Dick Allen

I'm thinking Spicey must kiss the ground every morning he isn't in the WH press room anymore.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 17, 2017 -> 12:38 PM) I don't think Trump has expressed himself very well the last few days. I think Kasisch is right. He's trying to win an argument basically. He's sort of turned into the mean version of Greg on this board. "By gawd some of those people (white surpremists) are good people; by gawd I like statues. They are just statues. You can learn from history." In other words like me he has his stern opinions but doesn't always express himself correctly the first time so keeps trying to win the argument and bury himself more. He should just resign though. Stern is right. he hates being president. He made his point. Now give it to Kasisch (damn that's illegal; Pence has to take over). The guy is racist. If it were a bunch of Muslims marching or illegals from Mexico, and the same thing happened, what are the chances he says there are some fine Muslims, or some fine illegals? He needs to go for sure because he is incompetent. Donald Trump knows how to bully his way into deals developing real estate. That doesn't work in government. And he's a one trick pony. It's his only move. Be a bully. His true colors are showing under the orange make up on his face and the yellow dye in his hair.

Apparently Trump got all the talking points of his crazy press conference from Fox News. He said he watched the video more carefully than anyone else, apparently he meant the Fox News programs. From The Week: That line Trump used about waiting to get all "the facts" before he made a statement condemning the violence of white nationalists at the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia? Fox said it first. Trump's claim that there was violence on "both sides"? Fox said that too. His mentions of the alt-left? Fox News' Sean Hannity loves to talk about that. His insistence that there were some "very fine people" marching alongside white supremacists and neo-Nazis? Yep, that's a Fox favorite. Even Trump's hypothetical question about whether monuments to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson should also be taken down because, as he pointed out, they were slave owners, was first asked on Fox.

Since it was cash or a PTBNL, the Sox were at that point, probably picking up everything but the minimum, so maybe the technicality is Houston has to pay the Sox now to pay their player.

