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QUOTE (hi8is @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 06:09 AM) It's psychotic that we're seeing numbers like this all without Rodon. Even though the starters have been very good, the relievers have not gotten lit up at all yet. Nobody's had the outing from hell that skyrockets individual and team ERAs this time of year.

Yes there are two sides to every story. We don't know if these 2 people were trying to be freeloaders, but if somebody was truly sleeping in their row and they merely were a few rows up, again shame on United. I mean, it sounds like this plane wasn't full and United again overreacted. Yes there's probably more to this story but I would bet United was unreasonable here or the passengers that got kicked off wouldn't have sought publicity on this. United blows as an airline obviously. https://www.yahoo.com/style/united-airlines...-181721817.html

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 08:59 PM) I have no idea how certain people can despise her so much. I despise her and you don't want to her my rant again. QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 03:54 AM) Bingo. What i was saying about propaganda is that i don't think most adults over 30-35 believe all this hype about increasing racism, misogyny, white supremacy etc. That's complete bulls***. Sure it riles up really young adults, especially on college campuses, but seasoned adults in general are just out in the world trying to cooperate with everybody else. I know a bunch of people of all backgrounds, can't think of a single racist. Can't think of a single misogynist. Don't know any nazis. And I've been out there. My job every day is to go out there and meet new people of all classes and races. The hate isn't there. Just people out trying to make a few bucks for whatever reason. The only hate is at these marches and campuses- I live in a college town. The media spotlight on every isolated incident is not helping this country. Bad people gonna do bad things. Great post. I agree people in real life are normal, just trying to make a buck as you say and make enough to live. Great post.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 04:32 AM) Curious to see how we do against the red hot NYY I would suggest we will lose and lose convincingly vs NYY.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 03:08 AM) All of us should be okay with the rebuild, as long as they don't get impatient and screw it up by thinking guys like Avi Garcia and Matt Davidson are going to keep this up....or Shields and Holland, for example. And it's way too premature to expect this team to end up at .500. That said, Q/Anderson/Frazier/Cabrera/Abreu/Rodon haven't contributed much at all, and they were the heart of the team coming into the season. So that can cause you to be optimistic, if you want to get your hopes up. That and the fact that the Indians aren't running away with the division from the get go. I was SORT OF pissed they weren't PHing for May, that Kevan Smith was bunting...but then you can at least cheer for guys like Kahnle and Ynoa. Robin Ventura would have put in another reliever there instead of Nate Jones, and we would have lost in the bottom of the inning, I'm 90-95% sure of that. Avi and Davidson continue to be feel good stories. Saladino, until recently. We have Asche and Jacob May to kick around if we want to do that, although they're basically sacrificial lambs. Btw, now would be a good time to trade Melky Cabrera back to the Giants with their LF situation in disarray. ESPN the Mag had a great article on bunting and now I'm convinced. NEVER BUNT AGAIN! Managers, please don't do it. It's proven it is a horrible strategy except in the NL where the pitcher will make an out anyway. NO BUNTING. Look, this is why I'm for NO rebuilding. Look at the records of all teams in baseball this year. Look at batting averages! All teams are mediocre to crap with the shifts taking away any semblance of offense. You don't need to rebuild. You put together a .500 team and after that try to get it to .600 and you've got a WINNER. Ridiculous to do this rebuild when the offensive players we acquire will be like today's offensive players: average to OK and totally paralyzed by shifting defenses. DUMB to rebuild. You reload if you are the white Sox.

QUOTE (Scoots @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 01:45 AM) Avi now leading the league in average and on base percentage For all the sabes people on here ... let's say Avi went 40-for-his next 250 at bats with 8 rbis in that span. According to WAR, etc., he'd still have earned his salary for this entire season, right? He's already single handedly won some games and put up astronomical sabes numbers.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 01:57 AM) That's right I am. I guess if negativity is your thing then go for it I respect you, elrockin. I wish I could be the same type fan you are. You love the guys wearing the Sox jersey and want 'em to win no matter if they are retread bums in a uniform during a so called "rebuild" or if they are excellent players like the Big Hurt, Dye, AJP, Ventura, Dick Allen, Ray Durham, Mark Buehrle, the list goes on. El Rockin fan club here! You should post more, El Rockin, but not just one liners cheering for a win. We want more El Rockin!

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 11:34 PM) I enjoy baseball and I'm glad they're winning, but the plan is the plan. They're one game over 500. Someone remind me our record last year after 35 games LOL at 'the plan.' Great win! Go Sox!

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 11:19 PM) Part of the plan the next couple years. Get used to it. 90+ losses the next two years is going to happen. Love it or leave it. LOL. Hahn has it made with this so called rebuild. We lose and most of the fans are happy. One of the prospects he acquires does s***ty, well everybody will say, "Not all the prospects will pan out. Most will." Nice work if you can get it. This rebuild is SLOW, too slow for my tastes. Just win baby.

Amazing how this Sox team yearly gets owned by Minnesota. Embarrassing really.

Is Lady Gaga talented or a joke? Cochella concert last night was not so bad.

