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Dan Hayes ‏@DanHayesCSN 9m Felipe Paulino is back on the 15-day disabled list with right shoulder shoulder and off a rehab assignment after a setback. #WhiteSox

Now he would be an interesting one to see if he could survive as a closer.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 27, 2014 -> 04:32 PM) Nobody is proposing that individuals repay reparations. The focus is on what civil society can do via the same governments that have been used to exploit and oppress African Americans for centuries to pay off the debt of that exploitation. The idea that this sort of debt just goes away if its ignored long enough doesn't hold up. FWIW, Germany paid reparations to Israel for what it did to the Jews. Now that is just slight of hand. If the government pays reparations, we all pay reparations.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 27, 2014 -> 04:13 PM) THey'd only care if some other team complained, which they seemingly never do. Especially in the minors, the Sox (and other clubs) make some pretty sketchy use of the DL. More accurately if Paulino complained.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 27, 2014 -> 03:53 PM) Yeah, in a cycle A causes B causes A causes B etc. so you turn to these predatory places like payday lenders because you absolutely need $200 right now to fix your car so you can get to work and not be fired, but then you end up deeper in debt and have to go back again the next time some emergency comes out and you're short on cash. Being poor is expensive. Your solution will essentially cut off any funding to the poor. They still aren't going to have savings. They still won't be given a credit card because the interest rates couldn't be high enough to justify the risks to lenders. You can argue it wrong all you want, but that will be the consequence of closing those places down.

Bernie Pleskoff ‏@BerniePleskoff 52m #Rangers Yu Darvish will undergo an MRI regarding his neck issues.

Colleen Kane ‏@ChiTribKane 38m Jose Abreu was just out taking more grounders at first base. Looked to be moving around better. Eligible to come off DL on June 2.

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal 28m #Royals GM Dayton Moore just said on #MLBNow that Ventura's MRI came back clean and that he is expected to miss just one start.

Colleen Kane ‏@ChiTribKane 23m White Sox have removed Felipe Paulino from his rehab assignment with AAA Charlotte because of right shoulder soreness. He's still on the DL.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 27, 2014 -> 03:35 PM) Abolishing local property tax funding schemes for public education would be a huge component. edit: I'd be interested in any reviews or analysis of the effects of Indiana's change so far It is still really early, I want to say only 5/6 years in. The changes were done under Mitch Daniels. I haven't seen any real analysis done yet.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 27, 2014 -> 03:34 PM) Well, ending both the public and private policies of racial oppression, which again are documented up to the recent housing crisis in the article, is a pretty necessary part as well. Modern payday loans and rental centers are little better than the housing sales described at the start of the article. I think most of those things are symptoms after the fact, versus causation. People repeating the cycles of poverty tend to utilize the institutions you are talking about. Those things don't cause poverty in and of themselves. The lack of a valuation of an education is the single biggest factor for poverty in modern America. I reside in a bottom tier school system, not the absolute bottom, but pretty far down. But for kids who are interested in grabbing the brass ring, the chance is there IF they want it. I have signed scholarship checks for kids to go to Harvard, Northwestern, etc. The key is seeing it as a way out. The same school system is also running at about a 2/3's graduation rate, with the lions share of that failure group not making it out of 9th grade status. Most year the system sees the same number of drop outs total, as it does graduates.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 27, 2014 -> 03:18 PM) Swisher to the DL with a knee injury and Santana to the 7-day concussion list. Bourn CF Cabrera ss Brantley lf Raburn dh Gomes c Aguilar 1b Murphy rf Aviles 3b Sellers 2b Masterson p Those make me happy.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 27, 2014 -> 03:00 PM) Somebody needs to point this out.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 27, 2014 -> 02:58 PM) So what if reparations focused specifically on public schools in very poor areas? This is one place I think Indiana has made a move into the right direction. They have actually done away with the traditional property tax school funding to a large extent. Now everyone sends that money to Indianapolis. The State has come up with a funding formula that looks at the components of the population of a school district, such as how many learning disabled kids, how many gifted kids, how many kids below poverty rate, and assigns a value to how much it takes to educate the typical kids for those groups, then it comes up with a number that shows it should cost $X to educate the typical kid in your school district. That number is much higher in areas of really high poverty such as Gary, versus your typical cookie cutter white bread suburb. If they wanted to rework education to address it, that one makes sense to me, because if you can catch people at a young enough age, those are the ones you can "save". Once you hit a certain point in life, you are basically giving them a lottery ticket. Odds are much higher if you don't have the right life skills to begin with, that lottery winning ticket will be blown, and they will be back to where they started.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 27, 2014 -> 02:43 PM) I thought this was the best approach: Isn't that exactly what public education is supposed to be for? The only way you are going to break the multi-generational cycle of poverty is to make people appreciate that an education is step one to a better life. That isn't just a black/slave/African thing either. With the life experiences I have seen the same cycle from many different races. It is sad because you see that influence even in Kindergartners when they aren't doing homework or attending school at 5 years old. The key is to break the mindset, which is way easier said than done. No amount of reparations will change that, IMO.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 27, 2014 -> 12:59 PM) What he actually proposes in the article is that the bill that John Conyers puts to the floor every single year (Bill H.R. 40: http://conyers.house.gov/index.cfm/reparations) be passed. What the bill actually does is it would form a committee to study slavery and its after-effects on current Black Americans, and would propose "appropriate remedies". Coates isn't a policy wonk and I don't think an article like his requires the actual solution laid out, his point was to make the case that the idea of reparations should not be considered outside the bounds of social discourse. The thing I worry most about is where is the legal line here? We pretty much stole the country from the Indians, murdered and diseased them into an endangers species. Then the people that were left we forcibly gathered up, and moved into segregated camps. Heck we even had many "legal" agreements with them to give them this land and that land, not to mention other bribes to leave whatever land we wanted at the time. What are the appropriate remedies for the practical extermination of a race, decades and generations later? One could argue that they have as strong of a claim to remedies as African's do in this country. We put Japanese people into interment camps in WWII, what is appropriate there? We segregated and discriminated against the Chinese for much of our history. Same with the Irish. What do they deserve? Women have been a historical subspecies in this country for pretty much its entire history. Their claim status for reparations also has to rank up there. If you lay down a legal presence here, you open a pandora's box I am not sure where it ends. Where do we draw the line for saying that one group's claims are more valid than anothers? That they deserve reparations over another?

