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QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Mar 18, 2016 -> 02:36 PM) So if Laroche was taking Drake with him on the road was he paying for the his tickets on flights and getting his own hotel room. Was Drake eating food from the locker room. I really hope Laroche was paying for that stuff cause if not the Sox did awful alot for his kid to be there all the time I guarantee you he didn't pay anything.

God I want to check so many things on this list.

Someone's lying here.

If only we didn't promise LaRoche he could bring his son into the clubhouse everyday. Then we could have spent his $12 million elsewhere last year AND had $13 million more to spend in the off-season this year. That signing looks worse than Adam Dunn's right now and it's not even about the production.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 18, 2016 -> 11:08 AM) Bob Nightengale ‏@BNightengale 34s34 seconds ago Player rep Adam Eaton said Adam LaRoche had clause in contract to allow son and players union now involved #whitesox Well this is a f***ing nightmare.

Wow f*** Adam LaRoche. Way to f*** over this whole team before we even play a single game.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Mar 18, 2016 -> 09:23 AM) I grabbed it last weekend. Probably have about 10 hours into it and i'm level 10ish. I like the missions (though don't do what I did and waste and hour or two trying to solo a level 8 recommended mission at level 6...), but I agreed with a lot of the IGN review....it's not exactly an exciting environment. There's not enough random stuff that happens when running from place to place. And I can see how grinding for another 20 hours to get to level 30 is going to become a little boring since the AI is very repetitive. Still, the missions are fun so far, the customization on weapons is fun. I like building up the various wings in the base. I just wish there was more random AI interference in the non-dark zone areas. I haven't gone to the dark zone yet. Are you supposed to if you're low level? Or will you just get picked off immediately? There's a game rank and a DZ rank. You'll get put into DZ1 if you're low level in the game. If you're higher level, you skip the lower level zones.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Mar 18, 2016 -> 02:17 AM) Holy s***, lvl 26?? How many hours do you have in? I probably free roam more than most people, but at like 14 hours in I am on level 12, and that's because I leveled up twice tonight doing 1 mission w/ random guys. Like 20 hours. I've played the missions with others, so I more or less blow by them.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Mar 18, 2016 -> 12:25 AM) Ok, I REALLY need people to team up with in The Division. My buddy has played like 2 hours in the 10 days he has had the game, and the Dark Zone is impossible alone. I haven't tried the DZ yet, but I'm level 26 in the game.

Purdue ruined my good start. Ugh.

I picked Yale as my 5-12 upset. Not disappointed.

Lots of ESPN articles/videos backing the Sox on this. I think a lot of non-baseball fans will side with LaRoche. This seems like it's more than just a sports story. But most level-headed baseball fans will see through it.

Can Eaton stop using Twitter? He already got in some trouble with the Oscars tweet and now he's actively Tweeting against the decision made by the front office of his own team? SMH.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 03:58 PM) To be fair, he hit substantially better than LaRoche last year, and is a much better bet to bounce back. But yeah, I'd want most of the contract paid for. Even then, it puts a risky piece in the lineup for many years. Avi hit better than him last year. It'd be buying low on a potential bounce back, but a really really expensive one at that.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 04:10 PM) Oh my god I had no idea he was getting that much. I knew it was big but I thought it decreased. If you thought we spent our money poorly last off-season, Boston outdid us by at least a hundred million with Hanley and Panda.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 03:51 PM) From a Boston writer: Jay Kenney ‏@RealJayKenney 5h5 hours ago Boston, MA Rumblings today that Hanley Ramirez could be sent to the Chicago White Sox. Nothing concrete though f*** no. Boston better be paying for almost all of it if it's even remotely true.

QUOTE (Tony @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 03:51 PM) That's sort of what it sounds like, but it makes zero sense. I still think it was absolutely the right call, but is that quote implying Kenny Williams made that decision completely on his own without any of the players being on board? I just can't believe that. The other way to read that is once again Kenny is falling on the sword, so that LaRoche doesn't have to wonder who were the teammates that had an issue. Kenny has no problems being the bad guy.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 03:44 PM) David Haugh ‏@DavidHaugh 19m19 minutes ago Williams addressed unified #WhiteSox team: "One thing I commended my players on was sticking together. They stuck by their guy and his son. This better not have a lasting impact on the team chemistry. If the players wanted him around, but Kenny said no, then this is a bad bad idea.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 03:33 PM) Whoa, what's going on in Munich right now? Pep wants to avoid playing City.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 15, 2016 -> 10:26 PM) One of the guys I follow on Twitter was trying to compare Leicester winning the Premiership to an American "upset" championship and it's hard to compare. The Devil Rays were similar with how they beat the big money Red Sox & Yankees but they never won it all and the division was only 5 teams. Butler winning the basketball title could have matched it but winning a single elimination tournament is so much simpler than a full round robin like Leicester. The Rays winning a WS might be the closest thing. Baseball doesn't have a salary cap, just like European soccer. So you get these huge discrepancies in talent and resources. But we don't have a relegation system like soccer. So you'll never get AA teams making their way up the ladder and winning a World Series or anything. It's very hard to compare.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 02:47 PM) It isn't a black or white thing. I think they are both right. The Sox have the right to control the work environment, and LaRoche has the right (and ability) to quit his job and do what he wants to do. More power both of them. I don't get LaRoche choosing that as an issue to quit on, but if he believes it in that much, good for him to stand up for it. The thing with LaRoche is that he sucked last year and it was clear his body wasn't going to really hold up after that injury last week. So if he wasn't going to be good and he was going to be hurting, at least he was going to have his son around. But with the Sox dropping the hammer on that, he'd literally have nothing to play for. I can see why he wanted to retire.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 02:02 PM) Lots of new people on the team this year. I'd guess that other players probably wanted clubhouse access and a stall for their own kids as well. Or perhaps no kids at all in the clubhouse. I respect the fact that LaRoche is a family-oriented guy, but a major-league clubhouse really isn't a place for kids. And if he had a big problem with that (which I'm very skeptical of in the first place), then too bad. I wouldn't want a kid in the clubhouse if I were a ML player. If I'm in a room of adults, I'm gonna talk and swear like one. I don't want kids around to hear that or for them to be around to restrict me from expressing myself.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 15, 2016 -> 11:54 PM) Some of my friends are doing the Bernie or bust bulls***. That's not how this works guys. Some of those people will be okay with voting for Trump. It's crazy how many stories I've heard second hand about certain Bernie supporters voting for Trump if Hillary wins the nomination.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 12:19 AM) Well, after tonight, Hillary's about wrapped it up. The nomination is hers. Congrats to her. I never thought I'd see the day two Clintons were presidents. Please please remember Greg's prediction about Chelsea in nine years. She's actually gonna be in her late 40s when mom is done with the oval office. Hillary's gonna get 8 years to put her stamp on the USA. Let's hope it's not the demise of the USA. And the difficult part for her was beating out Bernie. She's going to win almost every state against Trump. I mean, cmon, this was all a weird sideshow. I bet even Trump is happy he's assured Hillary the presidency. In the past he wasn't exactly a Hillary hater. To those of you who wanted Hillary, I'd feel better if you'd give me some reasons our country isn't going to fall apart in the next eight years, actually the next 16 with Hillary followed by Chelsea. You seriously think Chelsea Clinton can win a nomination for president in 8 years? She hasn't even held political office yet and I wouldn't say she has a ton of political experience.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 15, 2016 -> 08:16 PM) So many people are going to be forced to vote for Hillary just to oppose the disaster that is Trump. It's akin to Howard stern haters actually giving him the ratings. I prefer Bernie, but I have no problem voting for Hillary if the alternative is Trump.