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QUOTE (raBBit @ May 29, 2017 -> 09:25 PM) I know we can't be fair to greg but he said he wasn't sure if it was Mizzou or not. I can't keep track of all the bulls*** the kids at Mizzou do either. The school that did it was Dartmouth. Also happened at Michigan. http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov...-white-student/ Thank u rabbit. You are fair to Greg! I like it.

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ May 29, 2017 -> 11:22 PM) I'm a White Sox fan, I want them to win no matter what. If they lose, and move for more young specs that's OK too. All told, I am enjoying this season. I love the win no matter what guys! Put me in that category. There's you, me, El Rockin, Eminor3 who else? Just.Win.Baby.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 30, 2017 -> 02:59 AM) Greg, his "bunting" has led to the 7th best runs scored/runs allowed differential in all of baseball...and a better record (percentage-wise) than the 2016 team with Sale, Eaton and Nate Jones recorded. As it stands today, we'd have the 13th pick in the 2018 draft. One of the 3-5 candidates for Manager of the Year. Hinch of the Astros would win it, hands down, if the voting were held today. Thing is ... bunting has jumped the shark. Those who bunt are not deemed good skippers.

He has no chance since he's an advocate of bunting. That means he's a relic. Can't survive if you approve of the bunt.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 30, 2017 -> 03:04 AM) The only "bad" thing right now is we currently are sitting with the 13th pick in the draft (nowhere close to Top 3-5)...but, even more concerning for potential trade deadline deals, we're now being joined by more and more teams in dumping talent on the trade market. You've got the Angels who will have to fold with Trout out 5-8 weeks, the Royals will be starting a huge firesale with Duffy down and blowing yet another game tonight against DET (starting with Moustakas, Hosmer, Cain, Herrera and Vargas), the Astros are so completely burying everyone in their division that the Angels will probably have to think about getting what they can for some of the assets on their roster...not that they have many with huge value. The Tigers have to decide if they want to max out any trade value for the likes of JD Martinez, Ian Kinsler, Avila, etc., or try to hold on and battle with the Indians for the division. The odds of them being able to compete all year long with CLE are slim, and none. Right now, we're only going to be able to deal Swarzak and Holland at higher value. Robertson, although we might have to eat some salary depending on who we trade him to. Cabrera and Frazier are "trending up" in value but still far from the best situation to deal them for prospects. Then you have MiGo and Shields, who hopefully comes back soon. Don't worry. By the time it shakes out we'll have the worst record in AL or second worst. Talent prevails and we don't have the talent that will win on the road and go no better than .450 at home. Royals won't totally clean house. I predict they'll bring back Moose,Herrera and Vargas. Hosmer and Cain will be dealt or walk on their own. Cain blows. He won't bring much. Hosmer won't bring much as a rental. They'll keep him til the end of year and try to sign him. In short, they'll bring back Moose for sure. Maybe Hosmer. Herrera and Vargas are worth nothing in trade value. As far as Sox ... Robertson figures to bring something and we'll deal him. Those veteran pitchers will bring NOTHING. Holland, gonzalez Pelphrey are not bringing anything. Nate Jones is a walking injury catching up to him with the horrific pitching form and will bring little. Frazier is worth nothing hitting below .200 always. Melky will bring nothing. In summation ... Robertson will be dealt and bring back a decent prospect and a half. Q will be dealt and bring back 2 decent prospects. Everybody else we're stuck with. GO SOX!

