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QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 16, 2016 -> 04:25 AM) Seems like a lot of complacency in the Braves series and now this one. Still seems strange how they are handling the rotation this weekend. So true. Why didn't Q start tonight and Sale tomorrow? WTF? What are we going with the back end for? QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 16, 2016 -> 04:27 AM) Sox fan since 1959. Nellie Fox was my favorite player and my first glove was a Nellie Fox model. I have just always stayed loyal. I don't always likevwhar I see either though LOL. Thanks for your kind words Cool. My first glove was Ron Santo which was good cause I was a third baseman through and through. Of course he stated during his life he hated his year on the Sox.

Sox having trouble solving former Sox pitcher. ... again. Why did we trade him again? Santiago would look good on our staff.

Hawk's in one of those ornery moods which is perplexing. Stoney just agreed with his point and Hawk had to bellow, "He (ump) hasn't missed a pitch!" Hawk needs a cup of coffee or some beer to lighten up.

Former Sox pitchers/hitters normally fare well vs. the Sox.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 16, 2016 -> 04:16 AM) Greg, Sox haven't been bad on the road this year. Actually have been great outside of the AL Central debacles Yeah I haven't checked the overall road record lately. Now that you mention it it's probably fairly close to .500.

El Rockin, you live in Montana. How'd you become a Sox fan? I stand by my statement you are the best Sox fan in history. You are loyal no matter the score or the style of play. I used to be like you, but got jaded because of our bizarre penchant to blow games in the wildest of ways late in the Ozzie era and all but one year of the Robin era.

Hawk already sounds a bit deflated. I wonder if he's getting sick of being the "road game" announcer. I would think only broadcasting road games where the team has blown chunks under Robin would grow tiresome. I'm no broadcaster but I would think home games have more pizazz for the announcers. p.s. However as a rebuttal to myself, Hawk just mentioned his grandkid's home run today which means he probably is having a blast seeing a few of his games rather than none.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jul 15, 2016 -> 02:06 PM) Now you're starting to get it. Part of the solution is getting more people to at least realize that it exists. Which seems to be happening more and more. My point is anybody who is not mentally challenged knows white privilege exists. Of course there are inherent advantages to being born white. The enemy here is the rich white bastard and his offspring who run the country because of their wealth. They are the people they need to admit their white privilege. They are the ones who never hire African Americans. They are the ones who deep down are probably happy when cops rough up African Americans so everything will always be the same. The Black Lives Matter protestors need to march in front of the homes of these 1 percenters. They are the ones who won't admit their privilege. But as usual they go after the little guy. Of course I understand there is white privilege. My answer to that is ... what do you want me to do about it? The protestors aren't going after the rich f***s, so why should I go tell them to admit privilege or educate them? Of course I acknowledge it, but I am not going to acknowledge anything to some angry rude classless mob telling me to admit it. Tell the rich white f***s about it; don't tell me or my friend, the guy who faced all odds with his mother dumping him on abusive grandparents who basically made him a maid and made him pay his own freight even as a young kid. Now he's a millionaire and not so eager to rekindle any kind of relationships with his family.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 15, 2016 -> 10:50 AM) Do you think all the die-hard Republicans in this thread are volunteering to send their sons and daughters to fight against ISIS? Are there any die-hard Republicans in this thread or on Soxtalk at all? Seems to me this is a Democrat-dominated board; in the vicinity of 90 percent to 10 percent. Terrible loss of life in this tragedy. What.A.World. Horror after horror every week.

