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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 12, 2018 -> 08:23 AM) Sen. Durbin now confirming, in response to Trump's denial (which was prompted by Fox News, who now controls the country apparently): Like when he debated Hillary, and Hillary mentioned how he had not paid taxes in years. His response was becasue he was smart. He later said he never said that. His base believes.

Trump denies he said s***hole, which lines up with what the guy from the National Review, a very conservative publication, said yesterday. He said s***house. How much more of this clown show with the republicans put up with? What a 24 hour period for the Stable Genius Liar in Chief. First the FISA tweet, which he got all wrong in so many ways, then his s***hole/s***house comment. Then blaming Obama, again, for something Obama had nothing to do with. But it gets his base in an uproar, so who cares.

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Jan 12, 2018 -> 07:17 AM) Fangio is really dragging this on. I think had alot of his possible destinations not close up he'd be gone. I think he thinks his interview with the Bears to be a HC was a token, and he had no chance, and wants to exhaust every avenue before returning. The beat writers said all season, if he wasn't going to be the Bears HC, he would be somewhere else. It looked for a while they would be wrong, but now maybe not. I don't think it's that big of a deal. There are some really good candidates available, and if the Bears defenders can't stay healthy, I could be the DC with the same results.

P QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 09:56 AM) It's funny. I was just thinking about that. No matter what assistant coach/coordinator/HC is hired, the praise is always high, for any team. I remember the Trestman/Tucker/Kromer combo. I was PSYCHED for that trio. Lincecome has a column where he states every new Bears coach is better than the last one and not as good as the next one. It is true. There was a lot of excitement about Tressman. Even during the season. It did help they actually had some playmakers on offense, but when their welcome wore out, and Forte got a little longer in the tooth, all hell broke loose. Fox was a very popular hire, and then people couldn't wait to get rid of him. Hopefully, Nagy will buck a trend.

Sheriff Joe has proof Obama's birth certificate is a fake. These people are insane.

Trump is cancelling his trip to London, and according to him it is all Obama's fault. He was going to cut the ribbon on the new US embassy, but he said Obama sold the old one for peanuts and moved to a bad location. The very stable genius might be surprised to learn the decision to move was under the Bush administration.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 06:20 PM) I will say it’s rather entertaining at times to watch you try and navigate through back-and-forth arguments like this one, particularly when you don’t appear to have a leg to stand on with your reasoning. But I have to hand it to you, you give it the ‘ol college try, nonetheless! Fortunately, Jerry Reinsdorf hasn't ruined my life yet.

QUOTE (GermanSock @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 06:37 PM) He is good but a 390 babip is not sustainable. He always was a high babip guy but 350 would be great. That leaves him at a 115 wRC+ or so with average ish defense unless he improves his power or walk rate. That is a good player but not a 4 win player of course. More like 2.5 or so. When JD Martinez went from a DFA guy to breakout, he had a .389 BABIP. The next season it went down to about .340 but he added homers. I think Avi could do the same thing. He should hit a lot more than 18.

QUOTE (CWSpalehoseCWS @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 04:52 PM) Kind of surprised by this. I always liked Miggy, but I thought the Sox would have taken a chance on bringing in a new face. I don't have any high expectations that he'll be as successful as last year. Still would like to see 1 more depth signing for Charlotte's rotation. Sox only have House, Covey, and Danish as depth, and they need someone to eat innings at the end of the year if they decide to shut Gio, Lopez, and/or Fulmer down. This is kind of how I feel. No big deal, but his upside isn't very high and the type of prospect they got for him last year is probably about the best you could hope for. I think you could probably save money and buy a prospect for less than they will pay him. But they know him. Maybe he is a guy who is really good around the young guys. And they do need so,done to eat innings.

s***hole countries is fake news from the dishonest media. He said s***house countries.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 08:51 AM) https://t.co/3goQfjM7vC Country’s top employer raises minimum wage and gives bonuses as a result of laying off workers. Fixed Amazing that news came out the very same day they closed a bunch of stores and layed off thousands. Probably just a coincidence. Walmart only made $124 billion profit in 2017. Good thing this tax cut freed up some cash to pay their lowest employees an extra $7 a day.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 02:04 PM) Also, for the price of beer, isn't it about $12 for a 22oz beer? That doesn't seem TOO bad to me honestly. That's almost 2 cans/bottles. Last year I saw a guy buy 4 PBRs and it was $35. He gave the vendor $40 and told him to keep it. I was in Jewel later that day, a 30 pack of PBRs $13.99. Supposedly Chicago sports teams get their beer cheaper than any other business. The amount of profit is absolutely crazy.

