caulfield12

Mostly pitched with the Twins at the major league level...

http://news.nationalpost.com/life/everythi...ennial-monsters This article blames the majority of problems for Millenials largely on the Baby Boomers (those 53-71 years old today). Greg, a response???

Let's hope it doesn't come out that Donald Trump, Jr., has a financial interest involved here...although my recollection is that the chain is privately held. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Donald Trump Jr. has taken to Twitter to mock a group of Pittsburgh college students opposed to the addition of a Chick-fil-A restaurant to their campus. A student newspaper at Duquesne University reports that a student government representative last month proposed asking the university to reconsider the addition of a Chick-fil-A. Niko Martini told The Duquesne Duke that Chick-fil-A "has a questionable history on civil rights and human rights." Trump Jr. tweeted a link to an article on the controversy Thursday and wrote: "Luckily these students wont likely have to tackle issues more stressful than a yummy chicken sandwich in their lives... Oh Wait #triggered" Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy has publicly spoken about his opposition to gay marriage. The Atlanta-based company said in a statement Thursday: "Everyone is welcome in our restaurants." https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-jr...-183433674.html Greg775? These freaks want to force little girls to share their restrooms with mentally ill men wearing dresses. If I catch one anywhere near my daughter. It's gender 'reassignment' surgery will be performed There.. on the spot BY ME FOR FREE with no anesthesia. Snap your fingers at THAT- SNOWFLAKES Too vitriolic/confrontational, I think...

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 10:52 PM) Are you actually suggesting this dude will be asking for $100M? Where in the hell did you come up with that number? The largest lawsuit my company has faced in the past six years (and we have faced a dozen or so serious ones) was $20M and that involved the deaths & dismemberment of a half dozen people. This guy will get a couple million max in a settlement. And what's this lost $750M? Please don't tell me this is stock price related. Yes, it's market (cap) valuation...look at the fall in the Dow this week, compared to UAL. At least 50-75% is clearly related to this individual incident. That's not even measuring losses/lowered profitability in terms of revenue over the next quarter or two. Maybe $100 million was hyperbolic, but they'll start out asking for $25-50 million because they have 3 deep-pocked entities involved here. And that's not even taking into consideration potential lawsuits (the teacher and his students) who potentially can argue damages as witnesses/direct participants in the day's events. United Pilots' Union is taking the position of blaming Chicago (and trying to separate themselves, good luck!) 1. This violent incident should never have happened and was a result of gross excessive force by Chicago Department of Aviation personnel. 2. No United employees were involved in the physical altercation. 3. Social media ire should properly be directed at the Chicago Aviation Department. 4. This occurred on an Express flight operated by Republic Airline, as such, the flight crew and cabin crew of Flight 3411 are employees of Republic Airline, not United Airlines. 5. United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz has apologized for United Airlines, the actions of the Chicago Department of Aviation, and the actions of our Express partner, Republic Airline. For reasons unknown to us, instead of trained Chicago Police Department officers being dispatched to the scene, Chicago Department of Aviation personnel responded. At this point, without direction and outside the control of United Airlines or the Republic crew, the Chicago Department of Aviation forcibly removed the passenger. Members of local airport law enforcement are normally important security partners who assist aircrews in ensuring the safety of everyone on the airplane. This event was an anomaly and is not how United or the police are expected to treat passengers when there is no security threat. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/infuriat...-222221180.html

