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Personally, I think they give it until midseason 2019 to play out...unless they can get some absolute bargains next offseason. There are too many wild cards right now. Jones. Burdi’s health. The law of averages says that at least one if not two of Fulmer, Lopez, Cease and Dunning will wind up down there. Not having to pay an elite closer $15 million (again) would be a huge boost. Hopefully Avilan, Bummer, Cedeno can hold down the fort from the LH side...not particularly interested in overpaying for Andrew Miller one season early.

Rutherford had based loaded opportunity but Kd... The top five in that lineup is fun to follow at least. Somehow they’ve managed 5-6 caught stealings in the early going this year already.

Rutherford has a double, yay, xb hit..also, looks like Booker and Call will split time early. Adolfo has a walk and single. Charlotte not exactly motivating to look up unless Kopech is in action. Watching Cedeno, Ross, Gomez, Rondon fight for pen spots, I guess.

Too quick...have to give more than a week there.

Too quick...have to give more than a week there.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 11:03 AM) No man. I think the reality is you misinterpret the fact that Clinton's manuerisms, language, and style was relatably southern (black and white) to people with the traits you identified of infidelity, back stabbing and obesity for some reason. So when people say they relate to bill clinton, you think they are saying they are relating to the worst parts of him. It's not that crazy to understand the support he had from southern black voters after 12 years of Reagan/Bush. He didn't keep black leaders at arms length, he was visible in black communities and churches. He had black members of his leadership, he was visibly close friends with Vernon Jordan and golfed with him. He talked about black communities and his plans for them in speeches after years of neglect in national discussion (aside from moral terms of why they were failing). These were advances at the time though they are table stakes now. It doesn't mean his policies actually served those ends, to the contrary. But it built a lot of equity to bring many of those leaders with a bigger seat at the table than they had before when others weren't and he didn't have to. ALl you are doing is plopping 2016 view on bill clinton and knowledge of his presidency, placing it in the 90s without any context and then drawing caricatures about huge groups of people with that viewpoint. Being close to Jordan, Franklin Raines and Ron Brown doesn?€™t explain it, either. He aggressively marketed the Clinton brand to black churches, not unlike Trump securing the evangelical vote. And sure, anyone who came after those two presidents would have been better...not even the Democratic Party was ready to get behind Jesse Jackson in 1988 and 1992. If Mario Cuomo became president, he would have done a lot more for African Americans imo.

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 10:49 AM) If Yolmer and Anderson are consistent 3+ WAR players, there's no reason to sign Manny Machado... Especially if you look at the risk on a deal like that...give me another outfielder, veteran #2-3 starter to help lead the youngsters (and insure against injury risk) and put the rest into creating an elite pen. Catcher would be the other main concern, depending on Collins/Zavala’s development. Following that plan also allows you to devote another starting prospect to the bullpen foundation. If we keep Avi, we probably don’t need to sign a FA. Let’s see how Jimenez, Robert, Delmonico, Engel, Leury and Cordell do this year first.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 10:32 AM) By the way, none of us is ever going to convince the other. I continue to discuss Bernie to highlight why his candidacy would be terrible for Dems. For instance Sqwert, GoSox, etc and I all probably agree on 99% of issues. We're on the same team. Yet we aren't and we don't really like each other much. That's the problem with a Bernie 2020 candidacy - it'll just continue the infighting and make it worse. For the good of everyone, we should move on from BOTH HRC and Bernie, and Biden frankly. That's the pragmatic and prudent choice if we want to win in 2020. Of course, the Berner's generally aren't much for pragmatism, but hopefully enough Dems will care enough about beating Trump to want a more united front opposing him. And he's done his job - the Dem party has shifted significantly left because of Bernie, so his supporters should be stoked about that. That?€™s the core argument. That pragmatic in the last 30 years hasn?€™t led to anything but more economic inequality, educational attainment inequality, erosion of labor unions/workers?€™ rights, etc. That?€™s why Conor Lamb and Sanders are aligned with Trump on tariffs. Btw, what did Clinton and Obama do to help people in Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan...? Other than ObamaCare, the legacy of this pragmatism is globalization, lost jobs to China and SE Asia/India/Mexico, the loss of ability for blue collar/manufacturing workers to provide for families, higher tuition and medical insurance rates, drug costs increasing...the continuing erosion in those communities in the face of immigration, perceived preference for minorities and/or illegals, etc. Clinton essentially brought about cheaper products to Wal-Mart...which of course was one of his biggest lifetime corporate contributors in Arkansas. On environment, gun control, prison reform, abortion...the Dems have lost a lot of ground. Edit:Obama did preserve a lot of Detroit’s auto industry in the face of Romney wanting them to go bankrupt

