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QUOTE (Sleepy Harold @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 04:00 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)??? I am all for taking on a bad deal or malcontent if it means improving the prospect return. The White Sox should absolutely be willing to take on guys like Pablo Sandoval, Yasiel Puig, or anyone else if the sending team is willing to include higher level prospects in order to take the player on.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 04:11 PM) This was basically the argument laid out by an Italian writer re: Berlusconi. His absurdity was similar to Trump's, and he'd always get his opponents to respond to every crazy little thing he does rather than offering their own message. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/opinion/...sist-trump.html Don't know how much I agree with it, but I think it's right up your alley. I think there is some solid logic there. I think I also agree that is why the GOP largely left themselves in a position for a Donald Trump to win. They spent 8 years of being the party of Not Obama and they never really presented a personality that was able to step into the post-Obama void. Instead the one guy who seemed to have all of the answers, as stupid as they were, was the one guy that people could largely identify with. It isn't just the Democrats that can learn from this election, I just think with them being the party out of power they have the most flexibility to actually look inward and change things.

Galveston Island is always a great getaway spot, and it is only about a half hour drive from Houston Hobby airport. NASA at Johnson Space Center is also there.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:57 PM) There is no hyperbole with the racism in this upcoming administration. There is no need for exaggeration. Are we supposed to turn a blind eye? 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.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:58 PM) If that is the case, we aren't winning another game. I say this now, but watch Barkley come in and shock us all. That would mean the game against the Niners would be the game to decide who gets the 2nd overall pick (cause ain't nobody catching those Browns). Having Matt Barkley come in and turn this into a 5 or 6 win team would be the most Bears thing ever.

Bulls Talk ‏@CSNBulls 33m33 minutes ago Bulls' Jimmy Butler named Eastern Conference Player of the Week - http://ift.tt/2gvV5aG #BullsTalk

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:48 PM) So Jay Cutler may have suffered a season ending shoulder injury. This team will be funny bad the rest of the year. Again, curse the Browns.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:45 PM) I agree. We should respect the important contributions of racism to the fabric of our society. And this is exactly the attitude that has relegated the Democratic party to a secondary role in this country as they have lost the federal stage, and the vast majority of the states as well. This holier than thou, anyone who isn't with us is a racist attitude just isn't effective as a political platform. All you have to do is look at the results of where the party is right now to know that. Eventually one of these two parties will become disaffected enough with lowest common denominator politics to realize that in order to be truly effective it is the high hanging fruit that will be the most productive. But if you want to keep engaging in the Trump style of politics, then you will continue to get these results. The party that campaigned against the politics of fear and hate for so long has fallen into that trap, and has this Presidential election to show for it. Again, congratulations for electing our worst nightmare as President.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:40 PM) If only I had gotten behind more voter suppression laws none of this would have happened. Maybe insulting more people would work out better?

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:39 PM) Honestly, why is anyone upset about this? What else is Frazier going to say? I wouldn't want him to think anything else. He wanted to stay in Cincy, even when he knew they were rebuilding. He seems like a pretty low maintenance and content kind of guy.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:11 PM) Sieg Heil. Congratulations for getting our worst nightmare elected President.

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Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan 22m22 minutes ago BREAKING: After masturbating a teammate in hazing incident, Rangers prospects facing charges. News at Yahoo Sports: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources-range...-210055315.html

Jon Morosi ‏@jonmorosi 2h2 hours ago Jon Morosi Retweeted IMG Academy Baseball INF Jae-Gyun Hwang, top position player expected to come from Asia to @MLB this offseason, held showcase today at IMG. @MLBNetwork

Lauren Comitor ‏@laurencomitor 2h2 hours ago Detailed look here by @ByScottPowers at the now even more complicated situation of re-signing Artemi Panarin. https://theathletic.com/26607/2016/11/21/re...for-blackhawks/

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jon greenberg ‏@jon_greenberg 43m43 minutes ago Leonard Floyd is in the concussion protocol, but no serious neck injury, John Fox said.

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Patrick Finley ‏@patrickfinley 36m36 minutes ago Kyle Fuller can come off IR and practice Wednesday. John Fox said the Bears will evaluate that.

Patrick Finley ‏@patrickfinley 30m30 minutes ago Kyle Long will have ankle surgery next Monday and shoulder surgery in the future, John Fox said.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/2016...Yr3xohubwaXu.97

Too bad the Browns are in the league this year, or this team would be in the running for the first pick.

It is the overusage of these types of labels that normalized them to the point where nothing that Trump was called had any effect on people It the party that cried wolf. The term "racist" today doesn't carry the weight that it used to.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 09:43 AM) This is correct from what I understand. Sox would have to claim him get him. The choices are claim him as is, contract included, or if no one does, he goes off of the 40 man roster and into the Houston Astros minor league system for assignment to one of their minor league teams. He doesn't become a free agent, I am pretty sure.

Here is to hoping he explodes on to the scene this year. He is one of only a couple of guys in this system who are truly capable of exploding up the prospect list.