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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 03:49 PM) I wonder why they're picking on Kellogg's when a slew of other brands decided to pull ads (i.e., Allstate, Vanguard, Nest, Warby Parker, etc). It's obvious your site has major issues when so many brands decide to stay away. Not to mention Michigan is TrumpLand now...and the DeVoses there as well.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politic...725614/?ref=yfp Sanders says Carrier deal sets a dangerous precedent...(does kind of feel like we'll have hundreds of Jerry Reinsdorfs threatening to pick up and leave as a negotiating tactic...not to mention that everyone feels that "great deal" was more about the parent company preserving future defense contracts with the actual Carrier part being a "win now" media moment for Trump...and that Carrier is still going to continue on with their Mexico plans and not abandon that project completely) http://finance.yahoo.com/news/what-just-ha...-223106708.html What just happened with Carrier is crazy

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 03:48 PM) Eh, would prefer to get players a little more reliable than latam cash. With a cap limit and limited White Sox resources, that does have increased value...but what is it equivalent to? A Moran or Swihart (more $) in terms of the final piece of a deal?

http://qz.com/461688/a-list-of-everything-...his-name-on-it/ So is an attack (Balta raised this earlier) an attack on any of these Trump properties (especially outside the US) going to now be considered an act of war or imminent threat against the United States of America? Only in countries with 25%+ Muslim populations? What if Pakistanis attack the new project in Mumbai, for example...not exactly a city without a long recent history of terrorism-related events. If you want to provoke the US/Trump now, this is the most obvious path forward and doesn't even require setting foot on US soil or nearly as much planning/investment of resources. Who's going to vote the bill for "extra protection" of these sites. Will Trump be content to take it out diplomatically or with a barrage of tweets?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 03:20 PM) The Day After: Obama on His Legacy, Trump's Win and the Path Forward Rolling Stone interviewed Obama the day after the election. Some interesting thoughts from him there on the path forward for progressives, Democrats' challenges in winning state and Senate elections, and the "information bubbles" people increasingly are closing themselves off in. Of course, the main sound bite this week is Obama supposedly blaming the ubiquitousness of FOX News being on everywhere for the loss. Nobody's picking up the lines about contesting/appearing in 99 counties in Iowa in 2008, and the value of retail politics vs. carpet bombing with advertising. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/8-big-change...-124500270.html More details on Price's plans for ObamaCare. One only needs to read Change #1 to get a sense of dread about what's coming, followed by #2...that pre-existing condition situation will have lots of caveats, surely

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawyers-trump-se...-124914780.html Trump might "have to" sell hotel in DC according to contract language but probably won't since it's Ivanka's pet project and he feels he can do whatever he wants as president https://www.yahoo.com/news/breitbart-urges-...-152042623.html breitbart vs. tony the tiger/kellogg's https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/6615cc99-1ba9-...sher-trump.html More Goldman guys on the way... https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-transition...-170401049.html For claiming to be so isolationist, seems Trump instead is going for a video game All-Star collection of "gung ho" wartime generals

Hosmer should still get the money because of his age and defense. Cain, Moustakas, Duffy....at least those four. Then Wade Davis will get a deal similar to Robertson's. Of course, they wouldn't be able to afford to pay him $17+ million for one year, but they might work out a deal where he promises to turn it down (if he has seasons like 2014-15 and stays healthy) in order to sign a $50 million deal elsewhere. Escobar would have to put together a huge rebound season.

That's the problem with the Rangers' deal. They don't want to give up Odor because they need him for 2017, and Profar has fewer years of control as well. Then you run into the fact that they can't easily afford to part with Mazara, either. Too many pieces off the major league team, and not enough enticing minor league prospects at the lower levels. Trading for Gallo is the equivalent of the LaPorta/Sabathia deal way back in the day. They not only need hitting, but players who can hit and field their position at an above average level simultaneously.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Nov 30, 2016 -> 09:50 PM) That seems... controversial Surely the White Sox will continue to be defined as a large-market team while Detroit and St. Louis, not to mention the rest of the AL Central, continues to be considered small market. Sox never took advantage of that international cap to sneak one or two years of huge Latin American classes into the system. As someone else said, rich and forward-thinking teams got richer and richer, everyone else got left behind at the starting line.

