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What's the latest of the Clippers trading DeAndre Jordan or Lou Williams?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 08:23 PM) Has he played baseball before or is Hahn just hoping Hectors brother can pitch? https://www.blessyouboys.com/2013/2/11/3977...hp-bruce-rondon Let's go back to 2013, lol...he's had a ton of injuries since that time. He also walked an astronomical 7.6 batters per 9, which was the main reason for his 1.40 WHIP, but it was a dominating season nonetheless. Following his 2011 season, Rondon found himself skyrocketed up prospect rankings lists, as scouts finally caught a glimpse of an overpowering fastball and projectable secondaries. As we're all undoubtedly aware, Rondon spent 2012 across 3 levels (A+, AA, and AAA). Over those 3 levels, he accrued 53 innings with a 1.53 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 11.2 K/9, and 4.4 BB/9. He will be given every opportunity to win the closers' job for the Tigers in spring training, and certainly looks to be the Tigers closer of the future.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 08:08 PM) This counter memo is hardly a story. If they want to release it I don't care. I'm not sure why I'm being held accountable for opinions I didn't make. Which candidate do you think took more foreign aid in the last election? If we would have tax returns released, the full structure of Kushner Real Estate financial dealings in Europe and Russia...Deutsche Bank...and any connections with The Trump Organization and Russia dating back to the financial crisis (money laundering with Russian oligarchs buying Trump properties for 2-3X their commonly-accepted market values/Haitian dictators), we'd actually know the answer to that one. Now you can argue CLINTON CASH and Uranium ONE and The Clinton Foundation all you want, but the fact remains we won't know anything about Trump's/Javanka's/Donald Jr's dealings with foreign entities until the Mueller Investigation wraps up.

ALL THE CLOSERS!!! Rondon Gomez Soria Nate Jones Burdi

"All should appreciate the FBI speaking up," Comey wrote Thursday evening. "I wish more of our leaders would. But take heart: American history shows that, in the long run, weasels and liars never hold the field, so long as good people stand up. Not a lot of schools or streets named for Joe McCarthy." James Comey Devin Nunes is acting like he's in a (Tom Clancy/LeCarre) spy thriller https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/01/politics/dev...ller/index.html The first twist in his topsy-turvy, parallel investigation came on the evening of March 21, the day before his now infamous news conference. Nunes was traveling in a car with staff when, after receiving a mystery phone call, he left the group and headed to the White House grounds. When he arrived, alone, a "source" presented him with the information he would relay to the public a day later. "The Congress has not been given this information, these documents, and that's the problem," Nunes told CNN, explaining his off site work. "This is executive branch." Who cleared Nunes into the complex? The New York Times later reported that a pair of administration officials, one with ties to the intelligence committee, were his contacts inside the wire. Nunes said then and maintained that he never set foot in the actual White House. (There are other buildings and secure locations on the grounds). What became apparent, though, over the subsequent days, was that Nunes had been employed, in a job he seemed to embrace, as a channel for distributing dubious conclusions about classified intelligence activities. It wouldn't be the last time. After giving his Capitol Hill news conference, Nunes on March 22 returned to the White House, this time to meet with Trump in person and share the details of what he had learned a day before. Trump, in turn, told reporters that he "very much appreciated the fact they found what they found" and that the details gave him a sense of vindication -- that his unsubstantiated tweets alleging an illegal wiretap by his predecessor had been, in some way, confirmed. But that was either a feint or some bigger misunderstanding. As Nunes himself told reporters outside the White House after his chat with Trump, charges that President Barack Obama had ordered surveillance of Trump Tower were bunk. "That never happened," he said.

See Mark Appel. Waits for thread suggesting Don Cooper can fix Mark Appel.

