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To the attorneys out there ... do you agree juries in highly publicized cases tend to take it easy on the accused? Is this almost a given when you enter a trial of a highly publicized person that you know it's going to be easy to get the lightest sentence, even an innocent/insanity verdict like I'd assume the creep in the Colorado movie theatre case will get? The reason I ask is two juries now couldn't decide if Arias deserved the death penalty or should get life. So finally a judge ruled life without parole. Why can't juries go in and pull the trigger so to speak and sentence the violent killer to death or even life without parole? Why does a judge have to do it? Is it human nature? Or is it just that the highly publicized person on trial gets the BEST lawyers who never fail? Now in cases with no publicity, I'd assume the figures point to many people getting hung out to dry by juries.

How come so many former Sox position players do well when we get rid of them? Rios, DeAza, Semien, etc. Makes me wonder why nobody will pick up Viciedo. Is he still on the market after Toronto cut him? p.s. Phegley is 4-for-9 this season.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 13, 2015 -> 07:44 PM) Lol do you guys really think Hilary is going be the next president? I guarantee some Obama esque dark horse comes through and shanks her again. This is the first I've heard even suggesting that could be a possibility. I wonder if she'll really flip the finger at America and pick a buddy to be Veep. Who are her closest friends/allies, female predominately who she could pick as VP. I think she'll just pick a comrade.

Why do we always discuss Danks and act as if Noesi is any better? Sox have a problem with both of them in terms of being very effective.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 12, 2015 -> 07:39 PM) Yeah, go ahead and make that front and center. http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Hillary-C...2/23/id/626388/ All she is going to run on is 'i am a woman, vote for me' and 'they are saying mean things about me because i am a woman, not because I am totally incompetent at every thing I have ever done and am a truly evil person!'. She can't run on her record because what little there is happens to be pretty bad. Her biggest claim as the S of S is that she is the most traveled secretary ever. Oh boy, vacations on the Federal dime! Woo hoo! She also treats subordinates like crap ie. staff and cops and Secret Service agents assigned to protect her. “Where is the G-damn f**king flag? I want the G-damn f**king flag up every f**king morning at f**king sunrise.” (From the book “Inside The White House” by Ronald Kessler, p. 244 – Hillary to the staff at the Arkansas Governor’s mansion on Labor Day, 1991 “Son of a b*tch!” (From the book “American Evita” by Christopher Anderson, p. 259 – Hillary’s opinion of President George W. Bush when she found out he secretly visited Iraq on Thanksgiving just days before her highly publicized trip.) F**k off! It’s enough that I have to see you s***-kickers every day, I’m not going to talk to you too!! Just do your G*damn job and keep your mouth shut.” (From the book “American Evita” by Christopher Anderson, p. 90 – Hillary to her State Trooper bodyguards after one of them greeted her with “Good morning.” “You f**king idiot.” (From the book “Crossfire” p. 84 – Hillary to a State Trooper who was driving her to an event.) “If you want to remain on this detail, get your f**king ass over here and grab those bags!” (From the book “The First Partner” p. 259 – Hillary to a Secret Service Agent who was reluctant to carry her luggage because he wanted to keep his hands free in case of an incident.) “Get f**ked! Get the f**k out of my way!!! Get out of my face!!!”(From the book “Hillary’s Scheme” p. 89 – Hillary’s various comments to her Secret Service detail agents.) “Stay the f**k back, stay the f**k away from me! Don’t come within ten yards of me, or else! Just f**king do as I s ay, Okay!!!?” (From the book “Unlimited Access”, by Clinton FBI Agent in Charge, Gary Aldrige, p. 139 – Hillary screaming at her Secret Service detail.) “Where’s the miserable c*ck sucker?” (From the book “The Truth About Hillary” by Edward Klein, p. 5 – Hillary shouting at a Secret Service officer) “Put this on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those sunglasses. We need to go back!” (From the book “Dereliction of Duty” p. 71-72 – Hillary to Marine One helicopter pilot to turn back while en route to Air Force One.) “What are you doing inviting these people into my home? These people are our enemies! They are trying to destroy us!” (From the book “The Survivor” by John Harris, p. 99 – Hillary screaming to an aide, when she found out that some Republicans had been invited to the Clinton White House) “Come on Bill, put your dick up! You can’t f**k her here!!” (From the book “Inside The White House” by Ronald Kessler, p. 243 – Hillary to Gov. Clinton when she spots him talking with an attractive female at an Arkansas political rally) “You know, I’m going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I’m going to start thinking of her as a human being” -Hillary Clinton (From the book “The Case Against Hillary Clinton” by Peggy Noonan, p. 55) “You show people what you’re willing to fight for when you fight your friends.” (From the book “The Agenda” by Bob Woodward, ch. 14) “The only way to make a difference is to acquire power” (From the book “I’ve Always Been A Yankee Fan” by Thomas D. Kuiper, p 68 – Hillary to a friend before starting law school.) “We just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices…. Government has to make those choices for people” (From the book “I’ve Always Been A Yankee Fan” by Thomas D. Kuiper, p 20 – Hillary to Rep. Dennis Hastert in 1993 discussing her expensive, disastrous taxpayer-funded health care plan) “I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe” Hillary in 1996 From the book “I’ve Always Been A Yankee Fan” by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 76 – Hillary in 1996) This is scary stuff. I can't believe we Americans are going to vote her in. She'll obviously deny each of these reports, but it is pretty well documented she is a very very mean, entitled person. Why do we need her? How bout somebody new? I am normally pretty apathetic. But the thought of her in the office bothers me. How anybody sees her as "likeable" or even somebody you'd trust in the oval office kills me. I mean I despise Obama, but I trust that he's a decent guy and I trust he's not going to do anything really dumb.

