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QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 8, 2017 -> 04:11 AM) May has shown no baseball IQ at all. He's so far away from being a big leaguer Poor guy doesn't seem to stand a chance of making any $$ in this game.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 8, 2017 -> 04:08 AM) Avi is an ok hitter but a terrible baseball player. His defense is embarrassing. True. He's gonna probably be like Tank and be out of ball soon. May can't hit BTW. I would prefer Ashe and May get jettisoned to the DFA list. And bless Soto for the 2 homers but he blows. Narvaez also is a minor leaguer at best. Team on track for my prediction of 60-65 wins

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Apr 8, 2017 -> 03:12 AM) Hawk and Stone are easily the worst broadcast team in baseball. Do they raise your self esteem or something? Your hatred of Hawk is somewhat tiresome. I love Hawk and Stoney. And I like Bennetti. He's doing a fine job of drama here in the 9th. Hawk ain't that bad. Stoney is a god. Bennetti is fine.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 8, 2017 -> 04:03 AM) Lord this game went down the s***ter quickly. I think I have seen enough of Ashe and avi Ashe blows but why u down on .400 Avi?The dropped fly ball? That IMO was partly Abreu's fault. Even though I do realize Avi has to scream him off the ball, but Abreu looked like a runaway truck barrelling and circling that ball.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 06:52 PM) check the date edit: the joke is that he tipped off Russia (which was good and the correct thing to do) who tipped off Assad so we had about a 30% hit rate on a mostly empty airfield that's already back in operation Do you want him to not tip off Russia, we kill 1,000 Russian troops and have a nuke war beginning? He had to warn them. No brainer. #peace Oops I saw you agreed with tipping off Russia, so my bad. My rip can be for those mocking Trump for the warning.

Why is this Cody Asche on our team? Give Davidson all the at bats or anybody else. Leury Garcia is annoyingly bad as well

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 05:16 PM) That you're essentially justified in feeling threatened, along with huge but "silent" numbers of fellow Americans who are offended. I don't really understand the big deal. I think if you have a male private part you pretty much need to go to the men's room. I mean I know some intelligent people that still think Bruce Jenner's deal was/is a publicity stunt. I don't really have strong opinions on this but just think if tomorrow I wanted to prank the world and said I identified as a female and wanted to use the women's restroom. is that right? is that proper? I'm just saying it's very easy to fool the world and I have no business being in the women's room. That's all I'm saying.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 06:11 PM) The problem is if the Indians run away with things early....there's suddenly a lot of AL Central supply hitting the June/July trade market competing with our dump list, unfortunately. Luis Robert might be the bigger get than the return value of all those veteran guys combined. Right now, you call the Royals and trade them Robertson for 2-3 minor leaguers. They are desperate for bullpen help and he might save their season. Other than that, you are not going to get much for any of our guys. Nobody wants Frazier before free agency, ditto Melky and Av and Soto. Nobody wants anybody except Q. But you have a desperate team in the Royals. Robertson might save their season.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 05:03 PM) I think he means Sanders was projected by a number of hypothetical polls to beat Trump. Yes sir. That's what I meant.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 04:48 PM) IIRC greg voted Johnson. Which shows how huge of a Bernie supporter he was Find my posts. I was a huge Bernie guy. I never once heard Johnson speak. I one time asked everybody if he should be my guy. I never bought into the Trump thing. All I can summize is a.) my posts expressed Hillary disdain. b.) Bernie love. c.) yes Kasich intrigued me. d.) ultimately I voted for none of the real candidates. QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 04:59 PM) No he voted for Ventura as a write in If I voted White Sox it would have been Ozzie.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 04:36 PM) ...but you didn't vote for him in the primaries? No, I'm technically a Republican. QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 04:36 PM) So huge you voted for someone else who had no chance Most people think he woulda beaten Trump.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 04:35 PM) Wait Greg, you voted for Bernie? No, but as everyone can recall I was a huge Bernie supporter.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 07:36 AM) http://finance.yahoo.com/news/target-boyco...-141019006.html Thought Greg would enjoy seeing his bathroom argument being validated by the Target boycott, which has cost them millions of dollars, and started from a single unauthorized Target corporate blog post (but didn't go through the CEO). One of your links made my computer go bats*** crazy so I didn't open it. What did it say? What's my bathroom argument?

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 04:28 PM) I have come to conclusion that 90% of the people in this thread want Trump to fail miserably and even if he does something great for the country (not saying the missiles were great) you guys will still s*** on him and come up with crazy reasons not to like it. Of course that's the case. The four years are going to go fast like they all do and he has no chance of re-election but the haters refuse to 'wait and see' how Trump does. Don't worry Trump bashers ... he's not going to win re-election so why not hope for the best right now and wish him well? Nothing you can do about the last election now. Some of us tried to help out the Democrats and got behind Bernie, but noooooo.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 02:04 PM) Twins come in undefeated, somehow. Hopefully they keep winning games this season to help us #TankForBeer El Rockin would disagree with your post. Go Sox! Keep up the offense and improve to 2-1.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 02:57 AM) Greg Rush and Hannity. There is your answer. Rush is further right than anyone on this board and Hannity is Trumps mouthpiece. He could take a s*** on the desk in the Oval Office and call it a success. If you assess him by what he ran on as his platform he's been a tremendous failure. Didnt defeat isis, no healthcare repeal, no wall, no Muslim ban, Hillary isn't in jail, he's failed to nominate 80 percent of his staff, the stock market plummets and so does his approval rating. You think that's good? Using his own definition of success he's a failure. Or a liar. Or incompetent. Informative post, Rock. Thank u for your taking the time. QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 03:07 AM) Pretty terrifying to think there are millions of Gregs in this country. You can't deny my love for the USA and the White Sox as well.

