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Gonzalez/Gurriel/Reed/Gattis/McCann/T.White=no need for Abreu Buying low/er on Reed unless he's deemed fatally flawed makes sense, but you obviously need Bregman. Springer going to the Sox makes a lot less sense. He's their best outfielder. Like the Red Sox dealing Bradley or Betts.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 23, 2016 -> 01:41 PM) Apparently my current school gets this Spencer nazi's next public appearance just after Thanksgiving! yay! But he has a strong background in interpreting rock formations/sedimentary layers as well!

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Nov 23, 2016 -> 11:46 AM) The media oversaturating a small yearly gathering of neonazis is deplorable. There's only one reason to give all this airtime to a few hundred hateful idiots. Only one reason. And that makes me really really sad. Everyone's job on Earth is to help out their fellow man. People are probably going to end up getting hurt because of this false narrative. That really sucks. Trying to divide people and cause rifts? f***ing stop it already, people buy into this s***, even people claiming to be smart. http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/23/opinions/chr...-era/index.html You're not going to like it one bit, but reading this article will give you a pretty good idea of what to expect during the next four years from the media. Her voice carries a lot of weight, especially with female writers. And she probably has the ear of more foreign leaders than Trump by a factor of 3-4x. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tv-qui...-145321398.html Trump TV quietly launches. Wait until they start getting paid advertisers and every liberal reporters starts digging into favorable government treatment, access/meetings with Breitbart/Kushner or the admin, booking at the Trump Intl Hotel in DC, etc. Let's not forget, Trump recently opined Jared Kushner can resolve/mediate the Israel/Palestinean crisis because he is Jewish...and moving the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem won't ruffle any feathers, either. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_DeVos I'm going to take a guess that we don't want to model our education system on a charter school version of Amway. http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/23/politics/bet...tary/index.html Trump can't even decide which position he has on Common Core he's flip flopped so many times

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 23, 2016 -> 02:12 PM) That seems like such a bad move for Haley. Admin jobs just aren't much of a way of career booster when already an executive position. It might be the most important position of all. Convincing the rest of the world for the next four years not to go to war with us. More high profile and foreign policy experience accumulation (weak spot on her resume) than serving as a rural southern state governor. Plus, India becomes even more important as a counterweight/hedge against China and Russia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/sports/b...lpen-guide.html The idea originated with Lyle and Gossage in the 1970's. Hoyt Wilhelm, Kent Tekulve, Mike Marshall and Brad Lidge are other names that belong in the conversation.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/washington-state...-085352960.html 8 high school students in Washington state sue over climate change...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillar...5ed3a34?ref=yfp Hillary Clinton urged by experts to contest results in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Nov 23, 2016 -> 12:38 AM) I'd rather Shields be that guy. Fulmer should be starting if he's good enough to hang at the major league level. Possible, but VERY long odds. Worth a shot if he continues to struggle in the rotation so we can salvage some type of return or lessen money going the other direction by 25%.

Thanks President-Elect Trump for $4,710 in capital gains on Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares!!!! Surely that's going to help the Rust Belt voters at some point, without a doubt! Winning so much! http://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump...-134854872.html Donald Trump could trigger the great unwinding of historic amounts of bond money back into the equities market... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/court-blocks...-233147717.html Courts block overtime/holiday pay for 4 million hard-working Americans Only the "crooked media" cares about Trump's potential conflicts of interest http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-nobody...-132700690.html

