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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 03:25 PM) Cooper missed time earlier this season for I believe the same thing. As far as players, MLB does now have a Paternity Leave policy, which covers 72 hours. But in the grand scheme of things, Robin's #1 job is being a dad, not making out the White Sox line up, and it's pretty likely he would have been back Sunday if it wasn't a coast to coast, west to east, day game. It's nice that the organization understands this as well. Exactly. Kudos to Sox management. It'd be ridiculous for him to come back cross country for the last game of the series. His daughter will remember this forever. The Sox? Cmon. Like they need Robin Ventura in the dugout for these three games? They don't need him; his daughter does. QUOTE (Doc Edwards Shot @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 10:29 PM) Here's one man's humble opinion: Only a lunatic detached from reality would have a problem with a father taking 3 days off of work to fly thousands of miles from one coast of the USA to the other for a big once-in-a-lifetime family event like a daughter's graduation. Exactly! How can anybody have a problem with this? QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 12:40 AM) Let's be real, most working class fathers would kill for 3 days off in a row to attend their daughter's graduation halfway across the country. Robin could have easily taken a travel day, a day for his daughter, and been back after 2 days. That he took 3 says something about something IMO. I agree, be there for your daughter, but 3 days? I mean, come on. With great privilege comes great responsibility. You have one of 30 MLB managing jobs, how about you act like it? Of course, he has a lifetime job so he could probably take a week off and nobody would mind. Oh well, I can't stand his managing Parent will probably do a better job. Chitown. You really are grumpy regarding this issue. Robin rocks in wanting to be with daughter for 3 days. QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 01:37 AM) Again, most fathers are not public faces of multi billion dollar operations. Here, go on one of your google hunts Southsider, what other managers have taken two, three day breaks during their tenure for graduations. Good luck, don't think you'll find many. Forget RV, he never even wanted the job in the first place I'm not going to cut him any slack. He's getting paid damn well he can take my abuse on a message board. EDIT: only thing I could find was Bud Black, who yea, didn't miss 3 days: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/print.jsp?ymd=2010...b&fext=.jsp You are getting worked up over nothing. Robin is a hero in this situation; so are the White Sox for not making him come back for a meaningless Game 3 of the series. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 12, 2015 -> 02:34 AM) Yep, those are the kind of posts that embarrass a fan base. Seriously, can we at least pretend that we are in the 21st century, and things like being a father are important? Who cares what his job is. Can Bill Gates not take a few days off because he is the face of Microsoft? Seriously if it bothers a person bad enough where they have to personally attack a person, your priorities are seriously out of whack. With all of the truly bad people in sports who really should be called out, this is the opposite of that. This is a father showing his daughter that she is the most important thing in the world to him, not some game. Bravo. If more men were like this with their daughers and sons, this world would be a much better place. This does deserve national press. Some fans mad at manager for taking 3 games off to be with daughter. It's not like Robin is some great baseball mind who will win the games with his great managerial moves. They should let a different coach manage the three games. That'd be fun and a great competition in staff to see who wins, who loses.

To the hockey experts: How is the matchup going? Do u think the Hawks have what it takes to win a best 2 of 3 not having home ice? Give me your impressions of the 2 of 3 series. Is it all on Crawford? I say the odds are heavily in favor of TB.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 08:28 PM) greg775 Translator: Generalization, grumble, mumble, more generalizations, rabble rabble. Grrrrr. I'm angry. Why can't they taze? Oh I know. It's not assured the taze will work 100 percent of the time. So they need to shoot bullets. Give me a break. The tazer will work.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 08:31 PM) greg775 Translator: Rabble, rabble, I'm the self-appointed voice of the anti-police generalization movement, rabble, generalization, rabble. These police incidents are causing riots which threatens my life and others. Wait til one of these hits in Chicago. Do you want looting all over downtown Chicago and Chicago itself?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 04:35 PM) I think the supreme court ruled that they do NOT have any duty to protect you. They don't want to pull this type s*** with cities who fund their police stations and pay their salaries. Cops need to realize they have caused this bulls*** to begin with. They need to calm the f*** down and serve and protect or go get a job at Wendy's.

