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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 05:08 AM) Davidson's talent is very apparent. Cool sentence. If this is true, NICE! Davidson baby!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 04:24 AM) Greg, why not wait until there are more bidders in June/July? Supply and demand. Sure, the Mariners or Giants, etc., could use him, but they're not ready to overpay just two weeks into the season. Not to mention they have a good structure in terms of defined roles for now with Putnam pitching well again and Jones finding his old form. Because he's nasty, unhittable (right now). He's gonna have 7 blown saves by the all star break, you wait. Personally I'm not a rebuild guy. I'm saying IF THE SOX are serious about this rebuild crap, you deal him now. Some team can get him for the whole season and right now he looks like the greatest reliever of all time. We've seen this before. He is excellent. But he also will lose it. He blows a lot of saves traditionally and the blown saves are coming. So many teams need a closer. Trade him now for 4-5 prospects, 1-2 prize prospects.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 05:33 AM) 25% of GDP is based on late November through the first week or so of January. There would be a huge number of full-time and seasonal jobs lost. Goodbye to all but the top tier shopping malls in the country. This is probably it's own thread but I have really strong opinions on Christmas. Fact: Most people are not religious who are under the age of 50, maybe 60? Anybody who goes to church that is young is pretty much being dragged there. Yes there is a small silent group of people who have been touched by God or feel like they've been touched by God. There is a SMALL segment of people who believe. Anyhow, now comes Christmas. Let's say in a "normal" family, there are you and 3 siblings and let's say the three sibs have 2 kids apiece. Let's say you go to church every week and are very religious. Let's say each of your three siblings do not go to church. Let's say one is atheist and two aren't interested in God or possible existence of God. Now we have Christmas coming up. So with the majority of the family group strong nonbelievers, there is really nothing to "celebrate" on the day. So what it is, is Santa Claus and the celebration of Santa with each of the siblings' kids. That's it. GIFTS. Santa's gifts and your all's gifts to the kids. But now unless you have a grab bag (which everybody should have by gosh) there are also sibs buying gifts for each other. Many times they turn out to be exchanges of gift cards: Starbucks for Subway for Applebees, whatever. Again, the religious component is nonexistent. Half to 3/4s of the amount of relatives do not believe in God, do not want to go to church, but they want to gather together to give gifts and have a nice dinner party. It's absurd. Again ... this celebration of Santa has to end. That's all Christmas is. Helping the little kids get their gifts from Santa. My point is: Without a religious component, we need to just have a couple days a year we designate Celebrate Family Life Day. No Thanksgiving (religious component is thrown aside; how can we thank God when 3/4s of the family says there is no God?) No Christmas. No Easter. Fourth of July is OK. But please, let's get rid of Santa Claus Day. There is no fricking reason in the world to do this stressful, insane gift giving holiday. Now if we were all gathering to celebrate the birth of Christ, fine. But we're NOT. Even my Catholic religion: only 25 percent go to church anymore. Please, kill all holidays and change them to Family Appreciation Days. And those who do want to celebrate the relgious significance of this can go ahead and do so, by going to church that day as they do most Sundays. I'll still go to church and be with the regulars on Christmas and Thanksgiving to celebrate what we believe, but again just make them Family Appreciation Days.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 02:28 AM) Surely you've explained to her that you hate Hillary, but also didn't vote for Trump. You're more of a Bernie/Jesse guy.... Easter's as much of a holiday as the rest. Family gets together, overeats, has some festivities. Everything about it screams holiday. The religion part is for the religious, just like Christmas. I feel like Christmas is out of control with the ridiculous gifting. It's jumped the shark and with people less religious than ever it's a horrific gift-fest in many (most) households. I know many of you hate the thought of anything religious, but we should just get rid of Christmas without the religious component. We don't need a fricking gift giving holiday/day. It's absurd and sick. As far as the sister screaming, it's pretty sad but it's like a drug addict. There's really nothing we can do til she hits rock bottom and perhaps wakes up herself. If you say anything to her she'll freak out and if you say anything to her kids and it gets back to her she will freak. We're talking meltdowns here. Very sad.

