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https://www.thegoodphight.com/2018/3/21/17145876/2018-phillies-draft-preview-nick-madrigal-2b A more skeptical take on Madrigal (defensively, at least at SS)...with lots of theories about how he could hit for more power with some tweaks.

Wait, so Muslims are actually not half bad as long as they are rich, want to influence the US government/leverage it by loaning money on a Trump real estate development project or want to give you dirt on a political opponent...got it!

Anderson and Yolmer are headed for 2.8 fWAR numbers at their current pace. Not exceptionally great, but you stick with him for now until there’s someone to push him at SS. The argument between Davidson and Yolmer is a more interesting one until they draft Madrigal and they have to make some decisions two years from now. It’s also possible Anderson becomes another version of Chone Figgins who plays all over the field.

What percentage of Fox’s content is “liberal” or “takes the other side”? 10% at most? I read a lot of CNN and I’d say somewhere between 1 in every 3 and 1 in every articles feature defenses of Trump, pro/con opinions back and forth taking both sides in an argument, etc. There have been some cases recently where Fox on-line talent have famously disagreed with Trump or called him out, but that might be more to make a point to Trump directly (since he constantly monitors this stuff), rather than for the explicit benefit of their viewers. Or maybe it’s to send a message to GOP members in Congress and around the country to stand up for their party? When CNN does a town hall, for example, on school shootings, they invited Rubio and also invited Governor Rick Scott. Scott simply failed to show up, it’s hard to blame CNN. I don’t recall ever seeing a Fox & Friends host espousing a moderate viewpoint ever, other than perhaps Harris Faulkner. If they do another (town hall) one on Texas, they’ll surely invite Cruz, Abbott and Beto O’Rourke.

The Fight Against the Far Right Requires Tackling White Nationalist Institutions Neo-fascism researcher Mike Isaacson explained to Truthout that conferences like these featuring "suit-and-tie" white nationalist personalities initially "provided a place for white nationalists who had previously only been organizing online to be able to actually meet in real life without having to worry about being monitored." Further, such conferences "offered a platform to the intelligentsia of the white nationalist right who perhaps did not have the credentials of Jared Taylor." With degrees from Yale University and the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Taylor is the founder of New Century Foundation and American Renaissance. Much has been written about the state of the self-described "alt-right" white nationalist movement since it has come under attack from anti-fascist and anti-racist activists. On top of this, far-right individuals and neo-fascist cells have suffered significant blows to their ability to organize, recruit and put boots on the ground due to their own in-fighting, lawsuits filed against them and pressure from anti-fascist groups. The dissolution of the Traditionalist Worker Party that occurred after its leader, Matthew Heimbach, was arrested for domestic violence charges in March has created a perception that the influence of the movement as a whole is waning. Because Heimbach had been a central figure among young white nationalists for years, his legal troubles, in particular, have led to a lot of declarations that the so-called "alt-right" is spiraling down the drain. Yet recent writings on the state of the "alt-right" have not included much conversation about white nationalist institutions: publications, nonprofit organizations and "think tanks." According to Isaacson, the broad nature of the "alt-right" has enabled far-right operators to spread their reactionary ideas -- particularly their support for eugenics. This has occurred due to the influence of white nationalist institutions, which exist precisely to facilitate the spread of bigoted ideas. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/44478-the-fight-against-the-far-right-requires-tackling-white-nationalist-institutions

Pitching coach Don Cooper said at the start of the season Fulmer had been unfairly criticized by Sox fans for his struggles, which come with youth. “When he first came to the big leagues (in 2016), we put him in the bullpen,” Cooper said. “He had a couple of good outings and a couple of lemons. But everybody was writing Carson Fulmer off: ‘Can he do this? Can’t do this, can’t do that.’ All of that negative crap. “Then he had a start against Minnesota and couldn’t get out of the first. ‘Oh, Carson can’t do this and can’t do that. He sucks.’ After one freaking outing. Come on. That’s not even fair to anybody.” Fulmer got his shot to prove fans wrong, but couldn’t show any consistency, as evidenced by an 8.07 ERA in nine appearances, including eight starts. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-white-sox-michael-kopech-carson-fulmer-20180519-story.html This comes from the same organization that gave Daniel Hudson three whole starts before trading him to Arizona...

https://sports.yahoo.com/astros-fan-gets-immediate-lecture-companion-interfering-live-ball-042021495.html Wouldn’t want to be this dude Monday morning at work...

