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Dansby Swanson...not off to such a great start this year.

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/beg-packing-bri...t-asia-travels/ More Millennial madness, lol...in all seriousness, this whole GoFundMe thing is getting out of hand. About the only thing you can guarantee people won't donate money to is to pay down the US Federal Debt. I like the way Simon Sinek packaged his summary re millennials. Four aspects were identifed characterising millennials. Parenting, technology, impatience and environment. He nicely teases these out, however points two and three intersect and essentially create the fourth, their environment. He does underestimate some achievements but i take his argument as presented. I would cut to the chase and and label their problem largely created and served by instantaneous gratification. Technology. Social media. The fact that these gofundme type appeals for holidays and become normalized disgusts me, but I like many here, are not wholly immersed in their world and these pride stripping appeals are now normalized. It is okay to ask for a hand out. Values have seismically shifted and deem to be returning any time soon. Having to work and save for a holiday or car or a house was something we all did. THe millennials just do not see the need and worse cannot appreciate the feeling and pride in having done so. Most of these kids have never changed a tire on a car and these small pragmatics skills are leaving them under-educated. Sinek's point re phones [ or connectedness] is good too. The dopamine hit is a real management issue going forward. Kids are unable to cope without them in proximity. Serious anxiety levels become elevated. But worse than that, they cannot read a map, our friend here Jacob Stroner would not be able or WANT TO travel Europe with a guide book as we did, use coin operated telephones or acquire a spattering of enough learnt language to cross continents with traveler's cheques. Millennials do not have the patience, lateral thinking, gifted demeanor and unfortunately, now, the opportunity to practice these little things which are larger than they appreciate. https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/980006...travels/?page=2 https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylc=X3oDMT...ss&ei=UTF-8 Link to Simon Sinek videos on millennials, internet addiction, workplace, etc.

Yeah, The Founder's an excellent business/marketing class case study...everyone's vaguely familiar with the story, but to see how it all played out is fascinating, not to mention Kroc stealing a wife as well. It was much better than Joy, with Jennifer Lawrence, and that movie received Academy Award notice at one point.

Who would have thought it would be challenging to LOSE games with the line-ups that we've been sending out there this season? At any rate, nice to see the White Sox offense wake up at least one game. Usually the "Bruce Chen Effect" against soft tossing lefties would result in a 0-2 run offensive output. Not the case. Maybe the losses of Ventura, Morales and Dyson are making more of an impact than first imagined. Moss has been outright terrible, and Soler's been hurt, and obviously their pen has even more holes without Davis at the back end.

Not sure you want to speed up Abreu's bat there, but that's Vargas' game as a pitcher.

Let's remember the Brewers also let Khris Davis go... At any rate, of all those rumored trades, the one the White Sox should have made was for Ozuna of the Marlins.

The crazy thing with the Brewers is that no matter how well their rebuild goes, they still have the Cubs and Cardinals blocking them in that division...and the Cubs will have money to spend on pitching, or trade bait from their minors to swap. Deck is still stacked against them. At least with the White Sox, we know Cleveland will eventually run out of resources to hold onto their young players if they're not replaced internally. Granted, they surprisingly forked over the money for Encarnacion, and Swisher/Bourn before that.

I'm sure blowing $2.4 additional trillion into the deficit will go over well with the House Freedom Caucus. Of course, they're releasing scant details and just broad outlines on WED, so that will only make things worse due to speculation. Then again, couldn't be much worse than the AHCA unveiling and universal condemnation. The only ones who will favor Trump's plan are those who are heavily invested in the stock market. Everyone else will pretty much be screwed. http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/24/news/econo...rate/index.html

I personally believe the Royals lost a lot of their aggressiveness and swagger when they traded Dyson away. Just a theory, but maybe Gordon's body is breaking down from the wear and tear that results from his style of play, right now he and Hosmer are complete mysteries. It's looking like Moustakas and Cain will be the only ones with much trade value, along with Duffy/Herrera if they choose to shop them. Moustakas definitely would be an attractive rental to a lot of teams like the Mets. Pirates will probably dump Freese if they fall out of it as well without Kang and Marte.

Davidson has the power Viciedo and Avi Garcia were supposed to have... Of course, two weeks from now he'll probably be hitting .212, but it's more interesting than watching Pedro Alvarez or Chris Carter I suppose.

