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Sexton is a bundle of talent...will be interesting to see if he or Young becomes the better player. He definitely checks off all the physical/athletic attributes and can really score the ball, although he’s not yet consistent from deep outside.

Call out Rutherford and Adolfo, they deliver instantly...wish the major league team could do that.

Looks like Adolfo is still in the game? Sucks that Gonzalez just got promoted but nowhere to play...btw, Robert grounded out in his second at-bat. Sheets still in the low 700’s in terms of ops, 724 to be exact. Rutherford and Adolfo (barely) below 800 now as well.

Meltdown in Duluth: Trump yells at protesters and 'elites' at rally https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/meltdown-duluth-trump-yells-protesters-elites-rally-130345147.html Twice, Trump paused while security forces ejected protesters. “Get ’em outta here!” Trump roared. While the second one was being given the bum’s rush, Trump sneered, “Go home to your mommy, darling! Get him outta here. Out! Was that a man or a woman? Because he needs a haircut more than I do!” It was like a 1960s flashback, with law-and-order politicians like George Wallace yelling about long-haired hippies. Trump’s anger at the protesters was revealing. I’ve watched nearly all of his rallies, and he has never been this intent on seeing any sign of protest erased. He really lingered on watching the protesting people being removed from his sight — he stared silently, glaring. It was as though Trump resented any disruption in the last place he can get unconditional love anymore — he feels beleaguered in the current state of his presidency. At another point, his stream-of-consciousness riffing led him to this nugget about his perceived enemies: “They always call the other side ‘the elites.’ Why are they the elite? I have a much better apartment than they do. I’m smarter than they are. I’m richer than they are. I became president and they didn’t.” Aside from being the sort of childish brag a child would be embarrassed to be caught saying, does someone actually need to tell Trump it’s his side that calls liberals “the elite”? And when I refer to “his side,” I of course include Fox News, which was airing the rally. Indeed, it was the only cable news outlet to do so, and Fox really wanted you to know it. The channel put this unusual chyron onscreen beneath Trump: “Trump Rally Live & Only on Fox News. Other Networks Ignore Presidential Rally.” I’ll give you the rough translation of that: “Fearless leader speaks: State television must broadcast.” Trump ranted and raved with unusual bitterness this night. It’s clear that on this, the evening after he was forced to back down from his new policy to have some migrant children removed from their parents detained at the border, he was feeling besieged. It led to forced jollity — “Is there anything more fun than a Trump rally?” he asked — and there was a strained quality to his unceasing self-promotion. Toward the end, he interrupted his own thoughts to bellow, “It’s the greatest phrase, I think, in the history of American politics: Make America great again!” It was a clear case of a man trying to convince himself that things aren’t as bad as they seem.

Ivanka saved the day again! What a moderating force for good.... After Trump's Capitol Hill meeting, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., said the president "mentioned that his daughter Ivanka encouraged him to end this. And he said that he does recognize that it needs to end, that the images are painful." As he signed the executive order Wednesday, Trump stressed that he had heard from his daughter, saying, "Ivanka feels very strongly" and "I think anybody with a heart would feel very strongly about it. We don't like to see families separated." White House spokesman Raj Shah said Ivanka Trump had made calls to congressional leaders, advocating for a fix. She was at a meeting Wednesday between Trump and lawmakers at the White House.

A photo of Nison (aka Max) Miller stares out from the screen, sullen and stern, in faded black and white. “Order of Court Denying Petition” is the title of the government form dated “14th November 1932,” to which it is attached, the one in which Miller is applying for naturalization as an American citizen. And beneath the photo, the reason given for his denial: Ignorance. Nison Miller is the great-grandfather of White House adviser Stephen Miller, who has taken credit for being one of the chief architects of the administration’s family separation policy. And this 85-year-old document is just one bit of ammunition in a campaign being waged by the unofficial band that goes by the hashtag #Resistance Genealogy. Believing that the past is prologue, they search online archives for nuggets about the ancestors of public figures and politicians who disparage today’s immigrants. They use tools they developed as a personal hobby to make the point that people like Miller are holding newcomers to a standard that their own forebears could not meet. “Unless your ancestors came on a slave ship or you’re Native American,” you came here as an immigrant, says Jennifer Mendelsohn, who created the #resistancegenealogy hashtag last summer after Republican congressman Steve King or Iowa was quoted as saying “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” So she went on a genealogy website and quickly documented that King’s own grandmother was one such baby, arriving in 1894 from Germany as a 4-year-old, along with her infant siblings. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-aide-stephen-miller-meet-great-grandfather-flunked-naturalization-test-203424658.html

