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Has this horrid season been worth the pain just because of the emergence of Anderson? He's still hovering around .280 which is nice.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 04:35 PM) By the way, I should make one thing clear. I am 1000% not voting for Trump. My only debate is do I actually associate my vote with Hillary or do I write in a candidate. So technically, Hillary was speaking to me or someone like me in the audience. My current prevailing wisdom is I disagree with her on too much policy related matters (not to mention I have zero trust in her) to give her my vote and thus will write-in a candidate. Great post. I will write in Jesse Ventura. It's pretty obvious Hillary is going to win. She doesn't need to do anything. It's likely to be a landslide, but if it's not it's obvious she has enough support to eke out the electoral thing. You wait, the election will be over this time by 10 p.m. eastern time on election night. This is a coronation not an election.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 05:33 AM) greg step away from the tv, turn off the computer, and go outside. hit the park. somewhere pretty. and enjoy the world. it's really not worth it to be as obsessed with the s***ty things going on in the world to the degree you are. I promise. Hey ... I do have my Brother Rice football.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 03:31 AM) I thought America lost tonight. Embarassing on both sides. Yes, I'm a republican but I think we have the two greatest scum possible running for the highest ranking position in our government. Hillary came off as rude and condescending herself (not that Trump isn't rude too). At least she says more about building our economy then Trump, with a focus on creating jobs vs. Trump 100% focused on stopping jobs from leaving (vs. doing anything around real actual growth...certain jobs can leave, as long as better, higher paying jobs (in greater fold) can replace them. Common sense we should attack things from multiple angles and I don't disagree with Trump on certain points as it relates to our trade deals, I just can't deal with his total absolutes as it relates to everything because it means I have zero idea what he actually plans on doing. I also don't actually think Donald is a racist, although he has certainly played up that card in certain instances, I don't think for one second he is a racist (just my personal belief). Either way I won't vote for either of these clowns. Romney will probably get my 3rd straight vote (twice written in...cause why change my trend now, haha). You are a very very smart man. But hey as far as the winner? Just ask Chris Matthews. It was HILLARY. She mauled Trump. Election ... OVA.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Sep 26, 2016 -> 05:15 PM) Kept up my usual trajectory. April - super hyped, live and die with every game May - still hyped (this is new territory in the last 4 years) June - paying attention, but starting to see who they really are July - paying less attention August - occasionally look up highlights, keep up with key players Sept - Don't care at all, despise the franchise and promise I'll stop supporting them April 2017 - spend $400 on opening day tickets, rinse repeat. I check the box scores and tonight actually watched the highlights, but no, I haven't been watching. I am really only watching Anderson's BA and his strikeouts vs. walks in the box scores. Very sad the Sox have sucked the last 3 years. April: like you super hyped. Also live and die every game. May: same as April. June: same as April. July: very sad but watching as much as I can. August: very sad, have given up, watch some. Sept: haven't watched at all. Extremely sad. Very sad winter is near as well. Could care less about Cub postseason. hope they lose.

Some asshole shooting at random vehicles, wounds nine? WTF. He had all those rounds of ammo ready. https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-shoot-act...467.html?ref=gs

LOL. Chris Matthews: "It was a shutout (for Hillary). She hit five home runs to none for Trump." Let the spin begin. Hillary in a LANDSLIDE with the media's big-time help.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 24, 2016 -> 12:15 PM) Rita beat MC last night. Tad surprising. Holy cow. How can Rice be expected to hand MC a two-game losing streak? When's the last time Carmel lost two in a row? I'm dying to watch Rice play in person. This would be a good weekend to fly in. Rice game then Sox.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 25, 2016 -> 08:30 PM) Is there anything you're not afraid of? I'm not afraid, I'm just making observations and my observation is N. Korea WILL start a nuclear incident. Whether it's a nuclear war or not, who knows. If they toss a nuke at Seoul and it kills millions and screws up the environment I'd think we'd blow North Korea off the map. Then it's up to China and Russia if they want to get involved and fire up a nuke or two at us. So this is serious business. Kim Jong-Un is not to be trusted. The second he senses he's about to be assassinated, why wouldn't he make sure S. Korea has a nuke or two to deal with as his legacy?

QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 25, 2016 -> 08:42 PM) meanwhile, in reality, there's statistically never been a better, safer time to be alive than now. So... How the hell could that be true? Are you talking in America? Give me stats regarding cities of over 150,000. Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Kansas City. Murder, murder, murder. You make it sound like America is Mayberry. Cmon. Our country is DANGEROUS.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 25, 2016 -> 08:06 PM) It would be so White Sox if they come home and go 7-0 for 81-81. Leave 'em thinking you're close to competing. With all due respect, that ain't going to happen. I'd say 2-5, maybe 3-4.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 25, 2016 -> 08:24 PM) Nope. What does he have to lose? Why not bring nukes into the equation if you are N. Korea's leader?

North Korea to me seems to be the place that starts the next huge mess. North Korea has threatened to wipe out Seoul with a nuke. If the North Korean leader feels like he's about to be over-run and assassinated I could definitely see him wanting to go out of this world in a blaze of glory, i.e. lob a nuke or two at South Korea. What happens environmentally after that, with fallout of a nuke being detonated in a major city, as well as the response of others could trigger the end of the world as we know it. What if the USA then blows North Korea off the map so to speak in an act of war vs. N. Korea? Then are both N and S Korea inhabitable? Does China get involved and blow up some U.S. city in Hawaii? I just see North Korea's leader being the guy who gets the ball rolling on mass destruction eventually. he's going to feel like somebody in North Korea wants to over-run him and he's going to, before he gets assassinated, do some major destruction. Do you at least agree with me that Kim Jong-Un is gonna be the guy who before he dies fires a nuke a S. Korea or the USA? I think HE WILL. http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/09/23...ncocks-lklv.cnn

Too much violence. Feel sad for innocent victims getting shot and killed.

Very sad. Heartbreaking.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ Sep 25, 2016 -> 07:02 AM) LaRussa never won a World Series for us. Ozzie did. Make Guillen the highest paid manager in the game and give him a lifetime contract. I love Ozzie Guillen but he'll never work again cept on TV maybe. The PC age is upon us. He could say anything. s***, the stuff he said in Miami would be brought up again and people would boycott the games. That said I totally love Ozzie.

Just think, you and I could have done just as well as Avila at the plate during that game. Five Ks is pretty bad. I see Anderson is down to .277. It'd be nice if he could finish at or above .280. I'd hate to see him pull a 1-for-30 to end a nice season and hit about .260 or .250.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 24, 2016 -> 09:23 PM) https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-hunt-gunm...-080753761.html Five dead...and from that video, you can't be 100% sure he's Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Eastern European, Greek, etc. The fact that it was mostly females who died, wouldn't rule out some sort of anti-feminist motivation, at least yet. I've been hearing from a lot of people who have said they would never work at a mall at night. Terrorists are winning. We are a country that is starting to fear going to work, going to movies, going to malls.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 24, 2016 -> 09:08 PM) https://mobile.twitter.com/CharlieDaniels/s...src=twsrc%5Etfw Greg, are you getting your talking points from Charlie Daniels these days? Lots of people agree with Greg. I'll turn on the TV and be amazed when I hear my own viewpoints. I always think, "And those Sox talk people think I'm a troll!" I Am Not A Troll. I Am a Human Being!" from one of my favorite movies.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 24, 2016 -> 08:54 PM) LaRussa might be in the process of being fired by the DBacks, but paying him to return to managing would mean a huge payroll increase necessarily is going to come with it...not a rebuilding or step back. Some Sox fans are talking about bringing back Ozzie for gosh sakes. If you can get LaRussa, get it done. We're the White Sox not some good franchise. This would be a coup for us. Pay the man. One.More.WS.Title.Please!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 24, 2016 -> 07:05 PM) How Trump is lowering the debate expectations https://www.google.com/amp/www.vanityfair.c...android-verizon Short of physically assaulting her, he'll probably be declared the winner. Similar to the first debate last time where Obama was caught off guard by Romney just lying constantly ands inventing new policy positions on the fly. No way. There will not be one news organization declaring Donald the winner. Maybe Hannity. Did you read the NY Times embarrassing endorsement today? They are all coming. This news organization should be ashamed of itself making her look so Presidential. Cmon. We have two horrendous choices and the NY Times saying Hillary deserves this job is sad. Don't pretend we have a good candidate this year. Trump is a Chump, no doubt. No question. Of course he is. But Hillary is a proven fibber (I won't call her a liar) and one who stretches the truth; also a very very horrible speaker/leader and as elitist as Mr. Trump. And yet the NY Times endorses her in a glowing piece? Sad. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/opinion/...ident.html?_r=0