I chose the pizza

Hey, I'm not trolling or trying to anger anybody, really not. Just bear with me and answer please. I told you I don't follow politics that closely after election season. But today I was driving and turned on Rush and after lunch Hannity on the radio. Rush said and I am serious: Something to the effect of Trump's 100 days have been a tremendous success in ALL aspects and if this was a Democratic regime we'd be hearing GLOWING reports. He said the national media despises Trump and it's all negative. He says Trump doesn't care, he just listens to those like Rush and Hannity who support him. But my comment to you is: Are they at least a bit correct?? Has Trump been OK to good? Now I am assuming you trust my report that Hannity and Rush did indeed say these things today. About how TRUMP is actually good. You know I don't lie on purpose, so give me your take on two national talk show hosts assessing Trump's opening 100 days as good. p.s.: I also last night watched some press sessions with Spicer on youtube. I will tell you they are like comedy skits. The male media members dressed in suit and tie and the women media members in equally formal attire, toss negative questions at him and he gets all mad and blasts them. To you I ask, why the hell do they have these media briefings with Spicer?? First of all, he's not the president. Who gives a flip what he thinks about issues? Do they actually quote him every day? I mean if you can't get the Pres' take, you have no take IMO. Why quote a guy like a press secretary? That'd be like Coach K's third assistant giving all the comments to the press before and after games. Very weird. (I do realize in some cases he brings a direct message from the president but wouldn't a simple press release with Trump's quotes be more effective than some guy explaining what he thinks Trump thinks?) Apologies in advance if you don't like this post or think I'm trying to stir it up. GO SOX! 1-1 isn't half bad.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 6, 2017 -> 07:39 PM) We can contend. Soto homers The wild thing is Elrockin means it. QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 6, 2017 -> 08:14 PM) Avi with an RBI single and Davidson with. Three run blast. 9-1 Sox. We will be in the playoffs ElRockin does mean it. QUOTE (hi8is @ Apr 6, 2017 -> 10:10 PM) At least the bunt got down - last few years it would have been a strike out after two failed attempts or a pop up. Great point. I forgot about the sick attempts at bunting, especially by Beckham and Alexei. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 6, 2017 -> 10:12 PM) When they were 23-10 last year, they had several blowout wins. Seriously? I don't remember them. Although they were so bad after that I may have forgotten. Robin was a joke. It's going to take a while to get used to having a real manager if indeed Renteria is one.

Well, holy s***. If Renteria keeps this up, I will be his biggest fan. We NEVER (OK rarely) won blowouts in the Robin era. Nice to see a blowout so early in Renteria's era on the south side. Obviously all teams will win at least 55 games, so no big deal today, but again, a blowout?? In the Cell? Beautiful. I am thoroughly negative most of the time, but I will give credit where it's due. The team showed life today which it rarely to never did under Robin. p.s. That squeeze bunt was a good idea but it was a lousy bunt. Shoulda been out at home. I do like Stoney's take, however, that if you put pressure on the other team's defense more often than not they'll mess up. It worked so I'm happy but it was a lousy bunt.

Anybody getting sick of MLB's insistence on having teams play teams in their own division 19 times? It's getting boring IMO. Mr. Steinbrenner is no longer alive, rest his soul. He's the one who wanted to play Boston 19 times and got this thing going. Why don't they change it back? Nobody else is getting bored of games vs. the Tigers, Twinks, Tribe and Royals? Ugh. I mean 8 times a year would be great. 19?? B-O-R-I-N-G.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 5, 2017 -> 10:59 PM) Sox tweets this morning... Today’s game between the #WhiteSox and Detroit Tigers has been postponed due to rain. The game will be made up on May 26 as part of a straight doubleheader, beginning at 4:10 PM. The originally scheduled game will begin at 7:10 PM, or 30 mins following the conclusion of the opener. Tickets & parking coupons for today’s postponed game can be exchanged for equal or lesser value to any future regular-season Sox home game. All exchanges must be done at the Guaranteed Rate Field box office during regular business hours or by mail. Fans with tickets for today’s game cannot use those tickets for entry on May 26.Fans with tickets for the 7:10 PM game on May 26 may attend both games of the doubleheader. I wonder if it would have been a day/night doubleheader if the Sox were projected to be a contender. As is, they just figure no big deal; one ticket for the two games.

We're like the Baltimore Orioles before they finally got good again. So many older, lousy players.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 5, 2017 -> 01:31 AM) I know some would disagree or been inconvenienced, but the call should have been made Sunday. Bottom line, there was a terrible forecast Monday, and a good one Tuesday. That's why they have the open date. They blew it. Now the same thing on a lesser level- they aren't playing tomorrow or Thursday. Stay ahead of it, and call both games tomorrow morning. Good post. Agreed.