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QUOTE (Quin @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 08:46 PM) I'd take a middle-of-the-pack starter as a switching-hitting supersub with superb defense and power any day of the week. That sounds more like Leury’s profile...

Cuban hitters typically rake in the middle of snowstorms...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 07:14 PM) We bounced back 200 points in the last hour. Wait to see what China does. If they hit us back again, especially if it involves our bonds, this could get really ugly. Dow 20000 here we go. How would dumping bonds really benefit them...making the RMB stronger when their exports are under threat seems like the exact opposite of what they choose to do. Not to mention they enjoy the psychological advantage of that imagined “leverage” over the US of controlling $1.2 trillion in debt. US yields might rise in the short term, but their hit would be worse because many of their inefficient state owned enterprises are over leveraged in debt.

Hansen, Robert and Eloy...get well soon!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 06:45 PM) Last offseason at the start of December I was saying either extend them now or trade them. After watching how last offseason played out, I'm not so sure any more, that call may have been wrong and I think 2k5 may have a point in this thread Yeah they could continue putting up strong seasons, but decent seasons could still leave them hanging out at the end of the FA market after 3 or 4 other guys take the remaining money. Goldschmidt is a FA the same year as Abreu, so is Smoak, so he might well be the 3rd 3b on the market and the oldest of them. Other teams might blow their money on that lefty starter at the front of Boston's rotation. If he stays healthy, the best OF on the market could be Adam Eaton. And if a team like the Yankees or Dodgers decides to keep their powder dry in 2020...in 2021 this dude named Mike Trout becomes a free agent, and he won't turn 29 until the middle of the next season, so good lord imagine that contract. There's a nonzero chance that where this market is going, these guys deals wind up unusually depressed compared to what it would take to extend them right now. You’re forgetting that the Eaton deal has two affordable options through 2021. http://www.spotrac.com/mlb/washington-nati...am-eaton-11309/ I would take Abreu over Smoak in win now mode based on overall track record, but that could change if Smoak repeats. Like Belt because of his defense...

Happy to take a .154 season from Moncada if we can also extrapolate the offensive numbers of the rest of those players for the full season, particularly Davidson, Anderson and Yolmer. Winning. And it?€™s not like he isnt 1 for his last 15. Even changing that one hit to a GS gives him a respectable ops.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 06:47 PM) What exactly are we spending all our money on then? You?€™re against Machado, you?€™re against elite relievers. Do you want to overpay for a bunch of B free agents or simply go young across the board? 1) Another outfielder if Avi goes 2) Veteran 2/3 starter 3) Two elite set up guys (rather than one closer, who I believe comes internally) 4) Catcher? Depends on Collins/Zavala... If I knew the top 2-3 picks in the draft, that would help, too. I also would be looking to Japan or Korea for a bargain to throw in the mix.

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 06:43 PM) Off topic but imagine this season is do or die for Michalczewski, Hawkins, Barnum, and Alvarez Alvarez would have to get past Anderson, Leury, Saladino, Sanchez, Cordell and two more Charlotte middle infielders just to be the last guy on the bench. That said, if he can hit for enough power, he has a shot at the Saladino spot, pr, etc. Adolfo 2/2 with a walk.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/maybe-trump-...-195710761.html Wal-Mart, not Amazon, is the real culprit destroying small businesses and hollowing out communities

One play does not a season make. Let’s not make it out to be bigger than Tony Graffanino in the 2005 AL Divisional Series.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 06:34 PM) I'm not squeamish about the money next year. IMO that was the point of the rebuild. So I'll be the first to say in this thread that this is the piece I want. Kimbrel. Has he had arm surgery yet? He seems like a perfect example of a veteran who has been used extensively and all of a sudden goes south (if the Sox get him)...but he’s still only 29, and should have at least 3-4 more dominant years left.

