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Or go back to the “conservative conspiracy against the Clintons” or further back to the media’s war with Richard Nixon...heck, let’s try the media’s war with LBJ administration over the prosecution of the Vietnam War (see McNamara’s “The Fog of War”). Didn’t start with Obama and Trump, clearly, but it has to be pretty darned close to the low point since the late 60’s/early 70’s.

Even if CNN and MSNBC were 80/20 anti-Trump, they’re cancelled out by Fox and Breitbart. The majority of political radio talk shows in America are conservative. The majority of small and medium-sized (distribution and population density served) newspapers tend to be owned by conservative conglomerates. Most of the financial press (think Forbes, CNBC or Wall Street Journal) is at their heart conservative/fiscal conservative with a social conscience. Same with Time, Newsweek, US World & News Report, etc. Sure, you have The NY Times, Washington Post, Yahoo, Huffington Post, Mother Jones, The Onion...still not seeing where this idea of liberal bias is coming from, because we haven’t even touched sites like Gab, QAnon, Alex Jones, Matt Drudge (the entire alt-right media conspiracy infrastructure). What exactly is the left equivalent of those groups...don’t give me names of groups (BLM, Nation of Islam, La Raza, etc.), let’s hear actual media entities with significant subscriber bases.

1. The shooter in the Pittsburgh synagogue was inspired to commit his heinous act by the false storyline that liberal billionaire George Soros was providing the financial backing for the caravan. It's not entirely clear where the shooter got this idea, but Fox Business Network anchor Lou Dobbs, for one, did a segment with Judicial Watch's Chris Farrell in which the notion is given credibility. The mainstream media repeatedly debunked this ridiculous claim and called it for what it is: anti-Semitism. 2. Trump's definition of "fake" news is this: News that is bad for him. How do I know? Because he tweeted about it! "The Fake News is working overtime," Trump tweeted in May. "Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?" "Negative" and "fake" are not, of course, synonyms. Trump's attacks on the media's "inaccurate and even fraudulent reporting of the news" have to be understood in that context. This isn't about actual fake news at all. This is about Trump believing the media is not being nice enough to him. 3. Trump's tweet condemning the media for fomenting divisiveness includes this line: "The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People." We have a President who is simultaneously insisting that the media is the prime driver of the divisions and hatreds on the rise in this country and that the entire free and independent media are an enemy of the American people. The irony is suffocating. What makes all of this worse is that Trump, at heart, doesn't hate the media at all. He loves the media. His Twitter feed, his interviews, his back-and-forths with reporters all make clear how much of an avid consumer of the mainstream media he is. He spends hours a day watching TV and tweeting about it. He not only knows reporters who cover him by sight but he also knows stories they've written about him and whether those stories were, in his mind, good ("true") or bad ("fake") for him. We've never had a President before who is such a connoisseur of the media or who cares as much about what the media thinks of him as Trump. https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/29/politics/donald-trump-moral-leadership/index.html

Would it be better to have private loan companies charging 6-18% interest, or the government charging 3-5%? This is the first complaint I’ve ever heard about the government being in a position to earn a profit. We only hear about the USPS or Amtrak and how inefficient government enterprises shouldn’t be subsidizing public corporations with cheaper services than would be available through the private sector. So what is the solution, to close most humanities programs and force the majority to study business, law, medicine, engineering, STEM, AI, robotics, VR, AR and IOT (internet of things/big data/cloud computing)? If that’s the case, why even have general requirements? Why not just directly into your major at 18 and graduate at 20? And a low supply of doctors and oversupply of lawyers is one of many reasons why we’re currently experiencing exploding health care costs...if they want to rebalance, they should provide more grants/assistance for future doctors and make law school comparatively more expensive so we don’t end up with a glut of unemployed lawyers who can’t pass their state bar exams or pay back student loans.

