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Ugh, WGN morning news, which I watch because they are funny! But I knew this would be the segment: Outline of torture report : "freezing baths" "forced feedings" "stress positions" (i.e. pulled out the parts largely known), no mention that it was done and killed several innocent people, and then followed up with their military analyst who says it is harmful to release their report. I'm sorry, but they had 10 years of explaining why this wasn't bad and was actively helpful, they don't get more time after it clearly was not to say "why does this need to be said?".

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/542380...3039488/photo/1

More along these lines: Remarkably, the black site teams regularly fought back against HQ, which kept demanding intel that didn't exist. (See, for ex, pp. 78-80). - Marc Ambinder Tweet

Pretty sure last game Missouri was the favorite was Vanderbilt.

Meh, I'm just excited, for the first time a few years my friends felt the need to actually talk crap about the white sox. Good! Friends talking baseball? Partying like it's 2007.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 09:04 PM) "I think it's fine because I'll be a member of the best team in Chicago." anymore on that interview?

Let me refine that, many of the people sent their to do this were also morally injured: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cia-lie...hniques-2014-12 Those that were in charge, should no doubt be punished.

I'm really glad this was released. Not only does it put to bed any notion of "was it torture?", it exposes the bigger lie at the heart of the CIA, that actions carried out are done by a bunch of well-trained, brilliant patriots pressing hard when they know they need info for the country...and yeah, no, it is the keystone cops.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/white-so...eff-samardzija/ Can't stand seeing "above average inning's eater" on the Q part, while waxing poetic on Samardjiza.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 07:23 PM) Yep. I've got him pegged for an extension. woo doggy.

CIA needs to be brought into real parts of government. This "we know what's best" crap has bit us over and over for 60 years.

Man this CIA doc is awful awful stuff. Awful stuff.

I appreciated Danks last year in that he was either just atrocious, or he was pretty good. IF you are gonna give up 5 runs, give up 20!

Would be lovely if he turned out as a bullpen piece.

The reporting of this deal has been so bizarre.

Props to the jokester who claimed it was Semien, Danish, and Trey. Really softened the landing.

QUOTE (flavum @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 05:02 PM) Still wouldn't be surprised if an Alexei trade to the Dodgers is coming. Just gonna throw it out there that I would then find all of our moves terrible, as our infield would have to be league worst.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 04:36 PM) We still have to significantly upgrade the defense. If we are going to build our team around the strength of pitching, we can't continue to ignore defense. Our team defense is just as bad today as it was when we started the off-season. That has to be addressed. Hanh / Kenny have to make another move and at a minimum we need a quality outfielder. Ideal scenario you get a quality outfielder and 3B and at that point, I say you are even favorites or close to even favorites. However, I doubt we have resources do to that. I totally agree.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 04:19 PM) That's just fandom - for some, not all. I'm one who didn't want to pay Robertson, but now that he's ours I'm finding ways to rationalize it. We're inclined to be happy about things the Sox do because we devote so much time to following them. Otherwise we'd run into some bumpy cognitive dissonance. I'll say this, I was someone who entered this offseason very scared that we were about to waste the next 2 years of a really great core of Abreu/Sale/Q. Others wanted to continue the build for a really strong 2018. I'm happy with this because I did not want to see any more irrelevant seasons from one of the best sox hitters of last 10 years, best sox pitcher in who knows how long, and Q, who is great. You are great Q.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 04:06 PM) The counterpoint is do I want to risk the White Sox's season on Viciedo being a vastly improved, tolerable OF to save that money? This is a silly hypothetical. Nobody is pointing a gun to our head saying "TAKE CRAWFORD OR YOU'RE STICK WITH VICIEDO"

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 04:10 PM) Considering those tickets were probably over 100 bucks. You could just sit in someones basement and get wasted for free. It seems like every NFL game these is a crazy amount of drunks and huge brawls. I don't think I would bring a kid to one of these games. Agreed, I don't think I ever want to go to a Bears game again after last years Rams-Bears game.

I haven't even been able to process this signing. Too much was invested in finding out what would happen with Samarzija trade.

QUOTE (MnSoxFan @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 03:53 PM) We did not even have to have our management tell us that we were all in (Theo). We figured it all out on our own with our mgmt moves. Considering we had a marketing campaign of "All In" i'm not sure we can claim high ground here.

What a world, where the yankees keep getting comp picks.

Do you really want to risk 20mill a year on the hope it was just a "loaded" of?