caulfield12

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 20, 2017 -> 09:47 PM) C'mon guys... "Reasonability" is going to be in short supply for at least the next two years... And he does have a point. Look at the pizzeria attack. Someone watching on t.v. could just as easily have said "fill in the blank" ethnic/religious protest group is blocking the streets/stands and that's why the attendance in the stands looks so sparse. Hard not to imagine Trump supporters not overreacting to fake news if they can't distinguish between reality and fantasy. I was listening to CSPAN calls before the inauguration and this woman was just going on and on about how Obama finally admitted to being a Muslim 2 1/2 years ago...that he had a close relationship with his imam (brutal pronunciation), was never the rightful president of the US due to his birth certificate and was encouraging Muslims throughout the world to engage in jihad against the US because he wasn't proud of his country. The host asked where this information came from...."You Tube."

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 20, 2017 -> 09:21 PM) Just a little objectivity never hurt anyone http://www.snopes.com/white-house-web-site-trump-changes/ Well, obviously he didn't remove anything personally. Here's a better question...will those topics about gay rights and climate change/environmental protection EVER show up again on the Whitehouse.gov site over the next four years? Most liberal activists certainly have no good reason they will ever reappear again without a fight.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 20, 2017 -> 07:05 PM) Actually these are baseball things. Q being a harder worker, good teammate, etc., has baseball value. Lets use the following hypothetical: The Sox believe that Sale would not perform very well in a rebuild. They think his "problems" may be exasperated if the team is terrible. They believe that if he has further "problems" on/off the field, his value may decline. Furthermore they are concerned that Sale's "attitude" may rub off on young players and create a bad atmosphere. Conversely, Q has been a model teammate and worker. He never complains. They believe Q will perform just the same during a rebuild. They also believe that Q's "attitude" may rub off on other young players and create a positive atmosphere. In this hypothetical, holding out for the "best" trade for Q whereas settling for slightly less than the "best" trade for Sale, is a defensible baseball decision. With Sale, the Sox worry that he could do something to crater his value or potentially negatively impact their future assets. With Q the Sox do not have that worry, and as a bonus believe he may have a positive value on their future assets. Exacerbated?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...m=.24320052c788 I'm pretty sure that American Carnage wasn't meant to be the headline that came out of this... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-ch...m=.d6395fdd2e55 Fact checking the Trump speech. 217 arrested so far.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 20, 2017 -> 05:17 PM) 1 but it will be fun 2 private domain registration yo He keeps forgetting that same Republican Congress would greatly prefer Pence, and doesn't consider Trump one of their own...especially reinforced by today's speech criticizing the DC Establishment in order to play well in flyover territory.

Let's go back to 2004. Nobody in baseball expected Jose Contreras to become the best pitcher in baseball over a 4-5 month span in 2005-06, least of all Brian Cashman. Values are always changing or realigning on a yearly basis. But Chris Archer has the repertoire that checks off all the boxes for scouts, with the right pitching coach, a shot of confidence or just a few small tweaks, there's no reason to assume he will never be be a TOR pitcher again.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 20, 2017 -> 05:11 PM) LOL Waiting for the first wave of complaints about all the coverage for the Women's March and how the leftist press is deliberately overestimating crowd projections.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/0...-hitlerian.html Chris Mathews on Hitlerian tones to the inaugural speech. https://www.yahoo.com/tv/trump-inauguration...-183437627.html Ken Tucker's tv critic perspective on the inauguration. America First, fwiw, actually originated with Charles Lindbergh, became key theme in Philip Roth's novel....The Plot Against America. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/am...nd-donald-trump http://time.com/4273812/america-first-donald-trump-history/

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 20, 2017 -> 04:13 PM) No need to mention climate change on the white house website but thankfully they did mention this crap: White House website promotes Melania Drumpf’s modeling and jewelry line More potential conflicts of interest. Ho hum. Waiting for the first filing over the Trump DC Intl. Hotel in the Old Post Office Building to come down the pike. Chaffetz is such a hypocritical ass. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/cha...tion/index.html

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jan 20, 2017 -> 01:29 PM) To be fair, he blocked a small reduction that was supposed to go into place on the 25th. It's not like he raised taxes. And it's a pretty minimal reduction. I think the average benefit was like ~400 for the year. If that's the best "spin job" you can do, you might still be eligible to work for Perry or DeVos.

