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Have to fix the dates. Dunning 6 up, six down, 2 k's, minuscule ERA. Toying with the SAL. Touching 96-97. Justin Jirschele at 27 is the youngest manager in all of MILB. Sterling Sharp, same as the former NFL WR minus an E, pitching for Hagerstown.

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?s...mp;ymd=20170426 Crazy 10:35 a.m. start time for Dunning in first game of DH, 9:35 CST

https://www.yahoo.com/style/donald-trump-re...-154629655.html Trump won't win feminist of the year for these comments regarding Melania's pregnancy "She was 35-'checkout time' for women, as Trump once told Howard Stern-and no longer the dewy fox he'd met seven years earlier. A visitor to one of Trump's homes, late into Melania's pregnancy, recalls him remarking that he agreed to the baby on the condition that Melania would get her body back. 'She promised him that everything would go back to the way it was,' says this guest; it struck this person as a 'contract.'" The source continues, explaining that Trump wasn't just dismissive, but notably inconsiderate. Apparently: "There was no 'How do you feel?' No opening of doors, making sure she didn't fall. Just 'You wanted to have a baby.'" But wait, Ivanka's 35 now...

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/meet-hunter-g...-234507753.html Hunter Greene with the SI cover and LeBron of baseball comps

Let's hope Leury Garcia and Davidson start getting rewarded with more playing time until they force the manager to take them out when they cool down. There's just zero need to run Asche and May out there unless you're deliberately trying to lose. At this point, with the AL Central looking as bad as it does, it's going to be difficult to get to 90+ losses. Obviously KC SHOULD warm up offensively (eventually), we caught them at the perfect moment, but MN still has pitching issues and KC has concerns with nearly every part of their team except Herrera, Duffy, Kennedy, Cain, Perez and Moustakas.

From his size, you'd guess he was the type of runner who can fly once he gets going, but his initial quickness out of the box might be an issue. That said, would have to watch him play everyday in CF and running the basepaths in the Cuban League to get a true sense. Workout videos don't tell you much at all.

RH hitters were .471 against Covey before that groundout. 10/21

Gotta make Gordon beat you. Perez kills the White Sox. Still the right move, especially with Perez having 5 homers.

Obama Clinton Reagan Truman Going back to FDR's aristocratic roots, the best presidents have usually come from "non-elite" backgrounds. Obviously, FDR and Kennedy don't fit. You can go all the way back to Lincoln and Trump's role model, Andrew Jackson, should you wish. There definitely is an argument to be made, especially today, that a "non-inside the Beltway" candidate best understands the American people. Look at the Bushes, and their being out of touch. Gore, a political scion. Hillary Clinton, a part of the establishment for going on 30 years. Romney, political roots as deep as it gets. Even Palin and McCain were attractive to people because of their maverick/outsider status. Dole, the establishment if ever there was one symbol of it. Obviously this was a large part of the attraction to Bernie Sanders as well, being from a small/rural state and not being an official member of either political party. If you were to add up the net worth of all the US senators, he'd definitely be in the Bottom 5-10%

Kopech's going to have an amazing K/9 ratio when all is said and done...and nice to see Fulmer more or less contained the damage and pitched around mistakes, positive sign. Seems like he's rebuilding some of that confidence he lost with the premature recall to the big leagues last year.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Apr 25, 2017 -> 06:50 PM) Gordon literally had the ball in his glove as Donaldson was touching 3B. WTF It would really help the rebuild if Josh Donaldson was under contract for the Sox. Alas. Wishful thinking.

Leury!!! Didn't actually believe this game would still be in doubt at this point.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Apr 25, 2017 -> 03:49 PM) Why does being for "Main Street" mean you can't also work with Wall Street? I mean, when the stock market does well, that's good for millions of American's retirements, not just for hedge fund managers. Can Obama not bring up progressive policies when he's giving a $400k speech to Goldman Sachs? I thought it was dumb that Hillary Clinton got dinged for this, and I think it's silly if this hurts Obama's message in the future. I'll be disappointed in Obama if come 2018 he's still doing the vacation/book deal/speaking tour to the detriment of using his wealth and celebrity for good. Every Republican should give back all their capital gains from 1993-2000 and 2009-2016. Especially all those Amazon, FB, Google and Apple investors!!! They're all run by Dems, so Republicans shouldn't be able to invest in them unless they are willing to admit they're hypocrites for supporting Bezos, Jobs, Zuckerberg, etc. Ideological purity.

