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"Let's discuss Tom Perez and his cussing crusade that he's been giving at so many different fundraisers. Let's talk for a moment about the California Democrat convention ... where you had a number of Democrats on stage screaming 'expletive Trump' and 'expletive Republicans.'" She said Democrats and the mainstream media then want to turn around and accuse Trump and those on the right of fomenting violence. Loesch said that everyday Americans see this double-standard, and they are tired of it. "We're tired of being lied about, we're tired of being manipulated, and we're tired of them excusing awful things done to us in the name of partisan ideology," Loesch said. "This is the point we are at because people hate media this badly." http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/05/25/dana...porter?vid=auto

http://billingsgazette.com/news/government...7e77646c61.html How can the US restore civility? This panel has some ideas. President Trump’s war on the press is dangerous. He’s discrediting a profession he fears http://www.poynter.org/2017/president-trum...e-fears/461352/ Make no mistake: Donald Trump has fueled violence against journalists | Richard Wolffe https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-mistake-donal...-161641383.html

Well, if I was in a real ultra wealthy family, I could have accepted the internship to work for the Red Sox for $300 or $500 per month (one of those two) instead of a minor league team that would pay a stipend of $250-300, free rent for the year and 10% sales commissions for billboards, sponsorships, season ticket packages, etc. That seemed more practical at the time from an economic standpoint. Looking back, not taking a major league job regardless of the salary was a huge mistake...even though you learn a ton in the minors, it's not the best way to end up eventually working for a big league front office. Once again, how many workers today can afford to work for a pittance (or worse, unpaid intern) in order to pursue their dream job?

You're welcome. Really, I think it's a matter of two issues to settle. Does "white privilege" actually exist, and how exactly to define it? From their arguments, Rabbit and Southsider2K5 might say no, not in any appreciable way, or that they feel they earned 100% of their success/es in life. Greg's argument more is about being "forced" or cajoled into admitting to minority groups that he is a "victim of white privilege and has to apologize for his background/being white/being successful, etc." That's a different issue. Greg himself has admitted he went to a private/Catholic school and had access to a very good (albeit strict) morals/ethics-based education. Not everyone has that given to them, and scholarships are limited...obviously. So Greg would PROBABLY admit he feels privileged by the life his parents provided him, the opportunities he's been able to enjoy in life, but NOT that he should be forced or publicly humiliated into castigating himself. That's not unreasonable. Those of us born with privilege don't have to announce it, it's there whether you like it or not. Catholics even have a term called "Catholic guilt" regarding our lack of impact on the peace and social justice issues of the modern world (coming from a relatively well-to-do background). Parsing how much is race, how much is economics, how much is parenting...and quantifiably proving it with a battery of statistics is nearly impossible to do. There's no "winning side." It's not like reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged and wishing there was a more merit-based utopian society that exists...because it's simply not reality, not for such a "melting pot" or mosaic of a country with such a long tradition of slavery/discrimination as the United States.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 26, 2017 -> 12:32 AM) Honestly, I'd be surprised if we ever hear Gianforte's name again a couple weeks from now. I think the assault becomes a non-issue long term, sadly. He apologized...at least, finally. Only after he's officially declared victory late in the evening. That will go 50% of the way through getting past the issue. http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/politics/mon...ults/index.html Right now, the spread is 7.4% with 93% in. Quist just was too much of a flawed candidate without any experience and quite a bit of baggage. Gianforte was more of a known quantity around the state, and having billions in your war chest (the equivalent of a Mark Cuban) is a lot different than having debts from a career as a musician attributable to health problems you couldn't afford to deal with. It's hard to expect someone who can't take care of their own expenses to "fix" the government, whether that's fair or not, that's the perception (or reality). Basically carved out another 12.5% off the Trump/Clinton spread, and a +62.5% swing in a matter of less than a half year is not insignificant and augurs well for GA-6 and 2018 (if the DEMS can only unite, lol).

