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QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Jun 18, 2016 -> 02:23 AM) Saw Neon Demon today and its fantastic, maybe my favorite movie of the year. I thought it was going to be impossible to top Only God Forgives but Refn did it. Drive was better than that, if only for the soundtrack. Could not have gotten Bangkok more wrong in Only God Forgives. I don't think you're going to find more than a handful that enjoyed that particular movie around here. I'll put the over/under at 2 that agree with you. WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT was pretty good (Tina Fey/Martin Freeman/Margot Robbie)...about foreign war correspondents in Afghanistan after 9/11.

Conjuring 2 Agree with earlier comments, solid sequel, not quite the "gotcha" moments as the original one (I swear to God, when I came to Indonesia in 2013, that movie was already in its 3rd or 4th month of a never ending run in theatres...incredibly successful in the Asian markets). Anabelle wasn't close to the equivalent of Conjuring 2. Patrick Wilson has had a strange career after movies like Hard Candy and Phantom of the Opera, but has really seemed to find his niche in the horror movie genre. Now You See Me 2...hate it as much I liked the first one, and the substitution for Isla Fisher really just didn't work Eye in the Sky....must-see movie, whether rental or in the theatres, deals with the ethics and does a very solid job of not taking a strong position on either side, politically, so more nuanced that we're used to seeing in this type of movie or even Homeland The Nice Guys....excellent movie, can't understand why it didn't do better in the box office, but that's Hollywood today, when remaking Warcraft (and the inevitable sequel) in order to mine the Chinese box office is being prioritized over making good movies, period

It's also much easier to make excuses for management and blame the fans...because if you take away belief in the front office, as a fan, there's nothing left to hang your hat on. Some here prefer to believe if the White Sox fans were more loyal, the White Sox SURELY would have made the playoffs in 2010 and 2012 and even this season, but the fans have handcuffed Hahn and forced him to make bargain/value deals for the likes of Jackson, Navarro, Avila, Gonzalez, Latos, Rollins, Shields, etc. Of course, conveniently overlooking the fact that signing Alex Gordon OR Justin Upton this offseason would have been completely disastrous for the franchise as well. And even Cespedes wouldn't be enough to cover up all the other holes on this team, fwiw. That would have left no money available for any more moves.

Ultimately, that's the argument. That fans should support their favorite team NO MATTER WHAT. That the Sox are a "public good/service" provided for the benefit of the community (notwithstanding the huge profits being extracted upon sale of the team and yearly profits/taxpayer subsidies) and that the community "owes" their support. Essentially no acceptable excuses for not supporting them, no matter how reasonable they may seem to be. That's not going to be a winning argument...because with how inefficient Hahn and KW have been spending money and identifying talent over the last 10-15 years, the addition of $25 million (or whatever number you want to throw out there) wouldn't have put any of those White Sox teams in first place or the playoffs, arguably. In order to get to an increase of $25 million, they'd have to draw an additional 500-750,000 fans, roughly. Other than the Cubs, Red Sox, Dodgers, Cardinals...there just aren't many franchises in MLB that have attendance of 2.3-2.5 million with EIGHT CONSECUTIVE PLAYOFF-LESS SEASONS. Obviously, those franchises don't often go for that long. The best example, obviously, is the Cubs. But even that wasn't 8 years.

If Shields was damaged goods, wouldn't it have been incumbent on Hahn and the medical staff to look very closely over his last MRI or request a new one? Especially when he's in his mid 30's and has already pitched 9 consecutive years with 200+ innings. What's the limit of days with "no take backs"? As soon as you let him pitch in a game, he's yours? We saw a perhaps similar situation with Sirotka/David Wells before 2001, if that's what turns out to be the case.

Look at some of the recent winners around baseball (even tonight). Junior Guerra was in our system and let go. Anyone could have had Dustin McGowan. Feldman with the Astros. Yovanni Gallardo. Lincecum. Edinson Volquez. Colby Lewis. The only pitcher that might have been a WORSE decision than Shields was/is arguably Ubaldo Jimenez. Even the O's announcers really detest him. Statistically, it's almost impossible for scouts and a GM to be so wrong so often.

