caulfield12

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 17, 2016 -> 10:19 PM) OM gosh. The world of participation trophies. The world is WAY WORSE now than when Barack Obama took over. The economy in the USA is horrible for the middle classes. health care is AWFUL. Costs are astronomical. There is no leadership. If I were president I'd kick some ass to the pharm companies and tell them to get real. 800 dollars for a prescription unless you have insurance??? You guys are easy graders. Barack's America is a DISASTER! Chaos in cities. Violence. Horrific relations between cops and the people. Gridlock in trying to get any cooperation from Congress. Obama gets a D or D-plus! That said I do like the man personally. Great sense of humor and a Sox fan! But as a president ... please! He's not a leader. p.s. I VOTED for the man. Would a Republican try to control pharmaceutical prices? Even for the Epipen (worth noting a Democratic senator's daughteris the one responsible for unchecked avarice there, Manchin.) Let's not forget you'd have lost all the Detroit automakers' jobs (let them fail, Romney famously said) and Bush is the one who created the unfunded mandate in Medicare Part B which blew up the budget by another $1-2 trillion. Another $3-5 trillion was defense spending on multiple wars in the Middle East which clearly have't made the world any safer from terrorism, as you pointed out.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trum...nterview-2016-9 Ivanka is really just Donald in disguise....

Also had a terrorism/religion-related multiple stabbing incident in St. Cloud, MN.

See Gordon Beckham, Avi Garcia or Dayan Viciedo...

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 02:19 PM) idk where this thing comes from that Hillary doesn't talk policy, she does, it's damn near all she does (when she is not directly attacking Trump, which is something that gets more air time), it's actually her entire persona as a politician. Hillary literally just talked about policy at the BWA symposium this morning. CNN even covered it this time! But what are media people and consumers of media (who somehow think they are exempt from this equation) talking about? Trump's birtherism, because of course. If you ask 100 Democrats, less than ten percent could articulate her campaign theme (everyone knows Trump's) and even fewer could articulate her top five ideas for improving the economy. Or maybe the other way around. This is not the time for Dick Morris triangulation. There's just no compelling vision of what she wants to do, and that's typical in elections when the incumbent party is trying to hold the White House three consecutive terms. We saw it in the 1988 and 2000 elections.

MLB looked at all the trades and four allegations (including the Sox) and now considers the matter officially closed with the 30 day punishment.

There's zero hope for bipatisanship with Clinton...with Trump, the odds might be higher but not easy to envision him turning into a centrist/moderate Democrat again, as nobody would trust him and he seems incapable of maintaining a consistent position on anything for too long. The Left won't forgive two years of incendiary and intolerant remarks, the Right would treat him ten times worse than GHW Bush when he went back on his no new taxes pledge. http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2016/09/16/har...turn=1474125869 Blame the White Sox....first MLB managers needed no experience in managing, now it's migrated up the ladder to the most powerful office in the world not needing any experience in governing in less than five years!

http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/gamelog/_/id/30948/chris-sale I'm not sure 11 consecutive starts averaging between 110-115 pitches per outing will look like a good idea in 2017 if he struggles out of the gate.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...sparency-214250 Lots of good insights into why the Clintons will never be transparent and the consequences... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-trump-fo...-172645913.html Comparing the Clinton and Trump Foundations....

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 17, 2016 -> 12:26 AM) I'm glad that it looks like the Sox are sinking the Royals chances. They were already sunk when they lost 4/5 to NYY and Detroit. Then 4/4 to Oakland at home was the nail in the coffin.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 07:30 AM) Man Snowden sporting some rock hard pecs! http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-5...WQDBHNlYwNzcg-- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160915/...osss-boss.shtml All out offensive this weekend to go after Snowden...

That's at least 11 if not 12 starts with 100+ pitches for Sale. 120, 118, 118 and 119 in four of the last five outings.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/cubs-owner-bu...-233627778.html Ricketts attempting to dance, worth a laugh or two...

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 08:50 PM) Sanchez with the bomb. Nice. Folks, Robin might have saved his job which is scary. The Royals have checked out mentally, evidenced by their complete annihilation by the A's for four consecutive home games this week. Not quiiting, but their fight is gone...like the Sox in mid May.