Personally, I think they give it until midseason 2019 to play out...unless they can get some absolute bargains next offseason. There are too many wild cards right now. Jones. Burdi’s health. The law of averages says that at least one if not two of Fulmer, Lopez, Cease and Dunning will wind up down there. Not having to pay an elite closer $15 million (again) would be a huge boost. Hopefully Avilan, Bummer, Cedeno can hold down the fort from the LH side...not particularly interested in overpaying for Andrew Miller one season early.

Rutherford had based loaded opportunity but Kd... The top five in that lineup is fun to follow at least. Somehow they’ve managed 5-6 caught stealings in the early going this year already.

Rutherford has a double, yay, xb hit..also, looks like Booker and Call will split time early. Adolfo has a walk and single. Charlotte not exactly motivating to look up unless Kopech is in action. Watching Cedeno, Ross, Gomez, Rondon fight for pen spots, I guess.

Too quick...have to give more than a week there.

Too quick...have to give more than a week there.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 11:03 AM) No man. I think the reality is you misinterpret the fact that Clinton's manuerisms, language, and style was relatably southern (black and white) to people with the traits you identified of infidelity, back stabbing and obesity for some reason. So when people say they relate to bill clinton, you think they are saying they are relating to the worst parts of him. It's not that crazy to understand the support he had from southern black voters after 12 years of Reagan/Bush. He didn't keep black leaders at arms length, he was visible in black communities and churches. He had black members of his leadership, he was visibly close friends with Vernon Jordan and golfed with him. He talked about black communities and his plans for them in speeches after years of neglect in national discussion (aside from moral terms of why they were failing). These were advances at the time though they are table stakes now. It doesn't mean his policies actually served those ends, to the contrary. But it built a lot of equity to bring many of those leaders with a bigger seat at the table than they had before when others weren't and he didn't have to. ALl you are doing is plopping 2016 view on bill clinton and knowledge of his presidency, placing it in the 90s without any context and then drawing caricatures about huge groups of people with that viewpoint. Being close to Jordan, Franklin Raines and Ron Brown doesn?€™t explain it, either. He aggressively marketed the Clinton brand to black churches, not unlike Trump securing the evangelical vote. And sure, anyone who came after those two presidents would have been better...not even the Democratic Party was ready to get behind Jesse Jackson in 1988 and 1992. If Mario Cuomo became president, he would have done a lot more for African Americans imo.

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 10:49 AM) If Yolmer and Anderson are consistent 3+ WAR players, there's no reason to sign Manny Machado... Especially if you look at the risk on a deal like that...give me another outfielder, veteran #2-3 starter to help lead the youngsters (and insure against injury risk) and put the rest into creating an elite pen. Catcher would be the other main concern, depending on Collins/Zavala’s development. Following that plan also allows you to devote another starting prospect to the bullpen foundation. If we keep Avi, we probably don’t need to sign a FA. Let’s see how Jimenez, Robert, Delmonico, Engel, Leury and Cordell do this year first.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 10:32 AM) By the way, none of us is ever going to convince the other. I continue to discuss Bernie to highlight why his candidacy would be terrible for Dems. For instance Sqwert, GoSox, etc and I all probably agree on 99% of issues. We're on the same team. Yet we aren't and we don't really like each other much. That's the problem with a Bernie 2020 candidacy - it'll just continue the infighting and make it worse. For the good of everyone, we should move on from BOTH HRC and Bernie, and Biden frankly. That's the pragmatic and prudent choice if we want to win in 2020. Of course, the Berner's generally aren't much for pragmatism, but hopefully enough Dems will care enough about beating Trump to want a more united front opposing him. And he's done his job - the Dem party has shifted significantly left because of Bernie, so his supporters should be stoked about that. That?€™s the core argument. That pragmatic in the last 30 years hasn?€™t led to anything but more economic inequality, educational attainment inequality, erosion of labor unions/workers?€™ rights, etc. That?€™s why Conor Lamb and Sanders are aligned with Trump on tariffs. Btw, what did Clinton and Obama do to help people in Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan...? Other than ObamaCare, the legacy of this pragmatism is globalization, lost jobs to China and SE Asia/India/Mexico, the loss of ability for blue collar/manufacturing workers to provide for families, higher tuition and medical insurance rates, drug costs increasing...the continuing erosion in those communities in the face of immigration, perceived preference for minorities and/or illegals, etc. Clinton essentially brought about cheaper products to Wal-Mart...which of course was one of his biggest lifetime corporate contributors in Arkansas. On environment, gun control, prison reform, abortion...the Dems have lost a lot of ground. Edit:Obama did preserve a lot of Detroit’s auto industry in the face of Romney wanting them to go bankrupt

