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FWIW, Minnesota is 24th in the league in pass defense

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 9, 2017 -> 04:26 PM) He didn't even go, did he? I thought the picture he posted was from 3 years ago, which is why everyone has been making fun of him for faking the whole thing to provoke outrage He went, there is a pic on his twitter page background of him standing for the anthem. The first pic with him and his wife in jerseys was from 2014

Seems like this was the worst kept secret in Hollywood

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 9, 2017 -> 02:45 PM) Im somewhat shocked that there hasnt been more blow back over the Pence thing. Personally I find it pretty disrespectful to be invited to someones place of business and then you make a spectacle of yourself. Its like going to a friends house for thanksgiving and then leaving because they served turkey. Just terrible manners. Everything gets blown over, because one day later something s***tier happens

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 9, 2017 -> 10:45 AM) But you can know that the Indians roughed him up by looking at other stats too Of course. Wins don’t tell much of the story but they are part of it. And dismissing them completely doesn’t really do much good. Chris Sale hasn’t been able to beat the Indians, and has been roughed up while trying. The end

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Oct 8, 2017 -> 09:55 PM) What does a pitching win tell you about anything? pitching wins looking at an entire career dont mean all that much. But knowing that Sale hasnt been able to beat the Indians in the regular season(and they roughed him up) is kind of important going into the playoffs

No, he didn’t say what we all think. He said something that sounds like he is insecure that a woman understands the game

QUOTE (ptatc @ Oct 6, 2017 -> 09:46 PM) The sox are in trouble then. I don't think they will spend spend 155 mil on a pitcher like the cubs did for Lester. That is so completely beyond the point he was making

Red Sox fans gonna be piiiissed

QUOTE (ptatc @ Oct 6, 2017 -> 04:54 PM) Where is he? ESPN St. Louis

QUOTE (flavum @ Oct 6, 2017 -> 11:17 AM) It would pretty sad if a healthy starting pitcher got shut down during the season, that may or may not help him in October. He made his starts and led baseball with only 214.1 innings. He just had a bad game. Honestly his last couple months haven’t been up to his standards. It’s not just a bad start, and it falls in line with what we have seen. He tires, giving him a little time to recover isn’t a terrible thing

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Oct 5, 2017 -> 05:50 PM) Read some story this year that Sale went away from the White Sox plan the last couple years of keeping his effort lower so he'd last longer into the season. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/...nth_extra::none Scroll down to his month numbers and you can see he clearly faded

This kind of reminds me of a September start between Detroit and the White Sox, where the sox would have a glimmer of hope for possible wildcard birth “if only they could beat Detroit....”. Verlander would rise to the challenge is Sale would give up 5.

Replay kind of f***ed the Astros, Gattis should be on third

If Nats let this go 5 games, they are gonna lose

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Oct 5, 2017 -> 11:06 AM) 1) this is a pretty obvious conclusion. Owning a car increases your likelihood of being in an auto-accident, ban cars! 2) who cares? It's a choice. Give people the info they need if you really want to (though, see #1, it's common sense). If you have someone in your family that has rage/anger issues and/or is suicidal or has depression or anxiety, probably not the best idea to have guns readily available. No, that’s the extreme conclusion. Automobiles have safety regulation, they are tested many times for multiple scenarios and things like seatbelts became mandatory and airbags are in pretty much all new vehicles. And vehicles that are considered dangerous, not street worthy, you are not allowed to drive. Yea, some cars can possibly reach 200MPH, but you don’t see rocket powered cars or nascar capable cars driving around your block every day? Why? Because that s*** is unsafe and we all know it. Something has to be done, a compromise needs to be made somewhere. People shouldn’t be able to easily modify their guns to become an automatic weapon as easy as he did. If you are stocking up on ammo, someone somewhere should ask “why is this happening? Why does he need this?”