Great win. Crowd loved it. I was wondering about Renteria, though. Look ... obviously his philosophy is bunting is good. With that in mind, should the Sox cut their losses now and dump him?? It's ridiculous to try bunts like this. MLB players CANNOT bunt, first of all. Second of all it's proven bunting costs you runs. So if he's gonna bunt, doesn't he have to be punted out of the organization ASAP?? He's been great aside from the bunting, but this is a huge issue moving forward. Bunting has jumped the shark. Anybody who believes in the bunt deserves the punt.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 29, 2017 -> 02:17 PM) Greg what on earth are white privilege gangs? Haven't you seen them on youtube? They march up to people and demand they state their privilege. I don't know if it was MU but they parade around demanding you invoke your privilege. They did it in a library and some of the people earlier had marched with the privilege gangs to show support and they still got chastised in the library.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 29, 2017 -> 06:10 PM) What a terrible article and an absolutely pathetic click-bait title. Did you even read it Caulfield? I read it and I still despise the airlines. It's too cramped in there, it just is. I'm surprised more people don't have incidents on flights. Even my favorite SWA, the new planes are too cramped. If you've ever had a stranger in the middle seat all over you in the aisle you know what I mean. The execs don't give a s*** that you are paying 400 and 500 bucks for a flight. It should be illegal to have seats so cramped the guy next to you is touching you cause he can't fit. That's happened to me and it's gross.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 28, 2017 -> 08:19 PM) It's interesting to see how this discussion always circles back to Reddy and Caulfield being great at everything. Unfortunately I am not sure testimonials of not having to work hard to attain a Russian girl who have been able to get an MFA from some institution or being the best at everything in your high school/college has to do with anything. But if testimonials are what you're looking for as some authoritative guidances, here's my experience. I grew up with a kid my whole life. We played baseball together from five years old through Varsity ball. He lived four houses down from me. My parents are both of European descent. My mother grew up in Engelwood and Auburn Gresham to poor Irish immigrants. They were one of the only white families in the neighborhood and her father wouldn't leave after getting stuff thrown their windows or having their garage set on fire. Once their catholic church shut down, then my grandfather was finally ready to leave. My father grew up in a typical south side neighborhood of cops and firefighter families. My friends' parents were Polish and Cuban immigrants. They both came here as teenagers and meet each other young and raised a family together. My friend and I applied to all the same colleges. My parents aggregately made more money than his. When I was applying for college, my father was between jobs after the losing his job in the aftermath of the affirmative action housing crisis. His father was a year from retiring from the union and set to make 80K a year until he dies. He could afford to go to any school in the Big 10. Not because of money but because he was half Cuban. He's just as pale as I am. So I went to the school that offered me the most scholarship, the most financial aid and the cheapest living (my parents' house) and he went to the school that he liked best because his father's Cuban background offered him a very lucrative Cuban American scholarship. We both went into business and had similar majors and career aspirations. The places we both wanted to work wouldn't start hiring students until after their junior or senior years depending on if the student was a masters candidate or not. So when my sophomore year of college wrapped up and everyone went back home from the summer, I ran into him. We caught up and talked about our summer plans. I went to work at the restaurant and he went to work at one of the places where we both wanted to work going into college. I said, "That's weird, their campus recruiting team told me there were no opportunities until after my Junior Year." He said, "Get this, I was studying in the library and there was a recruiting event so I stopped by and one of the recruiters asked if I was Mexican. I said, no I am Cuban and he said that would work. So they enrolled me into a program for Blacks and Latinos to get a head start in business." I talked to him later in the summer and asked him about his experience. He said he got paid $25 dollars an hour to make signs and pass out t shirts and swag with a group of mostly black kids. He said it was a complete joke. So much so that he sought leadership and told them he wasn't learning anything and felt like a cheer leader for the company. So they found a way to get him more real work and he was recognized by the company for his initiative in actively looking for relevant work and experience. The next recruiting season I blitzed it and went to all the recruiting events and ended up at the same company as him. Every recruiting event I went to talked about diversity, transgender inclusiveness and women in leadership. Those are all good things of course. However, some representatives would brag, "All the other places I went to interview with were all white guys. It was like a frat house. This place is different and that was why I chose here." The girl literally said that she chose the company because there were less white guys and everybody applauded it. I wasn't offended as I am not a sensitive person but it was very strange to me how everything in their marketing spiel was targeted to attract non-whites, non-heterosexuals, non-traditional gender classifications and non-males. This wasn't one company or one firm. This was most if not all of them. It was weird to me that they were less concerned about marketing their business or the value of their employment opportunity - they were marketing a non-white male workplace. Anyways, I ended up at the same employer as my lifelong friend. The only difference was he had a year of experience on me when we started, he had a badge or recognition from an opportunity that people of my background were specifically excluded from and he was debt free because of where his father was born where I am still in plenty of student debt to this day. Never mind that we grew up on the same street, went to the same schools and largely had identical backgrounds. He received a discount on his education and a head start in his career on account of where his father was born. My mother, who grew up in poverty, was not able to get me any financial benefit on account of her skin. However, all of her former neighbors' growing up, are able to cash in on this race-based aid and opportunity that is fully entangled in our culture. To me, that would classify as unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, on the grounds of race, age, or sex but I have white privilege, so I am not sure I can express myself in this manner without being classified as a racist. Thank you for sharing. QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ May 28, 2017 -> 08:54 PM) I had a very similar experience to raBBit. Both of my parents are immigrants. Similarly, they were one of the last families to move out of their parish when the neighborhood changed and their church was closed. That's when they decide to move. The only privilege I had was a private Catholic education because that was something my parents valued, but we had few material things. Pretty much the only toys we had were balls - many which we found at parks. My dad worked as a union building engineer. Solid, but unspectacular income. My mom worked a few shifts as a waitress, earning very little outside of a little time away from her six kids. They had a mortgage, tuition, and no savings. We were all above average to excellent students. We all earned degrees from four year universities. None of us received financial aid. My best friend, who went to high school with me and who was my college roommate, has a background which is basically the same as mine - with the exception of having 3 kids in his family, being of Mexican descent, and he growing up in an arguably better neighborhood. His grades were lower than mine. His ACT was much lower. Yet, he went to U of I for free. In fact, he got tuition, room and board + additional money for living expenses. I had loans and work study. I understand the white privilege argument in an historical sense, but there are plenty of white individuals and communities that do not benefit simply from the color of their skin. Maybe society doesn't automatically judge them in a negative way based solely on the color of their skin as frequently happens with minorities, but large numbers of white people are just as underserved as their minority counterparts. Real "white privilege" only belongs to a select few. Thank you for sharing I enjoyed reading those perspectives. Do you agree with me on the issue I first brought up? That the white privilege gangs should NOT be humored by anybody agreeing they have white privilege when accosted by these rabble rousers? I wouldn't do it.

