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Guess this becomes the default game thread. Davidson and Saladino in the line-up...Cabrera 2nd against LHP, yikes.

Lopez much easier third, limited pitches and got a nifty DP behind him. Moncada's first ab was a groundout. Walks on a 3-2 count here. 10 stolen bases this season. Back over at 903 ops. Caught stealing 3, Saltalamacchia. 18 walks, 43 k's....140 at bats.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/26/us/racist-ra...deos/index.html What to make of these viral racist rants recently? "It means that America is back where it was ... decades ago. That kind of thing went out of fashion with the Civil Rights movement; the Trump campaign brought it back into fashion," said the Rev. Joseph A. Darby, vice president of the Charleston, South Carolina, NAACP branch. President Donald Trump "tapped into seething anger" that was already boiling in those who couldn't accept an African-American President, Darby said. Trump "legitimized bigotry by the way he campaigned." "People who found their hope in him feel emboldened to say and do things that they wouldn't do before ... It leads to all kinds of foolishness that people have kept under wraps before because now they feel empowered because they think they have a President." Darby said he believes some of the rants also stem from "fear on the part of some misguided, for the lack of a better word, ignorant people who believe they are losing their country, with their country being a white country." He said: "They feel that they're going to lose the privilege of being white, and when you have fear, you do ugly things sometimes."

Another walk...Soto up in the pen. Danish and Minaya up to Chicago are causing the pen to be short handed. 42 high duress pitches already. Towering deep fly to Engel with the wind blowing out is caught at the warning track. Dwight Smith, Jr. Delmonico almost beheaded the pitcher with a wicked line drive but the fielder was shifted directly behind 2b and caught it. Liriano triple. Hayes RBI groundout, 31 rbi's. 4-1 Bisons.

Moncada 0/1. 899 ops. Lopez struggling here a bit in the 2nd. Walk and two hits, one run so far. Two K's in the inning as well. Two run scoring double to the opposite field down the line, pitch count climbing. 3.38. Another double, four runs in one inning, another oppo double. 4-0. Reminiscent of how Fulmer was cruising with a sub 3 ERA and then got blasted for 7 runs. Throwing 98 mph according to announcer.

A scathing resignation memo from the top US student aid official reveals a Trump proposal that may delegitimize the Department of Education... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/scathing-res...-180800559.html Proposed plan to move loan administration from Education to Treasury Dept.

https://www.milb.com/milb/news/white-soxs-a...626/t-185364810

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/23/politics...2016/index.html Clinton e-mail controversy had even more of an impact than most imagined, fascinating methodology from a political operative standpoint.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 26, 2017 -> 02:35 PM) The time and energy and honesty it takes to do that type of self-reflection isn't easy, and most people aren't willing to do it. I'll give greg credit on that front. I may not agree with a damn thing he says or thinks, but at least he takes the time to consider why he feels a certain way. Yeah, while a fleshing out of how his father's success directly impacted him isn't really there yet, it's a good start, at least. As someone noted, it does read like the Horatio Alger, "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" stories that are essentially still the ideological foundation for many Republicans today.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 26, 2017 -> 11:57 AM) Good to take in stride. But I have no idea what you mean about Kevan Smith - what did I say? Just seems you were the last one left defending him as a prospect still. Not like a wholehearted endorsement, but maybe a bit too optimistic in retrospect. I guess it's natural when so many like Hawkins, Barnum and Trey were pushed into prospect status due to lack of credible depth in the system. Someone had to comprise those Top Ten lists over the past five years. Not that Smith made it more than once....maybe he was #9-15 at one point about 3 years ago?

No responses? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017...s-in-plutocracy Greg did in his own way, yet he usually has ripped Trump as an oblivious (to the needs of regular Joes) 1%er in recent weeks.

QUOTE (FT35 @ May 26, 2017 -> 11:15 AM) Bryant's there with Harper. I think those 2 are a tick above the others. Oops. Hard to think of a Trout as a veteran at 26 when he still hasn't reached his prime in late 20's.

Trump, Ryan, Mulvaney, All of Them: Partners in Plutocracy The Republicans have been called the party that hates the poor. With this budget and this health care bill, it’s no longer just the poor. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017...s-in-plutocracy I include this opinion piece simply to incite a riotous insurrection from the Right, lol. This should be good entertainment to read the rebuttals, at least. Dovetails nicely with our current discussion, Reddy vs. Rabbit and finally, Greg vs. Ditka vs. a Hurricane.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 26, 2017 -> 10:13 AM) So you have come out of the closet as a 1% white privileger. Now what. You want a participation trophy? How can I be a 1%er if my father and I both never made over $44,000 per year? My mom's house in the US (Iowa) might sell for $115,000 if we were really lucky, btw, so it's not real estate wealth. From saving and indexed investing/compound interest principles? No participation trophies, that's Greg's schtick.