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 10:44 PM) You really don't get how this works at all. United can offer them whatever they want in vouchers (up until a self imposed limit per internal policy) to get customers to voluntarily forgoe their ticket. If they have to force someone off unvoluntarily, they have to by law pay a specific amount based on how much of the passenger's time is lost as a result. Unfortunately, given that he refused to get off the plane in the first place (and eventually forced off by police), this benefit was likely never presented to him. So when you say United did not follow policy and cite the example used above, you are completely incorrect. Except according to their own rules, they weren't allowed to do ANYTHING once he'd already boarded the plane without violating their own carriage agreement. The argument he later became "combative/disruptive" was directly caused by BREAKING their own rules (trying to de-board someone involuntarily) which were not adhered to here.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 08:44 PM) You guys that moan about Hawk and Benetti should listen to these unlistenable Royals announcers. All they do is talk about upcoming games at home trying to sell a handful of tickets, talk about how great this team is, throw in dumb references to the parade they had when they won it all. At least the Sox announcers aren't part of one 9 inning commercial for the team. Denny Matthews is good but he's helpless. For an entire half inning he has to listen to some horrid announcer read scores for the Sonic MLB scoreboard or something dumb like that. Horrible listening. Pathetic homers. If the White Sox were in the World Series for 2 of the last 3 years, you don't think you'd be hearing about it constantly? Especially when it took them 29 years just to get back to the playoffs.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-wor...e144264889.html GOP Congressman from OK claims that constituents/taxpayers don't pay his salary Good luck walking that one back. And then cancels a town hall meeting out of "safety concerns." Funny a guy who got 70% of the vote feels so threatened in his own district right now. I thought Republicans were all tough guys? https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/dff3f614-1a23-...arty's.html GOP candidate loses party's (but not Trump's) support for being overheard on The Apprentice (of course!) telling a female contestant "you should F--K me, it would really be good." “There are human errors and even Jesus dropped the cross three times,” McDowell said. “I’m not running to be the pope. I’m running to make New Jersey more affordable.” Shouldn't that earn him even more endorsements?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-united-legal...-134223391.html Why United was LEGALLY WRONG to deplane David Dao Flight was never considered to be OVERBOOKED, either.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Apr 3, 2017 -> 08:40 PM) Im not trying to speak for the masses, as I can only speak for myself. I really enjoyed it, although I thought the movie really dragged during the origin stuff and that was its biggest flaw. They should've went with The Major being an absolute and avoid diving headfirst into the origin. And the costumes and props were f***ing amazing. Glad to see it be very faithful to the source material. f***, the movie got my mother (a black woman in her 50s) to check out the original anime film. The rollout to the movie reminded me of BvS, in that there was a lot of bad press surrounding the movie before it even hit theaters and people already started to form opinions on the finished product before they even seen it. I was pleased to see that it's during well overseas. There's a lot riding on this movie, not just the future of anime adaptions but the future of female fronted blockbusters. I would say there are only about 15 'movie stars' on the planet and ScarJo is not just one of them but she's one of the biggest as all her films do really well financially. If the one dependable female star has a movie that falters, a $100M+ movie at that, it's bad for actresses everywhere and movies in general as studios are going to get a very timid about greenlighting female led films. I guess we're going to have to wait a while for Furiousa for example. That's my take but as always you should see it for yourself and form your own opinion. I think this would be more worrisome if the source material was meant to launch an American blockbuster trilogy of films. It's more of a "niche" film like Pacific Rim, despite the $100+ million budget. Anytime you take a Japanese cultural product and try to adapt it even slightly to make it more palatable to the Western masses, you run a risk. You never know how audiences will react. And, besides Scar Jo, there weren't any recognizable actors in the film, other than Michael Pitt and Juliet Binoche. On the female empowerment side, you have Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Charlize Theron, you've got Emily Blunt getting opportunities to be an action star, Kate Blanchette getting rave reviews for playing the villain in the new THOR film, it's (Ghost in the Shell) just going to be a blip in the overall scheme of things. Wouldn't read TOO much into it. Emma Stone has become a huge star as a result of La La Land. Jennifer Lawrence continues to loom as perhaps the biggest name, but it's not like when you had Julia Roberts on top of the world, then Meg Ryan, Reese Witherspoon, etc. There's a lot more diversity of talent, IMO.

Supposedly it (MOAB bomb) was developed to be utilized many years ago, after 9/11, but had never been tested in battle. At any rate, the more interesting military industrial complex story is what exactly happens if North Korea detonates yet another nuclear bomb on Saturday. It's one of their national holidays, and saber rattling/military parade days...with the US Navy lurking off the coast, and the undecided political situation in South Korea, now's the time to really test the new US/China "positive relationship." China has massed 150,000 troops close/r to the border region as well. When it comes down to it, China almost has no choice but to mount a coup in the North before they'll countenance a US military strike that might have serious ramifications for the US, both Koreas, China, Japan and even Russia.

Any updates on Victor Diaz?

He possesses a solid, sharply moving fastball that sits in the low 90s, but tops out around 95 mph. However, the rest of Dunning’s pitches are around average. His changeup has the chance to be above average, but his slider isn’t particularly good. Dunning’s accuracy is mediocre, but his overall control is stellar. https://theloopsports.com/2017/01/27/white-...0-dane-dunning/ Looks like the biggest issue for Dunning is going to be developing his secondary pitches. He can get away with being a mostly fastball pitcher in A ball, but not in Birmingham or Charlotte.

Seems to always happen with the White Sox. Their top pitching prospects disappoint and "under the radar" guys like Santiago, Q, Buehrle, Santos, Fogg and Chad Bradford (just throwing out a few names, don't jump down my throat, lol) make the biggest impacts. I guess Hudson and McCarthy have had their moments, when they could actually stay healthy. For now, I'll think of Giolito as Erik Johnson, Lopez as Young Pedro Martinez/Juan Cruz (no pressure!) and Dunning as the next Aaron Nola/Michael Wacha.

