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Everyone said similar things about Huntsman in 2012 and Kasich in 2016. Kasich for the first 2/3rds of his political career would have been picked apart by the Democratic oppo research. He would have had to convince everyone he'd genuinely changed to a moderate/centrist (and that his religious views were no longer the defining ones they once were), rather than just posing as one for political positioning purposes in the primaries. Not to mention Kasich was never truly in the same spotlight as Rubio, who wilted under pressure. There's also a few legit reasons he never won anything, besides BARELY holding his own state against Trump. If the argument was about the economy and ObamaCare (Romney v. Clinton), that wouldn't give Romney much tailwind in this political climate. He's the very antithesis of most of those Trump supporters, who also don't feel 100% comfortable with his religious background/beliefs. One thing's for sure, Liz Warren would eviscerate him like she's doing with Wells Fargo and Mylan/epipen manufacturer.

Michael Moore did "Where To Invade Next" recently....I defy any conservative to identify at least half the ideas posed by that movie as anything but bipartisan and reasonable. His approach here is the same...finding common ground, things everyone can agree with, talking about how he never has voted for Bill or Hillary in primaries or general and all of the things he disagrees with her about. He solicited complaints and the usual ones were dealt with quite effectively. He even said three nice things about GW Bush. The D'Souza...anti-Obama and Clinton docs make no pretense of doing anything but painting both as anti Christs and demons walking earth, signs of the apocalypse, etc. To say the two are mirror images of each other is like saying Lou Dobbs has some fairly flexible views about border control and immigration reform.

I think it's fair to say for most younger fans, the early to mid 1980's, specifically 1984...with Harry Caray and WGN and Budweiser and Bleacher Babes showcased by Arne Harris, Ryne Sandberg on national tv most Saturdays, Andre Dawson in 1987, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, that time is essentially the crossing point for the two teams. Then Harrelson in as GM...LaRussa, Leyland and Dombrowski on the way out. That 1984-1989 run killed the Sox, except for the promise of those young players and the new stadium, which turned out to be a massive disappointment to many at the time. Thank god the Cubs didn't win it all in 1989 of it would have been worse, but the White Sox new stadium reversed things temporarily until the strike. Then you had the Maddux, Grace and Sosa years. Anyone born after 1970, those 45 and younger...Cubs' town, minus the Sox World Series in 2005.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Oct 26, 2016 -> 08:53 AM) The right baseball move was to hire him when he was available. I can't remember correctly, but the Sox did interview him before 2012 right? Nope...they would never pay that top tier managerial salary. Might have made a courtesy call since he managed Birmingham back in the day, but he was never really an option from all the public information available. And he sat out 2012 to do the whole broadcasting thing and take a break from the chicken and beers fiasco with Beckett/Lackey et al.

QUOTE (Footlongcomiskeydog @ Oct 26, 2016 -> 08:27 AM) I would argue that the Cubs are a totally different animal from Toronto and Boston. The Cubs looked dead in the water after Game 3 against LA and came roaring back. The Blue Jays has six players with 20+ homers. The Red Sox have Ortiz, Hanley Ramirez, Pedroia, Bogaerts, Betts and Bradley, Jr. The Cubs MIGHT equal those line-ups IF Schwarber, Baez, Contreras and Russell all simultaneously reach their potential. That rarely happens where you don't have regression, injuries, sophomore slumps. Zobrist is getting older (still productive for now though), Heyward sucks, Soler sucks, Fowler had a lousy second half, Ross and Montero are more folk heroes than credible threats....this is not the 1929-1931 Yankees some are making them out to be quite erroneously.

