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QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ May 16, 2017 -> 05:17 PM) As much as Mike Pence's political views are even more extreme than Trump's, he is such a preferable president because at least he wouldn't put his foot in his mouth every other hour. I continue to believe the same, but the longer the trump pres goes the obvious accomodating makes it hard to move cleanly on. But the argument that Pence takes institutions more seriously should be true, yet, he's allowing this. He is on record telling lies.

Burr saying it's up to NYT to get the memo. That's a good indicator that the Republicans are not moved.

Wow that is really huge

QUOTE (Jake @ May 16, 2017 -> 03:49 PM) How has the weather differed thus far? It feels like it's been better, but I don't recall last year being much different.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 16, 2017 -> 12:57 PM) Veep has been up and down this season. Loved last week's episode but thought this recent one was pretty awful. It has become unmoored from it's political commentary, and now is basically just using plot as a device to tell funny/dirty quips to each other. I like the characters and it makes me laugh, so I watch it. But it's not much different than a CBS sitcom now (actually silicon valley is moving in same territory)

Frankly baseball was not something people discussed in Chicago from 2010-2014. I thought the spotlight of the cubs would help sox in the idea of more people thinking going to a baseball game would be fun.

I think July should be interesting. The wildcard teams we thought would be contenders stumbled out of the gate, which will give unexpected teams a chance to deliver a playoff experience surprising their fans. Those are the ones that may overpay for marginal goods like our vets/bullpen surprises.

QUOTE (BBBF @ May 16, 2017 -> 09:14 AM) Damn bmags, you're old. Yes, painfully. Though that means you are almost turned in. Hey old message board friend

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 16, 2017 -> 09:33 AM) https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archiv...th-ways/526578/ Ha, I love hypotheticals like that.

Maybe he realizes supreme court unlikely, wants to advance career through other political means. If he took over head of FBI and got fired, he could become a legitimate political power and also get rich as hell off of that. Cynical time for politics requires most cynical lens.

I'm kind of scared Merrick Garland will accept.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 15, 2017 -> 02:50 PM) Anyone else watching American Gods? Slowly. I am enjoying it, surprisingly easy to watch considering the storytelling. But we are struggling to stay awake past 9pm now so hard to catch up on tv

I did not have any care for musicals/theatre until I took a theatre criticism class my senior year. Saw 'Doubt', a rather poor production actually, and Sweeney Todd, and really enjoyed. We haven't been able to bite a season pass, but go to Steppenwolf 1-2 times per year and bigge rmusicals. Looking forward to the Humans coming next year. Even the smaller theatres are a lot of fun. Went to see Heathers the Musical last July and had a blast. That was at stage 773, who also had a run of manuel miranda's in the heights musical that I did not catch.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 16, 2017 -> 08:26 AM) well he did tell us last week that there's no reason to believe anything any of his staff says! this is such an epic disaster, and tens of millions of us saw it coming. Trump sure is doing a great job of making his own staff that he sends out to lie for him look like big idiots, as well as the sycophant rightwing media who was shouting "FAKE NEWS!" all night. He said not to believe his press team. SoS and NatSec is a bigger deal.

Trump admits story is true, after staff including McMaster and Tillerson gave forceful non denial denials last night. Dignity wraiths indeed.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 15, 2017 -> 07:30 PM) So who in the White House is leaking? Somebody that was in that room had to leak what Trump said to the newspaper Security aids ran to CIA and NSA right after so either Aides or the depts that had to clean it up.

Worse, think of how his own staff feeds him crap news sources that align with what they want to see done. We are going to be fed B.S. from other intel sources that they may hope to get out. Now, our intel services are probably good enough to weed that out, except Trump takes loads of info from terrilbe sources like Roger stone (STILL) that could be used to manipulate him, because Stone and Flynn are complete idiots.

This is exactly as I imagine it:

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 15, 2017 -> 05:05 PM) A lot of the commentary flowing in is already saying "this sort of leak can get sources killed or entire intel-gathering operations dismantled." Yes but two points: 1) that is always the level that foreign policy/intel analysis goes to even if accurate and 2) there are much larger tail risks that I'm scared of that include war.

I think there is no doubt it was unwittingly. The man wanted to boast and impress his friends about how smart he is. This may end up with small fall out this time, but we will continue to see the chemical reaction of when the most banal of government activities is mixed with the absurdity of his personality ego and ignorance. edit: edited a lot

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 15, 2017 -> 03:21 PM) Nvm, Kemp transferred so they have a scholarship again There are always as many scholarships as needed

He is only signed to a financial aid agreement, so if he does have a change of heart this summer nothing is stopping him. That said, very excited. Decent situation for him where offensively he can develop slowly, but this team got KILLED on the boards last year because of size and just not being good.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ May 15, 2017 -> 10:37 AM) Jeremiah Tilmon is going to Missouri *Probably I do find it funny that this kid, who behind the scenes has everyone talking about the drama filled recruitment, gives so little out publicly. Glad he is on board, will be more glad if he's on board first day of classes. If Jontay Porter reclassifies after AAU this summer, that is a really nice and balanced lineup. If the guards aren't doing anything, then Porter Jr. can take ballhandling duties, and Jontay is a such a good passer they can move inside out.

QUOTE (NCsoxfan @ May 15, 2017 -> 10:14 AM) We just all hope he won't turn out to be a stud even though we know the trade was bad regardless. The trade was terrible regardless. It was the natural end result of a team thinking that tinkering around the margins would eventually pay off. But Tatis will be whatever he is. And I am encouraged that our LatAm dept could have finally paid off.

QUOTE (spiderman @ May 15, 2017 -> 09:36 AM) So, in a matter of a few days, Levine reports that a lead/head scout from Washington is in Chicago to scout David Robertson, and the presence of this scout indicated that a deal was close. Now, because the Red Sox and Nationals have made trades with the White Sox, these are the two teams that know each other best.... Seems like Levine likes to draw connections like these to report on possible trades. He is really driving me crazy. He has always been like this, but he is somehow finding it easier to get national recognition for his baseless crap.