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QUOTE (Quin @ Jan 28, 2018 -> 07:07 PM) Why mess with alcohol? You can drive drunk and do lots of things impaired. People are so stupid. Do you watch a football game? All the ads are beer. You act as if this is something radical, suggesting people drink beer and get drunk sometimes in doing so. I'm pointing out I never saw the benefits/logic in sticking a needle in one's arm. There's no way in hell I'd ever do so. Or snorting coke and wrecking your nasal passages or taking a pill that u know is gonna blow your mind away. If you have to get high why not do it the way billions of people have done it forever. Drink once in a while. And no, I don't drink. I have had half of one beer the last 3 years. Not really interested in it.

QUOTE (Tony @ Jan 28, 2018 -> 03:50 PM) Rick Hahn is the voice for the entire organization. Ownership doesn’t give many interviews, so it’s the job of Hahn to speak for the franchise. Because of that, he has to hedge in interviews a bit. He can’t come out and say “Listen, 2018 and 2019 are going to be a mess from a W-L perspective. If you want to see wins, go someplace else.” It’s a marketing disaster. On top of that, why can’t the plan change? What if the team as currently constructed goes out and wins 82 games with huge seasons from Moncada, Anderson, Giolitio, ect. 2019 is just supposed to be a lost year because it was never part of the plan? Things can change. Great post. I do think, however, Hahn doesn't even have to give a year he hopes to first contend. Fans of the rebuild gladly will wait. It's the part of all this I don't understand. The huge majority of fans love losing as long as it's part of a rebuild.

Scott Baio is denying all charges of inappropriate relations with Nicole Eggert when she was underage. His facebook live defense is interesting to say the least. Worth a watch if you have 10 minutes. His wife appears to be supporting him 100 percent as he has some key facts in his defense. Not judging Nicole by any means, just saying it's interesting.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 27, 2018 -> 02:59 AM) With the way he treated Anita Hill I can understand why you like him. You should have written you "can't understand" why I like him. By writing "can" you are attacking me. You are either saying I approve of bad behavior toward women or am racist or something you have no clue about to make those charges. In fact you are wrong if you feel I am either of those. I just read about Biden's treatment toward Hill. He said he wishes he'd have run the court sessions better. He said other were attacking Hill and he didn't do enough to stop it. Nobody's perfect. Biden to me doesn't seem like a bad guy. But your saying that about me is unacceptable and sad.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Jan 27, 2018 -> 02:33 PM) I feel like Greg will ignore this. Information learned flipping through channels (and landing briefly on a conservative radio or tv program) holds greater weight for Greg than any other form of information. And he doesn't even like Trump. But, come on guys...he's just askin'. I don't like trump. I do want prosperity. So yes i want him to succeed

Are the millenials messing with drugs? I never could figure out how anybody could willingly put a needle in their body or take a pill that they know will f*** with their mind. Cocaine? Is that still in? Marijuana? I guess that's the only drug I can understand although it will smell up your house, your car, your clothes. Give me 8 beers if I have to get mind altered. Why mess with drugs? People are so stupid.

Was switching channels and one of the cable networks had a host yapping about how Trump is not getting the credit for the surge in the economy. Said if this was a Democrat everybody would be celebrating in the streets over the economy.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 27, 2018 -> 02:45 AM) He said tonight he hopes to be ready by ASB. So he will probably be ready by 2021 All Star break? There won't be any reason to pitch him after that. He's out for the season?? Geez.