QUOTE (Ro Da Don @ Nov 30, 2016 -> 08:50 AM) Good post. While Carpe is starting to make some ridiculous threads, you can't deny KW being a cancer. It'sso hard to judge Hahn's moves with the influence of KW and JR above him. I doubt he has the absolute say in any moves he's made so far, for the most part. For all the s*** Hahn gets, he has signed all of our prominent players (Sale, Q, Eaton, Jones) to cheap, team-friendly extensions and drafted much, much better (at least with the top picks) under hia tenure. We got Anderson, Rodon, Fulmer, Collins. KW would have drafted some raw athletes (Hawkins, Mitchell, Walker) Anderson was the definition of a raw athlete and started as a basketball player. You can't blame KW for Hawkins and then credit Hahn for Anderson...and you're not mentioning Thompson or Semien, either. Which teams with mid-range budgets haven't done the exact same? The Indians more than the White Sox, for example. And calling Jones prominent is pushing it. Plus KW is the one who traded Jones, Addison Reed, Hector Santiago in later rounds. Fulmer hasn't proven much, and Walker was the first pick that year but wasn't close to a Top 10-15 selection. Mitchell got hurt seriously, but obviously he didn't pan out in the end.

Carpe Diem, what exactly has Rick Hahn done in four years to earn your trust, exactly?

And Hahn has made 1 1/2 good moves in 4+ years...Eaton for Santiago, and how much credit you can actually give for Tim Anderson to Hahn vs. Kenny Williams? Abreu goes mostly to KW and Paddy. KW has to get some credit for Sale, Quintana, etc. And Hahn hasn't made a single really good free agent signing...Miguel Gonzalez, theoretically, is the best.

Emanuel shouldn't even be called a Democrat. He simply cares about himself and retaining power, period. A lot like Weiner.

This came out within 24 hours of him becoming prez elect. He talked smack about Hillary and her Goldman Sachs connections and getting paid to speak at events, then he turns around and makes a GD GS exec a part of the swamp! I'm sure he'll add an ExxonMobil crony eventually too, with their mad-crazy billion dollar profits snd massive tax exemptions. Show replies (5) Reply 107 On Secretary Treasury nominee...lol

As usual, in reality, it's a very nuanced situation. There's no quick/simple/easy solution to immigrant assimilation in the US. Nice write-up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowering_Patients_First_Act This is likely to be the Republican Health Care plan introduced by Price/Ryan...as the replacement for ObamaCare. Judge for yourself whether people will be better off today or in the future. Major provisions of the Act include tax deductions and credits to aid in the purchasing of health insurance, the promotion of state-based high-risk insurance pools, the creation of individual and small employer membership associations and association health plans, allowing for interstate insurance markets, a reform of malpractice lawsuits, and loan and loan repayment programs. The Act intends to fund itself through cuts to future spending increases, more commonly known as sequestration, and expected declines in the uninsured population. The Act's effects on the general public and the federal budget have yet to be assessed by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 29, 2016 -> 03:06 PM) Except it will be years before that actually happens, if it ever does. What rebuilding team has ever traded off three Top 30-50 MLB talents in Sale, Q and Eaton and completely whiffed? Not to mention Abreu, Frazier, Cabrera, Robertson and Jones, etc. If they are not in a better position...also having Anderson/Rodon/Collins, when would they EVER be? As it is, we only have the Padres, Mariners and Marlins between us and infamy, and the Marlins won two trophies in their first decade. Of course, they also lost one of the franchise pitchers in recent baseball history (senselessly).

Can't wait for Putin and Trump to hold their first joint news conference.

