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QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 05:54 AM) You seriously think Chelsea Clinton can win a nomination for president in 8 years? She hasn't even held political office yet and I wouldn't say she has a ton of political experience. Yes, of course I do. Chelsea is 36 years old. She has an amazing academic background. She's basically running the Clinton foundation. With mom as President for 8 years she is eminently qualified to start as an ambassador somewhere. Sure she can get involved more. Donald Trump is a serious candidate, Chelsea sure as hell will be one. She's starting to enjoy speaking for mom; she's catching the bug. She will be in her mid 40s when mom leaves office. Prime time. Read this http://www.ksl.com/?sid=38908262&nid=1...-campaign-swing QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 12:10 PM) When exactly has the country "fallen apart" during your lifetime? I did not say it for sure would fall apart with Hillary but I have my concerns because considering all the things she's done in terms of lying and circumventing the law, yes I'm concerned we'd elect somebody who many people believe should be in prison (or a nice country club jail) with others who have committed the same type of crime. QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 12:12 PM) Why dont you go ahead and tell us why the country is going to fall apart first I apologize for supposedly not responding to people all the time, but since I never get credit for any of my predictions coming true, I feel like I shouldn't respond all the time. Anyhow, I didn't say it would fall apart with 8 years of Hillary, but I believe she will have absolutely no ability to LEAD. That means getting nothing passed through Congress. The Republicans simply despise her and will never work with her. She scares me economically. She is a foreign policy disaster waiting to happen. Now I respect those of you who say the country will not fall apart. But I fear 8 more years of gridlock could indeed bring down the economy. Wall Street is very brittle and I fear this candidate cannot lead. I do believe where there's smoke there's fire and the smoke (books, articles) says she is not a kind person at all. It's not right to have somebody win who garners no real support. Even you Hillary supporters on here are very timid when it comes to telling me why she is all that. In fact you are the ones who get silent cause I feel anyway that the only reason you want Hillary is either a.) you are a democrat. b.) you feel it's her turn and she must be coronated like a queen of England or c.) she's the only candidate you can stomach at all. You reprimand me for saying she screams when indeed I still can't listen to her or watch her on TV because of her screaming. I tried to address your points. Sorry if I do not address them enough.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 03:50 PM) Sure. I'll start with the false narrative that Trumps supporters are all redneck white trash, or whatever idea is being pushed around here. The polls show differently (hes won across all demos), so I think people just get confused on how vocal his supporters are. One of Trumps slogans mentions the silent majority supporting him. Theres Probably something to that. I can think of at least 2 other prominent Soxtalk members who I'm 95% sure support Trump but won't say it. Easy to see why. So far I've been referred to at least indirectly as "retarded", "white trash" "racist" "uneducated" "coward" etc and thats just in the last few pages alone. I don't blame them for not wanting to be on the receiving end of that. I feel I've been a good sport about it, as I cant help but laugh it off. You know how you could laugh at people who said Obama was the anti-christ and would bring us 500 years of darkness? Now it's the same from the otherside. First Trump was Hitler, then he was the KKK, then Mussollini. Just last night CNN compared him to Fidel Castro. Anyways, onto why I support him. I read The Art of the Deal way back when. Terrific, terrific book. It's funny, his whole campaign strategy is laid out in there. You'd think his opponents and detractors would simply give it a read and maybe, just maybe they can take him down. It gives great insight to who he is as a person. Reading a book is hardly the reason I support him now. Just the opposite actually for a time (particularly in 2012). I saw him as a showman who'd do anything to grab his own headlines to the detriment of the party. Now he still is that, but I've learned to appreciate it since the people whose political careers he is ruining are not good people and certainly don't have our best interests in mind. Trump really came onto the scene for me politically about 2 years ago when he came out and exposed TPP for what it was: a trade deal negotiated in secrecy that benefits absolutely no one in the US other than the top line of big businesses while doing nothing but hurting the American workforce. It sort of exposed to me the idea that America has basically become a corporate oligarchy. The politicians in charge do not care about who they are meant the serve. Instead, they're all basically puppets, with every word out of their mouths carefully manufactured by whatever money is funding them. From TPP to Obamacare, nothing is getting passed unless the powers at be basically write it themselves. So shouldn't I find it ridiculous that the solution to this problem is to elect a man worth 6 billion dollars? Of course I do. But that's where we are right now. Better him than someone who is taking millions each from Comcast, Google, Soros, Koch Bros Goldman Sachs, CBS, etc. Having self interest is better than corporate interest. There are reasons every billionaire big-wig, including his past friends, and media source hate the man more than anything. They fear that, finally, a man they can't control is about to take over. I truly believe the single most important issue of our time is the amount of money in politics and Trump can be the first step towards solving that. I'm sure you'll say, well he can't do it alone, one election wont change anything, and that's very true. It is why it's very important he destroys the Republican party en route to the White House. He's doing a great job of it already. I'm also tired of the neocon foreign policy that has dominated Washington for 16+ years now and has caused more problems than solutions. Under Clinton, I'd imagine that would continue. People like to talk about what the president can and can't do. You may hear "how much damage could Trump really do?" I of course don't think he will do much damage, but this is one area I believe he can change basically overnight. Most other things he wants to change will admittedly be tough. Few other smaller things: -Planned Parenthood: Not that my vote would ever take this into consideration, but my god, he has such a refreshing and shockingly simple "solution" to this controversy than whatever the hell other Republicans are trying to pull. -Calling for lower taxes on the middle and lower class while closing corporate loopholes. Cool with me. -Audit the fed: lol they'll never let him do this. -Basically supports a different version of Universal healthcare to replace Obamacare -Despite all the hilarious things he called Rosie O'Donnell, he has a lot better track record dealing with women's issues than anyone else on the Republican side. Theres more but this is too long anyways and you've probably quit reading by now. I will say this. Every time I hear Trump I like what he says. I have said I'm not sure I'd vote for him because of the comparisons to Hitler with his fan support out of control. His fans kinda scare me. But I do like Trump and his style.