It's a guaranteed shutout. I bet the 2nd time we face him the Sox will wear the collared jerseys. But not the first time. I mean if he's going to shut us out and strike out 15 or more every time he faces us we might as well mock him with the collared jerseys. But not the first time he faces us. I think the fans will really get on him cause of the scissors incident. Plus our team sucks and the fans will take it out on Sale IMO.

I wonder if it'll be all happy occasion or if somebody tries to rattle him and starts an incident yelling stuff from the dugout? Or if he hits somebody early. Again, it's a monumental mismatch and he's going to want blood so to speak after the scissors game and the team's reaction to it.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ May 28, 2017 -> 05:43 PM) He's going to be so amped up. Think we'll see some 100mph heaters? Yeah. This is like that Little League game or Babe Ruth League game on the south side you didn't even want to hit in because the other pitcher was the guy in the league who was scary fast and unhittable.

Sale vs the White Sox in the Cell is coming soon. Hate to be a pessimist but it's gonna be sooo ugly. Our lineup is mighty pathetic. I can't even imagine how many strikeouts he's gonna have. Prediction: 1 hitter or maybe even a no no with 17 Ks and we lose 7-0. You gots a prediction? Reasoning?: Chris Sale has nasty stuff; our lineup has overachieved this year so far; he's mighty motivated after the scissors game and the suspension.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 28, 2017 -> 06:21 PM) See title. It wasn't contentious, there was good discussion happening. No personal attacks. Do mods serious get to decide what gets discussed now, even if it's not violating any rules of the board? That's pretty messed up. I knew it was doomed after I read Caulfield's title of the thread. It should be closed. People won't change their minds so it's just a battleground. Nobody is racist on here but it eventually was gonna turn into people getting accused of that I bet. IMO it might have lasted as a thread with a different title.

QUOTE (ypres @ May 27, 2017 -> 06:30 PM) I'm white, and I grew up in poverty. And until I quit school and started working in a factory I lived below the poverty line. I don't think my race had anything to do with that. The white privilege mob has no compassion for situations like yours. Hope you are doing well financially now.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ May 27, 2017 -> 09:46 AM) Is there somewhere to sign up for the benefits of this white privilege?? I don't think I've ever received mine. Maybe I missed the sign up somewhere. Good post. QUOTE (Reddy @ May 27, 2017 -> 02:21 PM) This is the kicker right? Starting out a mile ahead in a marathon doesn't inherently mean you know how to run it. You'll obviously never consider changing your position and I won't consider changing mine that's for sure. QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 27, 2017 -> 02:56 PM) Again, you speak in absolutes & generalities, and couldn't be further wrong. There are plenty of universities & companies that discriminate against white all in the name of diversity. If you are a person of color with talent and/or strong credentials, I'd argue that in today's corporate environment you actually have an advantage over a similar skilled white person. The value of diversity is screamed out at every business school across the country and most companies are actively pursuing it now. If you ever had a real job (aren't you model when you're not leading the Resistance) you would know this. The average African American no doubt has more challenges than the average white person due to economic factors that restrict opportunities & education. I don't need statistics to tell me that more blacks suffer from poverty than whites and I know well that poverty is a viscous cycle that holds back opportunity for years to come. But there are plenty of whites who also face these challenges and do not start off "a mile ahead". These people deserve the same compassion as the African Americans you fight so hard to support. Again, using blanket generalizations is working against you and makes you come off a know nothing know it all asshole. Good post. The white privilege gangs should read this, but they would laugh and you and say you don't get it and demand you acknowledge your privilege.

