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Desperately needed that K. Q's best fastball this inning has been 93.2, but mostly 91-92. Hard to see an argument that he's injured. He might be a tick lower with his velocity this year, but you'd have to look at FG.

Between Q, Rodon, Giolito (until recently), Lopez, Fulmer...it's a mystifying season for almost all of the Sox pitching prospects other than Kopech. And this game's on a 4+ hour pace. Good god, it has been slow. More like 4 1/2 hours.

The biggest issue with Jose is that lack of a dominating put-away pitch. It's why TOR has been doubted, despite the numbers (and the same arguments were made about Buehrle, who threw 3-4 mph slower). He's more like a Tommy Glavine, that has to get away with precise control and work ahead in counts to keep hitters off balance.

Avi 913 Abreu 870 Davidson 853 Sanchez 793 Leury 790 Melky 715 Sale at 61 pitches, 2.64 ERA now. Gardner and Holliday with two homers a piece, that Yankees' line-up is just mowing down everyone. Looks like they and the Astros are the two best AL teams.

Yes, JOSE!!!!!! Way to hang with 'em. Really making Sale work as well tonight. Both are going to be lucky to go 5.

QUOTE (Wanne @ May 30, 2017 -> 07:06 PM) Quintana/Schwarber trade makes so much sense....honestly...they're not doing either team any good. Glad you're not managing my investment portfolio. Now is not the time to panic. Sell when everyone's super confident, buy when there's fear in the atmosphere.

White Sox don't give up this year like they did pretty much the entire second half last season....well, most of the 2013-16 Sox teams, for that matter, when dealing with adversity.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ May 30, 2017 -> 07:00 PM) What if Tim Anderson sucks? Well, that would be a terrible development considering how Q, Rodon and Anderson were the 3 most important members of the franchise coming into 2017. At least Melky's back over a 700 OPS...gets it up to 750+ and he'll be a lot easier to trade without eating so much salary.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ May 30, 2017 -> 07:00 PM) Hes 1-6 this season. Last year he was decent Outside of his W/L record, his numbers are actually pretty good this year. The Giants just suck, other than Posey and an injured Bumgarner. They'll probably put both Cueto and Shark on the market and see who bites.

Anyone want to put an over/under on Sale strikeouts tonight? 13 or 14? At least the Jose Berrios/Astros match-up is compelling...and seeing how far Schwarber can sink.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 30, 2017 -> 06:55 PM) We have no idea what they offered. All indications are the packages sucked Is Luhnow really going to admit that he almost traded Kyle Tucker for Q now? We'll never know, unless someone hacks into their database again.

Yeah, you can stick a fork in that idea. So they either trade him or pray to God Rodon's okay and do everything possible to compete in 2019 and 2020 with both of those guys anchoring the rotation along with the youngsters. For some reason, Q's value will never be apparent to anyone outside of the White Sox fan community and some "sabes dudes in mom's basement."

Indians have blown up Sonny Gray's ERA into the mid 4's from 3.05 entering tonight.

Insurance CEO: I’m raising Obamacare premiums because of Trump (by 22.9%, BCBS in NC) https://www.vox.com/2017/5/30/15701986/blue...macare-premiums

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/house-cards-s5-rev...-155016690.html Speaking of going off the deep end, a new season of House of Cards has finally landed with Trump-like overtones. https://www.yahoo.com/news/congratulations-...-213714952.html Congrats to new WH Communications Director Jared Kushner http://nypost.com/2017/05/30/trump-wants-s...d-easy-for-him/ Trump wants Senate to make things fast and easy for him, go to a more convenient 51 votes on all bills instead of 60 "The U.S. Senate should switch to 51 votes, immediately, and get Healthcare and TAX CUTS approved, fast and easy. Dems would do it, no doubt!​,” he wrote on Twitter. ​ Looks like Kathy Griffin finally was able to spark more controversy than the latest Ariel Winter bikini pics at Instagram. Wonder if the Secret Service will have her arrested? At least Fox News has a new story for the next 24-48 hours.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 30, 2017 -> 10:17 AM) This has probably been the most popular thread on the entire board since January and it seems caulfield has killed it. Insightful. I thought only liberals whined and complained about everything? When something of significance actually occurs, like Jared getting fired or Spicer quitting, this thread will light up again.

