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Nice Kevin Drum news: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/10/health-update

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 28, 2016 -> 11:07 AM) Felicio is a better center than Portis, so it happens. And he only got 6 min.

I think the above from gosox is true. I also think it's true that while the pipeline is paused, to allow the challenge in the DC court to get heard first without politicizing it at a national level. Where democratic politicians speak up, it automatically becomes a great idea in the republican lawmakers. And should dems fail to win senate, I'd forsee this becoming a thing where 500 votes are held to specifically bulid the pipeline through the reservation itself. Only half kidding at the last part.

Portis is an interesting DNP. I actually thought Rondo looked pretty bad. Wade looked great though, shows what he can still do when fresh. I found myself pissed off any time he was called for a foul. It didn't seem like that was allowed when he was in a different jersey.

I'm glad we could all finally come to grips that old people don't matter.

Eh, Carlin traded in a lot of low hanging fruit. His good was better than most's great, but then you'd be like "s*** did I just listen to 30 minutes of a guy ranting about incorrect syntax?"

Yes, her not even responding made it all the more devastating. That said, WBEZ this morning gave the most bastardized version of it, acting like he mocked her record and THEN she defended it, and then just mentioned that she was born in Thailand. So if you didn't know that her dad had that lineage, it wasn't mentioned. Both sides, #politicsasusual

Damian Lilliard is a treasure

I can't get enough of this video.

Sen Mark Kirk https://twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/7918...7078528/photo/1

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 27, 2016 -> 07:58 PM) Isiah Canaan has been awful so far. Missed 3 straight wide open 3s from the same spot. Liked Dinwiddie more but Canaan should be a good 3 or shooter... that's all he can do

They kinda look like a mike Anderson team ... pretty fun so far

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Oct 27, 2016 -> 06:43 PM) Bmags, I'm around your age and joined this website shortly after you did, so while we've obviously matured since 2003, I'd agree there been a definite decline in White Sox culture. I recall the feeling among Sox fans on WSI and Soxtalk concerning the biased media attention towards the Cubs. Anyone remember Hangar18 on WSI counting articles and posting a daily commentary? There was a shared feeling of disrespect among Sox fans. "What have the Cubs done to deserve it?" Granted, we understood the attendance issue, but there was still the feeling Cub fans were unintelligent frat boys from Iowa while Sox fans were hillbillies who (when they did show up to a game) ran on the field. Even with the success of 2003 for the Cubs, the Bartman game and subsequent collapse in Game 7 actually served to heighten my enjoyment as a Sox fan. This is a key point. Our culture at the time was anti-Cubs as much as it was anything Sox related on the field. You touched on it earlier with the CORK t-shirts many Sox fans wore. Then, 2005 obviously changed everything. White Sox fans were treated to a World Series and were now atop the media landscape in Chicago. The disrespect, I felt, was gone. Who cared anyway how much coverage the Cubs received? Our team won a World Series! What followed is one of the greatest injustices of the post World Series years -- failing to sustain even moderate success. When the Sox disentegrated in 2007, Cubs made the playoffs......then were swept. Next season both teams made the playoffs.....Cubs were swept, Sox lost the series 3-1. If the White Sox had capitalized on the post 2008 playoff drought the Cubs had until 2015, it would have further defined our NEW identity -- winning. We'd have something else to define ourselves as other than the alternative to the Cubs. Flash forward to 2015, and it had been a terrible decade post WS title to say the least. A lot of unmemorable seasons thrown together with scrub players, bad management, and lack of direction. However, what I began to notice is that fans were collectively beginning to push-away the official narrative of the team. Rebuilding on the fly, patching together third tier players around the core wasn't going to work anymore. Yet.....there was still probably half this site feeling 2016 should be the year we "go for it" again. Meanwhile, through trades and the draft the Cubs had assembled a team capable of winning a World Series. Even though they fall short, they have a formidable team expertly constructed. Not a flash in the pan. Here's 2016, Cubs are meeting expectations while the White Sox predictably fall short. Fans however are now past a point of waiting and hoping. It's a overall feeling of negativity I've never witnessed. The rebuild sentiment among the fans, if I could judge from this site, is easily 75%+. What all this means to me is previously, our culture was identified in part anti-cubs, part southside grittiness. We were good but never good enough. We embodied this hard working, meat and potatoes type of blue collared fan base. Proud of our traditions.....yet also happy the Cubs havent won yet. After 2005, our culture of winning emerged. Not just competing. After failing for 10 of 11 years to reach the playoffs, this identity is lost. Our Cub hating identity is there, but lessened due to the fact these Cubs are damn good. We're a fanbase without an identity, a team without direction, in a city obsessed with the Cubs BEFORE 2015. Our culture, if it still exists, is decimated. However, I still have hope that one day we'll begin a new direction and start another chapter in our team's history. This is the best explanation I've seen. I'm totally onboard with it, thanks for taking the time to write it.

I was so proud that this was resolved *somewhat* peacefully and this is such a slap in the face. But I guess this is our system.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 27, 2016 -> 04:16 PM) The question is how much better would Cespedes make the White Sox. I would venture to guess that most would feel, not good enough. Elite offensive production from CF/RF and DH along with a fully functioning bullpen I could see putting us in the 85-86 win category. Still just requires 2016 and not 2015 melky, 2nd half Abreu, and 2016 Eaton. And no very bad sophy slump from Anderson Just really hard to do.

It's amazing to me that this trade did not cause any of our front office seats to warm but Reinsdorf has such PTSD over Jaime Navarro.

You guys remember Credes Crew.

Kinda weird he said Derrick is a good perimeter shooter.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Oct 27, 2016 -> 10:22 AM) With the billions I earned starting Google...I would cover the tracks south of Roosevelt with a new stadium, point it NE. Close to Expy. Close to trains. South side. Close to Manny's. Close to Chernin's for the ladies. Who's with me?!?! *Claps* and this is also close to a huge new housing development that should bring in some entertainment businesses.

I think the demographic switches of population bleeding out of the southside and repopulation of the northside plays a big part. The michigan expats are casual cub fans, but certainly not sox fans after being tiger fans as kids. The sox seemed to have a pretty good base in the western suburbs but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Sox would do well to encourage the repopulation of south loop to push down. BUt I apologize, didn't mean to add another "where did sox fans go?" thread. Was talking about the specific death of sox fan culture which now just seems to be angst. And I proved it!

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 27, 2016 -> 09:44 AM) Please no to Jason Castro. There are better options out there. Give me Hundley or Kurt Suzuki (assuming Ramos/Wieters are gone) He's a good candidate to handle our young pitchers. He's not going to fix our offense.

Loved Sergio Rodriguez too, maybe that extra development for him will be worth it so long as Simmons recovers like Durant. But Dario Saric looked awful.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Oct 27, 2016 -> 09:43 AM) No. I wasn't aware of this until a couple days ago when I went to look up MY early voting site. I thought the GOP voting changes bill got struck down in its entirety, so I'm not even sure why the big city-containing counties still have fewer days of early voting. Gotcha. A couple posters have worked on campaigns and it's a super niche thing to know about Florida early voting is interesting to look at because normally it's trend starts heavily republican and finishes strong dem, so we'll see what happens since the polls started tightening after early voting began.

That's a great list I'd probably just switch out Encarnacion for Trumbo since money doesn't matter. I do think we'll go after Castro regardless of buy or sell.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Oct 27, 2016 -> 09:33 AM) Yes, from my brief look at the statewide list, they're pretty much all open now through November 5th. Awesome. Out of curiosity have you ever worked on a campaign before?