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The only problem with doing that (it's a great opportunity to travel and see the world as well), is that once you start a "teacher track," then you have to work even harder to go back to the regular world. I actually did AmeriCorps/non-profit work for five years and just needed a break (or so I thought) from getting a bit burned out, and here I am 15 years later still teaching. But yeah, if you give yourself a set time frame, such as 2-3 years, and you teach something related to business/marketing/advertising/HR, then it might not disadvantage you as much. As the saying goes, it's MUCH easier to find another job once you already have one than for your permanent job to be looking for work. I've been in that situation, luckily...just once in my life, where you're caught between taking temp and less than your perfect/ideal job and then knowing that you're eating into your savings or creating debt for every day you're not working. It drove me crazy after just 2-3 months trying to figure out what to do, and I probably worked for half of that time period in temp jobs to have an income stream coming in. Of course, when you're working, even in a temp job, full-time, it doesn't give you much free time to search for a job if you're under pressure to perform in order to keep that temporary position on a week-to-week basis. My problem is that I started out working for a minor league baseball team and then an NFL football player's charity foundation, so it was especially hard to give up that "dream" type of job for a "regular" one, but I reached the conclusion at the time that working in professional sports was taking away my love for the game and also I was getting caught up in that materialistic lifestyle from being around athletes and celebrities and thinking I needed to spend money to fit in with them.

Good post. The same situation exists for those 50 and over, because they're too expensive or have too much experience, the former "middle level" managers in the corporate world. As a teacher in China, I'd say there are a lot more opportunities than in the US, so one thing you might want to consider is opportunities in other countries outside the US, if that's a possibility. Of course, the other difficult path it forces lots of young people on is trying to start their own small business related to the new online economy. That obviously requires capital and less aversion to risk, so students graduating with gargantuan student loan debts being forced to consider taking on more high-risk loans for a business that probably has an 80% at failure, has to be incredibly scary Another factor is how fewer and fewer companies are guaranteeing pensions or 401k's or retirement match programs.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/23/politics/ber...ello/index.html Reddy will enjoy this one, Sanders taking heat for supporting Democratic anti-abortion mayoral candidate in Omaha. There are definitely two sides to this one, and both are easy to see but hard to reconcile as a Democrat.

Yeah, let's hope if we don't trade Q that Rodon comes back looking like a TOR starter, Anderson doesn't have the typical sophomore slump and that Robertson (maybe Jones), Cabrera, Frazier (looking like a long shot, but who knows, the Mets definitely need a 3B) and Holland/Shields/Gonzalez can be traded for something worthwhile. Also, it seems that Saladino's swing has really gotten long again...before, he was really short and quick, didn't miss too many fastballs. Guess it was too much to expect him to be a 3 war player, but the season has a LONG way to go, and he still hasn't proven he can even stay 100% healthy for one full year.

1. Gorsuch 2. McMaster/Mattis, stabilization of national defense team and prevention of WWIII, return to traditional NATO/anti-Russian posture 3. Rollback of some but not all regulations (37 executive orders so far) 4. This is a big one for traditional Republicans, military (albeit largely symbolic) action against Syria after Obama bluffed but didn't pull the trigger 5. Belief instilled in quite a few members of the middle class that Trump cares more about protecting American jobs than "globalists" Obama/Clinton, this is one of the areas where he's above 50% in public opinion polls/surveys 6. Standing up to "illegal immigrants/sanctuary cities" and labeling radical Islamic terrorism, which has been reinforced by recent events in Europe, the French elections, Brexit, etc. That's what I would expect to hear. Sixty-seven percent of respondents said the Democratic Party was out of touch, as did 62% for the Republican Party. Less than a third said either party was "in touch." Trump fared slightly better than the parties, with 58% saying he was out of touch. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/23/politics/don...poll/index.html

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 23, 2017 -> 08:15 PM) My official stance is Trump's term so far has been a moderate success. Which president in your memory WOULDN'T fall into that category? Carter? Ford, albeit not his fault inheriting that mess? I guess it also depends on how much you blame GW Bush for 9/11, as opposed to the Clinton administration. Clinton started with gays in the military and health care, didn't really discover his bearings until 1995/96, when he tacked/triaged towards the middle.

It is worth at least questioning why they couldn't gel consistently in the regular season...why they had to wait until their backs were against the wall to finally come together as a team? Some of that has to do with the coaching staff, but, then again...perhaps only a few veteran coaches with a lot more experience in the league than Hoiberg (not playing-wise) could have gotten Wade, Butler and Rondo all on the same page much earlier, right? So the question isn't so much about Hoiberg not doing it, but who realistically would have been able to turn the Bulls into a 3-5 seed team during the regular season without burning out the team as Thibs frequently did just getting to the 82nd game?

Well, at least Basabe's up to a 762 OPS. So there's at least one positive at Winston-Salem.

QUOTE (Soha @ Apr 23, 2017 -> 03:35 PM) If I'm the Cubs, I'm probably more interested in Gonzalez or Holland at this point. And they'd come much cheaper. I don't even know how Quintana could be traded right now. The Sox aren't going to lower their demands based on a 3 week slump, yet no team will pay huge for a starter that is 0-4 with an ERA over 6. We're just going to have to wait it out until Q normalizes and then see where things are at. The problem is it's now 2-7 and a 6ish ERA going back to his last 10 starts (September 1st, 2016). So it's not only the first four this year, but it's a longer worrisome trend (mostly against AL Central teams not named CLE). His velocity (would have to check fangraphs) seems off a bit as well, as he does get into the customary 92-93 mph range but I've also seen a number of 89's and 90's, too. Not sure how much of this was caused by the interruption in his schedule by the WBC, dead arm period, etc. Location/command is the bigger issue than velocity, of course, but they're interrelated.