QUINTANA: LOCATION CULPRIT FOR BIG INNINGS THIS SEASON "There were a few mistakes we had, but they just took advantage of us," White Sox catcher Kevan Smith said. "In the first three, we took advantage of their aggressiveness, we were down in the zone. And kind of a domino effect a little after that, one after another. Maybe not pitching in the best situations, getting in holes a little." "The ball ran to the middle a couple of times," Quintana said. "That's the reason they hit me hard: my location sometimes, especially in the stretch. I keep working on that. I'm doing better. It was a tough game for me. Bad day, and you know, look ahead and keep going." Quintana's mechanics frequently have been described as nearly flawless, allowing him to hit all quadrants of the zone consistently. Jose talked postgame about feeling good in that area, throwing the ball better than he did at the start of the season. Remember, Quintana is also coming off a one-hitter thrown over eight innings at Seattle in his last start. These struggles remain surprising for one of the game's most consistent starters. With another 20-plus starts still on the docket, they certainly don't define him. "Certain pitches do stuff maybe he doesn't want them to do," (catcher Kevan) Smith said. "We're trying to throw outside sinkers to righties, and they're cutting back over. Those are all things for him to iron out with [White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper], and I'm there for him. We all hate to see him struggle." "He's a hard worker and we all know how talented he is and we're all confident in him," said White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu through interpreter Billy Russo. "It's a matter of one thing for him to clean it up and to be that Jose Quintana that we know." http://m.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article/232...-hone-location/

Well, the beauty of it is that you can think of it either way, depending on your fan perspective...and excitement (HOPEFULLY) about starting to see some of the younger prospects (Burdi/Lopez, maybe Fulmer) start to matriculate at the major league level.

http://www.crawfishboxes.com/2017/5/17/156...s-baseball-ncaa Write up on David Peterson from an Astros' site. Seems he's now projected #10-20 instead of bottom 20's/low 30's where he started out months ago. Reminds me of some of the same things we heard about the likes of Wacha and Nola coming out of college. Plus, he's a lefty. But his stuff is more reminiscent of Jose Quintana than, let's say, Madison Bumgarner.

The Cubs have nothing to lose because they just won the World Series. The White Sox, similar situation, but because their attendance has bottomed out and nobody's really paying attention except for the few die hard fans and prospect junkies, so it's not going to make or break them no matter which way the trade turns out. And they desperately need position players, which is what the Cubs have in abundance. It's not like Garland/Karchner at the height of the City Series Rivalry. Things have cooled off a LOT since then.

However there are plenty of rich assholes who have never worked a day in their lives. They've had it MUCH easier and better than me and they are white. There are also African Americans whose parents are rich surgeons and they will be set for life and their kids will be set for life. Should they thank privilege of any kind? So what if you were presented evidence statistically that whites were 10X likely to enjoy these particular circumstances than any minority group? I don't mean by sheer numbers, I mean, let's say 40 white kids (out of 100, or 400 out of 1000) enjoy some type of privilege and only 4-5 African-American or Hispanic kids enjoy the same opportunities and access to social/alumni networks. Statistically, whites comprise roughly 65% of the population, Hispanics 14%, African Americans 12.5% then Asians at roughly 8.5% and Native Americans. Out of all those Asian students, I'd argue 60-70% of them have XXX amount of privilege, at least in terms of educational access and opportunity, largely due to their parents and cultural stress on educational attainment. But to say that the average white or Asian (Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Singaporean, etc.) or American-Born Chinese Descent families don't enjoy similar advantages is crazy. It's just like that statistic where a white person killing a black person is 8X less likely to receive the death penalty than the other way around. Part of it's economics again, the ability to afford a strong or at least competent defense (mostly it's pro bono or groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center/ACLU)...but that immense disparity isn't explained away solely by economics, culture, education, there's a racial bias/discrimination factor cooked into the numbers as well that you just can't ignore (but which many conservatives feel is not their responsibility since the Civil War, Civil Rights movement or Affirmative Action supposedly leveled the playing fields and everyone's operating on "even footing" in this theoretical universe. Well, that's just not the case. And sure, my dad hated working for the government in the 80's and 90's when women and minorities that were less qualified were promoted ahead of him, but he never became bitter about it. Frustrated, maybe that would be the better term. He wanted a government that promoted on merit and ability, and it's one of the reasons he voted for Perot in 1992, just like many people put their hopes in Trump to "restore American greatness/fairness" in this last year's election. That doesn't mean they are/were going to see an improvement, but they wanted to believe it was possible, to have something to hope for so they wouldn't become discouraged.

