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QUOTE (BamaDoc @ Jun 20, 2017 -> 09:17 PM) Hence the phantom 10 day dl and work on side MLB Player's Association says good luck with that, not for an impending free agent...

This was from Monday, before the Ossoff loss http://www.npr.org/2017/06/20/533617413/se...ontent=20170620 MARTIN: You wrote last week in an op-ed in The New York Times - and I'm quoting here - "too many in our party cling to an overly cautious centrist ideology." Do you think that applies specifically in this case to health care? SANDERS: Yes, I do. I mean, I think that Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, took us a step forward. It provided health insurance for over 20 million more Americans. That's no small thing. It did away with the obscenity of pre-existing conditions and a number of other essential health care benefits that are now guaranteed to the American people. So it made some real change. But, Rachel, at the end of the day, the American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right? Why do we pay double per capita for health care compared to any other major country? Why do we pay the highest prices in the world by far for prescription drugs? My view is we should join the rest of the industrialized world and work toward a Medicare for all single-payer program. MARTIN: So how do you do that? Because at this moment, Democrats can't even get into the room to defend the Affordable Care Act. Is tacking so far to the left going to get you anywhere in this moment? SANDERS: It's not a question of tacking to the left. What we have right now is a Republican leadership which is very, very far to the right and way, way outside of the mainstream of where the American people are. This health care proposal passed in the House. I don't have the numbers in front of me but you've seen them. I mean, it is widely disapproved by the American people. The American people do not believe it makes sense to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top 2 percent and throw 23 million Americans off of health care (the wealth gap in SF, for example is worse than in Rwanda, my interjected comment). That's not what the American people want. So what - I think what the Democrats have got to do - it's not a very radical idea - is actually listen to where the American people are. The American people, in fact, within - certainly within the Democratic ranks do want to move toward a single-payer system. You're seeing real progress in the California Legislature and in the New York state Legislature to do just that. The American people want to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, 15 bucks an hour, want to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, pay equity for women, tackling climate change and transforming our energy system. These are not radical ideas. This is what the American people want.

Jon Ossoff’s Georgia special election loss shows Democrats could use a substantive agenda https://www.vox.com/2017/6/20/15839452/geor...s-ossoff-handel Still, it should be sobering to Democrats that a CBS News poll released Tuesday morning filled with devastatingly bad approval numbers for the Trump administration found that only 31 percent of voters thought a Democratic takeover of Congress would make their lives better. If your opponents are unpopular enough, it’s certainly possible to win elections this way. But especially for the party that has a more difficult time inspiring its supporters to turn out to vote, that’s an ominous sign. Right now on health care and many other issues, Democrats suffer from a cacophony of white papers and a paucity of unity around any kind of vision or story they want to paint of what is wrong with America today and what is the better country they want to build for the future. And until they do, they’re going to struggle to mobilize supporters in the way they need to win tough races.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 20, 2017 -> 09:39 PM) It is...and who cares! Just need him to hit .300 to see skinny Joe! Relation to cotton-eyed Joe or character from Deliverance?

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 03:57 PM) I'm talking about straight production budget. I haven't read the article in it's entirety yet. I know the listed budget is $125M which isn't a lot for a movie like this but some people have been throwing around $200M+. The Mummy could be another Interstellar and by that I mean that this could be a rare case where the top talent (Nolan/Cruise) makes more than the studio. Keep in mind that Interstellar was a joint production. I think people need to careful and not just look at the domestic box office before they call things a flop. Look at WarCraft. Living in China, that's all you notice. It's the only reason Pacific Rim II gets greenlit. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transforme...ast_knight_2017 Final Transformers at 12%. At least one of my favorite reviewers, Owen Gleiberman, found some redeeming qualities.

9 errors for Garcia..isn't that tied with Anderson? That's crazy for a RF with half a season to go still.

Two consecutive Avi errors...no RBI???

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 20, 2017 -> 09:24 PM) I was talking to some big time baseball aficionados today and telling them about the fans on this website wanting us to lose and they said that's ridiculous. The consensus was TWO TEAMS in baseball history have tanked well, Cubs was one team and I think Houston maybe the other and they said EVERYTHING BROKE right for them and in general it's a RIDICULOUS idea. So I'm not the only one. These guys know their baseball folks and they said I was 100 percent right in saying tanking is a very stupid idea. And they brought up Trout, not me. The Royals tanked for twenty years...eventually they started picking the right guys in the high first round. The Marlins, after 1997. World Series again in 2003. The Indians in the 2001-2002 time period, but couldn't close the deal in 2007. The A's have done it pretty well over the years.

