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He once stayed at a Holiday Inn Express ?

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/coronavirus-eat-out-to-help-out-scheme-restaurants-increase-111844379.html Or you have this "EAT OUT TO HELP OUT" scheme in the UK, which clearly has noble goals, we can probably all (or mostly) agree it's certainly a worthy goal to keep restaurants and small business owners from going bankrupt....BUT it's leading to a 14% in people eating out. End result, they probably go right back in the direction of the US in September/Oct/November.

Gates, here, is SPOT ON Not sure how ANYONE could argue with the cogency of the points that he's made...but I'm sure some will try Bill Gates continued his unbridled criticism of the United States’ response to the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday, calling America’s testing system “insanity” and stressing that the country was now facing “a pretty dramatic price” both in human death and wasted money. Speaking with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Gates said it takes far too long to receive coronavirus test results in the U.S. “You can’t get the federal government to improve the testing because they just want to say how great it is,” the Microsoft co-founder-turned-philanthropist said. “I’ve said to them, look, have a CDC website that prioritizes who gets tested. That’s trivial to do. They won’t pay attention to that. I’ve said don’t reimburse any tests where the result goes back after three days. You’re paying billions of dollars in this very inequitable way to get the most worthless test results of any country in the world.” On the topic of America’s lockdowns, Gates pointed to countries in the European Union that faced the coronavirus outbreak earlier than the U.S. and instituted more coordinated lockdowns. “What’s impressive is that Italy, France, Spain ― who had a wave before us ― managed as they fell off to keep even the parts of the country that hadn’t had the intense epidemic from creating a second wave,” Gates said. ”In the case of the United States, they opened up their bars. They didn’t do much in the way of wearing masks. And so those areas became this second wave,” he added. https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/bill-gates-coronavirus-tests-060944939.html

Right, and it's been perfectly justified with Giolito. Who deserves credit, that's an argument for another day. Not only does he hide the ball better with the short arm action, it's safer mechnically and also causing the optical illusion of the ball jumping up on the batter a tick or so faster. Take Greg775's favorite motion, Nate Jones. It doesn't help if you throw 95-100 if you can't stay healthy and on the field more often than not. Rodon, as PTAC has noted since the day he was drafted, had delivery flaws that would lead to health problems as well as inconsistent ability to throw strikes. He was right on in that assessment. He also strikes me as one of those pitchers who "goes his own way" and hasn't listened as well to the coaching staff with Boras Corp and his wife/family seemingly steering his career more than the White Sox.

Both, SUPPOSEDLY, due to differences of opinion or rifts with the Don Cooper School of Thought. That said, you need to strike gold with at least one or two FA's (see Rangers last year with Lynn/Minor.) And who would have thought that Montas and Bassitt would still be contributing major leaguers at this point in their careers? Not many...

Here's another way to think of it. We have 1/2 of the Cuban National Team, if they were to be reassembled and put back together for an Olympic or WBC run. Robert, Moncada, Abreu and Grandal would be starters. Jimenez, probably for the DR, along with EE as the DH. Mazara would likely be an outfield starter for Puerto Rico. Madrigal for Team USA if they went with under 25 players. Anderson, at least on Team USA at SS (would probably go with Corey Seager or Story.) You can even argue James McCann as starting or at least back-up catcher for Team USA. Leury would likely grab a utility role, as well. That's just too much talent NOT to make the playoffs, as long as they have a decent bullpen, defense and enough starting pitching from spots 3-5. What other team could you make that same argument for, at least in terms of spots 1-9 + DH.

I mean in terms of the trustworthiness of starting pitching prospects over the long term. The previous generation or two of Sox prospects, look what happened to Brandon McCarthy and then Daniel Hudson, for example. Not the greatest track record for investing unless you're a licensed riverboat gambler.

WHO OFFICIAL: "We can outsmart the virus" Or not...? Covid-19 is brutal in its simplicity and its cruelty, but there are things that can be done to outsmart it, according to World Health Organization officials. “When we talk about what is the virus trying to do and the virus being an enemy, the virus doesn’t have a brain. We’re the ones with the brains,” said Dr. Mike Ryan, director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, during a news conference in Geneva on Monday. Ryan described the virus as a simple biologic entity that can enter a human cell and instruct that cell to make more viruses, which can at minimum infect someone else; or in the worst case, kill the person. “It’s brutal in its simplicity. It’s brutal in its cruelty,” Ryan said. “But it doesn’t have a brain. We have the brains. And I think Maria may outline how we can outsmart something that doesn’t have a brain, but we’re not doing such a great job right now.” Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead for coronavirus, elaborated on how this can be done, saying that the goal of the virus is to reproduce, find individuals to pass between but not kill too many, as it Is unable to pass to another person if it kills its host. “There’s many, many things that we can do right now with the tools that we have right now, to outsmart this virus,” she said. While work on therapeutics and vaccines will continue, at this point chains of transmission can be broken, she said. These include social distancing, contact tracing, quarantining infected individuals, the use of masks when physical distancing isn’t possible, and hand washing. “If we do all of these things, we can outsmart the virus, and we can prevent this virus from passing from one individual to another,” she said, adding that everyone on the planet needs to understand that they have a role to play in breaking chain of transmission. www.cnn.com