Now that Trump picked a chump, you just know Hillary is dying to pick a woman to be her running mate. I'm sure she's just a tad bit torn however. She's probably not wanting to push her luck going with an all female ticket. My prediction is she'll do so, however. She knows Trump is weak and has no chance in hell of beating her. I'm sure she'd much rather have a female pal in Washington to shoot the breeze with on a daily basis the next eight years rather than some gruff man. My guess is she's dying to pull the trigger and name a fellow female but a tad scared SOME members of the public might freak out and be afraid of two women in charge. Is Warren on the record saying she won't accept a Veep bid?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 15, 2016 -> 03:43 AM) Lol that rnc convention schedule. Setting the tone for all the mocking of that convention you'll be hearing from the pundits. Man these 4 years went fast. I remember the same thing four years ago. Once they get that Republican convention out of the way ... let the partying begin with the Democratic convention! BTW I listened to the most awesome youtube video yesterday. Somebody made a list of the 10 questions the ladies of The View asked Michele Obama last election campaign and compared them to the 10 they asked Romney's wife. LOL. They threw Obama's wife 10 softballs about her favorite forms of nature, living in such a big house, Barack's hobbies, etc. Then for Romney's wife they gunned her down. The first question was grilling her on abortion, Whoopi Goldberg had some long technical question about the economy and on and on. Amazing how divided our country is Democrat vs. Republican. Damn I wish there was a GOOD third party to shut up people in the Democrat party who have such an easy route to the White House cause of the liberal media and Hollywood.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 09:21 PM) By being white, you have certain privileges, you just do. A broken household growing up would impact any child, but that doesn't mean he didn't have privileges elsewhere. And that's not to say he didn't overcome a ton to be successful or even just to get to a normal household later in life, no one is saying take that away from the individual (or if they are then they're wrong). It can be a real touchy subject because you have someone like you mentioned where they truly had some bad s*** happen to them growing up, and it was awful and hard to overcome. But what was the support like around them? The community? The police? It's hard to acknowledge that it may have been even worse, or the individual may become super defensive because they know they had a ton to overcome and feel like it's being diminished, but in a good dialogue on this topic it wouldn't be diminished, instead it should revolve around "yes you went through that, but what helped you out of it? Is that something that could've been impacted by your environment? Your skin color? etc." Suddenly you may be thinking "yea I went through a lot, but calling the police I knew would help, not make it worse or even have a fear of the officer shooting a family member because they 'felt' threatened upon entering the household." It's not to diminish one's own experiences, it's to open their eyes on how different it could've been. Good post. It is a touchy subject because of situations involving people like my friend. I see what you are saying. Even though my friend got dumped on his grandparents who didn't make any money and abused him and made him work for his keep starting in high school, getting jobs, giving him nothing, making him pay for his own college, etc., he does have the innate white privileges. That is: More likely to get hired, especially in a state like Kansas with so many whites; isn't gonna get harassed by the police, etc. Yes there is innate white privilege; of course there is. I think you'd have to be a red-neck asshole to not agree with the protestors there is white privilege. At the same time, to me, it's something I would never acknowledge to a mob that wants me to flunk my English exam cause they are in my face in the college library wanting me to trash myself by screaming out I am white privilege. To any of the protestors it to me is a great topic to discuss 1 on 1. But you get some mob trying to make me do something like declare white privilege, f*** them all. I read that article and it's a good one. Yes there is white privilege benefiting those like my friend and the guy who wrote the article despite their being poor. I mean I'll sign a document saying I recognize white privilege if that's what the protestors want. But I'm not going to let them intimidate me like I've done something wrong in merely existing. Issues like this make me wonder if the races will ever truly co-exist. I guarantee you there are asshole rich white business owners who would never hire an African American over a white. There are cops who will always be mean to blacks. So what's the solution? It's not going around as a mob knocking on doors demanding the residents admit their white privilege.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 08:58 PM) When the media did mention Clinton, they usually accurately reported that she had more delegates and was more likely to win, which is what happened. That's the point. There was a Bernie Phenomenon about to take off and the media wouldn't cooperate and wouldn't buy in. His victories were laughed off by the Chris Matthewses who said it does not matter; Hillary has too many superdelagates and is a runaway winner and it's inevitable. Had the media done what they usually do: nonstop covererage of red-hot Millenial favorite Bernie for a couple weeks I think he'd have carried the momentum into the convention. The media didn't want a split convention or convention drama; their story this time around is the coronation of Hillary Clinton and they are going to get what they want. In four years when she runs for re-election, it'll be very boring as she might as well run unopposed. Why would anybody want to run against her and get stomped?

