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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 23, 2016 -> 07:40 AM) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillar...5ed3a34?ref=yfp Hillary Clinton urged by experts to contest results in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania Nate Silver trashed this analysis last night.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 10:06 PM) Lol, such a typical comment from you. Ranaudo is nothing special, this isn't really a loss, but you continue to fail to recognize that depth is your friend. When your depth doesn't get picked up by anyone in the big leagues and winds up in korea, you don't actually have depth.

Sigh. The usual Indiana early season inexplicable stinker.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 07:49 PM) No one thought of Trump or Brexit. Until a deal is done, it isn't done and a lock out is looming. Come on owners and players...resolve this thing. has anyone seen any talk of what the holdup is? They were talking about having this done before the WS ended.

Well, substantially less than I thought he'd get.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 05:28 PM) He's spent more time criticizing Rosie O'Donnel, the NY Times, and Hamilton than he has white supremacists who openly align with him. I found this to be an interesting counterpoint:

Meanwhile, something bizarre is happening right now at both of the planet's poles. Normally at this time of year, Antarctic sea ice has begun melting while Arctic Sea ice is reforming. Both Antarctica and the Arctic are simultaneously at the lowest volume of sea ice ever recorded at this time of year. Antarctica is melting far faster than has been observed in any previous year. So far, Antarctica has been somewhat shielded from sea ice collapses as we've seen in the arctic due to a combination of melting on the continent (add fresh water to the ocean and it freezes easier) and the ozone hole (driving increased winds around the continent). The rapid dropoff there this year beyond what was seen even in years preceded by little melting on the continent could be an indication that we've entered a new regime - that melting is no longer being prevented by what is happening on the continent and another effect, like warming of subsurface waters, could be taking over. This has been predicted in some models of the interaction between Antarctica and the ocean. The Arctic might be even more alarming. The Arctic is right now in winter, meaning most of the sea ice is not seeing the sun at all. It's supposed to be refreezing right now - how could it not be freezing if it gets no sun? Well, there is less sea ice today than there was a week ago in the Arctic. A warm system pushed northward and is now hanging out over the arctic keeping temperatures above freezing even without sunlight. There's no record of sea ice melting in the Arctic during November in the historic measurements going back to 1979. Again this suggests the entry to a new regime/new normal in the Arctic. One of the things some groups have been pushing the last few years is that their model results show that as you add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, you weaken the jet streams that mark the boundaries between convection cells - heat up the poles and there is less temperature difference from one cell to another. A plausible result of weakening the jet streams is that it becomes easier for high temperature systems to move north and push Arctic air south. We saw things like that with the "Polar Vortex" events in 2014, but one year didn't make a trend. Basically that exact setup is happening again except the cold air this time has been pushed to Russia for now, and the warm air is so intense that the ice cap is melting in November. This type of behavior is now becoming common. Interactive Arctic Sea Ice graphs.

Steve Bannon, in July: Steve Bannon is "proud" that he created a platform for the alt-right. pic.twitter.com/6oqHY2hoHu — Kevin Drum (@kdrum) November 22, 2016 Donald Trump today: On Bannon:"If I thought he was a racist or alt-right or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn't even think about hiring him." — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016 Link

