Texsox

Yep. But it won't happen. I wish more people from up north would understand what a horrible state this is and stop moving here. Now water is out. Move here and there is a great chance you will die from something that is perfectly well handled elsewhere. The grass isn't greener, in fact we don't have grass at all. I know feel shitty about my state, my country, and my baseball team. Do you want to fucking attack my family also?

It's a polarizing state. Way too many people moving here from other states to believe everybody hates us. This may slow down the growth even more but somehow I doubt it. My family is well prepared so it was an unexpected vacation. Now that we're mostly out of the woods we're thinking it was fun. We read, played some games, had the family over, slept later. But if your best survival tool is a cell phone it was a nightmare. It's a historic weather event. In the past four days I saw more snow than the past 25 years combined, and by a wide margin. We usually have one or two hard freezes a winter, this has been five consecutive nights. Unlike tornadoes or hurricanes this impacted every country in the state at the same time. We're almost six times larger than Illinois. To me it's like Chicago being ready for a hurricane. Imagine if Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa got together and formed their own energy grid. No one would think twice. Now have that size, but with more energy resources than any other state. It's not as wacky as some want to think. But it's built for Texas not Canada.

Love it. I do appreciate how much he values his HoF credentials. He mentioned in one interview he wouldn't have returned if it meant giving that up.

I'm just happy to have electricity for 24 hours straight. I restocked my tequila, picked up some IPAs, and learned our largest contract in team history is the smallest contract of any MLB team largest contract. Fuck, wait, I don't want to be a buzz kill. Jose will be even better this year, Grandal can play 150 games, a 5th star will appear like the blessed virgin Mary, Vaughn will live up to his potential, and Tony will learn how to use the Uber app.

Definitely better than anything in the past 10 years when we had fewer wins than 27 other teams.

Yep. Definitely wouldn't advise anyone to move to Texas. Stay in Illinois. Our water supplier just announced they are cutting our bill at whichever is lower our bill to date this month or last month's bill. That won't make national headlines.

This squad might be equal to last year's which grabbed the 7th seed.

This reminds me of buying a car and having your friendly sales person who is "on your side" take your offer and fight the sales manager. Those three are thick as thieves.

No. It's not even an option we could turn on in the board software.

Buried behind a paywall is an Athletic article that TLR claims he was upfront about his SECOND DUI early in the interview process and told all three of these guys. Someone is lying and covering their asses. Hahn and Williams aren't going anywhere because they are as guilty as JR in this bullshit. https://theathletic.com/2395134/2021/02/18/white-sox-tony-la-russa-rick-hahn-mlb/ for those of you with subscriptions. BTW, if you are on T-Mobile they offer free subs it seems like every year.

That's a win. Louisiana is nice this time of year. ?

The best news in all this is maybe all this will slow down the population growth that Texas has received from folks fleeing high taxes and no jobs. https://www.statesman.com/news/20181224/us-census-texas-again-leads-in-population-growth all those folks that have fled Illinois https://www.centerforilpolitics.org/articles/2020-census-projection-illinois-one-of-four-states-losing-population may finally go back.

YOLO. I was a part of a group that sponsored a golfer on the mini tours back in the early 2000s. Same principle. In one of the articles on the Tatis extension they characterized those advances as predatory. I'm guessing the adjectives could range from charity to predatory.

"Being that I'm a Hall of Fame manager that the front office can't touch, and I could bench your ass, before kneeling during this anthem or flipping that bat, you better ask yourself, do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?" Yeah, that could work.

I guess rape-n-pay isn't as frowned upon there.

And everything is a mod

Huge difference. I'm not certain it's even possible to put both on the same scale.

I feel like I'm watching Atlas Shrugged played out in real life.

We had President's Day as a remote professional development day which became partially cancelled. Tuesday through Friday are snow days.

And my point is I would rather they spend money than talent in acquiring players.

I'm not familiar with all the ins and outs of what they are trying to do. Basically they are setting minimum wages for certain industries. The square footage is similar to workplace rules that are implemented based on the number of employees. It seems like a Ayn Rand novel at play.

And what is moving at this point are electronic bits and bytes. I think I remember way back in the last century being asked if I wanted to hold the paper shares or allow the form to hold them. Damn, that was almost 40 years ago. When you say the firms are required to hold 15% of their positions, but isn't that actually of their client's positions?

I can only guess it's the volume of people who are passing through makes it more hazardous. But, I believe it's also politicians seeing record profits from these huge corporations during a world wide crisis and wanting them to spread the wealth a bit to the employees who will spend it in their communities. The idea of cutting taxes on corporations is it will trickle down to the masses. Supposedly higher corporate profits benefits all of us.

Great point. They could also hold out hope that they will get a phone call in June.

@southsider2k5 through various avenues I've bought stocks via face to face to recently with an app but I've never really bothered to understand what happens after I say (for example) I want 100 shares of GOLF. It seems like whomever I have the account with must have the financial resources to make the trade on my behalf. I guess on some level I recognize that somehow my order gets to the appropriate exchange and magic happens. So what are the mechanical steps? Or, I can go look it up but you always explain this stuff in a way I can understand.