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QUOTE (FT35 @ Dec 5, 2017 -> 07:01 PM) Lol! Probably...but still! He was a cut candidate imo... He was definitely a non-tender candidate. Many did want exactly that to happen. Obviously not many of those people will fess up to that now, but they know who they are.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Dec 6, 2017 -> 02:04 AM) Phillies signed Gutierrez Dang. Well, I guess it was a long shot at best anyway.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Dec 6, 2017 -> 09:41 AM) Barring any major changes, I find that very unlikely. He seems to express his desire to stay in Chicago for life every time he's interviewed. I think if we put a decent 3 to 5 year deal in front of him, he would sign it. Everything you hear is how much he likes it here, and how much he is liked here. Even if his bat fades at the end of a deal, his money wouldn't cripple the team where they would be in the rebuild and overall salary structure. Plus even if he does fade, he is still like having another coach on the bench and the kids seem to love him.

NBC Sports Chicago‏Verified account @NBCSChicago 51m51 minutes ago Bears shutting down Kyle Long for the season: http://bit.ly/2iqttms

Bob Nightengale‏Verified account @BNightengale 40m40 minutes ago Wily Peralta, who earned $4.275 million last year with #Brewers, takes a $1.525M one-year guarantee to join the #Royals, with $1.25M in incentives, per @rustindodd

Craig Mish‏Verified account @CraigMish 4h4 hours ago SourceS : Full trade offer from SF to Miami for Giancarlo Stanton. Tyler Beede Heliot Ramos (1st noted by @JoeFrisaro ) Chris Shaw Christian Arroyo @jonmorosi had 250 mil 1st @clarkspencer had some combo of this deal also.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 5, 2017 -> 02:31 PM) That was the only guy I wanted (assumed Maitan would not) The catcher is another guy who had my attention.

Jim Callis‏Verified account @jimcallisMLB 2h2 hours ago Jim Callis Retweeted DJ No because I knew Beer was polarizing after another rough summer with @USABaseballCNT. If you like him, you look at the Clemson number and believe the power plays. If you don't, you wonder how much he'll hit with wood. Offers little beyond the bat. @MLBDraft

Chris De Luca‏Verified account @ChrisDeLuca[/url] Just posted; Zach LaVine’s #Bulls debut now looks to be more like early January -

Mark Lazerus‏Verified account @MarkLazerus 2h2 hours ago Corey Crawford should start skating again tomorrow here in Chicago. Good sign.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 5, 2017 -> 10:39 AM) Jesse SanchezVerified account @JesseSanchezMLB Former Braves prospect Yefri del Rosario has found a new team. The RHP agreed to a $650K deal with the Royals. The pitcher was one of 12 prospects granted free agency after an MLB investigation determined Atlanta circumvented the international signing guidelines. @MLBPipeline Jesse Sanchez‏Verified account @JesseSanchezMLB 4h4 hours ago Jesse Sanchez Retweeted MLB Pipeline Rosario had multiple offers and turned down more money to sign with KC. The reason? His baseball idol was Yordano Ventura and he wants to pitch in the same organization where his hero once pitched.

Bob Nightengale‏Verified account @BNightengale 17m17 minutes ago The #Tigers sign OF Leonys Martin to one-year, $1.75 million contract with 1.1 million in incentives

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Dec 5, 2017 -> 12:38 PM) That's not a great example. The further you get away from 50/50, the less proportional representation is going to be. A party with, say, 10% popularity is not going to have 10% of seats. They're likely going to have none. Chicago is overwhelmingly Democratic. Republicans are seeing massive over-representation even in states that are near 50/50. Sometimes they get far more seats even with fewer votes. If 90% of one group are concentrated in one area, while the other party is better spread out in order to make that 50/50 total, it isn't going to be an even distribution.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 5, 2017 -> 12:35 PM) The New York Times @nytimes Breaking News: Russia has been barred from the 2018 Winter Games for systematic doping. It's a punishment without precedent in Olympic history. Banned from their own Olympics. Damn.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 5, 2017 -> 12:33 PM) Dumb question: Do they adjust electoral votes every four years to account for population changes? I believe it is every 10 years corresponding with the census.

