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https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-elect-...-210448401.html You can be sure that the inclusion of Bannon (and his alleged domestic abuse history) will give women one more easy target in their already growing dislike of the administration. This January 21st Women's March on Washington and the protests in Washington around the previous week's MLK Holiday will be interesting. They've been playing scenes of the protests non-stop here on CCTV News in China. Social media is also filled with images from NYC and Washington. http://nypost.com/2016/11/14/sanders-says-...n-lost/?ref=yfp Sanders refuses to scapegoat Comey for HRC loss

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Nov 13, 2016 -> 10:38 AM) I couldn't agree more with respect to Pence. And I know my suggestion of Garland approval is a head scratcher. My thought is widespread protests, 2 years of Trump and a constant filibuster led by the Warren/Sanders portion of the Senate could help push the GOP to make a compromise up front and then go back to their ways once things are settled down a bit. Pence would have to step aside as part of that compromise. The thing that scares many about Trump is the level of control he is clearly granting Pence right now. If you give them a few concessions on the legislative front, and guarantee they still get a GOP presidency as long as it is someone more moderate, it could help them preserve their party better. The fact is they lost this election on many fronts. It's just that Trump's win in the EC overshadows the number of losses. Depends on perspective. https://shiftwa.org/lessons-election-obama-...ated-dem-party/ There's a link to a WashPo article inside that's more detailed with a graph that shows the trendlines from 2008 onwards. The reassuring fact is that the Dems have another 8 million or so (conservatively) who didn't vote compared to 2008/12 (on top of what will eventually be a 1.2-1.5 million spread in the popular vote for Clinton)...not to mention the third party voters who won't waste their voters or protest vote a second time around and the fact that a lot of those Rust Belt voters flipped for the first time to the GOP as well and expect to see their lives appreciably improve. In the end, though, only Bill Clinton and Obama had the requisite charisma to hold their unique coalitions together successfully.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Nov 13, 2016 -> 08:21 AM) It's not that they're clueless, it's pretty much the opposite. They know they can raise ticket prices by 7% and not lose a ton of accounts (at least not yet). The problem I have is with the reasoning. IMO, it feels like they know a rebuilding is going bring down attendance so they might as well maximize their fixed revenue by price gauging their most loyal customers. I think that fans like you deserve better, but to each their own. SoxTalk is not unlike the media echo chamber around the election. It probably represents roughly 5-10% of the fanbase, but we're definitely not going to hear from many who cancel their tickets because why bother if you're at the point of being so frustrated with ownership/management that you currently see no light at the end of the tunnel? And it's not so surprising to see prices falling to 2008 levels, since people's disposable incomes are probably flat at best from the housing crisis on...the team has sunk into irrelevance in the face of the Cubs' onslaught and only those with heavy stock market investments (who didn't flinch and sell) are MUCH better off.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 13, 2016 -> 07:58 AM) I saw the replay. Something turned his head. Iowa isn't a very good team. It shouldn't have been close. Night games away are extremely tough. Any team who started 12-0 last year and returning 15 starters can be dangerous. They're never sexy, but they wear you down on the offensive and defensive lines at their best. Then you add last week's embarrassment at PSU, Michigan making national news trying to cover up the pink locker room (especially posing for pictures with a cocky attitude)...and finally playing at home in front of a primetime national tv audience and fifty recruits. Ferentz really gets motivated for OSU, Michigan and PSU as well...fwiw. It's traditionally NW and Iowa State that give Iowa the most problems, although obviously OSU and MI usually win with far superior talent.

Pants, I think the biggest danger right now is Pence as president. Actually, PT Trump has pressure on him from all sides...he's caught in a three-way pincers between the Ryan/future GOP, all those disaffected blue collar workers in the Rust Belt, WV, Indiana and North Carolina, and basically everyone else in the country who's not a white male. Already, they're planning this huge Women's March on Washington the day after the inauguration on January 21st. There's also the Trump University lawsuit to deal with if it's not settled before November 28th and the big KKK march planned for December 3rd in North Carolina. He doesn't disavow that like the state GOP has already done and he's already going to be foundering. Then you have the NAACP protest for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday before the inauguration. Not only that, but every liberal is pointing out the 450,000 vote spread in the popular vote...the number of Stein and Johnson voters and the fact that spread could easily end up close to the 1.2 million to 1.5 million in total margin after all of California is added. http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/...-htmlstory.html 63.5 million to 62 million....that's 50.6% to 49.4% head to head, well over 1% Garland is dead in the water...and so is the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wha...omepage%2Fstory Battle for the Soul of the (Democratic) Party https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/posts/10153913074756857 Michael Moore five point to do list after election. Huge Women's March on Washington scheduled for January 21st, the day after the inauguration... https://www.yahoo.com/news/protests-spread-...-173145786.html

Now Michigan and Ohio State will really get interesting...battle for survival to get to the title game. Michigan shouldn't take Indiana for granted, either. 3 of the top 4 teams all losing within hours of each other. Alabama the one constant. Would be cool to see Louisville sneak into the Final 4 for their Heisman winner. Harbaugh broke his leg at Iowa, lost in 1985 in a match-up of #1-2 when he was QB on a last second field goal (Rob Houghtlin) and then a very similar score and fg at the end of this one.