And the whole character attacks back and forth between Clinton and Sanders was yet another reason the Dems lost the election. At a certain point, the truth about a candidate becomes less important than the perception. Clinton pissed off a lot of moderates and centrists by fighting so hard to be cool and win back Bernie's youth vote. Then the damage from the 2008 South Carolina primary alone couldn't be reversed, as the African American votes her husband took for granted resisted jumping on her bandwagon. Didn't matter how many celebs she had in the fold. Even today, the Dems are still perceived as being more out of touch with those middle class voters in Ohio, PA, MI and Wisconsin. After everything Trump has done and threatens to do, there's a sense that he's fighting for them, even though the idea that Hillary was a fighter for the middle class was one of the dominant themes of her campaign. Honestly, Sanders was much easier on Clinton than he could have been. He backed off when it became obvious the Dem establishment was never going to support him. In fact, an argument can be made that had he been tougher, she would have been better prepared for dealing with Trump's tactics in the general election. For every Reddy, there was a Greg out there impressed with his authentic and sincere devotion to his economic message of fighting for the average person. Hillary never figured that out her entire political career, how to connect to people and get them to run through walls for her to get her elected. It was like a slog or duty to get behind her, almost like an obligation.

Greg, from my understanding, usually the limit for food stamps and/or unemployment benefits typically ranges from 3-6 months. Now there might be a separate program related to those with disabilities that the government administers to supplement incomes or provide income support, but it depends on what the specific circumstances are, level of impairment, etc. This whole discussion leads to a new category of work (and not an automated one), related to the general category of human resources/job counseling-related social work, which is assisting all those individuals whose jobs have been outsourced/downsized (and those are mainly in their 40's and 50's) as well as the younger generation of workers under 30 who are having such a difficult time, those who were in college or just graduating at the time of the financial crisis in 2008/09. One obvious problem is that the likelihood of getting Federal funding for this type of program seems to be diminishing by the day. Efforts will have to come from the states and municipalities, local charities/churches, United Ways, etc.

Well, yeah. I don't think we can really start "worrying" about any players until at least the end of May, at the earliest. And certainly if the situation was reversed and Collins was raking and about to be promoted to Birmingham but looking terrible defensively and already being moved to 1B/DH, then that wouldn't be as helpful for putting together a future White Sox playoff team, for sure.

The only problem with doing that (it's a great opportunity to travel and see the world as well), is that once you start a "teacher track," then you have to work even harder to go back to the regular world. I actually did AmeriCorps/non-profit work for five years and just needed a break (or so I thought) from getting a bit burned out, and here I am 15 years later still teaching. But yeah, if you give yourself a set time frame, such as 2-3 years, and you teach something related to business/marketing/advertising/HR, then it might not disadvantage you as much. As the saying goes, it's MUCH easier to find another job once you already have one than for your permanent job to be looking for work. I've been in that situation, luckily...just once in my life, where you're caught between taking temp and less than your perfect/ideal job and then knowing that you're eating into your savings or creating debt for every day you're not working. It drove me crazy after just 2-3 months trying to figure out what to do, and I probably worked for half of that time period in temp jobs to have an income stream coming in. Of course, when you're working, even in a temp job, full-time, it doesn't give you much free time to search for a job if you're under pressure to perform in order to keep that temporary position on a week-to-week basis. My problem is that I started out working for a minor league baseball team and then an NFL football player's charity foundation, so it was especially hard to give up that "dream" type of job for a "regular" one, but I reached the conclusion at the time that working in professional sports was taking away my love for the game and also I was getting caught up in that materialistic lifestyle from being around athletes and celebrities and thinking I needed to spend money to fit in with them.

Good post. The same situation exists for those 50 and over, because they're too expensive or have too much experience, the former "middle level" managers in the corporate world. As a teacher in China, I'd say there are a lot more opportunities than in the US, so one thing you might want to consider is opportunities in other countries outside the US, if that's a possibility. Of course, the other difficult path it forces lots of young people on is trying to start their own small business related to the new online economy. That obviously requires capital and less aversion to risk, so students graduating with gargantuan student loan debts being forced to consider taking on more high-risk loans for a business that probably has an 80% at failure, has to be incredibly scary Another factor is how fewer and fewer companies are guaranteeing pensions or 401k's or retirement match programs.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/23/politics/ber...ello/index.html Reddy will enjoy this one, Sanders taking heat for supporting Democratic anti-abortion mayoral candidate in Omaha. There are definitely two sides to this one, and both are easy to see but hard to reconcile as a Democrat.

Yeah, let's hope if we don't trade Q that Rodon comes back looking like a TOR starter, Anderson doesn't have the typical sophomore slump and that Robertson (maybe Jones), Cabrera, Frazier (looking like a long shot, but who knows, the Mets definitely need a 3B) and Holland/Shields/Gonzalez can be traded for something worthwhile. Also, it seems that Saladino's swing has really gotten long again...before, he was really short and quick, didn't miss too many fastballs. Guess it was too much to expect him to be a 3 war player, but the season has a LONG way to go, and he still hasn't proven he can even stay 100% healthy for one full year.

