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QUOTE (shipps @ May 20, 2016 -> 04:18 PM) Maybe if airlines starting charging for carry-on's INSTEAD of charging for check-in bags we can alleviate people having all these damn bags for carry-on and lines will go a hell of a lot faster. I actually have the size carryon that a carryon was designed to be. It's basically a hard duffel bag. Not one of those real long duffel bags, either. Bigger than a briefcase of course. It can fit shirts up to six days, only one pair of alternate pants. Six days worth of sox, underwear, one pair of shoes (now it's getting tight), dob-kit for bathroom stuff. Those f***ing pieces of luggage designed as carryons are the problem. It's funny cause on SW Airlines I pay extra to get in the A group. Usually if I am, let's say, A-40 (out of 60) you'll get on the plane and the first 10 or more rows each have three of those huge luggage carryons in each bin. Filled. If I can't get the exit row (just one exit row on SW now is roomier than any other rows) then I take the aisle around the exit row even with a good number. But the luggage companies creating those "carry-ons" have caused the havoc. I have proven u can fit a lot of s*** in a regular duffel carryon.

Batting him second is downright dumb. No reason for it. How bout fourth and keep him there every game of his Sox career. I can't believe Paulo Orlando beat us tonight. We play them 19 times. Bad to see him get confidence in Game One of 19. Cain also raked. We are in trouble. I look for Moose to be a problem tomorrow.

Is Reiter the guy who hosts a radio show on FOX sometimes?