Bernie Sanders has three houses. Obama and the Clinton's are too friendly with Wall Street. John Edwards was super rich and his pretending to be a populist and Everyman landed in disaster. Honestly, there's no Democrat who can successfully survive this test. Of course, the Clinton's and Obamas were not rich or 1%ers when they started out in public service (he was routinely mocked for choosing public interest work of social and community organizing). Look at the Kennedys, for example (back when Americans preferred political dynasties). Or Jimmy Carter, the Mother Teresa of politics, for a counter example. If that's the standard, good luck. Especially in the face of Citizens United. As long as you're perceived as genuine/real/authentic, you've got a chance...of course, the counter to this is guys like Romney and Trumpmare are so rich, the theory goes they're not beholden to any corporation, Fox News or to the Koch Brothers.

One of the dangers of having the affiliates in the same general area geographically. Cuts down a lot on travel expenses between teams, except to Chicago.

We really need Avi, Davidson, Saladino, W. Garcia, Delmonico, Hayes, Liriano...at least one of those guys to become a regular. Two years away, you've got Basabe. Big difference filling just a couple of lineup holes, compared to six.

Actually, I don't have a strong feeling one way or the other about this topic. Generalizations are not overly helpful. It's interesting that almost nobody reached out to Jack Parkman (unless they all did it by PM), there was a debate which led nowhere, but if we can't discuss it constructively on a message board, there's very little hope of bridging these generational differences in real life. Whatever politics is today, it has certainly succeeded in pitting sides against each other instead of unifying everyone together as Americans. Rich vs. poor, black vs. white, Christian vs. atheist, scientists vs. their opposites, the list goes on and on. And actually, this is a huge failure of the Democratic Party. Instead of providing helpful solutions, we're constantly debating things intellectually but not necessarily helping as much as we should be. There's time for talking, but actions are even more important. It's where we are stuck as a country, polarized, with only a common enemy being capable of bringing people together across all spectrums.

So, all elected officials are now held to the Jimmy Carter standard of donating all speech monies to Habitat or their local church? That sounds very unAmerican to me. If that's all he did, sure. But I'm pretty certain he will spend the majority of his time doing low or lesser paid community/grassroots organizing type events and using Wall Street monies to subsidize them as well as Democratic Party-related party building. Let's not forget Citizens United, and the fact Trump has already raised $41 million plus in the first three months of 2017. He and Bernie Sanders far away are the biggest stars of the Democratic Party, and he can leverage those monies in many positive ways. Same with Michelle Obama, for that matter. If he turns out to be worse than both Clinton's on this front, I'll be shocked.

It's obvious that Dems are still adjusting to being out of power. Obstructionism is not helping the middle class...it's placating the activists. In the end, the GOP has a good chance to hold onto power, but every time they get too cocky, like 1994 and 2010, their hubris and inability to actually formulate policy that benefits the majority of Americans comes back to bite them. It's also critical to point out that it was just one poll...a snapshot in time. It's like looking at 20-30 point spreads disappearing in KS and GA and assuming the Dems will take back the House in 2018. That still might be true, based on the looming disasters that are the AHCA and tax redistribution to corporations and the Top 1%. Eventually, a leader will emerge to replace Obama, Clinton and Sanders...and the Dems will start promoting positions that bring back those Rust Belt voters into the fold. A lot depends, as always, on the economy and the eventual outcome of the health care debate. And don't underestimate those supporting Trump for being the anti-Obama and bombing Syria and Afghanistan.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Apr 25, 2017 -> 09:09 AM) What policies have Democrats pushed in Trump's first 100 days that would cause people on the fence to move to Trump? Obstructionism. Trying to stop Gorsuch in order to get revenge for Garland when it was clear he was more than qualified intellectually. Obviously, the Republicans used the same strategy with Obama. Except they never paid a price politically for it.

Logic says 15 teams will be at .500 or above another 3 or 4 in typical White Sox position from 2014-2016...making no additions or trading significant pieces away, either.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...st-coast-215048 The media bubble is worse than you think Best article written so far on how the media got the election wrong...along with the investigative series by Nate Silver/538.com

Still waiting for a defense of the proposed tax policy...granted, we won't get the full details until May supposedly. Ivanka VP 2020 President 2024/28 Jared 2032/2036 Donald Jr./Eric 2040/2044/2048/2052 Yay! Let's see how she does at the G-20 "women and entrepreneurialism" meeting in Germany with Merkel today. Over media requests. On the front page over the French elections in the German papers. Sean Hannity goes to war against "liberal fascism"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/opinion/...ection&_r=0 We can add to the GOP thread. Do you support cutting the corporate tax rate to 15-20% from its current levels? Can you provide any examples when corporate tax cuts have benefitted workers/middle class in any country? How will you plan to offset the loss in tax revenues, when you can't simply project (magical) growth rates or use dynamic scoring? What programs/departments would you cut to keep the budget revenue neutral? Do you believe it's responsible to add an additional $2.4 trillion to the debt over the next decade, and why?

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