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Feeling sorry for May...except that $3000 per day and small chance at a lifetime pension like Carroll earned. Btw, Grossman was a really savvy pickup by the Twins.

SoxTalk Banner Jinx. Please don't replace with Avi, Robertson, Davidson and the three veteran "aces," though.

Kahnle doing a good Burdi impression there.

Infield warning track power. Asche and Davidson are opposites. Kahnle? Ynoa?

Did the White Sox lose their Spanish language station? Or that's home games only?

Can we still trade Buxton for Anderson? Not sure which to be more concerned about, but probably this latest Buxton start to a season after how he finished last year and looked to be finally turning the corner.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 01:59 PM) There's been a decade-long anti-Hillary campaign going on within conservative media. And it worked! She "screwed up" twice and that's all conservative media will ever talk about when it comes to her. Benghazi and emails, that's basically what it comes down to. I have no idea how certain people can despise her so much. I never liked Bush, but I don't think I ever hated him. Same goes for McCain and Romney. Whatever the conservative media is doing, it's working. They're somehow making people hate democrat politicians with a flaming passion. Try since health care fiasco, Whitewater and huge profits on insider commodity tip. This goes all the way back to 1980's, when they accused of authorizing drug cartel flights into Mena, AR, and murdering Vince Foster. Hillary even called it the vast right wing conspiracy to destroy her, but it didn't take nearly as well as Trump's tactics.

Glad I woke up for that half inning, lol.

We're really DHing Yolmer SANCHEZ? Yikes. Anderson really needs to pull out of this funk. Benched today. Sophomore slump, pressure from big contract, whatever's going on...

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 09:09 PM) Also. I will be back to laugh in your face when the dems come nowhere close to winning back the house. Just like I told you sheep that Hillary simply couldnt be president and you all laughed. You may want to look how many seats dems have up in the midterms lol http://www.npr.org/2016/03/04/469052020/th...dency-heres-why Let us not forget that the democrats lost over 1000 seats under Obama lol. Yes, and how much of that was simply based on opposing ObamaCare? He is no longer president, so obstructing him no longer works as a functional strategy. Is there any evidence the GOP can actually govern well with control of all branches of government? Not so far. Which presidents in history have gained seats at midterms in recent memory? The Dems won't get the Senate back, but the House is definitely up for grabs regardless of the number of gerrymandered seats that are largely out of play.

Erstad was a kicker/punter.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 04:43 AM) Keanu was the Key and Peele movie about the cat, I really enjoyed it. Ridley Scott said that one of the reasons why he went with an all white cast for Exodus: Gods and Kings was that he wanted people to see his movie. There's this narrative that no one wants to see minority fronted films. Not only is that one of the stupidest things that I've ever heard anybody say, it's not true. Look at the Fast and Furious, easily the most diverse franchise out there. Everyone in Dom's team is a person of color and the movies continue to break records. I really enjoyed F8/Fast 8/Furious 8/F8TE of the Furious. The Rock made the movie for me, plus his stuff with Statham was amazing. The feud between Vin Diesel and The Rock led to themnot being in any shots together, Diesel even cut out some of the Rock's scenes. These movies are the Harrison Ford, John Woo, Nicolas Cage action movies of the 90's. Which is why they need to cast Nicolas Cage, go to outer space and go ridiculously over the top. Anyway... the current movie stars are Ben Affleck, Will Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Denzel Washington, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence, the Rock, Matt Damon, Leo, Vin Diesel, Charlize Theron, Sandra Bullock ?, Chris Pratt, Melissa McCarthy and Hugh Jackman. Very white, very male. I think that we will be soon be able to add John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Margot Robbie (she might be up there already), Alicia Vikander, Ryan Gosling now that he's starting to do big movies, Tom Hardy might be one already, Emma Stone seems ready to make the jump, Michael B Jordan, Jason Momoa, and even Bobby Millie Brown. Make that Chinese F8 number $192 million, almost doubling the US numbers. Tom Cruise (Edge of Tommorow, MI, Oblivion, Jack Reacher, The Mummy), Brad Pitt and Depp still have their fans, although it will be interesting to see how personal scandals affect the latter two. George Clooney belongs on the list as well, IMO. Jake Gyllenhaal. Tom Hanks. Jim Carrey's career has cratered. Same with Russell Crowe, although the buddy detective flick with Gosling was surprisingly good. I would pick Zoe Saldana over a few of those names (with more Avatars in the pipeline)...Joel Edgerton has a shot as well, very versatile.

