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QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Oct 19, 2016 -> 07:08 AM) Go Dodgers ! Such a dilemma . Root for Dodgers and Urias ( who is a possible trade candidate for Sale) or root for some 4 -4 game in the 4th inning where both starting pitchers both exit early ? I honestly think the Cubs will get that WS win eventually but a delay in the dynasty and watching them lose 2 years in a row in the playoffs might quiet some of the hysterical hype. If somehow they lose this year, there will be dread in Cubland. Remember not so long ago Detroit had its magical run with dominant starting pitching and dominant team and Leyland's juggernaut never won a WS. Those Detroit teams now are deemed failures. IF and it's a big IF the Cubs lose this year, it'd be very alarming to Cubdom. You can't assume you'll be injury free in future, tho Schwarber absence could be blamed.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Oct 17, 2016 -> 03:35 PM) Why would it make you a bad man? The 8A playoffs will be good but Rice should make the quarters. Loyola is a better team in totality but the travel is bear on a Friday afternoon. Chicago traffic is horrendous. That is a two hour commute. Looking at he brackets and how the IHSA playoff system works losing may be better for either of Rice or Loyola as it will for MC. If MC beats Providence their bracket would be easy until the semis, same as two years ago. Harry are you going to the game? If I ever come in for a game do you want to go? Football or Bobby Frasor ball? That's neat you say we should make the quarters at least. You are right about the traffic. I remember one time we drove to Loyola land for a cross country meet on a Friday and it sucked. That was the day three Loyola guys finished ahead of me in a big meet and I got fifth. I thought I was gonna get a big hug from the coach, instead he threw me against a tree yelling at me. I forgot that if one team has three guys finish ahead of a school, it automatically beats that school. The coach reminded me if I had beaten one of the Loyola guys we'd have won the fricking meet. Later I'll tell the story of the city league meet and what a bummer that was. LOL. GO BRO RICE!

I won one of my three leagues. I'll take it.

Now would be the time for Cub fans to go make some cold hard cash. Hear me out. The Cubs are down 2-1 in LA for two more games. No longer are the Cubs HEAVY favorites. So you bet the house on the Cubs in Game Four and to win the series. If you somehow lose, it was a great great investment possibility anyway. The Cubs still won all those regular season games and figure to bash the young kid Wednesday. So I'd bet the Cubs and the over and win huge money on Game Four alone. Then you bet the Cubs to win the series and win it all right now. Your odds will never be better and it's still a lock. Now if somehow LA won Game Four and went up 3-1 I'd bet even more on the Cubs for the same reasons. Look, they are still the best team and they are going to wake up. There are good reasons to bet heavily on the Cubs right now. The only reason not to is to believe this offensive fizz is going to continue. Smart money right now says no to that.

Hmmm... Chelsea can't find herself it says in this negative story about her. Me thinks she'll find herself the next 8 years and maybe, uh, run for high office? http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/18...n-concerns.html Oh Hillary, your campaign is in a heap of trouble if anybody cares about the FBI protecting you. Letting her people get their stories straight, lol. FBI getting intimidated and run over by Clinton lawyers, lol. As if the FBI doesn't have power. It doesn't when it comes to protecting all the Clintons. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/o...over-help-hill/

QUOTE (raBBit @ Oct 19, 2016 -> 01:14 AM) http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-roo...-with-new-video The Hill reporting on the Clinton Campaign inciting violence and bussing voters into red states using shell companies. Now does everybody agree both sides are disgraceful? The DNC incited trouble at Trump rallies? This is serious. People get get injured/killed. http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/18/politics/pro...-trump-rallies/

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Oct 19, 2016 -> 04:29 AM) So he went from 5 pitches to 21 pitches by pitching the 9th. That's a big difference. If he isn't used tomorrow it's no big deal but I'd sure like to have him available for two innings tomorrow with young Urias starting. Let's face it. Dodgers are conceding tomorrow pitching the kid. So it'll be 2-2 heading into Kershaw and the closer Jansen will be rested for huge Game 5.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 19, 2016 -> 04:03 AM) They'll freely abuse his arm this series until it falls off. I was thinking the same thing. QUOTE (iWin4Ron @ Oct 19, 2016 -> 04:19 AM) Nice to see Dodgers get this big Win and now the momentum is squarely with them. From the Cubs perspective, all they really need to do is win tomorrow's game to tie the series 2-2. That's got to be OK with them, as I would imagine they are the favorites in Game 6 (no kershaw, and at Wrigley). A game 7 likely falls neutral (Wrigley vs. Kershaw). The tide has certainly changed from a very pro-cubs tide to now a slight advantage Dodgers. As a Sox fan, I am starting to root heavily for the Cubs dismissal. If anything is firing my Sox fandom up it's the Cubs losing. With all due respect, you seem like a frontrunning fan. You go for whatever the immediate trend is. Cubs are sucking currently so you like the Dodgers; Cubs rolled in regular season and first round and you love the Cubs. Just my observation. Not trying to flame you. I'm a Blackhawks playoff fan but ignore the regular season.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Oct 18, 2016 -> 06:32 PM) I can't recall seeing a single poster showing full-fledged support for Clinton. I'm pretty confident that every liberal, or liberal-leaning, poster here (including myself) thinks she is a highly flawed candidate. Awesome, that's three now. I have no problem with you guys if you are choosing Hillary only cause she's better than Trump. I just wanted people to recognize she is, as you said, highly flawed. If I have misjudged you, sorry. There are at least 3 people I really think are Hillary lovers, but I can't call them out.