These cops are way too trigger happy. Nobody will ever convince me they can't use better judgment and taze people in some of these situations rather than shoot them. Glad this hyper cop got his ass fired and hope more cops get kicked to the curb for over zealousness.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 03:08 PM) A four game sweep took them to a 20-7 record in May? Interesting Without winning six of seven vs. a lousy Chicago team ... they'd have been in the cellar where they belong.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 12:44 AM) Neither. Just think it will be interesting to see the "counter reaction" from police across the country. Okay...well, if you're not happy with how we're doing our jobs, let's see how happy you are if we do the bare minimum or look the other way. Can't imagine it would be an easy thing to stomach for the best officers. It's the same argument as a local teacher's union, when they take such an action that works against the benefit of the students. Problem is cops can't do that. Don't they take a sworn oath to protect and serve? Also cities fund their police stations and pay their salaries. They are civil servants and if they look the other way the must be filmed and fired.

These teams do not share the ball like the Spurs do. I applaud Curry, I really do, but some of those shots are really really bad. Ditto LeBron. Say what you want about Jordan. He didn't take awful shots like both these stars have been putting up.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 02:51 AM) You going to give him some credit now? Probably not. This sport makes my head hurt. Nice win. I don't get the Crawford hate from my relatives on Facebook and others. It's not like he's giving up many goals at all. Anytime you give up one goal, I think he's star of tonight's game. I think he's a good goalie if not spectacular. I'm hoping the Hawks can catch a Tampa team playing a s*** game in either Game 5 or 7 as Anaheim did last series in the final game. It's not likely, but possible our experienced Hawks team could stay consistent, while TB has one rotten game at home and Hawks win third Cup in 6 years.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 10, 2015 -> 10:02 PM) wow. The whole series? Seriously? Pardon me, but that is f***ing horse s***. Geez. Is your middle name "Scrooge?" He has daughters. Daughters are precious and special and oft-times emotional about their daddy. Kudos to Robin for saying "f*** baseball" for a weekend. Family matters. QUOTE (Mike F. @ Jun 10, 2015 -> 11:06 PM) Good. He's trash anyway. OMG. That's a bad post IMO. He may be a mediocre to C-, D-plus manager, but he's NOT trash. QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jun 10, 2015 -> 11:56 PM) The entire weekend is excessive. No it isn't. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 12:19 AM) Only Soxtalk would complain the manager they complain is managing won't be managing. His daughter goes to college in CA, the Sox are in FL. Typically 2 games are missed but it is not practical he gets back for the Sunday afternoon game. Exactly. It is not practical at all. Why kill him in terms of travel at this time. He deserves and should be at the two-day graduation. QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 01:00 AM) Mercy. Haha man sometimes I wanna puke when I read some of these hate-filled comments. It seems like genuine hatred. Real hate! Mercy, it's just baseball! ? Anonymous internet will do that. I don't hate Robin. I just think he's a blah manager and we have a blah front office as well to share blame equally. QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 01:47 AM) To me, this just demonstrates Robin's lack of passion for the job. I have no problem with a parent attending his daughters graduation. However, any manager who really had a strong commitment to the position (and to the team) would minimize the time away. I doubt there is another manger in the league that would miss 3 games for this occasion. Almost all would miss one. Some would miss two. Missing an entire series just shows that our manager would rather have a vacation instead of working. That's a problem. Oh please. It says nothing about his passion for the job. Are you serious, Sincity? It's about being a DAD.