KW was kind of the same type of prospect as Tim Anderson. Very athletic, football instead of basketball background. Hit pretty decently when he came up as a CF. The Sox tried to make him a 3B, and it all went south, the bat, the glove. Hopefully, Anderson has a better fate playing-wise. It does appear he is coming out of his fog.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 12:32 PM) Yeah, no, there isn't anything different between what the White Sox have done in the last 9 months and what they did in 2015. I won't argue with you because if you can't see that they actually have a solid plan in place to develop sustainable winning, then you're head has been in the sand for that same 9 month period. What does amuse me is the blind faith people are putting in this front office. Supposedly they couldn't identify major league pieces that fit a winning roster, couldn't draft or develop for s*** for years, now they acquire all these prospects and are geniuses. They are going to win 100 games a year for a decade. To me, identifying major league players who can help a team vs. prospects who will develop into stars, seems to be a lot easier. And the people in charge failed to do the easy one. Why is it a slam dunk this is going to work out just fine? The wrong guys go south and this could be a disaster. They did what they did, and probably what they had to do, I'm still looking at it cautiously. I'm not sold on the talent evaluators and developers. I don't know why they suddenly would become top of the line.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 10:39 AM) Yes, because professional sports owners never say one thing and do another. Its not my dream, there was a lot of speculation thrown around last winter that JR was open to selling the team. I am just piecing together data points and drawing a conclusion, it may be totally incorrect, but its what I am able to discern from the extremely limited data points that have been given. The speculation was wrong. When has JR ever publicly said something and did the exact opposite? Sorry, I am just amazed how JR saying he's in it for the long run means anything else but what he says. If he said he was thinking about selling, would that mean he wasn't going to sell? The speculation was just that, speculation. No sources, just opinions.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 09:30 AM) Interesting. This is what several MLB franchises have done with their top executives before selling the team, the Marlins are the latest example. Its a way of giving them a golden parachute in case the new owner wants to clean house, and puts the new owner on the hook for any buyouts. But at the same time JR is saying in the article that he plans to be around for quite a while longer. Given the smoke in the media about a possible sale last winter, I still think things are pointing in the direction that the team is sold within the next 18 months, right before the next TV contract negotiations are commenced. Clearly, if JR says he is going nowhere and wants to be around for when the team is good again, it means the team will be sold in 18 months. Sorry, your dream of JR selling isn't happening, as he has stated on many occassions.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 09:19 AM) Maybe, I think overall though people would agree that Youtube and Yahoo comment sections aren't worth much. There probably isn't a comment section on the internet that anyone should use as some sort of source for fact. It's just a great way for people hiding behind their computers to be obnoxious without repercussions.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 08:48 AM) Lmao. Only you Actually, he has a point. Trump gives a yahoo comments section equivalent with just about anything he comments about. That doesn't make it OK to use yahoo comments as a source for news, but it does go to show how far the presidency position has fallen. It's to the point, you have to assume just about everything coming out of his mouth is bulls***.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 08:23 AM) Not sure why you are responding to that with your comment, things like the drive by seem like we would have heard about that. I've heard a mix of some of those things from reports but comment sections have tendency to play telephone with real events. And when they fabricate I think it undercuts the many powerful true stories of Saturday. The commander in chief gave us all a yahoo comment section alt right review of the situation. That shouldn't just scare and offend democrats. These fine people had their permit and were peacefully protesting when these people in all black with helmets and baseball bats...VICE News was with some of the supremists. One guy was packing 5 guns and a knife. In fact, he joked at the end he had so many weapons he forgot about the automatic weapon in his bag. That fine Nazi was just trying to protect himself vs. true evil. I'm sure there are tons of BS on both sides of yahoo comments. I agree with the drive by assessement, it probably didn't happen, but it wouldn't be surprising some bad stuff happened that we didn't hear about. Death kind of takes up the news cycle.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 08:07 AM) I really doubt the accuracy of all of that first post. Yahoo comment sections as news unlikely to reward your intelligence. It was a unite the right gathering, not a peaceful protest of the removal of a statue President doesn't want to comment until he has all the facts claims. But then again, they had a permit. Of course they violated that permit. Another fact agent Orange failed to know.

JD Power ranks White Sox fan experience at GRF best of the professional franchises in Chicago, and tied with the Angels for the best in MLB.

I don't know how many times I read how "dreadful" Melky was as a right handed hitter, yet you look at his splits, pretty similar production. The overreaction to young players just starting out is funny. It's amazing how many people aren't built for a rebuild.

Since Trump said he had to wait because he didn't want to comment without the facts, it is amazing he got the purpose of the March wrong. It wasn't a protest about removing the statue per se, it was call unite the white organized be so,e apparently fine people. Foe a guy who rips every news agency for being fake, no one is more fake than Trump. Just look at his yellow hair and orange face and you get the idea,

There are some very fine Nazis. I learned that today.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 03:17 PM) The problem is that the post was so poorly written that it really is impossible to tell what was meant by it. I think its safe to say that my children are less likely to be as tall as children who came from parents who are both taller than 6'6. But that doesnt mean its a guarantee, just that there is a higher chance. Which is why Im not 100% sure what Rabbit really meant. Did he mean that in his opinion Ivanka is hot and therefore her children are likely to be hotter than a random person? Is he going down the Seinfeld route that 99% of the population is cant be dated and therefore Ivanka is in his 1% and thus more likely to have a child who he finds attractive as they have similar genes? I really dont know. I think that most people who have taken even basic genetic/science classes understand that success/influence at best is slightly connected to genetics. Even in sports its true, otherwise how can Michael Jordan's kids be worse at basketball than Lavar Balls. Because Lavar Ball would kill MJ one on one.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 02:56 PM) Amazing that a conversation about a white person and an imaginary white person and I am still insinuated as a racist. Unbelievable. G'day. Your genetic inferiority argument is right in line. That was what Campanis was speaking about. Blacks didn't have genetics to float or manage or generally manage baseball teams. And everyone in Appalachia is an inbred meth head. I did not know that.