QUOTE (FT35 @ May 26, 2017 -> 09:48 AM) Exactly! I mean the number of Hall of Famers playing now is pretty low. Although you have a tremendous group of young players who are definitely HOF-worthy if they keep their career on track. You have Pujols, Miguel Cabrera, Robinson Cano, Mike Trout, I think Buster Posey, Ichiro, Clayton Kershaw, Cody Asche. I think those guys are in for sure. Hanley Ramirez was there, but had too many injuries I think. Some of you might have him there. Then you have Bryant & Harper who are the best of the young studs with guys like Machado, Lindor, Correa, Corey Seager, Betts, Bogaerts, Altuve, Arenado(?) and Goldschmidt. Guys like that have a strong chance of getting into that HOF conversation with little to no improvement to their game--just by playing and staying healthy. There may be more...There's no set number--just the best of the best. Certainly a bright future for baseball with the young talent coming in. C'mon, no Puig or Cespedes? Abreu? L. Robert? That's some pretty strong anti-Cuban bias there. Avi or Leury Garcia? Bellinger and Judge are looking great so far too, but way too early. I notice you left out Kris Bryant. Intentional? Rizzo? Lots of good choices...F. Freeman and a certain Reds' 1B named Votto come to mind as well. Sano if he keeps raking, but his defense sucks. Benintendi. Gary Sanchez. So much young talent. Mauer, as discussed earlier, and Molina. Posey. Sale. Maybe Lester. Kimbrel. K-Rod probably.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 26, 2017 -> 09:12 AM) Bless you for having a sense of humor about this. Some much needed levity on this board. You get bonus points for including a quote of mine, lol. And anyone who posts in the movie thread...

By George Melloan May 25, 2017 7:09 p.m. ET A lobbyist friend who visited Capitol Hill recently came away horrified. “I now am ready to believe that the partisanship is so unhinged that it’s a threat to the Republic,” she writes in an email. This Washington hysteria comes at a time of full employment, booming stocks, relative peace and technological marvels like an electronic robot named Alexa who fetches and plays for you songs of your choice. What’s the fuss about? https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-faces-th...lass-1495753759 Trump Faces the Fury of a Scorned Ruling Class

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 26, 2017 -> 08:52 AM) After the 15-12 start, the Sox have gone 5-13. 13-9, then 7-16. Slightly worse looking.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 26, 2017 -> 08:50 AM) Caulfield you really nailed the whole using caps to make your point emphatic. Oh and you generalized your individual, privileged upbringing and applied it to roughly 215 million people in a country where most of the people in poverty share the same skin tone as you. But hey, YOURE RIGHTEOUS so nothing else matters. For Boerboom, it’s a matter of assigning three emotions – cynical, sentimental and stoic — their proper focus. We should be cynical about our institutions, including political parties, and sentimental toward others, “finding ways to be open to people, even those who really piss you off.” We should look at ourselves stoically, “finding self-control and self-mastery. Don’t roll over, but don’t feel so entitled.” Billings Gazette today. You're going to get a lecture from someone for deliberately twisting statistics again. Whites make up nearly 2/3rd's of the population, but only 9% of those in poverty...thus, seriously underrepresented. African Americans, 1/8th of the population, but nearly 25% living in poverty, doubly over-represented. Hispanics do slightly better, 21% poverty rate for a bigger percentage of population mix. Others, including Native Americans and Asians, 14%. Kentucky (Appalachia), MS, WV, TN, AL, AR, IN, LA, Maine, Florida, Idaho and KS are only states where 10% or higher of whites are in poverty (I think all Trump states). However, the rate of African Americans in those states living in poverty is more than double whites for KY, AL, Arkansas 12/30 (2.5 times more likely to be poor if you're black), Indiana, Louisiana 12/31 (worse than AR somehow), Florida and Kansas you're more than twice as likely to be poor!!!!! Maine, Idaho don't register as having enough African Americans, lol. NM 10/39....4 times likelier to be poor if you're black OH. 10/34 GA. 9/31 Iowa, my home state, 9% of whites are poor, blacks aren't staristically significant, Hispanics 18% MI. 9/26 PA 9/25 SC. 9/27 NV. 8/30 RI and TX. 8/23 Kentucky, PA, MA, AZ, NC, OK, WI, ID, RI, MN, NY, CT, NJ, OR...Hispanics are more likely to be poor than blacks. Look at Nebraska, 7% of whites, 46% African Americans, 22% of Hispanics are poor. That's more than double comparing black and Hispanic. No US state has more whites than either black or Hispanics that are considered to be below the poverty rates as defined by the US government. None, zero, zilch, nada. Kentucky's 17% of whites in poverty....comprising 88% of the population, vs. 8.3% Black and 3.4% Hispanic...well, you got me. Guess their huge failure rates dealing with poverty for all citizens can be blamed on the policies of Democrats like Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and the current governor.Or the huge opiod crisis in the eastern and northern part of the state. Source=http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/