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 10:14 PM) A very apt analysis by Josh Barro: http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-cli...ls-trump-2016-7 I like that Hillary has lost some supporters, but you can't deny my scenario being the correct one. I wish people would see what I see. Republican convention: Coverage will mock Trump having a "winner's night" where coaches praise him and players. His speech will be mocked at best; at worst they'll point out he didn't appear "Presidential" and offended many people, etc. He'll drop a little in the polls right after the convention. Then the Democratic convention will be back to the normal type of convention. Exhilarating speeches in support of Hillary capped by what will be dubbed the greatest speech of all time: Hillary's accepting the nomination, humbly yet forcibly as the first woman's presidential candidate. She will be praised universally from all media and celebrities and that will be that. There will be no real negative coverage of Hillary to turn the tide leading up to November and her eight year cycle begins.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 08:53 PM) Acknowledging privilege is really just another way of saying "take a walk in X person's shoes", but hopes to go a bit farther than that. Sure, I've worked my ass off to get where I'm at, but what if I grew up hungry? What if I was constantly afraid of walking down the street? What if I had to take care of my family before I could study and do homework? What if my teachers didn't give a crap about me? What if I couldn't afford to play baseball? What if there wasn't even a baseball team in my neighborhood? It's not apologizing for what you have, it's acknowledging that just because you got to some point doesn't mean others had the same path to it. Once you allow that then you start thinking about what differences there could have been, how could it have impacted you? Once you start asking questions like that you can start applying it to how you can impact the environment of those going through the struggles that you may not have had to go through. You worded that well. I like what you say. But I am willing to say that in a 1-on-1 situation with a person. Why? Cause like I said there are whites I know who also were disadvantaged compared to me. Making someone admit their white privilege is just rude. Now you might say even my white friend whose dad was living paycheck to paycheck and couldn't pay for my friend's college had white privilege just cause of all the inherent rights whites have over blacks. That's fine, too. I don't think some white kid writing a poem apologizing for his privilege is accomplishing anything. I like what you wrote here: "It's not apologizing for what you have, it's acknowledging that just because you got to some point doesn't mean others had the same path to it. Once you allow that then you start thinking about what differences there could have been, how could it have impacted you? Once you start asking questions like that you can start applying it to how you can impact the environment of those going through the struggles that you may not have had to go through." However, like I said I know a lot of whites who also "did not have the same path to it." My friend's mother dumped him when he was 5 on her parents who were poor. They abused him and treated him like s*** and he made it on his own. He's white and WAS NOT PRIVILEGED. Try telling him to declare his white prvilege.

Since this is the thread about white privilege, did you see this poem from a white kid saying he's sorry for being privileged? This 'privilege' thing is kind of goofy. I think any white that makes a big deal out of this alleged privilege thing is troubled. There's no way in hell I'm going to be bullied into saying I have privilege. The rich f***s who run American businesses and the CEOs and their bratty kids who have never had to work a day in their lives (who yes, are mostly white) are the privileged assholes not a middle class white guy like me struggling to put food on the table. f*** you to approach me in a library and call me priviliged. I've worked my ass off just to survive. This privilege stuff bothers me because it's just rude. Yes African Americans who did not have a dad pay for their college have it tougher than a white guy like me whose dad did pay for college. Of course it's tougher. Big deal. I have a lot of white friends whose dad could not put them through college as well. Life is not fair. I'm suspecting in 100-200 years everybody will be the same below the ultra rich business owners. there will be the 1 percent wealthy and everybody else with the same wages and the same benefits and the same cars and houses. is that what the privelege people want??? http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/13/us/teen-slam...-hln/index.html

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 05:03 PM) I don't think the media took Sanders very seriously either. They were quite scared of Sanders' threat to Ms. Clinton and made sure he didn't ride momentum to the nomination. If the media had jumped on his bandwagon when he was routinely clobbering Clinton in that stretch of primaries, he had a real chance in California. But every one of Bernie's victories was shrugged off with, "Clinton has all the superdelagate support and Sanders has no chance." Very unfair and sad. QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 06:09 PM) I don't think the DNC did anything to stop Bernie Sanders. A small name candidate lost to the more popular well know candidate. Yeah the public perception already has Hillary blowing away Bernie in a rout when in reality Bernie actually gave her a hell of a fight against all odds. No money and no media on his side. He should have been given superstar coverage when he started blowing her out of the water in that one significant stretch of primaries. I don't understand why the media wants Hillary so badly. It's like they take it personally when it's even suggested somebody might beat her.