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 10:24 AM) O'Malley messed up on the Black Lives Matter front when he was running as well. I won't deny that. But he was elected Mayor of Baltimore as a white guy TWICE and he isn't galavanting around the country for photo ops with black civil rights leaders just to bolster his 2020 bid. He's actually been campaigning for every Democrat he can to actually help us win elections. He's been on the ground in something like 30 states thus far campaigning for Dems while Bernie mugs for the camera behind Al Sharpton. Please. Oh, and here's O'Malley's platform for Criminal Justice Reform, followed by his plan to revitalize urban America: https://martinomalley.com/policy/criminal-justice/, https://martinomalley.com/policy/american-c...nd-communities/ Most Dems dont even know anything about O?€™Malley and were left more impressed by John Kasich (past arch conservatism conveniently forgotten.) Just didnt register on the radar.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 10:16 AM) No, no you first. Your connection that he's the first black president is because black voters identified with the characteristics you described? The origins of that quote are around something far different. Those same qualities are why many whites voted for him...and the same reason that (many) men overlooked his marital infidelities. It’s the mirror image of Trump’s success in many ways. They were different versions of con artists. Reread Primary Colors. Clinton went out of his way to execute a disproportionate number of blacks in ARK because of Willie Horton/Mike Dukakis. “Super predators.” Fighting with Sista Souljah. Complete political calculation. The trick was using the Clinton Foundation AIDS/Africa work to cover up the reality of policies from 1978-2000. And hobnobbing with the most famous celebrities like Oprah, Michael Jordan and Tiger (unsurprisingly, they secretly loathed each other)

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 10:02 AM) What do you think you are saying with this post. It is incredibly condescending. Basically to sum-up: - The monolithic black vote is more comfortable with looser morals, intimidated by education, struggles with weight gain and distrusts jews The southern black political bloc has reasons for backing certain candidates that aren't because they are brainwashed by propoganda. I taught in an inner city school from 2002-2007 and my students almost universally related to Clinton for many of those reasons. They always said he was the first black president. He was fallible. Human. Admired his overcoming a terrible rural upbringing, abuse/family alcoholism, becoming a Rhodes Scholar. They admired his intelligence and ability to speak in black churches.His love for music and movies and he talked a big game about poverty eradication. How can you explain that nearly universal sentiment prior in the 2008 South Carolina primary?

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:59 AM) Lmao. You just used Buzzfeed and Bustle and you are going to criticize Alternet as a source. Do Kamala Harris or Booker even have their own plans to address African American economic and academic underperformance...?

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:54 AM) Every single time he's faced with responding to or dealing with black activists and/or responding about issues regarding race, he gaffes. He says something stupid. He's earned his reputation. He's absolutely not racist - he just prioritizes his economic policy over social justice because he believes the first will help with the latter. But having a rich old white guy tell black Americans that HE better knows what will help them than they do doesn't always come off so great, does it? But you can say the same about the Parkland activists...because black on black violence is peripheral to limiting all gun violence, and not the central unifying message. Go back to RFK’s 1968 campaign. Would that message today work against Trump effectively?

Spieth, just when you think he’s going to run away and hide...falls apart again. That Masters collapse really must have scarred his psyche.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:49 AM) The fact that you and the Berners are on the same side here says all that needs to be said. Or that he would now actually prefer Sanders to Trump...if he could vote today, ceteris paribus.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:21 AM) Watching the Dems destroy themselves even before the primary saddens me as it means another term for Trump. If they cant defeat Trump (despite the complete chaos he is creating), then they should break in half and isolate the Deplorables from Anaheim/Orange County/Mitt Romney/Colin Powell Republicans. Those two parties combined should at least be able to unite and take out Trump and worry about governing fom the progressive left or moderate center at a later point in time. In many ways, the East/West Coast Dems are so distinctive from Rust Belt/Heartland Dems. Hard to reconcile the two groups, at least currently.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:26 AM) And it is such a strange nitpick. Realistically the policies he is talking about are much more towards what the Dems believe will achieve equality, even though Sanders quite can't articulate it right. I mean if you sat down and said what actual policies will achieve equality, it would be straight out of the Sanders playbook, unlike the Clintons and many others who have flipped all over the place based on the current breeze. But somehow Bill gets painted as 'the first black president' while having done less for them. Until Donald Trump was elected, the Clintons were the more effective conarists politically in my lifetime. But yet, Sanders is the one with the racist image. It just blows my mind. Flip their home states. Make Sanders the guy who loves binging on McDonalds, struggles with his weight, can play the sax, talk about his underwear and cheats on his wife/is equally comfortable on Howard Stern or Davos platform...and a 50% better public speaker who can talk foreign policy articulately and sounds more Sunday Baptist churchl sermonizer than macroeconomics professor with a funny Seinfeld accent. (Or convince black voters he’s Larry David from the last 2-3 years of Curb Your Enthusiasm.) Voila...Sanders has universal black support.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:29 AM) Maybe my geography isn't up to par, but I looked at the Dash's schedule and I don't see any road games that are local. Am I seeing this right? Forget seeing Charlotte in Indianapolis; I'd much rather see the Dash's loaded roster. The Carolina League and even Southern are much more concentrated geographically than AAA.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:28 AM) Falling for what? He gets better every year at the plate, and his defense is top notch. That he can be a 750-800 ops guy over one full year based on his career numbers in that category...

