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Pelfrey is pitching his way into having a Top 150-200 prospect, lol? That would be amusing if Holland, Shields, Pelfrey and MiGo (Robertson/Swarzak/Jones, etc.) brought enough pieces back to at least halfway offset not being able to trade Quintana. Btw, I thought "swag" was something the A-List actors got on the red carpet for the Oscars and Golden Globes, lol...those luxurious gift bags.

Kopech continues to live up to his advanced billing. Trade is working for both teams. I guess Basabe's a bit disappointing, but we were never going to get two headliners and a third in Devers/Benintendi if Hahn waited on DD for 100 years.

QUOTE (maxjusttyped @ May 31, 2017 -> 07:35 PM) Do we think Kopech will spend the entire season at Birmingham or end up in Charlotte at some point this year? He'll be up at some point...at the very least, for whichever team (won't be BIRM) makes the playoffs...unless they think his overall innings are too high and want to shut him down at the end of August. Doubt they'd bring him up to Chicago, unless the White Sox were in first place despite trying not to be, but the likelihood of that happening is about 1%. At any rate, there will eventually be some openings in that Knights' rotation, but I have a sense they'll push guys like Guerrero/Cooper/Adams (just to see how they fare)...no hurry to move Kopech to Charlotte. OTOH, if the White Sox internally believe they have an opportunity to compete in 2019, we'll see him at some point in 2018 in order to help him get his feet wet and start learning at the big league level. With someone who throws that hard, you almost worry about "wasting" those innings in the minors, but it's a chance they're PROBABLY going to be willing to take for the good of contract/economic control.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 31, 2017 -> 07:32 PM) I think he just passed Todd in OPS. He has been for awhile. Frazier at 665 despite the sub-Mendoza Line batting average.

Think the White Sox front office is breathing a sigh of relief they didn't sign Masahiro Tanaka just about now? Between Shark, Cespedes (not sure how serious that actually was), extending Frazier, signing Alex Gordon...lots of pretty fortunate misses to what could have been crippling contracts for a rebuilding team. Also pretty lucky to trade Eaton at peak value before he got injured (again). Tim Anderson all the way up to a 693 OPS. Davidson still has a productive/cost-efficient 830 OPS that would make Adam Dunn proud. And Kevan Smith is the one player on the active roster I won't be sorry to see pushed out.

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 31, 2017 -> 07:25 PM) High strikeout pitchers are prone to high pitch counts. Just the way it goes. Yes, I know. Sale tried the "pitch to contact" thing last year to go longer into games (compared to his 2015 version) and it really didn't work well for him. You can't ask competitive pitchers like that to let up on the gas and not "go for the kill." They enjoy dominating, and projecting that swagger that goes with being a high octane strikeout guy. Of course, that's also leading to lots of arm injuries.

I really wish Madonna or, gasp, Scarlett Johansson, had done this. It would guarantee Fox News would have approximately ZERO viewers after a month of talking about this nonsense while avoiding talking about how Israel, Turkey and Russia were the ONLY countries in the world with a MORE favorable view of the United States compared to a year ago. Philippines is probably a touch up, since Duterte bristled at getting scolded by Obama for murdering thousands of "alleged" drug dealers in the streets without so much as a single trial. And threatened all women in the Philippines that if any of his soldiers raped three women, he would stand up and defend them, taking responsibility for all their actions (Trump-like, there). Duterte's actually playing China and the US against each other to get more favorable overall treatment compared to just being aligned with the West.

The boxscore has Giolito down for 8 hits over 4, not 7, fwiw. Lucas Giolito 4.0 8 2 2 0 3 0 5.36 Kopech with 3 walks and 8 strikeouts, almost through 5. 3 hits, 1 UER, but 80 pitches (high count once again)

Not only Schwarber, but Contreras and Russell have scuffled quite a bit the first two months. And ultimately, it's going to come down to Lester, Lackey and Arrieta surviving another long season. There's no reason they can't win it all again, simply because their division is so weak and the Brewers and Cardinals just aren't great teams, so they can plod along like the Tigers in 2012 and turn it on during the final month. Same with the Indians in the Central.

How's a 2.0 whip a positive? That he didn't give up even more earned runs? Eight hits in 4...all soft contact? Or because 0 walks? On the other hand, you should be putting away a lot more hitters via the k with that many pitches and his reported stuff.