Francona now 9-0 managing in the World Series. Pretty crazy stat.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Oct 26, 2016 -> 08:06 AM) I really wish people would take a rationale look at what teams need to win in the playoffs, premium starting pitching. The Dodgers, Giants, Indians, Red Sox, Mets, and Rangers could not put out four quality arms for the playoffs. The Dodgers couldn't put out three. To think the Yankees would not consider Gary Sanchez for for Chris is ludicrous. To me Sale and Quintana are too valuable and will not get equal value back and the White Sox thus are forced to keep them Yes, but a year ago, Sanchez was coming with 3-4 additional prospects. No way they would trade Sanchez, Frazier and Torres now, as a package. Heck, Sanchez's asking price at the moment is more than almost anyone in the game because of his position and years of control. It would be like Sanchez AND the equivalent of Montas/Avi Garcia three years ago. That's too big of a risk for the White Sox.

Michael Moore's new documentary does a better job than her own campaign of making the case for Clinton. "Moore in Trumpland" is a very worthwhile documentary watch (it's really just him doing a one man performance in rural Ohio in a heavily white GOP rural district), and makes one feel a bit better about the future of the country for the first time in months. Quite clever.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/everyone-some...-194620285.html Nice to see Joe Crede 2005 on the front page of Yahoo News.

Merritt came out of nowhere to pitch like 4 1/3rd innings earlier...this Cleveland team is flying high, and they must have felt Miller getting out of the 7th and 8th was a sign. I think they had also two games in September where the bullpen pitched at least seven innings and they gutted out both of those. Then two homers from Perez of all people? If anything, sitting for so long, you'd have thought this was the game the Cubs jumped out early and took over the series. Instead, the Indians looked like the team who played through the weekend.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Oct 25, 2016 -> 10:21 PM) I don't think it will matter in the least. Wait till you see the money they get when they start their own Cubs-TV Network in 2019. Mark http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Cubs-...twork-Soon.html Assume that deal in the last paragraph expires in 2019? http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0124-story.html Good article looking at pros and cons of own network http://cubbiescrib.com/2016/01/25/chicago-...isk-and-reward/

Deadpool officially jinxed the Cubs when he said my prediction about the Cubs and Indians meeting in the World Series when the Cavaliers won the NBA championship was the worst post of the year...but actually, predicted that way back in June. It was just a gut "confluence of historical forces" feeling at the time. At any rate, let's see what J4L's new Murderer's Row can come up with in response tonight. Hopefully a $184 million player on the bench again...in the ugly first year of that contract.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 25, 2016 -> 11:37 PM) Tonight was amazing. I couldn't believe those Indians pitchers. Cubs did get some men on base but man those guys throw hard. You guys were right about the Indians. They are a formidable foe. Should be an amazing series. If the Cubs win Game 2, that's all they need. Then go home and win 2 of three or all 3. You really would pick Lackey over Kluber that easily? CLE has a couple of huge advantages in this series. They have a lot more team speed, and the ability to manufacture runs (especially in the late innings) as well as any team in the AL that I've seen this year. Like Ozzie's Small Ball, except it's not just a myth papered over by home run reliance. Second, they have that bullpen, especially if you have Salazar down there and Miller isn't overexposed to high pitch counts (they have the added advantage of the long rest from the ALCS). Right now, I'd trust Allen/Miller much more than Chapman (two BS already in the post-season), Edwards Jr., Rondon, Strop, Montgomery, etc.)

Great start. Love the Indians having that chip on their shoulder, starting with Kluber, one of the most "unknown/underappreciated" Cy Young winners in recent history. Hopefully this is a "coming out" party as well for Francisco Lindor, the one superstar CLE has among their position players. Guess I was also too quick to point out the Cubs have the catching advantage with the night Roberto Perez just had. Last time a catcher hit two homers two WS dingers was Gary Carter in the 1986 Series for the Mets against the Red Sox. Miller was tested more than he ever was against Boston or Toronto, but that's probably a good wake-up call to get out of the way in a 3 run game (but still a huge test of nerves) instead of a tie/1-2 run margin. Pressure really shifts to Arrieta and Kendricks. You can bet that the Indians fans are already counting on beating Lackey in Game 4, but that guy has so much post-season experience you can never underestimate him, despite his being a bit of a jerk who makes annoying faces when he throws the ball.