OMG what a speech by Craig Sager at the ESPYs tonight. Please watch the segment that led into his speech and his speech. Touching and beautiful. Inspirational. Will be played over and over as Jim Valvano's speech. Hopefully Sager will kick leukemia, but what a great great speech. He mentioned mind over matter. He thinks one's mental state of mind can help cancer patients be stronger than most believe they can be during chemo. For instance, they showed Sager getting chemo in Houston, driving himself (no limo here) to San Antonio for a game, returning to Houston the next day (driving himself) for more chemo. BLESS HIM. I hope he is cured!

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 01:08 AM) Your logic: Frazier, Robertson, Melky,Avila, Navarro, Duke, Lawrie are absolute garbage players & Hahn should be fired. BUT Sox could get an absolute HAUL trading them. Does that make sense to you? I must have misrepresented my thoughts. I don't consider those guys trash. Robertson is an elite closer. I like him we don't need him as a noncontender. Frazier is a nice power hitter and good fielder. I'm just recognizing we can get a haul for him. He can hit bombs. I don't hate him at all as I hated Dunn/LaRoche. I like Frazier. I do not like Melky, true. No power. Having a much better year though and somebody in the NL will WANT him. I do think Avila and Navarro suck but they are vets and a contender might want a vet. Not a Duke fan but he is not trash, he's actually average more often than below average. He is average. And Lawrie also is not somebody I despise like say, a Beckham. Lawrie hustles which I like. I just again recognize we might get 3 good prospects from him. I feel like contenders would want these guys. My bad if it's thought that I despise these players. To summize: I actually have neutral to fond thoughts about Robertson, Frazier, Lawrie. I respect the season Melky is having. I don't like Duke, Navarro, Avila.

After watching Biden at the ESPY's a thought hit me: Why the hell didn't he run for President this time. He would be GREAT and a super alternative to Hillary. Nobody hates Joe Biden. Many people are like me and not fond of Hillary. What was Biden thinking??

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 12:48 AM) http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/13/politics/qui...rida/index.html HOW CAN GREG NOT BE ALL OVER THIS ONE? Interesting that it's neck and neck. As much as I'm scared of Trump, I am intrigued by the idea of Hillary not being an automatic winner. I still think she's a lock. Too much media support to help her. The Chris Matthews of the world will make sure she's in. Prediction: There will be media members holding back tears at her inauguration and even holding back tears during Democrat convention coverage. She will get a huge boost in the ratings after the convention and her acceptance speech. It's going to be epic media commentary. That's when they hit it hard for the democratic candidate. Whereas they will scour every word in Trump's speech for errors and make fun of how he looks, and also make fun of the sports figures that speak for him and how unconventional the convention is, the reax to Hillary's acceptance speech at the Demo convention will be even more sappy than the reaction to Obama's acceptance speeches. They'll be calling it the greatest speech ever and say she showed her true personality and wax poetic about her role in history as the first women candidate. Hillary will be big on the woman angle to MAKE SURE she keeps that HUGE lead among women voters. I still don't understand why African American voters LOVE her so much considering Bill threw so many more African Americans in jail off the streets during his years. Trump stands no chance ... remember my prediction of media shedding tears or saying they are holding back tears in analyzing her acceptance speech while mocking Trump's speech. The pundits are going to say Hillary's convention speech is the one that forever turns the tide of public opinion in her favor: "She was touching in describing what it means to her personally to be the first woman president and at the same time Presidential in outlining some of her goals for her eight years. This new side of Hillary has been shown and she figures to win the Presidency in a landslide over Trump who had what was deemed a very poor performance at the Republican Convention." Just wait. It's going to be interesting to see how the media at least attempt to hide their Trump hatred during the Republican convention. Or will they even try? There's going to be a lot of mocking Trump, but when is too much snide too much? The pundits will have to mask their bias just a tad, won't they?? Cause they know what the Democratic Convention coverage is going to be: Wall to wall praise of the first female president and every word that comes out of her mouth. Hillary Clinton will never have greater acceptance numbers and a greater lead over Trump than a few days after the Democratic Convention. The landslide will be underway.

