Dick Allen

Embers, ashes. The Trump administration will stomp those out very quickly, very powerfully. Some say with more power than you have ever seen. But then again, it will be up to the governors. If they don't respond well, the federal government will step in. Believe me. Thanks to POTUS, the coronavirus has been reduced to ashes. You can thank him in November.

Supposedly he is a hard sign and they don’t have a 2nd round pick. I think Dowd might be right, they get the pick back next year when they have better information. But they do have to offer him a certain percentage of the slot to get the pick next year, and maybe that is enough for him to sign.

I wouldn’t have minded him, but do question whether the White Sox are the organization that can develop a questionable hit tool. His talent might override that, but until they start developing hitters again, I have my doubts.

That is probably the big issue. Also only 13 starts in college, but I think if they can keep him healthy, it’s a good pick.

With only 5 picks, I think the under slot thing isn’t going to be as prevalent this year. You have to take BPA.

He's pretty little, but 12 HR in 16 games isn't shabby. I'd be happy to have him.

They got him for Bobby Bonds, and thought he was going to be a star. Had a lot of talent, but seemed disinterested quite often. RIP.

Dick Johnson NBC 5 Chicago weekend anchor. Seemed like a good guy, although I always wondered why they had Dick Johnson as an anchor with Pete Sack on weather during the same broadcast.

They are used to A. Eventually lead to more profit. And B. Increase the value of their asset. Why should players pay for that? What they do with their baseball profit should have nothing to do with players. If you owned a business and decided to go gambling and lost your ass, how do you think telling your employees they will have to take a pay cut to cover your losses going to go over?Ricketts didn’t need to buy Wrigleyville. He did. But that shouldn’t be on Brizzo and Javy Baez to take a cut because a pandemic made the revenue at his outside business go to near zero.The owners negotiated prorated salaries, and we have known for some time there would be no fans at stadiums at least for the vast majority of games.

He is saying the baseball operation is making a huge profit and that many owners are using that profit to finance other things. Why should Cubs players take a cut because Ricketts isn’t generating any money at his Hotel Zachary? According to Boras, the owners make enough money without fans to fund players salaries. Whether that is true or not I have no idea, in fact, I kind of doubt it. But, I think owners should take the loss. They take the extra profit when it’s there. Prorated salaries seems fair to me.

What he is getting at is the debt is taken on to make more money. It would be like asking your high performing employees at one business to take pay cuts because you bought a new house and it turned into a money pit, and wanted them to bail you out. People don’t pay billions for businesses that don’t make money. Lenders don’t loan billions of dollars to purchase things with razor thin profit margins. It’s pretty obvious owning sports teams is very lucrative, even before they sell.

"Remember, games cannot be played without you," Boras wrote to his clients. "Players should not agree to further pay cuts to bail out the owners. Let owners take some of their record revenues and profits from the past several years and pay you the prorated salaries you agreed to accept or let them borrow against the asset values they created from the use of those profits players generated." He says they make record profits on baseball. Their loans are for outside stuff like Ricketts buying up Wrigleyville, and that has nothing to do with the players. He is using his profits on the baseball operation to pay down his loans on his rooftops, his bars, his hotel, and doesn’t think the players should give him a break on that, since ultimately, when the loans get paid down, he won’t be sharing the profit with the players. If it is such a tight business, the owners should show the player unredacted books. They would probably get some concessions. But they absolutely refuse. Kind of like a certain someone with his taxes.

A business that doesn’t make money doesn’t go from being worth $150 million to $3 billion in 25 years. Boras was just talking about how Ricketts has the cash registers ringing all game day throughout his neighborhood, and he is correct. That is why no fans hurts him a bit more than others, but when they are there, he is having no problem paying down his debt, even with his bloated payroll.

C’mon man. No way these guys hold on and hold on if they aren’t making money. JR is in his 40th season, They refuse to show the players their books. They showed them their local TV contracts but redacted just about every number. If they are making nothing, they would have nothing to hide.

Cardinals owner. JR has mentioned what a tough business it is several times though. All these poor broke bastards.

Another day another owner saying what a crappy business owning a baseball team is. Then sell the team. Half the owners aren't even trying to win, if not more. If it is so crappy, get out. There is someone willing to give you a couple of billiion for your trouble.

I disagree. The guy couldn't make contact. That has nothing to do with his speed. He was Courtney Hawkins, not Mike Cameron. Good in rookie ball although a ton of ks. Then the lack of contact catches up to him.

A neighbor is a nurse at Stroger. She said deaths from non Covid things are way up because many delayed getting care because of Covid.

I wouldn’t mind him, but at 11 if Kjerstad is there, that is who I want the Sox to take.

The first expert I saw on TV after the numbers came out said be very skeptical. It was the every Labor Dept. employee is working from home and a lot of businesses are closed and probably didn't report. The Labor Department's jobs report — which surveys individuals and businesses during the week of May 16 — found there were 20,985,000 unemployed people. That would mean there were 9 million more people receiving unemployment benefits than there were unemployed people during the exact same survey week. So the 20% most were saying it was is probably pretty accurate.

How is the payout going to be affected? Will they get their full slot? I am thinking , at least for HS players, if there is some sort of adjustment, not signing and going to at least JUCO, might be an option more take, and wait until things get back to normal. I am normally a take the college guy, there is more of a track record, especially this year kind of guy, but the guy the mocks have the Sox taking, Bailey, does nothing for me. So going HS might be the play.There will be a future star available when the Sox select. Hopefully, the Sox select him or them.

Baines signed for $32k. Now the slot is over $8 million.

There are good cops and bad cops just like there are good and bad in every occupation. They key is weeding out the bad. One problem police have is the code of silence people take when they see crimes committed. They are too scared, and many times, if not most, rightfully so, about retribution. The same type of code of silence is present in police departments everywhere. They don't report misconduct. They don't even admit they have seen it when it is being investigated. If this code of silence can ever be broken, witnesses don't have to fear for their life to report what they have seen. Cops don't have to fear the living hell of reporting a fellow officer's wrongdoing, everything will be much better. One idea I have is teaming black officers with white officers. Most of the racists are pretty cowardly. They won't show it, at least as much, in front of a black colleague.

I hated the test. You have no idea your nose is that deep, and I got a really weird taste in my mouth.

I hear very good things. Believe me.