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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 05:20 PM) 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. Tilq Tequila is just...WTF. Is she doin' this crap just for attention? She's doing all this crap with white nationalists and she's not even white!

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 01:34 PM) MLS is absolutely critical to the future of the national team. Ideally, you have both guys taking the Euro route and developing, and guys developing through the MLS academy system or the draft. The washout rate for Americans in Europe - particularly those who go through the academy system in Europe - is extremely high. The best players of the last generation of US Soccer - Dempsey and Donovan - don't reach those heights without MLS (my opinion on Donovan, a fact re: Dempsey). Over the next 16-20 years, the quality of the talent pool in the US, and therefore the quality of MLS, needs to rise to the level where as a soccer nation, we aren't dependent on European development to succeed at the national team level. MLS is the long-game and Jurgen didn't want to play it. I mean he got fired after 5 years. So for him as a manager looking short-term, the MLS wasn't going to help him. That might seem selfish of him, but it is what it is.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 11:27 AM) I thought Alex Jones was more just bats*** conspiracy theorist in general than alt-right? Those 2 have started to merge. Mostly because a huge part of conspiracy theorists' spiel is that all of the world's wealth is owned by the Jewish Rothschild family. That alone would make neo nazis giddy.

Klinsmann probably had more talent on this team than any USMNT manager before him. You gotta give him credit for that. He's responsible for getting Fabian Johnson and John Brooks on this team. The fact that we have a decent amount of players getting regular playing time in the Bundesliga is in part due to Klinsmann. He did a decent job with development. Only problem is that he was a horrible manager tactically. I wish he could have stayed in a non-managerial position, but that definitely wasn't going to happen. Arena will put a higher emphasis on the MLS, which Klinsmann ignored for the most part. But as we've seen with the development of Pulisic and Wood, we need players to develop in Europe.

Nice win in Utah. Game was ugly at times when both teams couldn't make any field goals.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 04:37 PM) 99.99% of the country didn't know who the guy was until the media told them he was racist. The guy runs a pretty popular website and was Trump's campaign CEO. If you pay attention to the news, you knew who Steve Bannon was long before this week.

I thought this was interesting. I've seen this first-hand. Hell I get a bunch of fake stories on Facebook under suggestions based on what my friends post all the time. I actively make sure that those sources get blocked and I never see them again.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 10:40 AM) This thought is dangerous. It is what Hillary Clinton leveraged and it didn't work. If people believe that is why they got elected, then they are missing the reality of the situation. The election happened because of a combination of things, the bulk of which people wanted serious change. They wanted a change candidate and Trump was who represented the people most in want of change (and even then he got less votes than McCain and Romney). Trump also talked to more people in the rest belt area who have had things get worse over the last 8 years and who wanted a change. Now did those people ignore certain things Donald said / did, absolutely, but to lump in and just assume that everyone who cast there vote for Trump feels the way that you seem to think is just ridiculous and does not solve anything. You saw what good those type of statements did Hillary (calling half of the voting population deplorables doesn't help things). The fact of the matter is everyone lost in this election, but we really lost if the actual politicians don't recognize that the people are fed up and do want change. They want people in the government to work together to come up with things that in general the people want, that will make there lives better. Case closed that a lot of people didn't feel that happened. Bill Clinton himself has been highlighted talking about a lot of these very same things. Absolutely. Does it suck that a large number of voters ignored blatant racism and elected a president with racist ties? Yes. Does that mean that they are racist and will always vote for a racist candidate? No. The Democrats have to go back and analyze their mistakes. Losing states that have been solid blue for almost 30 years is a failure by the party and the Clinton campaign. Guilt tripping people and making them feel bad about their political choices doesn't work because nobody else is around to see who you voted for in the voting booth.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Nov 16, 2016 -> 07:11 PM) He's not a good hitter. He's a throw in like a Swithart on the RedSox side. He ended the year on a hot streak, but he was hitting terribly around the all-star break (which is why you might think he can't hit). Turned it on after the break and had a pretty good year overall. His defense keeps his value afloat no matter what though.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 16, 2016 -> 06:35 PM) Kate Upton tweeted "Hey MLB, I thought I was the only one allowed to f*** Justin Verlander" Two writers from Tampa didn't even have him on their ballot. That's pretty good.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 16, 2016 -> 03:42 PM) Steve Bannon sees 20% of silicon valley ceo's being asian, mentally freaks out and interprets this as 75%, winds up saying that having large numbers of asians in those roles is bad for civic society. Remember folks, it's not just the muslims, brown people, blacks, and jews. They'll get down the list to hating you personally eventually. The reason why we no longer have so many manufacturing jobs is that we're now a technology-led economy. It might not be long before the racists figure that out and start blaming Asians and Indians for their problems instead of Mexicans, black people, and Muslims.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 16, 2016 -> 04:30 PM) http://www.newsweek.com/michael-rubin-trum...-521622?ref=yfp Trump transition team with second ethics scandal...the other is $950,000+ being paid to Breitbart by a super PAC https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KVdiOKI7xd8 Apparently it's now hilarious to drive your car super-fast close to a crowd of anti-Trump protestors on the highway and hit one of them It's amazing the level of commitment Chinese students have in math, physics and chemistry, not to mention nearly all of them studying economics as well. Probably spend 3x as much time studying those areas as US students, and many go to school halftime starting at age 2-3, at least some type of educational enrichment program. Then the ms and hs students almost all go to English or SAT IELTS TOEFL training centers at night or on the weekends. Average math SAT score is 740-760. Anyone below 700 is an idiot to be made fun of, to them. Creativity and innovation and critical thinking...not so strong. They really struggle with the higher levels of computer science as well, but it's also hard to find good foreign (white/native English speaker) teachers in those areas. There's no secrets. Hard working, rote memorization, tons of practice and drilling, go over every past exam and memorize multiple choice possibilities for AS/A2 level, AP, IB, etc. This is why we're losing in the STEM areas. Not IQ or ability. Simply not enough dedication, commitment and family pressure to work harder. Yeah pretty much. The heavy competition in China also forces students to do even more. I have relatives who pretty much go to school all year around and even then, they'll be lucky to get into a decent college. Almost any sort of work ethic here in the states pretty much guarantees entrance into a half-way decent university. You'd be lucky to end up in a 2 year vocational school in China if you just try hard...

