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QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Jan 23, 2018 -> 02:38 PM) I hope he makes it to the Bulls. I would love that in Chicago. Trae Young or LaVine playing D?

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 23, 2018 -> 06:47 AM) Creating policy with guns to people's heads is a dangerous path. I'd support a constitutional amendment to make it illegal. I don't see a legal way however, to make that possible, https://smucker.house.gov/media/press-relea...nment-shutdowns There are lots of similar ideas out there. On the Republican side, they (typically) want to automatically chop 1, 2 or even 5% across the board if a full year budget can’t be reached. Of course, that wouldn’t affect military spending, only discretionary spending areas. You do realize the last two major shutdowns were GOP-led?

Quite the imagination for a franchise that would be in even more ignominious territory were it not for the Mariners and Padres. Let's focus on just getting back to the playoffs, first. And it's still difficult to be overconfident without knowing anything about how Carlos Rodon will emerge from all his injuries.

Maybe they were too mesmerized by Jessica Chastain after her performance in Molly's Game...?

The Dems might as well run this ad, lol...it would probably attract more Trump supporters away from him than Sanders, Pelosi, Booker, Harris and Gillibrand will draw from railing against the GOP. Some Democrats voiced particularly strong dissent after news of the senators' deal. Alida Garcia, a strategist and advocate for immigrants' rights at the lobbying group FWD.us, announced she would cut ties with the party. "I'm leaving the Democratic Party today," Garcia tweeted. She later called Democrats "liars." "They're complicit w/ every single young person living in fear," she said. "Every pain Latino & immigrant families feel from here out is 100% due to @TheDemocrats not fully embracing us as American. Implicit racism is equally as harmful. I'm done." http://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-a...vernment-2018-1

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 22, 2018 -> 04:50 PM) Ok, so one part of this does make some sense to me. Now that we're getting to the end of January with a market full of FAs who can legitimately make teams better, I was thinking that some of the teams that were close last year, maybe WC challenging teams, could come in and say "one player could legitimately put us in the playoffs now" and make a run at some of these guys. This still is not the case for the White Sox, but my mind went to teams like Arizona and Colorado, the NL wild card teams last year - they could legitimately think that one player could be the difference between a playoff appearance for them and a playoff miss. Once these guys stay out on the market long enough, teams like those will go ahead and make that one move. The Brewers were one I didn't think of, but they fit in this boat also. It's complicated for them because several of the guys remaining are outfielders and the OF is where they're already strong, hence the crazy concepts here. It makes sense that the Brewers are a team pondering how to take advantage of where this market currently is. On the other hand, everyone's sitting there watching how patient the Yankees and Astros were last season, with the Robertson/Frazier/Kahnle deal and Verlander move putting both those teams in much more competitive positions without having to overpay in the offseason (not to mention the cost savings of 3-4 months in terms of the budget). Those more or less 8-12 teams in the middle are going to all be looking for a way to exploit the current market in whatever way they can. To the Brewers, the Cubs look a bit vulnerable in the pitching department. AZ and Colorado are both interesting cases, where they might lose Blackmon after next year, so they have to make a move in 2018. With AZ, they had arguably the most screwed up front office in MLB (Stewart/LaRussa) and a couple of atrocious trades, but they're still right there on the cusp because of how good Goldschmidt and their pitching staff were last year (the big question is whether Ray, Godley, Walker and Corbin can repeat). On the plus side, the White Sox probably have more financial flexibility than any team in the majors. Shields is their only "bad" contract still on the books, and that's only temporary.

Well, the 2016 draft got raves. That's without even taking Burdi into consideration now due to his injury. Last year, not so much. Of course, bringing in Robert was like having an additional Top 4-5 pick in the first round.

Congrats to tOSU for turning their Program around so quickly after it got stagnant. No such hope with the talent level on Iowa. The worst part is the McCaffrey Brothers’ presence Is scaring off the talent we need to recruit at guard. We had to tolerate Lickliter’s son, thankfully we missed Alford’s, but he actually exceeded expectations slightly as a college player at UCLA. Finally: OU desperately needs a win at home against KU tomorrow night to right the ship. This bb team is just like the football version, star-heavy but lacking defensive shutdown ability. They could lose in the first round or get to the Elite 8 based on Young’s shooting and turnover numbers.

Is Tatis, Jr., #1? In all seriousness, it will be fun to watch Law squirming when Robert becomes a stud and he has to account for why he wasn’t even listed as a Top 100 prospect.

