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Archer 94-96 mph out of the gate in the battle of untraded "aces" from this past offseason...two at 97 now. Great job setting the table, Yolmer. Surprised on misplay by Kiermaier, lost it in the lights. Tanaka gave up yet another run, 6.39 era.

Or just a win or two was the difference between Rodon and Schwarber...granted, the results of 2015-16 will make that an excellent pick from a Cubs' historical perspective, even if Schwarber is worse than Avi Garcia from here on out.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 6, 2017 -> 04:39 PM) But CNN is fake news The problem for Russia now is sanctions will only be increased...their situation in Syria made more precarious Vis a VIs a future international (or European) coalition, and, when Trump is impeached or resigns, dealing with Pence, Mattis, McMaster and Dunford collectively will be much worse than had Hillary Clinton actually been elected. Beware what you wish for. Not only that, but it's having the impact of solidifying NATO solidarity against Russia and unifying the EU nort to south, US ambivalence notwithstanding. More bad (but unexpected) news for Trump... Washington (CNN)In his much-anticipated congressional testimony on Thursday, fired FBI Director James Comey will dispute President Donald Trump's blanket claim that he was told he was not under investigation multiple times, according to sources familiar with Comey's thinking. Rather, one source said that Comey is expected to tell senators that he never assured Trump he was not under investigation, because such assurances would have been improper. Another source hinted that the President may have misunderstood the exact meaning of Comey's words, especially regarding the FBI's ongoing counterintelligence investigation.

The oil industry's most powerful lobbying group met on March 23 with President Trump's interior secretary (Ryan Zinke, who Gianforte will replace in Congress unless he assaults more reporters) at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC. It also happened to be the same day the administration killed a rule that oil companies opposed. http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/06/investing/...-api/index.html Unfortunately real news despite it being CNN...

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Jun 6, 2017 -> 01:24 PM) It drives me insane when people say that. America is comprised of 50 states. By definition, all of it is "real America." The bolded is pandering to an ideal that wearing a flag on one's sleeve makes them more patriotic and better at being American than those fake Americans living in California. 64% of US GDP resides in counties Clinton won, despite the overall number of counties going to Trump 4-5x in number. The article offered no citations or links to support its claims. However, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are 3,141 counties in the United States. A slightly different version of the claim appeared to originate with Breitbart on 15 November 2016: Claim: Donald Trump won an overwhelming 7.5 million popular vote victory in 3,084 of the country’s 3,141 counties or county equivalents in America’s heartland. Fifty-five point seven million out of the 109.3 million Americans who cast their ballots in those counties voted for Trump, while only 48.1 million voted for Hillary Clinton, according to the latest county by county election results reported at Politico. The remaining 5.4 million voted for other candidates. That article linked to a Politico story, but that article cited scattered results only in counties with noteworthy results (not a numerical tally by county). A map was attributed to a University of Michigan blog, which contrasted several different maps contrasting the election results as they’re generally shown with cartograms (which adjust for population density). Misleading maps and distorted data led to an inaccurate rumor that Donald Trump won 3,084 of America's 3,141 counties. http://www.snopes.com/trump-won-3084-of-31...clinton-won-57/

71 pitches for Rodon. Couldn't get out of the 3rd. 5 er, 2 bb, 6 k's. Gave up two doubles, HR, single among 4 hits over 3 1/3.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Jun 6, 2017 -> 12:36 PM) Nixon had a 24% approval rating when he left office. At the lowest points in GWB's presidency - including right before the '08 election - GWB held a 25% approval rating (all per Gallup). Voting and approval ratings based exclusively on political party are not some 21st Century phenomenon. What's truly amazing is that Trump STILL has another 10-15% fall to catch those two. (Cue Carville's "It's the Economy, Stupid!" Line) It might happen early next week in the fallout over the Comey testimony to Congress.

In addition to the new American Idea line, the company revealed the location of its first upper-tier Scion hotel, which will be in Cleveland, Mississippi. That brand, first announced last year, will feature "approximately 100 rooms, suites and extended-stay accommodations, a 6,000-square-foot spa and fitness center, a 5,000-square-foot event hall" and other amenities, according to a news release from the organization. "This is real America," Eric Trump said. "And to be able to go in there and cater to them as well; I think that's a beautiful thing." The brothers dismissed the idea that the hotel chain expansion could put a further spotlight on their father's continued influence in the business, and whether it amounts to making money from politics. The announcement of the expansion comes as the two brothers deepen their involvement with the Republican National Committee before the 2018 midterm elections, and continue to support their father's already up-and-running 2020 re-election campaign. Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and his wife Lara huddled with GOP leaders at the RNC in Washington D.C., in late May to discuss strategy, and Donald Jr. has even campaigned for candidates in special election races including Montana's Rep.-elect Greg Gianforte. The headquarters of Trump's re-election campaign are stationed in Trump Tower just floors below the son's Trump Organization offices. "It has nothing to do with politics," Donald Trump Jr. said of the new hotel line. "We're trying to make money off of a hotel brand that we feel there's an underserved market to. I think more companies could probably do better by being a little bit more patriotic." We don't talk about the activities of the business. We don't talk about what we're doing in the business," Eric Trump said. "It doesn't blur the lines. You're allowed to show that. And remember, the president of the United States has zero conflicts of interest. Zero." https://www.yahoo.com/gma/trump-sons-expans...topstories.html