QUOTE (whitesox91403 @ May 21, 2016 -> 05:15 AM) I don't post much but as much as I want to say we're done, I think this team showed too much in April/early May to just suddenly go bad. As soon as they won last night I felt like tonight would be a loss. The next 6 games are going to be very crucial. I'm on the ledge but they did so many things right and showed to be good enough to think they'll get thru this. Fingers crossed. One big problem. This season is just how the bullpen has gone the last several seasons. Pretty good early then rotten. The bullpen was lights out early. Albers was having the kind of year the Royals bullpen guys have had. Now he is meat. Our other guys were fine and David R was unhittable. Really the only one worth a s*** now is David. And the starting pitching has come down to earth. When we were winning every series, almost every game, we had four starters who were all way above average. Now we got two starters doing well and poor Q's outing tonight was reminiscent of last year's outings vs. KC. Good only two times through the order. We shall see. I'm worried about lack of power in the lineup and the pitching.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ May 21, 2016 -> 03:31 AM) All of a sudden, that Robin extension talk looks ridiculous. You can survive a bad week, but a bad fortnight is a lot of bad. Thing is ... Sox played so well for such a long period of time (six weeks is a long period of great baseball) it looked like we had a special team. We were rattling off win after win, even without scoring many runs. Now loss after loss. It's true, though, the adage that it's all about the players. At 23-10 Robin looked like a genius, confidently making out the lineup and making the right calls. When the bullpen reeks and nobody can hit a home run cept Frazier and only 2 starters are godly, then the manager looks like a bozo.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 20, 2016 -> 08:44 PM) As a White Sox fan I would like to request a media moratorium on one specific thing. Can we quit asking White Sox players questions about the Cubs. For example, last night in the midst of the post game interviews where Chris Sale became the first White Sox pitcher to go 9-0 in his first 9 starts since Eddie Cicotte in 1919, someone asked him about Jake Arrieta. Why? Why not ask him about Chris Sale? Or someone in the American League? It is lazy journalism on behalf of the sports journalists in Chicago for their White Sox related questioning to keep coming back to the Cubs. Stop it. It is insulting and irrelevant. Especially when the White Sox have nothing to do with the Cubs. They aren't in the same division or league, and they aren't playing each other. It is my direct challenge to the sports writers and broadcasters of Chicago to step up their game and actually come up with some relevant questions for Chicago White Sox staff and players. That is a great post. ... The only positive is I for some stupid reason thought the Sox were actually motivated to keep winning at an amazing clip as sort of a slap in the Cubs face. Obviously that was dumb of me to think the Cubs mattered to the Sox. Good post. I agree with what you wrote. It is lazy. I mean when we play the Cubs, fine, ask about Arietta and Bryant then.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 21, 2016 -> 12:34 AM) KC is 21-7 their last 28 games at USCF. But it was just 6-4 last year. Yes but we swept a meaningless 3 game series late vs. KC. It was 6-1 before that. QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 21, 2016 -> 12:44 AM) Our percentage of scored runs out of total situations with the bases loaded has to be in the Bottom 5 of the major leagues. probably added to that frustration. When the Sox are the real Sox (not the team that started 23-10) it seems they waste so many run scoring situations. QUOTE (fathom @ May 21, 2016 -> 01:06 AM) Home run total for the team is plummeting compared to other teams. Near the bottom of the AL This is huge, folks!! You've got to whack a lot of home runs to win. Only way we were gonna survive that was with the big four pitching as they did during our amazing April, first week of May). Sale, Q, Rodon and Latos were lights out! Had me dreaming of a WS vs. the Cubs. QUOTE (fathom @ May 21, 2016 -> 01:50 AM) Q has fallen apart here. This team is in a horrible funk Mental midgets since Robin brought in Carroll. If Carroll isn't on this team, I don't think we blow a 5-run lead with six outs to go. As expected, that was the season (til the Sox prove otherwise). QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ May 21, 2016 -> 02:00 AM) This isn't surprising though at least to me. This is what we do. Make s***ty pitchers look like CY Young winners. Year after year it seems that is always the case. Chen, all those stiffs the Twins trot out against us (prior to this year and half of last year). QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ May 21, 2016 -> 02:06 AM) Royals are the Sox daddy and there's all there is to it. Sucks that the Sox are a mess right now because KC is playing better and Cleveland is hot right now. They'll be in first by Monday Surprised nobody mentioned the Royals showing their supremacy by hitting their hated nemesis, Lawrie. Royals beaned him and said in effect, "f*** you Lawrie. f*** you White Sox. We are here to sweep your ass." Of course we didn't immediately retaliate. IMO the Royals won the series when they hit Lawrie and set the tone of WS champ beating the first place pretenderes. QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 21, 2016 -> 02:49 AM) Where is the fire and passion we heard about so much when we were winning? So far mental midgets since the Texas disaster. The LaRoche haters need to turn over the dinner table. QUOTE (fathom @ May 21, 2016 -> 02:50 AM) Been all downhill since the 8th inning from hell How can anybody argue with Fathom on this? Mr. Sale? Please lead us and kick some clubhouse ass. QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ May 21, 2016 -> 02:59 AM) I doubt this team is this bad,just really frustrating to see after the hot start. True. I think we all hate to see us blow the big lead so quickly ... even though, seriously, the standings mean LITTLE to nothing until mid July for goshsakes. QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ May 21, 2016 -> 03:13 AM) Scot Gregor ‏@scotgregor 56s56 seconds ago Bizarre scene as #WhiteSox lose to Royals 4-1. After taking called third to end it, Eaton goes after Wendelstedt, restrained by Ventura. I have a pet peeve tonight. I watched the game (sparing you my angry commentary on purpose) tonight and the Sox were b****ing about strikes. That pitch Frazier b****ed about was a f***ing strike. That last pitch to Eaton was a f***ing strike. I love Adam, but hey, swing at a pitch that close with two strikes. I do not think the ump was that bad. My own obsesrvation ... I despised Melky last year, but when he was hitting .320 I was pushing for him to bat second. Still wouldn't mind him there. Folks ... having Abreu bat second is just stupid and silly. I read the entire game thread and commented on the posts that intrigued me. I really feel I'm right on my posts. Comments?