QUOTE (Two-Gun Pete @ Sep 24, 2016 -> 07:58 PM) As a fan of this team, I get embarrassed watching stupid bunts, bad lineup construction, an abject lack of command and control over his clubhouse, poor understanding of bullpen leverage, and other managerial failures all leading to a cavalcade of craptacular performances year after year. That aside, if in fact Robin "knows the game," he has a poor way to demonstrate his knowledge. If he had any integrity about himself, he would have resigned at least a year ago. Insofar as his so-called "experience," I'll agree that KW set him up to fail by hiring him in the first place. But, one would anticipate that Ventura would have made some degree of improvement in his duties as manager. I struggle to think of one area in which Ventura has improved. His lineups lack imagination and understanding, his best players run roughshod over him. So exactly how has "experience" taught Ventura anything? How has he gotten any better at his job? Ventura was one of my favorite SOX players of all time, but it was moronic to hire him and to retain him. He's a joke of a manager and honestly, a coward to not resign. Great post. First regarding the Rollins stimulus. That was difficult because the Sox were winning big despite him sucking. It's hard to remember that far back when we actually had a great team (at 23-10 the Sox looked very sharp and they actually were winning on the road) and it would have been difficult to get rid of Rollins. Cmon at that point even though Rollins sucked, the team looked like it was fulfilling the cliche -- "winners" and/or grinders like Lawrie and Rollins were helping the team win. The guys who won the LaRoche battle were leading us to victory! And a likely division title. As far as being "embarrassed," me too in terms of blowing 7 run leads in the ninth inning, doing crazy stuff no other team seems to do. Stupid bunts? You win there. He'll never learn our guys CANNOT bunt. Bad lineup construction: I'd agree. Robin sucks there too. Control over clubhouse? I'd agree. The team has a very poor approach to baseball games. No life. No pride. Zombies. Poor understanding of bullpen: I'd agree again, though Mr. Grumpy, Cooper, probably has some input there. Cooper and Robin are as bad a duo as Seals and Croft. Break them up. Get rid of them both. I do, however, stand by my comment that Robin knows the game. I think he does. I have no idea why he's made some of the decisions he's made, but a lot of this is purely having players suck. He didn't sign Albers. He doesn't make Nate or Jennings or Robertson look great one night, horses*** the next. He needn't take the blame for a starting rotation that is thorougly inconsistent. My point is: Robin is no Bevington. Robin does deserve another managing job somewhere after the experience he's gained here.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 24, 2016 -> 07:52 PM) I'm not mad, I'm irritated because you are dense about it. Give me one good reason that either of these guys would come out of retirement to manage the Sox,without saying money or because you want them to Because at one point he was a White Sox. His guy is LaRussa. It may be his dream job. Go get him and give Jimmy an offer he can't refuse.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 24, 2016 -> 07:27 PM) Jesus Christ,Greg, when are you going to understand that Leyland and LaRussa are retired? Why get mad? Some guys return when asked. Leyland might miss it. The man is still working. He's managing team USA. HIRE HIM. Money talks. Give him a player-type contract. 10-12 million per annum. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/ml...-life/20138431/ http://motorcitybengals.com/2016/09/22/det...ut-jim-leyland/

Uh oh, Hillary has started a firestorm. She is bringing Mark Cuban to the debate. So Trump now has to figure out who to bring to embarrass Hillary. Maybe Lewinsky or Flowers? http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/24/politics/don...bate/index.html