The NRA needs a good villain like Charleston Heston again in charge.

Look at some of the recent winners around baseball (even tonight). Junior Guerra was in our system and let go. Anyone could have had Dustin McGowan. Feldman with the Astros. Yovanni Gallardo. Lincecum. Edinson Volquez. Colby Lewis. The only pitcher that might have been a WORSE decision than Shields was arguably Ubaldo Jimenez. Even the O's announcers really detest him.

9 consecutive years with over 200 innings pitched, there has to be something physically wrong...maybe not a tear, but a fraying, so to speak.

Better to do it Monday...because having him eat it for Shields if James gets tattooed around again Thursday in Boston is going to seem ridiculous. Then it will seem like this whole situation is more on Hahn than Ventura.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 18, 2016 -> 07:11 PM) Lost 25 of 35 4-13 vs Cle and KC Did you leave DET out on purpose, lol? 6-14 + 6-0 vs. MN=12-14

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Jun 18, 2016 -> 07:03 PM) Maybe like most millennials, this team has ADD. That doesn't explain Dunn, LaRoche and Frazier. Maybe it does explain it, otoh...since LaRoche doesn't believe in the value of school. Is that a millennial value?

But we're only 1 game behind the Tigers after tonight!!!

The storyline of Ranaudo coming back to face his former team at Fenway will be a good one. A distraction at least. We're only 1 game away from being ahead of only the Twins and A's in the balanced AL. Very quietly, the Rays and especially the Astros have crept up.

It's too bad Ynoa couldn't stick as a starter. He has some nice looking pitches. You can see why the A's gave him the biggest bonus for a kid coming out of the Dominican at the time.

Yeah, you really can't embarrass Shields and the organization anymore by having him face the Red Sox and Porcello on Thursday. That's just a recipe for disaster, MLB's best offense at home. You have to put him on the DL and bring up Ranaudo...unless their goal is simply to get him to retire and save themselves that $27 million. That might be the best strategy for the organization, but it would be terrible to watch and wouldn't be long forgotten by free agents when they look at the stream of bodies coming out of Chicago these days. OR, unless Shields absolutely forces the issue and says he wants to make the start regardless. That would be masochistic, almost.

Security company used to be called Wackenhut, fwiw. Blame the media, or whatever, but the overriding story emerging out of Orlando hasn't been another ISIS strike in the US, similar to Paris or Belgium.

He has to work slowly with runners on base because if he gives up one run, he's done. No margin for error, how can you blame him for pitching so carefully in those situations when every game starts with a razor-thin margin for success?

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Jun 18, 2016 -> 06:10 PM) I always liked Uribe. Not a coincidence at all he was part of our last playoff team half a lifetime ago.

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Jun 18, 2016 -> 06:17 PM) Albers is the next up to be DFA. Hahn was about to sign him to a contract extension. Uh-oh.

Leyson Septimo against Cody Ross would be preferable.

Lincecum's line today: 6 IP, 4 hits, 1 ER, 2 BB's, 2 K's For 1/5th or 1/6th of the price of Shields. Much better for marketing purposes as well.

If you want even more nightmares, just check out Linceum's line for the Angels today...6 IP, 4 hits, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K's Of course, Hahn didn't sign him. He spent 5-6X as much money on James Shields instead. Between Danks, Turner, Latos, Rollins, Sands...we're great at finding players who can't stick on the MLB roster at least.

Would like to see Renteria as manager with Gardenhire as the bench coach...but we'll probably get another former Sox. AJ would be entertaining at least. Probably a complete disaster, but sports are about entertainment as the bottom line, after all.

QUOTE (bulokis @ Jun 18, 2016 -> 05:52 PM) Time to give up on the season. The more we force it, the more it is looking abysmal. I want to see more Tim Anderson like player. You mean like Trayce, Montas and Semien? The best you're going to get is May, Keenyn Walker and Engel in terms of athleticism.