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Would have preferred Garcia hitting there, but he's been meat against breaking pitches since his return...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 10, 2017 -> 03:52 PM) Trump thanks Putin for kicking out US diplomats: 'We're trying to cut down our payroll' Whole interview was insane, per usual. Very glad this man has unilateral control of 6,000 nuclear weapons. His own tv show, he just thinks of them as "fired" and simply doesn't realize they're still the government's responsibility...

The problem is the Cardinals and Pirates could catch them first... Let's see if Avila can stay healthy with everyday PT.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Aug 10, 2017 -> 02:49 PM) Basically all of those deals looked bad for the player almost immediately. Those were fantastic signings at the perfect tine. They were 3 of the more valuable assets in all of baseball last offseason for that reason. Other teams haven't had that success. If it wasn't for those contracts, the Sox would be pretty much royally f***ed right now. Imagine what the Indians would get for Lindor, Jose Ramirez, Brantley, Zimmer, Gomes, Encarnacion...if they auctioned all of them off. That doesn't even include "lost value/opportunity cost" with Carlos Santana and Kipnis. Finally, throw Kluber, Carrasco, Bauer, Andrew Miller, Salazar, Cody Allen and even Clevinger on top. Could even throw Austin Jackson and Almonte in there. Of course, no GM or ownership group would tear apart that nucleus unless they were out of their minds, right?

http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=m...itting/2017/ALL Tucker went from 9 to 18 homers (so far) this season but he's not exactly tearing up AA. 785 ops. Will be 21 at beginning of next year.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/10/politics/tru...orea/index.html Meanwhile, Trump doubles down on "tough guy" rhetoric on NK

Hope Southsider2k5 doesn't add that to the list of Sox fan complaints for why attendance is down...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/nor...rike/index.html North Korea readying Guam strike plan (within days), four missiles to be launched over Japan

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/us/polit...ar-arsenal.html Trump fact checked into oblivion on updating nuclear arsenal....CSpan also did a special on this with the exact same conclusions.

QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Aug 10, 2017 -> 07:17 AM) It's a marketing gimmick to promote and drum up support for Little League Baseball. It's probably more related to the reduced number of kids playing baseball than a need for cash. What are they playing? Certainly not football with all the CTE concerns....just computer/video games? iPad and tech gadgets? Also not reading more....

To make baseball more hip/cool/8-14 year old friendly, as much as the monetary and merchandising aspect...

Sounds like a basketball player or RB, WR, DB. Yep, ISU bb alum and/or Chargers' receiver.

Bigger version of Roberto Remember the Alomar, best 2b of the post-Sandberg generation

Nobody is attacking Wuhan, China. Strategically, the closest thing to a target would be PLA Air Force bases and the Three Gorges Dam...

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/8/9/16119...kends-nicknames The 58 players without nicknames...guess nobody caught Nate Jones. Carl's Jr., not bad. Jon Lester is getting raked over the coals for his lack of imagination.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...story-215473And What Trump needs to know about North Korea's history

Moncada at 196/687 now. Anderson 242/638

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=...=&players=0 White Sox last, and it's not even close...for cumulative team fWAR (position players). Only a 30.2 spread to make up with the Blue Jays.

Three way tie for second wild card. Actually, Mariners just went ahead by 1/2 game. One of two teams with longer playoff-less streak than Sox.

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=...0&sort=10,d Top 30 in MLB strikeout percentage You've got a possible MVP in Judge, but 4 of the 5 with fWAR numbers over 3 are from #19-30. Other than that, just Gallo and Sano over 2.5. About half have BB percentages at over 10%. Moncada currently at 32.8% and 16.4% on the walks. 2/1 ratio. Narvaez the only other Sox hitter over 10% now that Frazier is gone. To show how bad this current team is, Leury and Yolmer are #3 and #4 in fWAR rankings.

Plus Cruz has always had PEDs allegations hanging over his head...maybe we should go with Aaron Judge instead, haha. Some pretty big humans.

Not sure that Erdogan in Turkey having nuclear weapons is the greatest idea, either. There are 60-70 warheads at Incirlik Air Base. Israel and Iran, etc. Pakistan and India. Yet they contunue to follow the path of deterrence, and assured mutual destruction.

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Aug 9, 2017 -> 08:16 AM) I'm not sure Jimenez has a potential 70 hit tool. Power? Absolutely, but most scouts seem to think Jimenez will be an above average hitter in the 55/60 grade realm. 70 hit and 70 power = unreal I could see Jimenez being a similar player to Giancarlo Stanton at ceiling, which is a very good player. Nelson Cruz/Stanton are probably the best comps out there...

What military plan doesn't get Incheon/Seoul and the majority of the South Korean economy obliterated in the process? http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/phone/news/view...._newsidx=234480 North Korea should never be accepted as a nuclear state William Brown, adjunct professor at Georgetown School of Foreign Service, said that it is important to understand Pyongyang’s objective in building nuclear weapons is not just to stay alive but are designed to force unification with the South. “A bitter rivalry for the peninsula and, in time, one will win over the other,” Brown said, noting that the Kim regime perceives that North and South Korea are in a zero-sum game. “So this would be like accepting East Germany as a nuclear state,” he said. “If they could rewrite history, these pundits might have given nuclear weapons to East Germany to keep it from disintegrating.”

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Aug 9, 2017 -> 07:48 AM) Bulls***. Bush got NK to the table with the regional players for 5 years worth of talks, culminating in NK agreeing to halt its nuclear weapons program and shut down their facilities and normalize relations with Japan and the US. And it was Obama who ruined the agreement by condemning their "satellite" launch in 2009. I know you can't blame Obama for anything, so fine, we'll call it NK reneging on their agreement, something they continue to do because they have no desire whatsoever to end their military progression. But keep dreaming guys. Maybe this time it'll work! And what exactly should Obama have done then instead??? By the time Obama took office in 2009, the North Koreans had already conducted their first nuclear test, and two nuclear agreements had already collapsed amid mutual accusations of cheating. But Obama quickly reached out to North Korea in hopes of resuming talks. Pyongyang’s response: a second nuclear test.Obama then adopted a hard-line approach that essentially echoes the stringent policies of President George W. Bush. Obama refused to engage in direct talks with Pyongyang until the regime first demonstrated it was willing to give up its nukes. In the meantime, the U.S. tightened sanctions against North Korea, believing the poor, isolated country would eventually collapse or agree to denuclearize.Two years later, famine forced Pyongyang back to the negotiating table. In early 2012, Obama and Kim reached an agreement that required the North to freeze its nuclear and ballistic missile programs in return for 240,000 tons of U.S. food aid. But soon afterward, that deal fell apart when Pyongyang fired a missile to launch a satellite. In 2013, North Korea conducted its third nuclear test. Newsweek.com/Ed Perry