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So what should we judge his effectiveness on then? Neither the scouts that drafted him nor the coaches who work with Fulmer...it’s just “bad luck” that projections haven’t matched up with reality? We heard the story over and over again how he took Matt Thornton and “fixed him” after one day (actually knew the fix that was needed before they traded Borchard to get him)...but we haven’t “fixed” many pitchers recently. The only examples that Sox fans can point to are Swarzak and Kahnle in the last few years, basically. So we fall back to the old argument that the talent level is just bad...which somehow isn’t blamed on the front office or scouting staff and the conversation just goes around and around in circles and we end up with the same owner, same GM’s, (and usually the) same coaches year after year.

There’s no way to PROVE anything he says...that’s the beauty of a conspiracy theory. It’s all about perception. If someone is led to believe something they’re already “suggestible” on...it’s not much of a stretch to push them over the edge into a full-fledged zealot.

So that statement I made automatically means he’s “ineffective,” or maybe it is simply that he’s just living off the reputation that he developed mostly from the 2003-2012 teams? Based on the last 5-6 years, what evidence can be presented that he’s one of the best pitching coaches in the game (still)? Maybe there’s no point in questioning any coaches or talent developers until after the end of the 2020 season I guess. And I don’t remember saying that 100% of the pitchers will make it...I’ve consistently maintained 30-40% would be a relatively high success rate (of the better pitching prospects).

Jimenez with a ground ball double down the line and a single so far...Collins in a “mini slump” now. Zavala with his 10th HR, I think that leads the Southern League.

CLE LUIS or Jose? Bruce?

Personally, I think the successes of Sale and Q made things look TOO EASY. The Sox used to be very fortunate in this area. At any rate, we really need Rodon to return to form or for one of the youngsters like Kopech to lead and for everyone else to get in line and follow. That’s what happened with the Braves back in the day...Glavine, Smoltz and Avery had their struggles, but then they figured things out and that got the ball rolling towards perennial playoff contention. Granted, those are two HoF pitchers in the same rotation. The closest we have in our Sox lifetimes are Buehrle and Sale, with just a tiny overlap.

Lol. Okay Greg, you have my apology...since Taylor Street Sox believes we are the same person (trolling), I had to prove it couldn’t possibly be true. But please stop assuming everyone hates God, you’re going to drive yourself to an early grave if you get upset about the shifting state of Christianity in the world today. If you watched the royal wedding, you’ll understand there will always be a place for God/believers in the world as long as there are like-minded individuals on earth who gather together. At any rate, this should solve aforemention identity crisis once and for all.

At this point, I don’t think we can even 100% rule out Dylan Covey being a major contributor down the line. Stranger things have happened in the history of baseball.

Or, James Clapper and Rogers have succeeded in turning the entire IC against the GOP/Trump...which is actually not the case because the majority of those in the IC hate having former CIA directors get so directly involved in partisan politics as Clapper has done, basically accusing the president of treason, or intimating it, at least. He certainly hasn’t ruled that possibility out.

The question is not the movement on his pitches...it’s command within the strike zone. Which he clearly doesn’t have right now, let alone control of his pitches. His confidence is also shot again, not unlike down the stretch in 2016.

Since when is the “intelligence community” on the side of Democrats? Ummm...that would be never.But that’s almost as rich as a Seth Rich conspiracy. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/07/wapo_targets_intelligence_cont.html It used to be the complete opposite. But that evil Bezos is doing the bidding of his overlords in the military/industrial complex despite the Trump administration allocating more funding than any agency or military branch even requested.

I’ve never seen a pitching coach criticizing the fans that pay his salary more than Don Cooper. Who is it? Either our talent evaluation/projection sucks...or Cooper is not getting his message through, or a combination thereof. Besides, Greg has plenty of likes. But you’d have to be a complete idiot to see our vocabulary, religious beliefs, taste in movies or politics/doomsday scenarios shares absolutely no commonalities. It will also be pretty hard to pull off since we live 13 hours apart, he in KS, myself in China. Oh, and I never have referred to myself in the 3rd person, like Dole, Trump and Greg.

https://www.thegoodphight.com/2018/3/21/17145876/2018-phillies-draft-preview-nick-madrigal-2b A more skeptical take on Madrigal (defensively, at least at SS)...with lots of theories about how he could hit for more power with some tweaks.

Wait, so Muslims are actually not half bad as long as they are rich, want to influence the US government/leverage it by loaning money on a Trump real estate development project or want to give you dirt on a political opponent...got it!

Anderson and Yolmer are headed for 2.8 fWAR numbers at their current pace. Not exceptionally great, but you stick with him for now until there’s someone to push him at SS. The argument between Davidson and Yolmer is a more interesting one until they draft Madrigal and they have to make some decisions two years from now. It’s also possible Anderson becomes another version of Chone Figgins who plays all over the field.

