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QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jun 18, 2016 -> 12:02 PM) Yeah, I am sure every player that comes to this team doesn't want to look at scouting reports. They are paid to play baseball, the GM and managers should make it a mandatory thing. If you don't want to scout your opponent you won't have success and won't have a good career. Bad career=no money. I'm not certain if you meant that sarcastically. I think most of the players want to and they all will.

Ironically the night before the wedding we played cards and ordered a pizza. (again)

We have to be prepared if Canada invades us again.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 18, 2016 -> 10:14 AM) They have less than half. If you actually look at it like that, the White Sox have a smaller fan base than most of the AL Central. And not all fans are created equally. My hunch has been for a long time that both teams are about equal in the number of knowledgeable baseball fans. The Cubs kick our ass in the casual fan who enjoys going to a game now and then and may watch a little on TV.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Jun 17, 2016 -> 04:13 PM) I used to play pickup with a guy who was around 6'9", and he ran with his arms tucked to his sides and his hands up near his armpits. We called him T-Rex. This guys fingers would point down. I can still see it.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Jun 18, 2016 -> 12:12 AM) I desperately want the Sox to rebuild from the ground up, but there's really no point to it as the Sox can't scout and develop young talent anyway. This franchise is a wreck. Perhaps they are. Keep all the draft picks from this year and the next five drafts and hope enough develop to compete. Dump all the valuable players today and add even more 20 year olds. Then maybe, in 2022 they will be in position to win. I read some but not all of the draft coverage at Futuresox and it seems as if the Sox did as well as anybody in the draft. Baseball drafts more players than a third world army and a few turn up in the show in five years. The draft just seems like the biggest gamble in terms of building a team. I've spent a lifetime of watching can't miss draft picks miss and miss. And not just in the Sox system.

. . . last year's version of a couple guys . . .

We would also have to consider all the factors in being a rookie, then see how many apply by switching leagues. Mostly new stadiums and cities to visit. Different groupies, different bars

I really wish we could have a daily poll on the subject. What is Robin's current approval rating. Perhaps by the hour during games.

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Jun 18, 2016 -> 06:01 AM) When you run a baseball team like a small market team in a major market like Chicago, expect some backlash from the fans when the team sucks for decades at a time. They have half of a large market. Name a better ownership group in Chicago in the past 100 years? And that may be more a comment on the quality of ownership groups in Chicago sports than a comment on the quality of the current Sox owners but you understand my point.

QUOTE (3GamesToLove @ Jun 18, 2016 -> 08:19 AM) We're doing Sox game then Connie's afterwards. I'm having my dad and her dad so uh, no thanks to the strippers. When my best man gets into town we're doing kind of a second smaller bachelor party with just a few of us from high school who haven't hung out in a long time. We're going to do a barcade crawl in the city. I thought Connie was a stripper We basically did the same thing. Having two parties worked out really well. THe night before shouldn't be too crazy. A buddy had his future brother in law so hung over he almost couldn't walk down the aisle. That is not how you want to remember your wedding day. Congrats on the wedding. We should start a "wedding thread" and cover it live like our game threads lol

Now I see. I thought you were concerned about the stair overhanging too much. I like the last idea you have with the 5/4 and 1/4 round.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 1, 2016 -> 10:51 AM) I legitimately think I could be a pretty good x's and o's manager. I could not do that in football or basketball. Literally couldn't. Now I wouldn't have the job in any league cause I don't think I'd command enough respect in the lockeroom if I just got hired from my finance gig to being an MLB manager. I also think it is hilarious how literally no matter what a manager does it will be given grief. People complain about Rollins, he sits him yesterday against a lefty and everyone goes irate (it isn't like Saladino is a lefty and Rollins doesn't have a huge career lefty / righty split). Aren't there a number of top front office types that have finance degrees and background?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 17, 2016 -> 04:08 PM) I personally am against it. The Feds have no business knowing what I own or how many of them. How can you help defend this nation from foreign troops if the government doesn't know what you have? George Washington felt we need a well regulated militia to defend a free State. Are you turning your back on that? How can you be a part of that well regulated militia without the people who will regulate you know what you have?

QUOTE (juddling @ Jun 17, 2016 -> 10:28 PM) The last few days with my first grandchild in town Aren't they the best?

This is simply about value systems and beliefs. People who share a similar belief that cheating is bad will be less likely to cheat, no matter how they chose to reinforce their values. Going to church doesn't automatically make you perfect anymore than visiting a doctor makes you healthy. I see plenty of hypocrites at doctor's offices. They are sitting there like wow look how healthy I am I'm at a doctor's office, then eat a big bag of donuts on the way home, do drugs, don't exercise, etc. Hypocrites.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 17, 2016 -> 03:41 PM) Gun shops will charge from $30 to $60 for a transer fee. Most I have seen are $40. Seems ridiculous to me on a private sale.

In a private wager I have Dustin Johnson and Sergio Garcia in the Open at 100-1 Odds to win each. Even better, if they both finish in the top 10 I also collect at 100-1. I love a guy who is drinking and talking out his ass.

We also have to consider that some of these sales represent an exchange of less than $100. So the economics of registration is so much different than cars. How much is reasonable to spend registering an item that costs so little?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 17, 2016 -> 12:58 PM) Tex told me that the tacos at the Cell are better than San Antonio tacos* *he didnt really tell me that I was trying to remember when we had a drunken conversation while eating Cell tacos. I'm picturing sauce dripping down my chin.

I can't remember a season that I had to check the roster almost daily to see who is around. This seems like a different approach than what we have seen in past seasons.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 17, 2016 -> 03:17 PM) Quit playing semantics tex. By antis I usually refer to people that want to ban all or almost all guns. edit: To answer that, no i don't believe EVERYONE should be able to own ANY type of gun. People who have gone thru the legal system and have lost their rights are forbidden already, and automatic weapons are also a no no. There should also be a way to prevent people with certain mental health issues from obtaining them, but you would need to figure a way to balance that with medical privacy laws. So stop using the semantics. It's not semantics for me it's an attempt to show that gun owners aren't these crazy everyone should have any gun they want types. The typical antis aren't every gun should be banned type either. Using those terms paints a very unrealistic picture and gets us nowhere. The vast majority of Americans have the same goal, stop these thousands of murders. How we get to that is the argument. If we focus on what we have in common, and the common goal, instead of generalizing and labeling, we may actually accomplish something.

QUOTE (BrianAnderson @ Jun 17, 2016 -> 01:46 PM) That is the type of thought process that is also like "we can't move _______ from LF to RF or from 3B to the OF because it will mentally be too tough for him do adjust both defensively and keep it up at the plate" I hate that thought process, its a loser's mentality. Just like when they brought up a possible pitchers HR derby. People ran around saying "no!! injury risk for my pitcher!" and Joe Maddon goes on Arrieta - I don't believe in that. These guys workout all year, take batting practice - they can hit a few balls. Not to change this into Joe Maddon - but that's exactly the mindset this organization needs. Shark sucked last year because of mechanics. Whatever. It's not because he had to face 9 batters instead of 8 batters. I tend to agree with you in regard with the move between leagues. Yet, a lot of very good athletes have struggled. I can't believe it is all mental. There are some differences albeit fewer than a couple decades ago when the strike zone seemed very different between the leagues.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 17, 2016 -> 03:07 PM) Antis Do you believe that anyone should be allowed to own any type of gun or are you an anti?