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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 04:58 PM) lol, come on, no one actually said he was the second coming of Miguel Cabrera. People said his swing was similar to Cabrera, which is not the same thing. It was 100% looks related.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 04:30 PM) Quintana is not as hard luck as everyone likes to make him out to be. He often causes these problems himself. I know it's unfair and nonsensical, but I definitely feel with Quintana like the worst thing you can give him is a lead.

I like having Rollins. It's only the first week.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 01:43 PM) Quintana game and the Twins are 0-6, ya I'll be shocked if we don't lose this one 1-0 or 2-1. Which of course won't prevent the game thread from being full of "THIS TEAM IS TRASH"

If that process is undemocratic so is our electoral college.

Ha, love being a sox fan. Facing an 0-6 team and in unison we all say "ugh, advantage twins!"

Glad it finally caught up to him. Amazing how far he's gone on media coverage and razor thin spending.

Tom Selleck? That was the top of mind joke?

Yes, those are legitimate questions of Hillary. They are also not what people are referring to when talking about sexist attitudes toward Clinton. This reminds me of a circular gamergate argument where I'm just going to hear" NO, it's about ethics in gamer journalism". You are free to criticize Hillary Clinton's politics, which Bernie Sanders has done, and successfully. But, if you make sexist critiques against Hillary Clinton, it is allowed to be pointed out. And if the response is "What? You can't criticize Hillary Clinton without being a sexist?", I just don't think that's a good faith argument. Greg's comment had the themes I am sick of seeing. They are toxic not because it affects Hillary Clinton, but because that stuff affects all women, and can be called out. If Greg said "I just don't trust Hillary's judgment because of the Iraq War and Email Servers", and reddy responded "Because you are sexist", then I'd be happy to engage you on this. Hillary Clinton gets many deserved criticism (see entire Sanders left-critique), but there is that extra baggage that exists, and does influence and move a portion of the electorate. There is also a group of the electorate that has legit concerns about her, and also sexist critiques. I'll continue to call both out.

QUOTE (champagne030 @ Apr 9, 2016 -> 09:09 PM) I can't believe I'll finally pop my cherry and it's to post a complaint after this teams start. I've been a season ticket holder for almost 25 years and have attended 24 of the last 25 openers. I understand some quirks to be worked out and that large of a crowd, but service was horrible (off the charts bad on an opening day). I have Stadium Club access and noticed the shirts on the staff were different. When did Northern Delaware gain the concession contract? The staff was very apologetic and said it was a new management company and almost all new staff. They didn't do a "soft" opening and had no training. Food was cold (and awful), beer was warm, credit card machines didn't work and it was beyond awful. Vendors in the stands seemed normal, but when I left the seats to visit a concession stand I noticed the same Northern Delaware logos and again the service was incredibly slow. I've only attended about 10 games the last two years and maybe the contract has changed hands during that period, but it sure seems Delaware North is a last minute change or clueless. My ticket rep, who I'm tight with, actually knew I was there and was going to meet us at the seats and said they couldn't make it down and wanted to know about my service in the Club and concessions so there must have been numerous complaints. Thank you for this post, explains a lot. I have reached out to the sox reps we have and, in the survey sent separate from that, let them have it.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 09:25 AM) I think this applies to three of the five candidates. Well, I disagree. At any level, you would expect desire for power to be a trait for someone who believes they can run the most powerful country in the world. But even for Trump, I don't believe it's desire for power, it's desire for attention. Look at all of his businesses. They haven't been ventures that bring the greatest returns. No matter where he has been it has been something where he can have the most visibility. Presidency provides guaranteed coverage.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 09:20 AM) I hear things like this all of the time pointed towards Donald Trump. Even his hair is talked about all of the time. Cruz is routinely painted as a maniac. Bill Clinton has always been painted as the master manipulator and deceiver, and that is well earned. While I won't deny that sexism is a factor for some people, and greg sure likes to put those kind of things forward, for most of us, that isn't the case. I hear you, but you often had same response when any diagnosis of race baiting and racism in the GOP voter base existed, until this year has basically had the proud 30% show themselves in. And it's fair to bring up that sexist attitudes are a factor in peoples perception of Clinton without it applying to all or you - though I am pointedly saying that sexist attitudes reflect gregs main thrust of Hillary distrust. For Cruz to get the "maniac" label, he had to single handedly try to organize pushing the United States into a default and recession. Hillary gets the same treatment for basically just not being likeable. I can psychoanalyze the clintons all day, but at least a part of their worst behaviors have been a response to the absolute bats*** insane response the GOP had to losing the presidency after holding it for 24 years.