Ops finally up over 800. Only 2 errors in 40+ games...

https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/18/left-lying-texas-school-shooter-wearing-nazi-paraphernalia/ According to spin from the right, he was conveniently a gay/bi-sexual Communist/Marxist. Texas shooter...

Or the talent evaluations were just way off. We’ve heard the same things said about Fulmer as used to be argued about Gordon Beckham, Viciedo, Brian Anderson, Josh Fields, etc. That Tim Anderson was rushed. Even that Moncada was rushed, because he wasn’t hitting LH pitching very well and kind of leveled off after getting out to a quick start in April in Charlotte. It’s not like we have had an assembly line of pitching in recent years. Sale, obviously....Danks for awhile, but other than those two and Quintana, it has been a pretty barren wasteland. I hope that 5 years from now we’re not saying the White Sox also messed up the development of Lucas Giolito, for example, because there’s clearly some “head issues” and physical ones as well with the erosion of 4-5 MPH off his “original” velocity post-TJS. That’s probably why the traded “looked too good to be true” in the first place.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/gop-candidate-films-herself-harassing-160700304.html GOP candidate films herself harassing transgender woman in CA bathroom...no Subway restaurant involved here at least

She (Santa Fe student) told reporters she was scared, struggled to keep calm and remembered another student having a panic attack. Despite the fear, the gunshots she heard and the trauma she'll deal with the rest of her life, the incident came as no surprise to Paige. "It's been happening everywhere, I've always kind of felt that eventually it would happen here, too," Paige told CNN affiliate KPRC-TV. This is the 22nd US school shooting since the beginning of the year, and the third instance (nationally in) eight days in which a gunman was on a school campus. It's also the third time within a six-month period the state of Texas has made national headlines. In November, a gunman killed 26 people in Sutherland Springs. Then in March, a "serial bomber" detonated five bomb attacks over the course of 19 days, that left two people dead. Source:cnn.com David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez are already on the case https://www.yahoo.com/news/parkland-survivors-react-santa-fe-170611489.html

Kudos for quoting the most famous Jewish person of all time...well, other than Jesus.

And Thompson...who has done even worse statistically. One thing’s for sure, Avi Garcia will get every single at-bat to establish even one iota of trade value before July 31st. Or, if Tim Tebow was putting up the same numbers for BIRM as he is for the Mets’ AA team, he would currently be first in line for a promotion to Chicago (over Tilson and Fisher...as Jimenez isn’t going anywhere soon.)

Basically, it’s hate the Jews (except when they are fighting Muslims in the Middle East, who are relatively/comparatively “worse”)...unless it can be used as an excuse to ramp up defense/military spending. Meanwhile, domestically, we can continue to blame the Jewish banking Rothschild cabal/syndicate for marginalizing poor/white/rural areas. Of course, all those people who are overtly or covertly anti-Jewish see absolutely nothing wrong with being on the side of Jared Kushner and Ivanka (even though they are literally being accused of “grift/enriching themselves” nearly every day.) The irony this week is that Trump was doing deals with Chinese/Indonesian companies for the Jakarta resort/amusement park. It’s nice to conveniently overlook the fact that he doesn’t mind dealing with Muslims in Indonesia or Saudi Arabia when it enriches his business empire handsomely. So many contradictions, it will make your head spin. Like farmers who are completely for Federal government subsidies (see Grassley, Chuck) but who act like you just robbed their great grandparents at gunpoint if you try to pass a MINISCULE amount of SNAP funding for the poorest of the poor (mostly WHITES) in MOSTLY Trump’s electoral states. They also don’t see any contradiction with corporate welfare/lobbying being completely okay but government support for the poor being anathema.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6168921/sines-v-kessler/?page=4 Sines vs. Kessler FOUR pages of motions and “due process” As far as the Heather Heyer “heart attack” claims, that’s PizzaGate and Seth Rich all rolled into one neat little bundle. https://www.wpxi.com/news/trending-now/heather-heyers-parents-preach-love-action-after-daughters-death/593607646 Good people on both sides? I have yet to see anyone involved on the right with a message of peace/tolerance/forgiveness. Let alone espousing that VERY message after a family member has just been murdered.

