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https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/us/woman-berates-man-viral-rant-don-lemon-cnntv/index.html White woman berates Mexican-American man using Trump’s exact words...as much as I (have) heard that Obama turned white and black against each other and further divided the country, somehow I don’t ever recall a black person attacking a white person with words from Obama’s supposedly inflammatory Trayvon Martin (“he could be my son”) speech

AT&T is also the owner of DirecTV...fwiw, that was a big sticking point in the LA Dodgers broadcast rights fiasco, where most local fans couldn’t even see the games despite the billions spent on that particular deal. http://adage.com/article/media/doj-accuses-t-directv-collusion-l-a-dodgers-rights/306601/ Under an accord valued at $7 billion to $8 billion, Time Warner Cable became the primary distributor of the Dodgers' SportsNet LA channel and set about pressing other pay-TV providers to charge all of their regional subscribers more than $4 a month apiece for games. That's more than the New York Yankees charge for the YES Network, according to researcher SNL Kagan. DirecTV, Charter, Dish, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T's U-verse cable service and Cox all refused.

Toni Collette simply has to get an Oscar nomination for Hereditary.

Not just a problem for baseball, but all of society. Teachers have to deal with this short attention span/instant gratification society issue as well. All the kids (especially boys for games and girls for pictures/Instagram-equivalent) are addicted to their iPads and mobile phones. Think about Harrelson’s stories of yore. Kids don’t want to listen to that, it’s how we are ending up with “entertainers” in broadcasting like Benetti. Trying too hard to be “hip/cool” and make all the various audiences happy, which is of course impossible to do without alienating certain subsegments of viewers/consumers. The big question is does baseball shift the sport itself, or adjust to the technology-driven society? The latter is probably more promising with all the advances in AI, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. If kids could “feel” what it’s like to stand in there and face a Kopech fastball or hit a homer 475 feet like Eloy Jimenez, appreciation for the sport would (hopefully) increase.

Okay Captain Marvel, in the interest of board harmony, you can delete this thread. Do whatever you wish.

Wouldn’t it be easier to start following the team again in 2020 or 2021? If you’re going to continue to obsess over the status of the rebuild or draft picks that you usually don’t care to follow on a daily basis in the minor leagues, why bother to get upset at all? Isn’t it better to simply wait for a competitive team, Hahn/KW to get fired or the team to be sold? I mean...if it bothers you this much, is it healthy for you or beneficial to be a Sox fan at this exact moment in time? It’s not like there are any guarantees in life, other than Mike Trout. For example, look at the stat lines of Harper and Machado the last 6 weeks, these are players that are both going to receive at least $250-300 million, if not more. If the Sox ended up with one of them and they busted, then what?

https://www.royalsreview.com/2018/6/23/17497958/royals-reportedly-considering-signing-convicted-child-molestor-luke-heimlich If you remember the (whether or not to sign) Heimlich debates earlier in the year, there’s a fascinating dscussion thread about it after this article with lots of insightful posts...

https://www.royalsreview.com/2018/6/25/17471258/2019-draft-first-reds-royals-orioles Analysis of the odds for each team to get #1 pick in draft, seems both predictive models have the Sox finishing with low 60’s win counts and the #3 spot.

Greg, think of the little boy washed up on the beach in the Mediterranean or the boy with the bloody face in the ambulance after another bombing in Syria. Nobody remembers the exact circumstances, just the reactions/emotions those mages provoke. What kind of country are we, exactly...when we’re more concerned with playing gotcha over a picture than being a shining light on a hill for other nations to emulate? Whatever the truth, perception is always 90% of the reality, whether we like it or not. Do you think Jesus would join the border patrol or look to minister to the needs of those who are sick/suffering/seeking refuge/alone in the world? Remember “Mission Accomplished!” And You’re Doing a Great Job, Brownie! for GW Bush? Now the early 2017 immigration-Muslim visa ban and current child separation scandal will end up as defining moments of the Trump presidency. At any rate, we’ve surrendered our moral high ground. Can we honestly claim to be leading the world in any area (other than technology/innovation)?

She’s an easy target, or sometimes makes herself one. That said, Kelly and Trump don’t get called out (like ever) for insulting her IQ, but if she took a shot at the intelligence of one of the Trump clan, there would be holy hell to pay on Fox for the next 72 hours.

They also need to market to women more effectively...not just the handsome guys/chicks love the long ball approach, but really making women feel more welcome instead of an ‘ol boys club. Think about it...how many women post at SoxTalk, 2? Out of how many regular posters? There’s obviously a huge discrepancy. Another thing. Not saying we should go like South Korea with the cute cheerleaders and sexy K-Pop idols throwing out first pitches in skin tight uniforms, but they should look at some of the trends from other countries (Japan with the thunder sticks) and figure out why the Latin American ad Asian fans are so much more involved in the “in game” experience.