Looks like F8 made a whopping $167 million in China. That's going to swamp the US numbers, and almost guarantee a Chinese presence/setting/product placement in the next couple of films. Initial weekend projections for Fate, taking Easter into account on Sunday, hover between $100-104 million — slightly below pre-weekend tracking and most (including our own) industry forecasts but still a very robust haul that leaves it in a position to challenge The Jungle Book ($103.26 million) as the second biggest April opener of all-time once actuals are tallied on Monday. Universal itself projects $103.8 million, in line with its pre-weekend expectation. On the international front, Fate scored $112.1 million outside North America, giving Universal its highest international Friday gross of all-time. The film’s overseas total stands at $194.8 million through two days. The studio’s international weekend estimate is $430.4 million, which would top Jurassic World‘s $316.7 million as the biggest international weekend in history. If those projections hold, Fate would ultimately top Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ $529 million to become the biggest global opening of all-time with an estimated $534.2 million through Sunday. However, the asterisk there is that Fate bowed to an all-time Chinese box office record $65.6 million opening day yesterday. Force Awakens didn’t open in China until one month after its domestic release. Either way, this is resoundingly big news for the studio and the Furious franchise. Boxoffice.com

I plan to teach my son that the path of a Gandhi, MLK, Mother Teresa or Obama is just as valid as being a billionaire business tycoon. In the end, our charities, churches/ministries and social justice warriors will be the only ones fighting for those made obsolete by this new economy. Below is one of the solutions Bernie Sanders has proposed... What is to be done? There is a possible solution to the economic challenge: universal basic income. Our economy still generates enormous wealth. The question is how to get that wealth to the people who need it. The answer might be to provide every American with an income sufficient to buy the basics -- food, clothing, shelter and modest pleasures such as recreation and a bit of travel. There are details to work out, such as how high to set the basic income level so as to cover everyone's needs without turning everyone into a lazy bum. But the concept is straightforward, and its implementation could be surprisingly easy, perhaps building upon the Social Security system. Moreover the cost is reasonable. Divide current total US personal income, around $13 trillion, by current population, around 320 million, and we get a universal basic income around $40,000 per person. Not bad. The harder problem is the psychological one and the attendant social and cultural problems. What happens to human nature in a world without work? Will we all become sloths? Or, freed from the need to work, might we find within ourselves a hidden Michelangelo, an unknown Patsy Cline or an undiscovered Maya Angelou? We might find out sooner than we think.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 08:34 PM) Remember when during the election the fake news media tried to make it look like Trump supporters were violent and attacking people at rallies and the left demanded everyone disavow? Where is the left now that we know the entire time it is dems that are violently attacking anyone with differing opinions?[/b] Antifa is a legitimate domestic terror organization trying to destroy free speech and the left is silent all of a sudden? We have reached hilarious levels of hypocrisy in the past 3 months, which is why dems got pumped up and down the ballot, and will continue to do so. PizzaGate is real, still? Speakers included Lauren Southern, a Canadian activist who has said rape affects men more than women, and AltRight.com writer Brittany Pettibone, who has said she believes in Pizzagate, a discredited conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton. At ant rate, they're not members of the Democratic Party any more than the KKK and Alt-Right are members of the GOP. Clinton was a terrible candidate. The Dems will easily win back the House in two years the way things are going. For any traditional/mainstream or conservative GOPer Trump is picking up recently, he's losing two or three that supported his America First (anti military intervention, anti China/Mexico) agenda which has now been completely abandoned. Those middle class members will be quick to flip back when they've seen no improvements in their standard of living. And extrapolating two protests in California, where they deliberately tried to provoke and bait the far left/anarchists isn't going to mean much of anything to those in the Midwest and Rust Belt.

Two walks for Moncada. 6 consecutive losses by the Knights.

Another walk for Moncada, batting rh against lefty reliever.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 04:51 PM) Although it's likely just wishful thinking, my hope is that Avi and Davidson continue to perform well enough to accelerate the rebuild. If that happens, with Quintana remaining part of the rotation until 2021, the Sox could be competitive sooner than we think. I think Avi and Davidson are huge keys in that equation. Of course they aren't going to continue on their current torrid paces, but if they become key contributors going forward, with Moncada coming, the Sox wouldn't have that many holes to fill. Without a couple of established, solid starters, that accelerated rebuild would be very difficult. I love Kopech and Lopez, and am hopeful for Giolito, but counting on all of them is unrealistic. A lot depends on Rodon, too. And then Abreu becomes a huge question mark, but you still have Hayes, Delmonico and Davidson over there...which leaves that gaping hole in CF still. 3B. Saladino/Davidson/Delmonico SS. Anderson 2B. Moncada 1B. Abreu/Hayes/Davidson/Delmonico C. Collins LF. Delmonico??? CF. Luis Robert RF. Avi Garcia Right now, we're still at least two bats shy in the OF. Wouldn't count on Willy Garcia or Liriano. Engel, May or Tilson, for that matter.