Well, Iowa did get some breaks. The safety to get back some momentum. 4th down conversion for TD on a short pass. The field goal after halftime when Michigan fumbled to give them the lead. Harbaugh getting all conservative with the offense when they had a chance to run out the clock as well as the personal foul on the punt to give them favorable field position. You can't mess with Hayden Fry's pink locker rooms. Karma and hubris take out the Wolverines. http://www.espn.com/college-football/story...ing-locker-room Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy in Harbaugh. Thanks for turning Iowa's season around...they were completely decimated by PSU, but the disrespecting of the locker room surely got the attention of Beathard, Wadley, King and Jewell.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 12, 2016 -> 06:58 PM) Trump is horrible but id like to sarcastically thank the democrats for the only possible nominee to lose to trump. I mean all the outrage ... How bout a decent candidate Democrats? The outrage is dumb. The alternative was hillary Just like all the outrage when Obama won that he was going to take away everyone's guns and force Sharia Law on America. The fact of the matter is that Trump's either going to be completely unpredictable/erratic (with Bannon/Lewandowski) or that he did the best impression of PT Barnum ever and he's not going to do a single thing he claimed during the course of 20 months of campaigning. He will just be a generic/safe Republican president, which is fine for everyone who is white and/or rich. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/colin-kaepern...EMwXzEEc2VjA3Ny Greg, this writer argues not voting is basically the equivalent of voting for a third party you haven't researched much or at all... https://www.yahoo.com/news/megyn-kelly-trum...--politics.html Trump tried to bribe/influence Megyn Kelly and other media personalities...and had a scripted attack response to first debate question already prepared (the infamous blood coming out of her whatever debate)

I saw Tucker play this summer in the Quad Cities...he has a long ways to go. And his power is going to take time to develop. At any rate, if healthy, Saladino would be playing over Sanchez. Or should be, unless you're going to throw out the last 2-3 years and go with Sanchez's September numbers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ten-thousands-pr...-192907393.html Notice in this set of 51 pictures that some of the Chinese anti-Trump protesters in NYC are afraid for their faces to be caught on the camera for fear of reprisals. Picture 20, in one of the kinder comments ever seen on a sign..."Trump is unreliable" Chinese woman also with the Trump/Hitler "We Build Walls" sign in pic 11

Stubborn. Avi Garcia was the centerpiece of a trade that was supposed to be one the keys to revitalizing the White Sox with young hitting talent. Lawrie was more of a flier with potential upside. But, as with Beckham and Viciedo, they'll have to cut bait on him eventually. He doesn't have the numbers to be a full time DH, which is the only spot on the roster suitable for him.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/12/politics/kel...taff/index.html Chief of Staff should be named Monday. Priebus pick, another sell-out by PT Trump. Lewandowski or Bannon, at least he's honoring his pledges that got him elected. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/opinion/...r-ideology.html What Trump openly exposed about the GOP...identity politics over ideology https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-see-...-131824772.html Please God, no Dr. Ben Carson as head of HHS...this is quickly becoming a nightmare there's no waking up from.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 12, 2016 -> 12:10 PM) Kansas City will also be interesting to watch after this. They have a team that has a ton of post-2017 free agents - Cain, Moustakas, Davis, Escobar, Hosmer, Dyson, Duffy, Vargas from a quick look. Basically their window closes in 1 year. If they don't find a quality replacement for Morales, they might as well start trading those guys now. They're going to have to make a move to add offense and someone under contract for 1 year would make sense. They have anything that would interest for Frazier? Cuthbert...but that might be too much for just one year of Frazier in their eyes. Names like Zimmer, Starling, Colon and Hunter Dozier come to mind. They're going to be one of many teams looking at Fowler, Desmond, Carlos Gomez, Beltran, Rasmus, Napoli, etc. And they won't have a 3b after Moustakas departs...so they might go with a rotating DH to rest Cain/Moustakas/Perez/Hosmer/Escobar. But they definitely need another bat. Could be RF/CF as well.

