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QUOTE (flavum @ May 13, 2017 -> 07:50 AM) Sox wake up with the 9th worst record in baseball. That's more like it. If they play the rest of the season the same as last year after 33 games, they'll go 70-92. Twins are already four games clear in first.

Moncada with a K in his first AB against LHP Cody Reed. Delmonico and Hayes both falling to near 800 ops numbers after putting up big numbers early. Giolito 1-2-3 bottom of the first, one K, two swinging strikes. Groundout and pop up. Engel with another double. All the way up to 741 and now hitting .219. Groundout, single, two strikeouts. Unscathed through 2.

Of course Happ hit a homer in his first game up...413 foot blast off Martinez. Schwarber down to .183 now. Just missed a tying homer in the last at-bat of the game, came up three feet short of the wall to Fowler in straightaway center. Dropped a foul ball down the line for an error.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/13/asia/north-k...tile/index.html About time for war with North Korea to change the Comey conversation and provide Americans a distraction

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your...m=.d03ab5045ee5 One thing to consider is there's quite a bit of variability built in when having the TJ surgery at 16-19 as opposed to age 30+.

Cubs apparently at war with Ronnie "Woo Woo" Wickers https://sports.yahoo.com/news/cubs-superfan...-193927524.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/rejected-hawk...-010038252.html

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 12, 2017 -> 09:22 PM) The Royals had two unbelievable comebacks and won seven WS games. The Pirates took the same route, faced Bumgarner and Pilates Arrieta in the wild card game and are now would envy the White Sox. What a funny game. And KC would have two in a row without Bumgarner. Ofc, they just as easily could have lost to Oakland and Houston and faded into obscurity.

GOP Lawmaker Says There’s A ‘Distinction’ Between Being Gay And ‘Being A Human Being’ Missouri State Rep. (Harrisonville) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rick-b...4b0031e737c2502

Saladino has disappointed everyone this year, too.

Jared got into Harvard. Thanks to dad's $2.5 million "donation." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/epa-may-allo...6--finance.html EPA to allow massive mine near pristine Alaskan salmon grounds Trump doesn't personally care for the taste of salmon, so they gone.

The Sox used to dominate in those under the radar deals like the Butler one...not so much anymore, at least since Q. You can add Gonzo and Kahnle as good moves, Swarzak, Putnam, but very few offensive breakouts. Holland, time will tell. But Covey has been a hard miss. At any rate, Wade Davis for Soler will go down as one of the Top Five moves of the offseason if Davis can stay healthy...

Belle had 207 hits in 1998. Lance Johnson had 227, but his first year after leaving the Sox with the Mets. 222 all-time record, Eddie Collins.

Since when did Clark gain such stature?

But speed tends to be over-reflected in defensive WAR and less so offensively (and yes, there are great defenders who are not objectively "fast" in the OF). Is that not a fair statement?

Micker Adolfo's rise to greatness will offset those graduations.

But who is/was smarter, Jesus or Trump? That said, I'm not convinced even $5 million in 1980-1985 dollars get you anywhere even close to $1 billion through Vanguard indexing thirty years later. Maybe if at different times you put all that money into Berkshire-Hathaway, Nike, Apple, Amazon, etc. But even BRK stock has only returned 20.63% since inception, which is more than doubling the historical index numbers during that time period if you were completely exposed to the 1987, 1998-2002 and 2008-2009 stock market crashes. $5,000 in Amazon.com without selling from 1997 until 2017 gives you roughly $5 million today...but it couldn't be accomplished by Jack Bogle alone. Trump is PT Barnum for the modern age. Jeopardy, Trivial Pursuit or Who Wants To Be A Millionaire type intelligence? Not so much. Reading and understanding how fear and emotion drive people into doing things that work against their best interest/s? Sure. Manipulation is a form of intelligence. Hitler was the master of it. Heck, any of the dictators that Trump so frequently expresses admiration for like Putin, Duterte, Erdogan and Kim Jong Eun. High EQ, lower IQ. He even occasionally seems compassionate or empathetic with words, but never follows up with actions. That's how he won OH, PA, WI and MI. He made those workers believe he cared more about them and "American greatness/exceptionalism" than Obama and especially Hillary did.

