Dick Allen

This is Hollands issue. He is a fly ball pitcher. He has been great but when it warms up in that bandbox with the juice apparently back in the balls, it will get ugly.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 11, 2017 -> 03:24 PM) So apparently the Trump family has begun transferring money offshore... I'm surprised he's not using the money saved by not paying taxes for decades on a coal mine. He could buy one and hire hundreds of coal miners. Good, high paying jobs. Trump makes a ton of money. Win, win. But for some reason, it never seems to work out that way.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 11, 2017 -> 12:35 PM) I'm just so mad at how obvious it was at how stupid this man would be at this job and yet even now how many should-be smarter and more responsible people are going to go along with it. If it wasn't for the damage he is going to do to people and the country, that would be the most frustrating thing about this. The Russians brought a camera crew to their meeting. They took pictures. Liars.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 11, 2017 -> 12:29 PM) You mean all those Iphone users? And Steve, if you really want to make inroads and see if Democrats can be more successful, it may be wise to drop the whole "racist" thing. Insulting people rarely gets them to change their mind. In the next election cycle I hope people focus on things like: Healthcare, inability to lead, lack of funding for places like NC, self dealing, etc. There is plenty of ways to convince someone Trump is going to sink the ship. Trump is about Trump. How many times do we have to see Melania on the White House website, Ivanka hawking products, Kushners using Trump for cash, then they go back and honest mistake, we will remove. The cat was out of the bag. It's like telling a jury to disregard someone giving some very incriminating testimony. They know exactly what they are doing there, even though they don't seem to know too much about the things Trump was actually elected to handle.

Trump is now boasting that in a short period of time, he has learned everything about health care. Thank God for Donald Trump.

QUOTE (Tony @ May 11, 2017 -> 08:51 AM) @Acosta: WH furious over Russian government photos of Trump meeting with Lavrov/Kislyak. "They tricked us," an official said of Russians "They lie." https://twitter.com/acosta/status/862641882983215105 Oops! They brought cameras into the room. Then they started snapping pictures. Who knew?

QUOTE (brett05 @ May 11, 2017 -> 06:56 AM) Tons of money was made by all fiscal classes of Americans during the Reagan years. If the Reagan years were bliss, what does that say about the Clinton and Obama years? Obama outperformed him, Clinton more than doubled him. You go back over 35 years, the market performs a lot better under democrats. Trump likes to brag about what he is doing vs. Obama. For him to do what Obama did, the Dow is going to have to hit 50,000 under his watch. His failing presidency will never get there. He will be worse than the guy he called the worst president of all time, and an evil and bad guy. Sad.

Everyone can spin it anyway they like, the bottom line is the results have to get better or this guy is a bust. It is always easy to blame messing with mechanics and it takes a while to get back to the old way, but remember the old way got him a TJ surgery at a young age. This stuff is still fluff until he starts pitching better.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 10, 2017 -> 03:49 PM) Fair enough all around but according to the report from our own Soxtalk scouting crew Delmonico does have a chance to stick at 3B. How many games have they seen him play?

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ May 10, 2017 -> 02:28 PM) Greg, the point Balta is making is that the Republicans and the Democrats have very different policies, particularly on healthcare. If you want the government to mandate that insurance companies cover more and not less (preexisting conditions, no lifetime out of pocket max), then the Democrats are more likely to pass, or maintain, legislation that does that. If you ultimately want universal healthcare, the Democrats are the party that is the closest to that. By voting for Republican candidates, or not voting for either, you are making it more likely that the Republicans will be the party in power. The Republicans have made their stance on healthcare (and taxes for the wealthy) abundantly clear. They think that cutting taxes to the wealthy will create more jobs. They think that government should be out of healthcare entirely. Based on your comments in this thread, you are against both of those policies! But the election was more about personality for you than it was about policy. That is your right as an American! You are right! But when you complain about the policies that the Republicans are pushing (and the policies that have already failed in Kansas) while at the same time attacking Hillary Clinton and parroting Rush Limbaugh - well those things just don't line up. What I never understood about trickle down economics and putting more money in the rich's hands is if they are just going to pass this money along to the middle and lower classes, first, why not just give the cut to those classes? If that doesn't work, why would they suddenly start spending more money? They have a lot to spend on workers now that they aren't using. Giving them more isn't the answer. It boggles my mind how non rich people could be republicans. Unless it's a real moderate guy like Kasich, there really is nothing in it for you. The only trickle down the Trump Corp. ever did was trickle down bankruptcy. Don't pay the workers, take your money out, declare bankruptcy and make the little guy do the same. Then talk about how rich you are and what a genius businessman you are.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ May 10, 2017 -> 02:11 PM) We need home runs for? We don't. The Sox just need to release Frazier because Delmonico needs to come up right now. It is imperative they see what he can do before he is ready.