Democrats need to admit Trump is boosting the economy https://finance.yahoo.com/news/democrats-ne...-202039049.html

QUOTE (brett05 @ Jan 22, 2018 -> 03:35 PM) Not saying you per se, but this has nothing to do with race no matter how much folks want it to be If they were illegal Melanias (nobody knows exactly how she was able to stay) and Ivanas from Slovenia and the Czech Republic, then we wouldn’t have ever heard about this issue. Or the Swedish/Finnish Bikini Team. Speaking with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) on Monday morning at the gym, Schumer sought to find out what kind of immigration bill McConnell would agree to take up. Alexander told Schumer that he may be majority leader one day, and it would be best for him not to set the precedent of the minority dictating the legislative calendar to the majority, two Republican sources said. A bipartisan group of senators that began meeting late last week provided the cover that both Schumer and McConnell needed. That group of more than 20 senators convened in the office of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Friday, Saturday and Sunday hoping to drive a solution to the shutdown. And though Schumer discussed the outlines of those talks with liberal senators who opposed them, he also quietly blessed the bipartisan working group. Schumer "was encouraging us to try to keep the discussions going so that we could get a resolution,” said Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with the Democrats. By the time progressives met Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Sunday night, they knew their position was eroding, said a Democratic staffer with knowledge of the meeting. politico.com

The key political question is how far does the GOP go in overplaying their hand now...? 84-87% of Americans at least want the DACA kids to be protected, if not legalized (voting rights will be another contentious issue). They just didn’t like it being paired with budget issues/govnt shutdown. The fact remains that how this is perceived in the eyes of the 30-40% of Americans in the political middle is what matters most. Trump wins whenever the discussion is about identical politics and allowing whites to feel aggrieved. That’s just a fact. The Dems need to focus on middle/working class dinner table issues and peel off those Trump voters who feel he’s just gone too far.

In the final analysis, the ten Trump State Dems up for re-election considered their own careers more important than assurance of protecting the DACA kids. We’ll see if any of them get primaried on the left. Probably not.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/politics/mcc...ysis/index.html Winners and Losers of the shutdown...include the liberal wing and 2020 Presidential hopefuls. The thing is that the GOP has their own optics problem coming up. If Trump and Ryan want to send all those kids/teenagers/young adults out of the country in handcuffs, it will be another version of Bull Connor, police dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham on the national news in the 1960s. Story after story about individual lives and families affected, just like the ObamaCare/Tea Party revolt in 2010. Think prison holding camps similar to a World War Two for the Japanese. When Trump starts to get hammered for being cruel and mean, he won’t be able to resist the idea of saving the day and making a last minute deal to screw over the House GOP. If mass deportations do happen, those images of kids under ten being ripped from their parents will be the image of the fall campaign. And Trump wil never get his wall then. Even if Mexico agrees to pay for it. 1/4th of the country will love it, the other 3/4ths absolutely horrified, including the majority of American mothers. Then you can add 1.6 million El Salvadorans, Hondurans and Guatemalans. Haitians. Nigerians. Plus another 2-4 million that were part of the Dream “Chain Migration” Act. You’re talking 5-6 million people, more or less. Good luck with that one.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 22, 2018 -> 01:11 PM) Here's an easy way: come here legally on some sort of Visa and just overstay! That's a significant percentage of undocumented people. If you're smuggling drugs, do it through shipping or by sea. Hand carried across the border is a tiny fraction. Don’t forget the sea turtles smuggling cocaine. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/20...scued-us-coast/ The Colombians often used miniature submarines.

Would be nice if FB shared similar data: “Nearly 700,000 American Twitter accounts followed Russian propaganda accounts or liked or favorited posts from the accounts, according to new data released by the social media platform on Friday. The new data significantly increase the latest estimate of the number of Americans who consumed content produced by Kremlin operatives during the Russian campaign to meddle in the 2016 election.”

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jan 22, 2018 -> 08:47 AM) Dick I never mentioned anything about the people of these countries, not sure where you got that from my post. Merely saying that if all the countries were ranked, some countries have to be at the bottom. And if North Korea isn’t a s***hole, then what is a s***hole? I’m only arguing the accuracy of the term s***hole. Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Poland, Italy...most of Eastern Europe, a century ago, right? Any country with Roma or gypsies, like Romania, Hungary or the Czech Republic.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 22, 2018 -> 08:37 AM) I know that, but I would guess a majority are from Mexico based on geography. Deportation is a huge expense. I really don't know why it is imperative these people leave the country for national security purposes, yet if funding for a wall is available, they really aren't that dangerous anymore. I was cooling down at the gym yesterday morning, and they had one of Trump's flunkies on with Chris Wallace. Wallace isn't typical Fox News, so when he asked this guy questions , he was dancing around them like you wouldn't believe. He showed him Trump saying government shutdowns are on the the POTUS, but of course, this was very different. He showed him footage of this guy himself approving shutting down the government in 2013 over Obamacare, yet that was different. There were things he didn't like it that one. Supposedly, only republicans don't have to vote for things they don't like. Mick Mulvaney?