Now it's the Billy Goat symbol on the WS ring making worldwide news.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 12:06 PM) One of my buddies, who is pilot for an airline out of O'Hare, was on Facebook defending United so I was able to see a pretty good argument. They do have the right to remove you from a plane for any reason. Just really unfortunate he didn't cooperate and that it all ended up on video. Edit: and seriously, they were being well compensated to give up their seats. Not when you consider that he would have lost all of his patients' fees for one week...since Monday is the only day he's licensed to practice. Opportunity cost. Also not clear if they were picking up hotel/meal costs/transportation or just $800 travel voucher for flights. By agreement, they should have offered up to $1350 but got in a rush because of late appearance by Republic Airways crew.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 12:06 PM) Not sure what they could ultimately get for this but both United and the aviation police screwed up. First of all, United did not follow policy/protocol for bumping someone off a flight who did not volunteer to do so. Someone posted the link earlier but if they were going to remove him from the plane, he was supposed to be offered up to 4x the cost of his ticket in cash/check. They only offered $800 and it was in United vouchers so that shouldn't have counted. The police, on the other hand, used excessive force against a non-threatening senior citizen and wound up doing serious physical damage. I just don't see how he doesn't get a pretty hefty settlement. They didn't randomly select. They didn't tell volunteers it was the last flight of the day. They didn't come close to that $1350/4x number, they stopped at either $800 or $1000. They didn't give those 3 early volunteers a written declaration of their rights to sign. They weren't technically overbooked, so overbooking situation didn't even apply here.

http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UAL/?ltr=1 United getting fairly close to their low of two days ago. I'll guess they start out in the $100+ million range and settle before it even gets to trial. Nothing good is coming out of a prolonged public spectacle for UAL. They've already lost close to $750 million, not even including cancellations in the last 48-72 hours.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/additional-offic...-222312365.html The other two security officers involved placed on administrative leave.

First Republican, Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado...says Spicer should be gone at a town hall. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/12/politics/sea...hall/index.html

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 06:00 AM) The NBA is also completely different in the number of teams that make it. 10 vs. 16 isn't THAT dramatic. But yeah, closer to the NFL.

Not necessarily more prospects....most A teams have just 2-3, maybe 4 on a team. The issue is more with the additional players on the team, how long they've been in professional baseball, their Latin American operations (another White Sox depth issue)...and A teams tend to have players drafted within the last couple of seasons, so 50% of their results is simply indicating the recent draft classes, although obviously producing 3-4 solid major league players and having a .500ish record is much better than a championship team filled with mostly collegiate or repeat league players whose careers are hitting a crossroads and none of those players ever putting up a 2+ WAR in the majors. http://www.baseball-reference.com/register...cgi?id=a371f207 We won the SAL this year, and yet only Jose Guillen (joined at the end of the year) really made much of an impact in the majors. Jason Johnson had an average or mediocre career as a starting pitcher. 9 players who made the majors eventually, and Steve Cooke was rehabbing so I won't count him. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/teams/stats...%20&T=10089 59-92 but they produced Jason Kendall and very little else, still more productive career WAR-wise than a league championship team two years later

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 16, 2017 -> 09:14 AM) How on earth is a company like Snapchat valued at $22.2bn? A global manufacturer who makes millions of cars a year like Ford is only valued at $50bn. There's got to be a gigantic looming tech bubble out there. Just compare Tesla to Ford right now. Crazy.

Conway said she didn't think most journalists had made an adequate effort to understand why Americans elected Trump president and that they hadn't started talking to those people either. "Don't keep getting it wrong by covering the president the way you covered him as a candidate," Conway said. "What's the noise versus what's the news? ... Remember, he's taken dozens and dozens of executive actions, and there's one that's gotten coverage." ... "You can turn on the TV ... and people literally say things that just aren't true," she said. The crowd laughed at that, presumably because in February, Conway cited a nonexistent "Bowling Green massacre" as justification for Trump's immigration ban. She later had to clarify she meant to say "terrorists" instead of "massacre," and apologized for her mistake. CNN has since declined to interview Conway in part because of "serious questions about her credibility." Maybe because he's STILL running campaign rallies despite already being the elected president? https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/im-not-d...-163506998.html

The irony is how desperately any White Sox fan would have been rooting for ANY playoff appearance in the last decade. In the NBA, quite a few are rationally rooting against the playoffs to force a change in the front office or at least strategic vision of ownership. That's what all the super teams have done to the NBA. Zero balance.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 08:36 AM) Who could blame them. No way I'd go HS pitcher #1 after the 2014 draft. Look at all the issues with Tyler Kolek. From the Twins' history, you have Prior (granted, a collegian) vs. Mauer, which worked out extremely well for Minnesota the first half of his career. Colt Griffin and Luke Hochevar also come to mind. Hochevar was drafted first overall out of Fort Worth in 2006.