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/1803278...as-game-changer Skip halfway through the article, past where the Cubs have changed the face of the world itself... http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/1803278...as-game-changer Clubs not seeking longer relief in 2017 (but they're definitely thinking about it) This would be an area the White Sox are going to have a lot of freedom to experiment with in 2017, particularly if they hold onto Robertson until at least July. Can Nate Jones go multiple innings, in terms of his health? This would seem to be, at best, questionable. Burdi? He's still being looked at some as a starter, so why not let him be the long man and eventually go into that Joel Zumaya/Miller "high leverage from 5th-8th inning guy" who goes multiple innings? See how his stamina and repertoire of pitches hold up. Petricka's coming off an injury as well, so you can probably cross him off the list. In terms of the minor leagues, a couple of guys who might thrive in that role would be Jordan Stephens and Spencer Adams. Hansen's another name to watch, as well. Then there's Carson Fulmer. So if we're rebuilding, we might as well try to build up our own cache of "high value" relievers, right? Obviously, you would RATHER have them make it as starters, but this seems like the best alternative. Bullpen depth/quality after the top 3-4 guys last year was one of the biggest issues for the White Sox (and your 3/4/5 guys going down to injury/ineffectiveness/overuse). In theory, instead of pitching your 12th/13th guys 50 innings or so, you can spread the load amongst 2-3 "high leverage" guys like Burdi, Fulmer, Stephens, Adams or Hansen. That would improve the overall bullpen results by, let's say, 10-15%, conservatively.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 07:19 PM) I'm pretty sure she has legitimate brain damage iirc Maybe it won't be clinically diagnosed for another generation, but all this fascination with social media/fame/attention has to be connected. She might have drug/substance abuse injuries that damaged her brain, but the root or endemic problem is almost always related to self-esteem combined with the loss of attention/fame causing one to go in a downward spiral. It's really not so unusual, we see it in the sports and entertainment field all the time. https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-angry-white-...-223547456.html Hearing out the ANGRY WHITE MAN next door http://sports.yahoo.com/news/trump-support...zlfMQRzZWMDc2M- Trump Supporters Are Protesting "Anti-White Discrimination" at Starbucks by....Buying More Starbucks

Therein lies the problem. If Trump does engage Alec Baldwin, SNL, Hamilton cast, Duterte, the British (because they had the temerity not to allow him to name the Ambassador to the US!!!), Xi Jinping, etc. Then how is that NOT newsworthy? Trump over and over again has made the point that Twitter and social media were key factors in his victory (and saving money on campaign ads)...and then we can just go back to the general point that only 3-5% of election coverage was spent talking about or debating policy or substantive issues. So HOW can that suddenly flip from campaigning to governing and the focus will be 100% on policy when all those Twitter controversies are what creates news coverage and page views?? Obviously, that strategy implemented by the Trump campaign has become something of a double-edged sword. Of course, left unmentioned is the fact that the $25 million Trump University settlement quietly took place without hardly any mention...there's just so many things spinning around in the air at the same time, it's hard to focus on just one thing at a time.

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/tila-tequil...-192654817.html Tila Tequila suspended from Twitter for Nazi salute...but will they do that to other members? She's an easy target.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-flip-flops...-203417722.html Six obvious flip flops from Trump in a single interview with NY Times. He's making Mitt Romney and Clinton look steadfast and principled, almost.

Wonder how soon before we get a tweet connecting us to Sox killer Kurt Suzuki?

I would be shocked if she actually got the position. Too controversial...which is odd to say for Trump. She'd be the equivalent of giving Christie a job. She is an Asian female, so there's the diversity angle, and married to former NBA point guard (mostly the Suns) and Democrat/Mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson. Would be preferable to Carson or Falwell, because she at least knows her stuff. Eva Moskowitz, a Democratic charter school leader, has already crossed herself off the list. Having taught/survived four years of inner city/public education, I'm 50% open to SOME of the charter school reforms, but not teaching to the test/performance based incentives, because I've never seen a fair way to account for the excellent work some teachers do with sub standard students in making any progress, vs. other veteran teachers who always get the best students automatically and the worst students get dumped on newbies and they invariably burn out. To me, the best teachers are those willing to do whatever it takes to help everyone, not just IB or AP level classes that can perform well almost autonomously.

Trump definitely is going to have to say something more pointed than his rather generic recent comments about the upcoming December 3rd North Carolina KKK March that David Duke will supposedly be attending.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 09:22 AM) Because I don't have to teach tomorrow and there's a pile of field trip reports next to me that I'm not going to grade until the caffeine kicks in. Edit: Oh and many of those will get worse as his other cabinet appointments come out I should note. He interviewed the author of Arizona's "Show us your papers" law for Homeland Security yesterday. https://www.yahoo.com/news/potential-trump-...-210705539.html This brilliant guy who inadvertently revealed his whole meeting agenda, lol? Guess he took that "show us your papers" part literally or was confused about its intent. All we need is Brownback for the trifecta to go with Pompeo, the CIA Director from Koch Industries, err, I mean Wichita. Maybe an Ed Secretary who will put Creationism back in the textbooks even though Trump could care less but just wants to serve up some red meat to the fundamentalist Christians (along with threatening Roe v. Wade).