QUOTE (flavum @ Nov 16, 2016 -> 06:15 PM) Verlander most 1st place votes, finished 2nd. Porcello won. Britton's votes killed Verlander. Time to eliminate relievers from Cy consideration. Sale finished 5th. Scherzer won the NL easily. That shouldn't happen...

Only one game, but I'm not surprised we played better without Rondo.

Wow we f***ing blow.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Nov 15, 2016 -> 10:40 AM) lol Sox fans thinking we could get Seager when the Dodgers FO probably doesn't even want to give up Urias. lol indeed.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Nov 15, 2016 -> 10:40 AM) lol Sox fans thinking we could get Seager when the Dodgers FO probably doesn't even want to give up Urias. lol indeed.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Nov 15, 2016 -> 07:20 AM) Yeah we'd need Dansby from ATL We need a Miller-like return for Sale. Where we absolutely fleece the other team.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 14, 2016 -> 09:12 PM) God help the US if they approve Giuliani as Secretary of State... https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/black-ve...-160950540.html Black veteran refused free meal during Veteran's Day promotion at Chili's by PT TRUMP supporter My Chinese wife has page after page on her social media of episodes in the US already with episodes like eggs being thrown at Chinese/Asians, go home, go back to China, CHINK. The Chinese media is having a field day pointing out all of these episodes of "hate" against Chinese in the US (not only students, but American Born Chinese Descent/ABCD) as well as giving full coverage to all the anti-Trump protests. This is the field day the Chinese and North Korean governments were looking for. "Look at who those stupid Americans elected. Democracy is to blame!"

Lost by 1 cause Dalton got sacked 3 times at the end of the game.

Starting out with 5 at the back was ridiculous. Once they made the switch to the 442, the game went a lot better. Still, absolutely awful set piece defending at the end of the game.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 11, 2016 -> 04:05 PM) Many in Clinton's campaign viewed these voters as Trump's base, people so committed to the Republican nominee that no amount of visits or messaging could sway them. Clinton made no visits to Wisconsin as the Democratic nominee, and only pushed a late charge in Michigan once internal polling showed the race tightening. Bill Clinton, advisers said, pushed the campaign early on to focus on these voters, many of whom helped elected him twice to the White House. The former president, a Clinton aide said, would regularly call Robby Mook to talk about strategy and offer advice. But aides said the Clinton campaign's top strategists largely ignored the former president, instead focusing on consolidating the base of voters that helped elect President Barack Obama to the White House. CNN.com always with the best political instincts in that family...it's hard to see how diminished he seemed in recent years, and now there will be more lifetime bitterness over the FBI letter and the Clintons feeling Obama could have reigned in Comey had he chosen to do so Comey certainly did not help, but they should have seen this coming. The pollsters and experts got it wrong. Hell almost all of America got it wrong. Her staff failed her by thinking she was the second coming of Obama. The fact they counted on the minority vote yet didn't win a single southern state is a huge failure. But losing historically Democratic strong holds like Wisconsin and Michigan is an absolute embarrassment. Especially when Bill actually won those states twice.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Nov 11, 2016 -> 01:27 PM) If the electors don't pick Trump, that would be an even bigger disaster than Trump being President. Also, I would like to buy life insurance on those electors. Trump and Pence would literally have to commit treason or murder before December for the electors to flip.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 11, 2016 -> 01:34 PM) In news Greg will enjoy, the professor who is always correct about elections and called a Trump victory when every thought it would never happen, is now predicting Trump will be impeached. Helmut Norpoth?

That must mean one of Encarnacion/Bautista will be gone.