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QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 10:56 AM) I'm actually surprised it's only 40% With big power comes big Ks

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 27, 2016 -> 08:19 PM) Rondon or Alvarez would be nice bench guys, 2-3 years from now...just not sure if the Sox have the patience to wait on their bats to come around. With the offensive challenges this organization faces, though, not sure that we could afford to give up that much OPS for defense-first players. Then we have the "Carlos Sanchez/Saladino" problem...where a player gets stereotyped as a utility guy after a limited number of major league at-bats that aren't that success (500's OPS). The same thing more or less happened with Semien, and then Micah just didn't have the arm to play other positions other than second or he would have fallen into the same trap as well. Leury Garcia's another obvious name that comes to mind. And Eduardo Escobar. Guess it's not such a great thing to claim we specialize in developing "utility" infielders. They were earmarked for utility roles in the minors. This was based on scouting the tools and performances over the years, not based on the MLB play.

QUOTE (Dizzy Sox @ Jun 27, 2016 -> 06:05 PM) FWIW, look at Anderson's walks month-by-month in the minors over the last two years. In both instances he goes from none/very little walks to, well, not a lot but at least some: A M J J A 2016 0 8 2015 1 4 5 6 8 Hopefully we will see the same progression in the majors...otherwise he's going to be limiting himself to a bottom third of the order profile. He will get a few. However, he won't get to a point where posters won't comment or complain about it. He will never be in the "acceptable" range for walks. I think he will be a better than average hitter when people look at the body of work.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 07:18 AM) I agree. It's just a little odd in college admissions. Having a diverse, world wide representation of students creates a rich and powerful learning environment. As you know most of what you learn in college is from your fellow students. Mixing prior knowledge from around the world, not just from Texas public schools, improves the university. It is also ironic that the woman who first brought the suit would not have been admitted if she were a minority. She didn't qualify academically. I have real mixed feelings on this. I agree that using race in most instances is wrong. About the only area I see a basis is education where it does improve the overall product. It's almost like hiring actors for a production. You know what you want the end product to look like and you hire the actors that make the production best. The bigger issue is more socioeconomic factors. Inner city public schools tend to have a more difficult time getting students ready for college. These schools also tend to have more minorities. So part of the reason for the "discrimination" is to diversify the education, to strengthen it but also to give those who had a disadvantage in high school more of a chance. It is really one with mixed feelings all around.

QUOTE (CB2.0 @ Jun 20, 2016 -> 11:55 PM) Teaching hasn't been a "sacrifice" for at least 20 years. It's the most protected and "investement lucractive" job in the US. I would personally like to see teachers get paid six figures and pay their own way...like I do. In the real world, you can only put $16.5K a year OF YOUR OWN pre-tax $ AWAY per year, to a retirement plan. That's not even talking about HEALTH. In the democrat world, you become a teacher or union employee of a state, put in 20-25 years, and retire with your best scale for life and medical while dips***s like me pay for it. Then, wonder why all these teachers/cops/firemen are socially malformed and drunken f***ups all the time at the age of 55. It's not from their jobs. It's because they never learned how to be an adult. These statements apply to all of these people in all situations? You have lost all credibility.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Jun 26, 2016 -> 10:46 PM) 73 at bats without a walk. He rarely drew walks in the minors. I don't know why people are hoping it will change in the MLB.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 27, 2016 -> 10:55 AM) Yeah I read that just a minute ago. Velocity drops from HS pitchers in their development not the most fun thing to read. He basically sounds like Chris Beck...not very exciting. This is not uncommon for a couple of years as some need to adjust to the workload. The famous example was Jon Garland whom the Cubs traded to the Sox partially due to his drop in velocity.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jun 27, 2016 -> 10:21 AM) Thome, Dye, and Podsednik were all pretty good. Dye and Thome spent time in the AL prior though. Melky is fine and he's been in both leagues. Case by case basis. Posters were calling for his head last year. I think it did take him a year to adjust, to the league again and maybe the park.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Jun 26, 2016 -> 01:03 PM) Frazier grew up in New Jersey, no? I don't think he's a "farm boy." Getting to the point though, yes he does suck. Apparently Stone said he laughed it off the other day by saying "I may have 50 homers and 10 doubles." Hilarious! Yes, he Toms River Jersey city guy. Another bias against the sterotypical "big strong farm hick."