At first I thought it was President Bannon, then I thought perhaps President Jared, but now we know Fox and Friends is truly the President of the United States. Trump is their parrot.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 11:28 AM) Shields could be dropped to the pen also and no one would be mad. Heck, with a rotation that young I wouldn't mind going to a 6 man rotation for a few weeks either if the roster could take it. I read where Shields was in line to start on Opening Day. Probably the worst opening day starter the White Sox have thrown out their since Jaime Navarro.

No biggie. We know about what he is worth if he is pitching well as a flip. I'm sure he's cheap, and innings will be available.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 10, 2018 -> 03:59 PM) As far as slick-fielding SS, we also acquired Yeyson Yrizarri. Might as well grab as many of these guys as you can if they don't cost anything. There have been several slick fielding SS that couldn't hit initially, who became really good players.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 10:20 AM) In the overall scheme of things, 1 million isn't a lot. There are 123 million full-time workers in the country right now. I don't know if that includes part time workers or not. Less than 1% of them live in poverty? What is really the poverty level vs. what is considered the poverty level are two very different things.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 09:27 AM) This is completely anecdotal but I actually worked at a Wal-Mart for about 3 years in the early 2000s. I don't remember how much I was actually making, probably around $7/hour or so. Maybe $8/hour. It was simply a second job for me so I didn't care all that much. Most of the people I worked with were either younger (HS/college age) and didn't have a family to support or were a second income for their family. Their spouse worked somewhere else and made decent enough money. Most of the people that were the main bread-winnners for their family were in supervisor or management positions where they made more money. According to one of the articles I read the average salary for their full-time workers is already $13. So I wonder what percentage of their workforce this will actually affect. I also read that the bonus is UP TO $1000 based on service time. Only employees with 20 years of service will get the full $1000. Yeah, just their lowest employees get a raise, and if they work a full day it comes to probably just under $7 a day after taxes since their minimum was $10.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 08:55 AM) AT&T laid off thousands after the GOP tax cut. I get to see next week if I get any sort of raise. Fingers crossed. My employer gave us 2 mousepads. One to take home.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 08:51 AM) https://t.co/3goQfjM7vC Country’s top employer raises minimum wage and gives bonuses as a result of GOP tax plan. Bonuses aren't as good as raises. Also, try to live on $11 an hour. Do you really think this is a windfall for those employees?

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jan 11, 2018 -> 12:08 AM) That makes a lot of sense, actually. I used to think you were playing dumb on purpose to get a rise out of me, but now I know you just aren't even bothering to consider what I'm saying. Finding a way to be insulted by someone who is trying to concede credit to you is a weird way to go through life, though. I actually go through life just fine, thank you.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jan 10, 2018 -> 10:17 AM) Dude you have to read past the first sentence. If you're not willing to do that, there's a limited amount of information that I can convey to you. Why would I? You had the need to put in all caps I claimed the guy sucked for no reason. i am not the first to stop reading a post when it starts out as ridiculous as that.

Memphis megachurch pastor Andy Savage admits to sexually assaulting a 17 year old HS student while serving as a 22 year old youth pastor. His flock gave him a standing O for coming clean about his sin. It does appear his new book "The Ridiculously Good Marriage" won't be published however.

Yesterday he was all about compromise, would sign anything the people in the room agreed upon. Today, back to the wall. I know I would feel a lot safer with the wall. Face it, they aren't sending their best. Rapists, murderers, drug dealers, and fraudulent voters who only vote democrat are the ones coming over. It needs to stop. Trump will get this big wall built very cheaply, and it will be beautiful, and Mexico is going to pay for it.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 8, 2018 -> 06:47 PM) Whenever this thread ends, I predict the last post will be from Kagaku saying, "My Wife left me." And his winnings will be cut in half.