One thing, back to SS and Chisoxfn?'s argument. I was thinking about it a lot this weekend. That Chicago could so rapidly shoot up to 80s/90s levels without any seeming catalyst is quite scary to me in that Drum to this point essentially has the only explanation. Why did crime explode in US for 25 years? We still have no idea. But - can't help but think about Tribune article in november about how Chicago could be skewing their lead test numbers by not testing in areas with recently replaced water mains (to which there have been many in last 5 years). If it is lead, then, that's reassuring we can reverse it. If it isn't, then the United States still doesn't have answers on how to reduce crime.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 10, 2016 -> 09:14 PM) And despite the hot mess that has become the Republican party, this is why I could never be a Democrat. Hillary isn't falling apart due to her candidacy, her "mistakes" and policy changes, or anything else that is her fault... nope, it is sexism. Well, I don't necessarily know what Hillary is falling apart means, But considering Greg's actual comments so often due with her "entitlement", how she only cares about being president, her shrieking is annoying, etc, That someones critical opinons of a woman in power may be colored by sexist attitudes without them actually being a sexist person should be clear. I don't believe that everyone who dislikes Hillary clinton does so out of sexism. But there is a lot of baseline comments thrown out that are. And a lot of that has to do with her coming on the scene in the 90s where it was even more open to making very sexist comments and paint every action by her as "manipulative' "devious", etc, something that would not apply to a man. Peoples impressions of Clinton were drilled down 30 years ago, and the idea "that we know her" based off the information in that time period deserves to be called out. If you want to see a candidate so maniacally driven by naked ambition to be powerful, you'd be staring at Ted Cruz. But how often are you hearing the same adjectives toward him?

This is shocking. Would love to get story behind this.

Yes, delaying game time would have helped. Also - re allocating the workers who would have done concessions on upper deck and opened up all concessions on lower level. There were huge obnoxious choke points. We had outfield seats, I had to walk all the way to the covered concourse for a polish, and because so little was availble it was backed up to the wall so you couldn't walk, completely packed with people. To go to the ATM and stand in line for food I missed 1.5 innings. It shouldn't be so hard to pay $6 for a hot dog. After waiting in line for 40 minutes to get into the place, last thing I wanted to do was get in line for another 25. I should have left that game being pumped for sox baseball but I mostly left it wondering if I really wanted to see another game until July.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Apr 9, 2016 -> 07:47 PM) It was awful in general. I arrived at about 12:15. There were lines outside the stadium up until past first pitch. They shut down the Upper Deck because of ice but they didn't let anyone in the stadium until about 12:45. I didn't get inside until the 2nd inning. It was just really s***ty planning. Then the food and drink lines were horrendous and the workers just took forever. It was absolutely the worst experience I've ever had a Sox game. It's never like that. I did get a voucher for any April/May home game though. Yes, this was how I felt as well, and was general consensus in the bleachers around us. And I was super pumped for this game, and it was a great game! I saw more runs scored in this game by the sox than if you combined the amount of runs scored I saw in the 6 games I saw them from April - June last year (where 2 runs was the highest scoring game I saw). The weather in the sun was actually great. Everything that the sox couldn't control was fine. Everything they could was a nightmare.

Beck...K'ing large amounts of people?

That's absurd and amazing to know

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 9, 2016 -> 04:32 PM) At least they gave out certificates for free/discounted future tickets Yeah that was supposed to happen. Wasn't at our exit, asked around on train and only a few had them passed out. Add it to the list of b.s. Sox fans dealt with in the stadium today.

Great game on the field. One of the worst fan experiences I had, and it's been a growing trend. Sox have a lot of work to do. Going to six games has been like sitting in a traffic jam recently.

I'll be there. I didn't see a win in person until July last year. Would like an earlier one now yeh?

Saladino is an excellent bench piece for us.

Frazier! I would like to see us fight back even if we lose. I'd like to see we can take a punch.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 8, 2016 -> 04:10 PM) Has anyone here really ever needed their entire face covered on a 40 degree day? It's not 12 below. Also, I'm quickly hating Brett Kwrie. It's windy.