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One thing to remember is that at least 80% of the stocks at Shanghai had trading suspended at their daily 10% loss limits, so the theory remains Shanghai could fall from 3200 another 500-700 points. The focus here has been the slowdown/impact in commodities-driven countries such as Australia, Russia, Brazil, etc., that export to China. Lots of talk from Japanese about currency wars if the rmb continues its descent. Vietnam has already started the process in order to remain competitive. Rumor out of Beijing is that real gdp growth is closer to 2-3% and that many "mom and pop" investors are growing increasingly frustrated with the government essentially promising their stock and real estate purchases would continue to rise. Despite all the market interventions, the key 3500 point barrier was easily breached yesterday with no response other than saying that provincial pension funds can eventually throw 600 billion more (30% of net assets, over two trillion) into the lottery of that aforementioned market as their own managers were only earning 2%, similar to the same arguments we hear in the US about privatizing the SS trust fund. Nosediving oil prices are not really helping matters. If you're looking for micro signals, Jack Ma of Alibaba fame just spent $186 million on a Hong Kong property (one house) and something like $123 million on another in the Catskills.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Aug 22, 2015 -> 09:58 AM) Saw The Man From UNCLE last night, really enjoyed it. Armie Hammer was great, hope there's a sequel. I am going to see a screening of Sciario early next month too. That's the former Red Sox inf. Sicario....meaning assassin in Spanish. Emily Blunt continues her action roles transformation.

The bigger questions now for the Twins are whether Buxton fulfills his promise, and what they have exactly in Berrios.

http://news.yahoo.com/france-3-people-woun...-184556825.html Here's a situation where the Moroccan guy wielding the gun and knife was presumably caught/subdued by two "gunless" Americans on a high speed train in Europe.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 21, 2015 -> 09:54 AM) Until Montas can regularly go 7 innings in the minors, forget about him. Seems like the same thing was said about Hector Santiago not so long ago.

Carlos Santana performed?

Kurt Brown (drafted before Bonds), Joel Skinner, Joe Borchard, Josh Fields, Brian Anderson, Jon Rauch, Daryl Boston, KW, Chris Snopek, Mike Caruso, Scott Ruffcorn, Jimmy Hurst, Jeff Abbott, Jeremy Reed, Lorenzo Barcelo, Danny Wright, Jim Parque, Jason Stumm, Kris Honel, Felix Diaz, Arnie Munoz, Miguel Gonzalez, Jerry Owens, Poreda, Royce Ring, Matt Ginter, Keenyn Walker, etc.

http://www.ew.com/gallery/fall-movie-previ...clusive-photos/ Fall/holiday/early winter movie previews 37 of the biggest upcoming attractions. Interesting to see Everest on film, read the original Krakauer book and also saw the IMAX documentary that came out over a decade ago. Obviously, Hunger Games 4 will get the most attention. Finally, by all appearances, like another Tom Hardy command performance playing both brothers (with opposite personalities) in a movie. The Leo Dicaprio one (near the end) where he plays a man left for dead to survive in the elements could be good as well...along with the 29th Spielberg film about the U-2 spy case/Cold War/prisoner exchange in the early 1960's.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 20, 2015 -> 07:23 PM) Apparently the Indians' president is emerging as a frontrunner for the Jays Would be highly ironic if Shapiro beat KW twice, first for Executive of the Year in 2005 (which, if you included the post-season, should have gone to Williams)...now here again. Still, with AA's star back on the rise (and he basically sold out a lot of the team's future to win now)...hard to imagine they'd also be bringing in a "big name" Executive/President/CEO and put him over AA. I guess it depends largely on how the season ends and the eventual playoff fate of the Jays.

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/i-hurt-my-d...7173047597.html Balta +1 NRA 0

They'll undoubtedly play about as well as that team as currently constituted.

If nothing else, you would think this current Cubs' run with a more dynamic manager would cause someone at 35th and Shields to stand up and take notice. Keeping Ventura around (and it can't be just through 2016 or he's a lame duck again) is just doubling down on the insanity to prove what, exactly...? That KW anf Hahn did such a atrocious job for so long bringing in talent that the manager bears next to zero extent of the blame since managers have no motivational role, nor is it their business to improve the fundamentals of the flawed players the front office provides them with...

Go Tigers! Down with Strop. Too weird to be cheering for Detroit, but, it is what it is...

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Aug 18, 2015 -> 02:47 PM) By this flawed logic, you'd rather have a guy with a .750 OPS and no major splits than a guy with an .817 OPS overall. Do you think that White Sox front office was unaware of this imperfection in LaRoche's game? Like you thought to look at his splits but all these guys who are ostensibly smart people and run a baseball team for a living never thought It's a f***ing guessing game. The Royals are GENIUSES because they signed Morales to a cheap deal because everyone else passed on him. The Royals are also f***ing IDIOTS because they signed Alex Rios for $11 million. The White Sox are IDIOTS because they signed LaRoche. The A's are bigger IDIOTS because they signed Butler. The Red Sox have Pablo Sandoval for 4 more years. The Mets signed Michael Cuddyer. Everyone sucks. It's baseball. The relatively tiny number of at bats LaRoche gets against lefties is not enough to drag his value down much if he's hitting righties like he always has. It's not about just one or two moves, you have to look at the entire body. At the time, losing Aoki, Dyson and Orlando were the only options...and they didn't feel confident enough in that scenario...but they also were't willing to spend more on Tomas (as an outfielder), Rasmus, etc. In the end, with Gordon's injury...that insurance has proven useful and it also bought them time to add Zobrist as well. It's when you start comparing Morales and Volquez...with LaRoche and Samardzija, then you start to see that most of what KC did has worked fairly well for their particular needs...and most of the White Sox moves backfired. For example, instead of a high priced outfielder, they were able to keep Hochevar and sign Medlen/Madson, providing more protection to that big 3 at the back end of the bullpen, and also seeing if they thought highly enough of Medlen to exercise a $10 million option for next year or simply buy him out. The White Sox used roughly the same amount of money on Duke, Bonifacio and Beckham.