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Jun 26, 2016 -> 11:26 AM) This is what I was trying to explain in a different thread, but Y2Jimmy and a few others didn't get what I was saying. He doesn't have much of any bad luck at all. He just can't make solid contact consistently enough for that BABIP to go up. I also think he's quite overrated defensively. He's ok, but not as good as I thought he would be. Someone posted an article in another thread showing that he has changed his swing. He now swings with more of an upper cut. This would cause the increased pop up rate and decreased line drives. I still think there is something about Comiskey that gets these guys to try to lift everything for a HR and really messes with them.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 26, 2016 -> 05:31 PM) I continue to be floored by a couple of things outside of the actual decision: - That major banks and financial businesses did not seem to conduct their own polling to help hedge any leave decision - That there have been no think tanks or teams that have outlined any vision for what the exit may have looked like This HAD been a discussion for 2 years. It's striking to me that it appears as if no institutions bothered to assume leave was a possibility. To hear them talk right now, this is starting from zero. They have a couple of years to figure it out, if it actually happens. Maybe these large institutions know more of the behind the scenes activity and still doubt it will actually happen.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 26, 2016 -> 03:54 PM) This win sponsored by the Beatles "Blue Jay Way" . Even though it sounds like the title of a Blue Jay win,I had to use it because hardly any songs have Blue Jay in the title and it's the last game of the season against the Jays. Impressive to find Blue Jay in a title.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 21, 2016 -> 04:26 PM) #VoteTribe ‏@Indians 1h1 hour ago Brantley update: After continued discomfort, he was re-examined, received a cortisone shot and is dealing with R biceps tendon tendinitis. don't be surprised if a labrum issue pops up.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 25, 2016 -> 08:08 PM) In terms of winning on individual stocks vs. insiders/institutional investors, there's no way Joe the Plumber can win. It's like Las Vegas or Macau. If we're talking about no-load mutual funds, like Vanguard/Oakmark/Legg Mason/Fidelity, etc., that's fine. Simple rules, 100 minus your age should be in stocks/mutual funds/equities, the rest in bonds. No more than 10% of your money in any one stock/company. Hedge your investments with a small amount of gold/precious metals. No more than 25-30% (tops) going into real estate/mortgage. Living here in China, there's no way in hell I would trust Alibaba, Baidu or any of the SOE's in terms of their numbers...no numbers can be trusted by banks, the government or individual companies. I invested in 500 shares of Tencent and 300 into Taiwan Semiconductor, but that's it, having lived here five years. Everything else is in a basket of mutual funds and individual companies that pay higher dividends, like phone/utility and energy companies...with some gold (Gold Line is a total ripoff, that's one company my father got tricked by) coins, stamps, baseball cards, but mostly in mutual funds (75%) and 25% in individual stocks through Edward Jones (I make all the trades, never have let them buy a single thing, I make all the stock picking and selling decisions). Y2HH said it best: the simplistic way everyone can understand, don't spend more than you have.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 25, 2016 -> 03:01 PM) Agree. Agree. Disagree. The idea they don't owe anything? Absurd. They worked 30-40 years to earn that money AND paid taxes upon making it, spending it, or giving it away in various ways, such as property tax, sales tax, charitable contributions, etc. To pretend all of that money was just given to them and they "gave nothing back" is purely false. They already paid what they owed...it's not their fault the government squandered it on defense spending or whatever pork projects they had in mind when they got elected. Disagree. Speaking as a 40 year old, no, I don't feel responsible to "passing off a worse country than how we found it", because it's not actually worse. I see more opportunity around today than ever before. People just aren't seizing on it because they want to play the role of starving artist like most young dreamers. It's time we started waking up to the reality that is the world, instead. I wanted to go to an out of state university like most of my friends at the time did...when I visited them I was like, "YES! This is what I want!" The truth is, however, I had no idea what I was talking about at the time, of course, I was just a kid...and "life experiences" were more important to me than setting the stage for my future. Fortunately, (yes, fortunately) I couldn't afford it...and I wasn't about to take out a bunch of student loans because I was taught debt is dumb growing up...so I went to an in state school that was WAY cheaper. Instead of chasing dreams via liberal arts courses and graduating with a worthless degree and tens of thousands of student loan debt, I decided it was time to grow up a bit and be the adult I wanted people to treat me like. I went to DeVry full time while working nights AND weekends and I learned a trade that would be useful to the world. Was my life one huge party back then? No. If I wasn't at school, I was taking the train to work, and if I wasn't at work, I was likely at school or sleeping. Again agree...I'm not fond of the way our government runs. I'm not a fan