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QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 04:19 PM) By 1998, Dick Morris was no longer involved with the Clinton administration, and the President had just faced a grand jury and was looking at an imminent impeachment. Historically speaking, the Democrats should have been shook in that midterm. In 2002, George Bush's shine was well receding - and he was prepping for a war in Iraq that was very divisive. The Dems just ran s***ty campaigns. The economy and stock market were flying high then. People vote their pocketbook. Federal budgets were actually being balanced on the backs of fair/er capital gains tax rates. Americans tend to stay with the party in power during wartime...rather than making dramatic changes midstream.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 02:48 PM) Grudz answers to no one. See what happened between Backman and Alderson...for further reference on AAA coaches making independent personnel decisions.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/alex-jones-infow...-152318154.html Is Alex Jones a "performance artist" or always unhinged/dangerous to his children? Interesting ramifications for Trump and Melania if they side with the mother.

Well, it's hard to argue Q value has risen...because there are likely to be guys like Duffy, Vargas, Hector Santiago, Archer, Colon, Hellickson, etc., competing with him again in June/July. Heck, Derek Holland's top ten in WHIP, but let's see how he does against NYY tonight. A's could sell high on Graveman, etc. Seems like we might be headed to another suspenseful offseason. But we won't know that until mid-May at the earliest. Even a nice run of starts over a month didn't get Samardzija traded after a lousy start to the year, although circumstances were different back then. For now, let's hope he can avoid the AL Central unless it's the Indians.

The average 9/11 family ended up with $3 million or so. If it was your father, I highly doubt you'd typify his injuries as "minor" when considering the fact half the world's population has now viewed the video...not to mention the public humiliation of his past medical board issues that he certainly never asked to be relitigated by the likes of TMZ. That's not even considering the racial profiling aspects of this and his age and the fact United precipitated the whole set of events by deboarding him once he was seated without justifiable cause as there was never an "overbooking" by paying customers. That crew showed up in the last thirty minutes before the flight took off, and they rushed into a decision to accommodate them without thinking through the chain of events they were about to set in motion. If a jury ever gets an opportunity to screw United (back), the amount rewarded will be pretty shocking. As far as supporting UAL by buying their stock, go for it. We are a profit-first oriented society, but there's an eventual consequence to consistently putting profits over people. It's inexorably leading to the erosion of our societal framework of universal mutual respect and treating others how we would like to be treated.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 07:06 AM) That includes the 1 run he gave up against them last weekend? I don't remember a game last season where he gave up 11 runs. Yeah, 14 ER against MN in 3 starts (17 ip) Detroit, 12 ip/10 ER KC 4/6 ER 33 IP/30 ER=8.18 ERA Cleveland 14/2 ER TB 6/2 20/4=1.80 Overall, 5.77 ERA last 9, 2-6 record

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 08:21 PM) George Bush in 2002. Bill Clinton in 1998. Post 9/11 and the Dems didn't yet have a clear way to go after GW Bush. Clinton/Morris tacked so far to the center that the Republicans didn't have a counter, plus Dole got obliterated...and the Gingrich Revolution of 1994 overreached big time.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/...-trump/?ref=yfp Violent clashes at Berkeley weren't pro-Trump vs. anti-Trump, have been mischaracterized

It's possible that Berkeley is at the center of this left wing "chaos/anarchy" group, but I'd have a hard time believing it's mostly university students who are the leaders or organizers. If any fingers are to be pointed, it's at university professors who believe it's their responsibility to advocate for political positions as part of their instruction, rather than attempting to be objective and presenting both sides of an argument for students to make their own well-informed decisions. You shouldn't try to control or manipulate their beliefs as an adult, no matter how well-educated.

They already have Wade Davis rented for this ONE year...they're unlikely to hugely overpay for Robertson, especially after the Chapman deal last year.

All of us should be okay with the rebuild, as long as they don't get impatient and screw it up by thinking guys like Avi Garcia and Matt Davidson are going to keep this up....or Shields and Holland, for example. And it's way too premature to expect this team to end up at .500. That said, Q/Anderson/Frazier/Cabrera/Abreu/Rodon haven't contributed much at all, and they were the heart of the team coming into the season. So that can cause you to be optimistic, if you want to get your hopes up. That and the fact that the Indians aren't running away with the division from the get go. I was SORT OF pissed they weren't PHing for May, that Kevan Smith was bunting...but then you can at least cheer for guys like Kahnle and Ynoa. Robin Ventura would have put in another reliever there instead of Nate Jones, and we would have lost in the bottom of the inning, I'm 90-95% sure of that. Avi and Davidson continue to be feel good stories. Saladino, until recently. We have Asche and Jacob May to kick around if we want to do that, although they're basically sacrificial lambs. Btw, now would be a good time to trade Melky Cabrera back to the Giants with their LF situation in disarray.

Or he's simply terrible against the Twins (Sale went through similar stretches against them). 18 runs surrendered to them in his last three starts dating back to September 1st. 10 more runs in two starts against KC and DET. All of his other starts, he's been really good and typical Quintana...for example, against the Indians, who were clearly the best team in the division last year. Of course, that's only 4 good starts out of 9, whereas normally you expect 6/7 out of 9 (quality starts) when Q's taking the bump.

Feeling sorry for May...except that $3000 per day and small chance at a lifetime pension like Carroll earned. Btw, Grossman was a really savvy pickup by the Twins.

SoxTalk Banner Jinx. Please don't replace with Avi, Robertson, Davidson and the three veteran "aces," though.