I honestly think that was the University of Chicago, Columbia, one of those super elite schools that was having similar PC and safe space debates at the time. Maybe Greg's right and it's Mizzou, but my recollection was it was another university.

10,300+ spread now Whatever happens, it's going to be a nightmare for the GOP Congress to deal with, one way or the other. There's no positive spin on it, although I'm sure FOX NEWS will come up with something (like, for all the hype about the DEM resistance, there have been little changes other than a few state houses). On to Ossoff/Handel...DEMS almost HAVE to win that one or it will lead to demoralization, GA-6.

Why the pessimism, Quist is still up 47.2 to 47% with 44% counted? I think it could go either way at this point...will last for quite awhile longer. With 38% of precincts reporting, Democrat Rob Quist had 83,647 votes -- or 47.2% of the vote, compared to Republican Greg Gianforte who had 83,324 votes -- 47.0% of the vote, according to Edison Research. The spread has essentially changed from 1.5% for Q to 0.4% to Gianforte. Not throwing in the towel by any stretch. Clinton lost by 20% and the case definitely won't go away. It's only going to attract MORE attention if he wins from the national/international (like The Guardian) and social media. Gianforte has a personal wealth of $1.8+ billion from the sale of his company to Larry Ellison's ORACLE. Quist can't even pay his medical bills/property taxes and is a lifelong musician. It's actually quite fascinating.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports...0522-story.html http://www.wnff.net/index.php?topic=35223.0 Hello, marketing department!!!! Instead of "5 wins" in June (since the Padres have 15 home games), it would be 4 wins in June, since 4 out of 12 games is the same 33% percentage of games played. With the Padres offering $99 for as many games as it takes the Pads to get to 5 home wins (out of 15 in June), 12/15=80%, the White Sox could do the same for $74.44, $79.99 or $80 or however you want to price it to get to 4 home wins. Theoretically, you could go to 12 games for a price of basically about $6.67 per game (if it lasted through 12), not including parking. Of course, if they reeled off 4 in a row to start, it's hard to imagine being "too upset" about spending even $20 per ticket because those were all Sox wins that you just attended, and $20 is still a very fair price for a big league game. It's such a cool, simple idea...and would be fun for the fans like Greg who actually care about winning games more than the rebuild at this point.

Top Prospects: Giolito, CWS 0:42 2017 MLB.com Top Prospects: Lucas Giolito sits at 95-98 mph and cracks triple digits with his fastball I wish that video caption with highlights of him pitching for the NATS last year would be true. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/232460192/wh...picid=151437456

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/politics/mon...ults/index.html Quist is currently leading by 1.5% with 26% counted (I'm assuming that's NOT including the plethora of mail-in ballots, because if that's the case, it's hard to see Quist losing the actual vote that takes place today) Libertarian candidate pulling 5.9%, so his votes definitely are having an impact as well on the overall race due to its closeness.

Rucker can be the 3rd element of the Cubs/Q trade. Or they can go with the AA pitcher, #8 prospect whose name escapes me at the moment. Proposal: Mightily struggling Schwarber, Happ or Jimenez and Rucker for Q. Unfortunately, don't think the Cubs will give up 2 of those first 3...might have to go to Baez instead matched with one of those names.

