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Strikes 9, 15 balls, yet another walk. Yikes Cooper out. 10 walks, 18 balls....no runs somehow, miraculously. Castellanos 14/38 career with bases loaded. Had 3-1 count.

uh oh. 88-92 mph with FB, either pitch track is off or changeup at 87 isn't enough differential to get away with. Tentative after first hit. 77 change, 82 slider. Bailed out by huge dp after falling behind 3-1 to Cabrera, challenged him with a sinker inside. Another walk, wanted nothing to do with Martinez, Upton up now.

Crede, Hermanson and Jenks say hello...Jim Thome as well, on the back issues. Started to bother Konerko late in his career, too.

At least 2-3 weeks in the DSL until they take care of all the visa and tax issues. Renteria recruiting him in Spanish to win "championships" was very important. White Sox showed the most interest throughout the process...obviously tradition of Cuban Sox players was important as well. Really got the sense KW, JR and especially having Hector Santiago's brother and staff members to serve as interpreter/translator was really important with making him feel comfortable. Moncada is seemingly going to stay at second...and Robert in CF. talked about setting up future of team up the middle for years to come. Laser like focus and robust, two of Hahn's favorite terms, lol. Will buy House for family, uncle (also important in negotiations) and himself. Video was beautiful...really spoke to him, also had a PowerPoint presentation that Haber, Reifert worked on and front office assisted on the technical side. Despite "Robber" being traditional Spanish pronunciation, he seems to prefer Robert. Not sure if he will keep jersey #1 or not, as Buehrle's 56 will be retired soon (that's my own observation, lol).

http://m.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article/232...er-luis-robert/ Press conference will be live at 11:30, chisox.com and MLB.com

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/27/a...e-senate-238868 Inside Alabama's "Strange" Three Way GOP Senate primary race...

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.s...t2box_targeted_ "I don't blame Donald Trump — I don't think he's a white supremacist," the author said. But Zafar added that he believes the president's words on the campaign trail in 2016 policies such as his proposal to ban immigration and travel from six majority Muslim nations has nevertheless empowered those with fringe views. "Clearly it's been festering and brewing," Zafar said. "And now with the election of President Trump those voices have felt some level of legitimacy." The biggest problem, the author said, is that too few Americans personally know somebody of Islamic faith. Zafar pointed to a 2014 Pew Research study that found only 38 percent of U.S. residents know a Muslim. "It's really hard to believe in that rhetoric and harbor ill will if they know someone in that demographic," he said. "If someone knew a Muslim, I don't think they would believe that rhetoric so easily." Bizarro World. Bono and GW Bush team up, Trump is common enemy with budget cuts for AIDS/HIV potentially impacting a Bush pet program https://www.yahoo.com/gma/bono-hangs-george...topstories.html