1. Gorsuch 2. McMaster/Mattis, stabilization of national defense team and prevention of WWIII, return to traditional NATO/anti-Russian posture 3. Rollback of some but not all regulations (37 executive orders so far) 4. This is a big one for traditional Republicans, military (albeit largely symbolic) action against Syria after Obama bluffed but didn't pull the trigger 5. Belief instilled in quite a few members of the middle class that Trump cares more about protecting American jobs than "globalists" Obama/Clinton, this is one of the areas where he's above 50% in public opinion polls/surveys 6. Standing up to "illegal immigrants/sanctuary cities" and labeling radical Islamic terrorism, which has been reinforced by recent events in Europe, the French elections, Brexit, etc. That's what I would expect to hear. Sixty-seven percent of respondents said the Democratic Party was out of touch, as did 62% for the Republican Party. Less than a third said either party was "in touch." Trump fared slightly better than the parties, with 58% saying he was out of touch. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/23/politics/don...poll/index.html

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 23, 2017 -> 08:15 PM) My official stance is Trump's term so far has been a moderate success. Which president in your memory WOULDN'T fall into that category? Carter? Ford, albeit not his fault inheriting that mess? I guess it also depends on how much you blame GW Bush for 9/11, as opposed to the Clinton administration. Clinton started with gays in the military and health care, didn't really discover his bearings until 1995/96, when he tacked/triaged towards the middle.

It is worth at least questioning why they couldn't gel consistently in the regular season...why they had to wait until their backs were against the wall to finally come together as a team? Some of that has to do with the coaching staff, but, then again...perhaps only a few veteran coaches with a lot more experience in the league than Hoiberg (not playing-wise) could have gotten Wade, Butler and Rondo all on the same page much earlier, right? So the question isn't so much about Hoiberg not doing it, but who realistically would have been able to turn the Bulls into a 3-5 seed team during the regular season without burning out the team as Thibs frequently did just getting to the 82nd game?

Well, at least Basabe's up to a 762 OPS. So there's at least one positive at Winston-Salem.

QUOTE (Soha @ Apr 23, 2017 -> 03:35 PM) If I'm the Cubs, I'm probably more interested in Gonzalez or Holland at this point. And they'd come much cheaper. I don't even know how Quintana could be traded right now. The Sox aren't going to lower their demands based on a 3 week slump, yet no team will pay huge for a starter that is 0-4 with an ERA over 6. We're just going to have to wait it out until Q normalizes and then see where things are at. The problem is it's now 2-7 and a 6ish ERA going back to his last 10 starts (September 1st, 2016). So it's not only the first four this year, but it's a longer worrisome trend (mostly against AL Central teams not named CLE). His velocity (would have to check fangraphs) seems off a bit as well, as he does get into the customary 92-93 mph range but I've also seen a number of 89's and 90's, too. Not sure how much of this was caused by the interruption in his schedule by the WBC, dead arm period, etc. Location/command is the bigger issue than velocity, of course, but they're interrelated.

Would it be too much to ask to have a LH hitter who could put up an 800+ OPS against RHP? For all the hand-wringing about Thome and Dunn, they could manage that at least. We always write about how easy it is to find corner outfielders and 1B/DH types that can put up decent numbers, but it's not quite as easy as that. Look at how much money we invested into Cabrera and Abreu, how patient they've been with Avisail Garcia, Todd Frazier since the All-Star Break in 2015 and Sox DH numbers since Dunn has left. It's obvious to say someone like Courtney Hawkins or Keon Barnum was once envisioned to be putting up big numbers in one of those slots, but it's crazy how barren the AA/AAA rosters are except for players who've come from other organizations like Moncada, Willy Garcia, Delmonico, etc.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 23, 2017 -> 03:07 PM) Never underestimate the hate for Hillary Clinton. The only way to defeat Trump, apparently...is to lavish him with praise from ALL media (even SNL wouldn't joke about him, ever) and let him bask in the glow of rallies every weekend, and build up his ego up so high that he carelessly does something so egregious that it would be considered unforgivable to American voters, even for him. He said shooting someone in broad daylight in NYC would be overlooked by his followers, so we'll see.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 23, 2017 -> 02:28 PM) The post you quoted had nothing to do with Trump. I didn't quote anything...that's what I wrote about the French election results. Do we need a separate thread about them, especially as they'll be over on May 7th? I don't think there's any doubt in the minds of most SoxTalk posters there's a connection between Brexit, Trump and Le Pen. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/23/opinions/fre...lman/index.html What the French elections mean for Americans http://www.kxlf.com/story/35221371/why-put...oth-like-le-pen Why Putin and Trump both like LePen