Why is Hickman still listed as a catcher?

Just more flippant comments. Biden runs for president, despite his family's personal difficulties, and he beats Trump, we're not having this conversation. Merrick Garland is still probably blocked by the GOP for some other lame excuse, though. Then again, Rabbit investigative journalism on the Biden sons' marital relations might have turned the tide to the GOP.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ May 30, 2017 -> 02:42 PM) I would like to see the data that confirms this because I'm certain many Republicans have received and do receive help from the government. There are plenty of poor Republicans. Actual members of Congress, like Mulvaney was...who seem to posit themselves as experts on poverty solutions and what the poor really need. Not voters from Appalachia, the Deep South or Rust Belt. At any rate, I do find it comical that how many of the members of the House and Senate have children serving in the military today, active duty? Something like 5 or less out of 538? Yet they are always the first to vote to put other parents' children in harm's way. Yet another form of privilege the Trump family enjoys, never having to serve in the "real" military in wartime, and by this I don't mean being sent away by his dad to a fancy military academy. Yet how many minority parents have to send their kids to the military because they can't afford to pay for a higher level education? P.S. Rabbit, can you please set up a poll to determine how many "trust" your political and finance diatribes compared to all of your fellow moderators? The number is going to be a LOT lower than 50%, but it's probably best you are spared from having to do any self-reflection on how you come across sometime. At least Reddy is open about wanting to improve and seeks to write with more humility and self-awareness. Can you stand the same amount of heat he has taken and not get rattled? Without making up excuses or rationalizations?

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 30, 2017 -> 10:45 AM) Caulfield how you don't understand how ridiculous and irrelevant and tangential your form of discourse is beyond me. For someone who claims to be such an academic performer I don't get how you don't understand that you start an argument (whether it's on topic to the post you quoted or not), the next sentence will have nothing to do with your initial argument and then you continue to do this multiple times over the same post and create visual diareaah with the links, bolds, italics, inability to use the quote function, etc. I mean, in this case, you never even acknowledge my post or the point of the thread that you started. You just barfed some of your irrelevant beliefs, posted some links that have nothing to do with anything, and of course brought Trump into something that has nothing to do with him. I swear I have a better chance of having a coherent exchange with a freshly stirred bowl of alphabet soup than I do with you. You are the most insightful and mature writer here at SoxTalk, and perhaps we should all just bow down and worship your greatness...a greatness that was wholly earned by you and based 100% on hard work, diligence and persistence. I'm actually quite surprised, shocked might be the better word, that a bevy of national political publications haven't come out of the woodwork and attempted to hire you by now.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 30, 2017 -> 10:28 AM) Democrats never have to answer for the party. Some low level state rep from a district nobody ever heard of before could make a sexist joke and suddenly the President and every republican has to renounce him and say sorry , but a Democratic president can cigar-f*** an intern and he is just a lone wolf. Democrats never took the idiotic position of declaring war against the entire world media and 'deep state.' They also never argued Donald Trump wasn't the rightful president because he wasn't born in America. Republicans spent so much time opposing the Obamas, they actually forgot how to govern with a majority. Heck, they have control of every single branch of government and can't even repeal Obamacare after promising those who voted for them in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2018. Four separate elections and 23 years (since resisting the Clintons originally) to somehow come up with a bill 50% less popular than the most unpopular president in the history of these United States!!!

