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Crazy how many primetime athletes will have played with each other or run into each other at amateur tournaments.

There are no constituents to solve the housing crisis in California. A crisis that affects all of us by pricing out new workers from migrating to one of the most productive labor forces in the country. http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/...-htmlstory.html Thought: Maybe California environmental groups onerous regulation on urban housing has contributed to sprawl that has much more negative external effects on the environment in california? You could pass this if it was just he construction unions, but the environmental groups and tenant associations hopping on because they view obstruction as a badge of honor to take back to their obstructionfetished membership group makes it impsossible to fix this problem. Chicago has been traditionally much better about growing where needed, but not perfect. ANd of course, we have the friends of the parks to sue anyone that tries to use any structure on park land, no matter how useless, for development.

Fairly certain we are going to hear McPhee is out for year before the 4th preseason game.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Aug 9, 2016 -> 09:20 AM) This thread is overheating from the takes. No kidding. The ole "If I was making 20 million to play baseball I would have no personal feelings or family ties. I'd never smoke or drink. I'd be in locker room all day and be perfect" takes

Twins didn't trade away any core pieces, just some bullpen, their 29 year old career year player (when can the white sox get one of those?) and bad contract swaps. They got some young power arms back. Kind of sounds like what the white sox should have done in 2015 instead of what they did.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Aug 8, 2016 -> 05:51 PM) You're not getting McCutcheon for that, but let's say you could, why the hell would you start Tilson as your LF? Would be such a stupid, half-ass White Sox type of move.

It will be nice to see Nolan tackle something like that, where he doesn't just have to explain the rules of the world he created for 3 hrs.

QUOTE (shipps @ Aug 8, 2016 -> 04:02 PM) The terrible part of this whole thing is that lets say they do throw a ton of money out there and grab three of the top FA's and maybe make a trade somewhere in there. Doesnt that just make them the Angels? Who are fundamentally flawed to being with as well so even that doesnt work. Yes, but OTOH if they went out and signed cespedes, encarnacion and whomever is the top catcher I'd appreciate them actually going for it even though it would certainly be fool hardy within 2 years. My preference for selling is assuming they have hit a ceiling where being top bidders for players has been capped at 115 million - 120 million range

Missouri just hired Jim Sterk (AD - San Diego State) as their new Athletic Director. During a year where essentially no good news ever happened and the very worst news happened every day, this was some nice news. I have a lot of respect for the turnaround at SDSU. Despite some success, they turned that program around from basically nothing in football and basketball to consistent winners. Very happy with the hire.

Yeah I think he opts out. Assuming he holds, he'll have had 2 straight 900 OPS seasons, and he'll be compared to older big bats on market (Encarnacion, Bautista) vs last year, competing with Upton/Heyward

QUOTE (shipps @ Aug 8, 2016 -> 11:37 AM) I really wish the Sox FO could come to the realization that there really are no scenarios in which they are "going for it" next season if if they think they are. You cant add to this group with 2 or 3 different dudes and think you are going for it no matter who you add. Unless you are adding superstars which isnt going to happen. I just have zero confidence that after they look at the roster they won't be like "you know if we just sign a DH and a CF we are a good team!" especially after 2 straight years of missing out on the Ian Desmond success stories and instead consistently assuming that we'll get the career years out of 30 year old players.

Prediction, Sox sign Castro © and Joe Smith (RP) to surprisingly reasonable deals, then start rumors that they are active trying to sign Reddick or Cespedes, and are showing heavy interest in Trumbo when it appears their market is more limited than initially thought. Sox claim they will only sign them to the right price, then start leaking that the demands are still unreasonable. Fans start saying "Good, I would never pay x for that player". Cespedes then signs for a deal below what was leaked but high enough that fans say "Good, I don't want to be paying him at age 34". After the initial higher level FAs sign, sox are rumored to be in on Desmond, who signs elsewhere. Eventually they sign Jon Jay to a 2 year $20 million dollar deal. Sox fans immediately dream of his 2016 start and start putting forth crappy lineups like this: Eaton Anderson Abreu Frazier Melky Jay Castro Lawrie Garcia/Tilson/Rotation That's not bad! That could be an 86 win team.

I don't know, I just wish it was consistent (maybe set by IoC)? I tried to find the score to the USA mens basketball game while it was happening on saturday and was unable to find it anywhere that I'd expect (ESPN, CBS sports, etc). It was crazy

This Djokovich - Del Portro match is fantastic! Del Potro is the best to watch when healthy. They are both going for it right now

Anderson BB *sirens*

US 1 gold out of 1 1 gold possible so far. Madison Keys playing now for Tennis

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 5, 2016 -> 03:10 PM) Been thinking about this since I heard it on Hannity ... Media has gone after Trump's wife aggressively. How come Bill is off limits? Why aren't we hearing story after story about his mistresses and getting their stories? Also stories on how Hillary's marriage partner was a predator. Monica may have been over 21 but she was a fricking intern. That's predatorish behavior by Bill. If Trump's family is under fire, the media at least could aggressively pursue the Bill is a womanizer theme. There's no way after Monica he became Mr. Faithful. Doesn't work that way. How bout uncovering some mistresses, etc., and interviewing them. Hillary got off on Benghazi. No hard questions. She got off on the email thing. No hard questions. All she gets is love from the media. There were roughly 400 hearings including a 12-hour hearing of her testimony from her. Did Hannity not cover that? Must be media bias. Also "media has been aggressively covering Melania" no they haven't. When the democrats hold a special committee to deport her than it will be equal to anything ever involving the clintons. Congrats on another post greg.

Yeah that whole intern fiasco was really swept under the rug.

God what journalist wrote that in the first place. That's revolting.

Yes, team handball is the best.

Shocked./green

The wildly shooting in a residential area...reminds me so much of the self-caused times square shootings. Really just need to be more careful on engagement. Have not seen actual shooting video.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 5, 2016 -> 11:22 AM) Their bank accounts strongly disagree

Georgia will swing back, probably next week. Not buying it. Still pretty sure we are in a bump. On election day I'm fairly certain we'll be walking to the polls with at least a "Clinton 46%, Trump 42%" scenario. Problem for trump is PA is looking like toast, and he already seems to have lost CO.

Iowa uses an independent commission and it works very well.