Balta1701

Tell me what we care about more, guns or a 6 year old. There's my case.

With everything we've heard about him being a defensive work in progress I'm not at all surprised he's going to need work on this. I'm just darn glad that the White Sox signed a veteran for 2 years to buy him the time to work on those things. This is literally not the first case of this from the White Sox, Tyler Flowers was a weak framer when the White Sox dumped him for the big upgrade that was Alex Avila and Dioner Navarro in our successful 2016 championship campaign, but he's turned himself into one of the better ones in the league. This is a skill people can learn and a number of people have gotten better at that as people have paid more attention to it.

Americans care more about kids than guns.

Fair enough. I still don't think we've seen the last of him as I'm a believer in his stuff, but if he cannot repeat his motion and cannot control pitches then the stuff doesn't translate into outs. At least when we rushed him in 2016 the success of that season was worth it.

This is one where the full right doesn't necessarily act in a way that is easily understood outside of the religious motivation. The same guy who described people literally marching below swastikas and chanting "Jews will not replace us" as "Very fine people" now has a plaque supporting him at the new American embassy in Jerusalem. If that isn't a contradiction I don't know what is. This is the complexity of the religious relationship over there. They may be totally ok with getting rid of Jews over here as enemies of the pure race, but at the same time the religious portion of this group also needs Israel to exist and to begin rebuilding the temple at the site of the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa Mosque to launch the final war that will bring the second coming.

How to not file for arbitration after 2020.

In a grouphttp://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23534120/ex-teammate-mark-teixeira-not-surprised-suspension-seattle-mariners-robinson-cano with Cano and ARod.

If we had to take the gambles, I'd be much more comfortable giving Sale-like contracts to Kopech and Jiminez when they break in than trying to figure out the puzzle with Moncada. It's hard to figure out how to make the numbers work with him when he already has that $30 mil.

If he took that deal starting right now, this year, he'd have $150 million in the bank and he'd hit free agency again at age 30, so he'd have a shot at a good paycheck after that based on when Cano hit free agency, so he could still pull off the same amount of money, give or take, with a greater guarantee up front, if it started right now.

If either of these guys is not big league ready by September 1 of this year, then screw it I'll wait for April 15.

There is a huge difference between all of those guys and Moncada. Sale, Anderson, Trout - they only had first round guaranteed money, they had less than $5 million guaranteed in the bank when they took their contracts. Yoan got a $31.5 million signing bonus with the Red Sox, so you can't do the "He's guaranteeing himself a millionaire for life" when he already is one, and that's a big difference from everyone you mentioned.

Read your own f***ing words, you getting to feel like a big man and having the Colorado shooter put to death more quickly is not going to "stop this". You said it would. Bulls***.

How the f*** is betraying our constitution and principles to make you feel better about yourself by being angry at the perpetrator actually going to "stop it"? Maybe you should have frowned harder at this guy. If only your glare had been more terrifying this wouldn't have happened.

Are you counting this year? Because that might have a shot at getting done since it's more than he'd make during these 8 years Guessing some not-unreasonable numbers: 2018 Pre Arb 2019 pre Arb 2020 Pre Arb 2021 Arb 1 ~$12 mil 2022 Arb 2 ~ $17 mil 2023 Arb 3 ~ $22 mil 2024 FA Year 1 - $32 mil 2025 FA Year 2 - $32 mil Give or take a little bit, right now he'd be on pace to earn about $115 mil-ish over that 8 year time period. If you're counting next year as year 1, I don't think so, he'd be better off going to free agency.

He's 17 right? The Texas penal code penalties for making firearms accessible to minors only apply if the shooter is under 17.

You should really go educate yourself about those 2 before you make your posts. There's a whole book from the guy quoted here.

It's Texas so he probably will be on death row eventually, but what happens to the fraction of the families who don't believe in the death penalty? They shouldn't matter?

But...if they're willing to vote for a standard, more-guns-everywhere Republican, regardless of what they say when someone calls them on the phone, then they really don't actually care about that issue. The politicians are making themselves perfectly clear - more guns everywhere, and they have majorities in the Texas state House, Senate, Governor's office, ditto the national level. If they make their platforms perfectly clear and then people vote for them, they're doing what they said they'd do.

god I hate to think this way, but tactically, what a setup for a shooter that would be. You get position and either you have a stampede when you take your first shot, or you have all of your targets trapped, or funneled into a single area.

The ones who are in office and in power are representing their constituents quite well in this case.

Sigh.

If he's our 3rd option utility guy next year after hitting well enough to survive at Charlotte, I see no issue with that.

Have we ever seen that in this ballpark? How hard did he have to hit that for it to bounce 300 feet and then actually be stuck so much that the ump had to struggle to pull it out? H. Christ.

There is no difference in cost or service time between calling the guy up mid-July and calling him up in September. If they wait until 2 weeks in April 2019, that would save a year of service time and buy us an extra year of free agency. I think Eloy Jiminez may accidentally trigger nuclear fusion hitting a baseball too hard at AAA if we make him wait until April 15. If we call either of them up now, they would be "Super 2 players". It would NOT cost us a year of control, we would have both of them 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. However, if they are called up now, or any time before ~mid July, the called up players would be arbitration eligible in 2021. If they're as good as they look, if they are called up now, in 2021 they would each be paid ~$12 million, and their salaries in each subsequent season will be higher. On the other hand, if they are called up after the Super-2 deadline, called up in mid-July, then in 2021 they will be minimum salary players again and their first arbitration year will be 2022. Effectively, each player will probably make another $20 million in total prior to 2024 if they are called up now compared to what they will make if you wait until mid-July. If you call them up now, they have 4 arbitration years. If you wait until mid-July, they have 3 arbitration years. If you wait until April 15, you add in an extra year of control through 2025, but that year is an arbitration year and the player would be back to having 4 arbitration years.