The problem I have is the Republicans don't want to actually expose themselves to providing actual solutions to real problems like poverty. They still don't have a health care fix after 23 years, other than "privatization/buying across state borders." So we just receive these talking points and generalities. Can't Southsider2k5 talk about his wife's anti-poverty program in a way that we can actually weigh the merits of that approach...instead of just going back to the point that Democrats/Reddy "cripple" the future of minorities by paying lip service to helping them but up doing a disservice by making program assistance recipients dependent/reliant and often simply perpetuate stereotypes (the White solutions to non-white community problems, which are well-intentioned but often not constructive in the eyes of the GOP.) Can you quantify or measure its success as an anti poverty program, and how? The above paragraph, just my take and not a reflection on Reddy in particular...just the typical back and forth on govnt social program spending.

Where's the Scott Baio hate, lol?

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ May 31, 2017 -> 10:53 AM) Casey Kotchman maybe. Elite 1B defense, limited power, decent contact skills. Hosmer or Smoak? Sort of...Mark Grace is the name that comes to mind. Speaking of contact, Schwarber with 60 k's in 175 at bats now. 210ish, 24 homers and 750ish career ops.

Does anyone actually like her as a comedian? Her positives are about as high as Sean Penn. It would be quite different if this was Tom Hanks, The Rock, Clooney or Bono trolling Trump, etc. They actually have viable careers to lose, just like The Dixie Chicks and Sinead O'Connor did. This is Don Rickles or Joan Rivers territory here, yet even less classy, which is quite difficult to pull off. What's funny is this is getting 5x more coverage than the seemingly more impactful issue of global climate change.

And Russian "bots." Or were they Macedonian? Honestly, I'm willing to bet 90% of Trump voters never even bothered to read those vast left wing conspiracy articles that popped up at Infowars, Wikipedia, FB, etc...they simply believed the headlines. Confirmation bias. It's like Greg listening to Limbaugh all day and then being shocked/surprised he parrots the Republican viewpoint on a topic. Those that did ended up storming Pizza Shoppes in New Jersey. And turned out to be one of the main "advocates" out there pushing that "pedophiles in the basement" story, none other than General Flynn's own son. Sean Hannity was still bring up Seth Rich THIS week after promising not to do so (again).

Why wouldn't the risk be 100% related to Melania, who was in her mid 30's at the time?

Nobody agrees with what she did...what is the argument? That she should be arrested by the Secret Service for making a "credible" threat on the President's life? Clearly she'll lose her New Year's hosting gig.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-trump-...-120257785.html Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself,” Trump tweeted early Wednesday. “My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!” Fox News can probably milk this for ten days...including a boycott of CNN.

It's not like WV, Kentucky and Tennessee were going into the Clinton column even if he murdered the mayors of Charleston, Frankfort and Nashville.....and it's also NOT like pulling out of Paris would lose those states for Trump in 2020. Hillary and Obama basically declared war on coal/carbon emissions.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ May 31, 2017 -> 12:20 AM) 21,852 was tonight's attendance. I think he is showing the season's average, which happens to be very close to the "almost 22,000" for tonight's game he was referencing. Exactly...total attendance means nothing without reference points.

Trump's advisers were at odds over how the administration should approach Paris. Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, had pushed to stay in the deal, and Ivanka even brought Al Gore to Trump Tower to meet with her father in December. Gore spoke with Trump again this month in an effort to encourage the president to remain in the agreement. Trump was also personally lobbied by world leaders at a recent G-7 summit in Italy, (the Pope) and foreign diplomats repeatedly made their case for remaining in the agreement during frequent calls with administration officials. Others in the “remain” camp included Tillerson, who had praised the Paris deal when he was ExxonMobil’s CEO. During his confirmation hearing this year, he said the United States must keep "its seat at the table" for international climate talks. Even if the U.S. had stuck with the deal, scientists and climate activists have warned that the targets Obama and other leaders promised in Paris wouldn’t cut enough carbon pollution to prevent the worst effects of climate change. Instead, they said, the signing nations would have to steadily escalate their commitments in coming years. The agreement calls on countries to aim to limit global warming to "well below" 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit from pre-industrial levels, and it said countries should "pursue efforts" to keep temperature increases to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. Under a business as usual scenario, global temperatures could rise by between 4.7 degrees Fahrenheit and 8.6 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century, according to the United Nations, an increase that would have catastrophic consequences. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/31/t...greement-238974

