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Uh-oh, more Moncada defensive issues...

Moncada now 16/82...needs 1/3 to get back to the Mendoza Line. 705 OPS Delmonico 19/50, .380. Wow, an Anderson walk....what the heck is going on?

He might still get there...I think he peaked around 1.8, came back down to 1.6 and back on the ascent. Playing CF instead of LF would help as well, but that won't happen with Engel on the roster. Plus, you know Leury must be extra motivated against his former team.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/17/opinions/int...ston/index.html Has Trump United the Democratic Party ?

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Aug 17, 2017 -> 03:55 PM) Trump math of course. Remember he won the popular vote if it wasn't for 3 million illegals! 5 million! Or 3-5 million, who knows, it changes on a daily basis.

Or then there's Byron Buxton...in all seriousness, I believe he will come out of this in September, simply due to facing so much inferior pitching. Otoh, the Indians, Royals and Twins are all likely to be in the pennant and wild card chases for the majority of that time.

13 dead, those aftermath videos at CNN are horrific, seemed like the majority of victims were women...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-keep-beaut...-134428178.html President Trump on Thursday bemoaned the removal of “beautiful” Confederate monuments across the U.S. after last weekend’s violent clashes in Charlottesville, Va., where white supremacists rallied against the removal of Robert E. Lee statue. “Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments,” Trump wrote on Twitter Thursday morning. “You can’t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson – who’s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!” Trump continued: “Also the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!” Richmond mayor now considering removing six main Confederate statues on Monument Avenue http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/16...ue-removed.html

Or Collins, or Burger....

Robert E. Lee actually was against statues, Confederate flag flying after Civil War, etc. “It’s often forgotten that Lee himself, after the Civil War, opposed monuments, specifically Confederate war monuments,” Jonathan Horn, a Lee biographer, told PBS. After the Civil War, Lee received a number of letters requesting support for the erection of Confederate memorials, according to Horn. In June 1866, he wrote that he couldn't support a monument of one of his best generals, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, saying it wasn't "feasible at this time." "As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated," Lee wrote in December 1866 about another proposed Confederate monument, "my conviction is, that however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt in the present condition of the Country, would have the effect of retarding, instead of accelerating its accomplishment; [and] of continuing, if not adding to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour." Not only was Lee opposed to Confederate memorials, "he favored erasing battlefields from the landscape altogether," Horn wrote. He even supported getting rid of the Confederate flag after the Civil War ended, and didn't want them them flying above Washington College, which he was president of after the war. "Lee did not want such divisive symbols following him to the grave," Horn wrote. "At his funeral in 1870, flags were notably absent from the procession. Former Confederate soldiers marching did not don their old military uniforms, and neither did the body they buried." “His Confederate uniform would have been ‘treason’ perhaps!” Lee’s daughter wrote, according to Horn. "Lee believed countries that erased visible signs of civil war recovered from conflicts quicker,” Horn told PBS. “He was worried that by keeping these symbols alive, it would keep the divisions alive." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robert-e-lee...-220734970.html

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 17, 2017 -> 07:25 AM) I think that liberal social agenda and fiscal conservative party you are looking for is called the Democratic Party. Considering GOP trade policy looks like it was cobbled together by Pat Buchanan and Lou Dobbs...with a shot of Stephen Minions Miller for good measure.

This is who Trump is supporting against Fake Jeff Flake Kelli Ward, an Arizona state senator and ardent Trump supporter, failed in her bid last year to unseat Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Last month, following McCain’s brain cancer diagnosis, Ward said he should step down “as quickly as possible” — and that she would gladly take his seat for the remainder of his term. “John McCain is a fighter and an American hero,” Flake responded in a statement. “I’m dumbstruck by Kelli Ward’s comments.” Ward shares some similarities with Trump, including flirting with fringe theories. In 2015, Ward also stirred controversy when she said she had no opinion about “chemtrails,” the conspiracy theory that airplanes, at the direction of the government, are releasing dangerous chemicals into the air in order to change the weather. “Help President Trump drain the swamp and elect Dr. Kelli Ward,” the message on her campaign’s website reads. https://www.yahoo.com/news/toxic-trump-goes...-124531707.html

Conservative Take: By leaving Trump's panel, CEO's made things worse http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/opinions/ceo...lein/index.html Trump and Race, Decades of Fueling Divisions https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...m=.860f135a2d46 WASHINGTON — President Trump’s personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter “has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/polit...WT.nav=top-news The email forwarded by John Dowd, who is leading the president’s legal team, painted the Confederate general Robert E. Lee in glowing terms and equated the South’s rebellion to that of the American Revolution against England. Its subject line — “The Information that Validates President Trump on Charlottesville” — was a reference to comments Mr. Trump made earlier this week in the aftermath of protests in the Virginia college town. "You cannot be against General Lee and be for General Washington,” the email reads, “there literally is no difference between the two men.” https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/08/16/...R-master675.jpg 7 things Lee and Washington had in common

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/ste...macy/index.html Bannon calls white supremacists "clowns" Of course, his favorite book of all-time and one he's distributed to numerous admin officials is this one (we know EXACTLY who "they" are by now): The Camp of the Saints (Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail. The novel depicts a setting wherein Third World mass immigration to France and the West leads to the destruction of Western civilization. Almost forty years after its initial publication, the novel returned to the bestseller list in 2011.[1] Raspail has said his inspiration came while at the French Riviera in 1971, as he was looking out at the Mediterranean. “What if they were to come? I did not know who "they" were, but it seemed inevitable to me that the numberless disinherited people of the South would, like a tidal wave, set sail one day for this opulent shore, our fortunate country’s wide-gaping frontier."[2] The name of the book comes from Book of Revelation, the Biblical end of the age: In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints, the city He loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

Ugly five game stretch for Moncada. Jinxed him with the "A Star is Born" thread...

