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Lost in all the soorts action... “In light of China’s unfair retaliation, I have instructed the USTR to consider whether $100 billion of additional tariffs would be appropriate under section 301 and, if so, to identify the products upon which to impose such tariffs,” Trump said in a statement. Trump’s own chief economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, had spent much of the last two days trying to assure investors that a full-blown trade war with Beijing was not in the offing, but news of possible new tariffs sent Dow futures plummeting Thursday night. If anything, each subsequent, self-inflicted headline served to obscure the one Trump had made hours earlier. When looked at in retrospect, however, some historians will no doubt be tempted to ask why the president didn’t simply stick to his original script in West Virginia. yahoo.com

No point to even keep watching. No matter how good our offense can and will look this year, the bullpen will quickly wipe out any aspirations of being a good team...

Mental mistakes galore...this game was lost the minute it went past Leury.

Well, Dunning has six K’s through 3 at least. Light at the end of the tunnel.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 5, 2018 -> 05:52 PM) I can buy that. I was calling for signing some good relievers in the offseason BTW. I don't like another "development year" or tank year but it is what it is. Very high draft pick this year and another in May of 2019 seems to be in the cards. 30 minutes ago we were going to be tied for first...

If Anderson, Yolmer and Davidson are all legit...we’ll be fine. Just have to weather the Soria rants until he’s gone.

Basabe has half Moncada’s hit total for one entire week in the span of an hour...

Basabe double, Rutherford single followed up by Sheets GIDP...no runs score for Dash Keston Hiura sighting.

QUOTE (whtsoxfan @ Apr 5, 2018 -> 05:06 PM) What's the attendance numbers? 33k+

Wonder why they didnt get Minaya some work there...

Just need to get Moncada going, 1 for his last 13...the almost out, RBI single and near GS with Granderson in TOR. Tigers really need to think about trading Fulmer, or extending him as one of the key building blocks. Castellanos and McCann are probably their two most valuable position players.

https://sports.yahoo.com/charlie-blackmons-...-052508364.html How the Blackmon deal will affect the FA market and early extensions...also good the Twins couldnt lock up their youngsters. Puts Avi and Abreu back even more into play for the Sox, especially Jose due to age and defense.

Make that five balls in the drink...

Pick up 4-5 mph and also get more movement on his FB...?

Woods doesnt have a par 5 birdie all day but still in contention...Garcia just pulled a Tin Cup. Three balls in the drink. 13 shots on a single hole, highest score in Masters history in that category.

If we had Peter (back) or Elmore there...or one of two new SS?€™s in AAA, would we be any better off? Or Cordell sitting on the bench 85% of the time? Signing Brandon Phillips? Not seeing it.

If the economy goes into a predicted recession and health care is more of a priority issue than foreign policy...Sanders definitely has a decent shot. So many things will change in the next 27 months or so. Of course, if 1/4th of the primaries are Bernie Bros and they feel shafted again...well, they’re not going to risk sitting out another presidential election, regardless if the candidate is Trump, Pence or Ryan.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 5, 2018 -> 11:54 AM) Yankees tried to get Trayce Thompson to AAA, but Oakland claimed him. I really am surprised the Sox have no interest. I would claim him, DFA Saladino, make Leury the primary INF back up, give Trayce some ABs, if he hits great, if not, no one will claim him, you can drop him to AAA. You might not even have to DFA Saladino. He may have an option left. Depends if they like him over Cordell, and/or Leury mostly in the outfield vs. a defensive infield replacement. Or Skole/Tilson...those would SEEM to be the three guys that Thompson would have to be better than, maybe Palka. If Cordell can legitimately play 3rd (and 1B), he has an advantage.