This is turning Al Campanis-like.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 01:57 PM) Longenhagen in his chat today said he doesn't think Turang should go 1-1 because he's unsure about the bat but didn't offer an alternative. Hopefully someone separates from the pack. If there are concerns about his bat, it would take a leap of faith to take Turang first if you are basing it on some HS senior ABs. If the Sox do get the top pick, I would imagine the thread discussing it will be the biggest in Soxtalk history. Someone will probably be able to get day by day reports on the top guys.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 02:01 PM) I am defending myself. I can't just sit there while SS sits at his desk all day, everyday treating everyone like s***. You have interacted with me plenty in PHT over the years and we never had an issue other than when you wouldn't stop following people around thread to thread about Cooper or Beckham or both. Can't even remember. Now in here all of a sudden you have an issue with my posting when I don't sit there and take the group stoning? Okay. Seems to be a bias but thanks for your take. I would have totally guessed you would have backed me. The first paragraph is all fair and true. Second paragraph - spare me the holocaust/Hitler stuff. I was following you until then. It's absolutely ridiculous to make that leap and it's really embarrassing you guys think that is a proper forum of discourse. Not everybody you disagree with is racist or sexist or nazi. This is how the liberal base split because every normal person is tired of the everything is racist, homophobic, transphobic, bigot, etc. You personally are way too smart to argue on these type of cheap, intellectual-lightweight, low-hanging fruit talking points. I've seen enough of you to know that you can construct a proper argument on your own merit and intelligence - not that you need that clarification for me. "Slavery and Jim Crow were based on the idea that the black man was an inferior race." - Really? Not only is this irrelevant to the topic but doesn't everyone know this? That's like third grade history. Is it worth stating or do you need to state the obvious to virtue signal so everyone knows you're an awesome person. I made a convenient example. I said that the daughter of a model and billionaire real estate mogul has more potential in life and a better genetic pool than some young girl from the poorest, most neglected part of our country that is so removed from society that is riddled with incest, meth and crime. The fact that you guys have all aligned and grouped up together to dispute that is borderline lunacy. Could a young person from the Ozarks or Appalachia leave and get raised by another family and turn into something? Yes of course. Is it likely? Probably not. They would be complete outliers. These are the most removed and neglected people in our country. Yes, Ivanka Trump has more potential for a fruitful and productive life than all of them. Yes, she would be a better mother than all of them. That's common sense. If that makes me a dick, then I am a dick. I am not going to lie to show anonymous people on the internet that I am some moral beacon. Now if you said you wanted to change that and help those people change their lifestyle I would say great let's do it. I often wonder why there is no political movement to help those people. I guess they don't vote/fit into the identity politics game plan? I disagree with your views, you disagree with mine. I would call that even. You seem to play victim.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 01:21 PM) Post #1161 for you in this thread. I am not sure you've ever seen something that wasn't "worth it" given your posting activity. But hey, you know it all, why bother listening to others when you can lecture and condescend everyone else on how horrible of people they are because their political beliefs don't align with your socially engineered pseudoscience beliefs and bluepilling tendencies. Lecture? Check. Condescend? Check. People are horrible because their political beliefs don't align with yours? Check. You have done everything you are complaining about.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 12:41 PM) So that's the same rule? I thought Nieto had to be on the roster all season? Covey was recalled from the minors? He had been on the DL for a couple of months and was on a rehab assignment. They can't send him down without offering him back to Oakland. If he gets hurt again before rosters expand, he might not make the 90 days either, although I don't see what the big deal would be if Oakland wanted him back.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 12:28 PM) If the Sox get 1-1, I'd prefer someone to distinguish themselves to the point where no one questions who the pick is, like Bryce Harper. A no brainer would be nice. Harper, ARod, Ken Griffey Jr.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 11:16 AM) Taking my kids to see their first baseball game! Hopefully they see a White Sox no-hitter. I wonder if Dodgers Stadium has the same thing they have at Guaranteed Rate. They have a Rookie Corner. They fill out a My First Game certificate for nothing.