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Dec 5, 2017 -> 12:15 PM) I've been reading that Maitan's stock is down considerably, enough for him to likely fall out of the top 100 prospects due to questions about some bad weight gain? He's far too young to give up on, but he also seems to be viewed as much riskier than before. If we had the money, a guy like that is absolutely worth the gamble. You can't teach ceiling.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 5, 2017 -> 11:28 AM) Partisan gerrymandering is bad regardless of who does it and I hope Kennedy finds a way to significantly tamp it down in Gill v. Whitford. Democrats just have a heck of a lot less of an opportunity to do it at the state level given the Republican wave in 2010, but they do engage in it. Voter suppression is still heavily a Republican project, though. We don't really seem to see the same sorts of efforts--instituting voter ID schemes that conveniently allow all sorts of dem-likely ID's while not allowing rep-likely ID's, closing down R polling places, restricting early voting in R areas, not providing nearly enough voting machines on election days for R areas, purging voter roles of likely R voters, and more--coming from Democrats as we do from Republicans across the country. You missed the point. Population distribution isn't even, and neither is the distribution of votes within those areas. Chicago is a great example of that. The population of democrats in the city is so evenly highly and distributed that in previous elections there were literally zero Republicans in office, despite there being significantly more Republicans in the city. Democratic votes tend to be concentrated in much higher levels within urban areas, while Republican votes tend to be much more sparsely concentrated, but more widely spread. That is how you see the heatmap from the last election where despite having a much lower percentage of votes, a much higher portion of the physical area of the country voted republican. Short of the creating the long and drawn out ear muff type district like we see in Chicago that extends for long mileages to encompass both urban and rural areas, there is only so much that can be done with a population distribution problem.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 5, 2017 -> 11:18 AM) Look to Wisconsin. 60% control of the state house with only 48% of the vote and likely enough voter suppression to have swung the Presidential vote in that state last year. Pennsylvania, a fairly purple state, has 12 Republican and 5 Democratic representatives in the US House despite Democrats getting 52% of the overall House vote in the state. We're a "representative" democracy in name only. It doesn't really work that way. Perfect example. The City Council in Chicago is 98% Democratic. Pretty sure Chicago is more than 2% Republican.

Ken Rosenthal‏Verified account @Ken_Rosenthal 3h3 hours ago Ken Rosenthal Retweeted Ken Rosenthal Ohtani met with #Dodgers in addition to #SFGiants yesterday, sources tell The Athletic.

Jim Callis‏Verified account @jimcallisMLB 2h2 hours ago Jim Callis Retweeted MLB Pipeline At this stage, this @MLBDraft crop appears at be the best since 2011. Not as good as that deep group, but best since then.

Jesse SanchezVerified account @JesseSanchezMLB Former Braves prospect Yefri del Rosario has found a new team. The RHP agreed to a $650K deal with the Royals. The pitcher was one of 12 prospects granted free agency after an MLB investigation determined Atlanta circumvented the international signing guidelines. @MLBPipeline

Jeff Passan‏Verified account @JeffPassan 18m18 minutes ago Source: RHP Miles Mikolas and the St. Louis Cardinals are nearing an agreement on a multiyear deal. Mikolas has thrived the last three seasons in Japan and would provide another option in an already-deep Cardinals rotation. Would leave open possibility for trades as well.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 5, 2017 -> 09:51 AM) "Please elect my son" That was my personal favorite part of this. Hooray for fiefdoms.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 5, 2017 -> 09:24 AM) Conyers says "I am retiring today." — Tamara Keith (@tamarakeithNPR) December 5, 2017 What I heard this morning is that he isn't rerunning for re-election, but he is serving out his term. Has that changed?

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