Thought the new Spanish coach was going to have to be carted off in an ambulance. Spain had two huge breaks there...probably never should have been allowed the corner in the first place, Morocco was like the White Sox there in terms of getting the benefit of the call. Almost like, well you guys don’t really belong here, so let’s figure out any possible way to advance Spain.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/politics/maxine-waters-donald-trump/index.html Why Maxine Waters “going low” strategy is such a poor choice for Dems

Sure, but baseball is also about emotion and sentiment...trying to put everything into numbers or metrics does it a disservice. Do we all need to watch The Sandlot, Bull Durham or Major League? Something’s not getting translated from the boyhood wonder and awe at the sport...there are no longer iconic “heroes” like Roberto Clemente you could look up to for inspiration. There used to be a time where everyone would listen to World Series on the radio or skip school to watch the games during the day. It was an essential part of the fabric of the country, like baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet. It’s the James Earl Jones speech in Field of Dreams, or father’s playing a backyard game of catch with their sons. And when’s the last time you heard of anyone skipping something for baseball...maybe just the World Series parades in Chicago?

If the White Sox had the Cubs’ run over the last three years, we wouldn’t be having this conversation, arguably. Maybe it would be better to ask Mariners and Padres fans, the only two fanbases waiting longer for a return to the playoffs. For some reason, their (SD) games continue to be well-attended despite being in a long rebuild and facing dominant franchises like the Dodgers and Giants in the same division. Back to the marketing point...except for iconic franchises like the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs and Dodgers, the sport has evolved into a “regional” one, with teams like the Cardinals still having quite limited appeal on a national basis. Forget about the Sox, Royals or Indians. That’s something adding teams in Canada and Mexico won’t fix. Otoh, the opening up of baseball gambling and the demographic trends of more Asians and Hispanic Americans are largely positive for baseball (well, except Chinese!) and football/soccer.

If Trump personally went to the border and shot an illegal immigrant (probably has never shot a gun, so I’dm doubtful) or killed a black person in broad daylight on 5th & Broadway...I actually believe he’d get an approval spike of 3-5%. That’s the scary part about our country today. The seething resentment on both sides just boiling over. The Left is tired of getting walked over, being willing to compromise or working in a bipartisan fashion...why? There’s been zero payoff in the last 20-25 for being “reasonable” in politics. Bill Clinton was “reasonable” to Republicans because he torched the social safety net, worked to make criminal justice even lest just and ended welfare as we know it. What has the Left gotten? The tepid ACA, which has practically been wiped out except for the sheer incompetence of the GOP to actually govern (giving away our future with unpaid tax cuts and spending nearly $1 trillion on defense is not exactly hard to do) or even to articulate a foreign affairs/diplomatic policy. Seriously, then plan is really Jared Kushner to bring peace in the Middle East? How low does our country have to sink before we bottom out and rebound?

You’re likable enough, Rabbit...

2006? What would you call that? A firm rebuke, but not a rout?

She can date #bbqbecky and the white woman who called the police on the little girl outside of AT&T Park for having the temerity to be entrepreneurial by selling water. When’s the last time a black prison called the police on the Girl Scouts cookie crew or a local lemonade stand...probably about never?

If it was that simple, the Tea Party wouldn’t have so effectively wiped out Obama’s majorities in 2010...as the shouting down of Democratic town hall meetings was widespread, just like the liberal pushback in 2017 and 2018 to Trump policies has been. We can argue whose policies or methods are more/most extreme. In the end, more gridlock and our country continually more polarized. It makes no sense why it would work for one side but not the other. Turnabout is fair play, right?

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/25/liberals-attack-bondi-sanders-trump-667934 The Left loses its cool...

Gordon Beckham? Hawkeroo? Herschel Walker might be one of the impressive off the field, fwiw.

President Trump weighed in Monday on the story that dominated America’s social media feeds over the weekend: White House press secretary Sarah Sanders being asked to leave a small restaurant in rural Virginia because its staff disagreed with her defense of the administration’s policies. And the commander in chief used the bully pulpit of the presidency to disparage the restaurant’s appearance. “The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders,” Trump tweeted. “I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!” https://www.yahoo.com/news/needs-paint-job-trump-blasts-virginia-restaurant-asking-sarah-sanders-leave-130000156.html Now the president is breaking the ethics rules, too.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/25/news/companies/harley-davidson-motorcycles-tariffs-trump/index.html From the case file of unintended/unforeseen consequences, Harley-Davidson being forced to move some production outside the US.

An Oregon woman who works for the Department of Transportation was suspended after she allegedly made remarks on Facebook calling for illegal immigrants to be shot at the Mexican border. The department announced on Thursday that a member of staff had been placed on leave after the post was widely shared on social media. Lori McAllen, who has since deleted all of her social media accounts, reportedly wrote on Facebook: “I personally think they should shoot them all at the border and call it good… it’ll save us hardworking AMERICANS billions of dollars on our taxes !! ;)” The offensive post was shared along with her Twitter bio, which read: “I don’t have room in my heart for drama, disrespect or hate.. either love your life or make a change!” http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/22/oregon-dot-employee-suspended-after-facebook-post-calling-on-immigrants-to-be-shot.html Since she’s blonde and fairly attractive, does she get a Trump admin job or Fox News offer first?