The difference is that I've learned since chisox.com/WSI to have a thicker skin and not to get a persecution/martyr complex, lol. Everyone has their quirks, it's "just" a message board, and not life or death...it doesn't (or shouldn't) affect our sense of self-worth or families or anything really meaningful, since it's all in good fun and SHOULD be for entertainment purposes only. For example, this year I've learned: 1) Dick Allen really isn't as bad as I thought 2) I never should have listened to Northside about Kevan Smith 3) This board is a lot more conservative/moderate than most like Rabbit tend to believe 4) As well as Rabbit writes about baseball, he's equally infuriating talking about anything non-baseball related 5) Fathom will never change, nor will Greg (both in mostly good ways!!) 6) Southsider2K5 and Witesoxfan and Heads22 remain the 3 mods "everyone would most like to have a beer with" 7) KYyle having an upper and lower case Y in his name is still annoying to the English/grammar side...but he knows more than everyone I grew up with combined about Marvel Comics 8) ElRockin is the best baseball fan in White Sox history 9) The rebuild has really lightened the mood around here and it's easier for people to get along in terms of baseball discussions, but definitely not politics...cool to see some old posters come back, too...wish Scenario hadn't disappeared, and Cubano so we could discuss Moncada/Robert/Victor Mesa Jr. 10) Balta is doing the sane thing by not overreacting to every political development like some of us since NOV 8 11) J4L is still shook up that Schwarber's legend is on the wane, but now he can annoy us with LeBron GOAT talk again (Warriors in 6, book it baby!)

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ May 25, 2017 -> 04:21 PM) These posts remind me of just how many rumors were flying around over the winter. It was rumored the Pirates offered three prospects and I think two of them were Glasgow and Newman but don't know the third piece. This brings me back to arm chair general managing, we don't know exactly what was offered so we don't know if the Sox should have traded Q last winter. Coulda woulda shoulda. Why did we turn it down, the GDP for that city alone with keep the White Sox system stocked with Latin American prospects for a decade? There was also a lot of debate whether the Pirates 1) would give up Bell, and 2) whether he was going to hit for enough power to justify 1B/corner OF spot. So far, it seems he's doing just fine in that regard. Glasnow is a mess, though. Haven't been following Newman or even Meadows (got off to a god-awful start) for that matter.

I just want to take credit for NOT jinxing Giolito's no-hitter by bringing it up prematurely, lol... (Although it was amusing that some Q fans argued recently they'd rather have him strike out 8-10 with ER's than put up numbers similar to Giolito's in terms of BB's/K's).

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/politics/tru...ture/index.html Trump "lecture" seen as unsettling NATO alliance (SHOCKER!!!) Had it all backwards, thought the Muslim speech in S.A. would be the unsettling one and that he'd learned his lessons on NATO by now (not to mention the Russian probe and McMaster/Mattis/Tillerson hammering him on the importance of Europe, Cohn of Goldman Sachs and Dina Powell, too).

