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QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 28, 2016 -> 02:41 PM) I'm speaking for him, but I worry that they will prematurely "accelerate" the rebuild ala 15 and trade away some of the depth for lateral moves. Just look at some of these rumored players for Sale. I don't want to be mean to Fulmer, who is still developing, but if we had not gone for it in 15, we'd have 2 more players on the farm due to not losing compensatory picks and would have picked earlier in the draft (likely) that netted Alex Bregman, Andrew Benintendi, Kyle Tucker and Dansby Swanson. Impossible to know if we would have been bad enough to see these results, but how much better would you feel about state of sox if we had just debuted Anderson and Bregman, had a 20 home run second baseman in Semien, and Abreu as 1b. That's why I don't want to rush, get a group to develop and let them develop before trading them in for more. A cost-controlled 26 year-old Semien who just hit 27 homers in a much bigger park than USCF.

If you are 81-81, you lose those two years the Cubs had of drafting Bryant and Schwarber. And the White Sox can't afford to play the free agency market as it stands, so they absolutely need to hit on two more Top 10 draft picks for this to actually work. It's all a numbers game. Trading the remaining pieces other than Anderson and maybe Rodon/Earon gives them lots of lottery tickets and then theoretically two close to 'surer things' at the top of the draft. To spend on the open market for that type of talent is cost-prohibitive, and almost all of those expensive players are staring at the downside of their careers with a few rare exceptions like Trout, Harper and Machado.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/28/politics/pus...ions/index.html Members of the GOP already being forced to turn on Trump again... Let's see, we have Cuban-American relations completely being thrown back up into the air (what is our policy there going to be, exactly?), Native Americans protesting a pipeline that Trump owns stock in, Syria, voter fraud/recount...immigration wars now with the OSU incident and Trump's unfounded allegations, and he's not even president yet. It's only Monday. And, oh yeah, another former Trump campaign manager in hot water for having an opinion, this time Conway on the Romney for SoS position. http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/28/politics/tru...mney/index.html Then we have Conway/Giuliani vs. Priebus/Romney vs. Bannon. Not to mention the de-facto Chief of Staff is really Kushner, with Trump being pulled in three different directions (establishment GOP, far right with Bannon and somewhere in the middle with his son-in-law). That's not going to end well for two of them.

Next, we'll have conspiracy theories he was influenced by ISIS. Because what better way to get closer and closer to drawing the US back into direct engagement...which leads to a cycle of more publicity and fundraising? Let's say Trump does manage to close off all immigration from Muslim and terrorism-related countries. With all of those people he's bringing in on national security/defense, they will merely counsel for the US to be completely isolationist and stand idly by while the Middle East completely falls apart when...in the eyes of Republicans...Trump/Clintons and not Bushes are to blame for the destabilization? Especially when the GOP is once again calling for massive increases in defense spending? Thankfully he didn't have a gun or assault rifle.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2...ry.html?ref=yfp $2.5 million donated by Kushner's father to help get Jared into Harvard. Senators Kennedy and Lautenberg enrolled in influencing effort, as well.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/uselecti...ps-victory.html Duterte is already taking a more conciliatory to the US after the Trump victory. Coincidence? http://wksu.org/post/big-overlap-between-t...policy#stream/0

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/clinton-play...-222300204.html Trump potentially threatening to go after Clintons now after the recount process started...surprise surprise. Banana Republic here we come. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-trump-we...-121500552.html Why Trump and the US are better off with a recount....not to mention debunking the fallacy that he would/could have won the popular vote.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 27, 2016 -> 05:41 PM) You have told us time and time again Nate Jones is terrible, even as a supposed White Sox fan, hoping he would fail miserably in a closer role in 2017. If he is so bad, why would any team give up anything of significance to acquire him? So White Sox fans can only predict their players will do well in the future, and to doubt anyone's ascendancy is treason, lol? I don't believe Nate Jones will succeed as a closer, but he's overvalued as a reliever right now and so you might as well take advantage of that market. Of course, I've also been arguing for the last two years that Robertson should have been traded and that he's not worthy of his "elite" salary as well, but you didn't mention that (as there were MANY fans arguing that save totals were not as important as his peripherals)...and now we're to the point where we'd be lucky to get a Tilson back for him, if that. In the end, there are also too many medical red flags with his delivery/mechanics. When you have relievers throwing in the mid to upper 90's, it's usually going to be a better move to sell high on them, rather than waiting for them to break down like Jenks, Crain, Petricka, Putnam, etc. The White Sox haven't mastered the Beane/A's art of flipping overvalued reliever talent for something even more valuable. To go back a decade, we also turned MacDougal, Aardsma, Sisco, Dotel and Linebrink into what? Mostly salary write-offs.