How about those retired people run the US government instead? Teaching requires a lot of energy, preparation and passion, it's not a volunteer position. 90% of the kids in high school today would never be able to relate to older people, and if you can't build repoire...you're never going to get their attention, and they're not going to learn much, if anything. Kids in this generation are addicted to computer games, high tech devices, selfies...with that generation gap, what are they going to have in common? How many older people can teach in new and innovative ways that can engage the multiple learning styles...other than just giving a lecture or writing notes on the board? Even taking 25-40 year olds with lots of energy AND life experience and putting them into the Teach for America program hasn't made much of a dent in inner city school problems...and those are often teachers with some pretty top notch educational and career backgrounds who quickly burn out after 2-4 years.

Now the Frazier market will heat up exponentially!!! Or not. Unfortunately, we're going to have to wait until July for Cabrera, and probably at least June for Frazier/Robertson/Jones. That said, someone penciled in for the starting 3B job with about 15-18 MLB contending teams suffering a season-ending injury and we suddenly have a hugely in-demand asset again, not that one roots for injuries like that to anyone.

Wilbur Ross, in his confirmation hearing, says that US trade negotiators too often start with a blank slate and instead should have a model agreement where they can say certain things are non negotiable because they are official US policy or law. Ross further states he wants to develop a "model trade agreement" to provide such a tool. Apparently he is unaware that US negotiators have not started with a blank slate since negotiating the GATT in 1947, they consistently rely on settled law, policy and precedent as leverage in trade negotiations, and even have a "model" investment treaty from which they do not sway in all negotiations. Would be helpful if the man who is going to run trade policy had an idea of how things actually work. FB post from a former high school classmate

https://www.yahoo.com/news/in-a-klan-enclav...-230638282.html In a Klan enclave (Harrison, Arkansas), questions about Trump aren't welcome

We've been hearing this same 'ol stuff out of Colorado since Mark Hampton and Darryl Kile.

Meanwhile, Steve Alford is the King Of Westwood, for now...but he was never going to be able to accomplish that in Iowa City, it was just a stepping-stone. Iowa was almost blown out of the game at home by MD in the first half, stormed back to take a late 3 point lead but they seem to have run out of gas at the end. At least they're entertaining...for all the hype Tyler Cook got, he hasn't been THE man for Iowa like he was expected when he stepped onto campus. Needs to figure out other ways to attack the basket and improve his shooting, like most athletes who rely on physical dominance to get through high school.

Link's not working?

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jan 19, 2017 -> 07:13 PM) It shifted pretty quick didn't it. I think some of the factors are... 1) the number of teams rebuilding 2) stricter penalties for going over the salary threshold 3) more teams realizing that in general, most veterans in that 30+ year old range decline during the new contract. 4) as we've seen the last few years with the Sox, the contracts of Melky, LaRoche and Danks have hindered future moves. Remember last year when Hahn said he would have to get creative in order to make a run at Cespedes/Upton/Gordon? The LaRoche and Danks contracts definitely hindered that. I think a perfect example is Alex Gordon. He recieved a guaranteed three year deal for 60M and regressed in '16. Can you imagine the b****ing that would be going on right now if it had been the Sox that signed Gordon? All I can say is thank you KC. Would anyone be any happier with Justin Upton's performance? Probably not. His overall stats look decent, but he was absolutely terrible for the first half of the season, and his intermittent hot streaks in the second half weren't enough to push the Tigers back into it, not with JD Martinez out for most of the year and the starting rotation after Verlander and Fulmer struggling. In the end, even in the "best case" scenario of those three outfielders, we'd have pretty dramatically overpaid for Cespedes for one year and have almost nothing left right now to show for it except an even more middling first round draft pick. That's not counting Heyward, Fowler and Desmond as part of the conversation.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 19, 2017 -> 05:50 PM) As with you, the Republicans in Congress only care about corruption when they can throw that allegation at Hillary Clinton. The moment he puts his hand on the Bible and it bursts into flame, he will be in violation of the constitution by profiting from his office. Meanwhile, Trump is planning to wipe out the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NEA and NEH... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...m=.a290942ac087 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...m=.992b334ae444 Meanwhile, in an article Balta could have written about conflicts of interest with the Old Post Office/Trump DC Hotel... Rates this week were five times higher than normal – meaning many of the rooms are running at least $2,000 a night — and required a five-night minimum beginning Tuesday. Trump has turned over management of his business to his sons Donald Jr. and Eric, but he does not plan to sell his assets. He said this month that he would donate “profits” from foreign business clients to the U.S. Treasury. However, neither Trump nor representatives of the Trump Organization have provided details on how such payments would be tracked, collected and disbursed. Given such issues, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.) and other congressional Democrats have pushed the General Services Administration to cancel the Old Post Office Pavilion lease. GSA officials have said that no violations have yet occurred. “No determination regarding the Old Post Office can be completed until the full circumstances surrounding the ­President-elect’s business arrangements have been finalized and he has assumed office,” the agency said in a statement. [Update: Feds say it’s ‘premature’ to judge lease for Trump’s D.C. hotel] By then, of course, GSA will be part of the new administration — raising the prospect of a Trump appointee renegotiating the lease with one of his sons. Steven L. Schooner, a professor of government procurement law at George Washington University, said he feared that the GSA would “just bury its head in the sand and hope the storm blows over” even though “this problem isn’t going to get better with time.” Also, the Washington Post columns are being offered free for this three day Inauguration Day period, fwiw. And how many times have we heard about Trump making or pledging donations that never actually took place? Must be 50-75 times in the last six months by my count.