I think that was the 3rd time he'd faced the Smokies? Adolfo with go ahead RBI double in 16th for Kanny, some pretty brutal offensive numbers in that one.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 6, 2017 -> 12:11 PM) I don't want a CEO, and I don't want more technocratic fiddling around the edges and hoping for CEO's to raise wages on their own while actively fighting against regulations requiring them to do so. Yeah, Starbucks raised their sub-poverty wages to still-sub-poverty-but-a-little-better levels, but it's still difficult for their workers to get full time with benefits, to get consistent and predictable schedules. Starbucks still fights against unionization and formal workers' rights. These workers are ground to dust by poverty and a system that exploits them. Meanwhile, Schultz is worth several billion dollars. I don't want "treated like s***, but a little better than Walmart" to be hailed as some sort of victory and worthy goal. It's a larger complaint about our economic system as a whole that Schultz, as one of the wealthiest people in the world, is a symbol of. What should the progressive base get excited about with him? A 5% raise on your $9/hour wage with no hourly consistency? Having some health care when what we'd like is a universal health care system comparable to every other developed country in the world? What political causes is Schultz actually championing here? And whether you think it's valid or not, there are a lot of people out there who would probably abandon the Democrats for a generation if our choices in 2020 are two billionaires. I don't like the purity politics, either, but at some point you need to actually stand for something important and meaningful. There are millions of people being left behind by the modern economy who are more than willing to check out or to give a big "f*** you" to the whole system and vote for the idiot reality TV star clown because of it. e: some of the above is speaking for myself, some is trying to express the criticisms you'd expect to see from the more progressive wing of the base. Who out there is the progressive base actually excited about right now? Jerry Brown? Liz Warren? https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/loca...a004_story.html Virginia GOV race upended by Sanders and Warren wing

http://www.salon.com/2017/06/06/noam-choms...artner/?ref=yfp Noam Chomsky for President?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 6, 2017 -> 10:41 AM) Any velocity reports on Kopech? This game is like the opposite of every start he's had 96-98

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 6, 2017 -> 09:55 AM) I can't help but read this and think it's a shortchanging this a lot. For some of these policies we want to succeed, it helps to see it succeed prior. Companies like costco and starbucks are useful to counter trends that you can't be profitable providing benefits to workers, etc. etc.. If you want to find a reality of where the few remaining sectors that low-education, low-skilled workers can go, you are going to look at services sectors but especially restaurant and retail. And retail is getting killed, so you are looking at restaurants and food-related jobs. "Retail and restaurant sectors grind their employees to dust" This is a bizarre claim, certainly would like to know compared to what. If anything, the issue is they push hours below full-time thresholds to prevent mandatory requirements. "and while Starbucks isn't the worst, they're still not great. " No, this is actually the point, they are actually great. It's a very low margin business and they manage to continue to push profits down to labor in a way that is not seen elsewhere and can hopefully be modeled. If every restaurant/retail area offered same benefits as starbucks you are talking about a huge upgrade to a large portion of the 20% of the US economy. "against sub-poverty wages" You say this as fact but his point was more nuanced and the most you can really say is that Starbucks is a member of the NRA which lobbied against it. But he has supported minimum wage increases and raised wages nationally prior to that prompting. "they use computer scheduling. Those are all terrible things and we shouldn't be accepting of them as a society." Come on. This is s***ty for labor and I think an area where regulation could help so that people can regulate daycare and 2nd jobs, but one of these things is not like the other. You guys don't want a CEO, think the lack of public service experience will hurt. I'd prefer one too. But the real argument here is that starbucks is bad for labor because it is big and makes money. ANd I would argue that it is good for labor because it is big and makes money, and has routinely invested more in its labor in a really difficult sector to so. A bunch of retail workers have lost their jobs. Let's hope they get absorbed into places operating like starbucks and costco and not walmart. The non traditional red, "non offensive" Christmas cups really pissed off the conservatives. http://freedomoutpost.com/starbucks-a-libe...-a-racist-quiz/ I think you're not going to find any such thing as a pure liberal company existing in corporate America today. Starbucks, more liberal and many would argue politically correct than most. Schultz was one of the first big CEO's to lock horns with Trump over the immigration ban, making the commitment on the spot to hire 10,000, just like they previously did the US veterans. He also didn't wait to read the tea leaves like Elon Musk or Travis Kalanick of Uber fame in terms of dropping out of Trump's executive advisory councils.

