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QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Apr 28, 2017 -> 05:59 PM) Wow 3 whole Soxtalk members paying attention to the game. Guess Pelfrey pitching means more than the current 4 game win streak . NFL draft? Bulls?

Avi 451 and 448 his last two homers. 6th hardest hit homer in majors on the 93 mph FB. 116 mph exit velocity. Collins even homered tonight. Basabe raking.

QUOTE (daggins @ Apr 28, 2017 -> 05:45 PM) If you had told me in Feb. that the MVPs of April for the Sox would be Garcias Avi and Leury I would have bust a gut. And Davidson, too. Not to mention Gonzo, Holland and Kanhle.

Frazier' swing finally coming around after the illness that knocked him out for six games... Leury continues to hit well from the right side, around .500. Saladino had three center cut pitches, couldn't do anything with them. Oh well.

Arrieta getting beaten up by the Red Sox. Too bad Sale missed the start against the Cubs by one day.

Abreu out of the lineup. Saladino as DH and leading off. Davidson, Y. Sanchez and Leury in against LHP.

Sale leading Kershaw by 13 k's for first in majors. 2nd in whip to Erwin Santana. Santana actually has been even better, BAA is .116 vs. Sale at .177. Of course, some of those numbers against the Sox, lol.

Worth noting that Mitch Haniger and Kris Davis were both Brewers' property... Tim Beckham, drafted in the same year as Gordon, finally starting to come into his own with the Rays. http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/22682...97733-658620023 Six candidates to be the next Eric Thames

https://weather.com/weather/radar/interacti...true&zoom=8 Looks like that huge front is staying just enough to the south.

You really think 29 other teams would trade for Dunning over Lopez/Giolito based on 4 Sally League starts? Some would argue against Giolito, but Lopez?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/world/north-...unch/index.html North Korea just launched another missile. Twitter will be busy this weekend from Mar A Lago. Maybe surrounding neighbors can try to cell phone jam that place, lol. Or wifi can be cut by provider to save us from war? Oops, guess he'll be in Harrisburg, hiding from the WH Correspondents Dinner. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/politics/don...-nra/index.html Donald Trump is the best troll in all of politics "I have a feeling that in the next election you're going to be swamped with candidates," Trump told the crowd. "You'll have plenty of those Democrats coming over and you'll say 'No sir. No ma'am, perhaps ma'am. It may be Pocahontas, remember that. And she is not big for the NRA that I can tell you." ("Pocahontas" is Trump's derogatory nickname for Warren who faced a major controversy when she ran for the Senate in 2012 over whether she had Native American roots.) Then there was Trump's reference to former presidential primary rival Ted Cruz, who was in the audience as the president spoke. "Like, dislike, like," Trump said by way of describing the arc of his relationship with the man he regularly referred to as "Lyin' Ted" during the course of the primary race. http://www.stltoday.com/business/columns/d...3c.html?ref=yfp Trump's tax cut looks like Kansas writ large. Trump isn’t being quite as generous as Kansas, which decided not to tax pass-through sums at all, but he does want to lower the tax on such income to 15 percent. Pass-through income currently is taxed just like wages, at rates that escalate to 39.6 percent. The result is easy to predict: A lot of people would start LLCs and other entities, turning their paychecks into lower-taxed pass-through payments. “Whenever there are different rates for different sorts of income, individuals can find ways to game the system,” says Scott Greenberg, an analyst at the Tax Foundation. Congress could try to write rules to limit such conversions, but it would have a hard time keeping up with clever tax lawyers. “It would probably leave federal revenue pretty substantially lower,” Greenberg said. When candidate Trump floated the idea of a lower pass-through rate last fall, the Tax Foundation estimated that it would cost the government $1.7 trillion over 10 years. As news of the president’s plan (to exit NAFTA) reached Ottawa and Mexico City in the middle of the week and rattled the markets and Congress, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, and others huddled in meetings with Trump, urging him not to sign a document triggering a U.S. withdrawal from NAFTA. Perdue even brought along a prop to the Oval Office: a map of the United States that illustrated the areas that would be hardest hit, particularly from agriculture and manufacturing losses, and highlighting that many of those states and counties were “Trump country” communities that had voted for the president last November. And, of course, the best way to convince Donald Trump to do something—even better than showing him maps, which he loves—is to appeal to his ego. “It shows that I do have a very big farmer base, which is good,” Trump told the Post. “They like Trump, but I like them, and I’m going to help them.” http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/don...fta-map?ref=yfp

ObamaCare 47%, Trump 40-44%. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...ut-trump-215049 What the press still doesn't get about Trump. Must read. Long, but detailed. 12. Trump’s success depends just as much on what happens outside Washington. Jessica Yellin, senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy and former chief White House correspondent for CNN Political reporters are doing a fantastic job covering Washington, D.C., under extremely challenging conditions. But we still need to devote more resources to covering on-the-ground reality in communities across the country. Consider these recent stories: Jobs: Rexnord industrial bearings, less than 2 miles from the Carrier plant in Indianapolis, is shipping some 300 jobs to Mexico, according to the Indianapolis Star and the Associated Press. After all the television coverage devoted to the president’s negotiations to keep some Carrier jobs in the United States, where are the cameras now? Immigration: Nebraska meatpackers rely heavily on refugees and immigrants to staff their food processing plants. Now, the Omaha World-Herald reports that the industry, fearing labor shortages caused by the crackdown on foreign workers, is considering moving toward machine labor and/or cutting back on production. Travel: In March, USC held a three-day African trade summit with zero Africans, VOA News and the Guardian reported. One hundred percent of the attendees from Africa—at least 60 people—were denied visas, blocked from attending an event meant to give American businesses more investment opportunities overseas. These aren’t just human-interest stories. They’re about the real-world impact of our policies and politics. When they do get national pickup, it’s fleeting compared with coverage of, say, the search for leakers in the White House. Trump’s election was an outside-the-Beltway phenomenon. It would be a mistake to cover his presidency as a largely inside-the-Beltway reality.