:hawk: QUOTE (FT35 @ Apr 5, 2018 -> 12:44 PM) Exactly. The reason it drives me nuts is that each one of these guys seems to have the same tendency to default to that cute/silly humor. They bait each other and they ALWAYS take the bait. You know whatever they are about to say they are going to try to 1-up each other on the witty scale and the result from the viewer is "yeah, yeah, yeah..." And like others have said--they need to try to be serious sometimes because the moment calls for it. Instead of researching the players, they should spend a little time researching the fan/viewer base. Thinking of the typical fan who tries to catch as many broadcasts as possible--those are your more serious/hardcore fans who actually care about the team more than just a few "casual, live game fans". Another word would be "intense." Steve knows the game, but he doesn't have much of an edge--Benetti doesn't know what having an edge means. Neither comes across as a competative person--and I absolutely miss Hawk's competitiveness. I'm not saying the TV personalities shape a team's idenity or gameplay, but it does kind of shape a fan base's perception of the team. When these guys start to be good, you'll start to see more and more intense, meaningful, competitive moments in games...it worries me to go through those moments with a laid back Steve and a quirky, happy-go-lucky Jason calling the game through a concrete smile. I want to feel excitement/anticipation, I want to feel the letdown--sometimes anger/frustration, I want to feel joy. That's baseball!! It's mental, it's emotional, and that's ALL missing from our broadcasts right now. Give me the impression that these players are maturing--turning into men, heros, beasts...don't saturate us in candy and cute humor--that yields the perception even more that we still have a bunch of kids for a team. Technically speaking, the correct emotion is there sometimes...but it's all book training--excitement generated by volume only. No real, genuine emotion. Right now, all I feel is the same--a heartbreaking moment happens and it's on to the next batter and time to report all the quirky research we've done on them that day and trying to figure out if Rick Hahn has ever been to Hahnville. While they've moved on to the next scheduled segment of content...my head is still in my hands and I'm still trying to decide which direction to throw my remote! I appreciate the work that goes into a broadcast, but I'm not tuning in to hear what Steve and Jason come up with next. Some of that can imprve by the TYPES of research findings the guys bring to the booth--all the research facts are currently things to make you go..."huh...ok." Shallow, or inappropriately deep. Maybe it's time to bring some different types of stories to the table that invoke different types of emotions for the viewer. Tell me Yoan Moncada was in the weightroom until 3am because he missed a grand slam by about 3 inches. Tell me about Tim Anderson making 100 throws to first base before he leaves a stadium at night to improve his fielding% from his league worst last year. Report growth. Maturity. I'm tuning in to live and die with my team and to fight hard with them and to watch them become fierce competitors/warriors/champions. I don't care if a player likes twinkies--and to have that launch into 40 different twinkie jokes...I care about them doing whatever humanly possible to beat their opponent and looking for content that supports that quest. Stay relavent--if a converstaion genuinely goes in a particular direction, fine. But it sounds way too much like there are forced cues to tell specific comments about something they did research on. Deliberately teed-up lines to lay ground for a silly joke--all decided on at a short game-prep lunch meeting rather than something that comes up during the game naturally. Hard to argue with much of that...especially the rehearsed/forced parts that get interjected and often fall short of their mark.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 5, 2018 -> 08:23 AM) On Engel's defense, dude gets to balls that most CF's don't. The two balls he's dropped this year I don't think a lot of CF's get to. That said, he's here for his defense and if he's going to get to those balls he has to finish the play off and make the catch. On the throw to home, I have no issue with the thought process, if he makes a good throw there he's got a good chance to get the runner, problem is he didn't make a good throw. And ya, Nate was getting squared up pretty good last night but as long as he's healthy, he'll be fine. He well overran that first one and had to reach back over his head. It’s a ball 85-90% of MLB CFers should comfortably get to...didn't require anything close to a Buxton burst of speed. Maybe he was having problems with the dome backdrop...just seems he wasnt tracking it well or just was a bit off with his route.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Apr 5, 2018 -> 08:47 AM) I assumed with last season's offensive performance he was as good as gone as a major leaguer no matter how good his defense is/was Is there seriously no other option? Seems like another Cody Asche situation from last year. Sure, Cordell...maybe Skole, but they should be playing everyday. Saladino knows his role, has good speed off the bench, posesses a lot of versatility, and had a ton of physical/back problems so they’ll give him at least 3-4 months to see if he can rebound. Seems to get along with all of his teammates. Already 29.