QUOTE (FT35 @ May 26, 2017 -> 06:12 PM) BTW I left Rizzo off intentionally. The power numbers are there, but a .266 career hitter will have a tough case to make--especially as a first baseman. Votto is a good one--he's kind of Paul Konerko plus an MVP minus a ring. Sale could gain steam with a few more dominating years and a ring or 2--still a lot to accomplish. Not that rings have much barring on the HOF--just being with Boston and winning a couple couldn't hurt his case. Who cares about batting average? The sabes people don't give a flip about BA.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ May 27, 2017 -> 04:29 PM) Saladino remember had disc issues in his lower back at the end of last season and through this off season. Those really never go away even with surgery (and I don't know if he had surgery or not). That's a bad situation to have for a professional athlete. Feel sorry for him. His salad days are over as a big leaguer. No longer a prospect after this season's flop at the plate.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 26, 2017 -> 09:49 PM) Yeah, while a fleshing out of how his father's success directly impacted him isn't really there yet, it's a good start, at least. As someone noted, it does read like the Horatio Alger, "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" stories that are essentially still the ideological foundation for many Republicans today. There are a lot of white people on the south side barely scraping by who have always barely scraped by. Like I said, my dad was f***ed basically. Had 3 kids boom boom boom and right off the bat had no money to support any of 'em. I never got around to asking him why he started a family of 3 so quick. Maybe it was simply the Catholic thing, but I doubt it. Anyhow, he skyrocketed in his field fairly soon after he moved the family of wife and 3 kids into a relative's house and got to move everybody out, eventually making a ton of money and moving everybody to suburbia, then getting a boat, cottage, paying for everybody's catholic high school and college educations and basically doing the same for my sister's three kids since her hubby was a deadbeat. But the people we left behind in Chicago when we moved to suburbia were basically paycheck to paycheck people with no cash to speak of. Of course the people in Mt. Greenwood were all white, but that's another story. I don't see a lot of privilege in the Mt. Greenwood area when we were growing up there. Nobody had any money or luxuries in those crappy little houses on 103rd street. I find it offensive the white privilege gangs would throw out my story and comments, dismiss them angrily. They would say "but every person on the south side who is white had a chance at least because of their white skin, whereas because of my black skin I don't have a chance (or the same chance).' Which my federal judge friend who is dark Mexican and his successful siblings proved is BULLs***. Their parents had no money and they lived in a shack in KCK basically. They all made millions because of work. Work hard and you stand a chance. I think it's sad that right now the privilege people are laughing at me, saying I am full of s*** for this stance. They feel white privilege is the only reason for my dad's success and other whites. So go ahead and mock me. I never will play the admitting privilege game.

Sox have 12 hits to Tigers 4 and yet this game is far from over. Not complaining, it's been good performance but WTF?? Sox are the kind of team that I expect to lose every night. p.s. Benetti and Stone are amazing together. Stone is so much happier being with Benetti than stodgy grumpy Hawk. Benetti's questions are a little annoying but not too much. And when he asks stoney something dumb, Stoney is funny. He asked how many times bases were loaded and none out in baseball history and team got out of it via forces at home plate 3 times. Stoney said 12 immediately. Good stuff.