Let's not forget George W. Bush's ownership of the Rangers. While not being ex-presidents, there are numerous Big 4 sports owners with obvious ties to politics, starting with Mark Cuban. Trump owned the New Jersey Generals USFL team. Also, look no further than the Ricketts Family donations to the GOP and/or Trump campaign (at the end, after first crossing him) this past election cycle.

Good luck when you start rounding up people on the streets and following through on your deportations threat. Separating families who have been here together 10+ years is really going to help create more jobs, too. The irony is that Ryan/Norquist want to sneak in and change the tax code, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, which almost nobody voted for as a set of policies...while continuing to raise military spending. Something has to give, and the most likely target is the social safety net since those poor people are assumed not to vote or Dems. But start touching the Holy Grail of those three programs and substituting even higher out of pocket costs and less services in the Obamacare tradeoff, good luck. The campaign was about immigration and trade policy.

The debt problem was the $400+ million load/service they started the acquisition with...although losing $166 million the last three years hasn't helped. Sale and Frazier with Urias and Puig and prospects coming back still makes sense. Or Nate Jones, even moreso.

This is more troubling. Anti-Clinton stories/propaganda planted by Russia were viewed well over 213,000,000 times over social media. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-russi...-180751117.html That has to be a significant part of the explanation for how the GOP was able to get away with spending significantly less than HRC on advertising the last 2-3 months. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/russian-propagan...-212747217.html

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Nov 27, 2016 -> 01:26 AM) Yes. This can't happen. Doesn't matter which side you are on or lean towards. If this recount determines HRC should be president lock your doors. There will be blood in the streets, lone wolf attacks in DC and state capital cities- people will die. All faith in government and the democratic system will be severely challenged or lost. Am i crazy? The US survived 1968 and Watergate...but it would require incontrovertible proof in Clinton's favor. Like the Russians coming out and admitting their involvement. If anything, the US dollar and stock market couldn't be stronger, so other than having the US "overlook" a Latvian invasion, which would require Trump breaking from NATO...not sure of their angle poltically or militarily. Turkey or Syria/ISIS/Assad? Montenegro (Russia has been accused of attempting an assasination to put a puppet government in charge in an effort to dilute NATO). Crimea/Ukraine? Besides, the Green Party "scam" still has $18 million to go in order to catch up with the Trump University scam. Trump Company "profits" and reimbursements from the campaign/election already in the $10-15 million range and climbing. $3+ million for the Secret Service to rent two floors at Trump Tower per year. Not to mention $1 million per day cost to the city of New York, rerouting flights...reinforcing subways, etc. https://www.yahoo.com/news/presidential-pro...-200551548.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/krugman-whi...g-class-2016-11 Greater Appalachian region referred to as the "Big White Ghetto" by conservatives... http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2...ry.html?ref=yfp Interesting Bannon piece...reading this, the whole thing about alt-right just appears to be a pragmatic business school "niche opportunity." http://finance.yahoo.com/news/don-t-think-...-160325324.html Race-based nationalism diesn't "stand the test of logic according to Bannon

Blake Smith, Purke, Beck, Minaya, Kahnle, Soto (pitcher), Coats, Kevan Smith, Lawrie, Leury Garcia, Avisail Garcia, Alfredo Gonzalez (catcher). That's 12, and doesn't include Liriano or Goldberg. Ynoa, either. 40 man roster space is the least of their issues.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/26/politics/don...ount/index.html Calling the Dems "badly defeated and demoralized" isn't going to win him any bipartisanship awards. Same with the environmental cause. Demoralized, sure...but's not like he came close to winning the popular vote or has a mandate to completely abandon working class whites by tearing down Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. It's also only going to motivate stronger resistance from the DNC and Liz Warren on the Senate Judicial Committee looking to pounce on every possible ethics lapse. For example, Trump owns between $15-$50,000 in stock of that Dakota pipeline company. Pretty much every single issue facing the president, both foreign and domestic, is going to have implications for Trump businesses. Just watch the insider trading on stock of the two major private/for-profit prison companies as this mass detention/deportation (see Kris Kobach) thing unfolds.

