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"And that's why this is..." *squints* "A better deal" You can replace that last line with anything and it's still terrible.

The candidates matter more than anything else. You think a potential candidate is ever going to refer back to this platform? If any candidate uses the party slogan as a reason to vote they should be primaried to s***.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 25, 2017 -> 03:33 PM) If this was a big unveiling it wasn't even well thought out. Remember the Iraq war marketing setup - "You never introduce a new product until after Labor Day". It's because it doesn't matter.

I remember every year of my life when the party platform and national party committees were overconsidered and pointless until bernie came along and told me that actually they are the most important thing in the world.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 25, 2017 -> 02:42 PM) Dude, they just trucked a cancer patient across the country to make him vote to bring this to the floor and he did it. They'll pass something in a couple weeks. Literally the only thing that will stop it is John McCain dying. Maybe, but I'll take the additional time.

I'm not surprised they relented on pressure to allow them to vote, but it could lead it's way to full defeat. I could see them calculating that officially voting it down was the only way for it to truly start over. As long as it wasn't voted down it wasn't ever dead.

We need to get Rodon a really good framer. We know this. Let's make it happen next year.

I definitely think we should be focusing on Rodon.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 25, 2017 -> 01:26 PM) With regards to Lewis, I was reading Longenhagen's chat today and he said he's pretty worried about his struggles with staying healthy, and that it could be a recurring problem. Yeah leaving the game with sore knee again...not good.

QUOTE (yesterday333 @ Jul 25, 2017 -> 12:40 PM) No one is saying you cant disagree but every time Collins (or any other player we drafted) gets brought up, people have to chime in with, "we could've had this player I wanted." It gets pretty old. It will be the case until the White Sox prove it with their drafting and development. Sox said Collins was top player on their board. They'll have to own that then.

I'd really like a good Rodon game.

Here would be my dem platform. Higher Wages. Lower Costs. Then I would forcefeed a bunch of market based housing policy down the lefts throats.

Good news on Curbelo, but we've been remarking on how well Lenyn Sosa has played, any idea how that will impact him?

Good discussion in here. I am equally nervous about player dev. That's not to say Collins is written off to me, just that I've significantly lowered Collins down in my head. And that's a big shift. We've blamed for years the lack of farm output on drafting long-tail players like Mitchell/Hawkins/Walker that had poor hit grades and never improved. Well this was our draft of polished college hitters. Collins/Call/Fisher. All good OBP. Good college production. They've all stumbled at the first big challenge (I recognize it's sort of unfair for Call). I keep saying it, but I was reading the longenhagen bio of Jimenez, which talked about all the mechanical updates Jimenez made in the past two years to go from raw to possible 70 hit grade. I just don't know the last time I've ever read that about a sox player. And I don't know if Jimenez did it himself. If I recall, for years the sox philosophy was let them carry what got them there for as long as they could and then fix it when it's broken. Sure seems like that's the same. Still same guy at top (Bell). We've heard of all of the changes, but all of them were a bunch of essentially first year guys. Why would we take that risk before the rebuild? We couldn't hire some player dev guys out of Arizona that turned AJ Pollock and Peralta into above average offensive players? It just seems like for hitters we are relying on them to figure it out on their own. And I hope they can do it.

While it seems kind of light, hard not to trust Prellers judgment of the LatAm signees.

Anthony Coronado keeps hitting in DSL with nice power too.

Swarzak is incredibly versatile this year.

Interesting at bat to follow on game day. You don't see three pretty strikey strikes get looked at to lose the game lol

ooo boy. Think he lost his control.

Oof.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 24, 2017 -> 04:22 PM) So Davidson's homerun was an estimated 476 feet, which would be the 6th longest homerun of the season. And that was with the wind blowing in, that's crazy. I'm excited to check this out.

Question: better pitcher Leury Garcia or Tyler Clippard?

Did he hang that slider?

You guys think Swarzak is trying to stay low and away ?

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 24, 2017 -> 04:10 PM) Who would you guys say is the #3 option out of the pen right now after Swarzak and Jennings? I mean probably Infante