Moncada with a soft single to CF off former Sox pitcher Zach Stewart. Liriano back in lineup.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Apr 14, 2017 -> 06:03 PM) I wrote a response to this but my dog jumped on my lap top and deleted it. So if I ramble, it's just me being depressed Ghost in the Shell is a Paramount movie and if you check out the trades you'll see that they've been dropping a lot of films off their slate as they lost $445M last year. I have a friend who works in the offices there and he told me about a lot of reshuffling is going on as they've been pretty desperate for franchises. Look at how Monster Trucks came into existence for example. So they probably envisioned or hoped Ghost in the Shell would be a potential franchise for them, it still could I do think anime is the hardest type of property to adapt because it is so specific to a culture and to a group of people. I love Akira to death but I doubt that it'll ever be brought to the big screen as there are so many landmines that you would have to navigate through when you adapt it for the screen. McCarthy and McKinnon were in Ghostbusters, that had a $150M budget and almost caused Sony Pictures to fold. I doubt that they'll be quick to spend that kind of money on a female fronted blockbuster for a very long time. You'd think with Hollywood putting out mostly big films that we'd have more movie stars, people who can open, greenlight and bankroll a movie on their name and involvement alone, but as I said there's only 15 of them and that may be too generous of a number. I think the death of the mid sized film and the lack of original content has something to do with it as studios were willing to take more chances and be a little adventurous because the stakes weren't as high. I would agree with you that the overall pool of talent is very diverse but there isn't a lot of opportunity out there. Because the stakes have gotten higher, opportunity has shrunk. Plus there's been a massive shift in the industry over the past 6 years as brands and IP have overtook talent as the most valuable commodity. Disney realized that they had a massive problem connecting with boys, so they go out and make Tangled and John Carter of Mars. And when those movies failed they were faced with their own mortality kinda and went out and bought Marvel and Lucasfilm. WB used to be the big game in town because of their talent pool and while it is still better than Disney's, they lack the IP to really compete. The game is about to start but if we want a bigger and more diverse pool of movie stars we have to go out of our way and support movies like Ghost in the Shell, Get Out, Keanu, Lion because we have no choice to make our own stars at this point. Keanu? I'm assuming that's not a John Wick reference. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4283&p=.htm Looks like Fast 8 will break all-time domestic and worldwide records this weekend. Kind of at the heart of the problem you're referring to there. I saw it Fri here in China....it makes Michael Bay look like Werner Herzog but keeps chugging along without Paul Walker or any sense of storytelling logic. I can't say it wasn't entertaining at least. Lion was just way too slow the first half, but the payoff was worth it. Hidden Figures, for my money, was the best of the year. Btw, don't forget how well Meryl Streep has held on for so long in her career. Helen Mirren. Two points for older women. Amy Adams Emma Stone Scar Jo Emma Watson? Melissa McCarthy Tina Fey? Sandra Bullock Charlize Theron Kristen Stewart? Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Aniston Anne Hathaway Angelina Jolie Cameron Diaz? Gal Gadot if Wonder Woman succeeds Kristen Wiig Not exactly a diverse list. Gbutha Raw and Nathalie Emmanuel are getting a lot of supporting roles. Viola Davis. The actress from 12 Years a Slave with the short hair. I could name a ton of Asian actresses but few are well known in the US.

In line to get his first win if the bullpen can hold it. Official ERA of 1.25 now. Btw, Oakland with one of the weirdest no hit game lines in recent history against the Astros through 6.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-claims-imm...-182157762.html Trump claims immunity for inciting violence at campaign rallies...Judge Hale appears to disagree The response filed by Trump contradicts the argument of a co-defendant, a Trump supporter accused of shoving a young black woman at the rally. WDRB-TV reported (http://bit.ly/2oed0Tu ) that 75-year-old Alvin Bamberger said he was only following Trump's directions when he helped remove her. Bamberger filed a countersuit in U.S. District Court on Friday, saying "he would not have acted as he did without" Trump's "urging and inspiration." Bamberger also cited other Trump rallies, saying Trump and his campaign "repeatedly urged people attending" the rallies to "remove individuals who were voicing opposition to Trumps candidacy" and promised to pay the legal fees of those who removed protesters. Plaintiffs Kashiya Nwanguma, Molly Shah and Henry Brousseau allege that they were physically attacked by several members of the audience, including Bamberger. Bamberger can be seen on video repeatedly shoving Nwanguma. He acknowledged in his counter claim that he "touched" a woman, but denied assaulting anyone.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/mlb...bert/100395952/ Two months to go until June 15 deadline. This particular article applies to the Reds, but it might as well be the White Sox.

Fear that he and Saladino will struggle against a tough righty, I guess.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/15/opinions/the...nion/index.html We should all enjoy life (and the White Sox) more, since we're almost all going to be replaced by robots someday...