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QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 07:51 PM) He 30 this month. Jeanmar Alejandro Gomez Born: October 2, 1988 (29.121) We can split the difference. He was 28 at the end of the 2017 season. He's also a sinkerball pitcher who doesn't overwhelm with velocity, which is usually what the White Sox are looking for (keeping the ball on the ground and out of the air at USCF).

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/pro...P=Jeanmar-Gomez The crazy thing is that he's only 28 years old and had 37 saves for the Phillies two years ago. When I looked up the bio, I expected him to be early to mid 30's. He's also pretty familiar with our division, which should also help. That gives you Soria, Gomez, Nate Jones and potentially Burdi who could all figure into the backend bullpen rotation. It alleviates almost all of the pressure on Jones to rush himself back and then get hurt again.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 07:08 PM) So Trump is committing treason and the House is investigating the FBI and DOJ? Why? https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/31/politics/str...tter/index.html 50% of the basis for their attacks (the text messages between the two "lovers") has now been wiped out. Emails obtained by CNN show the FBI agent at the center of a Capitol Hill storm played a key role in a controversial FBI decision that upended Hillary Clinton's campaign just days before the 2016 election: the letter to Congress by then-FBI Director James Comey announcing the bureau was investigating newly discovered Clinton emails. To answer your question: Because our systems of "checks and balances" and "accepted norms since 1787" is breaking down, lol. Because the 30% of Americans who consume Fox News will eat it up, and draw higher ratings, for another. Anything to obfuscate or draw attention away from Trump/Russia/his personal finances/his family. Since we're debating "pragmatism" here (the last 2-3 pages of thread): Let's say Joe Kennedy was somehow the nominee for President in 2020 at age 40. Kennedys have always been moderates/centrists, would liberal women (or members of #metoo) actually not vote because of that family's history with women and the "crony" influence (similar to the Trumps today) they've been able to wield since the first Joe Kennedy a century ago? Does it have to be Liz Warren, Cory Booker or Kamala Harris (at least as the VP) to motivate the progressive side of the party?

Nunes hasn’t even shared any of the classified information with Burr, head of the Senate investigation and a member of his own party. Alot of the memo eventually is going to be out of context or redacted...so we’ll have lots more opportunities for guys like Ron Johnson to claim Deep State conspiracies and then quietly walk those comments back days later. The main reason it exists is to cook a case against Rosenstein to finally fire him and undermine Mueller’s credibility. Ryan is really going to make running for President difficult for himself if Trump is ever impeached. The hyper partisan nature of both memos (and the Dems will leak theirs if the GOP tries to block the rebuttal) means that nobody will get anything close to the objective truth, which is going to hurt the FBI and further erode trust between that agency and the executive branch.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 12:53 PM) (IMO) The election was lost because the "polls" made them so confident that instead of focusing on the 4-5 states they needed to get to 270, they instead started trying to make states like NC and Texas competitive. Its not that Clinton didnt feel comfortable speaking to the midwest (shes from the midwest), its that she didnt even step foot in the midwest. I dont think she ever actually stepped foot into Wisconsin or Michigan (not 100% sure on Michigan). This is from Clinton herself: http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-cli...happened-2017-9 Ironically, the one with best political instincts of his generation, Bill Clinton, was marginalized by Mook and basically ignored on the late-emerging Michigan, WI and PA issue.

Chain migration, not my words, doesn’t allow cousins, for example. I would love to see a Republican explain why featuring a North Korean rescued by “chain migration” or even a refugee is suddenly a good thing...? Does Trump expect South Korea or China to rescue all those in similar situations? Why should they (trust to) look to us for help, if America only wants to use them for PR purposes and then quickly discard them? So immigrants are okay if they’re not white, as long as they’re smart/diligent Asians oppressed by Rocket Man? What about Egyptians, Filipinos, Russians, Turkish or Chinese repressed in the same way...especially members of the media fighting a losing battle for free speech in all those places and being disappeared or murdered everyday? You would think Russia, China and Europe didn’t exist from listening to that speech. Or the environment.

