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QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Sep 5, 2016 -> 04:24 AM) Been over a year at my current job and I can't stand management. Most importantly I can't stand my bosses boss who I have to meet with on a daily basis. Over the past month, I've become so agitated that I've started looking. My family is even fine with me taking a paycut. They see how much I'm hating this job. I'm pretty sure my boss is going to be pissed (he's the type who thinks about HR rules later and says or acts first) as he wanted me to train the replacement guy for last guy who left (also after a year). Wondering how I should deal with him. I know he's going to ask me where I'm going and probe until he gets an answer. I just want advice on how I can shut him down politely because I have a feeling he's going to get these hard feelings I have for this job out of me and I'll just rant. I'm a very even keeled job and have liked every job I've ever had, but this one, I can't fake. You'd be surprised. When you tell your boss you are leaving he won't grill you about things much. If you have a new job you have a new job. The boss has heard it before. I mean if you hate your boss' boss that's the way it is. If he is adamant about knowing why you are leaving, just tell him you got a new job and would rather not say where it is. QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Sep 5, 2016 -> 12:59 PM) Hey guys, thanks for asking about my job. I am working part time at State Farm now, trying to get license still (i've been real busy with school in the classroom and working at school). It's actually not too bad cold calling, it just sucks because no one ever wants to talk to you about insurance. Greg, we get internet leads, and lists of renewals of each month of people's insurance is expiring, so we call them if they are interested in State Farm. I work 2-4 hours a day there and make roughly 40-50 calls a day. Probably will actually have a conversation with 5 people. It can be brutal. Only been there a month and I'm already the 2nd longest person that is there. Have had 3 others quit in the last month. One of which was my friend, that I got the job, and quit after 4 days. As far as my master's, I am getting my MBA with a Sports Management endorsement. All online classes, discussion post due every Thursday (200-300 words), then respond to 2 other posts by Sunday (100-150 words), then a 3 page paper due every 2 weeks. So far, so good in terms of the school part. The GA side of things, I'm mainly the Social Media Coordinator right now, the other GA who is in his 2nd year is handling most of the computer stuff right now (I'll do that more as the year goes on and a lot in year 2). For game days, I'll be down on the field tweeting, instagram, and snapchat, so that's pretty cool too because I do interact with the players and get pretty good footage just off my phone. That's how things are going so far, thanks guys for asking. If you make 50 calls and have five conversations, do the others just hang up? Do they scream at you then hang up or ?

Sorry to hear this. Hope he is better soon.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 4, 2016 -> 07:04 PM) Alexei Ramirez released. Nice 9-yr career. Good chunk of change. I saw that. I wonder if he's way older than people think. All of a sudden he couldn't play anymore. Weird. I bet he's 44 or so.

Congrats, Abreu. Have a game why don't ya! Great performance. He's putting up some numbers. Nice to see Anderson with the clutch game winning double.