Average age of the eleven synagogue victims = 74.0

https://www.actionnetwork.com/mlb/world-series-odds-2019 Shocked they weren’t a bit lower, something like 24th-26th.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/28/opinions/trump-hypocrisy-hate-glaring-obeidallah/index.html Another glaring example was in May 2016, after Julia Ioffe, a Jewish journalist, wrote an article viewed by some as critical of Melania Trump. In response to the article, the journalist was subjected to a barrage of vile anti-Semitic threats, including a graphic depicting the journalist in a Nazi concentration camp and a barrage of messages on her phone, in which excerpts of Adolph Hitler speeches were played. When Trump was asked point blank by CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the anti-Semitic death threats being sent to the journalist by several self-professed Trump supporters, Trump responded, "Oh, I don't know about that. I don't know anything about that. You mean fans of mine?" Blitzer then explained, "Supposed fans of posting these very angry -- but your message to these fans is?" Here was Trump's opportunity to send a clear, passionate message to his supporters that there was no place for anti-Semitism in American political discourse. But what was Trump's response? He stated, "I don't have a message to the fans." And then, shockingly, Trump pivoted to slam the journalist with the comment, "A woman wrote an article that's inaccurate." Actually, when Trump said, "I don't have a message to the fans," he was misleading. Trump was sending a clear message that he had no problem with anti-Semitism being used as a tool to silent Jewish journalists. (In fact, other Jewish journalists were targeted with anti-Semitic hate for criticizing Trump after this interview with Blitzer.) My favorite is saying "it's actually the Democrats in the South in the 1940's/50's/60's who were the racists...the Democrats were founders of the KKK...and what about Woodrow Wilson?" as if those party principles and the Republicans of the Lincoln Era had anything to do with their modern incarnations at all. In fact, the Dixiecrats basically split off completely from the Democrats (see George Wallace, 1968) and the South became "the solid South" which meant consistently voting for Republican candidates ever since the 1980 presidential election of Reagan.

Burger? Dunning?

Harper is worth how much MORE in terms of marketing/Q rating? For a franchise like the White Sox, Harper just moves the meter into credibility more than any other (available) player in baseball. Kershaw, after this World Series...Corbin, nice names...but even they have loads of question marks. Corbin less so, but he's a completely unknown quantity to most Sox fans. (On the other hand, since the White Sox are already developing their "Cuban/Latin American" pipeline...have a Hispanic manager and likely a replacement in Vizquel lined up, you can see the argument for tipping the balance in the direction of Machado. That said, he doesn't really fit into a "role model for young/er" players mode in terms of attitude and professionalism, and Ventura/Renteria both proved to be challenged in getting the most out of players in terms of fundamentals/hustle at different times. If they were in "win now" mode starting in 2019, there wouldn't be as much hesitation, especially if they had more veterans (Castillo and Shields) to balance out the clubhouse between vets and youngsters like Tim Anderson.

If he's the "BEST/MOST ADVANCED NCAA HITTER" available in the draft, you can bet that he won't spend much time in Kanny to start the season, if any time at all. The only cause would be the continued OF logjam brewing ahead of him.

I just think that we can't make ANY conclusions from 2 debut months of professional baseball, especially with all the injuries Madrigal had to deal with to his wrist, time missed recovering (and he came back faster than he perhaps should have), hamstring tightness, the last two months of the NCAA season really took it out of those guys (although I'm sure someone will point out the MILB stats of OSU standouts Grenier, Larnach and Gretler.) At any rate, if we did that, players like Jared Mitchell and Courtney Hawkins would be major league All-Stars.

If they're way off in their projections of Moncada, Madrigal and L. Robert being 3+ fWAR players, then the rebuild is pretty much doomed before it even gets off the ground. Other than Jimenez, there's nobody that we can feel pretty confidently can be automatically penciled in at EVEN 2+, and Jimenez's defense or being relegated to DH might pull his stats down even further, as well. After those 3, who has the best shot at being a "breakout" player? You've got a bunch of toolsy but potentially flawed outfield prospects in the High A/A ball, Burger (who knows?), Z. Collins, etc. You could even legitimately argue that Jose Rondon has the best chance to break out (compared to the minor league prospects once you get past the Top 3 & Jimenez), and that's a pretty scary thought. As far as Robert/Madrigal hitting for power or not, let's give them full/uninterrupted minor league seasons in 2019 before we jump to any conclusions. Power is the last aspect to develop at the major league level, and Nick already has the contact ability...which, as time has demonstrated over and over again with Sox prospects, is much more important than power but 30-40% K's.