The Picketty book (Capital in the 21st Century) a couple of years ago covered this exceedingly well...and looked at corresponding European examples.

Still won't earn him back the chairman position.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...emocrats-215069 Theo Epstein for governor or President?, Axelrod interview

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-go...-151957054.html The odds of a government shutdown just went up to about 50/50 thanks to Trump's unhelpful tweets. No matter what happens, if you have control of all branches of government and still can't prevent a shutdown, the majority of people are going to blame the party in power. That's the way it works, spin all you want. If they won't leave the Obamacare subsidies in place...watch out. And it's not like Ted Cruz or the GOP paid any real price for his 13 day shutdown stunt in 2013. If he's already tweeting like this against the Dems, will really enjoy the reaction to the Blumenthal/Senate "conflict of interest/emoluments clause" lawsuit again Trump. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/sena...t-against-trump

The Chiefs' pick of Mahomes was even ballsier, because they haven't drafted a QB in the first round since Todd Blackledge back in the early 80's. He's either the next Brett Favre or a bust.

Justin Verlander would be another good example, although he rebounded and was a legit Cy Young candidate last year. For awhile, it looked like one of the worst future years contracts in baseball.

Greg, you won't be seeing any of it. If, on the other hand, you are an admirer of the Koch Brothers, they'll be throwing parties down in Wichita...

At any rate, here's an example for Rabbit of a fair/objective/balanced article on Trump that actually looks at both sides instead of attempting to score "gotcha" points. From a Democratic Party perspective, some of these answers are a bit scary, but it's still going to take a lot more than that solid or strongly committed 35-40% of the electorate for Trump to win another term. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/26/politics/we-...-trump-america/

It's messed up that you would use some story about Buffet with no context whatsoever, and seemingly, no understanding of investing, to push your socialist agenda It's even more messed up that your defense of capitalism comes at the expense of all the people who actually voted for Trump in OH, WI, MI and WI in the first place. Most of those people can't even afford to invest in the stock market, they have enough trouble just making ends meet. That their taxable rates on income (the whole point of the Buffett story, which still holds true today) are less than the 2nd richest person in the world is ludicrous. Warren Buffett doesn't even take a salary as chairman of BRK, all of his profits come from capital gains due to distributions from within the Berkshire-Hathaway umbrella of companies. Whatever tax deductions he got for donating a large junk of money that will eventually be paired with the Gates Foundation is not the reason why his nominal rate is so low. It's the fact that all of his earnings come from capital gains, which were taxed much more fairly at the time of the Clinton administration in the 90's (not surprisingly, these were the last 3 years Federal budgets were actually not bleeding red ink) and have finally started to come back up a little bit under Obama but are still nearer the historical lows than the historical highs on such gains. You can write about baseball well enough, but your understanding of politics needs to catch up, because (right now) you lack the objectivity to see these issues from both sides without coming across as being completely dismissive. SIDE NOTE: One of the reasons I am a White Sox fan is their long-standing association with "blue collar" fans who actually follow the game. Miller was their beer for a long time, a strong union beer. The Cubs represented the opposite, venture capitalists and hedge fund yuppies who just wanted to be seen on camera at Wrigley while they were texting on their cell phones or looking at stock quotes on their PDA's. It's a sad time when people are defending the raping of America (Trump's words about China), not by foreign countries, but our own political leaders and their lobbyists. If you read any interviews in the last decade with the likes of Buffet or Ted Turner, you'll see that not even they feel these rates should be so low...that the rich should either be paying a higher share or donating most of their money to charity, or both.

Cespedes is all about raw power and showcasing his arm in the field. Robert is a taller and leaner version of Sammy Sosa (the Panther, back then) when he debuted with the Sox. He actually looks more like a typical Cuban national team basketball or volleyball player. Eric Davis, minus the switch hitting, is who came to mind. Devon White would be another.

Let's not forget KC is last in MLB OPS. It's going to take a very nice run in May to be close to that offseason value.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 27, 2017 -> 11:52 AM) It also eliminates the ability to deduct state and local taxes. Which has a disproportionate effect in many blue states like NY.

Well, most of the rich pay much closer to 0% than 100%. Warren Buffett says even though he and other top earners are paying higher taxes this year, he thinks he's still paying a lower rate than his secretary. In 2013, capital gains for those earning more than $400,000 ($450,000 for couples) will be taxed at 20%, up from 15%. And high-income households also will pay an additional 3.8% in Medicare taxes on their investment income for the first time. The top marginal tax rate also rose for the wealthiest wage earners, but since Buffett's income is from investment gains, not wages, that's not a factor. But part of the problem is that his secretary's tax bill also went up since a partial payroll tax holiday ended, raising what she pays for social security by 2 percentage points. "I'll be a fair amount higher, 8 or 9 points higher," Buffett said of his own tax rate in an appearance on CNBC Monday. "But the differential between me and the rest of the office, not just my secretary but the rest of the office, was greater than that. It'll be closer, but I'll probably be the lowest paying taxpayer in the office." http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/econo...axes/index.html