QUOTE (harkness @ Sep 3, 2016 -> 06:52 PM) Yes this is me also. I hate political correctness and censorship and I am a big believer in freedom of speech, although ugly things can come from it, is incredibly important. Standing at attention the flag is really almost some type of thoughtless, action by many people in the stands. Most likely thinking about if they want to buy nachos or beer after its over. In certain moments, during certain times the anthem can be quite emotional. The problem with not standing to the flag because of injustice that you feel or see - it's too much of a generalization, and it really doesn't do anything to change the status quo. Sure there are bad things about the US, but there are also many great things. So when you kind of say F*** you flag" you aren't really making any sense. Basically its just a symbolic contradiction. I love the "now its got people talking" line. As if that really means anything. I've had so many conversations about police/racism issues of the past couple years. What he did changes absolutely nothing on a broad spectrum. I'm a teacher and I remember having a conversation with a young black student. He was basically condemning police officers and doing much of what CK was doing. We had a pretty good discussion about prejudice and how judging anyone, a black man or a police officer, before you know them or their actions, is prejudice. Everyone needs to be treated on their own merit and not lumped in some big pile of ideology. He understood what I mean't and most kids do. Then sports figures go out and wear socks with pigs on them. It's his right. But that does nothing productive... especially for kids that look at these athletes as who they want to be. He's not that good a player. I'd release him and let some other organization deal with his distraction. Last time I looked this was a "team sport" and he has grasped all the attention on that team. Good luck to them winning anything of note this season.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Sep 1, 2016 -> 07:07 PM) I never said it was a scandal. I just stated my opinion that it looks bad for a former president, who also happens to be a multimillionaire, to use tax dollars to help pay salaries of employees of a not for profit that brings in billions of dollars and uses 90% of it on expenses, salaries and travel. The top executives of the Clinton Foundation make over 500k per year and we need to use tax dollars to help pay for it? I find it odd we Americans complain about the corrupt politicians yet we are about to elect one of the most corrupt ever in a landslide vote. What is going on here, America?? Great post.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Sep 4, 2016 -> 06:02 PM) My attitude is what new ? The Sox have been the sorriest franchise in baseball history. The only team to have ever been caught throwing a World Series . All the lifetime bans from that . Disco demolition, fans attacking umpires. Cheap terrible or no money owners odd uniforms and I'm sure I'm not remembering some stuff. Oh yea a midget batting . One World Series win in forever . But I'm stuck with them and that won't ever change. I don't think the midget batting is that big an embarrassment. I think the hires of Bevington and Robin are pretty embarrassing though. Robin had no experience and it would take an idiot to think Bevvs had leadership skills as well. Sox are a pathetic franchise but letting a midget bat a couple times isn't that ridiculous. I think another good poll would be "are the Sox the sorriest franchise in baseball history?" as you suggest. They might actually be, but I doubt it cause of the WS title in 05.

QUOTE (StrykerSox @ Sep 4, 2016 -> 06:21 PM) Only 188 more games of Todd Frazier, I pray. The eye test tells me he's not a complete bust. His BA is pathetic, but he has produced a lot of bombs and his glove isn't miserable. I'm tempted to give him a 7 out of 10 rating but because of that BA I better give him a 6.5.

Hillary destroyed email servers with hammers? Nice. Please folks, do not vote for EITHER candidate. Neither deserves to be president. Vote Johnson or write in Jesse Ventura.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Sep 4, 2016 -> 04:28 AM) Mark had no interest in returning and supposedly needed surgery to even think about trying to pitch. Mark Will he agree to return next season?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 4, 2016 -> 01:54 AM) I don't think anyone was advocating go after Shields entering the 2014-15 offseason. This is almost two full seasons later...everyone could see his stuff degrading with KC in 2013 and especially the following year. There's just no way you can throw 200+ innings for so many consecutive seasons without it catching up to you. It even took a huge toll on Buehrle, who never got by with his arsenal of pitches alone. Sox could have talked Buehrle into pitching for pennies this year and kept Danks and worked with him. Danks could have been no worse than Shields, Albers and the like. Fire Hahn. Fire Robin. SELL THE TEAM Jerry.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 4, 2016 -> 12:03 AM) Shields is a total joke. Hahn absolutely should be fired for the acquisition. Might as well bench him and give Fulmer some starts. At this point, just have to pray Shields retires. Amen. It's just totally a fireable offense.

Four hits, lol. What a pathetic lineup too BTW. Also, Shields, lol. Acquiring him should get Hahn fired. Disgraceful acquisition. Abreu had a s*** game. Ditto Avi. What an embarrassment. I guess letting Robin finish the year will guarantee a better draft pick. If Renteria is taking over, let him take over now to assess the talent. I still wouldn't discount a Buddy Bell return to the dugout. Pathetic effort vs. the Central, again tonight!