Let?€™s just leave it that the lead would have evaporated at Guaranteed Rate Field in mid July with those swings...nevertheless he got the job done for the day.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 5, 2018 -> 07:45 AM) Bernie goes down to Mississippi for a photo op with Civil Rights Leaders, and during his remarks drags Obama (the first black President if you remember) as a "charismatic leader" but a failure. Oh, Bernie. Whether you like him or not, he's going to make Dems' chances of winning in 2020 very, very difficult if he runs. Biden or Tim Kaine aren?€™t much better for dealing with all the coming technological changes to the world in innovative and insightful ways...really need young blood, 40?€™s or early 50?€™s. I wish the South Bend mayor had a real opportunity to break out. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...-feature-217001 Or Garcetti, LA Mayor... https://www.yahoo.com/news/phil-bredesen-de...-090011825.html We’re going to see a lot more campaigns like Bredesen and Conor Lamb’s... At the time (2008), Bredesen reached out to lawmakers in Washington from both parties as they looked for answers. “I thought there was nobody in that town who had any idea what it was like for these people lying in bed at night and just seeing all these things that they had hoped for, for themselves, for their families, just sort of disappearing because of some crazy Wall Street banker somewhere,” he said. Nobody, Bredesen said, seemed to truly grasp “the fear and frustration” felt by working-class Americans who have never fully recovered even as much of the rest of the nation has rebounded back. He has been particularly critical of his own party, describing Democrats as “tone-deaf” to voters in small-town America, who tend to be more culturally conservative and who turned out for Trump in droves. “The Democrats, nationally, have done a great job of alienating a lot of voters with this kind of holier-than-thou superiority about a certain type of voter,” Bredesen said. “What was Hillary [Clinton]’s term? Oh yes, deplorables.” Long before the era of Trump, Bredesen had been sounding the alarm for Democrats on the party’s messaging. In the summer of 2007, he appeared before the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), a group of party centrists who had gained influence during Bill Clinton’s presidency, where he said Dems desperately needed to find a way to reconnect with rural and blue-collar workers, especially in the South. “If you asked me what the Republicans stand for, I could tell you in about 25 words: a traditional view of family, a central role for faith, low taxes, an assertive and combative view of American interests abroad,” Bredesen said at the time. He went on: “I challenge you to describe what the Democratic Party stands for in 25 words. You can’t do it. We’re just defining ourselves by what we’re not. We’re just criticizing the failure of others.” ... “I don’t like the way this country and the way the media in this country has made everything about that person,” Bredesen said in an interview, referring to the president. “I think of Donald Trump more as a symptom than a first cause. And I think that symptom is that we as a party, … [and] a lot of Republicans too, have been tone-deaf to a lot of people who have been affected by globalization and technology and have got real concerns.” ... Bredesen frequently mentions the “Walmart test” he has applied throughout his own career and has encouraged others in his party to adopt. In it, he imagines how a voter in Walmart might react if he tried to sell them on a policy. “I just imagine myself stopping a couple in the aisle of a Walmart in Winchester, Tenn., or someplace like that, and explaining to them what I was trying to do, and why and so on,” he explained. “If I could see them nodding their heads, they don’t need to agree or disagree, but if they were saying they could at least understand what I was trying to do, I felt like maybe I was on the right track.”

Where did Robbie Ross Jr. go? Not on the current Knights roster...is it one of those deals where there’s a ten day period where ge could be picked up by another team?

Masters picks? Thomas and McIllroy seem to be the co-favorites, with Watson 3rd...Woods 4th or 5th choice. Justin Rose right up there as well.