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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!

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.