QUOTE (Green Line @ Oct 25, 2016 -> 07:19 PM) Something has to change in the next decade. I don't know how, and I don't know if it can happen under Reinsdorf, but all of a sudden in the past year I've began to doubt the long term future of the White Sox in Chicago. That's horrifying and I want to think I'm just being over dramatic, but it's a different era than it was back when the Sox were always awful. Ownership is not going to stay in that stadium, it's "old" and way less nice than every new field being built. They're going to demand the city/state help fund a new stadium, and with the current state of the Sox and politics in IL, no way in hell is that going to happen. Something has to change, soon. It's made me so freaking pissed this month to think about how Cubs fans never have to even think about this crap. If that's not enough, just read the Dodgers or Tigers message boards, where they get downright irate about four consecutive playoff appearances without a World Series winner. With the Dodgers, it's now 10 in a row where they qualified for the playoffs but haven't won the World Series, dating back to Kirk Gibson's heroics against Dennis Eckersley in 1988. Read the latest Dylan Hernandez column in the LA Times to get a feeling what it's like to have high or elevated expectations as a fanbase. We have all of four playoff appearances in that same time period. And this whole idea about the Cubs "being financially over-committed or cash-strapped," we haven't seen any signs of it yet. They'll probably do the smart thing on passing on a huge deal for Arrieta and use their remaining depth in position players to make some deals to supplement their rotation.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hannity-intervie...-150646880.html Crazy that Hannity is now giving National Enquirer anti-Clinton stories the time of day...but par for the course in this election.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Oct 25, 2016 -> 10:00 AM) In the 70s, the whole theory of trickle-down/supply side economics was considered crackpot s***, but Reagan made it mainstream. I don't know if that's considered "Austrian economics" or if it's just something that gets rolled into that for convenience's sake. But essentially Stockman and Friedman, yes? And hasn't Stockman backed away from his beliefs about its efficacy? For most Americans, they didn't really start paying attention until Bush Senior of all people called it "voodoo economics."

You can guarantee if Schwarber even makes a tiny impact it will be blown up as the biggest comeback from a devastating injury in the lore of baseball.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/curt-schillin...-165638757.html Curt Schilling, Breitbart team up for radio program with hopes of thwarting "career criminal" HRC...12 attend rally, but 5 are reporters.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...1025-story.html Apocalypse. Cub Hero Kyle Schwarber added to active roster.... Will likely DH tonight. Makes Tomlin even more relevant.

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Oct 25, 2016 -> 07:57 AM) Isn't it pretty much a lock that Indians go with a 3-man of Kluber, Tomlin, Bauer? I realize Salazar will be on the roster but I see him being more of a long man if/when they need to pull either Bauer or Tomlin before the 5th inning. Merritt and Salazar are definitely the wild cards. Along with Schwarber.

http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2...d_serie.html#15 CLE Plain Dealer gives advantage to Cubs at nearly every position but SS, DH, RF and the bullpen. Adv to Cubs for rotation and bench as well. Catcher should favor the Cubs, realistically. And Zobrist>Guyer/Crisp in the outfield.

Arrieta starting Game 2 against ? Hendricks for 3 at home, Lackey for Game 4. Indians' rotation situation still a big mystery.

$9.5 million in 2015, $8 million in 2016, $9 million in 2017 (mutual option, buyout is $5 million but obviously he will decline the guaranteed $9 million and declare for free agency again) The White Sox would have had to bid at least $20-21 million for two years, which still would have been a much better deal than for Melky or Robertson...but he wouldn't have put last year's team over the top, either. It would have taken Fowler and Desmond and at least one bullpen addition for the Albers spot.

High-level DNC operative Creamer.... http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/18/politics/pro...lies/index.html Operative, sure, but to think Clinton is going to use someone with his criminal history in anything like a central role after what happened with Manafort is nuts. Of course, Breitbart terms Democracy Partners "the beating heart of the Democratic Party." Whatever, dude.