I think you’re overlooking how much the party assumed that African-American voters would turn out in non-Obama elections...and how many of them sat out due to disappointment over the way Bill Clinton treated Obama in 2008, over the term super predators and how the “mend it, don’t end it” revision of government policy in the 90s was coded to be targeted at blacks. She suppressed those voters, or took them for granted...which seems strange to say, because the campaign was largely targeting women and minorities at the expense of the white/working middle class they lost in all those Heartland and Rust Belt states. Hillary never learned how to feel comfortable speaking to them, and made them feel she was really going to be in the trenches fighting for the improvement of their lives. Between young people being turned off (Sanders being pushed aside) and the lack of any excitement about Clinton from blacks...and assuming those middle class whites in Wisconsin would never turn against the Dems, that’s where the election was really lost. It took a perfect storm of bad strategy, wishy washy messaging and not having a strong rationale for why you were even running, other than that it was time for a woman finally.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 12:10 AM) Matthews keeps calling him, "this guy." It's funny how cocky some people are. Their candidate didn't win so they don't even recognize the winner as President. When Obama won, nobody referred to him as "this guy." If you are an American you have to admit he's your president at least. We voted him in. So he's the USA president. U live in the USA so he's your president. Trump may be a chump but a lot of smart people are claiming the economy is thriving under DT. If we can get him impeached, fine, go for it. But if not he's still the US president until a scandal arrives that dictates he be removed. Just cause u lost doesn't mean u have to call him "this guy." This was exactly what Trump and Fox News (certainly after the bloom wore off the rose in 2010) were calling Obama, or worse. Let's not forget that Trump wouldn't even acknowledge for many years that Obama was an American citizen, nor had he the right to be president. Or the times that they said Obama wasn't patriotic simply because he didn't wear an American flag lapel pin. "THIS GUY" was a much more racist term in many parts of the US that refused to believe that an African-American was in charge of their country for the first time after 220 years of white males. Don't you remember "YOU LIE!!!" being shouted at him during a SOTU speech by Representative Joe Wilson, Greg? https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video...mp;action=click Trump's top health official traded tobacco stock while leading anti-smoking efforts CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald bought shares in a global tobacco giant even as her previous holdings were under review. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/30/c...ointment-316245

This must be the most unexpected feature of the entire night. "You knocked it out of the park. We've got your back. Better than Reagan at his peak!"

Is he for real? “His family followed” @realDonaldTrump tells story of North Korean refugee in same speech where he calls for end to family reunification. #sotu That's the key battle the next 5 weeks..."chain migration" vs. "family reunification" Is anyone else annoyed with USA, USA, USA!!! chants at any time other than the Olympics??? Is there anyone in America besides Trump and the defense industry/hawks who think building more nuclear bombs is actually a good thing??? Since he didn't call anyone by a demeaning nickname, are pundits now going to say he was presidential? #SOTU Senator Jeff Merkley Best speech since Ronald Reagan, lol...

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jan 30, 2018 -> 08:37 PM) Mistake keeping Avi he should of been dealt. For? If the Brewers can't find a take for Domingo Santana with 4 years of control, we're going to be seriously underwhelmed with the return...

CNN)A senior adviser who worked for disgraced Trump appointee Carl Higbie was banned from using Uber after an incident early last year in which he allegedly made racially charged and anti-Muslim comments to a driver. Daniel Pollack is the senior adviser for public affairs at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency that oversees national volunteering organizations like AmeriCorps. Pollack works in the office of external affairs, which was formerly headed by Carl Higbie, who resigned earlier this month over a slew of racist and of other inflammatory comments unearthed by CNN's KFile. It's a travesty that an agency that started with JFK/Sargent Shriver (Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, VISTA) and represents the heart of the American spirit of volunteering and community service has fallen under the "leadership" of such despicable characters.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dreamers-goo...-204616866.html Dreamers are good for the economy https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fact-ch...me-u-s-data-say Across 200 metropolitan areas Research has shown virtually no support for the enduring assumption that increases in immigration are associated with increases in crime. Immigration-crime research over the past 20 years has widely corroborated the conclusions of a number of early 20th-century presidential commissions that found no backing for the immigration-crime connection. Although there are always individual exceptions, the literature demonstrates that immigrants commit fewer crimes, on average, than native-born Americans. Also, large cities with substantial immigrant populations have lower crime rates, on average, than those with minimal immigrant populations. The New York Times ✔@nytimes Trump says that he has ended the war on clean coal. But coal consumption fell to its lowest level in 40 years in 2017. http://nyti.ms/2FvcmJB

The FDR "correction" will occur about the same time that the Japanese admit to what they did in Nanjing, the Bataan Death March, etc. We all know that there was a large element of racism, the fact that German-Americans were not similarly rounded up and placed in internment camps, but there's at least some evidence out there that Japanese working at Pearl Harbor were part of the attack planning and execution. Should everyone ELSE in the Western US have suffered due to the actions of maybe 10? That's a question for the historians to discuss and decide.

And that's exactly the same reason why Sanders still hasn't released his donor list to the DNC. Lack of trust...

At the very least, have Sanders as your VP candidate...Kaine added absolutely nothing and motivated not one single additional Democrat to vote, with the possible exception of in VA. This is part of the reason the local/state Democratic parties essentially have run out of money, when there’s nobody they can enthusiastically support, and especially draw smaller donations like Dean, Obama and Sanders did.