Kids in the clubhouse and on the field? Last time I looked they were called batboys and batgirls. Youngsters. Eaton said the players supported the kid and Adam. I find it ironic as one of Adam's biggest 'haters' on the site I am thoroughly in his corner on this. It's not like players don't have their kids hanging around all the time. The hypocracy of doing this to a guy who was a complete flop is amazing. I mean, if LaRoche wasn't a complete flop and actually hit .280 with 30 homers last year and 100 RBIs, you don't think this would have gotten solved? I would be in favor of the Sox reconciling the matter NOW and inviting him back and saying the kid is welcome everywhere but the kid can only be in the actual clubhouse around the batboys. He must hang out with the other kids most of the time. http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/white-...tuesday-meeting

I'm gonna comment first, then read all your comments so to not let them influence me. Yes I despised LaRoche perhaps more than any other player in Sox history. But now, after reading Kenny Williams wouldn't let him bring his son to the clubhouse every day, I have changed my tune. I would gladly see LaRoche hit .150 with 80 percent strikeouts if it meant bringing him back to stick it up Kenny's backside so to speak. What a chicken s*** thing to do to LaRoche. Players bring their kids all the time to clubhouses. Very sad. Wonder if this will hurt the Sox in the future trying to sign guys. Again, I thought LaRoche was a pathetic hitter and I even despised his beard, but after reading this? Let him come back and bleep you, Kenny. FAMILY OVER EVERYTHING

Well, after tonight, Hillary's about wrapped it up. The nomination is hers. Congrats to her. I never thought I'd see the day two Clintons were presidents. Please please remember Greg's prediction about Chelsea in nine years. She's actually gonna be in her late 40s when mom is done with the oval office. Hillary's gonna get 8 years to put her stamp on the USA. Let's hope it's not the demise of the USA. And the difficult part for her was beating out Bernie. She's going to win almost every state against Trump. I mean, cmon, this was all a weird sideshow. I bet even Trump is happy he's assured Hillary the presidency. In the past he wasn't exactly a Hillary hater. To those of you who wanted Hillary, I'd feel better if you'd give me some reasons our country isn't going to fall apart in the next eight years, actually the next 16 with Hillary followed by Chelsea.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 04:12 AM) After thinking about this during the evening, I'm not so sure the need to add another outfielder. If LaRoche does retire, it opens the door for the Sox to put one of Avi/Melky in the DH spot and keep one of them off the field which is what many of us wanted all along. Once healthy Eaton can play RF with Jackson in CF and Melky/Avi in LF/DH. Shuck and probably Sands would be the bench outfielders. We didn't use LaRoche at first much at all anyway, so no loss. I do hope Abreu keeps developing as a fielder as well as slugger. But this really helps the team. Adam can't hit lefties anymore and because of his veteran status he'd have driven us crazy going something like five hits in every 60, 70 at bats versus lefties. Now we don't have to put up with that. Yes it can only help the team having him retire. He wasn't going to have a real bounceback year.