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 18, 2015 -> 01:37 PM) It's worth bearing in mind that while you hear about most foreign aid as a dollar figure, much of it is actually distributed as American-made goods. For instance, there was a lot of chatter about American funding of Egypt a few years ago and how it should stop. The fact was that the $X we were "giving" Egypt came in the form of tanks made by a private contractor in the US, meaning the money was going to support a US company and the government was just deciding what to do with the goods produced from that support. With that said, that doesn't mean it's a bad idea to reconsider some of the funds. The jobs justification only kind of works, since for the amount of money being spent in the previous example you were getting a tiny number of jobs compared to what you'd have if you specifically earmarked the same dollar amount for creating middle class jobs from public works projects or some such. At the same time, it's worth bearing in mind that you can buy compliance and to a lesser extent good will in foreign countries and you can do so with amounts of money that seem tiny in the context of the federal budget. So you have to consider what sorts of foreign policy implications you'd face and whether it's a better idea to just throw a little money away in the name of stability. Every situation is so unique and idiosyncratic that there's no way to say that all of the aid or none of the aid should be cut. Not to mention public works projects in this economy are very rarely going to provide skill sets/training that are necessary for permanent employment in a knowledge-based economy. In that sense, the government would be better off using AmeriCorps national service volunteers (let's sat Hillary does win) in technology-driven mini "think tanks" working on apps and programs to cut government waste and improve efficiency in terms of resource allocation. Even vocational training programs for two years are often leaving students well short of the expertise in computers/tech to do much of anything but work in a help desk position. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning...d-say-scholars/ This article touches on what is really needed...improved day care, Head Start, after school programming/enrichment activities, summer/weekend tutoring in STEM subjects as well as SAT/ACT, etc. Does the political will exist, though, for more government investment...? The private solutions work for 10-25% of Americans, but it leaves a minimumof 75% of the country hopelessly behind and undereducated.

Therein lies the problem. Flowers would be tolerable if he at least made better contact in key situations. If we're going to continue to play him as well as Micah, Sanchez, Saladino, Thompson and Avi, then we are rebuilding (whether KW will admit it or not) and punting on 2016. I wonder if Tyler was in the same position as Brian Anderson in 2006 (breaking in as a rookie on a team expected to be in the playoffs) how long he would have lasted before being discarded?

Hitting Trout is idiotic...then they'll just come after Abreu, and what's the point of that? Getting baseball's franchise player (along with Harper) injured or preventing him from appearing in the post-season?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 17, 2015 -> 09:56 PM) He didn't last inning for Carlos. Rookies always tend to get squeezed, especially when they're not noted for their strike zone command in the first place.

Well, at least Thompson is holding his own, and Rodon's looking good again...of course, the Angels are foundering and as long as you don't let Calhoun/Trout/Pujols beat you, it would be hard to give up more than 2-3 runs to them.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 17, 2015 -> 01:02 PM) Like Joe Lieberman? Or Charles Schumer...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 17, 2015 -> 07:48 AM) If Hillary wasn't there, there would be a much more open field. But really, this is the SuperPAC era. There aren't going to be many billionaires willing to turn against Hillary Clinton if she's the most obvious party standard bearer by funding an alternative candidate and if you don't have a billionaire to fund your campaign, you're facing such a huge headwind that you're outgunned. Both sides are dominated by the billionaire setup right now. 17 Republicans because there's no obvious standard bearer and 14 or so have billionaires who can keep their candidacy afloat, very few Democrats because there is an obvious standard bearer and the billionaires won't ignore that. You've forgotten Jim Webb and Jim Jeffords as officially declared candidates, for whatever that's worth (less than LaRoche against a lefty). Didn't Lincoln Chafee (RI) throw his hat into the ring, too?

QUOTE (LDF @ Aug 17, 2015 -> 05:30 AM) i agree with that main thought, but i will disagree for this reason. the 2 contract the sox org has to eat were that of keppinger and emilio. and all the yrs that the sox been owned by this group of owners, i think these 2 were the only ones that has happen like this. again that is the best of my recollection. now the owners would force the team and the fans to suffer until contracts like adam and dunn has expired that is more likely their SOP of operating. Dunn at the end, Mike MacDougal, Linebrink, Mark Teahen....they weren't all waived, some were just courtesy salary dumps or salaries were unloaded by packaging them with assets like Edwin Jackson/Teahen. Scott Downs was another.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 16, 2015 -> 11:04 PM) Why would that one issue matter? I do think he's a lock to win the nomination at least. Virtually all the Rebub candidates besides Trump are despised by the masses. Not one of them can possibly pass Trump who has the name recognition. Then Trump just gets blistered in the general election and we have Hillary for 8 years. I think women's hatred of Trump would turn the election into a Hilly landslide for certain. Women aren't going to pick the somewhat slimy Trump over the first woman president. The fact that he's actually in the process of formulating something that could be loosely called a platform, with at least a little bit of substantive policy formulation/thought put into it. Most never thought he would do that.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Aug 16, 2015 -> 03:55 PM) This is the type of injury that could effect his speed/mobility. Well, at least he's not a speed-based player like a Jared Mitchell. He's expected to be a corner OF guy, or DH, yes?

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/trump-says-h...6838527651.html The odds of Trump actually wiining the nomination just went from negligible to a fighting chance...