Making America Great Again...??? (CNN)Two men were fatally stabbed Friday on a crowded commuter train in Portland, Oregon, when they confronted a passenger who was "yelling a gamut of anti-Muslim and anti-everything slurs," a police spokesman said. The suspect may have been targeting two girls who were described as Muslim. One of them was wearing a hijab, Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson told CNN. "We have not been able to find those girls to verify that," Simpson said. Police are considering the man's remarks as hate speech, the department said in a statement. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.s...t2box_targeted_ More detailed article... "In the midst of his ranting and raving, some people approached him and appeared to try to intervene with his behavior and some of the people that he was yelling at," Simpson said. "They were attacked viciously." One good Samaritan died at the scene and another at the hospital, he said. The third victim was undergoing evaluation, but didn't suffer life-threatening wounds, he said. "These were folks just riding the train and unfortunately got caught up in this," he said. It's not clear why the man was yelling, Simpson said. "He was talking about a lot of different things, not just specifically anti-Muslim," Simpson said. "We don't know if he's got mental health issues," Simpson said. "We don't know if he's under the influence of drugs or alcohol or all of the above." The FBI said it's "offering any resource that may assist Portland Police in their investigation" and will "determine whether there is any potential federal violation." Evelin Hernandez, a 38-year-old Clackamas resident, said she was on the train when the man began making racist remarks to the young women. Some men tried to quiet him, she said, and he stabbed them.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelblackmon/17...VlAd#.kskbnm5z8 17 Deplorable Examples of a White Privilege Straight White Male: the lowest computer game difficulty setting there is http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/stra...tting-there-is/ http://www.dickshovel.com/priv.html Here's what white privilege sounds like: I'm sitting in my University of Texas office, talking to a very bright and very conservative white student about affirmative action in college admissions, which he opposes and I support. The student says he wants a level playing field with no unearned advantages for anyone. I ask him whether he thinks that being white has advantages in the United States. Have either of us, I ask, ever benefited from being white in a world run mostly by white people? Yes, he concedes, there is something real and tangible we could call white privilege. ... I am as white as white gets in this country. I am of northern European heritage and I was raised in North Dakota, one of the whitest states in the country. I grew up in a virtually all-white world surrounded by racism, both personal and institutional. Because I didn't live near a reservation, I didn't even have exposure to the state's only numerically significant nonwhite population, American Indians. I have struggled to resist that racist training and the racism of my culture. I like to think I have changed, even though I routinely trip over the lingering effects of that internalized racism and the institutional racism around me. But no matter how much I "fix" myself, one thing never changes - I walk through the world with white privilege. What does that mean? Perhaps most importantly, when I seek admission to a university, apply for a job, or hunt for an apartment, I don't look threatening. Almost all of the people evaluating me look like me they are white. They see in me a reflection of themselves - and in a racist world, that is an advantage. I smile. I am white. I am one of them. I am not dangerous. Even when I voice critical opinions, I am cut some slack. After all, I'm white. My flaws also are more easily forgiven because I am white. Some complain that affirmative action has meant the university is saddled with mediocre minority professors. I have no doubt there are minority faculty who are mediocre, though I don't know very many. As Henry Louis Gates Jr. once pointed out, if affirmative action policies were in place for the next hundred years, it's possible that at the end of that time the university could have as many mediocre minority professors as it has mediocre white professors. That isn't meant as an insult to anyone, but it's a simple observation that white privilege has meant that scores of second-rate white professors have slid through the system because their flaws were overlooked out of solidarity based on race, as well as on gender, class and ideology.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ May 27, 2017 -> 02:46 AM) Is there somewhere to sign up for the benefits of this white privilege?? I don't think I've ever received mine. Maybe I missed the sign up somewhere. Rabbit has a blog/sign-up form available somewhere...

Texas governor Abbott draws (some) criticism for jokes about shooting journalists https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-governor-d...-001214260.html The GOP is really writing their own obits for 2018/20. These attack ads are writing themselves. Basically, whenever they are in charge, it lasts about two years and then all comes crashing down....see 1994 (Gingrich Revolution) and the Bush "compassionate conservative" Revolution. This might be the best way to finally get single payer healthcare, Medicare for all. Then you actually might get 3% growth if you get the insurance industry out of the equation.

Duterte or Trump quotes...? MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has sought to reassure soldiers who might be accused of committing abuses under martial law and jokingly said that if any of them were to rape three women, he would personally claim responsibility for it. Duterte is notorious for comments often deemed offensive and made the remark as a joke, reiterating that only he would be liable for any backlash over military rule on southern Mindanao island. He has, however, said he would not tolerate abuses. "If you go down, I go down. But for this martial law and the consequences of martial law and the ramifications of martial law, I and I alone would be responsible, just do your job I will take care of the rest," Duterte said on Friday, according to a president's office transcript. "I'll imprison you myself," he said, referring to any soldiers who commit violations, then he joked: "If you had raped three, I will admit it, that's on me." https://www.yahoo.com/news/philippines-dute...-054235089.html

Because they're the gold standard until now for acquiring position player talent...lol. Other than Jorge Soler and maybe Heyward, who have they been completely wrong on? That's not to mention players with other organizations already like Gleyber Torres, DJ LeMahieu and Josh Donaldson. Granted, Schwarber's a hot mess right now. If that's the argument, it's hardly time to write him off yet. Or Wilson Contreras struggling as well (if he didn't have those defensive tools, you could be MORE concerned). Addison Russell, same situation as Contreras playing a premium defensive position. http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/le...ARBR/order/true Of course, if you'd bet Avi, Leury and Alex Avila would be top 20 MLB WAR guys after two months, you'd have won about a billion dollars in a betting pool.