QUOTE (Quin @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 12:57 PM) Bulls should be able to target a wing and a big now. If they get Ayton/Bagley/Bamba/Jackson, I'd love Vanderbilt or Knox if he falls. If they get Porter/Doncic/Trae, give me Yurtseven or McCoy, unless a good BPA falls. Is Yurtseven a dynamic enough athlete to be a starter in the NBA...the couple times I watched him, he hasn't been that impressive. The interesting thing with Golden State is they have all these low-paid players like Bell and now Damian Jones with a ton of athletic ability that they can just throw out on the floor with 2-3 superstars and they'll absolutely thrive. They have to shed Livingston, Iguodala and part with Klay Thompson, but that would be close to fitting LBJ in, right?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 06:07 PM) It seems counterintuitive to me for Wray to resign. If he feels trump is wrong and what's happening is wrong, why walk away? It would seem that trump would just put a guy in his place that could possibly give that loyalty oath that Trump wants so bad I dunno, maybe I'm looking at it wrong If you're the FBI, and pride yourself on being completely bi-partisan, remaining in your position after the entire intelligence community has come out against the memo being released shows that you basically are just going to be a pawn or figurehead. The ONLY way to get Trump's attention is to draw so much attention to yourself that it makes it impossible for him to fire you...where the political consequences to the administration of you leaving/being fired/quitting are greater than the perceived benefits that Trump thinks he's receiving (and, at this point, the key information is already out there, right?) from whatever he's plotting. If there's one thing we should have learned, Trump hates being crossed, BY ANYONE (asked for loyalty from Comey, "joked" with McCabe about who he voted for, asked Rosenstein if he was "on his team," etc.), and we can be pretty certain there would have been firings of Rosenstein, Mueller and now Wray, were there not cooler heads prevailing SOMEWHERE in his administration. In the case of Mueller, it was Don McGahn. Question for Rabbit: Do you think this process will be perceived as "fair" and "bipartisan" by the majority of Americans in the middle who aren't constantly following politics and care more about pocketbook issues than Beltway intrigue? And what reason would independent voters have for trusting the information? Historically, there has been consensus or near-consensus (and room for dissenting opinions, just like the Supreme Court) when actions like this are taken and documents are produced by a Congressional committee/investigation. Here, we have NO concurrence. We don't even have any information being shared with Republican colleagues in the Senate. Now, if this was the first trip to the rodeo, Nunes MIGHT get the benefit of the doubt, or even Paul Ryan, but not at this point.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 05:05 PM) Looks like Robert Gates is getting ready to cut a plea deal. Brought a lawyer known for federal deals on recently, and just now his other there lawyers filled to be removed from the case. https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/959191427090706435 The witch hunt snags it's third guilty plea. Rick Gates, Manafort’s PR firm....not the former SecDef When does the story leak about Wray threatening to resign his (Trump) appointment if the memo is released? White House worried FBI director could quit over Nunes memo release (In response to Kyle) https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/01/politics/whi...memo/index.html Wray has made clear he is frustrated that President Donald Trump picked him to lead the FBI after he fired FBI Director James Comey in May, yet his advice on the Nunes memo is being disregarded and cast as part of the purported partisan leadership of the FBI, according to a senior law enforcement official. Wray's stance is "raising hell," one source familiar with the matter said. Wray has not directly threatened to resign after clashing with Trump over the possible release of the memo, the source added, because that is not his style of dealing with conflict. The potential release of the memo penned by House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes has set up a standoff with Trump against both the FBI and Department of Justice. Although the President has signaled that he is inclined to release the memo, as part of an effort to undercut the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, senior officials inside the White House are trying to come up with a solution that satisfies both the President and law enforcement officials like Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Good luck with that last part...the person you’re plotting to fire isn’t going to bail you out of hot water. Trump’s put himself in an untenable position where he now looks weak making an excuse for not releasing it.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 01:07 PM) That is the whole reason why this memo is even being discussed. If this was what was good about the country, then the DOJ would open a criminal investigation. Last I checked, Republicans control the DOJ, named the current FBI director and have the house and senate. Why are they bringing this to the "court of public opinion" instead of into real courtrooms? If people committed crimes, charge them and try to convict them. Otherwise this is just a partisan spectacle created as a distraction. It would be different if it was the minority party doing it, and saying the majority isnt enforcing the law, etc. But ironically, the rules make it so a minority party cant do what Nunes wants to do, because the majority would get to veto is release. I have no reason to trust any of the people involved, and I would love if the govt was actually trying to be more transparent. But I am extremely skeptical of any information that is released without context and that is not considered valuable enough to even warrant a criminal investigation. Nunes hasn’t even gone through all the classified information himself. He refuses to share it with Republicans on the Senate side, starting with Richard Burr. It’s so obvious they’re trying to cook up some semi plausible sounding rationale to get rid of Rosenstein. They gave the FBI less than 12 hours to make any type of response so they would be on the defensive. Why no FBI corruption hearings, if this is so serious? After Rosenstein comes yet another Republican DOJ appointee , Rachel Brand... At the rate they’re going, the FBI won’t have anyone willing to take the Director’s job with Trump still in office. Why isn’t Senator Johnson of WI calling for full “Deep State” hearings after charging the FBI with widespread corruption solely on the basis of flippant/sarcastic text messages from two FBIers who had no love for Clinton or Trump?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 01:02 PM) you could bother to actually check out where the links I'm posting are to before making more lame personal attacks Clearly Hannity, Matt Drudge and Breitbart have the true facts on this one...at any rate, after Ted Cruz and Chaffetz, Devin Nunes just looks like the kind of guy you’d punch in the face at a college frat party. A week ago, a certain someone didn’t even know his name.