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 08:50 PM) Royals pen blew it alright! In epic fashion. Who lets Carlos Sanchez beat them with a 3 run bomb? LOL at the Royals right now They've blown the most saves of any team in baseball the last three weeks...

Haha...now the Sox can try for their own blown save. At least Sale can get one of the mosr unusual wins of his career if Jones and Robertson cooperate.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 08:36 PM) Yes I do. It's the people under them that are not competent. The same patterns have not changed since this century. You really think KW or Hahn don't have any control over coaching and scouting, that JR is protecting all of them? Btw Greg, did you realize Khris Davis of the A's has almost 40 homers? He's not even a "very good" player going by WAR.

QUOTE (StrykerSox @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 08:28 PM) And if we can't fire Hahn and KW, which you suggest we won't, do you want us to just sit on our hands? Kind of amusing now that we're suddenly touting Semien and Saladino as player development success stories. In typical Sox fashion, Lawrie will make $5-6 million next year in arbitration, get hurt, negating a negligible trade return...and Saladino will end up with a 675 ops at 2b and they still won't have the position covered for 2018.

The only thing surprising here is that the blown save can't come from the White Sox. If the Royals avoid Soria, it's possible they avoid the same outcome, just maybe. Abreu should have tried to work Herrera a bit more because they're asking him to go multiple innings, but swung at the first pitch.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 02:11 PM) Colin Powell is taking a s*** on everyone in these emails The irony is the NY Post outed him for an affair/leaked emails with Corina Cretu. Then he uses it as a source for supposedly solid inside info about Bill Clinton having more recent dalliances.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-story-of-...-135558074.html Passan on the warpath with everyone this week...

7th inning is still the key. KC spent $12.5 million alone on this spot in the pen (passed on Madson returning) and it ended up crippling their team because they made the wrong choice in Soria. And, looking at his 2015 statistics, there weren't many obvious tells that he would help sink their season when Davis went down. Not to mention all the time he spent in his first stint there, you couldn't know a player any better. It's like the time KW overspent on Linebrink and Dotel in reaction to the disastrous 2007 pen. If they truly believe Putnam and Petricka can get the job done....great, but they're definitely rolling the dice going in-house. Ventura lost his trust in Putnam last year, his stuff isn't all that overwhelming as he relies more on movement and keeping that splitter down in the zone. Same with Petricka, he was going backwards with Robin. Theoretically, there will be a new manager with a fresh start for everyone.

http://thebaseballcube.com/players/profile...=Tyler-Saladino 11 games for a grand total of 63 innings at SS in 2015, essentially 7 games worth of time. In the end, still, there are just as many arguments about Saladino as a full-time starter at 2b in 2017 as there are about Ventura as a manager. Anyone can draw whatever conclusion/s they want and support them or not. Here's the thing, if they knew he was going to play the way he has...there was zero reason to add Jimmy Rollins. They could have started the year with Saladino and transitioned him to supersub when Anderson arrived. And showing the ability to play major league SS also would have increased his trade value to other teams.

in this particular case... https://www.yahoo.com/news/warrants-mom-sou...-153131090.html the other article (from raw story) says they forced meth on Victoria "to calm her down". "According to a crime scene report, the body of Victoria Martens was discovered in a smoke-filled apartment, wrapped in a burning blanket and stashed in the bathtub. Police state, the child had no pulse, her left leg was almost completely cut off and both of her arms were missing. When police raided the apartment, they also discovered two adults with minor injuries, and captured a third who attempted to escape after jumping off a balcony...In interviews with girl’s mother, she admitted that her daughter was given methamphetamine to “calm her down,” and that Gonzales had sex with her before choking her to death. Gonzales has denied the accusation, saying Kelley killed the girl by stabbing and then dismembering her."

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 15, 2016 -> 10:34 PM) But I don't want them to win it. I don't even want them in the WS. I can't suggest betting the house on the Cubs cause they are such prohibitive favorites. I can't recommend betting so much money that you get a tidy profit. It's like betting the heavy heavy favorite at Arlington. It's not worth it. But in terms of locks ... this is the biggest lock in a long long time. The AL team might as well be the Indians for the heck of it, cause the Cubs will roll through the postseason as our Sox did in 05. Cubs over cleveland 4 games to none. Without Salazar, CLE will run Kluber, Carrasco and Bauer out there. Might not be enough.