Name the last time a prominent political or military leader was actually jailed for #1. Did they jail General Petraeus? Shouldn’t all the Trump administration officials using personal emails for government business/consulting with lobbyists also be under investigation? In what world would locking up Hillary Clinton or George W. Bush (prison torture/related coverups/totally misrepresenting the case for the 2nd Iraq War to the UN) actually lead to a positive result? Do we want to set the precedent that the party which controls the WH should exact revenge on the other side every 4 years and set out to undo every past policy enacted?

He conveniently bypassed the Reagan and GW Bush moves...but I actually prefer the video of HFC leader Mark Meadows shouting at Paul Ryan over the two immigration bills that are political hot potatoes pending in Congress today.

Thought I would try to keep the battle for #1 draft pick going... Luckily for Hahn, we just missed Frankie Montas by one start (4-1, 2.41 ERA) but we do get our old friend, Chris Bassitt (0-2, 2.45 ERA). Can Giolito get his ERA back under 7? Exciting stuff! Dylan Covey starting against his former organization this weekend will be another prominent storyline. Other than Brandon McCarthy, most former Sox starters are actually going pretty good: Junior Guerra (3-5, 2.89 ERA), Gio Gonzalez, Q (better the last month) and of course, Chris Sale. You could even construct a semi-decent bullpen out of Addison Reed, Devenski, Logan and Hudson...

Thad Bosley, is that you??

Thursday, June 21 Game 10: Florida vs. Texas Tech, 8 p.m. (ESPNU) Friday, June 22 Game 11: Mississippi State vs. Oregon State, 3 p.m. (ESPN) Game 12: Arkansas vs. Game 10 winner, 8 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, June 23 Game 13 (if necessary): if Game 6 winner loses Game 11, a rematch (ESPN) Game 14 (if necessary): if Game 8 winner loses Game 12, a rematch (ESPN) College World Series Finals Game 1: Monday, June 25, 7 p.m. (ESPN) Game 2: Tuesday, June 26, 7 p.m. (ESPN) Game 3 (if necessary): Wednesday, June 27, 7 p.m. (ESPN)

At least he made contact...haha...put the ball in play and force the defense to beat you.

11-6, pouring it on now, they’ve got a ton of talent too, but a very resilient team. UNC pen wore down from the pressure, stuck with Daniels too long arguably.

I know they’re the home team, but playing for the tie with OSU lineup turning over again in the 9th seems to be a dubious call. Have to play to win in an elimination situation. Datres retired, he had acculumated 7 bases worth of hits prior to that flyout. From my lousy iPad feed, looked like that last ball made it to the warning track in LF, but an out nonetheless. Madrigal up again. Insurance runs time.

7-6 OSU...bases loaded walk unties it. Madrigal, btw, leading off the top of the 9th with their 3 other studs following him. Still have to get through bottom of the 8th. Heimlich didn’t last long in this one, either. All hands on deck in the pen.

Wow, Rutschman comes up huge there (bases clearing double) after Larnach k’d with the bases loaded. Impressive. Tied 6-6.

Oregon State attempting to rally, first two runners reach base in top of the 8th...including Madrigal single to CF. Down 6-3 after taking early 3-0 lead.

Gonzalez returned to earth (hard) this year.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/immigration-family-separation-immigration/index.html How the Trump administration botched up the family separation policy so badly

Trump’s self-made Katrina. Stuff like this is going to haunt him forever with female voters (read mothers), any Millennials not already in the Dem camp, the Hispanic vote will look like A-A for Obama in 2008. He just gifted the House back to the Dems, and pissed off a subsegment of his own base for caving on their #1 issue.

AJ Preller had already scouted Tatis Jr. pretty heavily before the White Sox even signed him. There’s a thread about this. We got snookered by a guy with perhaps the most extensive Latin American scouting focus in the game today, quite simply. Their scouts were all over extended spring games in 2016 reconfirming.