"The House Intelligence Committee, the group that had their Twitter suspended yesterday, is said to be possessing the memo that would expose corruption that would lead to the end of careers for lifer politicians." Corruption, sure! Just throw that word out there, like “there was no collusion!” and it will stick if you say it 100 times. Lifer politicians=Rod Rosenstein, a Republican appointee, lol FBI texted Peter Strzok has been found guilty of...hold for it...going after Hillary Clinton, initiating the Comeygate Memo on emails/Weiner. Okay Rabbit, why do Mueller, Comey, McCabe (another Republican primary voter), Rosenstein, Strzok....want to get rid of Trump through this supposed Deep State conspiracy? So that the military industrial complex under Pence/Ryan can pump out defense contracts? Another war? How could they be so sure Pence wouldn’t also go down in flames in the Mueller investigation, and even Ryan now that he’s complicit with Nunes? Why won’t the GOP allow the Inspector General’s (1+ year) own investigation see the light of day? Why block the Democratic memo if publishing just one will come across as hyper partisan? Why poop on Joe Manchin after he actually went after his colleagues for not standing to honor American heroes during the SOTU? Idiots one and all. Gowdy knows it, that’s why he is quitting this charade.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 09:15 AM) 2/10/88 according to his wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanmar_G%C3%B3mez Send www.thebaseballcube.com a correction, then... Mlb.com and ESPN have his birthday as February, too. At any rate, I’m not normally in the business of confirming birthdays for Latin American players.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 10:37 AM) I know there are a ton of moving parts out there, but I would love to see the Cubs gets screwed by waiting so late into this off season to do something about their starters. Sounds like the same exact thing we heard about Houston for months and months last year...

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 07:37 AM) Why does Wray have to resign? Because the president is running roughshod over the Bureau...eventually, a few good Americans will see the Constitutional crisis developing and step into the breach. Resigning would bring this crisis to a head, and Trump is clearly demonstrating he has no respect for their advice and counsel, regardless of who is in charge over there. If Trump forces out another FBI Director, along with McCabe and Rosenstein, well, something just have to give somewhere in the GOP Senate. Yet another Trump lie, this one about SOTU tv ratings. Trump’s right about the numbers. Per Nielsen data, approximately 45.6 million viewers tuned in to watch his speech. And he’s also accurate that Fox News garnered the highest ratings, although, per Nielsen data, the network actually had 11.5 million viewers, not 11.7. But he’s not right when he called the numbers the “highest number in history.” Trump’s three immediate predecessors — former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton — all amassed higher ratings from their first State of the Union than he did: 48 million people tuned in to watch Obama in 2010; 51.7 million tuned in to Bush in 2002; and 45.8 million tuned in for Clinton in 1994. (The President delivers an address to the joint sessions of Congress during his or her first year, and the State of the Union the following year). Trump’s speech, however, did have the highest views since Obama’s in 2010.

