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My really good rubio joke fell flat.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Feb 8, 2016 -> 09:11 AM) 100% agreed. I'll admit, I've been a vocal critic of the Sox not doing anything to improve the outfield situation. However, if the Sox front office made decisions solely on what the fans wanted, this franchise would be a disaster. At least we would have avoided Mark Kotsay.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Feb 6, 2016 -> 12:47 AM) I only got to play for a couple hours, if that, but I really liked the Madison Square Garden mission. If those are what the story missions are going to be like, sign me up. The open world is really pretty and I like the premise, even if it is entirely absurd. The one major gripe I have is the bullet sponge enemies. The elite enemies or whatever they're calling them are just dudes walking around with a winter coat and a snow cap and they take a full round of bullets without staggering. I wish it was more like The Last of Us multiplayer where it hurt to get shot a couple times and you had to make a med kit and take time to apply it to heal. That would make their dark zone area much more interesting. No one would want to get into a fire fight with another player because it would be so easy to die. Now if you get into a fire fight it could go on for several minutes or one of you could easily just bail in the middle. Ha, I would have just quit and reloaded. FIFA career mode is so flaky that weird s*** happens all the time. I did, no dice. ended up doing the billionaire takeover in offseason anyhow and got more players.

We need to dispel with the notion that greg775 doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing.

This was really the cherry on the terrible nfl season sundae.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 6, 2016 -> 01:03 PM) Of course. We talk about it in the Marvel thread. Hail Cesear was ok. Had some good scenes but when it ended I wondered what the point was. Damn. Not surprised though, nothing about the movie looked interesting except for "directed by Joel and Ethan Cohen"

My guess: Levine was looking at rosters and just learned who Odorizzi was, created article around it.

Snake bitten. Going to be al long time between championships. Heartbreaking.

Have to say, Merkin and Hayes are tweeting more speculatory stories on acquisitions than I'm used to from them.

2 seasons is a lot of time.

I had a really bad Fifa moment where I had this really creative and fun end of transfer window, and didn't realized I needed to accept their contracts after i got the "accepted" emails. So the window ended and I was like..."where is everyone". So I basically lost all my players and gained no one. I should probably be fired.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 5, 2016 -> 10:09 AM) What about teams that are awful but aren't necessarily trying to be? They should be subsidized still even though they make terrible decisions? I get what you are saying. I just think a team's only objective is to put your team in the best possible situation to win a World Series. Sometimes that entails being really bad for a couple of years. I'd much rather win 63 games than 77-78 games if I'm one of these bad teams. It really annoys me that Arizona gets comp balance picks.

That would be huge for Denver. Their rebuild has seemed kind of haphazard, but they have nice assets. The denver nuggets trade Nurkic, Gary Harris and 2 first round picks for Blake Griffin *bulls fans heads explode* Obviously a joke trade, just saying.

Really could care less, money better spent then the absurd food costs her campaign had in 08.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 5, 2016 -> 10:12 AM) I don't see it that way at all. In fact I think it is the opposite. Team Clinton has been reacting to those debates and following the political winds and not pushing those winds. They have watered down things because the polls told them it was prudent to do so, not because they were compromising for the greater good. They have always moved to a political position, and not down from it because it wasn't fully popular. You are pre-inclined to believe such. In 08 she stuck with the individual mandate being necessary for healthcare reform (she was obviously right), she has stuck to the hyde amendment this year, and then pivots on things she is not as hardset on. There are worse things than a president being responsive to pressure from the base.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 5, 2016 -> 10:07 AM) True, but a significant amount of that core of young voters may not even have been eligible to vote in 2010. I think the quickest way to turn them back off of politics or at least push them into voting 3rd party rather than Democrats is the line that some Clinton supporters seem to be taking though, mainly that they're not "real" Democrats, fundamental change is a hopeless fantasy of dumb children, etc. Without some actual data of the ideological breakdown of Democratic voters and non-voters in Presidential and non-Presidential elections, I don't think you can really make that swipe in your first sentence. And for as much as I've supported the core concept of strategic voting over vanity pat-yourself-on-the-back 3rd party votes, the party establishment still shares in the blame if they have no coherent strategy or message to get people to the polls. In the 5 years I lived at my old house, I had exactly one candidate's campaign come door-to-door to talk and leave campaign literature (Pat McGuire, state senator). I compare that to first-hand experience of helping at the local level where the candidates canvased the entire area in the weeks leading up to the off-year spring election in order to drive turnout. You know well how disappointed I have been in DNC party leadership since Dean left. They are way too comfortable in owning only the presidency and seem to be in a terrible echo chamber of feeling comfortable due to national polling advantages and individual policy polling advantages. That said, it's hard for me to look at Sanders and not see the living embodiment of Greensox's hero worship on the left, that continues to focus on top down political change. It is insane to me, 7-9 years removed after the most successful liberal grassroots effort in 30 years that led to democratic policies that had been DOA for the same time period, we are in a position where I'm getting harangued that the way to single payer is 1) elect Bernie Sanders -> 2) Political revolution . This next president for dems if 2016 will be defense on policies from 08-10. I hope to God it doesn't take a complete collapse of all 3 houses for them to shake up the group and start over. I used to be so frustrated that the most liberal bill we could get was whatever bill nelson would vote for, but it's way worse to rely on executive action on everything, but still better than actively losing on policy.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 5, 2016 -> 09:49 AM) I'm not sure that it's the more activist left wing that sits out off-year elections. The DNC as a whole hasn't really had a strategy for that for decades whereas Republicans and conservatives have focused on politics from the local level on up for at least a couple of decades now. This is true to an extent, I'm not sure I believe the core youth support of Sanders that is loudest are the same as the group you are talking about

Putting the dominant 2007 staff together.

I love boogie.

I've never not had spotify premium and am shocked how useless the free version is. Being able to use it on mobile off wifi is hard not to have.

Good for him. Hope he can get some traction.

If the left wing of the democratic party actually cared about issues enough to vote during midterms more than sharing articles on social media they could probably have accomplished more. Hillary's campaign is so much better this time, she's a better candidate than 08. She's smart and she doesn't pull any punches. Something I didn't care for in 08 but see a lot of appeal in now. You know why Clinton has such a murky record? She has actually been in the policy fights of the last 20 years and having to be part of the decisions of watering down or strengthening bills that affected people. Meanwhile Sanders was in his safe lillywhite seat in Vermont sniping. Caucusing with the democrats and never getting an elite chair in the senate. But yeah, I'm sure as president his debate skillz will convince the country to vote in a wave of candidates and create a liberal dream gov't. I'm convinced.

I don't mind the upper deck at all anymore, I just wish we had a more modern outfield area. It's fine! It's good, but then you go to other parks and there aren't many worse. Anaheim probably the only one I'd say was more bare. Edit: the word I was looking for was concourse.

woo hoo, spotify now on echo.

Honestly though that was probably the ugliest design possible. Especially in a city like Chicago, can't believe they'd put up such a basic, functional park.