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https://www.milb.com/milb/news/chicago-whit...444/t-185364810 While Giolito said the improvements feel really good, he added that he's still not pitching to the best of his ability yet. But MLB.com's No. 30 overall prospect has been able to take a big step toward that goal with help from rehabbing Major League veteran James Shields. "He noticed a thing in my delivery about the way I'm using my legs, and so he actually showed me some stuff to work on in the gym, so I can better utilize my legs when I'm pitching, and I feel like it will really help to increase consistency, maybe extension, maybe velocity," Giolito said. "He's been around the game for a very long time. I know this was his first rehab assignment as a Major Leaguer, which kind of shows his work ethic and what he's been able to accomplish. So, I was trying to soak up as much information as long as he was here."

Cubs selling 2016 limited edition "ivy leaves" from outfield wall for $200 a pop...will generate $400k in additional revenue. https://sports.yahoo.com/cubs-selling-wrigl...-234257914.html

GOP Rep. Sanford on Va. shooting: Trump partially responsible ‘for the demons that have been unleashed’ https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-rep-sanford-...-134425698.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-apo...-162951017.html But while Trump might think issues facing the White House have been created by a mysterious "they," Americans don't seem to trust the president's commitment to running the government properly—in fact, many think he is downright undemocratic. Sixty-five percent of respondents in an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research​ poll released Thursday said the president either doesn't have much or any respect for the "country's democratic institutions and traditions." Nearly a third of Republicans or Republican-leaning independents said the same. The Associated Press-NORC survey also found Trump wasn't a particularly popular president. Just 35 percent of Americans approved of the job he's doing as president, the poll found. Sixty-four percent—and one-quarter of Republicans—disapproved of Trump's job performance. In March, the the Associated Press-NORC poll found 42 percent of Americans approved of the job Trump was doing. Just one-in-five Republicans disapproved of the president in March. In the latest poll, roughly 50 percent of whites without a college degree—one of Trump's strongest demographics in the 2016 presidential election—approved of the job the president was doing. That's down 8 percentage points from Associated Press-NORC poll in March.

Sonny Gray dealing so far against Yankees...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 15, 2017 -> 09:13 PM) Deputy AG rosenstein also released an extremely weird statement a little while ago, allegedly an ally has some sort of compromise tape off Trump (not pee tape tough) Link? Rumor?

Plus there's a ton of NL teams that might be out of the wild card race if things continue like they are in the NL West, similar to 2006 AL Central race. How many AL teams can compete with Red Sox in a battle of resources? Just not sure how many teams these days will go for broke to make a one game playoff. It's going to come from one of those clear playoff teams that are 1-2 additions away, like the A's in 2014 before the wheels came off.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 15, 2017 -> 05:46 PM) Trumpcare will impose annual, lifetime caps on tens of millions of employer based plans. Nobody escapes pain in the quest for wealthy tax cuts. https://twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/8753...src=twsrc%5Etfw Of course, 98% conveniently won't experience those effects until after 2020... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/govt-report-...--politics.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump promised to make health care more affordable but a government report finds that out-of-pocket costs — deductibles and copayments — would average 61 percent higher under the House Republican bill. And even though the sticker price for premiums would be lower than under the Obama-era law, what consumers actually pay would edge up on average because government financial assistance would be curtailed. The report from the Office of the Actuary, a nonpartisan economic unit at the Health and Human Services Department, was released earlier this week with little fanfare. "It's fascinating," said Chris Sloan, a policy expert with the Avalere Health consulting firm. "They actually think that on average people will be paying more even though the underlying premium is less." The estimates are for the year 2026, and apply to people who buy their own health insurance policies. That group was a major focus of former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. Individually-purchased coverage is also key to the GOP's American Health Care Act, which would roll back much of "Obamacare."