So any parents in here want to inform about how their kids' friends have been raised. Anybody have any kids 20 to 30? What is coming out of their mouths in regard to college and the working world? Do they assume they are going to make big bucks? Do they care either way? And commitment that we've read about. I was in more than 10 weddings for sure between 22 and 30. Are kids getting married? Give me an insight into what you are seeing in your world about Millenials and Xers at home and work please.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 05:08 AM) Interesting tidbit: I lived with my cousins for the first month of my internship in NYC. They're about my parent's age. They told my dad they loved having me around and that they were a bit sad when I had to leave. I just found that interesting. You probably are a nice guy who was a good conversationalist with them, neat and very polite. You made sure to not inconvenience them so they like you. You probably thanked them a lot and they felt great about the whole thing.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 04:31 AM) Great post. Even though Bernie was courting superdelegates in the end because he was behind in pledged delegates. And you're right on the media, even though Hillary received the most negative coverage of any candidate by far. Great post. How can you say Hillary has received the most negative coverage of any candidate by far. Cmon. Here's what the "majority" of media reports have consisted of: Trump: Grabbing his crazy line of the day and mocking it or getting others to mock it and say what a disaster he would be. Bernie: See my last post. It's a crying shame what was done to him. And Hillary: Unabashed love. Cmon, the email thing was barely covered. Her snickers at questions about it were accepted as answers. And the Clinton meeting DA on the Tarmac was made out to be NOTHING when it was potentially HUGE. Finally the FBI's decision was roundly praised except by the few Republican columnists whose criticism got whisked away without a blemish. You basically have every network with a Chris Matthews fawning over her every move and ready and happy to shed a tear at her historic coronation.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 6, 2016 -> 03:33 PM) This is for greg. http://www.vice.com/read/new-millennial-tr...source=vicefbus I tell you one thing, though I'm curious about Millenials, I do wonder about the generation that raised them. It seems Generation X was even worse than the Baby Boomers in raising their little precious kids with the idea said kids can DO NO WRONG. Boomers started it. Yes, parents in their mid 50s coddled their precious little ones with the participation trophies and making teachers' lives hell for giving Johnny or Julie a B instead of an A. Now the parents who are in their 30s (Gen X?) are even worse. The kids are for the most part totally spoiled brats. However, I would like to learn more about this because with so many people getting laid off at work, I don't see how there's the money to give little Johnny and Julie all the gadgets they need to be happy and all the ice cream they need to get fat. With young parents refusing to accept the fact their kids may deserve a C or D in a class, they are realizing they don't need to study at all, just have mommy and dad attack their teachers verbally to get the grades changed. No teacher needs the grief so many acquiesce before the principal gets involved and say they are too tough graders. What are we calling today's generation of kids 10 and younger. The ones I've seen are very very adept at video games and all gadgets and also very very entitled. Oh my gosh the "young" parents today are even more protecitve than their parents were. Finally I was interested in that article that said Millenials don't want to commit to anybody so they won't even f***. Not sure what that's all about? Is this generation going to be the one that simply DOES NOT WANT married life? That does NOT WANT to buy a house with a perfectly green lawn? Generation X is not like that. They do want family life and "perfect" family life in terms of raising their little angels to where they never experience any challenges or angst. EVER. Johnny and Julie are PERFECT and they will feel that way the rest of their lives (as they live with mommy and daddy til they are 40). Let me know.