QUOTE (ron883 @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 03:11 PM) Haha that's pretty funny. Haven't you described yourself as something along the lines of "a low IQ person"? I'm pretty sure ive seen you post that about yourself. I suppose Forrest Gump isn't a bad comparison. He was a well accomplished man ya know, Greg. No, I'd never imply I was dumb. I actually have a high IQ and did well on all the standardized testing and coursework. I may be a political novice or simpleton though. I don't follow it that quickly. But I am not dumb at all nor am I slow. I can think on my feet quickly, etc. Politically I am not on top of all the issues. QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 06:10 PM) I don't hate you Greg. I think you are a little nuts sometimes, but no hate. I don't even hate StrangeSox or Squirt. i don't necessarily LIKE them, but no hate. Just for Hillary. It is amazing like you said that a lot of women think it's OK they voted for Hillary just cause she is a woman but we're evil for not voting for her just cause she's a Clinton or just cause she's evil.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 06:23 PM) Out of all of the meaningless games the Sox play this season, this could be way up there. Now watch the Sox win big, and Shields throw a shutout. Must be nice to want the Sox to lose. I want a W and want the Blackhawks to rebound.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 07:47 AM) I plan to teach my son that the path of a Gandhi, MLK, Mother Teresa or Obama is just as valid as being a billionaire business tycoon. In the end, our charities, churches/ministries and social justice warriors will be the only ones fighting for those made obsolete by this new economy. Below is one of the solutions Bernie Sanders has proposed... What is to be done? There is a possible solution to the economic challenge: universal basic income. Our economy still generates enormous wealth. The question is how to get that wealth to the people who need it. The answer might be to provide every American with an income sufficient to buy the basics -- food, clothing, shelter and modest pleasures such as recreation and a bit of travel. There are details to work out, such as how high to set the basic income level so as to cover everyone's needs without turning everyone into a lazy bum. But the concept is straightforward, and its implementation could be surprisingly easy, perhaps building upon the Social Security system. Moreover the cost is reasonable. Divide current total US personal income, around $13 trillion, by current population, around 320 million, and we get a universal basic income around $40,000 per person. Not bad. The harder problem is the psychological one and the attendant social and cultural problems. What happens to human nature in a world without work? Will we all become sloths? Or, freed from the need to work, might we find within ourselves a hidden Michelangelo, an unknown Patsy Cline or an undiscovered Maya Angelou? We might find out sooner than we think. Wow. That is a cool concept.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 02:18 AM) Yes I agree. It was really the obsolescence of "guys at desks" that started the decline. Gone are the days of the middle-management stooge, which probably represented tens of millions of Americans. And gone are the guys at factories forever. So now you have to officially be good at something. The gap between have and havenot is going to keep increasing and taxing the rich won't do a damn thing. Not one iota of one thing. Neither will blowharding about bringing jobs back. Get good at something or you're not getting a decent house and sending kids to school. I don't blame the Boomers. It was inevitable. The PC crowd, kids being babies, the global economy, automation etc. was inevitable. It sucks PC has to exist but dah well. All we can do is teach our kids to respect everybody the same and to never ever become a social justice warrior. Great post. Your take is a great one. You either officially are good at something or you are not getting a decent house and sending kids to school. Your take on middle management stooges being gone is also amazing. You hit the nail on the head. I'd say 7 out of every 10 people in the future will be doing fast food sales or nothing at all. Three of 10 will get good at something.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Apr 10, 2017 -> 08:18 PM) You can ask Penn State. I think they might have an example or lots. Because where do you put all of these bathrooms in large spaces like concert halls or movie theaters or sports stadiums. Here's another thought: if you have bathrooms open to all, then there are more people in them preventing less attacks because of the constant traffic. OR, if a woman or someone is being attacked, there's less of a stigma of "going into the (opposite sex) bathroom" to help. Just because there are separate bathrooms doesn't mean that stuff you have been talking about doesn't happen, by the way. If you don't like it, fine. That's your preference. You can go search out the family bathrooms, which are usually one person, and then get nasty looks from a mom of a 6 month old leaking out their diaper. Who cares if people are inconvenienced? We should go one at a time into all bathrooms even in stadiums. The liberal agenda wants to help out those people who identify as females but still have male body parts and want to go into the female bathroom. Fine. One at a time in all bathrooms. If it inconveniences anybody too bad. We have to cater to all people so the bathrooms must be reconstructed NOW.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 03:27 PM) Agreed. I like homers for game calls. It's annoying from the outside listening in but for fans of the team, that's what they should do. Man, I don't know about that. Even if you were a fan of the Royals, to hear every at bat them talk about how the guy may be hitting .155 but you know he's going to break out soon. Or if the guy is hitting .400 it's how focused and zoned in he is hitting everything hard. "You'll definitely want to come out to the park tomorrow. Danny Duffy is pitching and he is special. Tickets are available." I mean the announcers act like somebody in the front office is listening to every word and if the praise doesn't come or hyping ticket sales don't come out of their mouths they act like they'll be fired in between innings. I can't listen to it. It's just too pathetic.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 11:00 PM) http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/15/opinions/the...nion/index.html In the end, nearly everyone will be stuck with their kids due to robotics/automation. Trump won't be able to do a single thing about it. That's probably true. I mean 10 years ago who'd have thought I phones would rule us all. I could easily see in 10 years robots control everything. I think u are ahead of the curve here.

