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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.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:49 AM) The fact that you and the Berners are on the same side here says all that needs to be said. Or that he would now actually prefer Sanders to Trump...if he could vote today, ceteris paribus.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:21 AM) Watching the Dems destroy themselves even before the primary saddens me as it means another term for Trump. If they cant defeat Trump (despite the complete chaos he is creating), then they should break in half and isolate the Deplorables from Anaheim/Orange County/Mitt Romney/Colin Powell Republicans. Those two parties combined should at least be able to unite and take out Trump and worry about governing fom the progressive left or moderate center at a later point in time. In many ways, the East/West Coast Dems are so distinctive from Rust Belt/Heartland Dems. Hard to reconcile the two groups, at least currently.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:26 AM) And it is such a strange nitpick. Realistically the policies he is talking about are much more towards what the Dems believe will achieve equality, even though Sanders quite can't articulate it right. I mean if you sat down and said what actual policies will achieve equality, it would be straight out of the Sanders playbook, unlike the Clintons and many others who have flipped all over the place based on the current breeze. But somehow Bill gets painted as 'the first black president' while having done less for them. Until Donald Trump was elected, the Clintons were the more effective conarists politically in my lifetime. But yet, Sanders is the one with the racist image. It just blows my mind. Flip their home states. Make Sanders the guy who loves binging on McDonalds, struggles with his weight, can play the sax, talk about his underwear and cheats on his wife/is equally comfortable on Howard Stern or Davos platform...and a 50% better public speaker who can talk foreign policy articulately and sounds more Sunday Baptist churchl sermonizer than macroeconomics professor with a funny Seinfeld accent. (Or convince black voters he’s Larry David from the last 2-3 years of Curb Your Enthusiasm.) Voila...Sanders has universal black support.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:29 AM) Maybe my geography isn't up to par, but I looked at the Dash's schedule and I don't see any road games that are local. Am I seeing this right? Forget seeing Charlotte in Indianapolis; I'd much rather see the Dash's loaded roster. The Carolina League and even Southern are much more concentrated geographically than AAA.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:28 AM) Falling for what? He gets better every year at the plate, and his defense is top notch. That he can be a 750-800 ops guy over one full year based on his career numbers in that category...

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Apr 6, 2018 -> 09:18 AM) I agree but with Avi it?€™ll be a way different story than Moose if he?€™s competing for batting titles. Similar ages (in two years). One is LH. Moustakas with more hype due to his original draft position and World Series performances. Both known more for offense than defense, and carry concerns about weight/body issues going into their 30?€™s. A lot depends on Garcia maintaining a stellar OBP and overcoming the ?€œgood luck/unrepeatable?€? BABIP tag. Garcia needs to bump homers into 25-35 range.

Except in the end...tearing down fellow like-minded politicians will help how? Remember your talking about The Better Deal last year? Nobody even remembers what was in it anymore...the best you’d get would be something about FDR or LBJ, and that’s if you polled 1000 registered Dems, let alone independents.

Probably too excited because Harrelson had him for pick to click... to make a jesting point for or against him.