I won't blast him, just say good luck to him.

Just read the FBI director will likely resign in protest if Obama and/or the justice department refuse to allow charges to be filed against Hillary. To the people who think Trump will be a dictator ... isn't the Democratic party taking on that role, laughing inside as they know damn well Obama won't allow Hillary to stand trial nor will the justice department. Hopefully the FBI director will at least resign in protest. Here's the link. I'm ready for the response of Hillary supporters ... the national review should never have stories linked ... you can't believe the national review ... what the hell kind of website is that anyway?? I just want justice to be served. If Hillary is off the hook, at least let the others out of prison who have been convicted of security-related breach crimes. Let them out as well!! If we truly don't care that people breach our security then let's truly not care and please let everybody out of jail convicted of such crimes. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4303...-resign-protest

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 14, 2016 -> 02:55 AM) What I don't get is how Trump barely even registered as a blip on the radar screen in the race four years ago. Basically, the economy, in terms of unemployment or the stock market, has been trending upwards. Obama's got the highest approval ratings he's had in at least 3 years. If I had to guess, I'd say one element of it is the backlash that started with Ferguson, Trayvon Martin/Zimmerman, the South Carolina church shooting, BLM, political correctness on college campuses...mixed in with the gun rights/self protection issue. Or the situation out in Oregon with the occupation of federal lands. Just seems like one polarizing event after another fanning the flames. Observing from afar, every day brings something new. Staging rallies at sites that you pretty much have to know you'll cancel ahead of time to score political points. Secret Service officers in 1960's mode. Members of his own party like Rubio and Kasish openly talking about not supporting the nominee due to the toxic environment that has been created. Nazi salutes? It might work to strengthen his current base of support, but he's playing with fire and at some point...lives will be lost. Maybe he's secretly hoping for that, although I would hate to think so poorly of any human being. It's getting to the point where implausible television programs like Scandal and House of Cards are getting outdone by reality. What fiction writer could come up with this stuff on a daily basis? It's getting pretty ridiculous when China can be ALMOST on a moral high ground pointing out the hypocrisy for condemnation of Chinese human rights violations by the US compared with what has been going on in the US the last 9-10 months since Trump took over the race. Great post but I have two counter points. 1.) Obama's approval rating always goes up as election time approaches. The media is so pro Democrat it's hard to fathom. And suddenly Obama is the greatest thing ever til the Democratic candidate is declared the winner. Then some negativity can creep into coverage when it means nothing. The media's portrayal of Obama as great around election time can't help but help him with the public who tell the pollsters they love the job he's doing. It's calculated IMO and works well for the Democrats and Obama. 2.) You make good points about Trump but people also like him because they are SICK of politics and also political correctness. Granted his supporters are out of control now but to some of us, the thought of Hillary screaming at me on TV for 8 years followed by 8 more of Chelsea is enough to make us puke. Study Chelsea's resume. It's impressive. All she needs is a good job under Hillary during the second term and she's in the money IMO. She ought to rush through a law degree as well, but she has a very impressive resume already. She's got 8 years to get the law degree if she wants one.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Mar 11, 2016 -> 01:41 AM) According to the KC Star, freshmen enrollment at Mizzou is down 1,500 students. Upperclassmen are transferring in droves. Teachers won't see any raises this year. They cant fill teacher openings and it sounds like they expect teachers to leave. Discussing shutting down programs thanks to this mess. A 32 million dollar budget deficit, up to 25 of which is directly attributed to the protests. It's greatly helped UMKC though. http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-go...le65306097.html Serious stuff, but understandable. Missouri did such a poor job handling that mess. First the football coach backs the team, when the team actually got duped. The guy who was on the hunger strike, whom Pinkel thought was a real student who was starving himself to death in protest, turned out to be a professional activist. So the football team gets brought into it, which had to anger a lot of rich (white) alums. You know it did anger them. That's obvious. Then the student issue. Remember the incident in which kids were in the library studying and the radical activists were going in there yelling at them and telling them to march. Then a few went out to march and got their heads bit off at the march as well. Who needs it? College is tough enough. It takes amazing leadership to combat these protestors, that is for sure.