QUOTE (zisk @ Jan 26, 2018 -> 11:20 PM) I'd be cool with owners not spending on questionable free agents if they would lower prices on tickets with the savings. I always go at least once a year to a home game, but if it were a little less expensive I would definitely go more often. FWIW I'm 55 and am financially comfortable. Its got to be tough for younger less affluent people to afford a day at the park. Amen. But that ship has sailed. If you want a good seat, not some ridiculous nosebleed, you will pay huge bucks. And baseball wasn't designed to be a sport for the elite. There are so many games it was supposed to be the affordable sport. Baseball and the NBA now are for the elite (if you want a good seat). Ridiculous but it won't ever change. As far as baseball players, they are screwed because of modern sabes and metrics. Now 32 is considered old and in the past baseball players easily could play til 40 and were very productive. Now the cliche is you can't sign anybody to a significant deal over 32. Lorenzo Cain is 31 and people are thrilled he's gone. Because they think he'll hit .140 as a 36 year old in his final year of contract. The players are in trouble cause they are now ancient at 30 cause of the Sabes people.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jan 24, 2018 -> 02:11 AM) It'll be interesting to see if Biden goes for it in 2020. He was my first choice for 2016 and is probably one of the dems best candidates in some of the rust belt states. I worship Biden. I know why he didn't run last time, but it's a shame. He would have defeated Trump and we'd all be loving life so to speak. We were stuck in Hillary mania and there was no way of knowing America would for sure veto Hillary. If Joe is healthy at 80, I still hope he runs if all we have are the usual lousy candidates. Of course I love Bernie as well but he's a bit more radical than Biden.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 26, 2018 -> 05:43 PM) I'd be reluctant to spend huge cash on a guy heading into his 30s on a rebuilding team. Especially, with the loss of a draft pick by signing him. This can't be true. If it is, I hope our fans don't like the move. Time to be consistent here. If you don't wanna sign Abreu for age reasons and don't want Avi for concern about his remaining as good as last year, you certainly don't want Moustakas for age reasons and same thing, he could get fat at any time. Also we already have Davidson who is unpopular I know, but also Burger who was supposed to be the 3B of the rebuilt WS era.

Read an article about the asshole who molested all the gymnasts and will rot in prison. Yay! That bastard. Anyhow the article said MSU may get the death penalty over this. And then I read another story that said the school may be forced to close. Simply shut down by the state if indeed everybody knew about that bastard doctor's behavior. Really? Is this possible?

Royals fans would fit in well on this board. They are thrilled to lose Cain. Why do so many of you favor management so much? My gosh you want these owners to make sooooo much money. Royals fans are saying Cain isn't worth the money and five years is too many and they are thrilled they get a compensation pick. I don't know why people have the deep down desire to tank and sign as many unknown players as they can. You know a lot of unknowns bust. Take the Royals. Bubba Starling was a top pick. He flopped. Also that infielder who they got rid of, Christian Colon, was a can't miss high draft pick bust. I agree with Boras. Baseball has been ruined by the tank mentality. Very few teams want to win. Sad. And fans are backing the teams on this. They don't want players like Cain cause they make a few bucks too many. Yeah right. Cry me a river for the poor owners.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jan 25, 2018 -> 09:53 PM) I think he's right - too many rebuilders. I cause, I think is the 1 game wildcard.. Teams aren't going to go "all in" for a 1 game playoff series. And honestly, it's ridiculous. Instead, dump divisions and the top 4 make the playoffs...or top 6 and run normal playoff series. Agreed. That one game wildcard is absurd. You guys are right. If you are the losing team in the one-game playoff, it really is silly. It means nothing and your season was unsuccessful. One game wildcard? A joke. QUOTE (wrathofhahn @ Jan 26, 2018 -> 12:43 AM) You can go through these 7-10 year deals they almost never work out. Pujols. Fielder. Ellsbury. Crawford. Owners are tired of setting their money on fire and I don't blame them. Nice post. This is a good thread. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 26, 2018 -> 12:45 AM) Never count Boras out, this is all part of the game. Maybe it doesn't all go in his favor, but all it takes is one team. I also agree with this. He still might strike paydirt with Hosmer and Moustakas.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 23, 2018 -> 05:17 AM) Greg, you must be 70 years old. Who else watches SNL and listens to Rush? Ugh. I don't listen to Rush. Three to five minutes every two weeks does not constitute listening to Rush. As far as SNL ... do you read CNN, Yahoo, google? Their every move is covered by the press, which loves to review the skits trashing Trump. SNL is popular again. People watch it. I don't always watch it but if I"m home I turn it on. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 23, 2018 -> 05:25 AM) Weekend Update has gotten so, so bad. They just need to have Kate McKinnon perform in every single sketch. Weekend update is so so bad as you say. Again, all Trump all the time. I'm sick of Trump. Time to move on and have some funny skits. I agree about McKinnon. I especially love her UFO character.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jan 23, 2018 -> 04:04 AM) A good wow? Get a lil pumped reading it? I got so pumped I just started a stupid thread. Please tell me you at least got a half-stick reading that. Yeah, it's all good. A little surprised at that much optimism.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 22, 2018 -> 11:42 PM) This team could actually win the whole **** thing from a Wild Card in 2019 because if things go well they should be getting better as the season goes on. This team will win the whole bleeping thing in 2020 if we don't do anything to f*** it up beforehand. I won't comment. Only say wow at your post