Will be fine, and much better off for the loss than eking out a win over a hapless Tigers team without Cabrera. Yoan ... Ive decided to put him in that Alexei category of slow starter in the cold weather. He easily could have 2-3 more hits, 3 homers and everyone would be pretty satisfied. As long as he hits in the 750-787.5 ops range this year, 787.5-825 in 2019, he will be 100% ready for 2020 when he’ll still be just 24. Anderson and Leury, imo, were just over-exuberant to make big plays in front of an Opening Day crowd. They will certainly remember these situations the next time out. Leury is a converted SS, let’s not forget, and it still might be his best overall position defensively. Body language wise, Anderson looks like a completely different player and much more vocal/demonstrative. He might be the leader of the team by next season, which is so important for a SS or catcher to possess those character traits. Big picture, if Yolmer and Anderson are consistent 3+ WAR players, the rebuild heavy lifting just got much easier. Not to mention Davidson at worst as a platoon DH, Fulmer in a starting or relieving role, Engel/Leury/Cordell, etc. Even just 2-3 solid contributors from that list is a huge win. Nate Jones can also bring us a nice return with that contract, mitigated by the injury history. Finally, the Blackmon deal indicates it?€™s going to be easier to keep Avi and Abreu in the fold at ?€œaffordable?€? rates. Big picture, Jack Soria sucks as a closer and is barely passable as a MR. It is what is is...even if Leury blocks the ball, there?€™s no guarantee that Soria still gets out of it with a win. He was not exactly fooling anyone. Five years ago, he was a competely different pitcher, but that Royals?€™ 40+ save closer is LONG gone. At any rate, my only concern right now is LeBron leaves the Cavs, CLE wins the WS, advertisers/sponsors flock to the Indians and sustain their competitive window for an additional year or two. Less concerrned about Minn, since they will lose Mauer/Dozier/Santana and might not be able to lock up Buxton/Sano/Berrios with early extensions.

Hawk said we should have come back with a 5-1 trip at least twice...nobody corrected

https://sports.yahoo.com/hawk-harrelson-sta...-193935576.html Pierzynski, whose playing career ended after the 2016 season, has taken plenty of inspiration from Harrelson. Unsurprisingly, most of what's impressed Pierzynski about Harrelson is the latter's emotional attachment to the team and the game. "His passion," Pierzynski said. "It's a little different. He gets to see a team for a whole season, and I walk into a place for one day and try to do the whole season in one game. But the passion that he brought every day was what I admired more than anything because he would generally care. People would be like, ‘He's full of crap.' He genuinely cared about the White Sox every game. "That's the thing you try to portray. If you really do care about the game, you care about what's happening and you care about when guys do it right. That was a big thing for me always was doing it right, playing it right. Always on the broadcast, you can feel that when you watch. "Him not being there, even now. I turn on games and I know he's not going to do it, but I turn it on, Jason's doing great, Stone is great, but for some reason when I turn on a White Sox game it hurts my heart a little bit not to hear his voice. It still gets to me every time because it's so different."

Lost in all the soorts action... “In light of China’s unfair retaliation, I have instructed the USTR to consider whether $100 billion of additional tariffs would be appropriate under section 301 and, if so, to identify the products upon which to impose such tariffs,” Trump said in a statement. Trump’s own chief economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, had spent much of the last two days trying to assure investors that a full-blown trade war with Beijing was not in the offing, but news of possible new tariffs sent Dow futures plummeting Thursday night. If anything, each subsequent, self-inflicted headline served to obscure the one Trump had made hours earlier. When looked at in retrospect, however, some historians will no doubt be tempted to ask why the president didn’t simply stick to his original script in West Virginia. yahoo.com

No point to even keep watching. No matter how good our offense can and will look this year, the bullpen will quickly wipe out any aspirations of being a good team...

Mental mistakes galore...this game was lost the minute it went past Leury.

Well, Dunning has six K’s through 3 at least. Light at the end of the tunnel.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 5, 2018 -> 05:52 PM) I can buy that. I was calling for signing some good relievers in the offseason BTW. I don't like another "development year" or tank year but it is what it is. Very high draft pick this year and another in May of 2019 seems to be in the cards. 30 minutes ago we were going to be tied for first...

If Anderson, Yolmer and Davidson are all legit...we’ll be fine. Just have to weather the Soria rants until he’s gone.

Basabe has half Moncada’s hit total for one entire week in the span of an hour...

Basabe double, Rutherford single followed up by Sheets GIDP...no runs score for Dash Keston Hiura sighting.

QUOTE (whtsoxfan @ Apr 5, 2018 -> 05:06 PM) What's the attendance numbers? 33k+

Wonder why they didnt get Minaya some work there...

Just need to get Moncada going, 1 for his last 13...the almost out, RBI single and near GS with Granderson in TOR. Tigers really need to think about trading Fulmer, or extending him as one of the key building blocks. Castellanos and McCann are probably their two most valuable position players.