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Oct 5, 2017 -> 09:44 AM) Purchase and possess. If you have a gun in your home you need a FOID card. I'm not sure if all states require them, but most do. I'm fine making that federal though. And in terms of sales, in Illinois there's a hotline you can call and give a FOID number and they'll verify if it's accurate. That's also how gun shops verify that you are legally able to buy a gun. I don't think the two are exactly the same. You don't take a driver's test to prove you can operate a car, you take it to prove you know the rules of the road. But regardless, i'm 100% behind mandatory training/certification for obtaining a FOID card, which is the legal requirement to using/possessing a gun. I'm sure Alpha or someone who's more into guns than me can speak to this, but a lot of this is already in existence from my understanding. Yeah, you're not registering the gun and the buyer and seller information on a national database, but there are still laws that need to be followed. I'm not super opposed to your suggestion here, but again I ask at the end of the day what does it solve? We're having this conversation not because of random crime using firearms but because of mass shooting tragedies, the vast majority of which involved people buying guns legally. The fact that we can, after the fact, trace the purchase of guns this guy used just goes to show a lot of this registration.tracing stuff is already happening. It doesn't stop anything though, so you're just forcing the 99% of gun owners to jump through a hoop. Like I said, i'm fine with training/certification requirements because that's just a sensible thing to do. I'm fine with limiting high capacity magazines. You can have fun shooting auto/semi auto weapons somewhere. You don't need to be shooting 100's of rounds at a time doing it though. I'm fine creating some kind of gun limit - there's no reason someone needs to own 20 types of the same gun unless you've got some good credentials (e.g., you're a certified seller or a collector or something that can be proven). I'm fine increasing the penalties, both civil and criminal, for people who make straw purchases and/or people/gun shops that don't do any sort of adequate background checks. I'm absolutely behind banning any felon, undocumented immigrant and/or anyone receiving mental health treatment from obtaining guns. I'm fine with the various waiting periods on gun purchases. I'm open to limiting sales at gun shows, though I don't really think that's fair to the gun companies nor legitimate gun owners. So maybe more about tightening up how purchases can be made. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I believe in Illinois all gun sales require a bill of sale and you're supposed to keep that record for 10 years. Not 100% on that though. I'm fine making that a requirement if it's not. You should be able to prove when you sold a gun, what type of gun, and the seller. Taking a drivers test is both rules of the road and knowing if you can operate a car. If you are bouncing off the curbs and don’t know how to park etc, you aren’t getting your license.

I just wish we could operate in between being able to stockpile 40 guns and thousands of rounds of ammo without anyone noticing, and “take away all the guns”. For 8 years everyone said Obama was coming to take all your guns and that was just false. I don’t think it is unfair to have some sort of system to insure that people know when someone is loading up on a bunch of guns and ammo like this guy did. Registry, cards, regulation, etc. something more than what is currently the status quo needs to be done.

QUOTE (Quin @ Oct 4, 2017 -> 06:07 PM) This I don't like. If this happens then the rats are jumping off the sinking ship.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 4, 2017 -> 05:43 PM) How many people have quit or gotten canned already and it hasn't been a full year yet. It's a straight-up reality show. He should hand out roses each week to those he wants to keep. He hired all the very best people

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/...960640117780480 Once again, Trumps past tweets are on point

This "Tillerson called Trump a moron" story should go over well

Hmmm, define “perfect”? I seem to remember him getting blown up and DFAed

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Oct 3, 2017 -> 01:58 PM) I'd rate year one of the rebuild an 8. From a talent acquisition standpoint, I'd give us a 9 or 10. In the past 12 months, we've acquired five-end pitching prospects in Kopech, Giolito, Lopez, Dunning, & Cease and four high-end positional prospects in Moncada, Jimenez, Rutherford, & Robert. In addition, they acquired another half-dozen interesting prospects in Basabe, Puckett, Gillaspie, Cordell, Clarkin, & Polo. Overall, I think Hahn did an awesome job moving his assets for value, demonstrating incredible patience that helped ensure his price was met. I'll admit I was a little disappointed with the Yankees trade (like everyone else), but overall it's hard not to be happy with the amount talent brought in. And this does not include the potential impact of the 2017 draft, which is way too early to evaluate but will hopefully be a strong one. Having said that, from a development standpoint I can only give this year a 7. Don't get me wrong, there were definitely many pluses. At the major league level, several key young guys came up in Moncada, Giolito, & Lopez and showed signs of what they will hopefully become. Guys like Sanchez & Leury look like legit major leaguers, even if they ultimately end up in reserve roles. Delmonico was simply awesome in his 40 game audition and looks like he might be a legit piece going forward. And this doesn't even include Abreu & Avi who both had spectacular years and could be part of our next competitive or be used to add more talent to the system. However, there were also some negatives this year and those start with Anderson & Rodon, two of our most important building blocks. While Tim definitely turned things around the last couple months, his overall 2017 season is very ugly. Not the type of result you want to see from what should be a key young cog and a kid that just signed a long-term deal. Carlos' season is disappointment primarily due to injuries. At times he flashed that legit ace potential, but he was once again inconsistent. As for the farm, 2017 was definitely a mixed bag. Kopech, Hansen, & Dunning made huge strides on the pitching side, while Adams & Guerrero had nice rebound seasons. Eloy was insane after he came over, Adolfo made some serious strides despite his flaws, & Zavala put himself on the map as legit catching prospect. Unfortunately there was still quite a bit of bad. Fulmer was a disaster, Burdi got injured, and several important positional prospects regressed in Fisher, Call, & Basabe. Collins had a mixed season, showing an incredible mix of power & patience for a catcher, but real bat to ball concerns. And the LatAm program continues to struggle IMO, providing minimal impact to our full season ball teams. I apologize for the lengthy post, but despite how happy we should all be with where the rebuild is at, I think it's important to highlight the player development issues the organization is still battling. Don’t ever make a lengthy, sound reasoning post on this website ever again

https://twitter.com/calebecarma/status/915281461435092992 Throwing paper towels into the crowd like he is giving away t shirts at a concert.