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Engel with another double...755 ops. Might be ahead of Liriano now, unless they recall Rayburn instead if they need yet another OF. Second bases loaded opportunity for Moncada. Forceout for RBI, 7 lob. Gopher ball by Lucas, 4-2. 84 pitches, now through six, recovered from the homer nicely. 6.55 era.

QUOTE (maxjusttyped @ May 13, 2017 -> 05:41 PM) Frazier is such a smart base runner. He picks up ~10 SB's a year just from catching pitchers falling asleep. Led the Sox with 15 last year...mostly those walking leads with huge jumps when pitchers aren't paying attention.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ May 13, 2017 -> 05:43 PM) Sox should change their colors to pink, black and white. These uniforms are awesome Also, great crowd today. Holy s*** Hawk Clock giveaway and first pitch.

Triple and single lead to a run against Giolito...out of the inning with a DP. Moncada hit into one last inning with runners on 1st and 2nd, no outs. Just swung 3-0 with bases loaded, two outs and lined out to the LFer. 2-1 Knights. Giolito through 4. No walks, 3 k's, 1 ER. Similar to last start before the wheels came off. First walk follows a K to start the 5th. 5 k's. Fly out. Through 5. 6.48 ERA.

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.