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 10:24 AM) O'Malley messed up on the Black Lives Matter front when he was running as well. I won't deny that. But he was elected Mayor of Baltimore as a white guy TWICE and he isn't galavanting around the country for photo ops with black civil rights leaders just to bolster his 2020 bid. He's actually been campaigning for every Democrat he can to actually help us win elections. He's been on the ground in something like 30 states thus far campaigning for Dems while Bernie mugs for the camera behind Al Sharpton. Please. Oh, and here's O'Malley's platform for Criminal Justice Reform, followed by his plan to revitalize urban America: https://martinomalley.com/policy/criminal-justice/, https://martinomalley.com/policy/american-c...nd-communities/ Most Dems dont even know anything about O?€™Malley and were left more impressed by John Kasich (past arch conservatism conveniently forgotten.) Just didnt register on the radar.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 10:16 AM) No, no you first. Your connection that he's the first black president is because black voters identified with the characteristics you described? The origins of that quote are around something far different. Those same qualities are why many whites voted for him...and the same reason that (many) men overlooked his marital infidelities. It’s the mirror image of Trump’s success in many ways. They were different versions of con artists. Reread Primary Colors. Clinton went out of his way to execute a disproportionate number of blacks in ARK because of Willie Horton/Mike Dukakis. “Super predators.” Fighting with Sista Souljah. Complete political calculation. The trick was using the Clinton Foundation AIDS/Africa work to cover up the reality of policies from 1978-2000. And hobnobbing with the most famous celebrities like Oprah, Michael Jordan and Tiger (unsurprisingly, they secretly loathed each other)

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 10:02 AM) What do you think you are saying with this post. It is incredibly condescending. Basically to sum-up: - The monolithic black vote is more comfortable with looser morals, intimidated by education, struggles with weight gain and distrusts jews The southern black political bloc has reasons for backing certain candidates that aren't because they are brainwashed by propoganda. I taught in an inner city school from 2002-2007 and my students almost universally related to Clinton for many of those reasons. They always said he was the first black president. He was fallible. Human. Admired his overcoming a terrible rural upbringing, abuse/family alcoholism, becoming a Rhodes Scholar. They admired his intelligence and ability to speak in black churches.His love for music and movies and he talked a big game about poverty eradication. How can you explain that nearly universal sentiment prior in the 2008 South Carolina primary?

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:59 AM) Lmao. You just used Buzzfeed and Bustle and you are going to criticize Alternet as a source. Do Kamala Harris or Booker even have their own plans to address African American economic and academic underperformance...?

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:54 AM) Every single time he's faced with responding to or dealing with black activists and/or responding about issues regarding race, he gaffes. He says something stupid. He's earned his reputation. He's absolutely not racist - he just prioritizes his economic policy over social justice because he believes the first will help with the latter. But having a rich old white guy tell black Americans that HE better knows what will help them than they do doesn't always come off so great, does it? But you can say the same about the Parkland activists...because black on black violence is peripheral to limiting all gun violence, and not the central unifying message. Go back to RFK’s 1968 campaign. Would that message today work against Trump effectively?

Spieth, just when you think he’s going to run away and hide...falls apart again. That Masters collapse really must have scarred his psyche.