QUOTE (Tex @ May 20, 2016 -> 02:00 PM) The economy was pretty damn good while he was President. Naming potential cabinet appointees and top advisers does the public a great service. It allows the voters a greater glimpse into what that candidate's administration would look like. I appreciate that transparency. Now, what do you think Trump could have his spouse do? Who cares about Trump? He's a rich clown who also needs to go away. That article I posted really blasted Hillary, though, for this decision. I say we need a third party candidate or everybody turn to Bernie. I think Bernie would do fine.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 20, 2016 -> 04:23 AM) You're thinking of the Trib Cubs' beat writer. Gonzalez with a Z. Well, at least Abreu had a couple of decent at-bats (robbed homer and another liner to RF)...but, yeah, he's got to be the 900 OPS version and not the mid 700's guy for the White Sox to really be a force. Keep waiting on the MUCH warmer weather for that hitting instinct to kick back in and for him to go on a tear where he carries the team on his back for 2-3 weeks. Carlos Sanchez shouldn't even be on the team...needs to be playing everyday in Charlotte or used as trade bait. As far as Quintana going against KC, you ONLY have to worry about Cain and Salvador Perez. Moustakas won't be in the line-up until Saturday, so that leaves Hosmer who has been hot but is a lefty, Alex Gordon (terrible so far, tons of K's) and Kendrys Morales (abysmal) that can hurt you. And you want to keep Dyson off the basepaths, especially late in games. The Royals' name players are capable of leading a sweep, since Sale is unavailable. I will throw up if Paulo Orlando beats us in any of the 3 games. I will be bummed if the Royals name players - Perez, Cain, Hosmer, Moustakas, Gordon kick our ass. KC wins minimum of two games. I will be severely pissed if Sox don't win 2 despite that prediction.

Well it's time to get our first look at KC. Team has not resembled last year's team at all. Lot of errors. Pretty raunchy pitching staff. It would be very disappointing to get swept by KC (since Sale not pitching). Winning one would be a bummer considering the hacks they are pitching. I'd love to get 2 or 3 but Hosmer is still Hosmer and frankly he'll probably account for one of the three games by himself. Cain is still there and Salvy and they are White Sox killers. I'd say KC wins two or three of the three. I am hopeful after those 2 series against them last year when we finally got our act together vs. KC.

QUOTE (soxfan85 @ May 20, 2016 -> 03:47 AM) Jeff is having a heck of a year thus far. Was Coop really the problem here (as some, as well as Coop himself has stated)? It is just disappointing that he did not perform like this for him hometown team. Could have used it last season and definitely this season. WTF. Jeff is pitching like an ace this year. In fact, this version of Jeff S is just what our staff needs right now. I repeat WTF? Coop is an acquired taste? The two clashed?

Lexi has no homers at this late juncture for the Padres. 14 RBI. I have no idea what his defense has been like. Sounds like he's not producing squat.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ May 20, 2016 -> 04:04 AM) greg you are not going to change anyone's mind about who to vote for, so if that's your goal just give it up. Even after reading this? Hillary turns to her husband to run the economy. Even the staunchest Hillary supporters must realize she has shown a great weakness in making her husband in charge of such an important part of a president's workload. Please tell me you support her after this bombshell. https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-argument-cli...6289370166.html

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ May 20, 2016 -> 12:23 AM) If you can't get past anyone supporting Hillary then just stop asking people to defend her. You see how stupid that is right? Greg: Say 3 things good about Hillary!!!! Poster: Ok, 1...2...3... Greg: That's just a Hillary's supporters non-sense!!! I mean come on man, just stop posting about her already and let everyone have some sanity back in their lives. I'm trying to get people to see the light. p.s. I can't believe they closed the bathroom dilemma thread; can't adults on a message board discuss an issue that is ongoing?

Thank goodness for Chris Sale. 9-0 are you bleeping me?? He did what Verlander's (in his prime) do. Put an end to slumps. Hopefully Sox can ride the Sale train into the Royals series. Not much offense tonight. Thanks, Mr. Sands. Was everybody freaking in the game thread for Robin to panic and get somebody up when Sale gave up the homer in the 8th?

