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One of the dangers of having the affiliates in the same general area geographically. Cuts down a lot on travel expenses between teams, except to Chicago.

We really need Avi, Davidson, Saladino, W. Garcia, Delmonico, Hayes, Liriano...at least one of those guys to become a regular. Two years away, you've got Basabe. Big difference filling just a couple of lineup holes, compared to six.

Actually, I don't have a strong feeling one way or the other about this topic. Generalizations are not overly helpful. It's interesting that almost nobody reached out to Jack Parkman (unless they all did it by PM), there was a debate which led nowhere, but if we can't discuss it constructively on a message board, there's very little hope of bridging these generational differences in real life. Whatever politics is today, it has certainly succeeded in pitting sides against each other instead of unifying everyone together as Americans. Rich vs. poor, black vs. white, Christian vs. atheist, scientists vs. their opposites, the list goes on and on. And actually, this is a huge failure of the Democratic Party. Instead of providing helpful solutions, we're constantly debating things intellectually but not necessarily helping as much as we should be. There's time for talking, but actions are even more important. It's where we are stuck as a country, polarized, with only a common enemy being capable of bringing people together across all spectrums.

So, all elected officials are now held to the Jimmy Carter standard of donating all speech monies to Habitat or their local church? That sounds very unAmerican to me. If that's all he did, sure. But I'm pretty certain he will spend the majority of his time doing low or lesser paid community/grassroots organizing type events and using Wall Street monies to subsidize them as well as Democratic Party-related party building. Let's not forget Citizens United, and the fact Trump has already raised $41 million plus in the first three months of 2017. He and Bernie Sanders far away are the biggest stars of the Democratic Party, and he can leverage those monies in many positive ways. Same with Michelle Obama, for that matter. If he turns out to be worse than both Clinton's on this front, I'll be shocked.

It's obvious that Dems are still adjusting to being out of power. Obstructionism is not helping the middle class...it's placating the activists. In the end, the GOP has a good chance to hold onto power, but every time they get too cocky, like 1994 and 2010, their hubris and inability to actually formulate policy that benefits the majority of Americans comes back to bite them. It's also critical to point out that it was just one poll...a snapshot in time. It's like looking at 20-30 point spreads disappearing in KS and GA and assuming the Dems will take back the House in 2018. That still might be true, based on the looming disasters that are the AHCA and tax redistribution to corporations and the Top 1%. Eventually, a leader will emerge to replace Obama, Clinton and Sanders...and the Dems will start promoting positions that bring back those Rust Belt voters into the fold. A lot depends, as always, on the economy and the eventual outcome of the health care debate. And don't underestimate those supporting Trump for being the anti-Obama and bombing Syria and Afghanistan.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Apr 25, 2017 -> 09:09 AM) What policies have Democrats pushed in Trump's first 100 days that would cause people on the fence to move to Trump? Obstructionism. Trying to stop Gorsuch in order to get revenge for Garland when it was clear he was more than qualified intellectually. Obviously, the Republicans used the same strategy with Obama. Except they never paid a price politically for it.

Logic says 15 teams will be at .500 or above another 3 or 4 in typical White Sox position from 2014-2016...making no additions or trading significant pieces away, either.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...st-coast-215048 The media bubble is worse than you think Best article written so far on how the media got the election wrong...along with the investigative series by Nate Silver/538.com

Still waiting for a defense of the proposed tax policy...granted, we won't get the full details until May supposedly. Ivanka VP 2020 President 2024/28 Jared 2032/2036 Donald Jr./Eric 2040/2044/2048/2052 Yay! Let's see how she does at the G-20 "women and entrepreneurialism" meeting in Germany with Merkel today. Over media requests. On the front page over the French elections in the German papers. Sean Hannity goes to war against "liberal fascism"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/opinion/...ection&_r=0 We can add to the GOP thread. Do you support cutting the corporate tax rate to 15-20% from its current levels? Can you provide any examples when corporate tax cuts have benefitted workers/middle class in any country? How will you plan to offset the loss in tax revenues, when you can't simply project (magical) growth rates or use dynamic scoring? What programs/departments would you cut to keep the budget revenue neutral? Do you believe it's responsible to add an additional $2.4 trillion to the debt over the next decade, and why?

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/contrarians-didn...-090051867.html The Contrarians, Didn't Vote For Trump But Would Now

Dansby Swanson...not off to such a great start this year.

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/beg-packing-bri...t-asia-travels/ More Millennial madness, lol...in all seriousness, this whole GoFundMe thing is getting out of hand. About the only thing you can guarantee people won't donate money to is to pay down the US Federal Debt. I like the way Simon Sinek packaged his summary re millennials. Four aspects were identifed characterising millennials. Parenting, technology, impatience and environment. He nicely teases these out, however points two and three intersect and essentially create the fourth, their environment. He does underestimate some achievements but i take his argument as presented. I would cut to the chase and and label their problem largely created and served by instantaneous gratification. Technology. Social media. The fact that these gofundme type appeals for holidays and become normalized disgusts me, but I like many here, are not wholly immersed in their world and these pride stripping appeals are now normalized. It is okay to ask for a hand out. Values have seismically shifted and deem to be returning any time soon. Having to work and save for a holiday or car or a house was something we all did. THe millennials just do not see the need and worse cannot appreciate the feeling and pride in having done so. Most of these kids have never changed a tire on a car and these small pragmatics skills are leaving them under-educated. Sinek's point re phones [ or connectedness] is good too. The dopamine hit is a real management issue going forward. Kids are unable to cope without them in proximity. Serious anxiety levels become elevated. But worse than that, they cannot read a map, our friend here Jacob Stroner would not be able or WANT TO travel Europe with a guide book as we did, use coin operated telephones or acquire a spattering of enough learnt language to cross continents with traveler's cheques. Millennials do not have the patience, lateral thinking, gifted demeanor and unfortunately, now, the opportunity to practice these little things which are larger than they appreciate. https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980006...travels/?page=2 https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylc=X3oDMT...ss&ei=UTF-8 Link to Simon Sinek videos on millennials, internet addiction, workplace, etc.