Opinion: Mr. Money Mustache says Suze Orman has it wrong on financial independence and early retirement By Mr. Money Mustache https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mr-money-mustache-wants-suze-orman-and-everyone-else-to-understand-these-8-things-about-the-fire-movement-2018-10-05?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo These are the bad things about early retirement that no one talks about https://finance.yahoo.com/m/7ced7a9b-ab6a-37a4-add6-274aea4d8822/these-are-the-bad-things.html?bcmt=1

We’ve already gone through it with Fisk...unless Sale signs elsewhere after his contract is up.

Ummm...no. He was attacking Jewish people because he blames George Soros and “his cabal” for financially supporting the immigration caravan from Central America, which is completely unsupported by any documented evidence. While he blames Trump for being too close to Israel and cozying up to Netanyahu, he most assuredly would never be caught dead at a Hillary event. Just because you’re to the right wing of the political spectrum doesn’t mean you have to agree with Trump. In fact, 85-90% of current registered Republicans are globalists/corporatists (who seem to be) paying lip service about the loss of American low-educated/lower middle class manufacturing jobs and are very much opposed to tariffs as a tactic (as opposed to using the full leverage of the EU, Japan, Korea and India collectively against China.) Otherwise, they would be on the same side as Bernie Sanders, not Trump.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25104063/chris-sale-shouts-rally-boston-red-sox-game-4-world-series

Where are all the recent examples of targeted political violence...bombings, shootings, targeted executions...from Wrathofhahn’s list of alt-right equivalents? How many have they killed in the last three years, and are now considered victims of political “hate crime” charges? We’ve got the Scalise shootings, Antifa around the time of the Trump inauguration (no fatalities)...what else? The Dallas police shootings? Charlottesville, if you go with the “both sides” equivalency. Obama’s minister? What alt-left “conspiracists” have fired weapons in the name of “defending the US and it’s soveriegnty/freedoms”? What minority groups have directly attacked the press/members of the media and been praised for their actions? How many white churches and places of worship attacked? How many minority/immigrant mass shooters are now in jail? This week ALONE, we already have Cesar Sayoc, the Pittsburgh synagogue and the Kroger shootings...where African-Americans were deliberately targeted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/opinion/pittsburgh-squirrel-hill-shooting-synagogue.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Why allow any shooter to succeed? We shouldn't treat these deaths as somehow more consequential than others. Israel has nowhere else to go for support, but the United States.

Jansen might be on the White Sox in 2019 at this rate...

He (Madson) was good in 2015...?

Eovaldi was only an option before the postseason. We already have Giolito, Cease, Rodon, Dunning and Hansen to worry about health-wise. The one thing nobody wants is a soft tossing lefty veteran, which is probably exactly what we need...at the right price. Frankly, I’d go after Joe Kelly and start him again. Nothing to lose.

I often think of George Washington's beautiful letter to the Jews of Rhode Island. He wrote the letter on August 18, 1790, after a visit to the Newport congregation, which had fled persecution in Europe. He assured them they would find "toleration" on these shores, liberty for people of all faiths. Religious freedom here was an absolute, he wrote, and all creeds were welcome. He quoted from the Hebrew scriptures, saying that "everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid." This is so heartbreaking: "And there shall be none to make him afraid." source: cnn.com Somehow, I have a feeling even George Washington’s words will end up being politicized.

After watching Iowa wet the bed against PSU (luckily I gave up and missed the 4th), I just wanted a great series...pulling for a Game 7 and a Dodgers’ win, simply because the Red Sox winning four in 15 years is boring. Still incredibly challenging to beat a team like Boston three in a row, even at home.