If the Sox are serious about this rebuild crap you trade him now. Immediately while he's this hot.

Nice blast by Davidson. Little worried about Hawk. That was a no brainer bomb and Hawk didn't react like it was a sure homer. Looks like Davidson has a clue at the plate. Hope he's for real and not like that guy that played third a couple seasons for us, that lefty from Wichita State I forget his name. Davidson baby! Oops just remembered Gillaspie.

I was reading CNN story today on China having a pretty serious comment about this situation. China told us to not do anything drastic as our ships near North Korea. Meanwhile, North Korea says it has the capability to obliterate the US occupied sites in South Korea, including a presidential palace or something like that? North Korea has threatened us saying they will retaliate in war if we do anything like we did in Syria. The question is if we bomb North Korea does China start war with us? Lotta questions I know but my question to you is ... Is this serious or not? I would say, because of China's stance it is serious.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 10:40 PM) For those of you who voted for him, how do you not constantly cringe whenever he speaks or tweets? I voted for GWB in 2000 because I was not interested in politics back then and chose him because my dad was a republican. As I started paying attention, I would often cringe and feel embarrassed that I voted for such a buffoon. I would hope that Trump supporters are equally, if not more, embarrassed. I just re-read this post. I had to smile at the word "buffoon." He was a buffoon. You know, I have to come to the realization I'm not a Republican anymore. Even though I technically am one, I haven't voted for any Republicans in a fricking long time. I wonder what the hell I am? I certainly ain't no democrat. But I never vote for my Repubs so what the hell am I? I despised Hillary so badly I am not near a Democrat, though I do worship Bernie so to speak. As far as voting for Trump, I wouldn't have voted for him if you threatened me with immediate death. Ditto Hillary.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 11:02 PM) Raised catholic but the wife and I are atheists. We still do the secular holiday stuff like Christmas trees and presents and Easter egg hunts with our little one. Cool; thanx for sharing. Little kids love those hunts IMO. QUOTE (juddling @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 11:31 PM) We go to the inlaws every Easter. When their grandkids were younger there was Easter baskets and egg hunts ..Now just a nice dinner and cards/games afterwards. Nice. I remember when I was little my grandparents died for a game of Pinochle. Unfortunately I never took to the game very well but they always got a good game going.

Hey, I declined my family's offer to return to Chicago for Easter this year mainly because my sister has lost it at least temporarily and screams at relatives left and right and I didn't want to deal with it. But it got me to wondering. How many of you do Easter on Sunday? Go to relatives' houses or restaurants, etc? How many go to church, Mass or otherwise? Or do you ignore this one 'holiday?' I ask because my mom considers it a real holiday and is somewhat mad I am not returning to my beloved hometown for the big brunch. So do you do Easter or not? Do you dread it or love it? I will go to Mass tonight at 7:30 and again Easter Vigil on Sat night. I do enjoy the religious holiday but I like to keep it in my own way and not get yelled at by a troubled relative. Bless her, though. Hope she turns it around.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 10:02 PM) There are at least a handful. I'm guessing alphadog, rabbit, and jenksismyhero among others. Could be wrong though. Maybe but I don't know how anybody could put a check next to the name of one-percenter, hotel magnate Trump. Those I like more than Donald: Bernie, Jesse Ventura, Biden, Kasich.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 08:37 PM) I know Greg bothers some people, but his obtuseness continually entertains me. I'd love to think this is some character he is playing for the internets, but, nope, I think he really thinks it - types it. Thank you. I appreciate kind words for a change. Truly thanx. QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 09:40 PM) For those of you who voted for him, how do you not constantly cringe whenever he speaks or tweets? For the love of gosh, nobody on this board voted for Trump. We're pretty sure of that. BTW, if anybody's in the neighborhood, right now I'm sitting in Panera in Lawrence, Ks. Come on over and have some salad.

