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QUOTE (ptatc @ May 28, 2017 -> 10:23 PM) But you can be pro-american and pro-legal immigration. There is a difference in the situation in the US today and back when the US let all immigrants in. They needed the increase in population to fuel the industry and farming for food back then.Today the population is becoming a burden on the US particularly in health care. You can't have it both ways. You can't have massive amounts of immigration into the country and want a healthcare policy for everyone. The reason health care for everyone works in many other countries is the smaller population and smaller costs. The rising cost of college education is in a similar situation. The reason it is rising is that states are no longer funding state schools like they used to, due to rising costs elsewhere. At my institution, the cost to the student in the 1990's was about 20% of the bill with the state paying the rest. Today that same student has to pay for nearly 80% of their bill. This is because the state funding has gone from 75% of our budget down to 20% over the same timeframe. Well, that all goes back to the 47% of the population are receiving benefits/not working argument...no to mention the fact that Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, defense spending and interest on the debt continues to soak up an increasing portion of all government spending, not to mention the public/private pension benefits that are guaranteed to be paid. It's also one of the most compelling "free market" arguments for admitting exponentially increasing numbers of intl students, because their parents are willing to "invest" hundreds of thousands of dollars in their (mostly only) children's education/s. Roughly 50% of those students stay in the US or Canada and contribute to those economies (in fact, like the Kushner Propertystrategy, so many Chinese moved their money into Vancouver real estate, it blew up the prices for couples in their 20's and 30's to the point they couldn't afford to live there...same with SF and Silicon Valley. But isn't that still an overall benefit to the US economy, rising home/land values?) Finally, who are they going to get to work on the farms in California, Texas and all over the US when mostly white "native citizens" are unable or unwilling to do that type of work for $10-15/hour..landscaping/lawn maintenance...nannies/domestic helpers, Midwest processing plants like ConAgra, Iowa Beef Products (slaughterhouses), low skill/lower wage factory jobs, etc.

1) The US will not thrive economically without the drive and determination of another generation of immigrants to achieve the American Dream...we're already going in the wrong direction on that one. You can't be pro American and anti immigration simultaneously. There's no law stating that we can't select the very best from those immigrant groups seeking citizenship or work rights in America. Continuing immigration from Asia brings more benefits than it creates "obstacles" for whites. 2) https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandratalty...food-institute/ Millennials, particularly white millennials, need to stop blaming the great financial/housing crisis, Bush, Obama, liberals, Muslims, feminists, George Soros, the rising costs of college education, health care, 9/11 or minorities/Affirmative Action for denying them opportunities to succeed. They should be investing in the stock market or starting their own businesses...they are saving at a relatively high rate of 20%, but it's (according to almost all surveys) for travel/tourism/vacations, eating out, high tech gadgets and generally enjoying life, certainly moreso than buying into the idea of starting a family or making a down payment on a house. Basically, that sense of entitlement needs to disappear. These last two generations never had to confront the idea of military service...are our lives really that difficult compared to our grandparents' and greatgrandparents' generations?

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ May 28, 2017 -> 06:22 PM) Caulfield's posts are so long I generally have a hard time following them. He seems to argue both sides of every point. I guess my personal experience, raBBit's experience, and many other people's experiences are just tough luck or aberrations.. I still get to be white, so I win. It seems that we are supposed to believe America is terrible because white people are by and large in positions of power. But, that doesn't mean all white people benefit. Every other country has the same problems as the United States. There are different classes. Some people have privilege. Some are downtrodden. Race isn't always the factor. What's the explanation for class systems in countries that have homogenous populations? Is whitey to blame for different classes of people in Africa, Asia, Latin America,...? This is the equivalent of Greg throwing "but sabes" into every other baseball discussion. Ummm....maybe the fact that every country in Africa but two was colonized??? What Latin American countries didn't suffer from foreign interference/interventions? The British in India, etc. At any rate, the Chinese are doing the exact same today, economically....but Trump is too inward looking at the time to realize it. One of the Germans at the G-7 said we're just begging for China to take over the world even more quickly than would otherwise have happened.

The problem is Fulmer looks more like Addison Reed than Benintendi or Happ, lol. You can throw 92-94 without impeccable location anymore as a starter...you have to be 95-98 or have remarkable movement. Hopefully Hansen and Dunning compensate for the inconsistency/struggles at the AA and AAA level, other than Kopech. No Collins today, btw.

Crazy game in Minny still going at nearly six hours. Looks like the Twins will enter the week 4 1/2 games up on the Sox...2 over the Indians.

http://toofab.com/2017/05/15/2017-biggest-...hed-the-circle/ Biggest movie flops of the year so far...still have no idea what happened with Life, really enjoyed that one. Pirates was better than I expected going into it. At least it was watchable. Was expecting truly awful, like CHIPs or Baywatch bad. The Circle wasn't even one of Eggers' better works of fiction, wish they would make Zeitoun into a film, though. The Beguiled remake earns Sofia Coppola best director award at Cannes http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5592248/

Fulmer pretty awful the last two starts. After Kopech, hard to say exactly what the Sox have at the upper levels...Adams, too.

