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So much for that. Kyle Fuller shut down for preseason due to an unspecified knee injury.

In large part due to excellent reporting from Mother Jones, the federal government will no longer contract out prisons to private sector.

Agreed. At least a run longer than 3 yards please.

They should get arrested for assault.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Aug 18, 2016 -> 09:15 AM) He probably just meant he was gonna use his 2nd amendment right and not vote for her

Awesome!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 17, 2016 -> 02:52 PM) So here's my attempt at logic on that draft pick. Take as a given that most picks in the late 20s will not amount to much and the value of those picks on average is ~2 WAR. Most picks in that range are guys who never make the big leagues, and there's what, 1 out of 10 who become a really good player, fair? If you view the guy as a reliever only, which is the only fair interpretation of the guy being rushed up to the big leagues as a reliever and starting his service time this year, then that player has a reduced ceiling compared to a guy who could be a starter. However, if you're evaluating the quality of the pick, both the ceiling and the probability of success matter as well. So yes, his ceiling may be lower, but if you think he has a 20% chance of being a successful reliever, then compared to guys around him with a 10% chance then that's the right pick despite the lower ceiling. But there's one problem with drafting a guy as a reliever and keeping him there. If you draft a guy as a starter and keep him there for several years...if he flops as a starter he could still become a valuable player if you move him to the bullpen. If the White Sox are intending to keep Burdi as a reliever the next 2-3 seasons and he winds up being Daniel Webb, they're not going to be able to convert him into a starter while he's still in this organization because it will take more years than he has options to stretch him out. In other words...you draft a reliever highly, you better be darn sure you're right on him. You better be willing to bet your job on it. Yeah this is my beef with what has taken place since draft. He was drafted and it was "oh Sox must think he can start" then we hear Hostetler say they'll decide in offseason, which makes sense. But if they bring him up it just screams to me that this is the start of his career as a reliever and there will be no attempt to stretch him out in offseason.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 17, 2016 -> 11:02 AM) Something I read said he stepped down in 2007? Before taking over Obama's campaign anyway. Really more funny than anything. If someone had written a script that mirrored the 2016 campaign, it would be rejected by every producer as way too ridiculous and over-the-top. I guess that's possible he was in both, but that was same time as his CAP run. He may have been on board.

Yeah it has been a bit strange but maybe they have a defensive instructor in GF that they like to work with Fisher first.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Aug 17, 2016 -> 09:40 AM) This Lochte story is so very bizarre... http://deadspin.com/rio-police-are-casting...of-b-1785389540 More people probably came to Rio for New Years eve than the olympics.

I don't think J. Podesta has been involved in the podesta group for over 20 years. Not since his original Clinton group. Now, if this takes down Tony Podesta and Vin Baker in one swoop...hey, not bad.

Oh s***, so this Manafort cash is reported to have been used to funnel to US lobbying firms. Manafort also worked and set the stage for the annexation of Crimea, something Trump had said he'd recognize.

It's amazing how much this mirrors the Bulls now.

So tired of the liberal media coordinating with the democrats ugh

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 16, 2016 -> 10:10 PM) I guess I hadn't realized until recently that the Watergate scandal broke before the 1972 Presidential elections, and Nixon still managed to win one of the biggest landslides in history, and that Nixon managed to hold office for two more years. I guess I had always assumed that the timeline was that the break-in happened in '73 or something. I imagine it was viewed as shenanigans until the connection to the White House was made.

I used to believe that Hahn was tactically strong but strategically weak in how he was unable to convince his superiors in a broader strategy (or he himself was unable to create a broader strategy). But then this year came up and tactically he was pretty terrible barring the draft.

his contract amount.

Probably the best ringer article i've read: https://theringer.com/nfl-tablet-playbooks-...a511#.7k9hb9of4

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Aug 16, 2016 -> 12:42 PM) The owners would never do that, because they would never want that done to them. Taking away the ability to relocate would severely impair the leverage of ownership in future stadium negotiations and in turn would make the team substantially less valuable in a sale. Owners will never impair other owners from the ability to make money. I disagree. Just like how MLB players will allow tighter restrictions on incoming draftees vs major league players, owners would easily allow for tougher restrictions on new owners that they wouldn't allow on themselves. They may not handicap an owner once he is an owner, but they certainly will to a potential one.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Aug 16, 2016 -> 10:58 AM) They were on board with letting the team move to St Pete 30 years ago. The MLB owners are not going to stand in the way of any other owner being able to make money, unless of course it cuts into theirs. Yes. 30 years ago.

Going to guess that DGB still hasn't cleaned up his act.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 15, 2016 -> 05:56 PM) The shares go to their heirs, and they do with them what they want. If they sell them JR has the right of first refusal. Thanks this is what I was looking for.

Maybe it's appendicitis.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Aug 15, 2016 -> 04:33 PM) CNN needs more missing plane coverage. Ha I just don't see the value in the 24 hr news networks. I only see them at airports and it's like, you can see how out of touch with reality you could become when you are old and not engaging with society and only see a 24 hr news network telling you what's going on.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 15, 2016 -> 03:18 PM) Other partners. Several wanted out. A few are getting way up there in age, but I think the title changed their minds. There was a quote by one in the article I read about it saying the ownership structure of many of the other teams was making it hard to compete and that was 2003 or 2004, then they won it all. They can get out and sell their shares, but it is not nearly what they would get if the team was sold. So when they are dying their shares are just going to a trust, but there is no active representative of the original partners interest at their meetings. Is that right?