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 30, 2016 -> 06:43 PM) 2.8% chance to win the division. 10.5% chance to net the wild card. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/odds/ The White Sox pretty much killed the Royals' spirit this week. KC finally blew some games after being hot so long and the Sox rolled over against Detroit, losing all 3 and burying the Royals.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 1, 2016 -> 02:30 PM) Wrigley Field is fine once you are in your seat. Everything else sucks about it though. Limited beer options, the food is bad, there are people everywhere and nowhere to walk, minimal ATM machines, it takes forever to get there. I usually go once a year because my wife is a Pirates fan but other than that I wouldn't take free tickets. I don't hate the Cubs either. I'm just a White Sox fan that isn't real interested in the whole Wrigley Field thing. Great post. Being cramped at all times is no fun for the average fan. QUOTE (Deadpool @ Sep 1, 2016 -> 07:23 PM) Right, and I understand that, but I can't really recommend a Sox game when the baseball product is really garbage, the environment is bad (empty stadium). It's a great park to get around and it has a lot more character than it used to have and the food is still amazing, but I can't recommend that horrible product. I wish I could. The food being amazing and the fact the games are so poorly attended has its advantages. You can spread out and enjoy the experience more. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 1, 2016 -> 11:40 PM) I think fans everywhere pay less attention to a game or to a concert or any event than ever before, people now have to take 1000 pictures or video missing out, IMO, on a lot of the experience. Also any pop up sounds like a home run because a lot of the lower deck seats you can't see the ball in the air. I live closer to Wrigley,but unless someone invites me, I have zero desire to attend. When they get all the renovations done, I will probably go. It might cost the price of my 27 game package for 1 game. If I had a seat where I couldn't see the ball in the air I'd leave. It would be just just awful. As far as fans taking videos .. WTF with that? Every highlight is on TV or mlb.com. Why do your own video? To brag you were at the game? Nobody wants to see that. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 2, 2016 -> 06:50 PM) My big question is why are people wasting their time if this isn't something they get enjoyment out of? Ah the 10,000 dollar question. A lot of people b**** about their team. Just like the fan in Major League. The Randy Quaid character. If your teams sucks and you are a fan, you don't stop watching but many do start b****ing.

Colin said to USA Today: "The media painted this as I’m anti-American, anti-men-and-women of the military and that’s not the case at all,’’ Kaepernick said after playing the first half of the 49ers’ 31-21 victory over the Chargers. “I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put themselves in harm’s way for my freedom of speech and my freedoms in this country and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee so I have the utmost respect for them. “I think what I did was taken out of context and spun a different way.’’ That's cause in Colin's initial statement he said NOTHING positive at all about anybody, just about the cops killing minorities. He said nothing about the military for a long time. At any rate, sports teams should stop playing the anthem at games. Our country is so divided now, we ought to just make the Anthem as P.C. as everything else and stop playing it. Colin has kind of ruined the experience so just play the theme song from Benny Hill show instead. No more anthem. Or to be really P.C., just have a haters group of the week come out and complain about the USA for a few minutes, then play ball.

QUOTE (captain54 @ Sep 3, 2016 -> 04:28 PM) Insert same thought process for 2013, 2014, 2015 What sort of bad luck, bad timing and breaks caused pretty much near the worst record in MLB since early May? How about instead of the usual inane corporate speak from the FO as to what the "new plan" is, or Kenny Williams spouting, "we'll figure it out", the fans hear " we're embarrassed as an organization and we know the fans deserve better. There will be shake ups in the organization to end this run of bad, mediocre baseball" This proves we're really not competing against the Cubs and are in a kind media market. Think if there was a really negative media member like Mariotti around? If somebody was around to rip the Sox on a daily basis and compare their s***show to the Cubs, it might change the perception. the media is just ignoring the Sox instead of blasting the organization daily. It's probably because there basically is no media anymore with all the outlets running bare-bones operations.