One would guess Covey and Tilson are coming up...talk about being bowled over with excitement. Well, at least Dylan has earned another shot. If he flops, maybe they’ll give a couple of starts to Beck just to see what happens...nothing to lose. They already know what they have in Santiago and Volstad.

Let’s not forget that last “over the top” free agent class in 2014: Robertson, Cabrera, LaRoche, Bonifacio and Beckham...or our Rule 5 guys like Nieto (also 2014) and later Dylan Covey. Of course, when they sign a veteran catcher, for example, Alex Avila was terrible with us (he did walk a few times) or someone like Austin Jackson, they later go on to be productive/suddenly healthier elsewhere. Derek Holland (another fairly expensive deal for a rebuilding team) immediately comes to mind, he’s been serviceable with the Giants. About the only examples running against that trend are/were Swarzak and Kahnle. When your main development victories are Matt Davidson, Yolmer Sanchez and Leury Garcia, you’re going to be in some trouble.

I just hope Hahn doesn’t bring up Jimenez and Kopech too quickly for ANY other reason than their minor league preparations are deemed fully complete.

They really should do SOMETHING like concessions for 50% off, free soft drinks...any fan sitting around in that weather watching this debacle deserves to be rewarded in some way for their loyalty.

You were just complaining about corporations having too much power...so you want to take away the right of consumers to sue AND simultaneously not allow the government regulate them? Aren’t you simply enabling them to become more powerful? More monopolies and oligopolies who conspire to limit choice while raising profit margins? What limits on corporations/profit/greed should be there? NONE?

I thought the right was supporting Israel in all ways...shouldn’t more Jewish people working in the media and protecting Netanyahu be a good thing?

Rabbit said one thing that’s correct. Point #4. Trump’s consistent 35-40% is largely becoming more and more entrenched in their beliefs (deep state conspiracy, Trump would be the greatest president in the world if “he was only allowed to do his job,” evil liberals and the media aren’t treating him fairly). Obama is the one who originated this identity politics of war by “declaring war against those who cling to their guns and religion” and apologized for “American Exceptionalism” and Trump is finally making the country great again, etc. The problem with that narrative is that you’re eventually going to drive those in the middle to come up with a better solution...some sort of compromise that sides with the idea of “doing the greatest good for the greatest number of Americans.” This group would move to form a block with the Dems on gun control and health care/education policies and to the right on other policies such as immigration, foreign policy and fostering entrepreneurship/start-ups. Even if you believe that Obama was an operative for BLM and his sole goal was to divide blacks from whites with the mission of reallocating benefits away from white males to minorities....there’s still no way to believe (if you’re being objective) that the goal from the very beginning of the Trump Administration was to divide, distract and conquer by discouraging those on the other side to just give up and acquiesce instead of mounting a vigorous response. Of course, Trump’s also quite smart in the sense that he soaks up so much air in the room that the Democrats have barely been able to break through in getting their own agenda out in front of the public. Not all Trump voters are “deplorables,” but it’s also not just a few “goofballs” or confused young kids...those with overtly racist beliefs number in America number in the millions, not just a couple of 100,000 in only Deep South states.

Bullying accusations gaining support from others...of course, athletes or coaches would never admit to bullying or hazing https://www.yahoo.com/news/santa-fe-high-school-student-202330470.html

Cue Greg comments on publicizing killer/s in 3, 2, 1....well, for one, the Parkland students are going back into the media spotlight again, that much is for certain. And, because of the hotly-contested O’Rourke/Cruz race, they will have yet another CNN town hall, last time the Florida governor ducked it, we will see what Abbott does. Also not sure the NRA is ready to trot out Oliver North to defend their positions quite yet. Let’s not forget Sutherland Springs...happened so close to LV it always gets overlooked, this is two for Texas in the span of less than one year.