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ May 19, 2016 -> 10:09 PM) I really appreciate both of you guys taking the time to try and explain some of this stuff. Its great when we can have civil conversations about things we disagree on since there are a lot of very smart people on this forum. I have such huge concerns with all of the candidates on both sides. There are 2 other things Ive seen online that kind of blew my mind about both Sanders and Clinton but since it never picked up traction in the media I assumed it had to be fake to some degree. First for Hillary, another thing I read was that the Clinton Foundation pays female execs much lower than they pay men. I know that source is trash but it links to their IRS forms so who knows. Could that really be true? If it is it looks pretty bad imo. Then my issue with Bernie is I read he only paid 13.5% federal income taxes. I want to reiterate Im not claiming either of these as facts. Im just curious if someone who knows a little more about this stuff can shed some light on it. If either is true it really exposes hypocrisy in both of the core foundations of their campaigns. Trump has enough detractors but I did getting a kick out of hearing him say something along the lines of "You know I have the best math, people always tell me how great my math is." Great Presidential quote imo. I also appreciate their explaining some important issues. I appreciate both posts. QUOTE (Tony @ May 19, 2016 -> 10:14 PM) Once again, ironic you can have such strong feelings about something, yet admit you haven't seen Hillary speak once in months. She had her chance. I can't listen/watch her. I know my limitations. I can't take it. Just as I now can't take Chris Matthews anymore. Cant' believe anybody would be a guest on his show.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 19, 2016 -> 10:03 PM) I'd ask if this is a joke, but you're completely irrational on this topic so who cares. Did you read the Baltimore story I posted? Hillary supporters/lovers just skip past all the crap she's done. Like Hillary, just laugh it off with one laugh. I never said Trump was Saint Nick. He may be a scumbag, but Bernie ... he's another story. He may have a shred of integrity.

QUOTE (shysocks @ May 19, 2016 -> 09:57 PM) You can't ask people to defend Hillary all the time and then dismiss it out of hand when they do. I read his long reply and do appreciate it. Very well written and thought out, but it just screams "Hllary supporter" to me. I mean Elizabeth Warren was exposing something simple and important about Hillary. BTW I have resisted getting into the Christina Aguilara thing with Hillary out of respect to the woman's career. I'm not all evil even though I truly feel Hillary needs to just go away not be our most visible American the next 8 years for gosh sakes. Eight years!

QUOTE (bmags @ May 19, 2016 -> 04:07 PM) Just wanted to point out, I read this. I have had the times where I've sat down to write down my thoughts for this board. I enjoyed this and appreciated it, but that Elizabeth Warren thing is not an accurate representation of Hillary Clinton. When that bill was sent to Bill Clinton it was done so with a republican majority congress. He pocket vetoed it. Then Hillary Clinton was elected to the senate as part of a +4 pickup of the dems. The senate makeup was then 50/50 split, with a Republican president. The house was majority republican. At the time, democrats did not run the senate as it is today with requiring 60 votes, so the bankruptcy bill would have been reintroduced and signed. Clinton then used her influence to say she would sign the bill to make it bi-partisan, and watered down the bill to still allow single mothers to collect cihld payments evn after the father declares bankruptcy (seriously, this would have been part of the Republican bill). So yes, this is an example of how clinton rules. She saw a fight coming that would hurt people, and engaged in the fight to make it hurt as little as possible. I'm sure Sanders probably abstained and can keep his purity. But a whole of people are better off because she took this fight. Clinton's remarks on the floor: Senator Clinton: I rise today in support of final passage of S. 420, the Bankruptcy Reform Act. Many of my colleagues may remember that I was a strong critic of the bill that passed out of the 106th Congress. While we have yet to achieve the kind of bankruptcy reform I believe is possible, I have worked with a number of people to make improvements that bring us closer to our goals, particularly when it comes to child support. Women can now be assured that they can continue to collect child support payments after the child’s father has declared bankruptcy. The legislation makes child support the first priority during bankruptcy proceedings. This year, we have made more progress. The Senate agreed to include a revised version of Senator Schumer’s amendment to ensure that any debts resulting from any act of violence, intimidation, or threat would be nondischargeable. Earlier today, this body agreed to include a cap on the homestead exemption to ensure that wealthy debtors could not shield their wealth by purchasing a mansion in a state with no cap on homestead exemption. In addition, I was concerned about competing nondischargeable debt so I worked hard with Senator Boxer to ensure that more credit card debt can be erased so that women who use their credit cards for food, clothing and medical expenses in the 90 days before bankruptcy do not have to litigate each and every one of these expenses for the first $750. Let me be very clear—I will not vote for final passage of this bill if it comes back from conference if these kind of reforms are missing. I am voting for this legislation because it is a work in progress, and it is making progress towards reform. With all due respect, Hillary supporters always have a comeback when something cut-and-dried atrocious is pointed out about her. I stand by Warren's short, LOLish explanation of the Hillary flip flop. She is the most crooked candidate we've ever had IMO. Illini ... you say Hillary over walking disaster Trump. You forgot ... Bernie is still breathing. Just give it to Bernie this time and see how he does. Hillary and Trump are evil; at least Bernie isn't evil.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 19, 2016 -> 12:25 PM) The problem starts with the fan bases. If they didn't completely care only about winning, some of the other stuff might matter. Too many college teams are win blind to everything else... Cheating, recruiting problems, etc, don't matter as long as a team wins. They will defend or explain away their programs activities, and go pitbull after another. If people held their own schools to the highest standards, things would change, as schools would be forced into it. Instead money only follows winning, so guess where the incentive is? Very true. And by "fan bases" you must also mean the fat cat fans, the men/women with the money. They are building the luxury dorms and practice facilities and paying the coaches 4-6 million a year. If their team is winning, NOTHING else matters. Kansas has a couple former rowers I believe suing the school and state because of their assault/rape cases being handled in their minds improperly. Best way for a head coach to get fired is to take part in any coverup of crimes, especially crimes against women. That coach better be winning at an amazing clip, cause most football, men's basketball coaches have clauses in their contracts where they can get axed for improper behavior. If that coach isn't WILDLY popular, or very popular, he gawn after one of these crime coverup deals. If he's popular, you can bet they try to pay off the victims, do anything to wipe it under the rug.