Well, I ran a 4:45+mile, could dunk anything I could palm, threw 77-81 mph...lettered in soccer (cue Hahn/Epstein jokes here, Dick Allen.) I wasn't great in any one sport, but I also played tennis, racquetball, volleyball (my favorite, but no high school team), pretty much year round doing something or other. Actually, I was pretty innocent and naive, didn't really drink until the end of high school and never smoked pot, National Honor Society, etc. No acting or drama club. Didn't really date until senior year, then stayed with first g/f three years...she played volleyball, basketball, ran track and softball. Kind of looked like a typical 5'9" Iowa Barbie. We met when I hit her with a spike in the face in the church gym...we were altar servers together. 6 feet and 155-165 pounds for most of high school, actually no body fat because of running and soccer...I tried to quit running in order to play football senior year (it was fun for a week of two a days) but they wouldn't allow me because my soccer coach was also cross country, and I was just too thin at that time.

"Let's discuss Tom Perez and his cussing crusade that he's been giving at so many different fundraisers. Let's talk for a moment about the California Democrat convention ... where you had a number of Democrats on stage screaming 'expletive Trump' and 'expletive Republicans.'" She said Democrats and the mainstream media then want to turn around and accuse Trump and those on the right of fomenting violence. Loesch said that everyday Americans see this double-standard, and they are tired of it. "We're tired of being lied about, we're tired of being manipulated, and we're tired of them excusing awful things done to us in the name of partisan ideology," Loesch said. "This is the point we are at because people hate media this badly." http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/05/25/dana...porter?vid=auto

http://billingsgazette.com/news/government...7e77646c61.html How can the US restore civility? This panel has some ideas. President Trump’s war on the press is dangerous. He’s discrediting a profession he fears http://www.poynter.org/2017/president-trum...e-fears/461352/ Make no mistake: Donald Trump has fueled violence against journalists | Richard Wolffe https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-mistake-donal...-161641383.html

Well, if I was in a real ultra wealthy family, I could have accepted the internship to work for the Red Sox for $300 or $500 per month (one of those two) instead of a minor league team that would pay a stipend of $250-300, free rent for the year and 10% sales commissions for billboards, sponsorships, season ticket packages, etc. That seemed more practical at the time from an economic standpoint. Looking back, not taking a major league job regardless of the salary was a huge mistake...even though you learn a ton in the minors, it's not the best way to end up eventually working for a big league front office. Once again, how many workers today can afford to work for a pittance (or worse, unpaid intern) in order to pursue their dream job?

You're welcome. Really, I think it's a matter of two issues to settle. Does "white privilege" actually exist, and how exactly to define it? From their arguments, Rabbit and Southsider2K5 might say no, not in any appreciable way, or that they feel they earned 100% of their success/es in life. Greg's argument more is about being "forced" or cajoled into admitting to minority groups that he is a "victim of white privilege and has to apologize for his background/being white/being successful, etc." That's a different issue. Greg himself has admitted he went to a private/Catholic school and had access to a very good (albeit strict) morals/ethics-based education. Not everyone has that given to them, and scholarships are limited...obviously. So Greg would PROBABLY admit he feels privileged by the life his parents provided him, the opportunities he's been able to enjoy in life, but NOT that he should be forced or publicly humiliated into castigating himself. That's not unreasonable. Those of us born with privilege don't have to announce it, it's there whether you like it or not. Catholics even have a term called "Catholic guilt" regarding our lack of impact on the peace and social justice issues of the modern world (coming from a relatively well-to-do background). Parsing how much is race, how much is economics, how much is parenting...and quantifiably proving it with a battery of statistics is nearly impossible to do. There's no "winning side." It's not like reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged and wishing there was a more merit-based utopian society that exists...because it's simply not reality, not for such a "melting pot" or mosaic of a country with such a long tradition of slavery/discrimination as the United States.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 26, 2017 -> 12:32 AM) Honestly, I'd be surprised if we ever hear Gianforte's name again a couple weeks from now. I think the assault becomes a non-issue long term, sadly. He apologized...at least, finally. Only after he's officially declared victory late in the evening. That will go 50% of the way through getting past the issue. http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/politics/mon...ults/index.html Right now, the spread is 7.4% with 93% in. Quist just was too much of a flawed candidate without any experience and quite a bit of baggage. Gianforte was more of a known quantity around the state, and having billions in your war chest (the equivalent of a Mark Cuban) is a lot different than having debts from a career as a musician attributable to health problems you couldn't afford to deal with. It's hard to expect someone who can't take care of their own expenses to "fix" the government, whether that's fair or not, that's the perception (or reality). Basically carved out another 12.5% off the Trump/Clinton spread, and a +62.5% swing in a matter of less than a half year is not insignificant and augurs well for GA-6 and 2018 (if the DEMS can only unite, lol).