Non-s***hole countries by definition have Trump properties/hotels, like Panama or Indonesia. http://time.com/4629308/donald-trump-busin...eals-world-map/ Or you can just go by Trump real estate around the world on one clickable map. Are all these countries non-s***holes??? Someone just called into Washington Journal on c-span and suggested we build Dachau-style concentration camps for illegal immigrants around the country.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jan 21, 2018 -> 01:15 PM) Trump is definitely more hated than Obama but Obama definitely divided the country more. Is Obama An Uncle Tom??? http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-obama-an-uncle-tom#! Please list all of the policies or laws that Obama passed that weren't designed to prove to white people/conservatives that he wasn't actually a threat to them? THIS SHOULD BE GOOD. Donald Trump has not done a single thing since becoming president, including his Inaugural "American Carnage" address...to do anything besides pander to his base and do EVERYTHING to reverse Obama decisions or negate his legacy. This all dates back to the WH Correspondents' dinner in DC when Trump was the brunt of jokes made at his expense by Obama. At his last WHCD before leaving office, Obama started his jokes by saying he was “a little hurt” that Donald Trump didn’t come to the “nerd prom.” Obama went on to say, “We had so much fun that last time.” It’s doubtful Trump actually had much fun last year, but he plastered on a stoic face as a slew of jokes were made about him then as well. This year, Obama continued his jokes, pondering Trump’s reasons for not attending, asking, “Is this dinner too tacky for the Donald? Is he at home eating a Trump steak, tweeting out insults to Angela Merkel?” Obama’s immature behavior didn’t end there. He didn’t let up, and the insults continued. Barack Obama spoke at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night Obama said Trump would be good at one thing: closing Guantanamo Bay. Obama said, “Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground.” Closing Gitmo is a failed Obama promise, one he’s still trying desperately to fulfill, so that one must have hurt the president’s pride a little — or maybe not. Narcissists like Obama rarely care about keeping promises they make to voters. Once he was done with the GOP front-runner, Barack Obama had a message for the media, in which he blamed them for the rise of Donald Trump. Obama took a moment to point the finger at the media’s constant coverage of Trump’s campaign. “I hope you’re happy,” he told the room of reporters. http://madworldnews.com/obama-trump-jokes-white-house/

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 21, 2018 -> 09:21 PM) Dude. Do you really think Eagles fans would pass on the Super Bowl because it's in a cold weather town? The game is in indoors. It's the Super Bowl, not the Capital One Bowl Guess I'm seriously underestimating the rabid nature of Eagles fans... The face value of tickets for Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis on Feb. 4 will set back fans anywhere from $950 in the nosebleed section to $5,000 for club seats. And that’s before any transaction fees or secondary-market bump-ups, which Yahoo Sports’ Charles Robinson predicts could yield ticket costs as high as six times their printed price — or more. http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/super-...a-20180121.html Early line has the Patriots as 6 point favorites, over/under of 48 points.

Okay, PTAC, you're as "middle of the road" as it gets around here. What's the compromise on immigration that the Republican House and Trump can actually sign off on without risking a total rebellion from their base of supporters?

Marcus Lemonis always comes up in this discussion. Why do I immediately think of Kevin Kline in the movie "DAVE" fixing the Federal budget deficit as an accountant/fake president, lol?

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 21, 2018 -> 09:26 PM) Seriously asking, what was the best (highest ranked) prospect sent along in a salary dump in a recent time frame like last 10 years. Because I think it's toussant. It hasn't seemed like a top 100 guy has been moved. What did the Indians get back when they dumped Bourne and Swisher? Astros dumping some of their guys like Chris Johnson, Robbie Grossman or their 1B/DH? Seems like the Braves were the only one that got a huge influx from a deal.

The tickets brokers are now going to take just a small bath...but all the Philly fans will somewhat offset that. Of course, it would have greatly motivated Eagles' and Pats' fans to be able to leave in early February for an actual warm weather site. That will come back to haunt the NFL...what can you do besides go to the Mall of America and look at the frozen source of the Mississippi River?