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Allen has a pretty nasty knuckle curve, same pitch that Robertson utilizes well when he's confident.

Allen is going to be lucky to survive the 9th with that elevated pitch count....so Kluber has to go long tmrw. Of course Price still has a very spotty post season record. Miller will likely be sidelined as well.

Indians have impressive depth, when you can go with your 5th/6th starter entering the season in Bauer and beat your opponent's best (although most would consider Price still is the ace). Losing Salazar and Carrasco is the White Sox equivalent of Quintana and Rodon being out.

Really gutsy managing by Francona there using Miller for 40 pitches and at that point in the game. If they can cover the 8th, it will look brilliant. Quite the contrast with Britton not even getting off the bench

Obviously he'll get the QO, and his "can do whatever he wants" vibe won't be highly appreciated by a new manager trying to set a new tone for the clubhouse...plus putting him around a .500ish team screams potential problems. Not to mention how many nice golf courses there are in Chicago. Then you have the smoking issue. Complicated.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Oct 6, 2016 -> 10:19 AM) Dude said basically that this segment is supposed to be funny and people need to lighten up. This is why the vast majority of comedians aren't conservative, save for the occasional Larry the Cable Guy or unfunny Dennis Miller. Basically, we're at a point where Asian people are the easy targets for jokes because they don't fight back (usually) but also largely due to the perception they're better off economically, test scores-wise/IQ, etc., than whites, so it's harmless. It's okay to make fun of those on top, regardless of their past history in the US. For an example, the Academy Awards gag with the three Asian kids. Never in a million years could Chris Rock get away with using three Hispanic, Native American or even white kids as props in a joke...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-...-091500724.html Bill Clinton taking shots at ObamaCare, probably not greatly appreciated... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump...-141950838.html Trump already planting seeds about rigged election, pretty amusing the way the writer debunked the main points

What pieces could you trade, even if you wanted McCutcheon?

You need players with a minimum of four years of control, IMO.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 6, 2016 -> 07:29 AM) Didn't the Giants trade him to us originally because he was like, a total jerk in the clubhouse? And then he gets here and he never talks or smiles No place for him to play with Sandoval. Shady defense and seemed more of a doubles hitter...not quite enough power for 3rd. He was a fairly high draft pick if memory serves correct (2008, same year as Posey). http://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/Giant...eto-9802225.php Ron Wotus is the coach who really lobbied to keep him on the roster all season long.

Lots of ex Sox everywhere you look. Grilli for the Blue Jays. He predates the 2005 team, even. Addison Reed and DeAza on the Mets. Then the Giants. Not to mention all the post season games Uribe won for SFG.

Ventura would have pinch run for Conor in the 8th and replaced him defensively with Beckham.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 5, 2016 -> 07:26 PM) FFS look at his posts. It's possible I'm losing my mind. No, no....Brett is just staunchly hardcore Republican. His posts bait response in an entirely different way than Greg's anti HRC screeds.

Gillaspie and Reed...it's all about the coaching, lol.

But he can throw 98 mph in relief!!!

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Oct 5, 2016 -> 11:41 AM) Conservative judges follow the Constitution, using no level of interpretation whatsoever. Liberal judges ignore the Constitution and interpret whatever they want. Duh. So the Founding Fathers would be for Citizens United, right? Wouldn't that mean African Americans would still count as 3/5th's of a person? Women shouldn't have the same rights as men, or even the right to vote? Only land/property holders would be entitled to basic rights? Sounds like back to the 1950's again, when everything was right in the world. Pretty sure they wouldn't be happy seeing so many children mowed down by gun violence in or near their schools. But I guess school prayer and having the 10 Commandments prominently displayed would fix that. If only we could go back to celebrating Christmas without all those darned PC nuts and agitators trying to ruin it for everyone with their safe spaces!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 5, 2016 -> 08:30 AM) The big idea is that the system doesn't work when a smaller and smaller percentage support more and more of the country. Where they fall on the income ladder is honestly irrelevant. I mean I could just as easily argue that a guy like Trump generates billions in taxes (payroll taxes, gambling taxes, property taxes, corporate taxes, etc) so that any argument that he doesn't pay taxes is silly anyway, but what it comes down to is that the more of a pyramid the system turns into, the more unsustainable it is. The tax code as it is built now has a lot of loopholes for both the rich and the poor to get out of paying taxes. It has turned into an unnecessary bloated government bureaucracy, because no one can clearly figure out what is going on in the code. All of these things shift burdens and cause harmful secondary and tertiary effects to the economy as a whole. I also don't think it is a coincidence that each subsequent recession we see takes longer to recover from, more stimulus to recover from, and is on a lower recovery curve. It is all related to the velocity of money through the tax code. Lowering the capital gains tax certainly hasn't helped. You've got a huge number of Baby Boomers retiring, so you're going to need more "high tech"-skilled/knowledge worker immigration, that's obvious. Educational reform, when and if it occurs, will take 10-15 years before there are any measureable changes of significance. Likely it keeps getting punted down the road, like Social Security/entitlement reform, which all politicians know to be a political third rail.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 5, 2016 -> 09:03 AM) When you count all of the spending done with this recession, specifically the untold trillions from the Fed, the last sentence is almost laughable. Which governments haven't done the same? China and Japan are much worse off from an overhanging debt and negative interest rates perspective. Europe, same scenario...with immigration/Syria, Brexit, Greece and terrorism weakening Germany to the point where the whole EU system is being torn apart. Brazil and Rissia are seriously struggling because of oil export revenue dependence. I honestly don't see ANY G-20 countries that are negotiating this last decade very well in terms of monetary and fiscal policy. You can argue China still has 2+ trillion in reserves, compared to the US debt situation, but at least 80% of US govnt debt is owed to Americans rather than foreign countries. Another positive has been all the venture capital flowing into new ideas that will continue to support the economy. For every 10 Theranos stories, there's an Uber or airbnb. I guess we all need to move to Finland, Sweden or Norway? Maybe Singapore?