In fact, if Priebus is named Chief of Staff, Paul Ryan and the GOP have already taken steps to successfully take over his presidency...so you'll have 75-80% of the country upset, the 25-30% he betrayed while pretending to be an outsider and change agent and everyone else who never wanted him in the first place.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Nov 12, 2016 -> 12:27 PM) So you are telling me if Trump who will already be under a lot scrutiny royally f***s up with bad policies that people will sit idly by? come on balta, that's rubbish and you know it. The "liberal" media, burned terribly by this election...are definitely going to hold his feet to the fire now that he's governing. I read an article that less than 1 hour of primetime news this election went to substantive policy discussion over a 20 month period. Shocking stuff when you look back on it. It seems impossible for Ryan to hold the center and Trump to hold back the wrath of his deplorables and Tea Partyers because their interests just don't coincide or intersect. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-transitio...-072703965.html Transition team filled with GOP establishment http://finance.yahoo.com/news/president-tr...-215552004.html Child care plan leaves out neediest https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-advisers-b...ics.html?ref=gs Social Security privatization back on the table? No reaction to day after day of stuff like this, the party deserves to be blown up and thrown out with the bath water.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 12, 2016 -> 12:04 PM) No it isn't. The Democrats don't turn out for Midterms. Maybe when Medicare is put on the chopping block, that will do it. That's Ryan's #2 priority, after getting rid of health care for all the blah people and his tax cuts. 2002 isn't a great example due to 9/11, but I'm sure if we looked at 2006, 1990, 1986....we'd see a shift back against the tides there, too. There's been a changeover of something like 36% of governorships, and 15-25% across the board for Senate, House and state legislatures since 2008, not to mention things like school boards and city councils in flyover territory. Decimated would probably be the appropriate term, except for Obama retaining power. The GOP Congress was already terribly unpopular in the first place, so a Gregoning is due. Not to mention gerrymandering and the incumbency effect certainly didn't protect the Dems in 1994, 2010 and 2014. The GOP is already overreaching with their cabinet names...and then you'll see even more anger about the Supreme Court. Republicans will feel they have a mandate, and hubris will bring them back down. Basically the same thing that happened to the Dems forcing Hillary on the party without giving other candidates a fair opportunity.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Nov 12, 2016 -> 09:08 AM) Remember the Gore/Tipper kiss? Looked like Al's first kiss and he watched Dumb & Dumber for pointers. I was going to say Cuban is a good idea since he's central and smart enough to realize big govt is rarely good. So he'd have a better chance of winning the white vote and the educated vote. But then I look at Obama, Hillary, Kerry, Gore, Clinton. The only two that won are the guys whose platforms were "I'm a cool guy and I play the sax/shoot hoops." MAYBE the key to a democrat victory is never going to be policy again (because it's usually pretty stupid in general), but energizing all the minorities and young people. So the real tenets moving forward for the DNC will be coolness in some way and make sure to spout out the phrases "climate change", "free tuition" & "diversity". Landslide. There will undoubtedly be a push back if Trump is a disaster...away from such inexperienced billionaire candidates. But yea, people start throwing out names like Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Will Smith, George Clooney, Matt Damon or Ben Affleck, it seems almost anything's possible the next presidential election cycle in 2019-2020. Trump was a huge hit for advertising/ratings, the Dems were the opposite. They basically hid Clinton while Trump had months and months of free attention with a seemingly endless series of debates. They need someone with charisma and firepower and that populist message which turns the Rust Belt back in their favor rather than losing it like the South and most of the West except the coast.

They're gouging those dedicated companies and individuals that make up 80% of their attendance. That they're not charging more (or increasing rates) for lesser packages should cause many diehard fans to seriously reconsider how important loyalty to a team really is...and feeling the atmosphere there compared to Wrigley now...feels like Clinton HQ around 11 p.m. Tuesday night. Making the Southside/Chicago G-Rate Again, apparently?

Let's hope Detroit apparently tearing down doesn't cause KW to reconsider the organization's approach this offseason....Verlander to LA makes sense as well because of career opportunities for Kate Upton out there.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Nov 12, 2016 -> 05:20 AM) Relative to Al Gore, oh yeah "You could have a beer with him" He was folksy, relatable, like to hang out on his ranch and hunt, average student...drug and alcohol problems. Gore was pretty much the polar opposite, stiff and didactic, invented the internet/environmental movement (in his eyes), totally different type of Ivy League blue blood who was groomed by his father since birth to run for president. Not only that, but the relationship with Tipper turned out to be something of a facade.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20161112..._lynching_.html OU and Ok State students target freshman African American students at PENN... Probably unaware that Trump studied there, as well as Ivanka.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...omepage%2Fstory whoever the Democratic candidate is, they should promise lower taxes, free university tuition, expansion of Social Security and Medicare, no bank/atm/credit card fees...because Trump has already backtracked or lied about almost every single major initiative of his campaign basically, parents will have a harder time explaining to their children why not lie, be a bully or fat shame (Ann Coulter this week) everyone who disagrees with you

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-sees-japan...-071656434.html now planning to build "dozens of new warships" for the U.S. Navy while simultaneously claiming to be pulling back on policing the world? brilliant.... does he believe America also can declare bankruptcy as a country with no consequences?

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/who-will...-162006596.html list of possible Cabinet choices https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...omepage%2Fstory stopped at Ben Carson as Secretary of Education, might as well have Ivanka as Secretary of Branding/Merchandising