Hawkins K's first at-bat results in, you guessed it...a K. Kopech starting Game 1 at 11 am CST.

"I'm told that the inside-outside machinery (the coordinated PR response to Comey testimony Thurs), as envisioned by aides who frantically planned it while Trump finished his overseas trip, may never exist," Allen writes. That vacuum -- plus everything we know about Trump -- leaves open the possibility that the White House's official response will come in the form of a series of angry (and ill-thought out) tweets from @realdonaldTrump. And, as has been demonstrated over the last 72 hours with Trump's London attack tweets and his tweetstorm on the so-called "travel ban," it's rarely politically beneficial to him or his White House when he gets alone with his phone. High stakes. Major revelations. Wall-to-wall TV coverage (live on all the networks). And a president ready to blow. Add it all up and Thursday is shaping up to be the single biggest day in Washington in decades. http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/don...omey/index.html

https://www.c-span.org/video/?429535-1/comm...happen&live Yay, another DeVos hearing!!!

Kushners getting lots of Ivanka brand trademarks/copyrights and potentially favorable treatment from Chinese over $250 million loan for NJ luxury project that's currently underwater. http://www.newsmax.com/US/kushner-loan-pay...6/05/id/794107/ China...all they receive now is praise from Trump. Coincidence?

Isn't the "good/younger/healthy" Austin Jackson a pretty good comp for Kendall...?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 6, 2017 -> 08:08 AM) I don't think the Democratic progressive base is clamoring for a billionaire CEO, even if he did treat his still-low-wage workers better than other restaurant companies typically do. There are certainly worse CEO's out there, but if you want to permanently split off the Bernie wing of the party, running someone like that in 2020 is a great way to do it. What member of the Bernie wing is palatable to Perez, is the question... I think Garcetti, the LA mayor, would be a decent choice. Jay Inslee, anti Trump Washington mayor. Franken? Chris Murphy, Schatz, Cantwell, Blumenthal, Gillibrand, Tammy Baldwin....all progressives. Murphy has been very visible. Blumenthal gets into it with Trump a lot on social media. Gillibrand has been an anointed/rising star for at least two years now.

Don't see a Kopech listed...is that from Barons' site? Who else could they start in Game 2? Snodgress? Stephens gives them six starters. Lowry gone? Colton Turner, Dunning (other one)....account for only games not started by Big 4, Lowry and now Stephens. Finally, when is Luis Robert going to appear in a game? DSL in 15 minutes.

182,000 employees worldwide Market cap of $93 billion. Actually accountable to shareholders and Board of Directors. The most middle/lower middle class Horatio Alger origin story you could imagine. In the same ballpark as the GDP of Puerto Rico, Ecuador, the Ukraine and Slovakia. VP would be fine.

QUOTE (GermanSock @ Jun 6, 2017 -> 05:33 AM) to be fair turner missed a month with an oblique strain and still might not be at full strength again. he should be given some time before you evaluate his season. as for benintendi I think he will hit but I don't think he will be an MVP candidate as some red sox fans think. I think he will hit for good average and OBP but his power probably is more like average (20 HR or so). still might be a 4 win player but I don't think he will be nelson cruz bat plus jasons heywards defense as some red sox fans seem to expect. I still think moncada has a higher ceiling but AB is a much safer bet because of his combination of contact skills, plate discipline and defense and at least decent power. Schoenfield has written an in depth story about Turner this week at ESPN.com. (Eaton and Rayburn shoutouts.) Without Adam Eaton, the Nationals don't have another obvious candidate, but it's also clear Baker isn't deploying his most optimal lineup as he bats Daniel Murphy fifth and Anthony Rendon sixth -- with two lesser hitters batting in the top two spots (Ryan Raburn hit second on Monday). Baker's mindset seems to be: OK, Bryce Harper hits third and I want Ryan Zimmerman to protect him. Then I want Murphy to protect Zim. And Rendon to protect Murph. That gives Baker a L-R-L-R order -- overrated in my opinion, especially when you're talking about four good hitters -- but in the process he may be giving an extra at-bat to worse hitters. Why not move up Rendon or Murphy -- or both -- in front of Harper and Zimmerman? Imagine the RBI opportunities. Anyway, after playing so well last year, Turner has been a bit of a disappointment. While he hit .342 in his half season in 2016, his low walk rate and aggressive approach made it also clear that pitchers could learn to take advantage of that approach. The good sign is Turner's chase rate has actually declined from last year, from 32 percent to 24 percent. His well-hit rate is actually higher than last year as well, so some of this is the hits just aren't falling as much. Look, he's going to swing the bat; walking isn't his game. The key is for him to not attack the pitcher's pitch. In his first two at-bats, he grounded out on a 1-0 changeup at the bottom of the zone and a 1-1 slider in on his hands. Those are good counts to look for a pitch in his zone, not to swing at borderline strikes. He did reach on an infield single in his third at-bat -- that speed -- and made a nice play deep in the hole at shortstop, but I'd like to see some adjustments at the plate.