If they weren't planning to trade Sale, they're sure doing a good job of frustrating and teasing their fans. They're not in a position to add significant talent via free agency, so what's the point of prolonging the inevitable?

The Cubs got much better than average production from their catcher's spot...same thing with the Royals and Perez. The White Sox have proven in numerous ways how hard it is to replace a solid performer either offensively or defensively at that spot. All one needs to do is look at 2013-2016 and our output there. Can't be too quick to bring up Collins for another position of need. Yet another reason rebuilding now instead of forcing Burdi, Fulmer and Collins up too quickly makes more sense.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la...ry.html?ref=yfp Immigrants fear that definition of "criminal" will be stretched under Trump. Didn't realize Obama had actually done such a "good" job sending aliens back already, to listen to the campaign the past 18 months...more and more of these stories hopefully will turn the tide against more draconian measures which painfully separate parents and children.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 26, 2016 -> 12:50 PM) Guess who isn't accepting the campaign results? I will give you a hint, they campaigned on accepting the election results... This is the exact reason I couldn't vote for these hypocrites. http://wgntv.com/2016/11/26/clinton-campai...in-the-recount/ Would the Green Party have done the same thing had Clinton won? http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2016...-audit-the-vote Why not audit the vote?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/25/opinions/new...rter/index.html New PC should include white people http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/23/opinions/ban...rman/index.html What happens when you normalize the abnormal

Like Kansas always having a tough game at Manhattan, Columbia, etc., no matter the shape of those programs. And then there is scheduling a game at a "mid major" such as Butler, Wichita St., Gonzaga, VCU type of program. KU would still win 95-98 times out of 100 at UMKC. Iowa could just as easily win as lose at UNI these days and lose 25% of the time to Drake. But there are different scales of upsets. IPFW was like Hickory winning in Hoosiers.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Nov 26, 2016 -> 12:31 AM) True about Verlander, but even still, he had a 2.9 WAR and made $20M in his clunker season. Grienke had a 2.2 WAR and made $34M. Both had 5 years left, but Verlander set to make $30M less over those 5 years, and will end his contract at age 36, also while pitching in the AL. Grienke will be 38, and in the NL. Both bad and hard to move contracts, but I think Zack's is tougher. Except Greinke had shown the ability to be successful without throwing in the upper 90s. This was the first year Verlander learned how to pitch with less than an optimal arsenal. Greinke has always been more comfortable in the low to mid 90's, with an occasional 96-97 mixed in. Plus, playing on a team that was out of the playoff race for nearly the entire season. If I had excess money and prospects as a GM, you'd be crazy not to at least consider those two guys. Not to mention the looming diminished rate of return on David Price. After presiding over the Tigers' era of bloated contract extensions, and the success rate on the Price for Smyly, Cabrera to Marlins to Sabathia to the Brewers, you can see equally compelling reasons to go in either direction. And surely Epstein's biggest regret in Boston was all those free agent contracts to guys like Dice K, Carl Crawford, JD Drew, Josh Beckett, Lackey, etc.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Nov 26, 2016 -> 12:49 AM) Yes and the skyrocketing minimim wage is going to blow it all wide open. That's doomsday http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion...ry.html?ref=yfp How many of Trump's working class voters in the Rust Belt fall into or near the category of minimum wage workers? Minimum wage workers are only 4.7% of the workforce, for one thing. Half are under age 25, while hourly workers under 25 comprise roughly 20% of the workforce. The minimum wage for seasonal/part-time/student workers isn't the reason why many small businesses fail. They could even lower it and it still wouldn't bring any "good" jobs with livable wages back to the US.

Kimi no no wa (Your Name) is by far the best animation feature of the year but will lose the Academy Award to Disney. Japanese with English subs. Another nifty foreign film is the fast zombie S. Korean horror thriller "Train to Busan."