Eighty-seven percent of upper-income Americans -- those making $75,000 or more annually -- own stocks, as do 83% of postgraduates and 73% of college graduates. Sixty-four percent of Republicans hold stocks, compared with half of Democrats and independents. Men are more likely than women to be stock owners. Those aged 50 to 64 are the most likely of any age group to say they have money invested in the stock market. http://www.gallup.com/poll/147206/Stock-Ma...owest-1999.aspx

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Jun 20, 2017 -> 08:58 PM) Too bad liberal hollywood isnt as good at meddling in elections as those pesky Russians. 30+ million for another loser lol. 0-4 so far in 2017. Still waiting on that referendum on Trump I keep hearing about from CNN! That particular referendum will be on single payer health care/Medicare for All. Or signs of environmental calamities like the heat wave in the West cancelling flights will force a reckoning earlier than predicted. The GOP owns environmental issues right now. Good luck with that. In the end, this will only embolden Trump and the Congress to assume they're bulletproof...unfortunately, the country has to suffer in the process.

What was the take on the arm bar/swing mechanics issue with Burger...?

QUOTE (BamaDoc @ Jun 20, 2017 -> 08:54 PM) I know we want to trade/get value for him but he has really struggled. I think the phantom injury 10 day dl or more problematic a brief demotion may be needed. Can they even send him down? No way that realistically happens.

"Sprint" Training with Luis Robert, Logan Taylor and Moncada might help Chili...

Robert now 3/20. He needs at least 100 at bats to start wearing off that rust from inactivity and showcase BP sessions.

QUOTE (beautox @ Jun 20, 2017 -> 08:33 PM) Appreciate TL;DW Gray now has exact same ERA as Q, 5.13... Abreu's night will surely bring his Ron thread back to life.

Seems like Kevan Smith is personally invested in Beer 2018 draft position...

Cut the spread from 23% to 5.5-6% Still not good enough. Need to analyze how NOT to spend $25-30 million and stil lose. The polling, once again, was significantly off again...more than Nov.8. Ossoff not living in the district, trying too hard not to offend anyone, he was hollow Manchuria candidate without enough charisma to seal the deal. Need to get better candidates who know how to beat Republicans or at least have a coherent strategy for doing so, the likes of Jason Kander and Cheri Bustos in Illinois. Trump is not widely liked in the 6th District, where the presidential vote swung further toward Democrats in 2016 than in all but one non-Utah House seat. But while Trump’s standing in the district loosened the GOP’s hold on the seat, it did not dislodge the party. Instead, GOP outside groups focused on House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s own abysmal approval ratings to gin up opposition to Ossoff, whom they said was aligned with the San Francisco Democrat. Ossoff, for his part, tried to cast himself as a centrist, promising to be a “fresh, independent voice” for the district. But Republicans also accused him of being soft on national security and of relying on liberal, small-dollar donors from outside the district to fuel his campaign. Republicans also hammered Ossoff on his home address, as he doesn’t currently live in the district, while he said he wants to support his fiancée’s medical studies at Emory University. In one debate, Handel asked Ossoff: “Who are you going to vote for in this election?” http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/20/g...f-handel-239778

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 20, 2017 -> 07:27 PM) Who the hell is trading for Pelfrey? Anyone who needs rotation depth/experience and willing to surrender C/C- level lottery ticket...minimum salary, etc. Same reason Swarzak will draw some interest. Not taking on salary, not giving up anything of significance.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 20, 2017 -> 07:23 PM) Yep you were all over it. Probably a big career mistake by him not taking the Pirates offer. $$$ or pride. Or maybe prefers AL. Who knows? Logic says a park like SD or Pitt would work better. Even Minnesota...

Guess the only starter that gets traded is Pelfrey...and maybe Q. That was the nail in the coffin.

Right now, it's definitely trending towards Handel. That district is one of the 6 best educated in all of America...and a large reason why Trump only won by 1.5%. IMO, the DC shooting of Scalise is going to go down as the X factor if Handel goes on to win, but polling says almost everyone was hardened in their positions 7-10 days ago. Illinois-5 is 15th. Five California districts there as well. Seems if Handel wins, the Senate will be emboldened to pass AHCA bill...leading to World War Three in 2018/20 over single payer. The other important point is how well the stock market has performed, reverse those numbers and the Trump administration is in real trouble.

The Hickman story if he even briefly makes it to the big leagues is Disney's Rookie II...or another version of The Blind Side. That's obviously why there's more noise around him, the human interest angle. Same reason Tim Tebow started out the year as the MILB player with by far the most coverage. Not based on prospect rankings.

Honestly, the only ex Royal I would consider would be Cain (FA market)...but he's hit well enough the last month or so his value is coming up to the point where he's no longer a bargain. That's with the caveat we aren't planning to stick Moncada or Anderson in CF, which is far from assured.

Key GOP senator (member of 13 member "working group") on health care plan: ‘I haven’t seen the bill’ https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-gop-senator-...-203415619.html

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/20/opinions/whe...nion/index.html But where are you REALLY from?