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Bush was a patsy. It was the military industrial complex that's responsible.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Sep 22, 2016 -> 09:43 PM) I think the problem with the offense is, as has been stated, striking out too much. This team does not seem to value not giving up outs. Not striking out means forcing the opposing defense to make a play to get an out. Considering that a given player's defensive value is typically increased by not screwing up, there is value to putting the ball in play. By striking out, an offense is limiting the amount of times that the opposing defense must make a play to record an out, thereby limiting the number of times they will screw up. Not striking out puts pressure on the other team and gives your offense more opportunities to score runs. This is a skill the White Sox should value more than they currently do, including teaching it throughout the system. See Twins 2001-2010, KC 2013-2016.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 22, 2016 -> 06:55 PM) So should Obama be fired for the EPA screw up? Sure, if it can be proven that he had knowledge of the screw up very early in the process, obfuscated and tried to cover it up.

It's telling that the majority of those losing their jobs at Wells-Fargo were in the $30-65,000 average salary range. What was the golden parachute for the 2nd in charge, that was leaving the company...not only wasn't she fired, but she's STILL getting something like $120-150 million when's she's the officer MOST DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE. As someone mentioned, this is where she has to line up behind Warren and basically pillory the CEO and take a stand that if that golden parachute stands, she's going to make it her personal business as president to make life for that company like being on J. Edgar Hoover's hit list. Hillary always has the talking points, the messaging team, the appropriate twitter lines (except for her deplorables, off the cuff speech) but you never really quite believe she actually is going to do anything about it, to really FIGHT for that legislation and put the full weight of her political power behind it when in office. I don't know if Clinton doesn't want to directly assault Manchin (the parallel Epipen controversy) because she's a Democratic senator's daughter, but that's another opportunity to fight for the middle class and poor and stake out her position very clearly. I wouldn't be surprised if even Trump found Mylan's actions beyond the pale, especially when you look closely into their executive compensation and incentives for driving up profit regardless of the "real life" health consequences, which is often life or death with the Epipen. It's one thing to profit off the iphone like Apple, but nobody's going to die if they charged $3500-4000 for an iphone 7. Not to mention they're basically protected from any price competition, so you essentially have a monopoly on the product, with Congress going out of their way to protect one of their own and make generic knock-offs impossible to reach the market.

QUOTE (harkness @ Sep 22, 2016 -> 04:21 PM) You are telling me they play in harder ball parks to hit homeruns... not sure what your point is. Those teams won because of their pithing and defense and other factors. If you are saying the Sox need to get home run hitters because they play in a home run hitting park - again I say that's what they have been trying to do and its failing. So really what you are advocating is for them to do the same thing they been failing at. What southside posted showed pretty clearly that HR's isn't the reason the Sox aren't scoring as much. And KC is the third best run scoring park...but it's still a doubles and triples stadium except in the middle of the summer or when the wind is blowing out. Once again, you need that balance of speed, occasional power and the ability to work counts as well as make contact in key situations.

Even the Orioles are going to struggle to make the playoffs, have a line-up with power up and down the lineup and they also have the benefit of the best closer in the AL. Maybe an equally valid argument would be finding a good catcher like Gary Sanchez who can hit for power is worth its worth in gold...otherwise, you're forced to perpetually chase production at DH and the corner IF and OF spots...or get your slugging from the middle infield and CF (players like Kinsler, Lindor or Cain).

http://blog.triblive.com/bucco-blog/2016/0.../#axzz4Kz5NB84q They're going to need a pitching coach who can get his pitchers to be more effective up in the zone...which doesn't bode well for USCF pitching success. "In some cases, the probability of a low outside strike being called has decreased by up to 12% (in 2016)." Strike zone is roughly 40 square inches larger and has significantly moved upwards...over the last six years.

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/09/21/rob-ma...a-new-ballpark/ https://www.yahoo.com/news/rob-manfred-made...-154511215.html If the Rangers are at a competitive disadvantage without a new park, would hate to see the White Sox situation described...

Kind of like the end of the 2011 season...except for the excitement of Ozzie bolting for the Marlins, Cora being rejected as "fill-in" manager and Cooper trying his hand at the rudder.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/polit...orrupt/?ref=yfp The Real Problem with the Clinton Foundation

WERE hoarding....

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/i...ind-cubs-season If you want to psychoanalyze Theo Epstein, this is one of the most in-depth articles written about him in a while.

A LOTTA people disliked Truman for most of his presidency (JFK, too), he always suffered from comparisons with the much more sophisticated FDR, but he turned out to be one of our better presidents, in terms of the judgement of history. There's never been a president with close to the initial unfavorable ratings of either Clinton or Trump...and Trump ALWAYS trails Clinton in his category, with at least an additional 5-10% finding him even more deplorable.

It's really hard to COUNT on James Shields being the same guy he was EVEN in the first half of 2016 as we look forward to the 2017 rotation...let alone the pitcher he was in 2013 or 2014 in KC, where he was already experiencing some struggles with diminished stuff, elevated pitch counts, etc. With that went some of his mental edge and the swagger of being "Big Game" James in Tampa. You simply can't throw that many innings for that many consecutive years without payback. Ask Mark Buehrle.