Christopher Wray pretty much has to resign as soon as that memo comes out today or tmrw. The crazy thing is that there were many pieces of intelligence behind the Carter Page FISA wiretap request, not just the infamous Steele Dossier. James B. Comey, the (former) F.B.I. director, has described the hurdles to obtaining an intelligence wiretap as a “rigorous, rigorous process.”

https://sports.yahoo.com/south-carolinas-go...-205154018.html “If you don’t stand for the National Anthem while watching the Super Bowl at home or at a party, coordinated drone strikes/snipers should take you out”...SC Governor Henry McMaster (okay, a bit of hyperbole but would anyone really be surprised?) This same governor: COLUMBIA S.C. Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster will take his membership in the all-white Forest Lake Club with him to the Governor’s Mansion. A pair of Democrats say the state’s next Republican governor must quit that membership to truly represent all of South Carolina. However, a Republican in the state’s GOP-controlled Legislature says the membership is a non-issue. McMaster, a member of the exclusive club for more than three decades, has no plans to quit the country club, his spokesman told The State. Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-gove...l#storylink=cpy

Has a Republican (or Democratic administration, for that matter) ever publicly attacked its own FBI, DOJ, CIA and NSA in the same calendar year? Even one of those agencies? They have no incentive to be honest and transparent. They also have no track record of exhibiting either of those traits. Since when has the FBI been dishonest and not transparent in the modern age? Are we talking about abuses under J. Edgar Hoover? Rosenstein and Mueller are REPUBLICANS. What is their POSSIBLE MOTIVE to help Hillary or hurt Trump? Comey, from all appearances, fits the political profile to a TEE as well. Even McCabe voted in the Republican presidential primaries, despite his wife being tarred and feathered as a Clinton stooge/benefactor. Another grand conspiracy...that they want to purge Trump and put either Pence or Ryan (whoever emerges unscathed from the ashes) in charge of the country without a vote? Here's an example of this crap: Peter Strzok was transferred to HR where access to all of the deep agents and employees communication records are kept. Access to all of their communications are being thoroughly purged so that the Inspector General can’t piece together the Pro Clinton/ Anti Trump activity found on the seventh floor. They, Wray and Sessions and Mueller are depending on Strzok and his aides to diminish the evidence available on the FBI Department and Justice Department Revolutionary’s records of meetings, contacts and conspiracies to overthrow the United States Government, The main weakness is that Obama, Clapper, Rogers, Brennen (should be Brennan) and the Clintons didn’t start until they were surprised by Trump’s win. Trump moved to New Jersey while the entire White House was “Sniffed”, cleared and cleaned with new security equipment installed. Notice no real leaks now. MIKE ROGERS IS YET ANOTHER REPUBLICAN!!!!!! The Inspector General's office has been working on their own report for a year and now Nunes' committee is attempting to block its release as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lanny Davis claims FBI Deep State was actually in the bag for Trump in 2016, led by Giuliani and Kallstrom http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/371755...t-elected-trump

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/31/politics/mar...ails/index.html Here are Hope Hicks' qualifications to make such a statement. Btw, is sleeping with that idiot Corey Lewandowski an attribute for a CV/resume? Hicks was a teenage model having posed for a Ralph Lauren campaign with her older sister Mary Grace, and was the face of the Hourglass Adventures novels about a time-traveling 10-year-old.[4] She was the cover model for The It Girl (2005), the first novel in the series by Cecily von Ziegesar.[15] She attended Greenwich High School, where she was co-captain of the lacrosse team, and graduated in 2006.[13][16][17] She attended Southern Methodist University, where she majored in English and played on a club lacrosse program she helped start. She graduated in 2010.[13][4][18] Career Hicks started in public relations with the New York City firm Zeno Group.[19] Hicks began working for public relations firm Hiltzik Strategies in 2012, after meeting the firm's founder at an NFL Super Bowl event, working for among others its client Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's daughter, on her fashion line, and then on other Trump ventures.[13][20] In August 2014 she joined The Trump Organization full-time.[9] Hicks worked for Ivanka Trump inside Trump Tower, helping expand her fashion label (the Ivanka Trump Collection) and modeling for her online store.[21] In October 2014 she began working directly for Donald Trump in The Trump Organization.[22] In January 2015, Donald Trump earmarked Hicks, who was 26 years old at the time, for the role of press secretary for his potential presidential campaign.[23][24] Donald Trump summoned her to his office and, as she tells it, "Mr. Trump looked at me and said, 'I'm thinking about running for president, and you're going to be my press secretary.'"[21] Until that time, she had never worked in politics, nor volunteered on a campaign.[25] After Trump's first primary victories, Hicks was asked to choose between staying with the Trump Organization or working on the campaign full-time. She initially decided to leave the campaign, but Trump convinced her to remain and she stayed on as press secretary.[13]

