Balta1701

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 04:56 PM) Isn't it Prince, Moreland and Gallo? Doesn't get much more powerful So your first comment was sarcasm, I wasn't sure.

Made Fielder look terrible.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 04:54 PM) Not a lot of power for the Rangers coming up this inning. Isn't Prince Fielder leading off? Do they have power other than this?

Well there's a normal white sox play, can we avoid any more?

That was close.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 04:08 PM) Scouting experts were never very high on Sanchez. Still no one thought he could be this bad. "Utility player" would be fine, this isn't even close to "utility player". This is "how did he even hit at AA?" quality.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 03:46 PM) Aside from the Sale and Q contracts, Hahn has been a complete failure as a GM. Signing Abreu and drafting Rodon are pretty ok too.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 03:23 PM) I want someone good. That's kinda my reaction too. Heck, aren't we ahead in this game because of a defensive miscue on a double play ball?

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 02:57 PM) The whole system sucks. And a good percentage of the time they don't get it right on replay anyway. I definitely think it does help but these shouldn't take 3 minutes.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 02:33 PM) So again, what's your solution? Great we got rid of a dumb flag. You think that's stopping this guy from his hate? Should we start up some thought police? Keep tabs on anyone that has posted terrible things on the internet? Frankly this is one thing that I think as a society we do need to do better. Maybe it's not the government, but the companies that own social media networks need to do a better job. Anyway, how about we actually have people in positions of power stand up for the right thing and call this out? For an example... how many Republican Presidential Candidates or the people on their promotional cable network have pretended for the past 2 days that this had nothing to do with race? Or had the first thing out of their mouth be "we could never know what motivated a person like this". The governor of South Carolina said that immediately afterwards. The ex-governor of Texas called it an "accident". How about they actually stand up and say "no, the state of South Carolina publicly endorsing racism is a bad thing." You want an example? Here. @MittRomney Take down the #ConfederateFlag at the SC Capitol. To many, it is a symbol of racial hatred. Remove it now to honor #Charleston victims. Applause. How hard was that?

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 02:50 PM) Rangers lost the review rest of game right............wrong they can ask for umpire review so losing challenge does not mean s***. Umps would have the right to say no now to the Rangers, but in the case of a really close play the umps would rather get it right, and we'd probably prefer that anyway.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 02:48 PM) I don't understand how those replays take 5+ minutes usually. I distinctly remember the whole point of calling New York was that they were supposed to have seen the play and have the answer in hand before the umps even get the headsets on.

WTF are they doing in New York.

clamped down and started throwing strikes after that 2-0 pitch to Fielder.

Early walk to Andrus then falls behind Fielder.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 02:05 PM) Why don't you stop bringing attention to this piece of s*** and avoid spreading his hate manifesto? The publicity these killers get is oftentimes equally or even more important than the lives they take. I get you must tie every tragedy into your political agenda, but can you please do without posting this garbage? 1. I posted the link. You could choose not to follow it. 2. I feel understanding the thoughts that leads people to become terrorists is important in building a society that doesn't breed them. We turn our backs on the hatred people spew on a daily basis then when it comes back in the form of a terrorist with a gun we raise our hands and say "oh how could we have known".

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 01:55 PM) This isn't very confusing. The confederate flag didn't cause this, but it is the self-adopted symbol of the ideology that did. Just like the Nazi swastika didn't cause the Holocaust but it's a symbol used by neo-nazis to mark their ideology. And that's the real game. It's ok to hammer African Americans with little bits non-stop. The murdered pastor of that church also served in the SC State House and had to drive past a symbol every single day heading there to remind him that the state views him as less human than the real, important people. So of course it didn't cause this. But after all, you can't point to any single time that someone was called a N**** in front of this terrorist and say "that's the time that did it" so therefore all the times that he heard that word and called people that word are ok.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 01:38 PM) I was pointing out that even if we know someone's racist (not a crime) you can't prevent them from getting a gun (constitutional right). Hence the no response. There's little we can (should) do in that situation. What's your solution Balta? You're President for the day. Someone reports there's a racist in the south. Are you trying to convince Congress to pass a law that prevents racists from getting a gun (assuming you can get it done?) Should we do full background checks to buy a gun? How are you going to use the legal system to prevent a sick person like this from killing people absent entire gun bans, which even then isn't going to do it because prohibitions never, ever work. Except everywhere else in the developed world.

Gawker posted at least a large portion of the text in their article on it.

What appears to be Roof's personal website found, website listed as "lastrhodesian.com". Including txt file "manifesto" explaining how he realized that things were unfair for white people after the Trayvon Martin killing and he found the website of the "Council of Conservative Citizens". He then includes rants against a number of races, explains how he's read accounts of slave owning and that black people were better treated under slavery, comments on the fate of white kids who have to attend schools that are 90% black, bemoans the lack of skinheads or KKK doing anything about the problem of too many blacks, and states that he chose Charleston because it once had the highest ratio of blacks to whites in the country. Oh and here's a nice shot from the website.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 11:39 AM) Melky devalues Sale and the dodgers have made it clear since last season they are not dealing their top prospects. Any team that even wants to get us to talk about Sale is going to have to do a lot of things they otherwise wouldn't be willing to do.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 11:16 AM) the bargain basement specials. those reclamation players and counting on them to produce instead of really addressing the need to fully get viable players. We don't have the money to fill 6-7 positions in the starting lineup with "fully viable players" unless we get some into our system to fill slots cheaply. With 0 contributions from our farm system and money tied up in the starting rotation and bullpen...it is literally the only option.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 11:08 AM) It sucks that the cubs basically cheated to acquire all of these hitters. It's BS. Truth I'll buy that for Rizzo but who else?

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Jun 19, 2015 -> 11:10 PM) Very nice game for Saladino. 3 hits, a home run, and he has 7 stolen bases in his last 6 games. I wonder if they'll try him at second if he keeps this up for a bit. He couldn't hit worse than Sanchez if he tried. Why? The White Sox actually need someone to play SS next year and won't have a lot of money to spend to fill the role. What's the harm?

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jun 20, 2015 -> 09:18 AM) Lots of the bad drafting is also on Jerry Reinsdorf too though. Kenny likes tools, athletic types. JR didn't like draft spending though. That's how you end up with the Jared Mitchell's and Keenyn Walkers of the world. Jerry would much rather pay guys like Juan Pierre $5 million than put that cash into the draft. That has changed since the slotting system but it shouldn't have taken that for you to draft well. Jared Mitchell and Keenyn Walker, FWIW, both made general sense at the time they were drafted. Walker was a sandwich pick, not a first rounder - he's the talent level that is fair to expect in return if we just get a comp pick for Samardzija. Sometimes those guys turn out, sometimes they don't. Mitchell was on a better track and then destroyed his leg, that's one that might look a lot different if not for an injury. The biggest problem with both of those picks by far is the other OF on the board that the Sox joined 20+ other teams in passing when they drafted Mitchell and what happened with him afterwards. Neither one of them was a severe overdraft nor were they really "underslot" guys. They were picked in about the spot they should have been and they we paid appropriately. The problem with them is, if anything, the scouting failures that led to them being the selections, not the "draft spending" issue.