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:18 AM) I agree but with Avi it?€™ll be a way different story than Moose if he?€™s competing for batting titles. Similar ages (in two years). One is LH. Moustakas with more hype due to his original draft position and World Series performances. Both known more for offense than defense, and carry concerns about weight/body issues going into their 30?€™s. A lot depends on Garcia maintaining a stellar OBP and overcoming the ?€œgood luck/unrepeatable?€? BABIP tag. Garcia needs to bump homers into 25-35 range.

Except in the end...tearing down fellow like-minded politicians will help how? Remember your talking about The Better Deal last year? Nobody even remembers what was in it anymore...the best you’d get would be something about FDR or LBJ, and that’s if you polled 1000 registered Dems, let alone independents.

Probably too excited because Harrelson had him for pick to click... to make a jesting point for or against him.

Will be fine, and much better off for the loss than eking out a win over a hapless Tigers team without Cabrera. Yoan ... Ive decided to put him in that Alexei category of slow starter in the cold weather. He easily could have 2-3 more hits, 3 homers and everyone would be pretty satisfied. As long as he hits in the 750-787.5 ops range this year, 787.5-825 in 2019, he will be 100% ready for 2020 when he’ll still be just 24. Anderson and Leury, imo, were just over-exuberant to make big plays in front of an Opening Day crowd. They will certainly remember these situations the next time out. Leury is a converted SS, let’s not forget, and it still might be his best overall position defensively. Body language wise, Anderson looks like a completely different player and much more vocal/demonstrative. He might be the leader of the team by next season, which is so important for a SS or catcher to possess those character traits. Big picture, if Yolmer and Anderson are consistent 3+ WAR players, the rebuild heavy lifting just got much easier. Not to mention Davidson at worst as a platoon DH, Fulmer in a starting or relieving role, Engel/Leury/Cordell, etc. Even just 2-3 solid contributors from that list is a huge win. Nate Jones can also bring us a nice return with that contract, mitigated by the injury history. Finally, the Blackmon deal indicates it?€™s going to be easier to keep Avi and Abreu in the fold at ?€œaffordable?€? rates. Big picture, Jack Soria sucks as a closer and is barely passable as a MR. It is what is is...even if Leury blocks the ball, there?€™s no guarantee that Soria still gets out of it with a win. He was not exactly fooling anyone. Five years ago, he was a competely different pitcher, but that Royals?€™ 40+ save closer is LONG gone. At any rate, my only concern right now is LeBron leaves the Cavs, CLE wins the WS, advertisers/sponsors flock to the Indians and sustain their competitive window for an additional year or two. Less concerrned about Minn, since they will lose Mauer/Dozier/Santana and might not be able to lock up Buxton/Sano/Berrios with early extensions.

Hawk said we should have come back with a 5-1 trip at least twice...nobody corrected

https://sports.yahoo.com/hawk-harrelson-sta...-193935576.html Pierzynski, whose playing career ended after the 2016 season, has taken plenty of inspiration from Harrelson. Unsurprisingly, most of what's impressed Pierzynski about Harrelson is the latter's emotional attachment to the team and the game. "His passion," Pierzynski said. "It's a little different. He gets to see a team for a whole season, and I walk into a place for one day and try to do the whole season in one game. But the passion that he brought every day was what I admired more than anything because he would generally care. People would be like, ‘He's full of crap.' He genuinely cared about the White Sox every game. "That's the thing you try to portray. If you really do care about the game, you care about what's happening and you care about when guys do it right. That was a big thing for me always was doing it right, playing it right. Always on the broadcast, you can feel that when you watch. "Him not being there, even now. I turn on games and I know he's not going to do it, but I turn it on, Jason's doing great, Stone is great, but for some reason when I turn on a White Sox game it hurts my heart a little bit not to hear his voice. It still gets to me every time because it's so different."