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 02:35 PM) Trump met with NYTimes, and had this to say: https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/801126093776449537 I'm glad he said that. I wish he would have more press interviews where this can all be discussed instead of Twitter. Maybe all the times he retweeted them?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 09:30 PM) Great to see Obama silent over all of this. SMH Per press reports one of them was hit by one of those flash/bang style concussion grenades and is in surgery having an arm amputated.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 11:28 AM) I have to say, I've been surprised at how little Sale's contract has mattered. It gets mentioned, but I think part of it is we are dealing with Yankees/Red Sox/Dodgers/etc. That's nice, but the 10 million in savings per year isn't really doing anything for them. PIttsburgh/STL would be the helpful teams there, but they don't seem to have the weapons. I'm pretty sure if Boston feels Sale is too expensive they'll just get Verlander and not really care too much about it. If this report were accurate, then that would be a sign that the contract status of the 2 pitchers has been mattering more than we think.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 11:10 AM) Don't get me wrong, I'm a Q fan club card carrying member. I changed my last name to Quintana. But I find it hard to believe the market for Q is higher. Sale is a slightly better pitcher, Quintana is very close and is under team control for longer. If I assume that each of them will repeat last season's WAR numbers, Quintana provides more overall value and more surplus value under this current contract. One game yeah I pick Sale. Trading for the guy and looking at multiple seasons?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 10:37 AM) Trump definitely is going to have to say something more pointed than his rather generic recent comments about the upcoming December 3rd North Carolina KKK March that David Duke will supposedly be attending. No he won't.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 10:42 AM) Also met with Michelle Rhea who was the champion of the scam charter school movement until she failed repeatedly. http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/tra...-htmlstory.html Lol I don't know which would be worse.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 10:34 AM) Maybe an Ed Secretary who will put Creationism back in the textbooks even though Trump could care less but just wants to serve up some red meat to the fundamentalist Christians (along with threatening Roe v. Wade). Who the F*** do you think they already interviewed for that position? Jerry Falwell Jr. I'm disappointed in you, usually you don't speculate on things that you could easily link. Anyway, yeah a person who teaches geology in Texas would have nothing to fear from this.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 10:19 AM) why bother, greg will ignore this and ask the same question in 2 pages Because I don't have to teach tomorrow and there's a pile of field trip reports next to me that I'm not going to grade until the caffeine kicks in. Edit: Oh and many of those will get worse as his other cabinet appointments come out I should note. He interviewed the author of Arizona's "Show us your papers" law for Homeland Security yesterday.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 04:17 AM) I'm still waiting for an answer to this question. ... Why is Trump racist? For his stance on immigrants? Is it his fault that the KKK loves him and is adopting him as their leader? I mean he has no control over that. If he's racist, fine, tell me when he did racist things besides wanting the wall. 1. The multi year campaign of lies insinuating that the first African American President could not possibly be from this country. 2. The long history of discrimination by his companies, which there is legal record of much of it. 3. Attacking a judge as unfit to rule on a case involving him because "he's a Mexican" 4. Insisting that the Central Park 5, a group of 5 black people charged with a beating and rape in the late 1980s, should have been put to death even though DNA evidence exonerated them. 5. Judging and testifying that a group of Native Americans wanting to open a casino that would compete with one of his didn't look enough like native americans. 6. Retweeting white supremacists at least 75 times during the campaign. The handle "@whitegenocide" would be a giveaway for anyone who cared. During 1 week in January, 62% of the people he retweeted were accounts that fit a description of white supremacist accounts. 7. Confronted with support from the klan in a debate, was unwilling to condemn it, blamed his failure to do so later on a faulty earpiece that only had issues with that question. 8. Appointed Steve Bannon to a special advisory position - equivalent in power to the chief of staff and making him one of the most powerful people in Washington. 9. Appointed Jeff Sessions, who was blocked from a judgeship by Republicans in the 1980s due to racism and noted that his main issue with the KKK was marijuana, Attorney General. 10. Falsely claiming that 80% of white people who are murdered are killed by blacks. 11. Lies about Muslims celebrating 9/11 in New Jersey. 12. Supports racial profiling to "prevent criminality". Endorsed stop and frisk, denied that it had been found unconstitutional when it clearly had been. 13. The entire Muslim ban. 14.“Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes… Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else…Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that’s guy’s lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks,” - Trump called these remarks in a book "probably true" when he was asked about them in 1997. Your own statements suggest that everything published in books must be true for your standards, he even is on record agreeing with that sentiment. 15. "Look, I’m a negotiator like you folks; we’re negotiators." - stereotyping Jews while giving a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition in December.

Well nobody else has mentioned it. There's an ongoing camp in North Dakota on the Standing Rock native American Reservation in protest of a planned pipeline that would go close to their camp and which would tunnel underneath the Missouri River - their main source of drinking water. Pipeline spills aren't uncommon enough that I can clearly say they're wrong to be worried - a spill on that pipeline could end their stable drinking water supply, and permitting such construction without the permission of the tribe would seemingly violate the text of treaties with the Sioux. The company and state have been using progressively more aggressive tactics to try to remove the encampment. Last night, in 25 degree fahrenheit weather, they turned a combination of tear gas, rubber bullets, and fire hoses on the encampment. Spraying hundreds of people with water in sub-freezing temperatures - apparently law enforcement doing it. Something like 20 people were hospitalized. This is pretty far from ok.