Kessler claimed the city’s police failed to follow through on plans for protecting the rally that they had discussed with him. He also said that during planning for the rally, one police captain divulged to him that (Charlottesville) authorities were communicating about the event using their personal emails to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...-victims-215489

Yes, essentially it's a utilitarian argument. Which policies provide the greatest good for the greatest number of people, Dem or Republican?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 03:09 PM) lmao, way to totally miss the point here, but nice list bro. If you did answer honestly, you would be tarred and feathered, like yesterday's "discussion." Although one is left to wonder if Trump had told the electorate exactly what he was really planning to do...if they still would have voted for him regardless. What does that say about America, and especially the broken political system where by 2020 nobody will trust either party to do anything for the middle class.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 02:55 PM) So you literally just made a list of excuses for why you would vote against your best interests, while questioning why people would vote against their best interests. It happens all of the time with the political system we have in place. So you basically want no unions, no regulations on the financial services industry...what is an acceptable ratio of CEO to mid-level management salary to you, then? You honestly think all the wealth accruing to the Top 3-5% of Americans is going to have a happy ending for America? And who are going to be the customers for all your products if you've almost completely hollowed out the middle class and the majority of blue collar/labor jobs have been replaced by quantum computers, robotics and algorithms? The defense industry/military industrial complex?

Well, one obvious point that's going to keep getting hammered is that if Moncada doesn't end up better than Benintendi or Devers, it would at least be huge for Burger to hit so that a huge chunk of change doesn't have to be spent on Machado or Arenado. We've needed a premier 3b for so long, and to watch the numbers he's putting up in the big leagues and Tatis' ascent (yet another projected 3b) are both pretty frustrating developments. On the other hand, a lot of the potential superstars that were unattainable a year ago would have turned out to be pretty lousy acquisitions as well. One thing we DO need is the Dodgers' evaluator who nailed Chris Taylor, Justin Turner and Alex Wood...not to mention targeting Bellinger and "Kyle's brother." That's a 25+ point fwar swing, almost.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 08:11 AM) I'm not sure "The president is an unreliable source, so I can use other unreliable sources to inform myself" is logical. I called out using comments on Yahoo news as unreliable, I don't need to ground that with naming other unreliable sources e.g. the president. Also unreliable, chain emails from my uncle. There's not a single, unassailable source of news information that this board could agree upon...if there is/was, would love to hear it. By definition, for roughly 35% of the country, only Trump, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal are reliable. Hardly anyone ever reads the likes of Time, Newsweek and US News & World Report anymore.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 16, 2017 -> 07:48 AM) Lmao. Only you He has a lot more incentive to lie than the average anonymous person on the internet. What exactly has Robyn gained for her opportunity cost (time, in this case) invested in writing her post (roughly 10-15 minutes)? Probably only a handful have changed their viewpoint because of a discussion here in the Filibuster or on a yahoo comments thread. But Trump can instantaneously reach a base/audience in the millions within seconds.

Why is the President any more likely to be truthful/trustworthy than Yahoo article commenters at this point? Just have to take everything with a grain of salt and draw your own biased conclusions regardless. Trump was fact checked by various organizations throughout the debates and found to be 30% truthful, roughly. Btw, Trump also claimed to be paying even more careful attention than the news media itself, yet he didn't get the permit information correct, even.

Please delete, duplicate post Donald Trump's failure in Charlottesville wasn't political -- it was moral http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/15/politics/don...ence/index.html It is impossible -- given the last two years of Trump -- to conclude he is simply fumbling his way around on issues of race, gender and ethnic heritage. The mountain of evidence gathered suggests just the opposite: That he is purposely saying and doing things to make murky moral questions that should be crystal clear. And why is he doing it? For political gain. That is the opposite of what being president of the United States should be. Hell, it's the opposite of what being a citizen of this country should be. What Trump is doing is dangerous -- for our politics and for our moral fiber. To condone white supremacists by insisting there are two sides to every coin is to take us back decades in our understanding of each other. It is to undo decades worth of progress toward a freer and better country for all people. To do so purposely to score political points or stick it in the eye of your supposed media enemies is, frankly, despicable.

Donald Trump's failure in Charlottesville wasn't political -- it was moral http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/15/politics/don...ence/index.html It is impossible -- given the last two years of Trump -- to conclude he is simply fumbling his way around on issues of race, gender and ethnic heritage. The mountain of evidence gathered suggests just the opposite: That he is purposely saying and doing things to make murky moral questions that should be crystal clear. And why is he doing it? For political gain. That is the opposite of what being president of the United States should be. Hell, it's the opposite of what being a citizen of this country should be. What Trump is doing is dangerous -- for our politics and for our moral fiber. To condone white supremacists by insisting there are two sides to every coin is to take us back decades in our understanding of each other. It is to undo decades worth of progress toward a freer and better country for all people. To do so purposely to score political points or stick it in the eye of your supposed media enemies is, frankly, despicable.