Bernie should be proud he won a state like Michigan. Nice W by Bernie up there. p.s. I just watched Bernie's town hall meeting. As much as I despise Hillary, that's how much I like Bernie. I could see voting for him which amazingly would be my second Democratic vote in a row. Yes I voted for Obama over the creep, Romney.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 11:12 PM) How come Trump supporters don't care about his alleged Trumpism? Okay, I made that up. Seriously, Hillary did something wrong and even referred to it in some emails. I agree that there are issues there, but I'm tired of all of the propoganda on both sides. The liberal media this or blah blah blah. At some point, are the parties going to start working with each other to actually solve issues instead of stand on pedestals and spew nonsense. I watched the democratic debate (I don't know if it was live or what, but was on CNN late last night) and I was like, oh, maybe my alternative choice to Trump isn't so great, maybe I'm better to stick to my write-in approach. The pandering on the liberal side is just crazy to me...I honestly can't believe some of the rheteroic just to ensure you get a vote, but than I watch the righties and they clearly do it too...Trump has mastered it with all of his theatrics. Whole thing is disagraceful in my eyes and I'd like to consider myself a pretty open minded and moderate conservative. But there in lies the problem...that doesn't fly in the "conservative" movement anymore. Everyone is on theory and no one is willing to get anything actually done. I hear it all the time from my old man...liberal media wants you to believe...like hell, I might be a sucker, okay, I am like everyone else in this planet, to some extent a sucker, but I can listen to people talk and I come up to my own conclusions (rational or irrational...rational to me, who the hell knows what someone else thinks) but I have never shook my head more at the state of everything. From the left wanting to hand and promise so many things that are impossible to do to the right who wants to veto every single thing that happened in the past 7 years for some principal. I don't give a f*** about what your going to veto, tell me what you are going to fix, tell me you are going to reach across the aisle and accomplish something. The only people who lose on this war on rhetoric is....you guessed it...the people. None of us win in this game between the right and the left. A healthy balance is critical. Makes you want to re-write the constitution to create some form of an amendment to the bill of rights or something that would somehow help / force parties to work together or something. Excellent post. You should send it to CNN or somebody. It's a great state of America today and they should read it on TV. We're all fed up and that's why many of us want somebody new like Trump or Bernie. Yes an actor like Ronald Reagan. Somebody! QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 11:58 PM) please stop linking to garbage sites like Investors Business Daily in this thread thanks in advance! What's wrong with that website? Is it that unreliable?

Which Chicago suburb would be best from a traffic standpoint? I'd say the two contenders are Naperville and Schaumberg. Which one is easier to get to?

If the Sox and Cubs are in the same division and have to play 20 times a year I also might be done with baseball. The way they schedule now is bad enough. Sox vs. Minnesota 19 times? And Cleveland? So boring.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 09:42 PM) hey y'all, greg doesnt like Hillary. FYI How come Hillary supporters don't care about her alleged crimes and won't comment on my posts except to point out my disdain for Hillary? That's all I want to know. There are laws in society prohibiting government officials for putting classified information on their private email accounts. People's lives are at stake. If she gets off the hook then please, at least, pardon all those currently in prison for the same activity. Yes, I will shut up if all who are in prison are released for the same activity. I also don't like Hillary's defense in all this. She just says "I didn't do that." "I'd never do that." "This is a partisan witch hunt." Hopefully she'll have to go to trial where those answers won't be good enough.

