Harry Chappas

Again I am not talking about individuals supporting families. My initial post was about a small restaurant that struggled to get employees in the summer because of the unemployment claims and never recovered. I am by no means trying to state that a family of four in a an urban area is living large on this policy.

Sorry I did not mean to use the term household.

Depends on your lot in life. The median household income in some states is below $30K. I could not live on that but there are certainly some that can.

She was making minimum wage and worked a handful of hours and then was making much more to not work. She then went off to college. I didn't ask to audit the conversation but the gist is she was making 3 to 4 times more to stay at home during that period as were many people in that position. I am not certain about he dependent status nor do I really know how the IDES works but as an employer we are on the hook for employment benefits for employees that were not laid off or had a reduction of hours because we are the more stable employer. We have a firm that represents us and they tried to explain this to me and I still cannot understand how the IDES works so when I heard that story I didn't really feel the need to question it .

What doesn't....she worked minimal hours, was laid off, received unemployment compensation. She was not being hired back for the same position technically so she did not have to elect to return to work and as such received the $600 weekly benefit.

Those charts look menacing if they break it down by industry I could be wrong. How many bar and restaurant workers make over $800 a week? I do think the bar and restaurant industry should be bailed out but they won't.

Was her choice...she was a high school student that only wanted to work 4 or 5 hours a week on the weekend during school. When she was asked to come back and to work more hours to help the carry out business her answer was no....unless they could top the $800 for doing nothing. Thus this girl that was making a little spending money now received $6K in unemployment.

Tex you eat tacos at 6:30 in the morning? The unemployment stimulus killed small businesses as much as anything. A friend had to close her restaurant because they could not get enough support staff. They are not in an urban area but not necessarily rural either. They could not hire people that wanted to work. A part time person that she was paying about $100 a week was making $800 a week to sit at home. She could not pay that person a realistic wage to come back to work. Another union friend has been out of work since mid-March and with random side work and unemployment has no interest in going back to work. Let's also not even get into unemployment fraud which is out of control. We are all screwed.

He and Abreu will DH and then in a couple of years he is the 1B and Eloy is the DH.

The cubs need to sell some parts but they are selling low so that is a bad idea.......never underestimate the stupidity of a nervous MLB GM

Think they gotta start another rebuild. Calling game yesterday hurt cub more than Marlins as Marlins bullpen was fresh. While I am mad the Sox lost at least their arrow is pointing in the right direction. Schwarber, Baez, Rizzo and Bryant - 1 hit amongst them

Why would he say that? What does it benefit him to say that he is fine and nothing is wrong? Wishful thinking on his part? I am thinking there was a lack of miscommunication and he was pitching like he did earlier this year when he was starter. He knows himself better than the White Sox at this point and my guess...if he is not injured....was that he had scaled it back to the TN days trying to go 2.1 innings and Renteria and Cooper were being overly cautious and not trusting him. I am not certain there is fault there as they as a staff have worked with him for two weeks and he is as green as a player can get.

I get not starting himbecause it forces Melvin's hand on the L/R matchups. My issue was Dunning was throwing strikes and they were in too big of a hurry to pull him to get to their plan on managing the rest of he game.

He was pitching better than Fiers. The top of the A's order should get on base. He got two outs and gave up no runs on two soft singles. He struggled if you want to call it that to the top four hitters in their lineup. He didn't have a chance to fail or at least come close to it. After the top of the first you had to think the Sox would get to Fiers and go from there. The White Sox bullpen had shown all season that they could be exposed and they were by the A's as I have pointed out numerous times. They are young relievers that the A's were making work. Not sure if it was Ricky or Cooper but whoever was handling the staff yesterday panicked and then failed miserably. I have not looked deeply into it but if Crochet was taken out simply because his velocity was down but he is fine and said so, and they still pulled him, they should be fired on the spot. Crochet was hoping to go 2+, maybe he did the Cooper and scaled back his velocity (to 98 BTW) to go longer and be more effective deeper into the game. In the end if Crochet is healthy I am a happy camper.

MyY hope is that they reassign him within the organization. I think he is a positive influence to the organization and can help the team. I hope they look at Coooper and decide it is time for him to do something new with his time.

I think in the full season the Sox win 85 games maybe get the 5th seed. I sadly think this season was too short to cut ties with Rodon and Mazara and determine the role Dunning and Cease will play long term. Kopech will come up in May and that may be a good thing in the grand scheme of things although I think if he is healthy they win the whole thing this year. Also have Lambert and Lopez handing around. They need to sit down with Bauer on day one and decide if they are going to sign him or not....if not pivot immediately to Quintana or another veteran. You sign Bauer let Edwin and McCann go (the last month has shown he is what he always has been) or sign for a reasonable amount and go from there. Hopefully they saw enough of Vaughan in the OF to make a decision it is obvious Eloy cannot paly the OF and stay healthy. They need to limit the potential for injury with him as best they can as that bat is too much to miss. Hopefully the last three days taught some guys some things on how to win.

I said this in the game thread and will say it until the cows come home. We were beat by an organizational philosophy. The A's were content to let the White Sox pitchers beat themselves and they did so by running up pitch counts going through the entire pen. The White Sox had plenty of opportunity to do the same and yet they swung at bad pitches and got themselves out. On paper the White Sox were the better team. The AL Central is theirs for the taking as long as they want it......can they figure out how to take it....we shall see. The organization needs to realize that RHP with good breaking stuff hand a majority of these guys their lunch. I think there are a few tweaks needed and simple growth of Robert, Eloy and Madrigal will do wonders, as well as the bullpen, and bringing in Vaughan. Sucks the season is over but I think there are only a few things needed to be considered the best team in the AL.

While the A's tried to do the same but the White Sox would not take it. That is what I find most frustrating after bringing in Bummer in the 2nd inning for no reason at all.

Not taking what he pitchers gives while the A's are I know that it gets old and I don't mean to sound like a dick but the bases should be loaded.

The White Sox philosophy of hitting v Oakland is evident today. The A's are making the Sox relievers throw strikes and the Sox are bailing their relievers out. Sox need hitters to work the count to balance the lineup. It is not the hitting coach either because the White Sox hired the A's coordinator. They need to emphasize that as it may well cost them the game today.

The overworked A's pen now has to close it out.

The team itself and players are fine. I go back to the idea that you cannot rely on 8 guys to be lights out in a game. The umpiring has been bad but at the same time the White Sox pitchers couldn't come through.

Welp we are going to have position players pitch this game. This game was horrifically managed and starts back to not getting a starter and then relying on 9 guys to be lights out.

I haven't been in this thread all game so I am not sure of the tone but they are going to run out of pitchers. We are going to use Fry and Cordero late in a tight game.

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