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All hell is breaking loose in Charlotte. The protestors have been ultra aggressive this time, storming a police station. I'm telling you. This aggressive cop bulls*** has to stop. It's leading to utter chaos. With the economy sooooo bad people have very little reason to behave themselves. When they upset they are starting to get really really violent. There must be an awful lot of bad cops out there. That's all I can think.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 21, 2016 -> 02:36 PM) You're saying that for black people to not be shot by cops that, they need black cops watching white cops? My bad. I'm calling for an emergency meeting called by Obama of all police stations in the country. Our cops are out of control and I want Obama to lecture them on it. I said out of each cop station I want one black cop, one white, one Asian, one Hispanic, etc. Four or five cops from every police station in the U.S. Rent a speedway and have a couple sessions of 150,000 cops per session.

I may be done with baseball if it's Buddy Bell. I think it'll be Renteria though. My choices ... a.) La Russa. b.) Leyland. c.) Whoever Maddon's bench coach is with the Cubs. d.) Gene Lamont.

What a terrible game. Sox are back in the tank. Playing bad baseball, too. This should assure Robin's fate. Team is a disgrace.

Interesting. A lotta people dislike Hillary.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 08:52 PM) Oh Greg. Any protest is really only meant to do one thing. Ignite discussions. The problem with this country is we can't even do that right. Instead of listening and wondering WHY Colin Kaepernick and others are protesting in this manner, we shout PATRIOTISM at the top of our lungs and grill him for it. Americans act on the act and not on the issues. That is wholly wrong in every way. My point is this...who cares who he is or what he does or how much he makes. Listen to him. Listen to Megan Rapinoe. Listen to Tommie Smith and John Carlos. Hear what they are saying. If you don't like athletes protesting, then do something about the underlying issue. I'm all about the military. If ONE military man or woman is upset then I am upset. I respect the hell outta the military. Colin is going about this in a very wrong way.

I'll put this in the Republican thread. My feelings as of today. I prefer Trump to be President over Hlllary. However, I will vote for neither. I will still write in Jesse Ventura. I still don't believe Trump has a chance. Cause this is all according to form. The stories recently are all about Trump having a chance. That's setting up ALL the stories about how Hillary won the debates by an overwhelming margin and she will run away with the election. You wait. Trump should refuse to debate. Cause all the Chris Matthews' of the world and ALL the pundits will claim she just plain KILLED Trump in head to head debate competition. No media pundit would EVER admit to Trump winning a debate. So the coronation is beginning folks, right after the first debate. You wait. She will be declared the big winner just as she was over Bernie.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 10:52 PM) It is this example for why I am embarassed about the message we are sending to the young and impressionable children of our generation as it relates to this election. The manner / lack of civility that people are showing one another in this process and the way people are trying to get elected is just deplorable and sets the stage for people thinking this is okay (and yes, I understand it is each parents job to instill quality morals, etc, but man, if you can't look at the president of the US and say that they exhibit fine behaviors, then that is a really bad thing, imo). I don't agree with Obama, but I certainly don't have an issue to how he holds himself up in the public eye and I would be perfectly fine if my kids looked at him as an example of a mentor, etc, for how to speak / treat others, etc. I would have a problem if it was Trump and to be frank, while to a lesser extent (purely on this ground), issues with the other side as well. I don't think you have to worry about sending any messages to children. The Millenials have proven that parents are doing such a poor job of raising kids that they don't want to work, they are lazy and all the other things people say about Millenials. No need to worry about children. They have no chance cause since American adults certainly have proven they don't know how to raise kids. Participation trophies; coddling them, screaming at teachers who give Johnny and Julie a B instead of A, on and on.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 07:39 PM) And who exactly will police the rest of the nation when every police officer is at this symposium? Or do we just hope that nobody notices all the police are gone today? Sorry I meant send one person of every ethnicity in every police force in the country. So lets say Oak Lawn would be represented by a white cop, a black cop, a Mexican cop, etc. 4-5 from every department.

How could the Sox be so stupid as to acquire Shields? Fireable offense.

Allegedly the gap is closing and Trump today has a chance. I wonder if he'll blow it in the debates? It's a hard call if u are Trump. If you attack Hillary mercilessly you could be seen as a bully. If I were Trump, I think I'd try to be as polite as possible. First of all what does he call her? Hillary? Madaam Secretary (of State)? Gov. Clinton? I think I'd always be polite and say, "With all due respect, people cannot trust you. With all due respect, people see you as a liar because of things you've said. With all due respect, you would be a disaster dealing with Putin and China." I think people will be turned off if he just screams, "Crooked Hillary" at her. Yet she kind of ate polite Bernie alive. Can she do the same to Trump? Bernie cost himself the nomination when he backed her on the email thing.