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/kathy-griffin-trum...-120904374.html Kathy Griffin’s Offensive Trump Photo And The Fox News Snowflakes

Well, not only would it be an uproar, there would be the long march of historical arguments going back to the KKK/Jim Crow days...when blacks were routinely lynched, dismembered, disappeared, beheaded, etc. https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/imag...mp;action=click The ugly spectre of Emmitt Till's open casket in 1955 would be raised yet again.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uninsured-u-...2--finance.html Uninsured in U.S. charged four times what Medicare pays for ER visit A nationwide analysis of medical bills shows that hospitals typically charge uninsured emergency room patients four times what they're willing to accept from Medicare for the same service, U.S. researchers say. That's more than double what those same hospitals charge for services performed in other parts of the hospital, the authors report in JAMA Internal Medicine. The new study found, for example, that for a $100 treatment in the emergency room, some hospitals were charging patients up to $1,260. "It points to the practice of price gouging by hospitals because patients often can't pick their doctors in the emergency department," lead author Dr. Tim Xu told Reuters Health in a telephone interview. "It's a system that needs help."

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 30, 2017 -> 11:28 PM) Quote anyone in this thread other than Reddy who has put down the "poor/immigrants/Muslims and anyone seeking the American Dream." No tangents, no italics, no yahoo blog links or lists of countries or 90's Sox players. Back your claim up. No puking of random sentences. Back your claim up of people dissenting those groups or admit you're full of it and a bully. I'm sick of this bulls***. People like you are why Trump got elected in the first place. The complete rejection of this SJW culture, the snarl words, the verbal shutdowns, everyone's racist, everyone's sexist, everyone's gender insentive, etc. If you cannot substantiate your claim, it will be clear as day that you are a weak minded individual who stoops to low places in a baseless attempt to try and malign the character of others when you can't articulate your house of cards argument effectively on its own merit. It's despicable. So nowhere in this thread (or any in the Filibuster) have you maligned any of those groups...you're only "pro-white," right? That's not how it comes across at all. The most amusing part was trying to twist everything around and paint Reddy as a "closet racist." You have never presented a single solution to any of these problems, just a litany of complaints. I'm more than happy to discuss common areas of agreement such as charter schools (reserving judgment on going to vouchers exclusively), vocational/technical programs, support for particularly effective non-profit/charitable organizations, etc. You quite rarely discuss substantive political policy when you're throwing out your conspiracy theories without any evidence to back it up. Don't you understand that there are MORE people on the RIGHT side of the political fence these days who are becoming disgusted that they're being peddled "non-facts" and obfuscations instead of something close to fact or reality? How can you explain why more and more Republicans are leaving Fox News? Why former Bush speech reader and lifelong Republican Michael Gerson asserts that Republicans today "have a diseased mind" and carrying the water for Trump is not doing anyone any favors? By the way, weak-minded, baseless allegations, malign, "house of cards," despicable, such provocative language. That's all you got? So I'll just chime back that it's despicable to to support a party whose leaders say things like "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president (Obama) no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax ... [M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." Mitt Romney Because that's exactly the message you're sending with every single post you write. It's part and parcel with every comment made on these threads about Democrats or Affirmative Action. Do you disagree with a single word that Mitt Romney said back in 2012? You should. Because it's not even accurate. The fact of the matter is that nearly 54 million Americans are now receiving Social Security retirement benefits. The USA population is around 307,006,550, so roughly 17.6% of the population is receiving SS payments. (One out of five retired couples and four out of ten unmarried individuals derive 90 percent or more of their income from Social Security.) 55.3 million receive Medicare benefits. (http://www.ncpssm.org/Medicare/MedicareFastFacts). So Mitt Romney is talking about every American over age 65/67.5 in that anti-government diatribe of his. That's despicable. To posit the theory that anyone receiving benefit from the Federal government is "stealing" from everyone else...that those people are all the "common enemy" along with illegal immigrants/Muslims, etc. So the Dems will call Trump's true believers "deplorables" (another group roughly half the size of Mitt Romney's 47%). You'll bring up that Hillary called repeat offending/violent crimes convicted African-American men "superpredators" in the 1980's and we'll keep going around and around again in more circles of insults back and forth (completely glossing over the context of that particular era of American politics, where to be "weak or soft" on crime was a death sentence for Democratic candidates for national office.) Rinse and repeat.