Read an article somewhere yesterday that said Bernie definitely would have defeated Trump. It said the voters that put Trump ahead would have never gone Republican if Bernie had been the candidate. Wish I could provide the link, but I read it.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 06:39 PM) He blasted Obama as much as he could for his "vacation" usage. Then he should get roasted for all the golf on a regular basis. Some of the reporters at the briefings should do what's right and ask about all the golf. I'm a little surprised at the outrage, though. Didn't Americans who voted for Trump realize we elected a 1 percenter? He's rich and entitled, folks.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 07:34 PM) Do you know anything about golf? You don't carve out 30 minutes out of your day to golf. It takes up a huge chunk of your day. As taxpayers, we literally pay money out of our paychecks to go towards his salary. I'd prefer he actually work for my hard-earned money....you know, money I earn from actually working and not playing golf. Life isn't fair. He's a 1 percenter. They get to golf and work at the same time. Sad but true. Obviously Trump is never going to change so why get worked up about it? I'd think he's well plugged in to the issues of the day. He's not going to suddenly sit in the office 7 days a week working. I'm not a big Trump fan. Once he commits an impeachable offense, I'd assume we'll be rid of him.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 07:06 PM) What? This is an extremely bizarre thing to say. Why should anyone have that point of view? Do you think his job is not very important? If he really wanted to spend so much time golfing, why did he run for President? Why didn't he just retire or keep doing whatever he was doing before he got into politics? He is literally putting people's lives in danger with the decisions he makes as President. Would be nice to actually see him work hard. Strange that you have this viewpoint. It seems like you don't think being President is all that important if you're ok with them playing golf so much. Why were you so against Hillary being elected if this job seems so trivial to you? I'm just saying he's 70 and doesn't figure to live but 10 more years if the odds are correct. Let him golf. Lots of people golf and work at the same time. I said, if he said during the campaign he'd never golf or rarely golf, then call him on it at every news conference. Otherwise let him golf. I feel like Trump has been working a lot. I don't see the golf as being a big deal unless he has broken a campaign promise to take rare vacations. If he has, shame on him for lying. Sick of that.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 10:30 PM) Why buy toys if you can't take them out of the box and play with them? I wonder how many MOAB's there are in existence? We may need some for North Korea if they do what they are threatening to do.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 01:48 PM) Trump taking another long weekend to go golfing in Florida. 22 of 84 days of his presidency has been spent at Mar-a-lago. That doesn't account for the couple days he spent at his other golf course, doing nothing Edit he's going there with zero senior staff too https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/...624467469664256 The guy is 70 years old. Chances are good he'll die within the next 10 years because of law of averages. Let the guy golf while he can. My only addendum to this statement is if he indeed campaigned on never taking time off. If he did that (prove it to me) then he should be called on that at every news conference. But aside from that, let the man golf. p.s. It would be nice if he paid for his own travel, but isn't it law he HAS to take Air Force One everywhere and travel with SS agents everywhere? Good thing he owns the golf courses. I bet the guys in charge hate having to give free carts to all the SS agents. I wonder if the agents bring clubs and pretend they are golfers.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 04:36 PM) W. Garcia LF L. Garcia CF A. Garcia RF Has Avi been team MVP so far in 2017? 1.) Avi. 2.) Robertson. 3.) Davidson.