Is Ozzie still being paid by Marlins? He belongs in a MLB dugout as a bench coach or manager. How bout Fredi Gonzalez who everybody thought was so great? Fired. Ozzie has baseball in his blood. Once Marlins stop paying him he can join a team in some capacity. We know Ozzie loves money.

Caulfield I don't understand your Rollins love. At least flip flop their roles. Give Saladino five games to every two from Rollins.

I'd love for IlliniLaw and all Hillary supporters to read this article and tell me why you support Hillary Clinton. Please use examples in this story and try to refute them. Many say I have no reason to despise Hillary. What about articles like this? http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/o...0517-story.html

Look. It's obvious we have a problem at catcher. Avila is horrible; Navarro is OK as a backup. So fix the problem now. We have a pretty decent team, but obviously it can win nothing without better catching. So trade a nobody for AJP. Release Avila and let AJ and Navarro catch/hit. If you don't want AJP, then target another team's backup, somebody who can hit .240 for gawdsakes and catch a halfway decent game. At the very least, quit playing Avila and catch Navarro til he runs out of gas. He should be catching 6 of 7 games a week. Catcher must improve or Sox are going nowhere. Have Coop work work work with Rodon. He must turn into a stellar No. 3. Have Coop work work work with Latos! He must be an average No. 4. Get rid of that current guy who is at No. 5 starter. Give Johnson one more start. Have a revolving door at 5; do something. Start playing Saladino way more than Rollins. If Saladino sucks, fine. Rollins is done, finished, kaput. If Anderson is ready, bring him up to split time with Saladino. But get rid of Rollins now. Finally, find room for Matt Davidson, even at DH splitting time with Avi there. Davidson is ready folks. Seven homers, 24 RBI, hitting .250. Comments??

QUOTE (wizeguy57 @ May 19, 2016 -> 06:02 AM) This is why you don't go overboard after only 30 games. Positively or negatively. The Sox fans were talking playoffs and the the Tiger and Royal fans were talking wtf is going on. You don't get a true reading on any team until at least 50 games in. You can only hide your weaknesses for so long. Very true. We were getting close to becoming consistent winners, though. Texas put an end to that by throttling the bullpen. Little surprised coming home to face Houston we folded like this. We haven't had a lot of home games. Lack of home runs continues to hurt the Sox. Frazier has been sick, but we really need Frazier and Abreu to bash tons of home runs. I don't think anybody else has the power to hit more than 10. Maybe Lawrie can hit 15.