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QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 04:16 PM) Yeah, I wonder what percent of those who didn't vote, did so because they didn't want either one of those two anyway. Can't act like every non-vote would have gone to Hillary, or even enough of them to change the results. Hell, that was my position until my family guilted me in to deciding to vote, of which I screwed up anyway by apparently missing the registration deadline. My vote was going to Kasich though. Bit isn't the popular vote margin already close to 1.4 million and expected to climb even further by the end of November? It's already a 1 point spread head-to-head in favor of Clinton. https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-ceo-pre...-145037063.html World leaders at APEC aim at Trump on trade LoL at Obama's line buried at the very end of the story. He must already be very tired trying to defend the guy. He's going to fight all of them on Twitter tonight at 3 a.m.?

This sounds like the no offers of three years or longer last offseason nonsense. Why we would even put idiotic stuff like that out there as a floating/planted media rumor is beyond me. How about we finally get some results?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 10:59 AM) They have money to spend. The problem is that spending money does not make you a strong team if you don't have a strong organization around them. Baseball has been teaching teams that lesson for a decade now - the last team that made themselves into a world series winner based almost entirely on free agent acquisitions was the 09 Yankees. You can use the FA market to supplement players and fill a handful of holes, but if you're signing 3 guys you better have a strong enough roster to absorb 1 of them completely flopping and 1 of them underperforming. The Royals, the Indians, the Cubs, the Mets, the teams that are making the world series are teams that build a strong internal foundation then add 1-2 pieces to it. If the White Sox had ballooned their payroll to $150 million last year, signed Cespedes instead of Jackson, they're still not a playoff team. They're probably over .500. And that's with hindsight of knowing that Cespedes was still ok last year, while some of the other expensive OFs were flops. If the White Sox had ballooned their payroll by adding Heyward, well you know. Or Gordon. Or Upton. You would have had to go 3/4 or 4/4 on your moves, like trading scraps for Jean Segura, and signing Trumbo, Desmond and Fowler. Plus bringing in a different pitcher than Shields...or still having Guerra on the roster. Almost everything would have to break right.

I actually enjoyed Hacksaw Ridge more than The Arrival, but maybe it was due to watching both on a laptop. That, or seeing about 25 versions of similarly-themed movies in a previous lifetime. Maybe it's also attributable to not liking Jeremy Renner all that much.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/polit...voters/?ref=yfp You can keep studying white working class voters, but we know the answer (already)

Can he launch a pre-emptive cruise missile strike at US/domestic targets if he gets REALLY angry? At Alec Baldwin or most of the brothers except Stephen? What next, reporters picking on Ivanka will end up at Guantanamo Bay for waterboarding and rectal feeding under Mike Pompeo?

QUOTE (miracleon35th @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 12:03 AM) Yes, sir, but you know that line "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry ." Teams now seem to be of this mindset where they covet and will never trade their top tier young players and prospects and will only trade their second tier prospects and players who have injuries or other issues. If that turns out to be the case, then what do we do ? Adding to that...there may no longer be a Draft day pay-off for tanking seasons in an era where there is a race to last so teams can game the system like the Cubs did. So we could be "mired in mediocrity" for longer than any of us anticipated with this rebuilding plan. Shelby Miller, Giles and Kimbrel trades say hello, for example. If you're going for it now, can you really risk gambling that Sonny Gray and Chris Archer are close to the equivalents of Sale coming off the seasons they had? Both GM's are going to ask for overpays, but which of the three gives you the most certainty? The Astros are already much stronger...it's clearly a situation in the AL where there are already 9-10 teams that are clearly better suited to compete, spend more and with better farm systems to trade from. We have more possible combinations of players available to fill multiple holes simultaneously, such as Sale and Frazier...or Quintana and Cabrera, Abreu, Eaton or Nate Jones, Robertson, etc. If this isn't the best time...or the trade deadline in 2017, there never will be a better time and we'll just sit on those guys until they become another Jenks, Crede, Floyd, Danks or Crain due to injuries. We already had numerous opportunities where we could have dealt Robertson to start the rebuild and now they're stuck with him. Cabrera, as well, will not be on the next White Sox playoff team and has elevated himself to where you don't have to eat salary to trade him.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-pence-booed...-063728742.html Two NY Times writers defended Pence/office of the Vice President https://gma.yahoo.com/autographed-trump-hat...topstories.html "autographed" hats and books sold for crazy prices by Trump campaign were all signed by autopen