QUOTE (RegionSox @ May 26, 2017 -> 06:49 PM) I felt like i was reading a Horatio Alger story. The world is full of anger and sarcasm. People despise and/or mock everybody not in their immediate family. Nobody wants to hear others' takes as seen in the response to my post. The workplace is run by corporate speak as evidenced in the job thread in the filibuster. Sad world we live in. People just want puppets that agree with insane things like the white privilege mob demanding people admit their white privilege. Don't dispute them or dissent, just agree they are right. The president is such a name dropper glory seeker that he leaks info to foreign leaders to feel important. We are in trouble, folks.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 26, 2017 -> 07:21 PM) Are the white privilege gangsters affiliated with the Bloods or the Crips? They should be suspended if caught going up to students in a library who are trying to study.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 26, 2017 -> 06:58 AM) Greg's argument more is about being "forced" or cajoled into admitting to minority groups that he is a "victim of white privilege and has to apologize for his background/being white/being successful, etc." That's a different issue. Greg himself has admitted he went to a private/Catholic school and had access to a very good (albeit strict) morals/ethics-based education. Not everyone has that given to them, and scholarships are limited...obviously. So Greg would PROBABLY admit he feels privileged by the life his parents provided him, the opportunities he's been able to enjoy in life, but NOT that he should be forced or publicly humiliated into castigating himself. That's not unreasonable. Well, you are right in some ways. Your first two lines are correct. I won't apologize to anybody for anything regarding this issue, certainly not somebody rudely demanding me to admit privilege. Your third paragraph ... I feel thankful, not privileged by the life my parents provided me. My dad if he was living probably would have a heart attack over this issue. He was at the point he had no money and had to move his wife and 3 kids into his wife's aunt's house in Beverly for a year. His daddy certainly wasn't giving him any money to bail him out. He then hit the work jackpot, make millions and was able to make sure the kids had everything. Now the white privilege gangs would say no matter what, just the fact he's white, gave him that opportunity to make the millions. That's kind of an insulting nonsequitir. He had nothing and 3 kids and a wife and had to be scared to death. But he became the best in his field and "good at something" (somebody on here suggested Millenials are going to have to get 'good at something' cause jobs aren't gonna be there otherwise in the future) and thus received the benefits in big house in suburbs, vacation home, paid for kids education, still had oodles of cash left. Now is this ALL because of his color? Of course not. If he didn't make it at his work big time, he'd have been on the street and his kids in foster care. He earned it all. But the white privilege people would get in his face if they could and say, 'Admit your white privilege.' He'd probably have to go to prison after beating one of them he'd be so offended in knowing how he did it all through hard work. Now did he get THE CHANCE to show he was capable to his bosses only because of his color? WOuld an African American even have the chance to make it in Chicago especially at that time? I don't even care to go there because of the tactics of the white privilege hooligans. I will say he grew up poor, with just the basics, had to join the Navy because he needed to get out of the house at the time, and turned himself into a wealthy guy because of WORK. Did his white privilege guarantee anything? Of course not. I know tons of recent white college grads who have rich mommies and daddies who are living at home looking for work and the longer the clock ticks, the tougher it will be to get a job in their fields. But does white privilege put you in the game to where you have a chance or a much better chance than an African American to go through the system and make money? Maybe, but it is an insult to all the hard working African Americans and whites to make this a race thing. It accomplishes nothing really. I know a guy of Mexican descent, dark skinned, who grew up in a shack in Kansas City Kansas with his brothers and two sisters. He had NOTHING. He is a federal judge. His two sisters are attorneys in D.C. His brother is an attorney in KC and his other brother is a success in hotels. He did it all on his own, loans, working his ass off in college to meet the right people, join the right clubs, make sure he was an involved student. What the white privilege gangsters don't realize is if they put ALL their energy into developing a plan and attacking it like he did, rather than obsessing over this issue, they would make it. Don't stop until you make it. I realize this take will cause the white privilege people to just shake their head and say, "Ha, what a rich asshole. He doesn't even realize the only reason his dad made it was white privilege and only reason he's made it is white privilege. if he were born African American the odds are stacked so badly against him and his dad he'd be in poverty." ... Well, I tend to think not. My best college buddy the federal judge in KC would argue with you too as would his family of success stories. And as far as this issue ... what difference would it make if every minute of every day white people admitted their privilege? We could wear a certain lapel or belt buckle or something that says we admit our privilege. What the hell good does that accomplish? What is this protest all about? It's a waste of people's energy IMO. If it's not, OK, somebody make all the lapels or wristbands and all the non people of color can wear them as signs of support.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 26, 2017 -> 06:23 AM) I honestly think that was the University of Chicago, Columbia, one of those super elite schools that was having similar PC and safe space debates at the time. Maybe Greg's right and it's Mizzou, but my recollection was it was another university. I could be wrong. Sorry. I don't like the methods. Very rude and selfish and crude and annoying. If they came up to me and I was studying and they pulled that s*** I'd give them a piece of my mind. Wonder if they'd leave or get violent. Hopefully this white privilege protest stuff is lessening.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 26, 2017 -> 04:35 AM) Yeah, no. I understand that you get your information from Rush, but that didn't happen. And if it did, it'd have been one small instance because I can't remember. There was no Mad Max roving gang of social justice. I believe you, but I saw tape. If it wasn't Mizzu library it was some library. I thought it was definitely Mizzou. I didn't like the gang taking over the library. And I remember for a fact one of the students saying they had marched with the gang but had to get a paper done so went back to the library. And still that person got harassed. The people that force you to say White Privilege are selfish bastards who don't even consider the situations of the people they are harassing. I can't be the only one who feels this way, considering the declines in enrollment at schools with the gang of White Privilege protestors running amok last year. Welcome to the real world. If people are ordering others to say they have privilege, well it's the right of those being harassed to transfer away from that bulls*** and try another school.