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 15, 2017 -> 07:55 PM) Well it was a 'good guy with a gun' that saved them, so why not? One of the members stated that if it wasn't for the one guy standing up and shooting back, he would have walked around the dugout wall and shot them all. Would you rather they all be dead to satisfy your anti-gun stance? You always imagine a scene where everyone whips out a gun and goes to shooting, but that doesn't happen. You don't need everyone, just a few. My gun is to protect ME. I have no desire to be hero-on-the-spot, I am not rushing to go shoot the bad guy, but if he is trying to shoot me, I will shoot back. Assuming I am not in a gun free zone, that is. The problem is 95% of the people in the country are not so well trained or accurate...panicking when you have a gun in your hands, we occasionally hear about experienced police officers doing that when feeling threatened. In the end, the gun control battle will be fought by the mothers of this country. http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/15/us/escaped-g...ured/index.html Homeowners with guns capture escaped Georgia inmates

Still scoreless going into bottom of 8th...Phillies up. Ty Kelly unties it with a double. Sale follows it with three 98 mph fastballs, despite over 100 pitches already, lol. Red Sox 0/27 when trailing after 8.

Hansen will be moved after the SAL All-Star game.. That's next Tuesday night, so WED to Winston-Salem for 2 1/2 months...then playoffs/Birm/AFL depending on his innings count. They'll be conservative and protective, there.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 15, 2017 -> 06:59 PM) Hansen needs to be in W-S....sounds like it should be soon according to Hostetler's podcast today with chuck Garfien has really picked up his game this year with prospects, draft, minor league stuff in general...having two impressive farm systems in one city makes it easier, obviously. For five years, the Sox were irrelevant with their major and minor league teams. Easy to become apathetic about covering it.

QUOTE (2005thxfrthmmrs @ Jun 15, 2017 -> 06:47 PM) Take the DSL walk number with a HUGE grain of salt. Pitchers have no control down there. 14 walks to 9 K between the two teams today. Well, it's certain many opposing pitchers are going to be careful with him...and it's better than the alternative of putting up a low OBP, no matter what the level. Being off the playing field for a full year, it's going to take a month at least before his timing is back. Obviously he looked fine on that hr swing.

Burdi is another one who really should be more dominant, but they've moved him really quickly...he might have been better off in AA with Kopech to start the year. In the end, hopefully those second tier guys like Dunning, Adams, the two you mentioned...at least one of them emerges. As long as Kopech, Giolito and Lopez make it, or at least 2/3, they'll be fine. It's relatively easy to find a fifth starter, we have four vets on the big league roster doing essentially that right now.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jun 15, 2017 -> 06:32 PM) Dude it doesn't matter. I can't control what Republicans do. I can't control how they perceive me. I can control whether I'm contributing to the problem or not. And I'm going to do my best to stop contributing to the problem. I can't control them. I can control me. Liberals can't control what Republicans do, but we can control what we do. We're the ones who want change, right? They don't. So it's us that need to do whatever it takes to reach out to them and create arguments that will bring them to us. Divisive, angry, hateful rhetoric will never achieve that goal. To me, it's more practical. Take back the lost center...those are arguments that can be won. Get away from the Wall Street connections (nationally, by 1%, Dems are more connected by potential voters to the banking industry than Republicans...which is comical). Health care is a big part of the battle, but it really comes down to standing up for policies than benefit the 40-60th quintiles of the US population. The way Trump's going, it will be easy to argue what NOT to do. Articulating policies that can gather bipartisan support (triangulating) is the logical way to go...the right always goes too far when they have power, and the pendulum will naturally shift back to the middle again.

The question is can Fulmer even have enough control going all out for a couple of innings to be another Addison Reed? If he's throwing 94-97, his mechanics are going to be all over the place with that delivery of his. Stephens, two more scoreless innings so far. Pointless to mention offense for BIRM.

Crooked H destroyed phones’: Trump tries to change the topic to Clinton after report of possible obstruction probe https://www.yahoo.com/news/crooked-h-destro...-210929872.html Never going to let Hillary, Obama or Twitter go http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-china-ov...ademarks-2017-6 China overturns rejections of 9 Trump trademarks "The speed with which these appeals were decided is mind-blowing," said Matthew Dresden, an intellectual property attorney at Harris Bricken in Seattle. "I have never seen any decisions made that quickly. That suggests special treatment. But that's just procedural. Substantively, it's impossible to say whether any of this is unusual." China's Trademark Office did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday. The new provisional approvals further shore up the president's brand in China, conferring potential rights to the use of Chinese versions of his name for beauty salon services, socks, human resources consulting and advertising, among other things, and the Trump brand, in English, for jewelry and watch repair. If there are no objections, the marks will be formally registered after 90 days.