I thought about the Reddy/Rabbit debate in the other thread and I think the basic point remains that, as a white male, you grow up with a much different life in terms of opportunities, access to education, etc., compared to the AVERAGE Hispanic, African-American or Indian American male. So I considered all the markers or indicators, this stems from a conversation I had on a trip to Peru in 2006 with my white/female fellow American teachers. We had a big debate about whether we were all "rich," because we had passports, the resources/ability to reasonably travel anywhere in the world, and the time to do so (opportunity cost). I thought about my own childhood, which was typical suburban "vanilla white" in the Quad Cities. My father never made a salary of over $44,000 working as a technical writer for the Federal Government, Rock Island Arsenal, and my mother still was able to stay at home with me until middle school and even then she only worked part-time at a local cafeteria and Hardee's (she had only a high school diploma, while my father had done everything but his thesis for a Master's), simply because she wanted to socialize and enjoyed being around people. My salary has never been over that same $44,000 mark, the highest was teaching in the KC Missouri School District and because I had two Master's (which I didn't pay for, due to aforementioned educational opportunities to excel academically), which bumped me higher on the pay scale. My pay here in China is similar, after tax about $3000 per month is left over, so my gross salary before taxes is in the mid 40's range. EDIT: 1A) Only child and always had 10+ presents for Christmas. In fact, one time, my parents got really angry because I counted them all and compared them to other kids and they said I was way too spoiled, haha. Despite just being an "average" white kid in an average Midwest city: 1) I never had to work during high school or university, except summers (and only when I wanted to, and wasn't playing/travelling for sports like soccer and baseball)...my parents allowed me to travel with my high school friends pretty much anywhere we wanted to go, within reason. Some summers, I simply sold baseball cards that my father helped me to obtain by trading his classic stamps/coins, for example, I had every Roberto Clemente TOPPS card except for his rookie year in 1955. So I basically just sold the cards of HoF players/rookie cards to subsidize my expenses, even though I had an allowance and made extra money mowing the lawn or trimming the bushes/shrubs. 2) The hardest summer camp work I had to do was being a summer school activities camp counselor and mowing lawns/landscaping (it was so hot and humid, haha!!!) 3) Went to an excellent suburban school where all of us got high 20's/low 30's on the ACT without even having to work hard, it was just expected of us...my two best friends went to NW, I could have gone to NW or ND but wanted to save my parents money (also because I was going to study English and History) and be closer to my g/f who was still in high school. 4) Got two Master's degrees without having to spend any money due to scholarships based on GRE scores and also subsidies (the second one was subsidized through a program similar to Teach for America)...access to excellent and cheap (just property taxes) education. In fact, the house I grew up in (only lived in two houses while growing up, yet another classic marker of privilege) would only sell for about $115,000 today (3 BR, 2 bath, 2 car garage, typical late 60's/early 70's house). In fact, my mom still lives there. 5) Have enough free time to post "frequently" at SoxTalk but still can afford a nanny for my two year old...what would you say, 90%+ of the posters at SoxTalk are white males between 20-50? The mods could clarify their demographics, but it's mostly white males who have enough time in their lives to consume and discuss sports on a daily basis. 6) Was always able to choose "dream" or "cool" jobs because I never had to worry about money, like working for the Augusta GreenJackets (I did get free rent and a stipend and commissions from sales) for two seasons as Director of Stadium Operations and PR and starting a non-profit with an NFL football player (I agreed to work the first year for $1000/month and free rent at LaQuinta despite him earning an NFL salary for the Broncos and Giants...speaking of privilege, read what became of Arthur Marshall, Jr., as it relates to real estate fraud, glad I quit working for him as I could see it coming a mile away, just like Trump's staffers). 7) Was able to take positions like AmeriCorps Promise Fellow (paying $8-10,000) a year for two years because it was what I wanted to do at the time...my father paid off my Toyota Camry lease (kept for himself) and bought me a used Buick so I could pursue volunteer work for 5 years. In fact, my salary as program director of Youth Volunteer Corps of Greater KC (the program still exists today) was only $27,000 per year, but I could still buy a house for $77,000 and make payments around $500 per month because of savings despite the low salary. How many African-American/Indian/Hispanics in their late 20's can easily access credit for car leases and home loans? NOT MANY. 8) My father started putting money into a ROTH IRA for me when I was just 20 or 21...like an idiot, in the late 1990's, I got frustrated with a conservative/value-oriented mutual fund and got into tech, but how many of those same minority kids are accruing compound interest in their 20's??? The answer is about 3-5%, mostly through 401K employer-based plans. 9) Have been able to travel all around the world, 40+ countries, 47 states...my father brought me to every Civil War battlefield, every historic site in Washington, DC, one summer because he was able to take time off his job. He and my mother also shared their love of reading/history with me as a child, which turned me into a lifetime reader (minority kids typically have a single mother working two jobs, which is why their vocabulary attainment is 2-4,000 words at the same time mine was 20,000). Most of those kids never catch up, they're already starting the 100 meters 10 meters behind before they even start KG. 10) Don't have to worry about retirement or my son's educational expenses due to investments/family trust. 11) Was able to spend the period from 2003-2013 basically traveling all around the world...teaching whenever I needed money (well, I taught full-time about 75% of that, and of course had summers/Christmas/Spring Break, etc. off to travel). Most recently, was able to go to India for three weeks and to Kenya/Tanzania for three weeks in 2013, but have spent a ton of time at all the beaches in Hawaii, Bali, Thailand, Philippines, Goa/Kerala, etc. 12) Because I was a privileged white male and American, was able to date pretty much any woman in the world from 2003 until 2013 (despite being 33-43 years old) because I had money/resources and was American...more white privilege. In fact, how many minority Americans can have a 20 year old Russian model for a wife, or how many can be 45 and marry and have a family with a highly-educated and attractive Chinese woman who's fully fluent in English (her alma mater, Wuhan University, is the equivalent of a lower-rung Chinese version of an Ivy League school), has a good full-time job and is a full 14-15 years younger than me? 13) Besides all that, I eat what I want, I have been able to read pretty much every book and watch every movie or t.v. show that I've ever wanted to (my best friend had a similar life, except he pursued listening to music and going to concerts, his sister went to Harvard Law), for most of my life I was single and could do whatever the heck I wanted to, without having to worry about how much money I made (and, saying that, I never borrowed money from my parents after the age of 22, other than my father subsidizing my car when I was doing national service through AmeriCorps...and one time when I was in the Philippines/Cebu in 2008 and went out every night for 39 nights in a row to a bar/club/disco and lost my ATM card abroad, so had emergency money sent via Western Union). 1-2%? I AM WHITE PRIVILEGE. I AM AMERICAN PRIVILEGE. We can wrap this argument in economics instead of race, but the fact remains I was raised in a very average middle class white family...maybe with the exception being my father was very wise/conservative/prudent about saving and investment. He taught me to never buy a new car, always to pay for everything in cash, never to have a balance on a credit card but that they were very useful for traveling/renting cars, how to invest in the stock market (Buffett/Benjamin Graham/Ayn Rand books galore in our house). Once again, how many minority kids are growing up with those exact same opportunities, to spend the whole year traveling and playing baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, cross country, ultimate frisbee....instead of working? About the only thing I didn't do was learn how to play a musical instrument, which I am currently correcting that with my son. Oh, and I didn't get my wish to have a Labrador Retriever growing up. I had to wait until my late 20's when I was living on my own and renting a room in a boarding house when I was making the Federal poverty rate of $8,740 as an AmeriCorps member in 1998 (I did get $4,500 "free" for educational expenses too, in all fairness). How many of those kids actually get to live their dreams of doing volunteer work for five years, but still can afford to buy a house and sell it for $20,000 profit when their base salary is only $27,000? I REST MY CASE.