Kahnle doing a good Burdi impression there.

Infield warning track power. Asche and Davidson are opposites. Kahnle? Ynoa?

Did the White Sox lose their Spanish language station? Or that's home games only?

Can we still trade Buxton for Anderson? Not sure which to be more concerned about, but probably this latest Buxton start to a season after how he finished last year and looked to be finally turning the corner.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 01:59 PM) There's been a decade-long anti-Hillary campaign going on within conservative media. And it worked! She "screwed up" twice and that's all conservative media will ever talk about when it comes to her. Benghazi and emails, that's basically what it comes down to. I have no idea how certain people can despise her so much. I never liked Bush, but I don't think I ever hated him. Same goes for McCain and Romney. Whatever the conservative media is doing, it's working. They're somehow making people hate democrat politicians with a flaming passion. Try since health care fiasco, Whitewater and huge profits on insider commodity tip. This goes all the way back to 1980's, when they accused of authorizing drug cartel flights into Mena, AR, and murdering Vince Foster. Hillary even called it the vast right wing conspiracy to destroy her, but it didn't take nearly as well as Trump's tactics.

Glad I woke up for that half inning, lol.

We're really DHing Yolmer SANCHEZ? Yikes. Anderson really needs to pull out of this funk. Benched today. Sophomore slump, pressure from big contract, whatever's going on...

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 09:09 PM) Also. I will be back to laugh in your face when the dems come nowhere close to winning back the house. Just like I told you sheep that Hillary simply couldnt be president and you all laughed. You may want to look how many seats dems have up in the midterms lol http://www.npr.org/2016/03/04/469052020/th...dency-heres-why Let us not forget that the democrats lost over 1000 seats under Obama lol. Yes, and how much of that was simply based on opposing ObamaCare? He is no longer president, so obstructing him no longer works as a functional strategy. Is there any evidence the GOP can actually govern well with control of all branches of government? Not so far. Which presidents in history have gained seats at midterms in recent memory? The Dems won't get the Senate back, but the House is definitely up for grabs regardless of the number of gerrymandered seats that are largely out of play.

Erstad was a kicker/punter.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Apr 16, 2017 -> 04:43 AM) Keanu was the Key and Peele movie about the cat, I really enjoyed it. Ridley Scott said that one of the reasons why he went with an all white cast for Exodus: Gods and Kings was that he wanted people to see his movie. There's this narrative that no one wants to see minority fronted films. Not only is that one of the stupidest things that I've ever heard anybody say, it's not true. Look at the Fast and Furious, easily the most diverse franchise out there. Everyone in Dom's team is a person of color and the movies continue to break records. I really enjoyed F8/Fast 8/Furious 8/F8TE of the Furious. The Rock made the movie for me, plus his stuff with Statham was amazing. The feud between Vin Diesel and The Rock led to themnot being in any shots together, Diesel even cut out some of the Rock's scenes. These movies are the Harrison Ford, John Woo, Nicolas Cage action movies of the 90's. Which is why they need to cast Nicolas Cage, go to outer space and go ridiculously over the top. Anyway... the current movie stars are Ben Affleck, Will Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Denzel Washington, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence, the Rock, Matt Damon, Leo, Vin Diesel, Charlize Theron, Sandra Bullock ?, Chris Pratt, Melissa McCarthy and Hugh Jackman. Very white, very male. I think that we will be soon be able to add John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Margot Robbie (she might be up there already), Alicia Vikander, Ryan Gosling now that he's starting to do big movies, Tom Hardy might be one already, Emma Stone seems ready to make the jump, Michael B Jordan, Jason Momoa, and even Bobby Millie Brown. Make that Chinese F8 number $192 million, almost doubling the US numbers. Tom Cruise (Edge of Tommorow, MI, Oblivion, Jack Reacher, The Mummy), Brad Pitt and Depp still have their fans, although it will be interesting to see how personal scandals affect the latter two. George Clooney belongs on the list as well, IMO. Jake Gyllenhaal. Tom Hanks. Jim Carrey's career has cratered. Same with Russell Crowe, although the buddy detective flick with Gosling was surprisingly good. I would pick Zoe Saldana over a few of those names (with more Avatars in the pipeline)...Joel Edgerton has a shot as well, very versatile.

Looks like F8 made a whopping $167 million in China. That's going to swamp the US numbers, and almost guarantee a Chinese presence/setting/product placement in the next couple of films. Initial weekend projections for Fate, taking Easter into account on Sunday, hover between $100-104 million — slightly below pre-weekend tracking and most (including our own) industry forecasts but still a very robust haul that leaves it in a position to challenge The Jungle Book ($103.26 million) as the second biggest April opener of all-time once actuals are tallied on Monday. Universal itself projects $103.8 million, in line with its pre-weekend expectation. On the international front, Fate scored $112.1 million outside North America, giving Universal its highest international Friday gross of all-time. The film’s overseas total stands at $194.8 million through two days. The studio’s international weekend estimate is $430.4 million, which would top Jurassic World‘s $316.7 million as the biggest international weekend in history. If those projections hold, Fate would ultimately top Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ $529 million to become the biggest global opening of all-time with an estimated $534.2 million through Sunday. However, the asterisk there is that Fate bowed to an all-time Chinese box office record $65.6 million opening day yesterday. Force Awakens didn’t open in China until one month after its domestic release. Either way, this is resoundingly big news for the studio and the Furious franchise. Boxoffice.com