I want a Rabbit to watch "The 13th" (Amendment) and read "Zeitoun." He can similarly assign one book and movie, lol. It seems Rabbit believes the inherent "unfairness" of Affirmative Action, without taking into account any of the benefits to society or even creating a more inclusive and tolerant management culture...outweighs the total amount of historical discrimination that occurred over the past 400 years in North America. So how do you fairly "rebalance" or recalibrate that to a system EVERYONE complains about, assuming that all these benefitted minorities are "dancing in the streets" about all the advantages they're supposedly receiving from the government? And if you're going to make a merit-based argument...then Rabbit and others should be defending all the discrimination against Chinese and Indian applicants in university admissions as well as immigrant work visas. If the US ever wants to achieve 3% GDP growth, it will come on their backs. This "reverse discrimination" has been adversely affecting both those ethnic groups for the same amount of time as white males have been "suffering." You're not seeing those kids suffering from opioid addiction...and living in their parents' basements (those born in the US of Asian backgrounds)...so how do we explain this? Because white males are not willing to work twice as hard as their Chinese and Indian counterparts? Because the corollary is the systemic/endemic belief of many whites that blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans are lazy recipients of undeserved government handouts. Mick Mulvaney said the same exact thing last week, he just spoke in "code words" so as to be politically correct. But I don't see a single argument pointing the obviousness of this out. Or that Iranian-Americans as an ethnic group earn 40-60% more than their Caucasian counterparts.

23. AZ 22,648 per game (first place) 24. MIN 22,831 per game (first place, newer stadium) 25. CLE 21,749 per game (World Series last year) 26. CIN 21,681 per game (rebuilding) 27. MIA 21,347 per game (new stadium...but how to explain what they are doing, holding pattern for team sale) 28. CHW 21,343 per game (rebuilding) 12. ATL 30,109 in brand new stadium White Sox should easily get up to 25th with these three Boston games, especially Monday and Tuesday's.

What do you propose to do to balance out all the educational opportunities..."separate but unequal"...denied by the United States of America to black, Hispanic and Native Americans from 1608 until the 1980's but really the 1990's? Those black families never received the economic equivalent of 40 acres and a mule. Native Americans had their lands taken away, their religion, were forcibly assimilated into "white or mainstream culture," were exposed to disease, violence, alcohol, drugs, by white society? What about all the Japanese Americans who were imprisoned (houses, possessions and money confiscated) in the West during WW Two while absolutely nothing happened to their white/German ethnic counterparts? We just pretend it never happened...whitewash it from the history books and stick our heads in the sand? (Life is unfair, those Native Americans are all rich now due to casinos...of course, not mentioned is all the construction companies, land brokers, investment banks and white politicians who made out like bandits).

That argument doesn't hold up as well in Silicon Valley. If you look at all the Boards of Directors, shareholders, CEO's....of pretty much any multi-billion dollar or unicorn company over the past couple of decades, how many African America, Hispanic and Native Americans would you find there? How many women? Even the figurative show Silicon Valley, there are two women...and immigrants from India and China. Everything is pretty much merit-based or those companies simply wouldn't be competitive. Or Billions, another of my favorite shows...which turned an Indian American prosecutor into Paul Giamatti (whose father led Yale/MLB, ironically enough). Look at Bill Gates, Fred/Donald Trump, the Kushners, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. Look at the picture in the WH Rose Garden when they passed the AHCA in the House of Representatives. For every fifty of them (White privilege second generation), there's only one Howard Schultz or Warren Buffett who really made it on their own...our Horatio Alger stories. And there's only one Carlos Slim, from Mexico, the richest person in the world. Even Steve Jobs was born genetically with advantages, although not the typical ones. Steve Jobs's biological father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (Arabic: عبد الفتاح الجندلي) (b. 1931), grew up in Homs, Syria and was born into an Arab Muslim household.[10] Jandali is the son of a self-made millionaire who did not go to college and a mother who was a traditional housewife.[10] While an undergraduate at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, he was a student activist and spent time in jail for his political activities.[10] Although Jandali initially wanted to study law, he eventually decided to study economics and political science.[10] He pursued a PhD in the latter subject at the University of Wisconsin, where he met Joanne Carole Schieble, a Catholic of Swiss and German descent, who grew up on a farm in Wisconsin.[11][10][12] As a doctoral candidate, Jandali was a teaching assistant for a course Schieble was taking, although both were the same age.[13] Jobs's full biological sister (Mona Simpson), notes that her maternal grandparents were not happy that their daughter was dating Jandali: "it wasn't that he was Middle-Eastern so much as that he was a Muslim. But there are a lot of Arabs in Michigan and Wisconsin. So it's not that unusual."[13] Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs's official biographer, additionally states that Schieble's father "threatened to cut Joanne off completely" if she continued the relationship.[11] wikipedia That's why we need immigrants, right? Silicon Valley would not exist with them, and the SAT scores and their coding/engineering ability blows white Americans out of the water. They're even willing to start out working for 40-60% of what their white peers demand. PS. Of course, what's equally fascinating is if you take the time to read about Jobs' adoptive father, Paul Reinhold Jobs, it reads like Bill Clinton's biography in terms of his father and stepfather. Nevertheless, if you generally agree that genetics is 50% determinant, if not more, Jobs grew up with inherent advantages based on his biological parents that no "environment/nurture" could deny or take away.

