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QUOTE (hi8is @ Oct 22, 2016 -> 02:29 PM) You're right, exotic parrots are deplorable... I recant and apologize profusely. Directed at the post you were responding to. Should have been clearer.

Not sure how much of it is the current political climate...the Cubs' ascent...or the general malaise and lack of civility in internet message board discourse, but this seems like it's going to be more and more common going forward.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trumps-fi...-192113945.html Donald Trump's fine art of losing

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Oct 13, 2016 -> 10:09 AM) I don't get what point you're trying to make. Suicide Squad easily crosses a billion dollars if it was in China. My point was it is the biggest hit of the summer, not in terms of dollar but in longevity and it's still playing in theaters. I wouldn't say that Deadpool is better than SS or that SS is better than Deadpool, I have similar opinions on both films. There's been a dearth of decent movies the last two months. Sully, Magnificent Seven, Deepwater Horizon and this weekend's Jack Reacher are some of the few I can even recall. Deadpool is simply much more entertaining. I don't think many will care to watch SS again...unless they are fanboys and girls of Margot Robbie.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 20, 2016 -> 03:40 PM) The one thing Ill give Wallace credit for was that he realized Trump was full of it early on. There was a point in the debate where Wallace made a decision that he wasnt going to crush Trump because that wasnt his job. I think he could have tried to pin Trump down on answering questions ie boots on the ground in Syria, but at that point Wallace realized that there is no point in pinning Trump down, because in a day, week, month he will say that never happened (even if you read a quote verbatim.) The good news is, I think that most of America saw Trump for the fraud he is. Push too hard, he gets to claim bias/unfair (despite FOX) and turn back to rigged election conspiracy theory land. Trump was left out in the open water without a life preserver. Burying him only would have made Wallace the story. As it stands, his superior moderating compared to others and Trump's refusal to accept the results were the two themes that swamped all others.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 20, 2016 -> 03:26 PM) Even if SA gave the money to the Clinton foundation, Hillary isnt on the board of directors at this time. https://www.clintonfoundation.org/about/board-directors Im not sure if you can legally give back a donation, but lets just assume it can be done, it would be up to the board of the Clinton Foundation to make that decision according to the by laws of the Clinton Foundation. It seems that Trump doesnt fundamentally understand how a 501c3 works. Because the board would have a fiduciary duty to the charity, and im not sure how you would argue that it is in the best interest of the charity to give back $25mil for the sake of helping Hilllary become President. In fact the more I think about it, it would actually raise more red flags if a charity (with no connection to Hillary) gave back money, in an attempt to help Hillary. Because how would giving back the money help the 501c3's charitable purpose? Worst case scenario, they should donate/reroute it to the Gates Foundation or the UN/Millenium Project with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs. Both of those charities overlap a lot in their African continent initiatives. Nobody should complain about that outcome

Mazara and Profar were arguably their two worst offensive players, after Moreland and Fielder. You have a healthy Choo, two superior catchers in Chirinos and Lucroy, Beltre, Darvish and numerous pitchers back, Odor and then Andrus had a really good season as well. Desmond faded in the second half...along with Profar and Mazara, but they also have the advantage of a huge tv contract to pad the payroll down there. They also are saving a ton of money that looked like a sunk cost with the Fielder insurance settlement. When you've got Darvish/Hamels and that bullpen, you've always got a chance.

Winning elections is about articulating a better vision for the future, especially if you're challenging incumbents essentially. Trump's only consistent proposals have been building a wall that he can't pay for, will be totally ineffective and sends exactly the wrong message about what we stand for as a country...at a time when we actually need to be recruiting and competing for the best immigrants to fill the gap in STEM areas for high tech companies. So that idiotic plan, tax cuts for the rich and corporations and finally constantly undermining our NATO allies while cozying up to the Russians. Brilliant ideas that surely will work out well. Apparently nobody was alive around here when Lee Atwater was using his bag of tricks (Willie Horton/Dukakis) or the Bush campaign claiming McCain had an illegitimate African American child in South Carolina. What I find most amusing is that some of those who want to see more positivity about the White Sox have been consistently complaining about the unfairness of the Clinton campaign. How about instead of only proving the negative, they try another tact? If you can spin that the glass is half full with the White Sox, why can't the same be said of this election? And let's be honest. Bernie Sanders had about a 1/20 chance of overseeing significant banking reform as president, and a zero percent shot at universal free tuition. Zero interest in foreign policy, much like Trump. He never had a realistic chance of beating Clinton. The only reason he did is because he wasn't taken seriously as a threat, just like Trump on the GOP side and similar to how they let Obama get all the early traction in Iowa and South Carolina in 2008.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Oct 20, 2016 -> 02:10 PM) I've been definitely thinking the same. If you look at who made the playoffs this year, who is a shoe in to make it again next year? Red Sox? Probably, deep system and tons of talent under control Indians? They'll be tough with Carrasco, Brantley, Salazar, and Gomes back Rangers? Would be lucky to be a .500 team next year, window is closing Blue Jays? Bautista and Encarnacion are FAs, they'll take a step back Orioles? Their window is almost shut Houston will probably be pretty good next year, Detroit is cutting money, Royals are cutting money and probably trading Davis, Mariners do anything for you? Angels suck... Who says the Sox couldn't be a playoff team with a few smart moves? Why would the Rangers window be closing? They were without Darvish, Choo and half their pitching staff for most of the year. Their offense isn't going anywhere. It should actually improve without Moreland and Fielder. Beltre will be a year older, but Odor, Mazara and Profar all made big jumps forward this year. The Yankees should carry over their positive momentum as well. The Royals won't be worse unless they deal Cain/Hosmer/Moustakas/Duffy. They're also freeing up salary with Volquez and Morales likely departing. If they can get a return similar to Miller/Giles/Kimbrel for Davis, they'll bring back Holland on an incentives-based deal. Soria can't be any worse. Same with Gordon. Otherwise, they hold and try to compete for one last year through the deadline.