QUOTE (michelangelosmonkey @ Jan 30, 2018 -> 11:35 AM) I like the dream big scenario. The Zips projection lists Avi's closest comparison as Roberto Clemente. Through Roberto's first 2500 AB's he had a slash line of .285/.306/.373 and had 10 WAR over that five years. Then something clicked and he went .330/.370/.475 and averaged 6.5 over the next 13 years. Yes Roberto clicked at a younger age but Avi lost a full year to injury. Both RF's with cannon arms. I think there has been way too much negative comments about Avi when he was young and then when he had a monster year last year everyone said..."well yes but this" and "well yes but that". Not every great player comes up as Mike Trout. Why is it outlandish that Avi has found the greatness that everyone saw in him when he was 20? I sure like the idea of Jimenez, Robert, Avi outfield if Avi is Clemente. Ummm...it wasn’t only the right arm. It was a mantle full of Golden Gloves (think Heyward x2) and reckless abandon on the basepaths. The comps should be Larry Walker and Vladimir Guerrero for arm. Sosa, before the steroids, had a lot of similarities, actually. I got ripped for comparing Puig, but he’s another one in terms of excitement level. And Clemente wasn’t a big guy...he was a very slender guy who generated a lot of power from his forearms and wrists, but was known more for his triples and XB hits and also being able to hit balls in and way out of the strike zone, even when stepping into the bucket and taking a terribly awkward swing. That’s also not Avi.

Stephen Miller had to be behind this Russian sanctions joke, right? "We were waiting for this list to come out, and I'm not going to hide it: we were going to take steps in response, and, mind you, serious steps, that could push our relations to the nadir. But we're going to refrain from taking these steps for now," Putin said. The Russian president said he does not expect the publication to have any impact but expressed dismay at the scope of the officials and business people listed. "Ordinary Russian citizens, employees and entire industries are behind each of those people and companies, so all 146 million people have essentially been put on this list," Putin said at a campaign event in Moscow. "What is the point of this? I don't understand." Russia hawks in Congress had pushed the administration to include certain names, while Russian businessmen hired lobbyists to keep them off. In the end, the list of 114 Russian politicians released just before a Monday evening deadline included the whole of Putin's administration, as listed by the Kremlin on its website, plus the Russian cabinet, all top law enforcement officials and chief executives of the main state-controlled companies. President Putin even joked on Tuesday that he felt "slighted" that his name wasn't there. A companion list of 96 "oligarchs" is a carbon copy of the Forbes magazine's Russian billionaires' rankings, only arranged alphabetically. It makes no distinction between those who are tied to the Kremlin and those who are not. Some of the people on the list have long fallen out with the Kremlin or are widely considered to have built their fortunes independently of the Russian government. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/state-depart...--politics.html

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jan 30, 2018 -> 08:58 AM) Lol check out Pelosi on CNN last night talking about the Dennis Nunes and the DNA. Let’s get term limits. At least get his name right. Oh, she said something about making America white again. Let’s usher in term limits for that deadly barb. Apparently you weren’t around when Newt Gingrich and all incoming Republicans promised to abide by term limits in the Contract With America and then changed their minds once they tasted power so briefly in 1995. Here’s a refresher with a helpful visual aid to go along with it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/polit.../termlimits.htm Besides, 36 House GOPers are already “retiring” this year, so there’s your term limits.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jan 30, 2018 -> 07:00 AM) I posted an article with its title... O’Connell will leave the party stabilized, if not yet fully recovered, after wins last year in Virginia and Alabama, and her decision to leave is a personal one, a DNC official told NBC News, timed to cause minimal disruption ahead of November's midterm elections. Where’s the controversy here, exactly? I guarantee Steve Wynn is familiar to at least 75% of Americans...why shouldn’t the GOP give back all the money raised since he assumed an official role with the GOP? Why should his wife/wives be able to give Steve Wynn’s money away and it not also be considered fruit of the poisoned tree? Do you know the name of the person who works under the Chair of the Republican National Committee? Do you even know the Chair’s name? That’s essentially O’Connell’s job description. Besides, Tom Perez and the Obamas control the party for now...nobody else really matters in the overall scheme of things. List of Republicans not to last a year Dr. Tom Price Anthony Scaramucci Bannon Priebus Spicer Dina Powell Sebastian Gorka George Gigicos Michael Flynn Keith Schiller Katie Walsh KT McFarland Paul Manafort George Papadapoulos Corey Lewandowski Carter Page Rick Gates Andrew McCabe (voted in GOP primary) Chris Christie apparently back again, lol...the most unpopular governor in Gallup polling history