of our insane defense spending, nor am I a fan of subsidies and corporate welfare. I wish they'd take that money and use it for better purposes, such as research, staffing national parks, and perhaps trade programs as a alternative choice to overpriced college degrees which are often useless. But to blame the older generation as if "we" caused this mess is absurd. I really don't consider myself old yet, by the way. This money, be it in the form of real estate, savings, 401k's or pensions...wasn't handed too us for free. We earned it and paid our taxes/dues along the way. The way I look at money these days is they print enough of it...so it's out there for the taking, and if you look in the right places it's not all that hard to get. Of my immediate friends, I'm the only one with a college education (if you want to call DeVry a true college education)...the others have high school diplomas and both make over 90k a year. How is that possible? They learned a skill the world cares about. Oh, and one of them grew up on welfare to boot, so let's not play the privilege card, either. The three of us grew up in blue collar Bridgeport, and not one of us has a "connected" city job...we all work white collar computer jobs. Oh and as for Social Security, I also treat it as something I'll never receive...I trust our government as far as I can throw it with my future. If I receive a dollar a month when I retire from SS I'll consider it a win. In the mean time, I'm investing for retirement on my own...I don't plan on needing them. Thank you. I don't even need to reply. I really like your stance on social security, it's the same as my own. I never plan on it being there and am creating my own retirement plan.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 25, 2016 -> 08:00 AM) Imagine you're a baby...do you really deserve to have a $19 trillion deficit hanging over your head that you had nothing to do with creating? Obviously, there's no easy or fair way to do this. One area I would recommend (and Warren Buffett agrees) is with the returning the estate tax to where it was in the late 90's (adjusted for inflation over the last 15-20 years) and having the rich pay a higher tax than the current 20% on capital gains. Simplifying the tax code, making it easier on not only individuals but small businesses. Prison reform...too much money is being wasted on ineffective policy with a high recidivism rate. Revisiting the harsh punishment system for drug crimes. Addressing the two core issues (fear of immigrants/Islam/terrorism) and fear of change (globalization/free trade/crippling of unions/outsourcing/loss of blue collar jobs), those are driving movements around the world on the right as well as the left. But two sides of the same coin, just different drivers/motivations/fears. Economics is always going to be a part of it, but culture is just as important, when we start going into the areas of religion and tolerance for other religions (as well as the growing numbers of people not oriented around any religious belief at all). Whether it's the Occupy Wall Street/1% vs. 99%/Us against Wall Street Bankers/Venture Capitalists or the Tea Party, unless the political middle/moderates can come up with solutions that can be universally-agreed upon by both sides, then it will be difficult to make progress and things will continue to be polarized with the status quo (essentially represented by Hillary Clinton) prevailing. And what did the "old" people do to create the 19 trillion dollar deficit? All of the issues you bring up have absolutely nothing to do with your original statement of taking money from the old people who have worked 30-40 years to earn that money and give it to the young people who haven't earned their money.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 25, 2016 -> 01:51 AM) I would hardly call all of the benefits that went to soldiers coming back from World War II such as the GI Bill and affordable housing loans financed by the government...typically, were there lots of "broke" people in the 1940's and 1950's? Were the college/university costs nearly as high back at that time, in comparison to the average entry-level salary? One way or the other, if the generation of 18-30 year olds (and under) doesn't succeed, will it really have been all their fault when more than half the people growing up in the past could still make a "good living" in blue collar factory jobs and have enough money to raise a couple of children and, in many situations, for their wives to stay at home with the kids? When people are working longer and harder...and their incomes are not compensating them for their efforts...and they're not only not geting ahead but unable to save money and both parents have to work because that's the only way to survive financially (in order to give the kids that they never see a theoretically better future life/education)...something is inherently wrong with the system. Or we could just enact about half of the perfectly common sense reforms Michael Moore suggests in his latest documentary, things like improving the quality of school lunch food or prison reform (that idea came from Norway...or simply doing away with the self-perpetuating drug crime/for profit prison system, which is clearly broken). http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/movies/r...ocumentary.html Now I see the issue. Every generation claims the same things. If you are looking to the WWII vets to save money, I hate to tell you hut there aren't enough left to make a big difference and if you think they are making enough money to make a difference you are mistaken. Besides I was referring to the current group of people who graduated from college in the 70s who are retiring not going that far back to a generation where there a4e so few left. College costs have always gone up and graduates always claim the same burden. In my profession, the starting salary has douhled while the cost of school has gone up 50% in the last 30 years. Studies have shown that many retirees have to get part time jobs just to afford to live. Taking money from the old who can't affird it just to make the young people lives more affordable is not a way to help the economy. They need to work their way up the food chain just like every generation.