Meghan McCain has an opinion on it? The Trump Show is ending. Sad! https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-trump-show-i...-134109964.html

Bigly Nasty.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 19, 2016 -> 10:32 PM) Damn...we could have had Francona. Greg was beating the drum, so he was right on that one. Then again, Francona also had a Sox history and would have been the choice of about 85-90% in 2012. If we were actually winning to pay him a Top 5ish salary, that is.

How are you going to get Ryan through the primaries in 2020 without that 40% of the Republican base that supported Trump consistently throughout turning on him? What's more likely to happen is another Trump-ish demagogue will fill that vacuum, and the other candidates will split the votes into too many pieces of pie to form a winning coalition. How can you motivate the moderate/centrist wing of the GOP (see Colin Powell/Kasich this electoral season) to get excited enough to turn out when time and time again it has been the most radicalized wings of both parties who show up in January through April??

That all fell apart pretty quickly. Seemed the Dodgers needed to trim the lead to at least 5-3 or 5-4 there. Momentum shift.

Can't get the feed from here in China to not jump...so this thread has at least been amusing to read, more entertaining at least than the Cubs' boxscore.

Bill Plunkett@billplunkettocr Not sure what they saw/didn't see in NY. But around 54,000 of us in LA thought we saw Gonzalez get his hand on plate before tag applied.

First, Trump. Now the pro-Cubs/t.v. ratings/series must go seven conspiracy. Jesse Rogers@ESPNChiCubs After further review, MLB believes a longer series would be more beneficial for the popularity of the sport. The call stands.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chica...1019-story.html In something of a non-shocker, Chris Sale's father is voting for Trump. Automatic win!

Otoh, the Marlins have two more World Series trophies than the Tigers in the past twenty years despite those massive Detroit payrolls...would they rather have a World Series win or Hall of Famer in Cabrera?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 19, 2016 -> 03:44 PM) Better yet, The Clinton's lecturing people on morals. How did the GOP win 7 out of 9 presidential elections with such an overwhelming right-wing media bias aligned against them? Seems it would be nearly impossible to win for the GOP to ever win again to read these threads. And yet they do just fine in Congressional, Governor's elections, state houses and assemblies, school boards and city council elections. They should all read The Fountainhead again and find a better way to articulate a vision for the country other than obstructionism, tax cuts for the rich and corporations, destroying labor unions and benign indifference about the environment and climate change. Kasich was the only one who even came close to a Reaganesque message of optimism and good will. He barely won his home state primary and lost all others. That's quite telling.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Oct 19, 2016 -> 01:14 PM) The video was released Monday morning. The mainstream media was quiet on it the entire day. Foval got fired and finally Hannity reported it on Monday night. So Hannity really broke down the MSM black out. Then when Creamer had to resign yesterday a lot of people on the right freaking out at all the MSM outlets and their anchors. Finally Jake Tapper covered yesterday afternoon and Cooper, who hasn't been afraid to call HRC on her bs in the past, did cover it too. If the Clinton Campaign didn't do away with Foval and Creamer for damage control I am not sure the MSM would have ever covered the story. The Clinton Campaign can't fire them. That would be illegal, according to Supreme Court interpretation of the current laws governing PACs and soft money contributions.

Newt Gingrich lecturing us on morals...and the hits just keep coming. What next, Rudy Guiliani or George Pataki will claim to have had an affair with Hillary?

Proving points with WSJ or Forbes...good luck with that. Might have something to do with the $5-7 trillion projected deficits Trump will instantly add by himself by providing all top wage earners (including capital gains) an average of a $316,000 tax cut. That's quite convenient for 1%ers and not so much for the lower middle class blue collar workers predominantly supporting him.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 19, 2016 -> 01:28 PM) Rabbit if you don't know anyone attached to the Trump campaign, what was the point of this response to NSS? Why would it be worth noting that someone who doesn't know anyone in the Trump campaign at all doesn't know any disgraced official from his campaign? If we went through all the wrongdoings and disgraced officials in the rightwing PACverse...it would stretch all the way around the world. And the fact is that HRC or Huma Abedin would ne vilified for communicating or coordinating with them in any way. That's the way the system was set up to work, and also why the GOP has had so much troubled with coordinated messaging the last three election cycles, with those on the outside exercising different and often contradictory agendas. You have Mark Foley, Ed Klein, Manafort, Ailes, Lewandowski, Christie might be indicted over Bridgegate in NJ, David Duke/KKK, Bannon, Roger Stone, Robert Mercer, Paul Nehlen...the hits just keep coming. http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37108732

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 19, 2016 -> 08:30 AM) Yea, im sure every time a trade is made, teams make sure every player traded away wont be good Well, we've heard Don Cooper say similar things for years and years about guys like Nestor Molina, Zach Stewart and Jeff Marquez. If they can also turn Montgomery into a stud, we should be pilfering more coaches from that staff instead of former Sox players.