Deepwater Horizon has similar critical ratings but still prefer the story-telling of Sully to the spectacle of this particular Peter Berg film. DH at heart is Gravity on the water, essentially a summer popcorn movie two months too late, but the real life tragedy and environmental implications force it closer to the fall/prestige movie season.

Yeah, you can't say you're going for it and have a three year window and then retroactively say you didn't actually go for it due to half measures instead of full ones...they have to own the fact that the "end" of their legit window is 2017, unless they extend Frazier and pull a rabbit out a hat getting equal offensive numbers to Cabrera's 2016 in 2017 and beyond out of left field. As it stands now, Engel and May are not going to come close to those numbers, so that once again means more spending with uncertain results. I sincerely doubt anyone's going to propose a Cabrera extension to go along with Frazier. Collins might be that bat, but putting him in left field instead of catcher, he's going to be hard-pressed to put up a 2-2.5 WAR unless he undergoes a transformation of Alex Gordon or Ian Desmondesque proportions.

Well, that ends that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 5, 2016 -> 06:22 AM) The thing is, if you look at it, they didn't really "go for it" last year either, as they kept all of their top prospects, and they didn't go all in for the free agent market. Who realistically had any legit value other than Fulmer and Adams (at the time)? We knew Anderson wasn't going anywhere.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 5, 2016 -> 06:26 AM) I think the main difference is that Gonzalez has a history of being effective, while Humber had a history of being defective. That being said, if I got a decent offer for Gonzalez, he'd be gone in a heartbeat. http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/gamelog/_/i...miguel-gonzalez Check out his July game logs. That would have been the time to deal him, at the deadline. He's never going to pitch any better than he did in July and September. Do you really believe that KW kept Hahn from dealing him?

http://www.shmoop.com/reagan-era/war.html Foreign policy is more nuanced than adding up interventions and adding up the number of boots on the ground. Reagan gets credit for being the greatest Republican president since Roosevelt...and he had Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua/Iran-Contra and the resolution of the Iranian Hostage Crisis. He is largely credited with ending the Cold War. But he also armed the mujahadeen and put bin Laden on the US/CIA payroll. Those leftover Stinger missiles would be used 20+ years later to kill numerous American soldiers. Obama's "interventions" don't amount to much more than numerous drone strikes and Air Force bombing missions...because he promised not to entangle the U.S. in yet another war in the Middle East. Because there's that lack of will on Syria (how many Republicans would commit to send their sons/daughters to fight in that conflict?), we keep emding up taking the middle route of using sanctions, negotiations and drones/bombing. What exactly should he be doing differently? We have to deal with Assad, Russia, ISIS...it's not like there's a clear cut strategy that everyone but the administration can see. Some Republicans suggested carpet bombing, like the Vietnam War was still going on and that would be an effective strategy. Other than "negotiating better deals," what should Obama have done differently that would have been more effective...and was anyone presenting that plan in real time?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 4, 2016 -> 08:59 PM) My best friend...the man and his father that I named my son after...two very intelligent, rational, reasonable, good people....actually support Trump. It has more to do with the state of our political system than with the candidate they support. At least that's what I keep telling myself. It's the same reason Perot was polling at 30-35% at different points of 1992. Dissatisfaction with Clinton for personal reasons and Bush, Sr. for going back on his no new taxes pledge.