Moncada walks on 9 pitches.

How many times does someone from the GOP argue they need to listen more...? Democrats get called weak or soft for even taking that seemingly reasonable approach. Attacking the Clinton's, Obama, Pelosi, anyone who challenges expansion of gun rights...has resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in fundraising that just perpetuates the cycle of attack ads. People hate the "both sides do it" nature of some corners of mainstream journalism, believing that it creates a sense of equivalency when there is none. Fair enough. But in this case, both sides do do it! Casting your political opponents as not just wrong but dangerous motivates the bases of the respective parties. And fired-up bases turn out. And that, for most politicians, is plenty of justification to keep playing to the extremes rather than trying to land somewhere in between those two poles. Until the electorate stops rewarding politicians for saying the most outlandish things about the other party, they will keep right on doing it -- no matter how many attacks like the one Wednesday morning happen. Depressing but true. Chris Cilizza, CNN.com https://www.yahoo.com/tv/ted-nugent-promise...-205716922.html Ted Nugent has seen the light about divisive rhetoric fomenting violence

Adolfo with go ahead single in bottom of 7th. 825 ops. Make that game winning RBI, 7 inning affair. Morrison 0.56 era. LUIS Robert, 4 walks already.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/15/politics/con...pons/index.html Meanwhile, GOP doubling down on gun control with their "good guy with a gun" scenario that usually works much better in the movies where lots of bystanders don't get killed. I'd hate to imagine if Rand Paul's "it would have been a bloodbath" scenario came to pass...everyone in the US would have been allowed the right to carry a gun everywhere they went beginning next week after a law was quickly jammed through.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 15, 2017 -> 09:30 AM) I am not sure if I am the only one, but after all was said and done, I am pretty disappointed too. There just isn't a whole lot of high ceilings in the bunch. It felt a lot more like a Kenny Williams draft with a lot of high floors. We drafted one HS that we will sign (in all likelihood the late draftees aren't signing), and he is as far away as the 16 year olds in the DR from the sounds of it. You've now become the anti-Balta.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Jun 15, 2017 -> 01:20 AM) Cool, so we drafted a 50 year old. He is instantly old for every level. Or did Scott mean great-grandson? He's had like 8 ot 9 marriages..he might still have younger kids than that.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Jun 15, 2017 -> 01:40 AM) But apart from Office Space quotes, I have had 2 specific and out of the box ideas since I was a kid about what I would like to do if I have a ton of money. One was to open up a big baseball academy in Ireland, and grow the sport there. I am very super Irish, and I love baseball. I've been to Ireland, had family there, but it's obviously not a baseball country whatsoever. I would love to get kids involved and have state-of-the-art stuff there. When I was in middle school I contact the "Dublin Black Sox", because I loved that there was an Irish baseball league that used the White Sox as their team, and they sent me a hat of theirs. Still have the hat. It utilizes the old school S with the small O and X inside the curls of the S. My other big dream was to open up a sports restaurant on the border of Michigan and Indiana, like literally on state line, and have the building split down the middle, one side Notre Dame and the other side Michigan. When you came in, you chose an allegiance to sit with. Obviously each side would be decked out with memorabilia. And on game day, however much the side of the building's team won by, that was your discount on your meal (would have to be a limit of course). Then when the 2 teams played, there would be all kinds of crazy promos and raffles and events. Moral of the story, kids are dumb. Wouldn't that restaurant also at various points in the year have two different time zones? The Baseball City idea is close to what Roberto Clemente set about constructing in Puerto Rico before his untimely demise in 1972. There's also Sox scout John Tumminia's "Baseball Miracles" program that's basically a mission trip combined with baseball camps for teaching and mentoring young kids in least developed countries. You can google it to learn more. I think they've gone to 4-5 different countries, choosing a major new project on a yearly basis, donating equipment that mostly is gifted from big league teams and (when possible) building lasting baseball diamonds as well.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 09:26 PM) Sleep. 104 pm here. We can sleep when we're dead, haha.

Unless you thought MiGo had any value, but that trade would/should have been last deadline or offseason. Placeholder now.