesn't make sense. Does he have kids in school here? What's his family situation?
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Len Kasper is new White Sox radio play by play announcer
Am I the only one wondering what's behind this? Hoping to know more, soon. Some kind of beef between Len and Marquee? Andy's still on-air at WGN, so he has work, that's good. He was about as terse as Farmer doing PBP. That wasn't good. I'm not a big fan of Benetti, either. Too much non-baseball drivel. Stone's voice can be irritating and he talks too much. You're probably thinking that I'm a dark cloud who thinks the last Sox announcer he liked was Joe McConnell. Well, maybe, just maybe you're right. Maybe.
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2020 Election Thoughts
The Obama plan was nothing but a giveaway to health care insurers for which the insurers agreed to reduce their share of the health care dollar from 23% to 21%. Still a lot of money for pushing some paper around. Somehow that got confused with Socialized Medicine and it cost the Democrats the House and Senate. Now we can't live without it. He's a little freer now that POTUS discussed firing him (and Fauci) after the election because Barr wouldn't initiate an investigation of Biden and son corruption at POTUS's request before the election. Suddenly he found a pair.
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NFL Thread 2020-2021
Better make it known to management that you're available. You're smarter than anyone in the FO right now. Use 2021 as an evaluation year for the new GM and staff, OK, tank, and scheme to get a QB in 2022. ? (Mitch #2 !!!)
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2020 Election Thoughts
This will be appealed. It's part of the plan to get the issue to the US Supreme Court. Trump said as much during the confirmation process for Justice Barrett. But even this court is not going to reverse an election won by huge margins. Is It?
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2020 Election Thoughts
Hypocrisy in politics? Oh, the horror. ?
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
Sounds like one is You Catch It and the other is It Catches You. Same difference, IMO
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2020 Election Thoughts
If anyone saw the letter Murphy sent to Biden explaining why she waited until now to release the funds (bunch of bulljive) she could have saved the effort and just written "Because Trump told me to."
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2020 Election Thoughts
Rudy leaking oil like my old '55 Chevy.
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2020 Election Thoughts
OK, I was exaggerating, but he is crossing a line post-election loss.
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2020 Election Thoughts
I had been comparing him to a Berlusconi/Mussolini hybrid for years but he's crossed the line into German fascism by now.
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2020 Election Thoughts
I know that Joe has told advisers that he doesn't want to prosecute Trump after the transition, but if 4 dead at Benghazi was good for 2 years of hearings, then 250,000 dead of COVID could take us to the year 127,020 AD at the same rate. ?
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
As I've posted before, no mask is totally effective. There's still a risk. I will get the vaccine and continue to wear one anyway until things settle down. I've golfed in a mask and played about as well as maskless. I don't wear one when I'm out for a stroll, but there's one in the pocket if I get near people.
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Theo Epstein Resigns; Hoyer Stays
It would be similar to owning golf courses which lose money year after year, but you use the losses to offset gains from other investments and pay very little taxes. Meanwhile the land the golf courses sit on is appreciating in value every year and you wind up with a fortune when you sell. Smart.
- George Springer Thread
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2020 Election Thoughts
I saw that before I posted. Signaling to aides is not a public declaration. I stand by my post.
- George Springer Thread
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2020 Election Thoughts
Biden never publicly declared that he is a one term president. At least I can't find a quote on it. If he is one, that leaves Harris against Trump or whomever. Trump may be a vulgar narcissistic boor but once you get beyond that, he is serves the Republican cause very well. (Not meant in a negative sense)
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2020 Election Thoughts
The looting and $2B of property destruction were pulling in one direction. Not the BLM alone, that has merit by itself, even if some people join the two. The president's handling of COVID was pulling in the other direction. That's the story of this election. It also explains why close House races went so Republican. They weren't burdened by a quarter million dead Americans on their watch. Disagree? Who was elected president in the vote after the property destruction following the assassination of Dr. King? Makes me want to believe reports of some violence being started by agents from the other side embedding themselves with the rioters. Democrats need to focus on the real reason they lost House seats and not attribute it to a failure to connect with one voting block or another.