Once again, milb career ops of 727 for W.Garcia. Avi's was quite a bit higher. Leury at just 684.

Can you think of anyone else who holds the bat in such an exaggerated fashion in the last 10-15 years, and was successful doing so? Why does the comp have to be left handed?

Leury starting to see his average sink some...and, fwiw, Aaron Judge looks like a giant playing tee ball at the Little K, lol. Abreu over .300, have a month of May, Jose.

It's a bit reminiscent of Ichiro when he first came to the US....but Engel doesn't have the bat speed or hand eye coordination to make it work for him at the next level imo.

I think it also had to do with State Income tax levels as well...fwiw, as opposed to playing in America from the get go.

I thought we played Boston Monday through Wed, then at Tigers, Rays and Indians for nine more on the road?

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 28, 2017 -> 11:34 AM) I knew it was doomed after I read Caulfield's title of the thread. It should be closed. People won't change their minds so it's just a battleground. Nobody is racist on here but it eventually was gonna turn into people getting accused of that I bet. IMO it might have lasted as a thread with a different title. Therein lies the problem in the Filibuster. Is there ANY topic that you've seen a willingness for people to change their minds? Things are getting worse and worse by the day. How can discussions take place in a respectful manner when it's currently impossible to attain agreement on what amounts to the basic facts of any story? I wrote that particular thread and the first post in a fashion that would deliberately provoke a reaction and hopefully some type of fruitful discussion...and partially because Rabbit and Reddy were talking "at each other" rather than with each other, which these days will typically lead to someone getting upset (the situation with a poster earlier this year felt their personal life/family was being dragged into the narrative by another relatively harmless post on the face of it) or even leave the board entirely. It's unfortunate that civil discourse in America is no longer civil, for the most part. In the end, it was a bunch of mostly white males talking at each other, which only further reinforces my point, lol. In fact, what would have been interesting would be to read reactions of anyone not comprising that demographic, meaning an actual female or member of a minority group in society.

So there should be one determining factor like the BCS Rankings or or an accepted universal formula like RPI for NCAA bb?

Which is why the organization really needs to reprioritize defense again. Didn't they learn anything from 2005/08/10/12?????

https://irinapavlova07.myportfolio.com/data...nmates-by-state My ex (speaking of privilege again, or "dumb luck" lol) came up with this, I think it's pretty fascinating/amazing...a visual representation of incarceration rates in the US over the last decade. So I didn't have to work that hard to marry a Russian model who had the talent to get an MFA from Wash U. Must be my "Reddy"-like charm and charisma, certainly not my salary as inner city school social studies and English teacher. Probably why Andrew Card (Bush's Chief of Staff) hit on her when she was working as a waitress at Fiorella's Jack Stack BBQ. She had a huge pile of business cards men gave her, despite a visible wedding ring.

Burdi just blew the save and maybe worse...might be bothered by brother's injury? 11 balls, 6 strikes. Wild pitch puts two go ahead runs in scoring position with no outs yet recorded. Another walk, bases loaded, no outs. Coming unglued. Single scores two, three in already and still no outs. Yikes. Pulled for Matt Purke. 8-6. Era up to 3.38 and probably one more will be charged to him unless Purke is Houdini. Nope. 4.34, reminiscent of David Robertson implosion last year.

Narvaez and Willy Garcia were the other two options...to pinch hit. If you're trying desperately to raise Frazier's trade value, and there's the fact he does tend to put the ball in the air for a sac fly when he makes contact.

QUOTE (Benchwarmerjim @ May 27, 2017 -> 07:42 PM) The Minnesota Twins are going to be in first place on Memorial Day. That is nuts. But also the case two seasons ago...before fading. That was even more surprising. One has to think the Indians will eventually wake up and talent will win out, especially their bullpen advantages. Also causes a dilemma about trading Santana, Dozier and Santiago...or even Kintzler at max value.

Root for the rest of the AL Central to fall apart. Pick an NL team, rookie or favorite player...rotisserie league, suscribe to mlbtv or extra innings and scout all the teams. Cheer for Robertson, Jones, Swarzak, Putnam, Petricka...Pelfrey/Holland/MiGo/Shields...and pretty much every young player on the roster to excel or be traded. Wait with excitement for Moncada, Burdi, Fulmer, Lopez and Giolito. Follow the minors and draft. Hope that Melky and Frazier get traded sooner rather than later. Follow the progress of Q and Rodon obsessively. Be happy for Avi, Davidson, Leury, Kahnle, Yolmer, Omar, Willy Garcia, Danish, Kevan Smith, Engel, Ynoa, etc. Fantasize about 2018-19 free agent class, Shohei Otani, Victor Mesa, etc.