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 10:58 PM) Your wish is my command. , this one a sequence of 101-102-101 on his fastball. Consider it a teaser for tomorrow's article. Still stands too high with the follow through but not as drastic in this one. He does look consistent though. How did he look with a guy on first? With all of the twisting to the 3B side, it would be really tough to have a good pick off move.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 10:46 PM) This win sponsored by AC/DC "The Razors Edge" . Now I can't find the Sox and Roll band emoticon . Grrr. Got it now Very nice!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 10:02 PM) Let's be honest. There are only a few solutions here that are realistic ones...but that are the political 3rd rail. 1) Older/retired workers agreeing to cut backs in their benefits (SS) or pensions in order to redistribute some of that money to their children/grandchildren's generation. OR, raising taxes on the wealthier older people across the world who have enjoyed the protection (freedom) of their governments from 1945 until today. 2) More immigrants in the areas of high tech/green energy, etc. POLITICALLY unpopular, except in Silicon Valley. 3) All of the governments of the world, but especially the Americans and now the Chinese...cutting back by 25-50% on defense spending and redistributing that money into more productive areas of the economy. https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%...amp;h=mAQFg_zaQ Think it was already mentioned...most Brits who voted don't even know what the EU is and what benefits it confers. Why do the old people need to give money to the young people in all of these scenarios? If the old people started out broke and worked their way up to making more money, why can't young people do the same?

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 08:01 PM) I think it's been that way in baseball for over a decade. At one time the casual baseball fan to name a few catchers. It's not that way anymore. If they can hit they want to move them to another position. If there was another modern day Munson or Fisk I bet most organizations would turn them into OF or 1B. Hawk tried.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 04:15 PM) No place! I tore my labrum during my senior year of HS (didn't know it then), went to a small academic focused college and pitched for a year before the labrum tear made me too useless to get by on cunning and guile anymore. Despite Anthony Romeo's best efforts, I wasn't quite right after surgery and the time off got me interested in other pursuits. It may be 5 years since I threw a baseball at this point. If he couldn't fix it, no one can. Unless maybe you had a better ptatc.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 02:20 PM) I don't know, I'm not sure I agree. The more they poll the anti immigration furor doesn't even overlap with "economic anxiety". Many people are very anti-immigration. And I don't even think it's a "they are taking our jobs" as much as thread of changing of values. I'm sure there is some of both. We have this type of discussion in the clinic all the time. The factory/warehouse workers will bring up the "they are taking my job" stance. The farmers will state "I can't find anyone other than the immigrants to do the field work. I used to hire all high school and college kids but they won't do it now." For some immigration reform is very economically driven, on both sides.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 01:47 PM) It is really too bad that the big picture is getting missed here. Both with Trump and Brexit, there are a lot of people fed up with the system and the way things are going in their respective countries. They feel like they don't have a voice, and with 21st century politics having turned into it being more important to mock your opponents than to actually learn something from them, these are the ways that people see they can even the score and stick it to the man. It would be nice if we could look at things in gray's anymore instead of black and white. Fixing a flawed system doesn't have to be a victory or a loss. But when the alternatives that get set up are extremes of one side or the other, people can't be surprised when the flow is to the opposite extreme of what we have been doing. Brexit should scare the crap out of anyone here in the United States because that same undercurrent of anger, resentment, and frustration exists right here in the US, and has already given us Donald Trump. More important than what the guy actually stands for is why people are actually gravitating towards people like him, and even Bernie Sanders to a large extent. Hopefully people starting paying attention the "why" before it is too late here. Agreed. This is the bigger picture and bigger worry. Too many people want black and white or right and wrong and this polarizes the field.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 01:51 PM) Those aren't mutually exclusive. No they aren't but age also wasn't the demographic that had the highest correlation to the vote. Just thought I would add to the information.