Bell for Sosa Garland for Karchner Here's the thing, the odds are just as high Sale has a career threatening injury (see Sirotka/Wells deal) or those Cubs' position prospects lead to a rebirth on the SouthSide. Nobody can predict what will happen with pitchers. Look at Wood and Prior as 2003 ended, or even Zambrano. The biggest threat to the Cubs is pitching-related if Hendricks returns to human again or after Arrieta leaves or gets injured from overuse/overdoing his conditioning. Epstein knows this clearly, but also knows going after the Rick Porcellos and Maeda/Ryu/Kazmir/McCarthy/Anderson types in free agency (not unlike Hammel/Lackey) is more cost effective than risking top prospects getting away unless you do get that "sure thing/over the top" piece. Even then, that sure thing in Chapman turned out to almost be the source of their undoing in the postseason.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 29, 2016 -> 12:32 PM) After reading the posts that pass for fact on here, I honestly laughed at this. If there were really 213,000,000,000 fake anti-Hillary story page views in the last three months of the election (planted by Russian propagandists), SoxTalk has a long time to catch up, lol.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 29, 2016 -> 12:34 PM) So the tweet is bad enough, and even worse that she can't figure out that it was he was El Presidente as in President, and not present. But hey, since the left is now fond of pointing out when are leaders our attaching themselves to people who praise dictators... Meet Hillary's new buddy! Dr. Jill Stein Verified account ‏@DrJillStein Nov 26 Fidel Castro was a symbol of the struggle for justice in the shadow of empire. Presente! 14,517 replies 2,288 retweets 3,328 likes Unless she meant to say "present!/I"m here or aqui in Spanish" instead.

So how will Trump solve the ISIS problem in 30 days or less? More carpet bombing/bomb them back to the Stone Ages approach?

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 29, 2016 -> 12:39 PM) My tiers of cabinet appointments (grouped rumored and official) Unacceptable due to experience, temperament or background Guiliani Bannon Flynn Sessions Arpaio/Clarke Jr. Carson - tier down from the madness above him. Just clearly unqualified. Kobach Acceptably qualified but scary re: policy DeVos Price Bolton - if sec. of state should be considered unacceptable Cotton Not acceptable under any normal circumstances but considering Trump I would be fine with: Gen. Petraeus Normal Candidates I disagree with on views but take roles seriously: Romney Haley Mattis Corker Pawlenty Hensarling Scott Brown J Brewer And Pompeo for CIA? Obviously, he's trying to mock the American people by spending months on Hillary's emails while totally overlooking what Petraeus did to get in hot water. Apparently any violation due to "seduction by younger woman" or cheating/affairs is perfectly understandable. And Christian fundamentalists won't care if he pays lip service to overturning Roe v. Wade. Scott Brown, the former pin-up model/beefcake anti-Democratic establishment candidate?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 29, 2016 -> 09:42 AM) Because when "your party" does it, no one blinks, and makes excuses to justify it. It would help if Trump actually took tangible steps to unite the country...and acted more like Reagan/Lincoln than someone who is creating more and more betting pools by the day on when he'll be impeached or resign. Try holding an unscripted press conference. Hasn't had one in four months. Worrying more about the daily national security briefing than your DC hotel's rental rates or new real estate development projects in Mumbai and Buenos Aires would be a start. Stop picking fights with everyone in the world on Twitter. Stop claiming you won the popular vote. Instead of thinking the Green Party wants to destroy you, imagine they're trying to actually prove that the votes that went their way aren't the reason HRC lost the election.

Here's a very simple solution. Cut military spending and profits from the pharmaceutical industry, hospitals/billing/needless testing and insurance industry by roughly 15-25%...and keep this in place until the Federal deficit is down to $15 trillion (at a minimum). Capitals gains tax on all households over $5+ million at a more reasonable 10-20% instead of wiping out all that revenue by phasing it out completely. Reinvest that money into education and infrastructure. Wipe out everything we know about public education/charter schools and start over. No Common Core or No Child Left Behind. The goal would be to get back into the Top Ten on the PISA exam. Bring in experts from Singapore, South Korea, China, Finland, etc., and also create a system where only the Top 10% of students would be able to become teachers and pay them a subsidized Federal salary that's at least competive with private industry. No more teachers working second jobs or teaching all summer long for money. Stop pretending climate change isn't real. Continue to provide incentives for the best and brightest immigrants to believe in the American Dream.