Of all years I can accept Jeter as the ASG SS, this is it. I have never had a problem with the recognition of the career of a player being a part of the ASG. Cal Ripken's last ASG is a truly great baseball moment. I just wish they would figure out a better way to award home field advantage so this game can go back to being the exhibition game it always was, and allow for moments like this. Baseball should celebrate its history and its uniqueness.

JIM BOWDEN ‏@JimBowdenESPNxm 4m Eric Hosmer just told us that Ventura will only miss a start or two....that ligament is fine in his elbow. Sirius 209 XM 89

Jon Morosi ‏@jonmorosi 37m Rockies acknowledging 3B Nolan Arenado could be out until late June or early July with a broken finger.

https://twitter.com/JeffFletcherOCR/status/...2853760/photo/1 Alexei trails Jeter, Abreu trails Miguel and PooHoles.

Scott Merkin ‏@scottmerkin 13m Ramirez leads all AL shortstops in average (.320), homers (7), RBIs (36), slugging percentage (.483), OPS (.838) and hits (65).

Chris De Luca ‏@ChrisDeLuca 8m “Peanut” Tillman, two-time All-Pro cornerback for the #Bears, will throw out a ceremonial first pitch before #WhiteSox game tonight.

Scott Miller ‏@ScottMillerBbl 10m Prince Fielder surgery: He had cervical fusion of the C5-C6 discs in his neck today. #Rangers say it went well.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 27, 2014 -> 12:34 PM) But by definition, pitching in the 7th or 8th inning is a save situation even if you're not the closer. If Matt Thornton came into a game in the 8th inning with a 1 run lead and surrendered a run, he'd be credited with a blown save even if Bobby Jenks was warming in the bullpen at the time. The thing is if a reliever comes in with the bases loaded, no one out, and a one run lead, gives up a sac fly, and then gets out of the inning with a DP, he still gets the blown save.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 27, 2014 -> 12:32 PM) Actually you can only get a BS if you are pitching in a save situation. But relievers who are not closers do not get as many save chances because they get pulled. Matt Thornton was the closer for parts of several seasons under Ozzie. Unfortunately he failed in those chances and was relagated back to set up each time. Once Reed arrived on the scene, Thornton stayed as the setup guy. The big problem with your scenario is that while it is technically a save situation when they come in, because the 9th inning guy comes in after them, they only get credit for a Hold if they don't give up the tying run. If they give up the lead, they get a blown save. If you want a generic stat, Holds is where you look at for set up guys, not blown saves. Blown saves is a stupid stat for anyone but a closer. It is like judging Frank Thomas by sacrifice bunts.