Good win over a horrendous Minnesota team (those dropped pop ups?) but obviously a win is a win. Time to win some road games. Cleveland is good. Would be nice to continue winning series.

MLB.com didn't show highlights of Robertson. I wanted to check it out and see if he had the same nasty stuff as Saturday.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Apr 10, 2015 -> 04:13 PM) "Depresses" might be too strong a word, I went to Game 2 of the World Series and it was definitely one of the best days of my life, I meant more that the further we get away from the championship the more I get annoyed at our recent bad play and how we can't seem to string a few good seasons together. That should have been the season where we turned the corner and became a consistent playoff threat. The Twins, Tigers, and Indians have all dominated this division for long stretches since '95, and I'm waiting for our turn. Watching all the mistakes the team made the past few days just makes me miss the '05 team more. I will always have fond memories of the championship, but in 110 seasons we've made the playoffs 9 total times, and never 2 seasons in a row. Not downplaying 05 as it was the best. After that, I really thought we'd dominate the division for a while. People were talking that way. Didn't happen. We've pretty much sucked balls since then. Similar to the 85 Bears. One hit wonders. QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Apr 13, 2015 -> 02:13 AM) I have a friend who's dad has worked for the Sox for years and one day he told me that when Buehrle came in for the save in game 3 in Houston, he had been drinking. I said no way. What Garland just said has confirmed that. Unreal. That's incredible. I worship Mark, but what was he thinking? Do they have kegs out in the bullpen? I know they got em in the clubhouse.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 12, 2015 -> 08:39 PM) Twins playing one of the worst defensive games of all time And yet it's 3-1 and very much a ballgame. Geezus.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 12, 2015 -> 07:32 PM) How did you take the fact that a speedster should lay off high pitches as an indicator of being a bust. I want to connect the dots on this thought process. Well, Hawk and Stoney are acting like teams have figured out Micah and he can't hit a high pitch and that's all he's gonna get in his career. Again, why can't our advance scouts do as good a job as other teams? The balls we hit are always right at defenders.

How come Micah can't hit a high pitch? Hawk and Stoney seem insistent he has to lay off it. Does this mean Micah is gonna be another bust?

Nice home run to get the run back.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 12, 2015 -> 06:49 PM) Contact play with Micah makes total sense. Everybody does it, but it's so f***ing stupid. A routine roller to third, Micah was out by the proverbial mile. The contact play is ridiculous. And the Sox are laughable in not taking advantage of two dropped pop ups. Geez.

Time to take advantage of the pop ups being dropped. Funny stuff.

The contact play is DUMB. There, I said it. Don't care if everybody does it. It's ridiculous.

He may have a good one to work with in Robertson. Damn he was nasty yesterday. If you haven't seen the ninth I'd encourage you to watch the highlights of the ninth. I wonder if Robertson was so good yesterday it might fire up our guys A LOT. I mean that was All Star nasty pitching. It has to make our guys think, 'Man if we can get a lead to that guy it's automatic."