Keith Law's conclusion: "I think his contract is commensurate with what previous players have been paid for their skills, but when you look at past production on those deals and very real concerns about Robert’s present hit tool, the odds are that the White Sox won’t get adequate return on this investment." Did the White Sox make a $25 million mistake on the last big-money Cuban position player? (ESPN Insider article) http://www.scout.com/mlb/cardinals/forums/...321&page=17 Of course, he doesn't mention that we're not talking about putting that amount of money into a 1st round draft pick...it's a situation where Robert was the very final "high impact" Latin American/intl free agent in these exact same circumstances that wouldn't cost anything other than financial resources for the team to procure. How much higher is the cost to acquire top 5-10% MLB free agent talent (often over age 30 and declining), especially when there's huge overpay on the back end or you lose the player when you most need him due to opt out clauses working in his favor?

https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins...merica-n2176700 Here's an article all the conservatives and some moderates will love...just because we're all about both sides in the Buster, lol. Christian Church Has Advice For White People – “10 Ways You Can Actively Reject Your White Privilege” Straight White Men are Banned From an Equality Conference Rap Video Shows White Cop Being Tortured, Hanged, But Rapper Claims He’s Not “Inspiring Violence” Obama’s Lackey Tells Students “There Are Too Many Whites In Top Government jobs.” VIDEO: Racist Activist And Friends Issue Filthy Threat if Whites Won’t Pay Reparations… College Celebrates People Who Want To “Breed White People Out Of Existence” [VIDEO] Teacher: Minorities Don’t Have to Show Up or Hand in Assignments on Time Because of “White Privilege” Actress Patricia Clarkson: White Male Actors Should “Shut Up and Sit in the Corner”

Tied with the Mariners for 15th in runs scored....they've played three more games than the Sox, so we're technically now a top 50% MLB run scoring offense. Detroit just ahead by ten with one more game played. Tied with the Mariners at 22nd in team ops. Rangers and Indians the two teams directly in front of them.

Greg 1 White privilege "gangs" 0 John Glenn's disrespected body (Trump voters did it!) -1 What's Wrong with Too Many White Men in One Place? http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/us/too-many-...-men/index.html "We live in the strongest, most powerful, most prosperous nation in human history and if we're being honest, white men probably deserve 95% of the credit for that," conservative John Hawkins wrote in a 2016 column entitled, "When Did White Men Become The Bad Guys in America?" "That may be unfair because women and black Americans weren't given the opportunity to significantly contribute for most of our nation's history, but it is true." Hawkins says the images coming from the Trump administration look the way they do because the Republican Party is predominantly white. "Republicans have just done a poor job of attracting minorities," says Hawkins, author of "101 Things All Young Adults Should Know." "Part of it is our fault. We've done a terrible job of outreach." Some powerful Republicans defended the White House photo. During an interview with Andrea Mitchell on NBC's "Meet the Press," Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said critics mischaracterized the optics of the event. Mitchell had asked Price why so few women were at the ceremony, particularly since the Republican health care bill would allow insurers to opt out of providing basic benefits to women such as maternity coverage and birth control. Price told Mitchell to look again at the photo. "Andrea, come on. Look at that picture. Congresswoman Diane Black, the chair of the budget committee, I was standing next to her. Seema Verma, the administrator of CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services], I was standing right next to her." To which Mitchell responded: "Out of a group of dozens and dozens of people, you can cite two or three women?"

And make your case/argument on their behalf...

Ugly inning, two cut down at the plate, too many pitches yet not a single run scores. Saladino hasn't been as sharp defensively this year, either. Weird.