I've been thinking about this. All these bad decisions by police are leading up to something major. The police need to cut this s*** out. Incident after incident is just asking for some kind of revolutionary violent protest, the likes of which we've probably never seen. There needs to be a national symposium with Obama demanding all police forces (yes every single police force in the USA) send representatives of all ethnic groups and get them together NOW. Hold it at a racetrack that seats 150,000 or more people. If we're talking 350,000 people then have two sessions or something.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 03:00 PM) Fine. You disagree with what he's doing and can't understand it. Fantastic. Nobody cares. People have clearly argued both sides in this thread and nobody's opinion is changing. Why it needs to be rehashed by quotes with some other famous person's opinion makes no sense to me. Well, that's the nature of arguing and arguing one's point. An effective tactic in arguing a point is citing what different people say. When I say the military is upset and many say the military is not upset, it's taught in debate to cite instances to prove your own point. I try to cite those instances. Also when I make a point, off times I begin to wonder if indeed I could be wrong. When I see somebody support my point, it fires me up and makes me want to cite such person.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 05:47 PM) TWTW is complete garbage. The team just isn't good enough and management goes in every year setting them up for failure. The end. Glad Jose isn't blind, but he also overvalues TWTW apparently. I kind of agree. You need talent to win. But ... there's no question the Sox look flat against teams from the Central. I do think the other teams are more alert, more savvy and do "want it more." The emotional part of baseball can be crap like you say, but I do think what Jose said is true.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 03:58 PM) Chicago White Sox 27 mins · Yesterday Jose Abreu hit his 25th home run of the season, marking the first time a White Sox player has hit 25+ home runs in each of his first 3 MLB seasons. http://whitesoxpride.mlblogs.com/…/sox-look-to-bounce-back…/ That's pretty neat. No need to be anything but pleased with Abreu.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 03:33 AM) <!--quoteo(post=3426707:date=Sep 19, 2016 -> 06:10 PM:name=Big Hurtin)-->QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Sep 19, 2016 -> 06:10 PM) <!--quotec-->Another shooting, in Tulsa http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/tulsa-...rence-crutcher/ Father of four. His truck stalled in the road. Was on his way home from class. Why did they shoot this man?? WTF is going on? Our country is in DEEP trouble folks.

My positions aren't those of a troll. Once again, support for greg's position on a subject . ... http://ijr.com/2016/09/695609-marine-colon..._term=ijamerica

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 02:19 AM) So Abreu states the Sox don't want it as much as the Royals do. Finally somebody said it. Sox don't want it most times they take the field. For some reason they seem to play hard against the AL East and the Cubs get their attention UNTIL we assure ourselves at least a split in the series. Sox played so passively after winning those 2 in the Cell. The other teams in the Central care about beating the Sox; the Sox could give a s*** about beating those teams in the Central. They mail in those games effort wise. You guys despised Ozzie but he wouldn't have put up with this s*** without calling out these bums.

I haven't studied WHY they honored Joe on Saturday at all so I may be way off base. Was it some kind of anniversary? My take, however, is brutal. Look ... Penn State should be distancing itself from Joe P. Just not EVER talking about him, mentioning his name, etc. What need was there to honor Joe Saturday? Why?? To please his relatives? Just no need to honor Joe Pa. Ridiculous. PSU officials should be ashamed of themselves. The most recent news about Joe was some report not too long ago that he knew about Sandusky's behavior. Disgusting and no school should be honoring Joe right now. Maybe in 20 years or something if it's been proven Joe didn't know.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 19, 2016 -> 09:03 PM) Is it too much to ask for .500 ball in that area? I'm sure the front office doesn't see this as a problem. It's scouting. It's our team not responding to the challenge. Other teams treat the games more importantly than the Sox. They realize uh, these games matter more! It's going to take a while to get over this ineptitude vs. the Central. We need a good manager first of all. I don't know if just adding Renteria is going to matter much.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 19, 2016 -> 03:23 AM) One thing they both have in common is trouble staying healthy. Saladino has had several injuries, and is currently out after hearing a pop in his calf Friday night. Might need them both around to make it through a season. I didn't realize Tyler was injury prone. Not good obviously.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Sep 18, 2016 -> 10:48 PM) Last night Hillary gets interviewed about the attacks in NY/NJ/MIN, calls them bombings. Less than a minute later criticizes Trump for calling them bombings before the details come out. CNN realizes her mistake and covers for her by editing her use of the word bombings from the interview. Like I said, it's disgraceful, but media members just have to have a Democrat in the oval office. Hillary is pure despicable yet we've got to have her eight years, followed by eight more of you know who. I don't get it. Why cover for her?? Trump's not going to win.

Do a google on Eleanor Mondale and you see some racy stuff. I won't address the allegations unless you tell me they were true.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Sep 18, 2016 -> 11:55 AM) No one seems to mention the "eye test". The more I've watch both Lawrie and Saladino, the more I favor the latter. Perhaps it's that terrible hitch in Lawrie's swing and all of the accompanying strike outs. Whatever it is, Tyler just looks like a more fundamentally solid player. It's a shame because Lawrie has talent. Some guys just seem to have that baseball acumen and Saladino strikes me as one of those guys. When Lawrie broke into the Big Leagues, he was young, even for a rookie. He began his career with a world of promise, but has not developed, in fact, he has regressed. He should now be in his prime, but has not translated his physical tools into performance. Maybe that's something that requires good baseball acumen. Put another way; the better the baseball acumen, the better a player is able to use his experience, in order to improve his performance. Saladino gives one the impression that he is that kind of player. Do others here get the same impression? Yes. Yes. Yes. I always use the eye test even though it angers the stat-niks. Just get rid of Lawrie and try to get a serviceable bullpen guy for him and insert Tyler at 2B. That's a helluva infield in theory: Frazier, Anderson, Saladino and Abreu.

Even when KC is going bad we usually find a way to lose the series. Weird. They'd lost five straight before yesterday.