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 08:05 AM) breitbart has a tag for their site dedicated to "black crimes." There's no plausible deniability regarding race. Is it possibility a WaPo writer would do an in-depth article on the topic and still be unaware of that? Or overlook it intentionally to give Bannon the proverbial "benefit of the doubt"?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016...mp.html?ref=yfp Dems can't afford to say yes to Trump

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-holocaust-muse...9--finance.html Howard Dean calls Bannon a Nazi http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/21/politics/how...nazi/index.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/philosopher-pred...-215658929.html Rise to power of a carbon copy of Trump predicted back in 1998...final outcome projection of that authoritarian figure, not so great An era of corrupted business unprecedented in US is upon us...NY Times/Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman http://finance.yahoo.com/news/krugman-trum...-155433007.html

After all the discussion recently about "are those who voted for Donald Trump implicitly racist or members of the ALT-RIGHT by association" this seems like a useful reference (and, fwiw, it's quite neutral and if anything "defends" Bannon/Breitbart in a way) Of course, with the naming of Sessions as the AG nominee and some of the other defense/homeland security/law enforcement officers having a history of being almost rabidly "anti-immigrant," the lines get blurred even more and more by the day. One person's law and order, controlling the border, cracking down on illegal immigrants enjoying benefits that aren't going to hard-working/tax-paying Americans, citizenship by birth (Chinese/Mexican the most common now), cracking down on H1B visas, etc., THAT'S ANOTHER PERSON'S RACISM/DISCRIMINATION/PREJUDICE that's simply disguised in political terms. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp...bout-them/feed/ The term “alt-right” was born around 2008, coined by a young white nationalist (though he prefers the term identitarian) named Richard Spencer, and when the term was initially born, it seemed to be a fairly ecumenical term in that it really seemed to apply to just about anyone who was right-wing politically, but opposed to George W. Bush and especially to the neoconservative wing of the conservative movement. So, libertarians and paleoconservatives and the racial right all could be classified as alt-right, though, over time, the racial element became more explicit. The alt-right has been able to successfully brand itself as an edgy and fun and ironic movement that takes pleasure in needling both liberals and conservatives, and it’s tongue-in-cheek and rebellious as opposed to just being motivated by [the] genocidal (racial) hatred that you would see from people like William Pierce. At least if we’re talking about the really big-picture stuff and the most radical white-nationalist element, I don’t think there is a lot of support among ordinary conservatives. If you were to ask them, they would probably say that they reject that particular vision. A lot of ordinary conservatives are not in favor of multiculturalism, not in favor of immigration, not in favor of affirmative action, not in favor of a lot of the things that are happening in American society right now. But that’s different from actually supporting the creation of a white ethno-state. This movement in particular is more appealing to men, particularly given the degree to which it is also a very outspoken anti-feminist movement. Traditional masculinity, they’ll argue, is undervalued in contemporary society. They’re very fond of describing mainstream conservatives as “cucks,” which is obviously an emasculating term. There’s a general sense that a more patriarchal society would be superior to the society we have now. Should Bannon be considered part of the alt-right? I do not think Steve Bannon qualifies as part of the alt-right. It’s true that Breitbart has flirted with the alt-right more than any other mainstream conservative publication, but its ultimate editorial line tends to be fairly generically conservative. It shares a lot of the alt-right style and tone, but not that much of its substance. Its main beef with the more mainstream conservatives, like those at the National Review or the Weekly Standard, is that they’re weak, and that they are not fighters willing to get their hands dirty, and that they capitulate too easily. But, ultimately, I think that the values, the editorial line of Breitbart, seem to be fairly generically conservative. A lot of people who are on the alt-right read Breitbart and appreciate it, but Breitbart also maintains some plausible deniability that it’s not ultimately interested in race per se. I don’t think that that’s true of the alt-right. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp...bout-them/feed/

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/cnn-sees-twitt...-233547124.html CNN sees twitter backlash (from Jewish people, mostly) about ALT-RIGHT leader/speaker questioning IF JEWS ARE PEOPLE?

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 09:34 PM) Seems apropos of how out of touch dems are http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politic...-maps/94233560/ So fighting gerrymandering that's obviously politically/racially-motivated is being out of touch? Obviously, in the bigger picture, losing Wisconsin in the presidential election without making a single appearance (HRC) was a fireable offense by her campaign...but it's the insidious drawing of Congressional districts that might have done more damage since the 1980's and 1990's.