What percentage of Fox’s content is “liberal” or “takes the other side”? 10% at most? I read a lot of CNN and I’d say somewhere between 1 in every 3 and 1 in every articles feature defenses of Trump, pro/con opinions back and forth taking both sides in an argument, etc. There have been some cases recently where Fox on-line talent have famously disagreed with Trump or called him out, but that might be more to make a point to Trump directly (since he constantly monitors this stuff), rather than for the explicit benefit of their viewers. Or maybe it’s to send a message to GOP members in Congress and around the country to stand up for their party? When CNN does a town hall, for example, on school shootings, they invited Rubio and also invited Governor Rick Scott. Scott simply failed to show up, it’s hard to blame CNN. I don’t recall ever seeing a Fox & Friends host espousing a moderate viewpoint ever, other than perhaps Harris Faulkner. If they do another (town hall) one on Texas, they’ll surely invite Cruz, Abbott and Beto O’Rourke.

The Fight Against the Far Right Requires Tackling White Nationalist Institutions Neo-fascism researcher Mike Isaacson explained to Truthout that conferences like these featuring "suit-and-tie" white nationalist personalities initially "provided a place for white nationalists who had previously only been organizing online to be able to actually meet in real life without having to worry about being monitored." Further, such conferences "offered a platform to the intelligentsia of the white nationalist right who perhaps did not have the credentials of Jared Taylor." With degrees from Yale University and the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Taylor is the founder of New Century Foundation and American Renaissance. Much has been written about the state of the self-described "alt-right" white nationalist movement since it has come under attack from anti-fascist and anti-racist activists. On top of this, far-right individuals and neo-fascist cells have suffered significant blows to their ability to organize, recruit and put boots on the ground due to their own in-fighting, lawsuits filed against them and pressure from anti-fascist groups. The dissolution of the Traditionalist Worker Party that occurred after its leader, Matthew Heimbach, was arrested for domestic violence charges in March has created a perception that the influence of the movement as a whole is waning. Because Heimbach had been a central figure among young white nationalists for years, his legal troubles, in particular, have led to a lot of declarations that the so-called "alt-right" is spiraling down the drain. Yet recent writings on the state of the "alt-right" have not included much conversation about white nationalist institutions: publications, nonprofit organizations and "think tanks." According to Isaacson, the broad nature of the "alt-right" has enabled far-right operators to spread their reactionary ideas -- particularly their support for eugenics. This has occurred due to the influence of white nationalist institutions, which exist precisely to facilitate the spread of bigoted ideas. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/44478-the-fight-against-the-far-right-requires-tackling-white-nationalist-institutions

Pitching coach Don Cooper said at the start of the season Fulmer had been unfairly criticized by Sox fans for his struggles, which come with youth. “When he first came to the big leagues (in 2016), we put him in the bullpen,” Cooper said. “He had a couple of good outings and a couple of lemons. But everybody was writing Carson Fulmer off: ‘Can he do this? Can’t do this, can’t do that.’ All of that negative crap. “Then he had a start against Minnesota and couldn’t get out of the first. ‘Oh, Carson can’t do this and can’t do that. He sucks.’ After one freaking outing. Come on. That’s not even fair to anybody.” Fulmer got his shot to prove fans wrong, but couldn’t show any consistency, as evidenced by an 8.07 ERA in nine appearances, including eight starts. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-white-sox-michael-kopech-carson-fulmer-20180519-story.html This comes from the same organization that gave Daniel Hudson three whole starts before trading him to Arizona...

https://sports.yahoo.com/astros-fan-gets-immediate-lecture-companion-interfering-live-ball-042021495.html Wouldn’t want to be this dude Monday morning at work...

Ops finally up over 800. Only 2 errors in 40+ games...

https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/18/left-lying-texas-school-shooter-wearing-nazi-paraphernalia/ According to spin from the right, he was conveniently a gay/bi-sexual Communist/Marxist. Texas shooter...

Or the talent evaluations were just way off. We’ve heard the same things said about Fulmer as used to be argued about Gordon Beckham, Viciedo, Brian Anderson, Josh Fields, etc. That Tim Anderson was rushed. Even that Moncada was rushed, because he wasn’t hitting LH pitching very well and kind of leveled off after getting out to a quick start in April in Charlotte. It’s not like we have had an assembly line of pitching in recent years. Sale, obviously....Danks for awhile, but other than those two and Quintana, it has been a pretty barren wasteland. I hope that 5 years from now we’re not saying the White Sox also messed up the development of Lucas Giolito, for example, because there’s clearly some “head issues” and physical ones as well with the erosion of 4-5 MPH off his “original” velocity post-TJS. That’s probably why the traded “looked too good to be true” in the first place.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/gop-candidate-films-herself-harassing-160700304.html GOP candidate films herself harassing transgender woman in CA bathroom...no Subway restaurant involved here at least

She (Santa Fe student) told reporters she was scared, struggled to keep calm and remembered another student having a panic attack. Despite the fear, the gunshots she heard and the trauma she'll deal with the rest of her life, the incident came as no surprise to Paige. "It's been happening everywhere, I've always kind of felt that eventually it would happen here, too," Paige told CNN affiliate KPRC-TV. This is the 22nd US school shooting since the beginning of the year, and the third instance (nationally in) eight days in which a gunman was on a school campus. It's also the third time within a six-month period the state of Texas has made national headlines. In November, a gunman killed 26 people in Sutherland Springs. Then in March, a "serial bomber" detonated five bomb attacks over the course of 19 days, that left two people dead. Source:cnn.com David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez are already on the case https://www.yahoo.com/news/parkland-survivors-react-santa-fe-170611489.html

Kudos for quoting the most famous Jewish person of all time...well, other than Jesus.