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 09:24 PM) I'd bet quite a bit he stays there. Not alone in that assessment either. He has shortstop actions and a future 70 arm, but he’ll almost certainly need to move to third base eventually as his large frame fills in and he slows down. The combination of the arm, athleticism, hands and actions could lead to plus-plus defense at third base, though, and with more mass will come more power. http://forums.rotoworld.com/topic/636018-f...3bss-san-diego/

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 08:04 AM) Gonzalez will be in CF primarily at whichever level he's at IMO. Heres my guess on how it shakes out. Charlotte: Polo, May, Cordell, Palka, etc Birmingham: Jimenez, Booker, Fisher Winston Salem: Robert (CF), Adolfo (RF), Basabe (LF), Call Kannapolis: Gonzalez (CF), Rutherford, Dedelow, Destino I wouldn't assume either Tilson or Engel are making the team...at this point. Then you've got Willy Garcia (most likely 4th) and May in there as well. Pretty sure they give Robert at least 4-6 weeks at KANNY unless he absolutely dominates Spring Training and gives them no choice. Always better to build his confidence and give him a head of steam into a more difficult assignment where he'll see a lot more breaking stuff compared to Low A.

I guess ISU has a UVA transfer for next year and a pretty strong recruiting class. The problem is the Big 12...although OU and TX will lose Young and Bamba. ISU around 105 mark in RPI, will be in 95-99 range after tonight's win...but still need to win the Big 12 unless they can finish conference just 2 games under .500 and get RPI closer to the 60's/70's range.

The Yankees were happy to have Bucky Dent around in 1978...one of the most famous homers hit in modern baseball history, off Mike Torrez of the Red Sox.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 08:32 PM) I can't speak for "progressives" as a whole, but for me, his record on issues would matter. How has he voted, what bills has he sponsored, etc., and how does that align with his platform. I haven't looked into that at this point, but I will say that if his record looks like that of a neoliberal, which is what most consider to be "centrist/moderate", I would not personally support him and I would not vote for him as president. Now, I happen to live in Indiana, so I have the "advantage" of knowing that my vote for president won't count no matter how I cast it, so in that race I don't have to take the "lesser of two evils" approach and I'm essentially free to vote in a way that lets my progressive ideology be known. That said, I'm tired of choosing the lesser of two evils, I'd like to see candidates that are actually going to govern for the people instead of the special interests. The interesting thing to watch will be how much Biden/Sanders/Warren try to hold onto leadership in the Democratic Party, or if they're willing to "anoint" a younger heir. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kennedy_III You can decide for yourself. His grandfather went from one of the most conservative Dems in the 1960's to the evolution of the 1968 populist campaign, which was anti-war, pro-migrant workers, pro-Appalachia, pro-Native American, as liberal as you could possibly get for that time. The only thing like it since has been John Edwards' attempts to copy it, which of course came across as inauthentic. Paul Wellstone and perhaps Sherrod Brown would be a couple of other comparisons. He has been cast as a "grittier," put the work in, down in the trenches Kennedy, compared to JFK Jr. or RFK Jr., for example.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 08:34 PM) Tatis Jr. plays SS not 3B. For now. The scouting world is divided on whether he sticks there or not. Obviously, his father filled out and played 3B for most of his major league career, mostly with the Expos and Cardinals.