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The Democratic thread needs to discuss the only real issue. What's Bill going to be like back in the White House? If the two really are kind of estranged it's going to be obvious in their day to day life at the White House. This is one of those deals where Bill could step up his speaking engagements as a former president and make a helluva lot of money in his aging years. I mean think about the fees he can charge as a former president and now the First Man. Is Hillary going to listen to him? Shoo him away like a fly on her lapel?

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ May 6, 2016 -> 07:27 PM) He was an intern with Boers and Bernstein. Dan mentioned the other day that people told him that Jason needs to stop doing the announcer voice. Dan says that it's his voice. That's how he sounds all the time, even during regular conversations. I haven't noticed the announcer voice that much. I can't listen to KC Royals baseball with guys like Steve Stewart and Physioc embarrassing themselves with awful enunciating of every word. Ryan Lefevre does it a little bit. I bet he would have taken the voice of the White Sox job if offered. He's not bad and son of former White Sox Jim Lefevre.

Great to come back and beat a bad team at home after two losses. Nice to see Robin get upset. The veins in his neck were really showing. Melky with four hits. Glad to see him turning into a new Melky, a base hit machine.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 7, 2016 -> 03:19 AM) Nate's didn't look intentional in the slightest, nor did the situation call for it. The fact that Abreu was so angry, to me, is additional evidence that Nate's was an accident -- he's been drilled in retaliation before, and he's always very calmly taken his base. I've NEVER seen him angry like that about anything at all. Great point! And since ours wasn't on purpose and theirs was, the Sox still owe them one. Sale is emotional so look for one to come whizzing in the first inning. Wish it didn't have to be that way. Maybe the umps will warn both teams before the game starts. That would be a way to stop it. I mean if both teams get warned and Sale drills a Twin, that's just stupid. If teams aren't warned, he'll drill one IMO.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 7, 2016 -> 03:03 AM) If I know anything about Chris Sale it's that he'll do whatever hell he wants to do and it won't really matter whether or not it's a good decision. His "emotional judgement" doesn't seem to be the strongest. He won't make it out of the first inning. Let's just hope the ump warns him only. I can't believe the Twinks immediately retaliated tonight. That means the new unwritten rulebook in baseball is "retaliate immediately" when your guy gets hit. 10-4 lead I doubt Nate drilled the guy on purpose. If he did, that was dumb. You don't awaken a sleeping dog.

Awesome that Melky has reinvented himself. He's got no power but he's an on base machine. Awesome.

Glad Robin got tossed. You'd think the Twinkies could stand one pitch getting away from Nate. But nooooo ... they had to throw at Abreu. That was bulls*** to nail Abreu. To not eject the pitcher is riduculous. Obviously 100 percent he meant to hit Abreu. Now we have to hit a guy tomorrow and our starter will get ejected.

Soxtalk is a very liberal forum. There are a lot of people who probably agree with me, that the sight of a guy in drag as you say wouldn't be somewhat concerting/alarming/distasteful. A lot of guys aren't into that. http://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/11...target-bathroom I can't believe in the 2016, in the age of protective parents, agreeing to let guys with male body parts in the same restroom with females. But I'm bad for saying that.

Team isn't fooling around this year. There seems a sense of urgency this year. We'll see what happens. Team needs to shrug off the Bosox series and beat Minnie and avoid a slump. We're at home. Need to win. It's next up with Johnson sucking in his one start.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 6, 2016 -> 02:15 AM) Maybe greg likes foot longs? Uh oh in a politically correct charged environment like soxtalk that is a risque joke. I can't believe people are jumping on me for not being crazy about standing in line and eating next to some guy in a dress and heels. The guy is not pulling off well being a woman and I'm not all that interested in being around somebody who is making me uncomfortable at dinnertime.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ May 3, 2016 -> 02:15 PM) The biggest problem is that Steve Stone sucks with Hawk. The Benetti pairing is bringing the best out of Stone. People better get used to it though because I think Jason Benetti will be the voice of the White Sox for a long time. Very true. Hawk is grouchy at least 40 percent of the games I'd say. Stone and Bennetti definitely are having more camaraderie together. QUOTE (AJUribe @ May 6, 2016 -> 03:55 AM) Gave Jason a chance, l'm sorry but he sucks. I turn on music now when he announces. Total nerd, makes lame jokes, only positive is stone gives more insight. Interesting post. One Sox fan turns the sound down cause of JB. I haven't noticed him being that bad though he got into the cigar jokes with Stoney. I found it OK since cigars were in the news with the Sox giving a box of them to Big Papi.

Another lousy game. Danks couldn't have done much worse. Johnson can't get a break in big league starts. He had to go against a tough team. We're gonna need to play better ball against KC's and Detroit's of the world if we want to win the division.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ May 6, 2016 -> 02:55 AM) What's Austin Jackson good at, again? Hitting with the bases loaded according to the stats. QUOTE (SoCalSox @ May 6, 2016 -> 03:04 AM) Just think, If Mat Latos didn't show he did in his first handful of starts, this entire season looks completely different. True, but that's a hypothetical. QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ May 6, 2016 -> 03:17 AM) Avi looks so much better now. Some at bats he's locked in and rakes. Most at bats he blows. Remains to be seen if he can become consistent.