Sorry to make this the Brother Rice thread but I'm addicted. Rice tonight beat Crete, 61-44. I watched most of it. I should say the officials should be ashamed or is this the new trend in h.s. football? For games to take 3.5 hours or more? The pace of play was ridiculous. Both teams threw the ball a bunch even though Rice's Xavian Valladay rushed for 278 yards and five TDs. Trust me they threw a ton. But it just seemed there was no pace in getting to the line of scrimmage and getting off plays. The game just crawled along. The refs need to do something Anyhow, this is a very bad sign for Rice. It's hard to win state with a sieve-like defense. You aren't going to simply outscore the great teams. I thought Rice defense was excellent vs. Marist. Maybe it was just the kids being overconfident after the Marist game. Maybe Rice will use this to get better. But I stand by the edict you win state championships and league championships with defense and discipline. I love Brother Rice's 2-0 record and the way the kids seem to be nothing but class, but I have some doubts after this high scoring slugfest. Anyhow I won't criticize kids ever. So I'll just congratulate Rice on a victory and Crete for not giving up.

QUOTE (miracleon35th @ Sep 2, 2016 -> 09:53 PM) or maybe most naive but I'm OK with that as well because major baseball is just a game which I am able to put it in context. OK, my favorite baseball team was awful this season but I am reasonably happy, healthy, am doing well in business . I have good family and friends and I am still going to enjoy a couple of beers this weekend. I'll tolerate the rest of the season and will then look forward to the off season to see what moves are made. For some reason I tend to get very mad when we suck. I wish I could change.

QUOTE (miracleon35th @ Sep 2, 2016 -> 08:17 PM) Understanding and also patience. The Sox have had a lot of bad luck, bad breaks and bad timing. There is a plenty of time until Opening Day 2017 to improve the team. Hey, with this attitude you are battling El Rockin for "best fan ever" award.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 2, 2016 -> 09:09 PM) Greg....really? While whites will only be a plurality, and not the majority soon, they are not even close to being eclipsed by a single other minority group. Thank u for the clarification. I thought I read or heard on O'Reilly that whites were no longer a majority in terms of numbers.

I picked embarrassed even though our record isn't THAT bad compared to some historically bad seasons. Explanation: I feel like we've had way more than a couple amateurish losses in which no way we could lose that game but YES indeed we lost that game. I feel like we trot out some HORRIFIC relievers and spot starters. I feel like almost all our recent acquisitions stink (Frazier has been productive at least despite the .200 batting average). I feel like our highest paid players don't care/and or suck. I feel our manager is one of the worst in team history. Second to Bevvs. I feel like hiding in a closet whenever we play a Central Division team. I feel like we laid down and died after winning the first two vs. the Cubs. And I feel our front office is close to clueless. Sorry Mr. Hahn if you read this. You seem like a nice person.

Read this and tell me you support Colin. I know. I know. It's made up. It's not true. This story is made up by the media. Blame the messenger, Colin is a hero. http://conservativetribune.com/cop-shot-mi...nds-kaepernick/

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 2, 2016 -> 02:52 PM) Lifelong Republicans crossing the aisle is equivalent to the Grand Wizard of the KKK's endorsement?.....ummm, no. I'm a lifelong Republican and I gladly voted for Obama last time. I vote for the best candidate and Romney to me was a clown. I could never vote for Hillary Clinton, though I do still like Bill. For the life of me I don't understand how she has 90-95 percent of the African American vote. It's not like she is going to help ANY particular cause of anybody. Is there some kind of false hope going on here? p.s. Just for clarification those who are calling African Americans a "minority" now are grossly incorrect, right? African Americans outnumber whites by a significant amount in the census now, isn't that correct? Whites should be considered a minority now.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 2, 2016 -> 04:40 AM) The national anthem is a song for the entire country....all citizens, It is not a military song. Yes. But when Colin and others protest by sitting during the anthem, it's really a direct slap in the face to military men and women.