QUOTE (Tony @ Oct 16, 2016 -> 08:14 PM) And do you keep that same thought process every year? What if Theo and the Cubs never win a World Series. Would he say his run here was a success if they never won, even though the playoffs are a crap shoot? QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Oct 18, 2016 -> 05:58 PM) From which posters? I don't call anybody out. Note I've only heard from two posters so far expressing any disdain at all concerning Hillary.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 18, 2016 -> 06:51 PM) In some places and in some ways, yes. In other places, it isn't. How is the law profession doing? Booming or not? Just asking. What about engineering and architecture?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 07:06 PM) I have never seen the manufacturing economy as bad as it is now. We have customers across various industries, and 90% of them are struggling, seeing lots of hours cut, some lay offs. Hoping it turns around once the election circus ends, but not keeping hopes up. Exactly. The economy is wretched. I don't know anybody making any real money anymore. Everybody's just hoping to not get laid off. QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 13, 2016 -> 03:13 PM) Combined with the recent good news on wage growth, it seems like the recovery has finally started to spread more broadly. See above post. The middle class is struggling.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 18, 2016 -> 08:21 AM) Greg, I think I've prefaced every single post about Hillary Clinton with words expressing exactly that same sentiment. I haven't seen one Democrat claiming "I just LOVE Hillary Clinton so much!!!" 75-85% of the reason why most are voting in this election is 1) to STOP TRUMP FROM BECOMING PRESIDENT, 2) the SUPREME COURT and 3) PROGRESSIVE POLICIES/INCREMENTAL TRIANGULATION IN THEIR PREFERRED POLITICAL DIRECTION. As opposed to all out nuclear armageddon and international embarrassment/global catastrophe...and undoing most if not all of the "good" that the US has done for the rest of the world since 1776. I haven't considered you an ARDENT Hillary supporter on Soxtalk, but yes I appreciate you now making it clear you are not thrilled with Hillary. So that's only two. But I do appreciate you and Tony for expressing the fact you wish there was another Democratic candidate and you are not a Hillary lover! Thank u. I can appreciate those who are voting for the worst of two very very bad candidates. I get upset at all the Hillary love on the board with people indicating she is special in some way and deserving of the office. Thank u caulfield and Tony for clarifying.

QUOTE (Tony @ Oct 18, 2016 -> 07:00 AM) Greg, that is why many people here get so upset with you. You aren't going to find a ton of huge Hillary supporters here. Read what they say, and you'd see that. The issue is for many, myself include, Trump and his base are SO far gone, Hillary is without question the better candidate of the two. She has her major flaws and this will go down as one of the worst elections of all time, but Trump vs. Hillary isn't much of a question. And I accept that and respect that. But nobody besides you on the Hillary side has come out and said she is flawed. I respect your stance and you actually are right. She is less "dangerous." I just don't like her, etc.

Hmmmm ... Hillary gets a break on the tarmac then again with Comey. Trump and Hillary both need to drop out of the race. http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/17/exclusiv.../#ixzz4NOfCXizH

QUOTE (Tony @ Oct 17, 2016 -> 09:22 PM) You're using rallies as not only a popularity contest, but a sign that the election is rigged. I'm supporting Hillary Clinton in this election. I wish there was another candidate representing the Democratic Party, but she'll do. With that said, I'd never go to a rally. What's the point? You want to know why we blast you. You continue to say you aren't voting or won't side with Trump, yet you are using his exact rhetoric. And you know you are. You're the guy yelling at a Trump Rally "LOCK HER UP" and "BUILD THAT WALL" Finally. Thank you. Tony you said all I want to hear. You said "I wish there was another candidate representing the Democratic Party, but she'll do." I had not heard that from you or many Hillary-ites before. Thank u for being honest and admitting she is not ideal. That is big of you and I respect you for this stance. I can accept people voting for Hillary if they at least admit what you did.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 18, 2016 -> 01:47 AM) It is amazing the gymnastics that get performed to defend Clinton and her statements. When you have major media making excuses for her own words, there is a major problem. One on side there are calls for calling a candidate a liar, but then you have this. This is why people have the concept of a biased and untrusted media. It is exactly because of pieces like this. Southsider, it's ridiculous all the apologists for Hillary. But nobody cares. QUOTE (Tony @ Oct 18, 2016 -> 01:49 AM) Greg, we know you only watch FoxNews, so I assume you saw this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P96UfUQtDQ I don't watch much news but this is silly. Hillary has the media in her hip pocket and it's rigged for her in 'many' ways.

