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Not in Texas. I wonder how many states have adopted that rule?

MJ has public relations down to a science. He just always nails the right thing at the right moment. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2...nce/87527386/44

He's gaining my vote

QUOTE (Baseball palace of world @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 10:58 AM) I was really looking forward to seeing the old uniforms. Does anyone know if they were planning to wear the white pants or blue pants with those jerseys? Either way it would have been cool. Kinda partial to the all blue but those were the road uniforms. Also I really hope this doesn't stop them from wearing the uniforms again. Yeah they are bad but they are the first uniforms I saw the sox wear. Welcome to Soxtalk!

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 10:52 AM) Welcome to pro union Chicagoland. It's always the fault of the boss and management! I think it is more universal than that. We cheer the players. The club promotes players.

Sale acted like a toddler having a fit in the store because his mommy wouldn't buy him candy. The club had the backbone to send him home. Sometimes the hero fails and the evil empire wins. This is one of those times.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 10:22 AM) The clubhouse manager is employed by the club and is the representative of the club handling all of this. What does it matter if its the assistant GM or the clubhouse manager running it, from the legal standpoint? The Sox players just want it to remain status quo and to be sure that the money atays in the clubhouse and that management isn't going to do something unfair. Of course there is no guarantee that the clubhouse manager isn't doing the same thing. However, the players would be more likely to hear about from the clubbies if this were the case. From the sound of it the clubhouse manager has employees, some are underage kids, on "his" payroll. These assistants are not on the club's payroll but on one of their employee's payroll probably paying them in cash. The clubhouse manager also has personal accounts receivable and payable to deal with for the food and beverages. I'm going to speculate here but I remember old stories about Babe Ruth sending a clubhouse kid to restaurants to get him some food. This is similar to how some private country clubs run their pro shops. They hire a professional and the pro runs the shop as his business. He buys the merchandise, cart fleet, hires staff and creates a payroll. But that model is being replaced almost everywhere.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 07:26 AM) Sale handled this totally wrong. If he was against the uni's so much, he should have taken a bunch of them out to the field and burned them in front of the fans. Actually blowing them up would have been a great promotion. Against Detroit would work. Allow anyone into the game for .98 and any replica jersey. Better if there is a doubleheader.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jul 23, 2016 -> 10:18 PM) You seriously believe that wearing a different uniform makes a difference in winning? This is the difference in winning? Wearing a different jersey? I'm sure KW didn't care about the promotional day other than "ok Brooks." I bet he'd be winning more in that comfy Texas jersey or a Baltimore jersey. The jersey is why those teams have a few more wins.

Here is why the players are wrong. Having been on the management side of a similar issue here are the things that jumped out at me. Underaged employees working overtime. Who employs them? It sounds like the club hires them and the clubhouse manager pays them. I am shocked that system is still around in 2016. They may be taking 60% but they are also paying for the food, which was probably close to that or more. Here is how it should be. The visiting team is responsible for the food and drink for the players. The players should not be paying $50 a day for that. The home club employs and pays a decent salary to the employees responsible to assure the meals are there. If the players wish to tip the employees, they may. But the employee shouldn't be personally collecting meal money and paying for the meals, that is a club responsibility. It should also be the club's responsibility to manage employees including payroll, not the club house manager. The players are protecting a seriously flawed system from 100 years ago.

http://www.chron.com/sports/highschool/art...SCA-8394200.php

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 08:31 PM) Hey, I was only about 2 innings off! I was two runs off. I thought he'd give up 5.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 07:52 PM) 8 men on in last 3 at bats for Shuck. He's made 3 weak outs on 3 pitches. QUOTE (Condor13 @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 07:52 PM) Seriously again, that's like 10 opportunities in the last 2 games with a man on 3 and less than 2 outs and we don't f***ing Cue the he's trying too hard music

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 06:53 PM) EAT THE HAT

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 07:09 PM) Ed Herrmann 1974 Wow, I wouldn't have guessed it. I don't remember that and that was during my studying everything on the back of a baseball card and reading every boxscore days

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 05:00 PM) David Schuster ‏@Schumouse 25m25 minutes ago Mark Buehrle is here at the ballpark tonight Nice he is still interested in baseball. How about Mark as the next Sox manager?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 07:11 PM) The signs I saw, basically said no swimming. At other resorts and parts of beaches, they said, no swimming and referenced gators. If I saw a sign that said no swimming, I wouldn't have an issue with my kid watching the water or even having a foot in the water, potentially. I mean the lake by my house says no swimming (little man made lake, nothing fancy), but ducks in the water and if my daughter stuck her hand in, I wouldn't care in the slightest. I wouldn't let her swim (and there are tons of other kids feeding ducks, etc). Not being from Florida, I could easily see where someone would be out of touch / not thinking of gators as it relates to the "no swimming" sign. They should have clearly stated, no swimming and beware of gators. I see a sign that says watch out for gators and my kids aren't anywhere near that water. Unfortunately that sign wasn't there (from the few pictures I saw at least). Well clearly you suck as a dad But I think you speak for 99% of the parents not from areas with gators.

I just bought some Philips Hue bulbs. I was able to connect and program them, including voice commands through my Amazon Alexa in about ten minutes. The routines I programmed seem to work. So far I like what I see.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 11:53 AM) Lmao what have I started?! All I did was innocently predict a 7 IP outing from Shields Which by the way I hope you had been drinking at the time . . . on Shields tab

I can only think of a few Sox catchers to play in the all-star game AJ, Fisk a few times, and Lollar for about a decade. Bears QBs and Sox catchers are about the same.

There are a lot of people living in those neighborhood who never are shot.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 02:03 PM) What I find particularly interesting is that I think you're generally right with the "scare the crap out of anyone" part, but your answer for the why is "more important to mock your opponents" and I think that's 100% as much being in denial as what you try to condemn. I think this is a complete failure to acknowledge the major driving force - actual economic grievances. The provinces that voted strongly for this, away from the financial center in London that has grown rapidly, are people who have had 5 years of 2 recessions followed by the Austerity program. They've had health benefits and jobs cut as the Conservative government cut its budget, and the only place that was growing at that time was a financial center/industry. Another good analysis. I don't think either party really "feels the pain" of the working poor and over worked middle class.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 01:47 PM) More important than what the guy actually stands for is why people are actually gravitating towards people like him, and even Bernie Sanders to a large extent. Hopefully people starting paying attention the "why" before it is too late here. This is the second time today the comparison was made between Bernie and Don. I believe it is a very good point.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 09:58 AM) If it was to protect smaller states they wouldn't have been awarded proportionally. It still protects them. Montana's population would just be absorbed into a bigger demographic. By awarding specific votes based on Montana only results it forces candidates to specifically try to win Montana instead of lumping them in with North Dakota, South Dakota, Why-oming, etc. It preserves the idea that these are states that are united.

QUOTE (CB2.0 @ Jun 24, 2016 -> 09:56 AM) No, I meant exactly what I said. That a line of 7 IP would be a miracle, and more than 5 IP would be "better than expected" (to the degree that I would "eat my hat"). In the end, he met expectations. So you did expect him to be pitching in the 6th inning. Excellent prediction! And as I said he exceeded mine. I would have been happy with 5 and 5 earned runs. Leaving with one and ultimately three was much better than I predicted. That sure does make me happy. And one reason so many Sox fans here are jumping on this you would rather be right than say that a player on the team that you are a fan of performed better than you expected. You would be happier if he really sucked than be happy that he did better than expected.