Torii Hunter got ejected and was throwing equipment, etc., freaking out during the latter stages of the Twins loss to the Royals. Doesn't Hunter realize the Twins are NOT contenders. The sole reason they got jump started and over .500 was their utter dominance of Chicago. That four-game sweep and then two of three in the Cell carried them the next month or so. Ridiculous. The Twins are NOT a good baseball team.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 12:59 AM) http://news.yahoo.com/mckinney-police-offi...-190534788.html Bishkin said Casebolt had worked one suicide and one attempted suicide in the hour prior to being dispatched to the pool party that reportedly involved teens fighting. “The nature of these two suicide calls took an emotional toll on Eric Casebolt,” Bishkin said at a Wednesday afternoon news conference. Now I know from the rhetoric flying around here on these situations that most law enforcement personnel are going to say that's part of the job, you know it going in and to use it as an excuse after the fact is convenient...if anything, I would think dealing with that kind of a (suicide) situation would make more MORE likely not to want to use deadly force and work out things by talking more amicably, but that's just me. Great post, caulfield. It's hard for me to understand how that cop could be such a clown, especially in this day and age of cellphone cameras. He HAD to be fired for his assault of that young girl in the bikini. That was flat out wrong and bizarre and fricking crazy behavior. That cop would have been smarter to destroy the kid's cellphone who was filming it. Looks like just one person filmed it. p.s. Just read on cnn the community is in an uproar and wants to charge him with assault of a minor. They don't think the resignation is enough. I think firing him is enough only because those two kids (sort of) charged behind him for a second when he was roughing up the bikini clad teen. Normally I'd say charge him with a crime as well but I think in this case getting fired is enough.

Springer goes 5-for-5 after last night's outburst? Good thing Sox won. He seemed a bit cocky. Now he can't brag about that 5-for-5 at all cause the Strohs got swept.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jun 11, 2015 -> 03:24 AM) The astros are a boom or bust team. They hit homeruns or they lose, it's really that simple. Plus they strike out a ton. Sox are the same way. If they don't hit homers they have no chance.

Sox are OK once they play teams that aren't in their own division. They sweep Houston after losing 2 of 3 to the crappy Tigers? Hard to fathom. Great win though. Robertson is amazing. Finally hitting home runs in the Cell. That's big cause it's the only way we can score. Sox win; Hawks win. Nice night. p.s. you know darn well if we played KC or Cleveland next we'd lose the series for sure. Keep us out of the Central, baby!

Good to see they fired the cop. The guy who fired the cop said the other cops acted tremendously and this cop just plain screwed up and escalated the situation. This outcome was perfect. That cop just plain f***ed up and got fired for it. Kneeing that girl in the back was ridiculous and pulling her hair, etc., just appalling. Cops need to get their acts together!

Nice win even though I got mad at the ninth inning fiasco. Rodon baby! Please Melky let this be your breakout game. Keep it up.

Springer needs to go complain to his cousin, Jerry. Guys like Springer aren't good enough to throw fits on the road. Robertson is gonna get the benefit of the doubt on some pitches cause he's good, and he's a pro. Springer with the tantrum and the out.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 10, 2015 -> 03:15 AM) No problem with him not making Robertson start the 9th. With Robertson pitching last night, I'd rather ensure he's ready to go tomorrow if Duke does his job. When you are a last place, piece of crap team, you worry about TODAY not tomorrow IMO. Sox seem to be against making it easy, though, for the most part. Springer is an idiot. I hope he got tossed for his behavior even though the game was over. Swing the bat pretty boy. ... No wait, go home. You lose! Avi is getting better in right it seems.

This team and its manager defy belief.

Games like this make it hard for me to like Robin even a little bit. Fathom just made an excellent point. Sox were one hit from blowing this game open. Then ... still a 4-0 lead and he won't bring in his automatic closer? Yes I do agree the blown pop up was bad, but still. Arguably Robertson would have blown through 1-2-3. No reason to bring Duke out there. When a team sucks like the White Sox suck, you just take the 4-0 lead and end the f***ing game with your all-star closer!!! Fire Robin, please. He's overmatched.

It's like Robin doesn't WANT a simple 4-0 win. That's just bulls*** to not bring in Robertson to start the inning (even though that pop up was a joke). FIRE ROBIN! Put Robin out of his misery please.

I woulda brought in Robertson. I want a clean 4-0 win.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 10, 2015 -> 03:02 AM) White Sox offense continues to fight for ineptness records. Even in winning, you still want to throw the remote control through the t.v. Well at least the team is starting to develop an identity where it doesn't need much offense to win. Last two nights.