QUOTE (reiks12 @ Jan 19, 2017 -> 03:31 PM) Thats what they do though. They did the same thing with Morton in 2013. Worked very well Not to mention Volquez...maybe Liriano as well? But that was equally related to lowering pitch counts, inducing more ground balls and defensive positioning/shifts. As opposed to simply trying to fix a "struggling" pitcher with confidence issues.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 19, 2017 -> 10:51 AM) Certainly. But look at this list (and not the map, which is only to 2013) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._...ion_growth_rate I'm not quite sure if there has been an energy boom in Idaho, but it's easy to spot the outliers to energy booms in a place like South Dakota, but the trend is clear. Not to diminish if all of those 200 k growth in indiana went to Illinois that that would have no impact, but even if Chicago fixed all of its problems, and you'd still be clawing to get where Minnesota is in terms of growth and you aren't only barely in the top half. Weather is a huge indicator right now. So why is Minnesota doing so well with even more brutal winters and their own unique set of immigrant/refugee problems? It can't be the Mall of America, as malls are dying before our very eyes. Actually, the deterioration of the suburban mall is yet another form of blight in the Midwest, like abandoned Wal Marts and one or two screen movie theatres.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-...m=.d61773b17042 DeVos: Six astonishing things Betsy DeVos said and refused to say at her confirmation hearing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethni...ousehold_income Fwiw, Arab-American is actually BEHIND Caucasian/White American by household income....roughly $60K vs. $55K. Lebanese, Iranian and Syrian (this is actually an argument for relaxing "refugee" status, but only if Trump handpicks "good, hard-working" Arabs I guess) groups are well higher than the average white household...but, all Arab-Americans added together cumulatively end up roughly 8% lower than whites. You can find another grouping of Arab/Arabic all the way down at 89th on the list...ahead of ONLY Burmese, Iraqi and Somalians. Indian American : $101,591[2] Taiwanese American : $85,566[2] Filipino American : $82,389[2] Australian American : $81,452[3] Israeli American : $79,736[3] European American : $77,440[3] Russian American : $77,349[3] Greek American : $77,342[3] Lebanese American : $74,757[3] Croatian American : $73,196[3] Latvian American : $72,690[3] Lithuanian American : $72,605[3] Austrian American : $72,478[3] Different Chinese-American categories (depending if you count Taiwan together) are down at 23rd and 29th, but still ahead of the "average" white household. And with Filipino-Americans third on the list, they've overcome a ton of discrimination themselves as a people...not necessarily comparable to Nazi Germany (Jewish people) or slavery, but nevertheless quite brutal dictatorships.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 18, 2017 -> 11:51 PM) Is it too late for him to change his slogan to Making America Pathetic? M.A.P. sounds like there is actually a cohesive plan or strategy in place other than firing off tweets.

Well, racist and Republican...those two words are getting thrown around almost interchangeably these days, but Trump has nobody but himself to blame for that (and Bannon/the alt-right movement, etc). It's largely why you're seeing 60 members of the House of Representatives sitting out the inauguration Friday, the attacks on John Lewis/Atlanta and the Russian hacking issue.