I guess some Republicans do want the challenge of running against Hillary. Good luck to them. She's going to be running on a very general platform, issues that nobody can refute. i.e. Equal pay for women in all jobs. And other women's rights issues. That's what I read today. Brilliant. But what Republican is dumb enough to want to be defeated by Hillary? Why not wait eight years and give it a better shot.

I am depressed. Sunday is the day she declares she's running for President of the United States? I read her main points of emphasis will be equal pay for women and some other women's rights issues. SO SMART!!! Keep it general and get 95 percent or more of the female vote. That is gonna help greatly as she becomes the first woman president. s*** ... she ought to just come out and say it. Run on that platform. Tell all women ... "it's time! A woman needs to get her chance to run this country!" Ah who am I kidding. She won't need to say it. The equal pay thing is genius. Nobody can disagree with her and she will be seen as a hero to all.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Apr 12, 2015 -> 03:46 AM) I agree with the first 2 lines. We need Crain from 2 years ago. Even if he's ready now, the chances of that are not great. The Sox need YOUNG arms for the pen. The lack of them is one of the reasons that "all in" might have been a year premature. But they are going to have to go through minor league arms and hopefully some will quickly develop. Putnam sucked every year but last year, so there's no reason to give him a long leash. I love the people who use the haiku style of posting. I used to do that.

If Robin has to go someday I'd choose the Twins' former skipper. Why not? And if not him, Leyland or LaRussa if they'd do it.

I think those of us who b**** and moan a lot need to post after victories. Nice win today. Homers from two new guys and our closer was awesome and our set-up guy was effective. Gotta love that. I didn't get to watch the game so I don't know if the Sox were crisp defensively or not. Sounds like Shark did a nice job. I'm sure people were freaking during the 4-run second vs. a crappy Twins team. Good job White Sox. 1-4 is a start. Would be nice to win this series.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 11, 2015 -> 05:00 AM) Marcus Semien 6/16 and almost out RBIing the whole Sox team with 5 already. Our franchise is a joke, let's face it. I've watched some A's games already and I don't give a f*** what the metrics say ... Semien passes the eye test big time. He's a good player. Damn.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 11, 2015 -> 12:16 AM) Better than that, as Eaton was sliding the catcher's mitt was right in front of him so he literally grabbed the catcher's mitt and pulled it off. It was kind of cool how badly he wanted to score, I'll give Adam that. I'm just furious, simply insane he tried to score down six runs. Geezus. Truly I think he should be fined a few bucks for that. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 11, 2015 -> 12:19 AM) Well LaRoche shouldn't have been in the lineup against a lefty today but that's a different matter. I've seen enough to agree with Balta. LaRoche can't play against lefties. So who is our other DH when he sits? Viciedo would be a good platoon partner though he did whiff a lot. QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 11, 2015 -> 02:01 AM) What a absolutely terrible game to be at. Had awesome seats and literally saw no action the entire game. I'm not one to overreact to a bad couple games, but this team desperately needs to get its act together soon. They're digging themselves a hole that's going to be tough to get out of. I feel your pain. Had to be a helluva traffic jam too to watch that crap. I mean Sox are going to have to play good baseball to ever beat KC, Det or Cleveland, good teams all. Play this kinda baseball and we seriously might lose 90-95 games.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 10, 2015 -> 11:11 PM) Holy cow, this team is so freaking dumb. Way to tag for no reason. Here's another reason I want to punch the wall, scream and freak out on here. Too many things the Sox do we shrug off as "no big deal. It wouldn't have mattered." You f***ing do not tag up, down six runs!!!! What a pathetic play by Eaton. Why the f*** would you try to score on that except for, "it didn't matter anyway. We weren't going to win." This team desperately needs a mulligan as Hawk said to re-start the season. But Robin can't yell at the guys or turn over tables in the clubhouse. Nobody can do anything because "baseball is a marathon." yeah, sit back and try to score down 6-0 in the ninth inning on a shallow fly ball to left. PATHETIC, EATON! p.s. great take by fathom.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 10, 2015 -> 11:06 PM) You know what would fix this team. Joke about it now, but I think you will see some clean shaven Sox soon. Time to get to work and quit acting like you are the Giants or a team that has won something.