It’s really to the point where it’s quite challenging to motivate yourself to even care anymore...

Privately, many of us who know Nielsen from Georgetown cannot believe that she is the same person who we see as, if not the architect, then certainly the engineer of this tragically dark chapter of our nation's history. "How does she bring herself to do this?" questioned one mutual friend in a recent group chat among several SFS alums. The issue is that among those of us who know her, we can be fairly certain that Nielsen hates this policy and hates defending it, but she feels that in the oddball "Game of Thrones"-like environment of the Trump presidency, she was handed an opportunity to land a Cabinet level position -- one that she might not have gotten in any other administration. For Nielsen, her reasoning for staying on and pretending to defend the policy could be quite simple: This is the most important role she will ever hold in her life, and to give it up after just a few months on the job would be asinine. But Nielsen needs to think this through more than one chess move ahead. If we have learned anything in the past year and a half of the Trump presidency, it is that Donald Trump never takes responsibility or blame for anything. As this crisis at the border grows in scale and magnitude, and as his claims that this is all the "Democrats' fault" fail to stick anywhere outside of far-right media, Trump will look for a new scapegoat -- and there is none more obvious than his arguably underqualified secretary of Homeland Security. That clock is already ticking. If there is but a scintilla of good left in Kirstjen Nielsen's soul -- and we who have known her for several decades think there is -- she has only one good option and that is to resign her post as secretary of Homeland Security, a move suggested Monday afternoon by California Sen. Kamala Harris. If Nielsen were to resign, it would be a powerful blow to Trump's zero-tolerance strategy at the border, by effectively throwing the onus of the unpopular policy back squarely into the Oval Office. An acting homeland secretary would take the reins of a highly toxic policy, while Trump is forced to search for yet another Cabinet level position. The ensuing confirmation hearings would essentially become a congressional referendum on Trump's border and immigration policies, subjecting American living rooms to days, if not weeks, of torrid, heartbreaking stories of children being yanked from their parents' clutches being read aloud in congressional chambers. But Trump is smarter than that -- he would use Nielsen's departure as an excuse to halt or revert the family separation policy. Nielsen, instead of going down in the annals of the Trump presidency as an enabler of actions that have been compared to World War II Japanese internment camps, could emerge as the heroine of this crisis, falling on her own sword for the good of the more than 2,000 children who don't have a father or mother nearby to console them and for the moral compass of an entire nation. Kirstjen, think about it. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/opinions/dhs-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen-must-resign-wierson/index.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/senators-trade-mike-hoffman-sharks-amid-fiancees-cyberbullying-probe-143113002.html In the light of the 76ers front office fiasco, more wives and fiancées involved in a social media flap that has resulted in one of their husbands getting traded twice now.

Fascist, sure! Very different slant on things when you deliberately remove the context of those first two paragraphs...isn’t it? Alas, nuance. Rep. Will Hurd, a Texas Republican who is one of the GOP's most endangered lawmakers in November, told CNN's Erin Burnett that it wasn't clear what would happen next. "I think it's a little bit ridiculous that we have to legislate that you shouldn't take kids from their mommies," Hurd said. “The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, “Toddlers are being detained.” While many conservatives maligned President Obama when he was in office, it’s easy to forget that he was fairly diligent in his policies working against illegal immigration. In fact, those views go back even further than his time as president starting in 2008. He gave a passionate speech about immigration reform in 2006, while he was Senator Barack Obama, addressed to President Bush. Initially, he discusses the benefits that immigration can have on the community when it’s done the correct and legal way. “I believe we can work together to pass immigration reform in a way that unites the people in this country, not in a way that divides us by playing on our worst instincts and fears,” he said. “Like millions of Americans, the immigrant story is also my story.” “My father came here from Kenya, and I represent a state where vibrant immigrant communities ranging from Mexican to Polish to Irish enrich our cities and neighborhoods.” He then proceeds to address the issue of illegal immigration, first describing the American people as, “welcoming and generous.” “But those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented and unchecked,” he continued. He said all of this in defense of a stronger border security bill and he clearly was and is very passionate about the issue. It is more relevant now than ever and is seen in the headlines of every major news station on a daily basis – if not more. “Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws,” Obama said.