A former speechwriter for George W. Bush and current Washington Post columnist is criticizing conservative media figures for promoting a conspiracy theory about the death of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer who was shot and killed last summer. Michael Gerson, who served as Bush’s top speechwriter from 2001 through 2006, argues in a column published by the Post on Thursday that the “failure of decency” by popular right-wing personalities like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh indicates deeper problems within the conservative movement. “This is a concrete example of the mainstreaming of destructive craziness,” Gerson writes. https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-bush-spee...-224624086.html But this failure of decency is also politically symbolic. Who is the politician who legitimized conspiracy thinking at the highest level? Who raised the possibility that Ted Cruz’s father might have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Who hinted that Hillary Clinton might have been involved in the death of Vince Foster, or that unnamed liberals might have killed Justice Antonin Scalia? Who not only questioned President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, but raised the prospect of the murder of a Hawaiian state official in a coverup? “How amazing,” Trump tweeted in 2013, “the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama’s ‘birth certificate’ died in plane crash today. All others lived.” We have a president charged with maintaining public health who asserts that the vaccination schedule is a dangerous scam of greedy doctors. We have a president charged with representing all Americans who has falsely accused thousands of Muslims of celebrating in the streets following the 9/11 attacks. Those conservatives who believe that the confirmation of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch is sufficient justification for the Trump presidency are ignoring Trump’s psychic and moral destruction of the conservative movement and the Republican Party. Clinton, with a small number of changed votes, would have defeated Republicans. But Trump is doing a kind of harm beyond anything Clinton could have done. He is changing the party’s most basic moral and political orientations. He is shaping conservatism in his image and ensuring an eventual defeat more complete, and an eventual exile more prolonged, than Democrats could have dreamed. The conservative mind, in some very visible cases, has become diseased. The movement has been seized by a kind of discrediting madness, in which conspiracy delusions figure prominently. Institutions and individuals that once served an important ideological role, providing a balance to media bias, are discrediting themselves in crucial ways. With the blessings of a president, they have abandoned the normal constraints of reason and compassion. They have allowed political polarization to reach their hearts, and harden them. They have allowed polarization to dominate their minds, and empty them. Conspiracy theories often involve a kind of dehumanization. Human tragedy is made secondary — something to be exploited rather than mourned. The narrative of conspiracy takes precedence over the meaning of a life and the suffering of a family. A human being is made into an ideological prop and used on someone else’s stage. As the Rich family has attested, the pain inflicted is quite real. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the...m=.d57bf707371f

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 26, 2017 -> 08:39 PM) Who in the hell was Rosado? And yes, this helps show how incredible Pedro was Jose...made All-Star team once or twice, then he had a major injury (think it was the shoulder) and he never recovered. http://bigleagueedge.com/veloprosystems The product Sirotka and Parque designed together for young pitchers and hitters. Wonder what Ptac thinks about it.

The thing that struck me is the similarity in tone to Trump in Saudia Arabia...that it was too accommodationist. Not apologizing for your beliefs, but trying to hard to create an all-encompassing "big tent." The #1 question is which issues do you draw a line in the sand over that there is no compromising on? If there aren't any, what do we stand for?

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 26, 2017 -> 07:15 PM) You have got to be kidding. The kids max innings for any season is 65. He'll be lucky to get 15 more starts the rest of the season. It was just a theoretical question. Won't happen, anyway. Kopech could get 15 starts and he'd probably end up with 60-75 more innings at that level. Undoubtedly, we won't see him in 2017. They'll have to decide about the AFL, but probably shut him down at the end of August.

Or just Instagran grabs of everyone's abs and posters can guess who they belong to....

Would be a fascinating argument about the order of ERA if one of these four were picked to go 20 starts for the remainder of the season in Chicago...who would perform the best, Lopez, Fulmer, Giolito or Kopech? I'd go with either Kopech or Lopez, just a hunch. I'm sure others think the exact opposite, especially after Giolito's no hitter, that maybe something finally is starting to click with him the last 2-3 times out on the bump.