So, I keep still seeing people with the suggestion that we're still only a handful of players away and that the problem is the lack of a little more FA spending. So, my answer in this thread is: I want a team where we can look at them and say "this is the strongest organization top to bottom in the AL Central". A couple weeks ago I looked through Cleveland's roster and realized that aside from short term guys like Napoli and Davis, their roster is entirely under control next year, they only have to replace Santana the year after that, and despite the deals they made this year to get Miller they still have a huge amount of talent under control. One quick list check had them with 5-6 top 100(ish) quality guys even after giving up a top 25 talent for Miller, and that's not counting the guy on suspension for steroids, not counting any of their 2016 draft picks, and not noting that they still have Michael Brantley if he could come back healthy. The Cubs are the same basic way - they promoted seemingly everyone, gave up a top 25 player for Chapman, and still have 3 top-100 ish guys. These organizations are going to be really good for the next several years. They are world series quality organizations at the big league level and they're loaded at the minor league level. Literally no one for either organization is saying "we'll make the playoffs if everything goes right". No one is saying how they'd make a 15 game improvement if they signed one player based on the magic of how they'll work together, no one is describing how no one could have predicted that the 4th and 5th best relief pitcher on the roster would get hurt. I want an organization where if someone goes down, either the next guy up from AAA is a big league quality player who needs seasoning, or you trade for the top guy on the market at that position because your system can swing it. I want an organization where you're able to go and bid for a top of the line free agent because you know you have enough young talent coming up that you can replace your all star at another position when they reach free agency. It doesn't have to last forever. That's tough, esp. when you're not drafting in the top 10. Give me a 3 year window where on paper the White Sox are the most talented team in the AL Central and they're the most talented of any of the organizations in the AL central. Give me a 3 year window where we're not just hoping to squeak into the playoffs and hope your pitchers take care of things, give me a 3 year window where the wild card is a disappointment.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 06:07 PM) With this upcoming administration? No. The problem is the decades of using this as a standard tool to attack everyone. Again, it is meaningless when said now to a large portion of the population. So much so that a new label had to be made up to try to scare people with, but of course it didn't really work. The Democrats aren't going to win by using the Trump game plan of name calling. They are going to win by offering a smarter alternative. And what are we supposed to do when an entire party decides they're going to do things like figure out strategies to make sure as many african american votes are blocked as possible? What do you do when a party calls for "Self deportation"? What do you do when a party makes a key part of its campaign that there should be limits on where one religion should be able to build their facilities? That it's a large portion of the population makes it worse. A large portion of the population was more than happy to turn a blind eye when their own party declared that they were going to do anything they could to keep certain groups from voting. Now it's in their face, and that same group said "this is fine". "How dare you assert that our party is beholden to a bunch of racists" seems like a message that shouldn't fly anymore when Sieg Heil's are being thrown around.

QUOTE (Sleepy Harold @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 06:00 PM) if it meant getting/was the difference between getting a Torres/Fraizer/Rutherford back in a deal then sign me up...Headley's not very good but he's versatile (me trying to talk myself into the idea)??? Money is one resource the white sox do have, especially if they do start making rebuilding moves. A good GM would have no issue helping out by taking on a poor contract right now if it meant improving the talent level of the organization.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 05:42 PM) Maybe insulting more people would work out better? I agree. We should respect the important contributions of racism to the fabric of our society.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 05:39 PM) Congratulations for getting our worst nightmare elected President. If only I had gotten behind more voter suppression laws none of this would have happened.

QUOTE (miracleon35th @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 04:30 PM) At least one article claims the Yankees may be interested in Frazier.Yanks reportedly interested in Frazier They really want to lose Headley and also may want Frazier's power at DH, so this might make sense for the Yanks. I never considered them as a trading partner so I am not sure what they might agree to send back to the Sox for the Toddfather. This could be good news for Matt Davidson and Saladino but losing Frazier would create a large hole in the White Sox power numbers and continue the annual revolving door at third base. This article doesn't seem to know what it is talking about. The language "Sign" is not what anyone would use to describe the pursuits of Sale and Frazier. Is this a poor translation thing happening? I don't know this source at all so the fact that it is calling trades "signings" leaves me with little confidence.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 05:25 PM) They've GOT to draft the future QB of this franchise soon, if not its going to be a long decade once again. I like what they can build on defense, but offensively we have to draft and develop at the skill positions. There you go. Cutler's taken a big enough step back this year that they cannot conceivably say they will be a competitive team for a playoff spot with him next year, and you can't tell me that there's enough talent on the offensive side of the ball to make up for having to run a rookie QB out there a-la Dallas this year. The Bears look like they're going to have to be on the Titans/Jags/Bucs/Rams path next year of spending several years working a QB up, and they don't have the talent around that position to carry the QB spot.