Junior Noboa...obviously the junior part is the easier match, haha.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/politics/gre...tana/index.html If Gianforte loses, he -- and the story -- disappear. Republicans would immediately blame his last-minute implosion for the defeat, allowing them to avoid the idea that the race should be properly read as a national referendum on Trump and the recently-passed American Health Care Act. (Worth noting: Before Gianforte's choke-slam on Jacobs, the race had been tightening due to the corroding national environment for Republicans.) Now, consider what happens if Gianforte wins. Some time between now and June 7, he will have to appear in court to face the assault charge. And based on the audio provided by Jacobs as well as the eyewitness reports from a Fox News crew, it's hard to see how he doesn't get convicted. (Nota bene: I am not a lawyer.) What do Republicans do then? Every member of leadership will be asked, daily, whether seating Gianforte represents a willingness to look the other way. And for a party already struggling with branding issues, that's not the sort of story House Republicans need bouncing around Washington. If they don't seat Gianforte, then what? Can they force him to resign? And would that mean -- as I suspect it would -- another special election where the Democratic nominee, Rob Quist, would almost certainly run and might well start as the front-runner due to the controversy surrounding Gianforte? Gianforte losing is a bad story for national Republicans. Gianforte winning might well be a worse one.

Actually, one of my best friends in grad school who's now the scouting director for the Atl Hawks played that game incessantly. Not scategories, but taking any athlete's first or last name and then you had to name another one with the same first or last name....on and on when on road trips until someone gave up and couldn't come up with a corresponding match in a reasonable amount of time.