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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.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 12:24 PM) I see, what's the deal where the guy has to be on the 25 man roster all season? Like that young catcher we had a few years ago? Yes, they need that, and to be active for 90 days, so they won't be hidden on the DL.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 12:18 PM) I only asked my wife to marry me with the clear understanding that she would have good earning power. I hope you didn't forget to check out her parents' income in order to verify her genetics.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 10:02 AM) I never said that though. Why'd you delete your post? Because I really didn't want to argue it, but that's fine. I wonder what you would think about Ivanka if Trump was bankrupt and she had no plastic surgery. As far as I know, her genetic make up would be the same.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 09:55 AM) Care to explain DA? I know it's popular to just bully and call names but it's a lilttle weird to call someone sexist in response to a post that wasn't about gender. Well it was, because it isn't often men choose women based on bank accounts. Maybe you do, I don't know, but I've been around, have had many discussions about women over the years, a lot of I am not proud of, but money never came up. I will say this, under your theory, my genetic profile really improved during my life. When I was born, my parents didn't have much, living in a one bedroom apt in Evanston. My dad was just starting out, so I must have been trailer trash. But now that he's retired and is worth a lot of money, I have golden genes.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 09:51 AM) Good thing I have you to clarify what I think for me. Move on. He didn't need to clarify what you think. You told us. LOL. UOTE (raBBit @ Aug 14, 2017 -> 09:13 PM) * would you rather have her mother be someone like say, Ivanka Trump, or would you prefer her mother be some random 25-year-old woman in Appalachia? I think the former would lead to an offspring with a better genetic profile.

Trump re-tweeted someone calling him a fascist.

I would think 2020, but if some things go right, and it's anything like this year in 2019, you only have to be a little over .500 to have a legit shot at the playoffs.

Ex-KKK Leader David Duke Has Meltdown After Trump Condemns White Supremacists In Charlottesville HuffPost Hayley Miller HuffPostAugust 14, 2017 Former KKK leader David Duke was none too pleased that President Donald Trump on Monday finally got around to condemning extremist groups by name ― including including neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan ― for the deadly weekend protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. Minutes after Trump’s speech, Duke lashed out in a series of tweets, claiming the president had been manipulated by the media. “It’s amazing to see how the media is able to bully the President of the United States into going along with their FAKE NEWS narrative,” Duke tweeted. Soon after that, in an anti-Semitic, racist Periscope video rant, Duke spoke directly to Trump, claiming white nationalists abhor violence. He said “it’s just ridiculous” that the president felt he had to make Monday’s statement. “President Trump, please, for God’s sake, don’t feel like you need to say these things,” Duke admonished in the video. “It’s not going to do you any good.”

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 14, 2017 -> 01:07 PM) Sure, and it's only 6 months in to his Presidency, and it wasn't even a hypothetical matchup poll. Just a little disheartening reminder of how lumpy our elections really can be. I don't think he has added any states to the win column. Next election will probably all come down to the same swing states in this last election. A couple of those go the other way, and he could get blown out. If they can't swing any of those back with all the material he gives them, that will be on the Dems.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 14, 2017 -> 11:45 AM) trump finally denounced the Nazis 48 hours after their terrorist attack why it took him 48 hours when he managed to attack the Merck CEO immediately remains a ~mystery~ and he kicked off his 2 minute speech by praising himself and the economy for 30 seconds first took zero questions, too. Someone should ask Trump about why the stock market almost tripling under Obama pales in comparison to what "he" has done.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Aug 14, 2017 -> 10:54 AM) Even if we claim him, Kemp would still technically have to go through the waiver process. And because he's not immediately available, he has to be a PTBNL. Seems pretty straight forward to me. The cash part seems like a technical requirement due to the player coming back our way having to go through the waiver process and some consideration being required to execute a trade. I'm sure the rules don't take into account the fact we have first claim. Would you like to wager this guy will be a White Sox in the next 48 hours? There have been plenty of players traded for a PTBNL without the or cash, and since it would be a slam dunk the White Sox would win the claim, again, it makes zero sense.