Way to go Avi. My MLB.com is WAY behind. Four home runs for Avi on the season.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 6, 2016 -> 02:36 AM) How many starts does Johnson get before they pull the plug? 3? That's about what Daniel Hudson got. Not many. One more if he's lucky.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 6, 2016 -> 02:41 AM) What happened to the "new and improved" positive thread mandate? You would think we were trailing the rest of the division by 3 1/2 games already. Is it realistic to EXPECT to win a game Erik Johnson starts against the Red Sox offense? We're getting outhit 8-1 and still only down by 3. And at least our offense is showing encouraging progress in the OBP/walk category compared to the past three seasons. It wasn't a positive mandate Caufield, you know that. It was to stop freaking out in game threads. Burying individual players and saying the game is Ova when this team has been resilient late in games.

Nice ovation from the crowd on the DP. Time to start hitting. Let's try to keep winning home series against the elite teams.

Poor Johnson has already given up eight hits. We're at least one starter short it appears, just like KC. Latos I'm assuming will have some amazing outings and some that will suck. If Sox are all in, they better start planning on acquiring somebody.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 5, 2016 -> 11:28 PM) Good lord, Greg, try to have some empathy for others. You are saying their mere existence around you is a personal affront. Imagine if you had a burn or disability and had others avoiding you and saying the same about you? The person didn't hop in the car with you, they were just trying to order a sandwich. I guess I have to work on it. I was just getting out of my car and saw the guy with the heels several strides ahead of me and my taste buds said 'not here; not now.'

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 5, 2016 -> 10:02 PM) What the hell are you talking about? Nobody says that if you are near someone in drag or is transgendered that you have to find them appealing. That's quite a jump in logic. I'm human. I felt the guy/woman was so unattractive that affected my appetite. Not everybody is perfect. If you are, congratulations. Can you comment on the Chris Matthews thing? He says on national TV the word God and is sexist regarding Trump's wife and that's OK??

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 5, 2016 -> 08:56 PM) That is plenty offensive to the transgendered, Greg. And yea, I do blame you for being so bigoted that you cant even stand in line next to a transgendered person long enough to order a sandwich. Pretty sad, man. I'm sorry. I was grossed out and freaked out. He had high heels was stumbling in them. Was obviously a guy. Had a dress. Can I help it that I like women, not men, and looking at the guy at that time made me not want to eat? He mighta been the nicest guy in the world, but I can't be willing to be nice 100 percent of the time. Seeing the guy brought all sorts of images of what might be wrong with him. Yes people think about stuff. At least I didn't say anything like Chris Matthews getting away with ogling Trump's wife on a hot mic. I just didn't follow the guy in. Some people don't think guys in drag are appealing that's all.

Chris Matthews appearing to get away with saying "My God that is good" regarding Trump's wife. He was caught on tape. No reprimand yet from the network or dismissal? He's accused Trump of being sexist. Then this??

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 20, 2016 -> 01:04 PM) I don't think people are worried about the actual trans people. People are worried about the straight guys who will claim to be trans in order to go into a women's shower room. People are also worried about their daughters being forced to see naked men, trans or straight. Exactly. Psychos will do whatever to be satisfied. It's like the crime of exposing oneself. Some people have this weird urge to do it and cops will tell you it's a crime that WILL occur every night in every community. Let me get this straight. People are going to boycott states that pass the restriction law, yet this law will allow me to walk into a women's restroom at a movie theatre and go right up to the sink and start using it and looking around. I don't have to be dressed as a woman; when I'm caught by the usher doing it I say, "I recently began the transition to being a woman; I have a legal right to be in here!!" Seems a harsh penalty to states that want to keep me in this scenario in the men's room. p.s. No offense to the transgendered, really, but do any of you blame me for not walking in the Subway restaurant when I was in my car and saw the man wearing women's high heels and miniskirt walking in? He would have been in line ahead of me and eating there and sorry, I'm human, he grossed me out.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ May 5, 2016 -> 04:47 PM) That's exactly what I told a coworker of mine. The girl I was just dating, didn't follow sports at all. Had never even SEEN a hockey game, even on TV. This new girl is baseball crazed, and even though she sends me snaps of the Cubs game and teases me, she also watches the Sox games and teases me about them and wants to go to Sox games with me. That's a lot more fun, even if it means playful teasing. Chili, you can't ever wear anything Cub related. That would be too sickening. Accept a Cubs pencil from her or something though. The flowing dark locks may be it though. No offense to the bald(ing) guys on here, but girls will admit they like flowing hair like Chili apparently has.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ May 4, 2016 -> 10:31 AM) I think it's also harder going from charter flights and playing in the show to taking the bus in Charlotte and playing in podunk towns when you got 50M in the bank. He probably realizes that he is cooked as well- I don't think he's having serious pain. I was at the blackout game and remember him hitting 94-95 on the gun that chilly night- a different pitcher back then for sure. It was easily one of the most clutch performances in White Sox history- further accentuated by the fact that the Twins owned us the entire decade during the 2000's. During that decade you could easily argue there wasn't a critical game they lost to us with the exception of the blackout game- and that was because of Johnny Danks. Excellent post. This is why I get mad when some people brutalized him in the game threads, etc., calling him a bum, mocking him, calling him names. If you have a history like he had, winning a game THAT important, you should owe him a minor debt of gratitude forever as a fan. You don't have to praise him all the time like me, but at least not crucify him with words, so to speak. To be nice, yes nice when speaking of him. Some of the things I read this season and last bout him were brutal. I won't ever rip Britt Burns, for instance, for what he did in that playoff game vs. Baltimore, the one Dybber blew. He pitched a shutout for 9 innings and Sox had LaMarr Hoyt ready to go in Game Five to win the series. They just couldn't get a run in Game Four.