Dick Allen

I get the whole argument, but an argument could be made Teump has lived his entire life doing this with no consequences. What he and his people do is bully. What deters bullies is fighting back. I understand it isn’t a great look, and understand it sort of normalizes the behavior, but the behavior with complete surrender has also been normalized. i wouldn’t have refused her service, but can understand why she was.

I'm not saying messing with her food is OK. I think it's disgusting and should be considered, if it is not, a crime. But I would bet it's happened. It's happened to a lot of people. Probably most of us at least once.

But it's been mentioned before the TV money bubble is about to burst. Whether that is true or not, we will find out probably pretty soon. And to me, it's harder to develop a baseball nut on TV alone. Even if you go to one or two games a year, when you're a kid, you live for that. Never going, IMO, would lose a lot of would be fanatics. Time also matters like you mentioned. Especially when teams are bad. The only reason I would ever leave a game before it ended was rain delays. Other than that, I had never left before the end, except maybe once or twice because it was 13 innings or something, and I had to be somewhere else. The last couple of years , that has changed. I am not going to sit there 3 and a half hours when the Sox are losing 10-2.

They had a couple of years in that time period they were pretty good. But they made bad signings and bad trades, and developed about no one. You don't have to have the strongest farm system in the world, you can get by being mediocre if you can do the other things decently. I admit, they have to develop someone, which was a total failure position player wise. And they went from signing Dye types to Erstad types. The White Sox wont the WS not because they developed a ton of players. They had a few and signed Iguchi, AJP, Dye that offseason. Rare you go 3 for 3 with free agents. Got Jenks on waivers, made a great trade for Contreras and where lucky Freddy Garcia was so close to Ozzie Guillen. 2005 line up position players developed by the White Sox c-nope 1b-nope 2b-nope ss-nope 3B-yes LF-nope CF-yes RF-nope DH-for the most part, nope rotation-yes, nope, nope, yes, nope Bullpen-mostly nope

The fact is, their system at the time wasn't as stack as reported. Again, not exactly perennial All Stars. Maggs was, but he was so highly thought of, the White Sox exposed him to the rule 5 draft, and everyone passed.

Every game is on TV in HD. Games can be expensive to attend. A lot of tanking not only affects the team you follow, but do you really want to see them play a horrible team? For instance, I have a "weekend plan". I put that in quotes because it used to mean I had tickets to every Saturday and Sunday game. Now it's a 20 game plan that has Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. It used to be 27 games, now it's 20. I just looked. I have 3 games in July and 3 in August. 4 of the 6 games, the opponent is the Royals. It's bad enough I have to watch one tanking team, but to watch what basically will be a spring training game neither team really cares if it wins in July and August of a major league season is pitiful. If you are living in NY and a Yankee fan, do you want to pay NY prices to watch them play the White Sox? I wouldn't. It's not just baseball. The NFL is having a problem not only with ratings, but people attending games. High prices and fantasy football are to blame. People would rather spend their money in a bar watching 5 games at once.

Here are their top 10 prospects 2001. Not exactly a who's who of All Star teams, including 5 in the top 61. Year Rank MLB Player Name Pos Ht Wt B-T BornDate Age Place HiLvl Stat Years MLB Years Draft Information Status Current Org (Level) MLB Debut Age 2001 1 4 Jon Rauch P 6-11 255 R-R 1978-09-27 22 Louisville,Kentucky MLB 1997-2013 2002-2013 1999- 3- 99-CHA Free Agent 2002-04-02 23.187 2001 2 23 Joe Borchard RF-CF 6-5 220 B-R 1978-11-25 22 Panorama City,California MLB 1998-2011 2002-2007 2000- 1- 12-CHA 2002-09-02 23.281 2001 3 36 Joe Crede 3B 6-3 195 R-R 1978-04-26 23 Jefferson City,Missouri MLB 1996-2009 2000-2009 1996- 5- 137-CHA 2000-09-12 22.139 2001 4 44 Matt Ginter P 6-1 220 R-R 1977-12-24 23 Winchester,Kentucky MLB 1997-2009 2000-2008 1999- 1- 22-CHA 2000-09-01 22.251 2001 5 61 Danny Wright P 6-5 228 R-R 1977-12-14 23 Longview,Texas MLB 1999-2006 2001-2004 1999- 2- 64-CHA 2001-07-27 23.225 2001 6 Lorenzo Barcelo P 6-4 220 R-R 1977-08-10 23 San Pedro de Mac,Dom Rep MLB 1995-2016 2000-2002 1994- UDFA-SFN International 2000-07-22 22.346 2001 7 Brian West P 6-4 230 R-R 1980-08-04 20 West Monroe,Louisiana AAA 1999-2006 - 1999- 1- 35-CHA 2001 8 Aaron Rowand CF-LF 6-1 200 R-R 1977-08-29 23 Portland,Oregon MLB 1997-2011 2001-2011 1998- 1- 35-CHA 2001-06-16 23.291 2001 9 Josh Fogg P 6-2 205 R-R 1976-12-13 24 Lynn,Massachusetts MLB 1996-2010 2001-2009 1998- 3- 89-CHA 2001-09-02 24.263 2001 10 Jason Stumm P 6-2 215 R-R 1981-04-13 20 Centralia,Washington AA 1999-2005 - 1999- 1- 15-CHA