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politics/ste...view/index.html New Republican Party will rule for 50 years according to Bannon...with 40% of black and Hispanic votes. $1 trillion in infrastructure spending planned. Yay! That means we won't have to hear about blowing up the Federal debt, fiscal responsibility or wasteful big government spending (while simultaneously lowering revenues due to across the board tax cuts) again. It might even work. Trump inherits a much stronger economy in terms of stock market, unemployment, inflation and GDP growth than when Obama entered the White House in January, 2009. http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/11...h-pkg-lead.cnn# $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan (over ten years)...of course no pork barrel projects allowed But lots of tolls/road usage fees on the horizon, as well as tax credits....all predicated on keeping interest rates low/er http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-12/t...e-plan-feasible Moreover, while certain types of infrastructure projects lend themselves to private financing, projects like toll roads, airports or water systems where funds can be segregated and investors can be paid a return on invested capital, other projects like pure maintenance work are more difficult to fund privately. https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-democrat-con...-190950574.html Objections to Pompeo for CIA Director from Wyden

https://gma.yahoo.com/nepotism-law-might-af...opstories.html# How the nepotism law might effect Jared Kushner https://www.yahoo.com/news/ivanka-trump-jap...-180754752.html Ivanka and Kushner at meeting with Abe was out of a "tin pot oligarchy" playbook...pictures of event wouldn't have come out if not for the Japanese releasing them

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-ugly-awfu...-183453337.html

QUOTE (farmteam @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 07:20 PM) I heard something about a couple popular guys from Texas (San Antonio, maybe?) that people were excited about. Can't remember the names though. It'd be a gamechanger if Texas was actually in play during an election. Probably Julian Castro and Tom Perez. Were seen as potential VP picks. Castro has a lot of helium.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 03:05 PM) It certainly gets tough to get to the bottom of things when the topic keeps broadening and I was undoubtedly a contributor to that. I just didn't like that you were using Bannon as a way to get me when I had no reason to talk about Bannon. You're a obviously well read and a worthy debater. I take nothing personal here and appreciate your ending sentiment. All the best SB. If you give me one post where I sourced Breitbart I will move to China and help you grade papers. Not once have I ever used it to support an argument nor have I even read any of their work other than perhaps Shapiro and probably some stuff from Breitbart himself after he died. I know you feel a lot more comfortable coming at me in the filibuster because you have a group of people who align with you politically (even if they can't follow your train of thought) but please stop coming at me with stuff I never did. It's petty and there's no constructive converastion to have. When I saw that I laughed out loud. Unbelievable. That was a great share illinilaw. More than anything, I'm interested to see if Trump brings some of the isolationist rhetoric he's had into action. It's refreshing to see someone from the intelligence community call the spying for what it is. Frankly, that stuff getting supported by regular people is maddening. "I'm not doing anything wrong so they can spy on me, I have nothing to hide." Just give them all the power why don't you, I'm working on it. 10-20 pages of Republican Thread, and we have The American Mirror, Wikileaks and The Washington Free Beacon. http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/19/ja...ws-nexus/213927 When you consistently cite O'Keefe, there's no way for you to then run away from his obvious ties to Steve Bannon. They are essentially one and the same. O'Keefe doesn't have the audience he does without the backing and support of Breitbart. You attempted without even bothering to source it to tie Froman to Obama when they didn't even communicate with each other from 1991-2004...by connecting them in some sort of left wing banking conspiracy through Rubin. It's the kind of thing that people don't even bother to read, they just see the headline in the Facebook echo chamber...and assume the worst if they already have a tendency to dislike Obama. You made fun of Huffington Post being cited but didn't even read what it said. You do understand that basically identical copies of the same article being at multiple sites throughout the web, Vanity Fair for an example, doesn't mean they can change the words that Trump and Bannon actually uttered in a recorded radio interview? What in that story about Trump and Bannon is factually untrue or take out of context? How would you write it to more accurately portray Bannon?

Oh, for the halycon days of Barry Goldwater.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-takei-on-...-161030408.html George Takei on Muslim registry: Have We Learned Nothing from WW2 camps in the Western US?

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 09:24 AM) I thought about taking Dayton Moore and selling. All those Boras clients with expiring deals. They need to figure out what to do with Hosmer, Moustakas, and Cain. Wade Davis is still the likeliest to go...but went through injury in second half. You've got Moustakas vs. Cuthbert at 3rd. Duffy has a lot of trade value as a one year rental coming off last season. Dyson is also probably going to end up superfluous.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 09:16 AM) Criticize people for using Breitbart. Use a Huffington Post article in the same post. The difference is that those were the exact words of Trump and especially Bannon...not a political opinion. It wouldn't matter where they came from. http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-govern...e115414633.html Koch Industries Names New CIA Director That's what Breitbart would title an article as...if they were liberal. You can go to Vanity Fair, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/ste...lley-inaccurate http://sfist.com/2016/11/16/bannon_asian_ceos.php https://mobile.twitter.com/i/moments/798915723917721601?m=1 Washington Post/twitter http://www.aol.com/article/finance/2016/11...-they/21608468/ AOL was owned by Steve Case, an ardent Republican They are radio interviews with direct quotes, not opinion columns that were just conjured out of thin air.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politics/tru...-say/index.html Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas as CIA Director. Yikes. Let the Tea Party begin. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo Each nominee is worse than the preceding one. Not exactly "Team of Rivals" storybook stuff here.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/11/s...ncart_big-photo Let's try his home state newspaper's take on the nomination of Sessions.