Frazier had an abbreviated spring training, and keeps on getting nicked up during the season, which is unusual for him. I think once he gets going again, he did have a brief hot streak earlier, he'll be fine. I really don't know what the rush is with Delmonico.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ May 10, 2017 -> 12:37 PM) Not gonna lie, I always forget he exists. So do I. But you would think a beat guy would ask about him. They asked about everyone else. In a couple of weeks, most will be over the Willy Garcia Experience, Leury isn't an every day CF, Tilson might be interesting to look at, but from the lack of news, he must hanging with Brett Lawrie.

Do the reporters even ask Hahn about Tilson, or have they also forgotten he is a White Sox?

QUOTE (bmags @ May 10, 2017 -> 11:11 AM) On the other hand why have her on? If it will just be her spouting lies and deflections and no value comes out, why bring her? (I know it's because people love to hate watch her answers but) I agree. You know what you are going to get from her. It's the same BS every single time, and it only invigorates Trumps cult. Trump is correct about one thing, CNN is fake news when they have her on. I'm no fan of Comey, but this whole thing is ridiculous. It is amazing how low elected officials will go and look away all in the name of getting rid of Obamacare, which IMO they wouldn't have too much of a problem with if it were nicknamed after a white conservative guy, and lower taxes on the rich. IMO, if Trump is guilty, all these people are guilty if they choose to look the other way.

Beck is a disappointment. High hopes when drafted. He looks like meat.

QUOTE (Scoots @ May 9, 2017 -> 09:03 PM) Pretty sure Eaton came from AZ with a trade for Addison Reed...unless there was a 3 team trade deal in there I'm not aware of. Trumbo to AZ Santiago to LAAA Eaton to SOX Davidson for Reed

QUOTE (oldsox @ May 9, 2017 -> 08:20 PM) Who did we get from Angels for Santiago? And, do they still call him Code Red? Eaton

I loved this tweet Employees fired by Trump: Yates, Bharara, Comey Employees investigating Trump: Yates, Bharara, Comey

QUOTE (Sleepy Harold @ May 9, 2017 -> 05:43 PM) Daryl Van Schouwen @CST_soxvan 2m Geo Soto scratched. No word on why. Narvaez catching, batting eighth, vs. the lefty Santiago. I never understood the Sox signing Geo to be the main guy. He and the DL go together like Peanut butter and jelly They had to have signed him to basically back up Narvaez without really saying so.

Has about 350 plate appearances above A ball. Great prospect still fans too much. Games in Chicago are meaningless. If he is going to be a star let him show us for a few months in AAA. Totally about development.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 9, 2017 -> 02:18 PM) GOP Struggles to Explain AHCA’s $880 Billion Medicaid Cuts lol This bill will put the health of millions of Americans at risk and kill thousands of them a year. No one dies from a lack of health care. He did clarify that and said no one is refused treatment at an emergency room if they are dying and can't pay a bill, of course that says nothing about the lack of care leading up to that point. And it was enlightening that a few in the GOP say if you live your life "right" you won't get sick. I would love to talk to one of these people about my mom, a woman who didn't drink, didn't smoke, was eating "organic" and the like and forced the rest of us to since back in the 70s when basically only hippie types were doing it, and died at age 60 from breast cancer. Luckily she had care and was covered with insurance, but no one lived more "right" than she did. I'd probably get arrested if I went to one of their town halls.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 9, 2017 -> 11:40 AM) Last I looked, he had 8 of the 15 errors Charlotte has made. He either covers a lot of ground or needs a lot of time in AAA. Unless he is going to DH. A lot has been made about range factor etc. and how errors is an old school stat that meant very little. However, over the last 3 seasons, the team that has made fewer errors in a game has won over 62% of the time.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 8, 2017 -> 09:52 PM) I listened to Rush while I was in the car today. He went wild saying Trump has been amazing and blamed the media for refusing to point out anything positive that Trump does. Hadn't heard Rush in a while and that's what he was spouting. He said the liberal media is hurting the Democratic party by trying to help it. Don't shoot the messenger here. Just reporting what I heard. I was hoping you were referring to the band. BTW, Trump's wall has another huge issue. Eminent Domain. Apparently, there are over 120 cases still tied up in the courts from when W was going to build a fence. I think 2/3 of the land needed to build a wall is privately owned.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ May 9, 2017 -> 10:23 AM) The problem is even if he does hit like that, he's still not going to be super valuable because he doesn't offer anything else of value. His ceiling is basically prime Adam Dunn, which is a fine player, but not justified by the hype. Dunn was hyped like crazy when he was young. He used to run a bit, and was a cover boy for BP after a crazy call up season.