Only 14/217 of those voting for AHCA dared to hold town halls this week. Truly surprising. https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-lawma...-133728733.html

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/12/media/trum...ings/index.html I suppose 96-98% of Trump voters would wholeheartedly agree that "cancelling daily press briefings would be a good thing for the country" and have litttle to no impact on freedom of the press since all news is fake anyway.

Maybe they're "helping" those psych patients to get the highest possible criminal sentence under draconian new guidelines from Sessions.

http://i.imgur.com/tQ2HXhG.gifv The hilarious Sean Spicer/Homer Simpson melting back into the bushes GIF. http://mashable.com/2017/05/10/sean-spicer...ll#qq_msWNNYmqB Internet universally mocks Spicer with their own GIFs.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/com...ders/index.html President Donald Trump said Thursday that he feared his firing of FBI Director James Comey could confuse Americans, but went ahead with the plan anyway. "When I did this now I said, I probably, maybe will confuse people," Trump told NBC News. But he said he did it anyway "to do the right thing for the American people." Trump said he wanted the FBI's investigation into Russia's election meddling to be "absolutely done properly." He said Comey's firing might "lengthen out the investigation." COULD TRUMP HAVE OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE? http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/opinions/tru...nion/index.html If you read the law and compare it to the events unfolding, it seems the actions of Donald Trump and his administration meet some of the required criteria. Trump fired Comey amid a pending grand jury investigation into possible collusion between his campaign and the Russians. Witnesses had been subpoenaed to appear before that grand jury. Further, Trump was likely aware of the pending grand jury proceedings, since he was constantly obsessed with the Russian investigation, and, by firing Comey, attempted to disrupt and interfere with those proceedings. Ultimately, the fundamental issue is whether Trump fired Comey with a "corrupt" intent, meaning to obstruct or impede the federal grand jury investigation. If so, President Trump committed a federal crime. Not to mention trying to contact Flynn (or contacting him) in the weeks since he was fired....and the three discussions with Comey (one at a private White House dinner) where he was supposedly told he wasn't a target of the investigation, which was the same conversation where Comey was laying out an argument for keeping his job. Conflict of interest, anyone? Everything will come out in the next week or so, as Trump's story gets shot through with holes but nothing happens to him. Plus Spicer getting fired over the weekend will divert media attention for a day or two. Unfortunately, Huckabee's not handling things much better. Then you have calls for Sessions to be fired and Spicer arguing about hiding "in" or "among/amongst/adjacent to" the bushes. PURE COMEDY GOLD.

Well, you had Kevan Smith, Willy Garcia...Yolmer already pinch ran. Asche was the other. Great options there, Gregster. You would have done what there? If you PH Willy Garcia (righty-righty), he's still a significantly worse defender in CF than Leury.

Well, at least they made a game out of it after the dreadful 1st inning...

What is the morale of the agency, and how will that affect what happens going forward? Reports suggest that the Bureau has not taken Comey’s firing well: One agent told me that people have been “gobsmacked” by the news. This isn’t surprising, considering that Comey made it a point to foster a good relationship with his agency, personally visiting all 56 field offices—twice—after being appointed director. To be sure, Comey’s public commentary regarding the Clinton investigation had also led to some loss of morale, but that had less to do with lack of faith in Comey’s leadership and more to do with the public criticism that the FBI was acting with partisan motives. The FBI has traditionally been able to steer clear of political minefields even while investigating charged issues—think of the Kenneth Starr investigation under President Bill Clinton or the Valerie Plame leak under President George W. Bush (both cases, incidentally, in which neither president interfered)—so being caught in partisan cross hairs is not a space the Bureau is accustomed to occupying. On this front, Comey realized that the FBI needed a public relations makeover. Prior to his firing, he had approved a new documentary TV series on the day-to-day work of the FBI, in order to assure the public that the Bureau is “not on anyone’s side.” Interestingly, the series focuses on the FBI’s traditional investigations into violent crime, harkening back to the J. Edgar Hoover days when popular depictions of “G-men” in comics and movies—often promoted by Hoover himself—glorified FBI agents as the ultimate good guys and bastions of justice. At this point, however, the FBI may not need the PR. It’s possible that the doubt cast on the FBI’s ability to conduct its Russia inquiry at all will in fact spur agents to double down on the investigation, restoring the public’s trust—but maybe not in the way Trump intended. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...answered-215127 Five Questions About the FBI/Russia Investigation Going Forward Answered