Trump critics seize on developer ties to infrastructure plan A council that helped craft his transportation proposal included NYC-based private-sector allies of the former real estate mogul. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/30/t...of-union-376326 President Donald Trump’s critics are already lining up to undercut his infrastructure proposal — the purported bipartisan centerpiece of Tuesday’s State of the Union speech — as a giveaway to his well-connected friends and a rollback of popular environmental protections. Even before the president formally calls for a deal to help rebuild the nation’s aging infrastructure, a watchdog nonprofit stocked with former Democratic aides is ramping up a campaign to discredit his plan as “a blueprint for cronyism.” The group Democracy Forward will release a report Tuesday that alleges potential conflicts of interest on Trump’s infrastructure advisory council, which was disbanded last summer. The board was led by two of Trump’s longtime New York developer allies, Richard LeFrak and Steven Roth, who were tapped to help shape his plan to shore up roads and bridges by leveraging public money with private investors’ involvement (more toll bridges and toll roads!). Among the potential minefields the group singles out are lobbying by LeFrak's company against flood risk regulations that the Trump administration axed last year and the prospect that Roth's company would benefit from a public-private partnership in the works to build a new Penn Station in New York City.

You mean Rod Rosenstein, he’s a registered Republican...Lol. Russian sanctions, passed nearly unanimously on 419-3 and 98-2 votes. Trump Cronyism 1, American Democracy 0 Sanctions on specific entities or individuals will not need to be imposed because the legislation is, in fact, serving as a deterrent," a State Department official said. HAHAHAHAHA! State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert asserted the legislation had already deterred Russian defense sales. "Since the enactment of the CAATSA legislation, we estimate that foreign governments have abandoned planned or announced purchases of several billion dollars in Russian defense acquisitions," she said in a statement. Source:dedebulscnn.com Trump Should Have Announced Europe is Open for Business In Davos Sure, the United States is growing at a nice clip. But Europe's economy is expanding at an even faster rate. Economic growth in the 19 countries that use the euro currency surged by 2.5% in 2017, according to official data published Tuesday. Growth in the 28-member European Union was also up 2.5% last year. It's the best period of growth for both groupings since 2007, putting Europe just ahead of the 2.3% expansion posted by the U.S. in 2017. Europe, which has suffered years of anemic growth caused by a series of debt crises, is part of a global economic resurgence that could continue in 2018. "Anything the U.S. economy can do the eurozone economy can do, slightly better it seems," said Jacob Deppe, head of trading at online currency broker Infinox Capital.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Jan 29, 2018 -> 06:07 PM) So they're not only not learning, they're doubling down on cutting their nose off to spite their face. Centrist democrats don't have the policy positions to differentiate themselves enough from Republicans for the electorate. The grassroots, progressive movement in the party is where the energized base is, and the policy positions are different enough from Republicans as to be distinguishable to the average voter. There are two dangers. One is the old axiom, you always win by capturing the middle, and anyone that runs way to the left or right gets walloped (historically). That's colliding with an emerging one, as you mentioned, that if you alienate 1/3rd of your most dedicated and committed volunteers and voters on the progressive side, you'll end up with the same exact results as 2016. Both parties are in danger of splitting in two...or you could argue that instead of 4, you would have progressive Democrats (25-30%), everyone in the middle of the country (Centrist/Moderate Dems and "Compassionate" Republicans who are more open on social issues and pseudo-libertarian on economics)....and then Trump's supporters (another 25-30%) on the far right. That's the most fascinating aspect of all this upheaval. Do you end up with 4 or 3 political parties instead of the traditional two by the end of 2012? Or is it STILL just Dems and Republicans? It really feels like another 3rd party candidate (like a Bloomberg/Cuban/Oprah....Ross Perot in 1992/6, Wallace in 1968/72) could emerge and split the electorate as I noted above. If you have a progressive and centrist Democrat both running, one independently, Trump would win again (if he hasn't been impeached/indicted/resigned).

I can imagine Rooney trying to "market/sell" Redus' acquisition to the fans as "our version of Rickey Henderson," and it sounds actually like a Hawkism, where Avi Garcia has a lot of similarities with a young Miguel Cabrera, etc. To argue he was a better player, overall. Maybe Redus was having a statistically solid season, but he was only a 720 OPS guy that year for the Sox in 1988 (Henderson had a 793 OPS that year for the Yankees at age 30, and was 820 for his career), which was even 30 points under his career average. Let's also not forget how abysmal those late 80's White Sox teams were, until Ventura/McDowell/Thomas/Alvarez/Sosa showed up to inject some new enthusiasm. Rooney and Wayne Hagin together was my favorite all-time radio duo, fwiw.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jan 29, 2018 -> 10:11 PM) get real there's no "slippery slope" argument here. This is a disgusting caricature, little better than a hook nose jew or slant eyed chinese and so on. just get rid of the damn thing. I meant the possibility of Native American groups protesting the idea of "Cowboys/with white hats" as a symbol of genocide, or, at the very least, repression...