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 30, 2017 -> 10:07 AM) Why is it when someone disagrees with a specific belief they have to answer for a whole political party who they may or may not agree with or identify with? At the least, why is it someone who disagrees with something has to respond to all of your irrelevant tangents? It's a deflection. It's pretty simple here. I, and many others who have come out of the woodwork to speak out against your's and Reddy's opinions, believe in equality of opportunity. You and Reddy believe there is not equality until the outcome is entirely equal. That will never happen. You and Reddy are not fighting a losing battle. This isn't something that's going to happen. You are looking to get others on your side. But in action, you are just pretentiously arguing an altruistic, utopian dream is attainable (it's not) and the first step in achieving it is putting down others based on their race, gender and orientation is essential to achieving this. The contributes to divisiveness. Unfortunately, institutions have followed suit in contributing to the race and sex based discrimination but at the end of the day, it's a blatant departure from equality. No holier than though standing and personal opinions of yourselves is going to change that. Then why bother bringing up a plethora of hurtful stories like the Seth Rich one that are completely unfounded in fact or the latest conspiracy theory or throw out talking points of the day about the Clintons or Obamas? Those are the definition of tangents. They have real world consequences to grieving families. Or take the Portland, OR, stabbing deaths over the weekend. This is the inevitable conclusion to hateful rhetoric directed at immigrants, Muslims, women, in this case someone who became a target simply for being born black or wearing a hijab on a train (and this has been happening more and more frequently over the past 22 months.) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michae...4b0065b20b6b6e5 Former Bush Speechwriter Lashes Fellow Conservatives For Pushing Seth Rich Conspiracy “The conservative mind, in some very visible cases, has become diseased.” Essentially, these merely serve as deflections from the issue at hand, which is Donald Trump. (And they don't serve the cause well, because 60% are lies, according to Polifact, and another 19% at best are half-truths. Whether it's a Fox News item, or your crusade to defend Trump, although I'd guess the number of times your links were proven to be accurate/based on facts was much less than 21%.) Altruistic, utopian dream? Tell Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., all those who fought for the right of women to vote or to have equal rights in the 1970's, or who fought against the Vietnam War, that they were all on the wrong side of history. Don't confuse a handful of posters disagreeing with the idea of white privilege equalling some type of moral victory for the "white guys empowerment movement." Martin Schulz, leader of the center-left Social Democrats, told reporters Trump was "the destroyer of all Western values", adding that the U.S. president was undermining the peaceful cooperation of nations based on mutual respect and tolerance. "One must stand in the way of such a man with his ideology of rearmament," Schulz added. A million times over, I will stand in the way of any 1%er with so much white privilege that he never even took the time to learn such basic subjects as economics, history or geography.

How Conservatives Awoke to the Dangers of Sean Hannity The Fox News host is under attack as never before because many Americans are now forced to take what he says seriously for the first time. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archiv...528144/?ref=yfp Grandpa Trump watches television an average of five hours every day. And Bloomberg reports that the longer his presidency has gone on, the more he has shifted to watching Fox News. Sean Hannity is the main beneficiary of his evening viewing. A conspiracy theory aired on that show might be repeated by the president on Twitter, or even determine irreversible actions that he takes in his official capacity. The stakes could not be higher. So it no longer matters whether one thinks Hannity is a decent person or a bad person; an earnest broadcaster or a liar; or a figure who helps or harms the Republican base. Insofar as he spreads misinformation, he risks doing harm to the United States. And while that was arguably always true, it’s easier to see the import of a man’s words when a gullible president seems ready to credulously receive them. At the unlikely climax of his career, Hannity’s job is under attack because the most powerful man in the world trusts his words in a way no similarly powerful man ever has––and with that great responsibility, with that opportunity to inform the president about any matter in the world, Hannity indulges in half-baked conspiracies. Love of country is a sound reason to hope he retires. The Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact found that nearly 60 percent of the statements it checked on Fox News were either mostly or entirely false. Another 19 percent were only half true. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/us/trump...crime.html?_r=1 Contrary to Trump’s Claims, Immigrants Are Less Likely to Commit Crimes

So you (the collective anyone on the board) would take Evan White over Pavin Smith? Burger and Hiura too?

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 29, 2017 -> 12:10 PM) What a terrible article and an absolutely pathetic click-bait title. Did you even read it Caulfield? Yes, not great but the overall message that customers are sheep who don't matter if they're in coach was relevant...but yea, in general the content quality at yahoo has been decking for at least 2-3 years.