http://wonkette.com/416347/vile-racist-scu...is-day-to-shine The Cabinet is heading for an unapologetically racist/white supremacy All-Star team. Thurgood Marshall must be turning over in his grave with this announcement. Bannon, Trading on Classified Information Lobbyist Lt. Major Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner (nepotism, but at least seems like a the most normal so far) and now Sessions. Off to a roaring start.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michael-flynn-ke...-004512931.html More on the Lt. General Michael Flynn scandal

QUOTE (hi8is @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 12:01 AM) Here's the idea folks. You claim one of the below GM personas and we then continue on fictional negotiations. The role playing continues until the discussed trade asset is liquidated in reality. "Trade Talks" begin immediately once you have selected your GM role. You conclude your communication by signing off with your chosen GM name. The only rule is, no personal attacks between GM's. You can attack the idea itself. Claim your GM by posting a welcome message in that name or by engaging in a trade negotiation under that name. The list below will be updated as other posters begin to participate. Rick Hahn ( taken - hi8is ) Dan Duquette Dave Dombrowski ( taken - South Sider ) Mike Chernoff Al Avila Jeff Luhnow ( taken - SouthSideSale ) Dayton Moore Billy Eppler Terry Ryan Brian Cashman Billy Beane Jerry Dipoto Matthew Silverman Jon Daniels Mark Shapiro Dave Stewart John Coppolella Jed Hoyer Dick Williams Jeff Bridich Andrew Friedman Michael Hill David Stearns Sandy Alderson Matt Klentak Neal Huntington John Mozeliak A.J. Preller Bobby Evans Mike Rizzo Stewart was already fired. I can try Dayton Moore, but he's unlikely to be targeting any White Sox players...maybe Frazier for DH or Jones.

If you constantly use Breitbart sources/links to attack someone, let's say Hillary Clinton or the Clinton Foundation... "I never supported Bannon or anything" becomes I can consistently use a certain media source to zing/gotcha a political opponent but can still remain blissfully flying above the resulting trainwreck with no damage done to myself. Well, that's not the way it works. If you consistently quote Breitbart, O'Keefe, etc., then the way politics works today is that you're eventually going to tar yourself with the same brush. So either someone is deliberately being obtuse about all of racism/anti-immigrant rhetoric and fake headline news over there (which is bad enough) or one's going to be 100% aware of it but still justify using that to make attacks instead of looking for more centrist/moderate/closer to what we used to think of as more objective news sites. Perhaps another point in all of this is that reasonableness and compromise and finding common ground simply don't exist anymore in terms of being a winning media platform strategy. Without having an edgy take or defending a certain position/viewpoint, we risk losing ratings/profitability. Controversy sells. It's the same reason there wasn't a single debate question about the environment during this 18 month campaign season. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-...4b0e39c1fa71e48 This is Bannon directly admitting (to Trump, over a year ago) to being a "vulgarian" and deliberately staking out a position way to the right of Trump himself on immigration.

Yep, you don't here those who had 401k's who managed them well working for large private companies complaining about the public pension programs. You don't hear those same workers complaining about enjoying generous employee match programs of 3-4% in additional savings accumulating "for free." It's mostly those workers who spent above and beyond their means, bought expensive houses that overextended their financial situations...who chose not to save or even take advantage of employer match programs because they believed they could somehow solve those problems later on in life. Just that public/union workers are lazy or entitled. Of course, attacking people for attempting to "keep up with Joneses" isn't as popular. It's like attacking the American Dream of unbounded capitalism and consumerism.

Yep, you don't here those who had 401k's who managed them well working for large private companies complaining about the public pension programs. You don't hear those same workers complaining about enjoying generous employee match programs of 3-4% in additional savings accumulating "for free." It's mostly those workers who spent above and beyond their means, bought expensive houses that overextended their financial situations...who chose not to save or even take advantage of employer match programs because they believed they could somehow solve those problems later on in life. Just that public/union workers are lazy or entitled. Of course, attacking people for attempting to "keep up with Joneses" isn't as popular. It's like attacking the American Dream of unbounded capitalism and consumerism.