Nearing a 6 ERA on the season after being at 3.06 after two months...ERA with the White Sox now over 7.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 19, 2016 -> 05:10 PM) Oh no, he stole Obama's "Americanness" I am sure Obama lost sleep over it and was really hurt. Trump said the stuff about Obama being born in Kenya (which isn't racist btw, it's just factually incorrect) and has since reneged on it. Just like HRC didn't support gay marriage for over a decade and then flipped the switch in 2013. I don't see you calling her a homophobe or claiming she stole millions of Americans' "Americanness." Key point. Deliberately lying with a racist veneer to take advantage of visceral hatred of the president by a minority of Americans versus maintaining a position that was in alignment with the majority of the country at the time...and her religious beliefs. You can argue all you want that some Democrats only jumped on the LGBT train when it was too late, but that's politics for you. It's one of the main reasons Obama won in 2008, he was courageous enough to take an early stand against the Iraq War. Clinton is a politician, and she waffles when it's politically expedient...shifting with the wind and pollsters (see TPT deal or NAFTA.) That said, you can't remotely compare the two, or you're going to end up with every single Republican looking even more intolerant, unless you're going to take the Pence position here that your personal opposition still resides in moral/Biblical grounding and will never waver, no matter what.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 03:44 PM) Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 4m4 minutes ago Abreu: "What we talked about yesterday [Royals have more desire than White Sox] was about me and I don't have anything to add. That's it." Sounds like the LaRoche, Sale and Eaton pr spin club polished that one to avoid further damage...feels like the kind of thing you would say in North Korea, Cuba or China as a hostage.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 09:17 AM) You know, probably doesn't matter. But it seemed like the Royals all came up together as a group through the minors, winning together. That's a philosophy that the Cards use, and Twins as well. Now, our farm system really hasn't been a huge contributor to our roster, but we have a group that I'm really pumped for from this and last years drafts. I'd like to let them play together and win like they did at Great Falls, vs prioritizing personal challenges and putting them on garbage teams all over system. May not matter, may prolong time up, but there are a lot of college talents that we drafted, see if they can learn how to win as a group. Look at the progression paths for guys like Beckham, Sale, Rodon, Fulmer and Burdi...they never stay/ed together with a minor league team for very long. Other teams have more depth/talent and typically promote their players together, one step at a time, spending 4-5 years in the minors together. At best, you can say Semien, Thompson and Saladino might have spent x amount of time playing together, could probably throw in Micah and Carlos Sanchez as well. Of course, that progression works more naturally when you draft a group of high school hitters or pitchers together and keep them largely intact. It's also the reason certain teams that have their second/third string players all together at either AA or AAA playing together on one team of real prospects tends to succeed more often when those kids are called up...especially when they've already won 2-3 minor league championships together.

Cummings is also the one who called it a witch hunt, waste of millions of tax dollars, political sideshow meant to bring down Hillary in an election year, etc. Just because there are Dems on the committee who participate in questioning doesn't affect its highly partisan nature. A bipartisan committee is ones like they typically announce about tax code reform or getting government to work more efficiently, and almost nothing ever comes out of them...where there is almost always equal representation of the two parties, but they have little real power, certainly in a legislative or legal sense.

The irony is the Royals don't even care right now. They had lost 11 out of 16 and for all practical purposes were dead in the water before the last three games. They would still have to go 10-2 and the Orioles/Blue Jays 5-7 to catch them...jumping over four teams in the process. DEAD.

Wasting $3-5 million at a time on 3 players who turn out to be worthless instead of getting one really good player is how they always end up in the same predicament. If Hahn or KW want to pin their jobs on Lawrie, Avi, Fulmer or Shields outperforming in 2017, more power to them. That type of plan will quickly be exposed by the schedule.

Comey told Bureau employees in an internal memo that it wasn't a close call (whether she mishandled classified information). Orange County Register. Hardly a bastion of Democratic sympathizers. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/clinton...tee-cooper.html

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Sep 19, 2016 -> 10:22 AM) Suicide Squad has a legitimate chance at $800M as it crossed The Winter Solider at the box office. Suicide Squad also has better legs than Civil War at the Box Office. Keep in mind that Suicide Squad was banned in China, the most important INTL market for films. My Chinese hs students are smart enough to like Deadpool a helluva lot more than SS. Warcraft, that's because of the popularity of the game. Pacific Rim, that's another story.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 19, 2016 -> 08:00 PM) Finally somebody said it. Sox don't want it most times they take the field. For some reason they seem to play hard against the AL East and the Cubs get their attention UNTIL we assure ourselves at least a split in the series. Sox played so passively after winning those 2 in the Cell. The other teams in the Central care about beating the Sox; the Sox could give a s*** about beating those teams in the Central. They mail in those games effort wise. You guys despised Ozzie but he wouldn't have put up with this s*** without calling out these bums. Ozzie got owned by the Twins, Royals and Tigers...with the exception of 2005 and 2008.

So basically Huma Abedin's suspect because of her ties to Saudi Arabia, Colin Powell's not in any trouble at all for announcing to the world that Israel has 200 nuclear missiles aimed at Teheran, And HRC is going to be impeached. http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/polit...ney-war-crimes/ That will happen about the same time Bush, Cheney and Powell are brought up on charges of lying to Congress and the United Nations about Iraq having chemical/biological weapons and yellow cake blah blah ... Or when they are arraigned on "war crimes" charges in the U.S. I'll bet all of Greg's houses against it happening...regardless of whether she wins or loses.