QUOTE (ron883 @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 08:38 PM) I don't think many people adore Hillary. But you are more of a simpleton, self admitted. You have admitted to not know the most about politics. Things are explained to you often but to know avail. You are easily swayed by propaganda that plays on your emotions. That is a big reason you feel why you do about her, realistically. Not a bad post even though you called me Forrest Gump basically as he was a simpleton. QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 08:53 PM) Most people just go about their days trying to feed their families. There's really not much to fight for anymore- everyone has equal rights. America is better every year. Amen, brother. Though I don't know if we're better every single year. QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 10:53 PM) You first mistakenly think I like Trump. i don't. I wanted Cruz. Second, i couldn't give two s***s that Hillary is a woman. So take YOUR biases and keep them to yourself. Trump may be evil, but he wasn't pretending to be a 'public servant' and out to help the every-man while doing it. He was chasing the almighty dollar., and rarely ever tried to pretend to be otherwise. Hillary, in her pretense of 'helping people' has done nothing but help herself with her foundations and various scandals. If someone was helped along the way, well, that was purely incidental. Ask Haiti how they like the Clintons. They don't. Read any of the insider books about her and them in general. Even if you discount the claims by half, she is just an evil woman who deserves nothing but scorn and contempt. American might be ready for a woman President. Not her. She should not have been elected simply because she was a woman, or because it was 'her time'. That is pure bulls***. You had thousands of woman who voted for her, and advocated for others to vote for her, simply because she had a vagina. How is that any worse than me not voting for her because she is a Clinton? it isn't. I love Alpha Dog even though I think he may hate me. Alpha Dog rocks.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 07:46 PM) You don't play baseball games for the sole purpose of trading your players. Why don't we just enjoy baseball and root for the Sox for awhile Because the Sox have told us they've started this pathetic slow rebuild. So we have to take them at their word and tell Hahn he needs to trade David ASAP and he blew it by not dumping Q this past offseason. QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 10:07 PM) Based on your consistent commentary on the matter, you are obviously content with any form of baseball, winning or losing, as long as it has the White Sox stamp on it. That's fine for those who set the bar as low as you seemingly do, but for those who would like to return to the ranks of the winning, you should probably pull back on the criticism of those who don't share your willingness to tolerate the lack of winning of this franchise. That's a very nice way of telling El Rockin to shut up. Kidding. El Rockin you must remember is the best Sox fan alive. I'm serious. This guy sees the current product, wants it to win, roots for it to win and thinks its postseason bound. Hats off to El Rockin.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 07:46 PM) We get it, the worse Q pitches, the lower the value and the less the Sox get back as that trends. Pretty obvious stuff. Pretty much says it all.

QUOTE (ron883 @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 06:58 PM) Did Hillary kick your dog or bang your girlfriend or something? I don't quite get why a lot of Trumpers think Hillary is the worst thing in the world, but Trump is alright. Dude is more evil than she is IMO. Has given a f*** about himself and his family, and only himself and his family (with the exception of the wives he cheats on) his whole life. I think it has to do with her being a woman honestly. I don't think all of them, and people like you, consciously dislike her because she is a woman. It's more of a subconscious thing. If Trump was a female and had 3 kids with 3 different guys, game over. If he was a female and said as much stupid s*** as he does, he would probably be deemed a bimbo like Palin. I'm not a Trumper but I don't think you want to hear why I despise Hillary. People claim they are tired of my repeating myself in my disdain for her.

QUOTE (TheFutureIsNear @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 07:38 PM) If you go to your job Monday morning and they tell you that they are doing everything in their power to make sure you don't work there anymore is your focus and performance going to be the same? No, no it's not. I'd bet Q was watching out for trade rumors everyday just like all of us were. How could he not? It's funny how some players always are beloved and get the benefit of the doubt, like Q. And others are despised, like Avi. Q has been pathetic this year. It's just a fact. No malice, but face facts. Any team would be crazy to give up a haul for him. That's why you deal Robertson now, before he becomes human again.

Well, this story's 15 minutes are up. On to the next one.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 04:52 AM) Every once in a while I think about how Hillary has to wake up every day knowing she had the Presidency on a silver platter and lost to Donald f***ing Trump. Hahaha. And no I didn't vote for Trump. Good post. Her problem is she didn't simply let Bill run her campaigns. Uh, he had experience WINNING. He'd have gotten her finally to the finish line in first place. I know you all hate my Bernie references, but you Dems had it in the bag. But you couldn't get behind Bernie, mostly because, led by Hollywood and the Joy Behars and Ellen's and Oprah's of the world, Hillary had to be rewarded with the Oval Office. But the problem was she was unelectable unlike Bernie!