Google the attorney's name and watch today's news conference. It was awesome. Love that attorney. He even invoked Steve Martin in Planes Trains And Automobiles. I kid you not. I LOVE that attorney. Damn he was cool. Reminded me of Ray Meyer meets Mayor Daley.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 06:27 AM) http://news.nationalpost.com/life/everythi...ennial-monsters This article blames the majority of problems for Millenials largely on the Baby Boomers (those 53-71 years old today). Greg, a response??? Hi Caulfield, Yes Boomers are despicable. I'm not joking. Yes Boomers have totally ruined it all. What happened is many of us had rich parents and we resented them for being distant parents. Yes Boomers are the last generation where dads NEVER went to their sons' little league games or grade school games or high school games. Boomers' dads on the south side went to the BARS after work and got s***faced drunk. Most of the dads on the south side never played catch with their kids even. They were the bad guys in the house, the disciplinarians and you never got anything from your dad but threats. Moms were not nearly as paranoid if that's the right word as they are now. They'd set you free to walk to school or walk the streets of Chicago with your friends after school and all day and night in the summer and only tell you to come home and eat. No keeping track of where you were AT ALL. Now for some reason, Boomers decided to raise their kids TOTALLY hands on. Involved in every aspect of kiddies' lives and didn't parent them but buddied them up. Yes, Boomers are the scourge. Boomers are very very bad. HOWEVER, the ensuing generations have even been worse about coddling their kids, etc. So whereas the Boomers started this, my gosh, have you seen 30 something parents in action? They have no clue and their kids are running the house hold. As far as Boomers being stuck with their grown up kids, good for them. They get what they deserve, what they asked for, dependent kids. Most Boomers got kicked out of their houses after college. Daddy told me, OUT! You will get a job and you will work and you are off my insurance NOW. Come see me when you are a responsible adult and we'll go golfing or have a beer. Until that day, get out of my sight. But these same Boomers will let em live in the basement and give them participation trophies while secretly worrying that their kids may never get a good job. So yes Caulfield, Boomers started this mess and are the cause of this mess. But the ensuing generations, whatever we are calling them, are actually worse. Way worse.

You guys that moan about Hawk and Benetti should listen to these unlistenable Royals announcers. All they do is talk about upcoming games at home trying to sell a handful of tickets, talk about how great this team is, throw in dumb references to the parade they had when they won it all. At least the Sox announcers aren't part of one 9 inning commercial for the team. Denny Matthews is good but he's helpless. For an entire half inning he has to listen to some horrid announcer read scores for the Sonic MLB scoreboard or something dumb like that. Horrible listening. Pathetic homers.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 06:06 PM) One of my buddies, who is pilot for an airline out of O'Hare, was on Facebook defending United so I was able to see a pretty good argument. They do have the right to remove you from a plane for any reason. Just really unfortunate he didn't cooperate and that it all ended up on video. Edit: and seriously, they were being well compensated to give up their seats. Your buddy, with all due respect, should shut up on this. There's simply no excuse to drag the guy off the plane. How bout all the LONG delays caused by the airlines. You sit and sit while they fix a light bulb, fill out the paperwork after fixing the light bulb, etc. We wait it out. They needed to wait it out, period, and not drag the guy off the plane. I was reading that some high school teacher pulled his students off the plane cause they were getting traumatized. So what if it's legal to bump a passenger? That really has nothing to do with dragging a guy off and beating the hell out of him. And well compensated to give up seats? Cmon. They didn't come close to offering enough $$. Your friend's premise sounds like, "It's legal to bump you at any time. The guy got what he deserved." No he didn't. It never has to escalate to busting a guy's face when he's 69 years old and has no gun.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 06:49 PM) I'll guess more since his teeth were knocked out, he was concussed, requires reconstructive surgery and was publically humiliated. They should ask for 200 million because if it goes to trial, a jury would probably award him even more. Maybe he'll break United. I was thinking that whoever broke his nose and knocked out his teeth should probably face serious criminal charges as well as a civil lawsuit. Granted he refused to leave at one point but to physically send him to the hospital should be a serious crime not against only United but the f***tard who beat the s*** out of Dao.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 10:57 PM) if you would have actually read what i typed you would have seen that I did say I would have raised a stink, but would have started moving once the police showed up. Didn't say i would be happy about it. But no, keep living in your own world, seeing and reading what you want. I'm trying to imagine this happening to me. If one of the flight attendants or United bigwigs came to my seat and told me I must leave because I've been bumped, I think I would say, "Are you serious?" one time. Then the way my brain works, I'd think, "Dammit I knew I shouldn't have taken United. This bulls*** happens 50 percent of the time when I fly anything besides Southwest." Then after walking off the plane I'd see what they were going to do for me to reaccommodate me and plan my next steps. But, yeah, I'd get off the plane (I might make some snide comments along the way or say something to fellow passengers as I was getting off the plane). Why? There's no good reason to fight them on this. They said get off, I better get off and re-assess from there. I see the attorney and Dao's daughter had a news conference today. I wonder how much they'll receive in settlement money from United over this. Probably just a couple million? 1-2 mill plus medical costs paid for?