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jan 22, 2018 -> 09:08 PM) The skit was funny because it's true. Link. Omg. Skit was horrible. Boring. Audience was silent

One thing is for sure. SNL hit a home run last year with all the funny Trump stuff. Saturday's show was filled with Trump stuff and it was boring. SNL needs to move on. That was last year; this is now. Trump stuff has not been funny, SNL. They need some fresher stuff. One skit was unwatchable. A game show called "Does it Even Matter?" The questions were all about Trump and his atrocities with the punch line "does it even matter?" The guests would say yes then the game show host would freak out about trump and say nothing matters. The audience was taken aback by how boring the skit was. Unfunny.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 21, 2018 -> 01:26 AM) Apparently despite hours of tear-inducing statements, a gymnast calling out the president of Michigan State university for looking the other way while girls were being raped, callouts over the head of USA Gymnastics for looking the other way, and multiple legal cases, the 3 cable news networks covered the USA Gymnastics rape cases for something close to 20 minutes total this week. If you'd like to see Aly Raisman's statement, the NY Times printed it in full today. I feel so sad for the gymnasts abused by that creep/cretan. I mean USA Gymnastics according to Aly knew!!! WTF. And they wanted her silenced and not make waves. This is such a scandal. Did you hear the testimony of the one gymnast? It was graphic about Larry (as Aly referred to him) whipping it out and playing with himself as he rubbed the kinks out of the gymnast. This guy attacked these young girls, as young as 13. He is the scum of the earth. I feel so bad for all gymnasts. That sport tears down your body. You need medical attention a lot. And this Larry guy took advantage of little kids and pretty much raped them. This is one of the saddest stories of the last 200 years. I'm sick. God bless you gymnasts and may Larry rot in hell.

I was wondering if this current period of time because of Trump is closest we've been to a completely divided country, almost to where there would be another Civil War. Trump is so despised by a segment. Yet there are those who voted for him who are very aggressive and they constitute a sizeable amount of people. Add to that all the unrest over the cops killing people of color and the white supremists vs. BLM and you have a truly divided land. If America wants to be divided it has succeeded. Perhaps the most divided ever except in time of official Civil War? that will be Trump's legacy. A split very angry country.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 14, 2018 -> 06:38 PM) If there was a question about this being a .500 team next season, this should answer it. This is the post of the year or at least the offseason. Shields and Gonzalez as choices? LOL. People will pay to watch those guys be 2/5s of our rotation? Ridiculous.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 19, 2018 -> 09:52 PM) If you think people don't begrudge the owners money you haven't read the posts on here about JR being a billionaire and too cheap. Or the comments about the McCaskey's being too cheap. This town dislikes most owners because they are rich and "cheap." I totally am against the owners. They are the ones who pay the big bucks and started the escalating salaries. To show you how out of whack salaries are ... the owners passed the expense onto the fans with ridiculous costs for parking and food and drink. The sucker fans are willing to pay 10 dollars for a beer and whatever it is for parking. There's no reason with sound systems and TVs being as great as they are that anybody supports MLB teams with their attendance. People should attend minor league games and college games and watch MLB on TV. The costs are insane and I blame the owners. You can say what you want about how cheap it is to go to an MLB game. I don't buy it. I'm not talking about nosebleed seats. Nosebleed seats reek. I am totally anti owner. They caused this mess by paying so much.

Seriously when Orson Wells had a fake end of the world thing on the radio, some people killed themselves. To see an official report of bombs coming in Hawaii ... I'd think some folks would panic and kill themselves at sea.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jan 19, 2018 -> 07:29 PM) You realize this would essentially legally bind women into having sex when they sign this contract, even if they change their mind afterwards right? I never thought of that. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 19, 2018 -> 07:32 PM) It also misses the main issue here, that consent isn't perpetual. Good point. I never said I was smart. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 19, 2018 -> 07:53 PM) greg, you are about 13 years too late on this idea https://vimeo.com/183089808 Wow, I swear I didn't steal Dave's skit. I hadn't seen that. Great mind thinks alike (kidding).