Cue speech about Rodon and a few other White Sox players with Boros as their agent...

25 year old Reality Winner identified as NSA documents leaker https://www.yahoo.com/news/reality-winner-2...-051854614.html Although Winner's social media posts, such as pictures uploaded on Instagram, reportedly indicated that she enjoyed her time in Georgia, some of her other social media posts, especially those on Facebook were derogatory toward US president Donald Trump. She reportedly referred to him as a "piece of s***" in a post in February. Winner's family is still reportedly grappling with her arrest. However, the 25-year old has been lauded by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who took to Twitter to write that Winner has been "accused of courage in trying to help us know" and must be "supported".

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 5, 2017 -> 11:43 PM) 1.) I don't defend Trump's actions. I have in a few instances defended policies but mostly have just called bs on the "end of the world" response every time Trump gets a policy through. I don't buy media's red alert since January thing. It's not safe for when something bad actually happens and the people are so numb to it all because any time you walk past a TV in a public place they're freaking out about Trump and trying to make this Russia stuff turn into something. 2.) You see this where is where I lose you. How you can put thoughts inside the head of people that you may or may not have classified correctly based on their political beliefs? This is manic. You're writing a narrative that you have concocted in your own head as supporting evidence to your argument. You're just generalizing a whole group of people to make it seem as if the environment here is in line with what would bode well for your personal argument. The mods here are all different and they're all on a spectrum, you can't just separate them in buckets and generalize. 3.) Is this necessary to making your point? 4.) How can come off as likable when the only thing they have to evaluate me on is the place text expressing a political opinion they are opposed to so divisively? I don't seem to have the same issues in the PHT board. DA and I interacted regularly with little to no dispute. The divisiveness of politics and the growing intolerance of contrary opinions multiplied by the whole election of Trump and media failure predicting HRC as a 98% favorite flooring the left's psyche. 5.) What you say didn't happen. Why are you likening me to Trump? You come on here and put me on character trial and throw out a red herring like this? Do you really think that this forum's readers are going to read your post and think rabbitt = Trump now? Isn't Trump usually doing the stalking? I am sure if the roles in your hypothetical were reversed and I was the one pestering and acting outside of forum guidelines you'd still be comparing me to Trump. 6.) I am a bulls***ter, a natural ranter, competitive, passionate, impulsive, etc. The end result is not always perfect, I try to hold back, but it doesn't always work that way. There are plenty of people like that. However, it's the politics that brings it out. I am not perfect but getting along with others on the internet hasn't really been an issue for me outside of this corner of SoxTalk. I'll have some stuff here and there for the reasons listed above, but I've found my experience with people and the relationships I've made with people on the internet has been a very rewarding experience and that most others in my life haven't been able to experience something similar. 7.) Again, I am losing you here. Why am I being compared to radio personalities and announcers? That's not me. I am not even a professional writer. Plenty of people decided to pick up writing on a passion as a hobby and I was one of them. I'll just leave it at this. And this goes for ANYONE, and certainly moreso for elected Republicans. If the whole house of cards for Trump eventually comes crashing down, they're going to have to do some serious self-reflection about the moral twists and turns they took along the way to countenance all negatives that go along with his being president. Is it worth it for Gorsuch, tax reform (in serious jeopardy) and potentially repealing Obamacare but, more than likely, it won't get through the Senate successfully and the GOP will have that failure hung around their heads in 2018. Some might argue yes, control of the SCOTUS for the immediately foreseeable future and a generally high-performing economic environment (for now) are worth all the negatives. Others will argue that a changing of the guard in terms of dealing with terrorism and illegal immigration are worth it, as well...and generally increasing defense spending (seeming improvements in that area with Mattis/McMaster/Dunford and even Tillerson and Gary Cohn in a peripheral way). But yeah, you're going to have to live with being "comped" with/to Trump if you parrot the same "right wing/alt-right/conspiracy" theories without 100% investigating the truth of those stories to your satisfaction. Do they pass the "smell" test?