QUOTE (Tony @ Oct 17, 2016 -> 08:53 PM) Jesus. Hillary supporters never answer me they just blame the messenger or blast me. What did I say out of line? Have you seen Trump rallies? Or read about them? Packed. Hillary's? Downtown Kansas City was expecting to be shut down and only a few fans trickled in to hear her speech. Crazy. Even on Soxtalk. Nobody points out anything good about her. Her supporters (almost all of Soxtalk) want her President and that's about it. They also rip and mock Trump, which of course is easy to do. But this isn't about Trump being bad. It's about Hillary and all signs point to a Presidency that will be dreadful. We already know there's no chance in hell anything's getting passed with Congress (the Repub majority) despising her. And lets see if we are safe internationally under her leadership.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 17, 2016 -> 09:20 PM) http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/b...1017-story.html Yes but I'm ALWAYS attacked on here when I say how dangerous Chicago is and the country is. It's so much better now than years ago, you know.

You know what's weird? Amy Schumer blasts Trump and gets booed and 200 people leave her show. Trump rallies truly are packed and Hillary's draw virtually hundreds not thousands. And yet Hillary is the runaway winner. Can you say ... rigged? Even with all of Trump's horrible statements he still is more popular than Clinton. https://www.yahoo.com/news/amy-schumer-dona...-151524058.html p.s. Schumer has some fight in her. I saw another clip of her where she had a heckler booted from the arena. In Florida she was all upset and said if anybody said anything more they'd be tossed out. She reminds me of Janaene Garapolo, so edgy it ruined Janene's career.

Also read this Wall St. Journal "Start with a June 2015 email to Clinton staffers from Erika Rottenberg, the former general counsel of LinkedIn. Ms. Rottenberg wrote that none of the attorneys in her circle of friends “can understand how it was viewed as ok/secure/appropriate to use a private server for secure documents AND why further Hillary took it upon herself to review them and delete documents.” She added: “It smacks of acting above the law and it smacks of the type of thing I’ve either gotten discovery sanctions for, fired people for, etc.” This part is APPALLING "A senior FBI official involved with the Clinton investigation told Fox News this week that the “vast majority” of career agents and prosecutors working the case “felt she should be prosecuted” and that giving her a pass was “a top-down decision.” The Obama administration—the federal government, supported by tax dollars—was working as an extension of the Clinton campaign. The State Department coordinated with her staff in responding to the email scandal, and the Justice Department kept her team informed about developments in the court case. Worse, Mrs. Clinton’s State Department, as documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show, took special care of donors to the Clinton Foundation. In a series of 2010 emails, a senior aide to Mrs. Clinton asked a foundation official to let her know which groups offering assistance with the Haitian earthquake relief were “FOB” (Friends of Bill) or “WJC VIPs” (William Jefferson Clinton VIPs). Those who made the cut appear to have been teed up for contracts. Those who weren’t? Routed to a standard government website. The leaks show that the foundation was indeed the nexus of influence and money. The head of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Ira Magaziner, suggested in a 2011 email that Bill Clinton call Sheikh Mohammed of Saudi Arabia to thank him for offering the use of a plane. In response, a top Clinton Foundation official wrote: “Unless Sheikh Mo has sent us a $6 million check, this sounds crazy to do.” So Hillary voters .... you don't care about all this, right? The Russians made it all up or leaked it. So blame Russia not Hillary. She is evil, folks. Go ahead and bury your heads in the sand. We know you don't care. Hillary does no wrong.

QUOTE (Tony @ Oct 16, 2016 -> 08:48 PM) Greg, can you go over in a little more detail what you are specifically outraged with in the emails that have come out this week? Clinton was fed answers in debate. She has media in hip pocket. She communicated with high ranking officials helping her in email case. She blasted Catholics. 1.8 million bucks for a few speeches. Crooked.Hillary.IMO.

Why does literally no one care about the horrible stuff coming out of Clinton email leaks? Clinton supporters just blame Russia or blame the messenger. Why are you so beholden to Clinton?? How can intelligent people support her and not at least be outraged over these emails?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 16, 2016 -> 07:05 PM) I find that to be obnoxiously arrogant and dismissive of the rest of the League. They've been good for 2 years now. Let's not pretend as though they are old hands at this. I understand the quality of their team, but making the pennant or the WS isn't so pedestrian for them at this point that it should render the entire season a failure. I disagree. It's a huge failure if they don't win it all (unless) they merely say baby steps and first WS since 1945 is baby steps. They are by far the best team. Nobody in their way has any reason to win it all this year in terms of talent being better than the Cubs. Tribe starting rotation blows compared to Cubs. Tribe does have one of those rare special managers however. But if Cubs don't win it all, only hope for die hard Chicago fans is they will turn into the Tigers. Win it every year (before KCR) and not complete the deal.

It's sad that educated people are telling us the election will be rigged. Sad state of affairs in the USA. Republicans stand no chance. And you people don't believe me that Chelsea will follow her mom to the oval office. Why wouldn't she? She's a lock to win. http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/16/politics/rud...rump/index.html