Robert looking like he belonged among the Top 10 players in baseball, at least on potential impact as a rookie, really amped up the expectations, perhaps unrealistically. Jimenez, Moncada, Anderson, Vaughn and Robert comprise perhaps the best young group of position players of any team in baseball.

Already broadcasting games with the Twins this year...

Why did they need a CFer with Robert there? Clearly, they still needed a RFer or even LFer due to Jimenez’s defensive adventures.

https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/29630642 6 minute video, watch at your own peril Tatis Jr. is bringing the joy back to baseball Jeff Passan traveled to Fernando Tatis Jr.'s hometown in the Dominican Republic in December to find out what he thinks about the pressure of family legacy, and again via Zoom in July, to ask him about the pressure of representing "the future of the game."

Meanwhile, Trump's plan to extend special federal unemployment benefits, albeit at a lower level, rests on states finding more money for laid-off workers and is sure to be undercut by the busted budgets of governors who have seen treasuries cleaned out by the fight against the coronavirus. "Well, if they don't, they don't," Trump said on Saturday about governors agreeing to his plan. "That's up to them. But if they don't, they don't. That's going to be their problem. I don't think their people will be too happy. They have the money." These and other deficiencies of the executive actions mean that two goals -- getting money quickly to struggling Americans and stimulating the economy -- are unlikely to be improved much by his attempted show of force. By Sunday evening, after a day of negative reaction from the states, the President appeared to be rowing back his demands for governors to contribute 25% of extended unemployment benefits. He only succeeded in adding more confusion. "We have a system where we can do 100% or we can do 75%, they pay 25, and it will depend on the state," Trump told reporters before returning to the White House from his resort in New Jersey. "And they will make a application. We will look at it, and we'll make a decision." https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/10/politics/trump-executive-action-unemployment/index.html

Still 7th in AL despite some terribly frustrating managerial decisions. 7. WHITE SOX 70.9% 8. Red Sox 41.8% 9. Tigers 33.2% 10. Angels 27.3% 11. Rangers 25.8% 12. Blue Jays 24.0% Makes the match-ups with DET (and likely no Cardinals) over the next ten days even MORE significant.

Roger Bo-Zard the Wizard better go on the Bozo Show on WGN and reverse the jinx...unfortunately, seems that guy has passed away, like the White Sox playoff chances. J/K. It's actually kind of fun to be getting upset and having a passionate feeling one way or another for White Sox games again. It has been since late 2012 and May 2016 for most of us. But still a huge gut punch. Giolito should have gotten a well-earned victory...

When Grandal was patient, and the game was on the line, he got screwed. Would have been such a huge lift to win this game, but we're the anti-Cubs right now...seemingly. And the Indians finally had a rain delay work out in their favor, albeit with FAR less at stake. Where's our RAJAI Davis when you need him?

They don't feel very confident about Collins, lol?

I'll just pretend Luis Robert drove that ball threw and rain and over the fence. That makes it easier to deal with, somewhat. But not much. Have to rebound quickly in DET against a suddenly revitalized team starting to believe in itself, and with more minor league talent than the White Sox.

More like Judas Iscariot with that strike call to Grandal and some "wink wink" decisions that helped out the Indians in the last 2-3 innings.

How could he forget after doing so much better last season as a RHB?

That was so not worth waiting 44 minutes for... BRUTAL. LEURY, freaking take at least one pitch after sitting there on the bench for almost an hour. Alomar was smart to bring in a crafty LHP and turn Moncada around. Indians are just a smarter organization, top to bottom. We might be more talented, but it's all about results at the big league level. At this point, the time for development has come and gone (except for rookies, obviously.)

Nobody I know who watched the story didn’t know that going in...since it's an actual real life story. How could you possibly change that? It would be JFK by Oliver Stone where grassy knoll snipers are taken out by the USSS. Well, 12/22/63 is that alternative version by Stephen King I guess,

You should watch the one Simon did on YONKERS, NY mayor who was youngest in American history, later took his own life, with Jason Isaac, really good stuff.

Speaking of Brad Hand, I'm going to send Tyrion Lannister the Hand if A-Rod makes one more annoying comment...

Two different years. Wells was gone after 2001, the year Frank got hurt and Canseco took his place. Ritchie trade for Fogg/Lowe/Wells was after.