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caulfield12

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  1. Everyone’s thinking that here...but idiotic to say. No good will come from it, especially if it gets picked up somehow by Chinese social media. Every day, there’s a new reason to fight over something, like the Xinjiang cotton sourcing issue.
  2. That guy has more detractors than Rongey, Bill Melton and Benetti...
  3. What did he say again? He will end up getting all the White Sox games blacked out here in China, White Sox merchandise banned, etc. Everything said right now results in an overreaction/boycott over here.
  4. Hard to prefer Burdi here...but Foster’s really going to have to start showing something here. And not so good. Center cut fastball. Too good a hitter.
  5. Guess it wouldn’t be White Sox baseball in 2021 if everything went too easily. On the plus side, MLB.com had us at 8-8 and Boston 10-6 before the game even started.
  6. Or Abreu/Yerminator. Possibly Grandal after Jose, depending on the matchup. Wouldn’t hurt to move Robert up to sixth and Moncada down, although Yoan has had a couple of hits today, too.
  7. Is that like a Big League Chew? Just had a feeling he would never in a million years be stopping at first there...
  8. Talk about a Cuban Missile Crisis down to third...that ball was kilt.
  9. Maybe the beer barn instead...
  10. Well, we’ll take that cheapie. Mendick isn’t pretty but the results are usually better more often than not.
  11. Why is Anderson out against LHP? What happened to Lynn? This season, sheesh...it’s not like we didn’t spend the whole offseason talking about rotation depth and DH.
  12. Running Vaughn out there in a competitive season was just a bad idea...the organization being stubborn about proving everyone wrong doesn’t do either the team itself or Andrew any good individually.
  13. I just wonder how many who got in these last 12 months will share similar stories in the end? It’s one thing for Musk to put $1.5 billion or whatever in, that’s pocket money to him, basically. There's a new term for me, "YouTube Millionaire," it used to be "influencer" or social media influencer. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/youtube-celebrity-jeffree-star-recovering-033110600.html Can one even qualify if one is only in the single digits of millions and not a decamillionaire?
  14. Let’s just hope he doesn’t get too amped up and try to throw everything 100+. He has been so effective at 96-98 mph so far.
  15. Looks like the leaders who we need to come through showed up. Clean game. Team realizes they have to address the LF situation soon. Keuchel manned up. Bullpen did its job. Moncada also had a really nice double play ball turn on defense as well. That RBI single up the middle and slightly to the opposite side was a sweet-looking swing.
  16. Or were unwilling to spend the extra $10-20 million we supposedly ran short of to put a much deeper roster together...no other team in the majors has both their 2020 and 2019 first round draft picks up. Most don’t have either.
  17. Apparently someone is unfamiliar with the track record of taking one of the lowest payrolls in baseball and consistently turning it into post season appearances it was is most often the toughest division in baseball.
  18. That’s even scarier. The 32-15 start last year is the main thing holding together the current belief that we might still be one of the three best teams in the AL. Because the positive additions of Lynn/Eaton/Mercedes are being cancelled out by...well, there’s zero point in rehashing all the things that are currently going awry. Or a century plus franchise history of not making the playoffs over two consecutive seasons.
  19. Actually, Generation X that grew up in the 70’s and 80’s will be the first to be blamed for the so-called “downfall” of America, lol. Although the Millennials might go down as the first to do worse than the preceding generation...health care costs, rising housing costs and tuition exploding being three key reasons. The crazy thing to me is how so many are convinced that Bitcoin, Coinbase, Dogecoin, Ethereum...I have a friend I taught with in China now back in the States and all about something called Hedera. Seems like the same irrational exuberance in the late 1990’s over Enron, WorldCom, AIG...and all those high tech stocks like JDSU, Nortel, Lucent, Juniper, Cisco, etc. For example, that Ryan’s Toy Review kid and his younger twin sisters that aren’t even ten and worth $250 million. It’s almost like aspirations to retire with just a million don’t exist. We’ve skipped along with the Kardashians directly into the billions if you want to be considered a success today. So many want the fastest and easiest shortcut to riches...but so few can actually achieve it. Then you have the whole FIRE movement, as well. Seems something has to give. I remember a time when I could confidently invest in tangible and intangible goods and services, not so called “financial products” that don’t really contribute much to make the world a better place. In fact, they might be destroying the environment even more rapidly...as increasing amounts of electricity are chasing diminishing Bitcoins, which means more and more coal burning plants here in Asia are supplying power to the feeding frenzy.
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