Trump attacking Jimmy Fallon of all people. Said Jimmy called him and said "monster ratings" when he appeared on his show. Jimmy says he doesn't have his number, doesn't want his number, and has never called him. And mentioned since he had Trump on the show, his ratings have plummeted. More Trump lies. Gets some balls republicans, and stand up to all this nonsense. I'm not sticking up for Jimmy per se, but for the love of God, this has to stop.

Red Hen hasn’t had any serious health code violations despite’s Trump’s claim of it being filthy. Mar a lago on the other hand, several serious health code violations.

Saunders is already gone.That should narrow it down. This is where Trayce belonged in the first place. Hopefully he can turn it around. He sucks, but he looks good doing it.

I wouldn't think poison, but spit on it, put some snot in it. Put the cheese in your underwear for a bit...stuff like that. If she dines out a lot, I would bet she's had her food messed with.

Maybe in a couple years Sarah will come out as gay and it will all be OK.

Greg, if OJ Simpson walked into a restaurant in Kansas and was refused service, would you have a problem with that? Or would you consider the town mean? SHS is not a nice person. She's shown her true colors. She couldn't wait to post what happened to her on twitter because she knew her followers would eat it all up. You also have to consider there probably is a good chance this restaurant employs or has employed many immigrants. Her policy against these people is well known. Frankly, if I was her, I wouldn't dare eat at a restaurant. I would think odds are heightened that her cheese board was a bit "tainted" if you know what I mean.

The most hysterical thing about it was it was a segment how the left is ranting about Trump supporters being racist. This guy helped make the point.

We are all going to need rehab once he re-takes the mound for the White Sox.

Moncada has so much ability.

Trump Deputy Campaign Chairman David Bessie told a black panelist on Fox News today he was out of his cotton pickin mind. Casual racism is great. A lot of fine racists.

Just like everything else in his life, Trump is in it for Trump. Nothing else. Hugging the flag, calling himself a patriot, all part of the show. His campaign had a ton of contact with Russian operatives. They definitely hacked the election , Trump is soft on Putin. It all adds up. Whether there will be enough to impeach him or not is the question, and with spineless republicans the answer is almost a lock no. Any vote for a republican senator or congressman in the midterms, or write in or independent that has no chance, is a vote for Trump to go unchecked the rest of his term. If the right is really as much about the constitution as their 2nd amendment cries, they will do the right thing. I understand for a republican, having a dem house and Senate isn't ideal, but they bought the Trump snake oil, they have to make a sacrifice to bring common sense and civility back to this country.

Sarah broke the law tweeting about it. I thought she mentioned something about the Bible and laws the other day. Maybe her kids need to be taken away. Hopefully in a couple of months they will be able to find them, but the law is the law.

I really don’t care, do you? Were you outraged when the bakery refused Joe Biden several years ago? Were you outraged over the gay wedding cake? I don’t agree with her being denied, although she is a liar, and very rude to several in the press. She chooses to be what she is. A gay person doesn’t choose to be gay. Yet it’s OK not to serve them. I personally think the restaurant should have served her, but for the right to be angry they did not is hysterical considering their previous reactions.

That’s exactly what you do. Play victim, just like your hero. Accuse others of doing what your doing and play victim. Trump would be proud.

Actually I really don’t see much of this in the media, but it is why most give up their stakes in things when they take a political post. Doing business with a Trump hotel because it may help you change policy or get taken care of some way should’nt be tolerated. Jared with his supposedly precarious financial situation with a building he bought, could bring favor to someone who bails him out, and could be trouble for someone who refuses.His family was using him to sell. Independent watchdog groups have been monitoring and have cried foul several times. It isn’t serving when you are out for personal gain. according to Eric, the Trump Organization gets all the money they need from Russia. It may explain why Trump doesn’t talk so tough about them.

Conflicts of interests to start. Using their WH position to make money isn’t very ethical. Whether they do or Not I do not know.

Trump renews sanctions against North Korea claiming they are an extraordinary threat. I thought we could all sleep well. The threat was over.

So the Trump Organization posted 144 seasonal jobs last year. They hired 1 US worker.