Would it be too much to ask to have a LH hitter who could put up an 800+ OPS against RHP? For all the hand-wringing about Thome and Dunn, they could manage that at least. We always write about how easy it is to find corner outfielders and 1B/DH types that can put up decent numbers, but it's not quite as easy as that. Look at how much money we invested into Cabrera and Abreu, how patient they've been with Avisail Garcia, Todd Frazier since the All-Star Break in 2015 and Sox DH numbers since Dunn has left. It's obvious to say someone like Courtney Hawkins or Keon Barnum was once envisioned to be putting up big numbers in one of those slots, but it's crazy how barren the AA/AAA rosters are except for players who've come from other organizations like Moncada, Willy Garcia, Delmonico, etc.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 23, 2017 -> 03:07 PM) Never underestimate the hate for Hillary Clinton. The only way to defeat Trump, apparently...is to lavish him with praise from ALL media (even SNL wouldn't joke about him, ever) and let him bask in the glow of rallies every weekend, and build up his ego up so high that he carelessly does something so egregious that it would be considered unforgivable to American voters, even for him. He said shooting someone in broad daylight in NYC would be overlooked by his followers, so we'll see.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 23, 2017 -> 02:28 PM) The post you quoted had nothing to do with Trump. I didn't quote anything...that's what I wrote about the French election results. Do we need a separate thread about them, especially as they'll be over on May 7th? I don't think there's any doubt in the minds of most SoxTalk posters there's a connection between Brexit, Trump and Le Pen. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/23/opinions/fre...lman/index.html What the French elections mean for Americans http://www.kxlf.com/story/35221371/why-put...oth-like-le-pen Why Putin and Trump both like LePen

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Apr 23, 2017 -> 01:41 PM) Remember, anyone who doesn't support Marine Le Pen is a misogynist. Absolutely no exceptions, you're sexist and don't wan't a woman to be the President of France. It's Obama/Macron vs. Trump/LePen, minus his military strikes which she has roundly criticized. Was a week or two away from being Bernie Sanders vs. Trump, as Communist Party candidate was at 19.3% and closing. Socialist Party had an additional 6.3%. https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-trump-...-153448715.html Trump with historically low approval ratings as he approaches 100 day mark

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Apr 23, 2017 -> 01:40 PM) Why are l Garcia and May playing over Davidson? http://m.mlb.com/news/article/226034400/wh...or-fourth-game/

White Sox last in MLB OPS... 30. White Sox, .595 29. Royals, .598 28. Blue Jays, .619 27. Padres, .652 26. Pirates, .663

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade...-2017-4?ref=yfp Trump had to have EU trade bloc policies explained 11 times by Merkel...no bilateral deals individual countries https://www.popsugar.com/news/Susan-Sarando...3442940?ref=yfp Susan Sarandon and Messing fight over Bernie Sanders, Messing gets schooled

You might be the only one in America to take that position. Independent voters, sure. Especially if they were voting today, having understood what Trump actually intended to do.

Shaka will be lucky to survive in Texas at this rate. Alford loves college, but has the NBA ego. He'll wait to get all the Ball family through UCLA first. Ewing, Collins, Manning and Ollie have a long way to go...Collins seems a good possibility, eventually. Of course, someone has to eventually replace Coach K at Duke. Not sure that Brey is the favorite due to age, maybe Collins repeats with NW and he's right there for that job.

32,044 to be exact.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 22, 2017 -> 08:20 PM) This board certainly has its whipping boys. Why the hell do Demos on here hate Bernie? I think it's cause we Republicans go so far as to say we like him and probably would have voted for him. I don't get it. Bernie is the opposite of evil. There are few if any Republicans who like Sanders. Break up Wall Street and Big Banks, no way. Minimum wage hikes and decreasing income inequality, nope. Universal free tuition and single payer health care, nope. Environment, nope. Foreign policy, double nope. Identify with the 16-34 year olds and college liberals who comprise his biggest constituency, no way. Only gun control, which Sanders moderated to the left on during the primaries.

As to Buehrle, no. Konerko was frustrating when he got down on himself, shoulder shrugs, lots of DP balls...he was his own worst enemy, but he really had an impressive peak run of seasons with just a couple anomalies thrown in. One of the best fastball hitters in modern Sox history.

Oh, and pray Kopech can discover his control and become a TOR monster. Hawkins peaked early, just like Mitchell...heck, the flip on the draft show might turn out to be what he's most remembered for.

Frazier contract extension talk...thankfully gone the way of Samardzija extension. What the heck happened? The homer binges permanently turned him into a guess hitter?

Let's hope we have more than Dunning and Moncada to show for this minor league season. We desperately need someone like W Garcia to morph into the next Thames. Pretty bleak right now unless we sign Robert or get the next Benintendi in the draft.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/cubs-dominate...-173404336.html Cubs have 4 out of top 5 selling jerseys in MLB. Baez at 4 was a bit of a shocker, compared with Schwarber at 5. Keyshawn 3rd. Bryant/Rizzo, 1/2.