To the attorneys on here ... how is Hillary not in jail over this latest report by the Washington Post? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cli...e7df_story.html This is no partisan witch hunt folks. Get used to Bernie time. For Bernie is waiting in the wings if jail comes calling http://www.investors.com/politics/editoria...e-just-blew-up/ p.s. Please read the last part of the article ... It says, "Under the law, gross negligence in handling classified material is all that’s required for a government official to face criminal charges. At this point, is there anyone who can honestly say that Clinton wasn’t being grossly negligent?" I ask you: I know some want Hillary to be president as part of a lifetime achievement award. They want her in there because she it's her turn. But at some point in most baseball seasons when you realize your team is not good enough to win, you finally give up. Why can't America "give up" on Hillary and realize what she did was criminal? If somebody does what she did she must pay. All I ask is she be prosecuted like anybody else in government who does what she did.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 01:03 AM) I thought David Gergen made a really great point in regards to the Bernie Sanders thing...actually it was in response to both candidates sort of flubbing the issue. Ultimately, these are two very well-meaning people who have done a lot to help minorities, but are struggling with how to navigate the minefield that is being a white presidential candidate discussing race relations. So Bernie should have said "White people don't understand what it is like to live in poor black neighborhoods" instead of "ghetto." Cut them a little slack already. I agree, cut 'em slack. I guess the media has always tried for "gotcha" moments in campaigns. This is not new. But it's kind of amusing that's part of our political process. Every time these guys speak, the reporters' challenge is to monitor every word and nail them to the wall if possible. It's kinda funny. Again I realize this is nothing new. Zinger comments in debates, etc., through the years.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Mar 7, 2016 -> 08:52 PM) I really don't see the point in cutting LaRoche. It's not like the guy hasn't produced in years, hell his numbers were looking fine almost two and a half months into the season last year (batting line of .246/.362/.422 on June 10th). It's not like the alternatives are looking a lot better right now, give him 6 weeks against RHP to see if he has a bounceback in him. I'm more confident in him at DH against RHP than I would be with Avi there full-time. Should LaRoche EVER bat against a lefty again? Will fans turn on Robin if LaRoche faces lefties?

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 7, 2016 -> 12:22 PM) Nobody cares. My hope is the FBI isn't in the business of wasting its time and it recommends formal charges. Then if Obama throws out the case or the attorney general won't prosecute they are given hell by Congress. Ideally she will have to be replaced as candidate cause nobody wants impeachment. That would not be good for the country.

I know you won't believe me, but I like to ask people in an objective tone IN PERSON what they think of Hillary. I don't pre-judge or lead into it by saying I despise her and can't watch her on TV cause of her voice/yelling. I just ask without tipping my hand on my feelings toward her til later in the discussion. Today two more people went on long rants about how she is a liar and should be in big legal trouble over the email thing. I told these 2 people that nobody seems to care about the email thing and they were adamant and got very upset that they indeed care and it will ultimately bring Hillary down. We shall see.

First move in a long time I like. He's played in the AL before is a big plus for me compared to some of the NL guys we've acquired. I've studied his stats and won't be a Debbie Downer pointing out some of the offensive stats. I just like the signing overall, especially compared to so many of the other moves the team has made. I think I'll buy MLB.com now as with the mixing and matching I would "think" the team would be able to play close to .500 ball at the worse and if everything clicks, might have a good team. Any quotes come out yet from Robin? Starting cf from day one with Eaton starting in right and Avi sharing DH with LaRoche as well as LaRoche once in a while playing first?

QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 6, 2016 -> 03:07 PM) Fascinating. Where do you get your information? It's generally known prisoners want to take out scumbags who kill innocent people. Think of how many women he killed, maybe children too. Prisoners want those guys. Didn't Gacy get killed in jail? Or beaten? Dahmer got killed in jail I believe.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 4, 2016 -> 05:24 PM) We should. Trump is feeding whatever BS possible to get into the white house. Now part of me feels good about that, cause if he was serious about half the stuff he said and somehow got elected, we'd be screwed. But it is also just shameful...beyond typical political games. I thought Kasich was fine (actually got more air time than Rubio), but he's not electric. That said, I don't think he has to be, he's the best candidate on either party to make this country better. That doesn't seem to matter though. Experience (check), track record (check), ability to enact change and work with others (check). I was surprised, but I didn't really have any issues with anything Cruz did (and normally I did). I suppose I'm warming up a bit to him. What I'd give for Kasich to take Ohio and get some momentum and win a few states and get this thing to a brokered convention. Kasich is so much more open and funny and engaging as a radio media analyst. He's blown it big time by being very very boring in the debates, etc. People snicker at me for talking about Hillary's annoying, loud, screaming whenever she speaks publicly, but this stuff matters. Kasich is too soft spoken and boring for the general public in 2016. Sad cause he is great.

When you are hurting, baseball can't be that much fun. Wonder if he'll retire or if the $$$ is too much to turn away from.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 5, 2016 -> 09:25 PM) One reason why acquiring another bat is so important: Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 18m18 minutes ago Adam LaRoche exited the game earlier this inning with back spasms. #WhiteSox What about giving Davidson a chance?