Yeah, The Founder's an excellent business/marketing class case study...everyone's vaguely familiar with the story, but to see how it all played out is fascinating, not to mention Kroc stealing a wife as well. It was much better than Joy, with Jennifer Lawrence, and that movie received Academy Award notice at one point.

Who would have thought it would be challenging to LOSE games with the line-ups that we've been sending out there this season? At any rate, nice to see the White Sox offense wake up at least one game. Usually the "Bruce Chen Effect" against soft tossing lefties would result in a 0-2 run offensive output. Not the case. Maybe the losses of Ventura, Morales and Dyson are making more of an impact than first imagined. Moss has been outright terrible, and Soler's been hurt, and obviously their pen has even more holes without Davis at the back end.

Not sure you want to speed up Abreu's bat there, but that's Vargas' game as a pitcher.

Let's remember the Brewers also let Khris Davis go... At any rate, of all those rumored trades, the one the White Sox should have made was for Ozuna of the Marlins.

The crazy thing with the Brewers is that no matter how well their rebuild goes, they still have the Cubs and Cardinals blocking them in that division...and the Cubs will have money to spend on pitching, or trade bait from their minors to swap. Deck is still stacked against them. At least with the White Sox, we know Cleveland will eventually run out of resources to hold onto their young players if they're not replaced internally. Granted, they surprisingly forked over the money for Encarnacion, and Swisher/Bourn before that.

I'm sure blowing $2.4 additional trillion into the deficit will go over well with the House Freedom Caucus. Of course, they're releasing scant details and just broad outlines on WED, so that will only make things worse due to speculation. Then again, couldn't be much worse than the AHCA unveiling and universal condemnation. The only ones who will favor Trump's plan are those who are heavily invested in the stock market. Everyone else will pretty much be screwed. http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/24/news/econo...rate/index.html

I personally believe the Royals lost a lot of their aggressiveness and swagger when they traded Dyson away. Just a theory, but maybe Gordon's body is breaking down from the wear and tear that results from his style of play, right now he and Hosmer are complete mysteries. It's looking like Moustakas and Cain will be the only ones with much trade value, along with Duffy/Herrera if they choose to shop them. Moustakas definitely would be an attractive rental to a lot of teams like the Mets. Pirates will probably dump Freese if they fall out of it as well without Kang and Marte.

Davidson has the power Viciedo and Avi Garcia were supposed to have... Of course, two weeks from now he'll probably be hitting .212, but it's more interesting than watching Pedro Alvarez or Chris Carter I suppose.

And the whole character attacks back and forth between Clinton and Sanders was yet another reason the Dems lost the election. At a certain point, the truth about a candidate becomes less important than the perception. Clinton pissed off a lot of moderates and centrists by fighting so hard to be cool and win back Bernie's youth vote. Then the damage from the 2008 South Carolina primary alone couldn't be reversed, as the African American votes her husband took for granted resisted jumping on her bandwagon. Didn't matter how many celebs she had in the fold. Even today, the Dems are still perceived as being more out of touch with those middle class voters in Ohio, PA, MI and Wisconsin. After everything Trump has done and threatens to do, there's a sense that he's fighting for them, even though the idea that Hillary was a fighter for the middle class was one of the dominant themes of her campaign. Honestly, Sanders was much easier on Clinton than he could have been. He backed off when it became obvious the Dem establishment was never going to support him. In fact, an argument can be made that had he been tougher, she would have been better prepared for dealing with Trump's tactics in the general election. For every Reddy, there was a Greg out there impressed with his authentic and sincere devotion to his economic message of fighting for the average person. Hillary never figured that out her entire political career, how to connect to people and get them to run through walls for her to get her elected. It was like a slog or duty to get behind her, almost like an obligation.

Greg, from my understanding, usually the limit for food stamps and/or unemployment benefits typically ranges from 3-6 months. Now there might be a separate program related to those with disabilities that the government administers to supplement incomes or provide income support, but it depends on what the specific circumstances are, level of impairment, etc. This whole discussion leads to a new category of work (and not an automated one), related to the general category of human resources/job counseling-related social work, which is assisting all those individuals whose jobs have been outsourced/downsized (and those are mainly in their 40's and 50's) as well as the younger generation of workers under 30 who are having such a difficult time, those who were in college or just graduating at the time of the financial crisis in 2008/09. One obvious problem is that the likelihood of getting Federal funding for this type of program seems to be diminishing by the day. Efforts will have to come from the states and municipalities, local charities/churches, United Ways, etc.

Well, yeah. I don't think we can really start "worrying" about any players until at least the end of May, at the earliest. And certainly if the situation was reversed and Collins was raking and about to be promoted to Birmingham but looking terrible defensively and already being moved to 1B/DH, then that wouldn't be as helpful for putting together a future White Sox playoff team, for sure.