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QUOTE (Buehrlesque @ Jun 9, 2017 -> 11:05 AM) Two questions for people who are more familiar with some of the draft prospects: 1. Concerning Jeren Kendall's swing-and-miss issues: Does he have a good hit tool but happens to make a lot of outs on Ks (like Moncada), or is it that his hit tool isn't good and thus he strikes out a lot? 2. Taking out defense, who has the better overall bat: Evan White or Pavin Smith? Can only answer 1 - lots of debate. Law has said some teams consider him a 30 hit tool because of his swing and miss. Others would say he's like a Moncada (but I think TA is more helpful as Moncada has a fantastic eye and walks a lot), where he will always strike out, but he'll have good power, speed and defense.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 9, 2017 -> 10:51 AM) Interesting on how Northern Ireland politics are changing. More with labour on the new vote as well as the new PM. That's actually a different shade, DUP, which I think is pledged with the Tories.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 9, 2017 -> 10:45 AM) Frank Thomas was 1B only, and not a good one. I think that pick at 7 worked out well. If they can hit, who cares? Besides, with the launch angle becoming a big thing, I think infield defense importance is going to start dropping a bit. If we take a 1b that high I want them to be saying it's because he has a frank thomas/hof bat. If their ceiling is top 10 1b bat, there is just too much room that if they come under that projection at all they are fairly useless.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 9, 2017 -> 05:55 AM) Fair enough. this is much better of a target but still underwhelming to most of the fanbase. Head faking with McDermott makes this look like a good hire but I was still holding out hope for Donovan Your fan base is insane. Not only incredibly classy person but took on the job after one of the best performances ever and continued to compete nationally in a state where they are 3rd in pecking order.

Interesting how COmey saying he didn't recommend a special prosecutor because the case had nothing to it and it would imply it did. He thought he solved it by being harsher than his own report said, but just created a different scenario where people thought the FBI wanted to prosecute but felt they couldn't to a high profile individual. Unforeseen consequences would be a good title for a Comey book.

Reason #6000 why I'll never console a down on OSU happenings from Rock, they are about to hire Chris Holtmann from Butler who is both very good and seem d unlikely to ever leave that incredibly close knit family culture there.

Seems a little far fetched. Would be somewhat surprised if Faedo goes top 10, would be very very surprised if both Faedo and Canning go top 10, just from aggregating all the other rumors. BUt who knows.

Maybe it's also overly simple to think criticism of a person's acts means you completely invalidate their entire character? Lindsey Graham is often hardheaded and wrong when it comes to foreign policy, he also is a serious person who I think is capable of doing good things occasionally. If I praise him for doing something I find admirable, it doesn't negate my previous criticisms. It's almost like the world is complicated. Comey's history with Ashcroft's bedside proved to me he's not a partisan hack, but it doesn't mean he's not political. His adherence to a vague duty to report is questionable over whether it overrides longstanding policy to not report on ongoing investigations. He made a political decision that the FBI could be looked at as tainted if he did not report the duplicate Weiner emails prior to the election, even if it was the correct protocol to not report it. Yet he was also a very capable person of running a high level investigation. Two things can be true. Crazy.

If there is one thing the stock market is great at, it's pricing risk.

It's a really bad time to hire a coach unless you go to NBA/overseas route.

Probably improper to speculate but McCain really did seem off, concretely. The mixup with Comey and the President, the bizarre lead of questions, very strange.

If he didn't know it was inappropriate, why did he ask everyone to leave the room?

QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Jun 8, 2017 -> 09:54 AM) The White Sox haven't had a position player start an All Star game since Frank Thomas in 1996. We were really really good at getting that 25th man spot for a while though. Lost our mojo.

Comey stated that he took the "I hope you see it through to let this go" as a direction that he did not take. Reminder he was later fired for that.

https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/872823335184420864 "Comey just strooooooongly implied the Steele Dossier contained "credible allegations."" This is one of those things that I can't figure out if Comey is willing to bend for now that he's not a sitting FBI director or is something COmey was always way too willing to do. Nice to have the info now, but seems imprudent.

"Comey: “General Flynn at that time was in legal jeopardy” and Trump asking me to back off the probe was “disturbing”" Probably as strongly worded as we will see, obstruction of justice will be a political question with a sitting president.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 8, 2017 -> 08:46 AM) It isn't going to happen overnight, and I don't think Comey's testimony will be Trump's undoing, but it will be a part. There is a lot of s*** going on. I think the guy's name is Richard Clarke, a former intel guy with 4 administrations. He was on yesterday, and they were asking him about the hookers and peeing dossier, and how the US intel could confirm it, and he went through what they would do, and at the end threw out a, from what I've been told, most of it has already been confirmed. For a guy who is willing to throw just about anyone under a bus, it is weird Trump's exceptions are Putin and Flynn. Richard Clarke has become kind of a crank, so I'd take it with a grain of salt, but clearly the investigation into the meetings has been followed.

At one point, Comey actually confirming that the memorializing was true that a sitting president was having private meetings with the FBI director to discuss a related investigation and telling him to let go an investigation into his friends was considered necessary by certain troubled GOP senators. Now we know that if that is confirmed it's just a "snooze, already know that!" Comey's introduction letter confirmed what has previously reported as well as clarifying why trumpw ould have said he was told 3 times he was not under investigation. It does not mention the other 9 meetings. Some things will rely on questions, but we don't know if Mueller shut him down from discussing those.

Cool news, thanks for sharing.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 04:35 PM) This is the most boring draft I can remember. Most teams are pretty firm on their guys. Oakland/Philli/Milwaukee could surprise but yeah, need a top five team to throw a wrench. I heard Adell possibly at #4 underslot. Take it with a grain though. Is it pretty firm Wright/Greene/Gore/McKay/Lewis in that order?

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 04:32 PM) That's disturbing. The pizza hut by my parent's house had to cops called because a women nodded off while her three young kids ran around the restaurant. This s*** I can't handle.

I think Milwaukee grabs him. This draft will be pretty crazy, would be wild if one of those tops 5 is not selected right away and what ripples could follow.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 04:15 PM) Man Naperville alone should be freaking the state out. A friend from Naperville said they call i88 Heroin Highway. There was a WBEZ report 2 years ago called heroin highway specifically around Neuqua Valley, which had just seen some obscene number like 5 or 6 overdose deaths in a class. Part of it was a mom whose daughter had overdosed looking back and realizing that she had been at the movies with her daughter and friends, and they'd sit in a separate row. Later found out they were doing heroin, basically next to her. Hard listen.

Holy crap.

I can't imagine there is a state that isn't at epidemic level when we are seeing this amount of deaths. Incredibly tragic and scary.