MexSoxFan#1

Growing up, I was a fan of both the White Sox and Cubs. Listening to Jack Brickhouse and Lou Boudreau, watching Dave Kingman, Bruce Sutter, Steve Ontiveros, Ivan DeJesus, Jody Davis, Leon Durham, Fergie Jenkins, Ryne Sandberg etc... As I became a teen, I gravitated more towards the White Sox because of Harold Baines. That was a fun team in the early to mid 80s, Carlton Fisk, the Bull Luzinski, Tom Paciorek, Lamar Hoyt, Chichi Rodriguez, Rudy Law, Ron Kittle etc. Been a Sox fan exclusively since the mid 80s...I remember an uncle gifting me a Cubs helmet because he thought I was a Cubs fan, I accepted his gift but later gave it to a friend of mine who was a Cubs fan. Congrats Chicago Cubs, you deserve it, clearly the best team in baseball this year. I'm happy for my uncles and cousins who are Cubs fans...

The end of times is upon us.

Cubs choking

4-1

Go Tribe!!!

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 14, 2016 -> 02:55 PM) Trump set himself up for all these women to come out of the woodwork, whether they are lying or not, he boasted about doing exactly what they are accusing him of doing. If it wasn't such an embarrassment to our country, it actually would be very funny. How can Trump ever be credible? It's one lie after another. He donated to 9/11 charities, except he didn't. https://www.yahoo.com/gma/nyc-audit-finds-n...topstories.html He was boasting not too long ago how he would be maybe the first candidate who made money running for president. I think he may be one of the few who wind up totally ruined by doing it. If he takes full advantage of Steve Bannon and Roger Ailes being aligned with him, he could be the face of the "Alt-Right" movement. There is a lot of potential for $$$ there seeing that this country has millions of idiots.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 17, 2016 -> 11:19 PM) OM gosh. The world of participation trophies. The world is WAY WORSE now than when Barack Obama took over. The economy in the USA is horrible for the middle classes. health care is AWFUL. Costs are astronomical. There is no leadership. If I were president I'd kick some ass to the pharm companies and tell them to get real. 800 dollars for a prescription unless you have insurance??? You guys are easy graders. Barack's America is a DISASTER! Chaos in cities. Violence. Horrific relations between cops and the people. Gridlock in trying to get any cooperation from Congress. Obama gets a D or D-plus! That said I do like the man personally. Great sense of humor and a Sox fan! But as a president ... please! He's not a leader. p.s. I VOTED for the man. SMH

Assange is just a hack, period.

I sincerly hope you're right. God help us if that clueless buffoon gets in office.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/re...illary-clinton/ David Shuster tweeted that he was told DNC considering a meeting to discuss a possible replacement for Hillary. Sh*t just got real

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 11, 2016 -> 03:30 PM) They're saying it was heat related. I've seen people in their early 20's collapse from it worse than that Optics It's already out there, this whole Hillary has seizures, is ill etc etc and this falls right into that narrative. I hope I'm wrong but her health is now an issue. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...ntial-campaign/ Cillizza had a tweet a few days ago saying that her health isn't an issue...and now this... Not good.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 11, 2016 -> 03:32 PM) Sorry I had some links today about Hillary and Chelsea, etc., so I had to post more. I will try to stop. Maybe they could start a "I Despise Hillary" thread and "I despise Trump" thread to put all the posts in there. One spot and people won't have to read in the Democrat/Republican threads. I'm referring to your Chelsea Clinton will be president and we'll have 16 years of Clintons. That's crazy talk, Chelsea isn't a very public person, you kinda have to be to run for prez. Go post that at reddit if you love conspiracy talk.

QUOTE (Tony @ Sep 11, 2016 -> 02:28 PM) I can't stand the GOP, but the videos today scare me a little. Something is off. This whole "Hillary is sick" that the rightwing has been pushing lately just got real. Greg, please stop posting so much, for the love of God you make this thread unreadable with your sh*t posting.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 22, 2016 -> 02:54 AM) It will likely go down in history as the eulogy of the GOP Yeah, not enough disgruntled old white dudes to put Trump in the WH anymore.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 10, 2016 -> 12:34 PM) Realistically it would take an epic 1969 style collapse for them not to win the division. I wouldn't be shocked, they're still the Cubs.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jul 5, 2016 -> 02:39 PM) Did you guys really think a politician of Hillary's caliber would be indicted? Sure you hoped but to honestly think it would come fruition? Politicians have always played by separate rules just like the nation's rich people. It is what it is. And it happens on boths sides of the aisle. No one in the Bush White House faced criminal charges for lying about WMDs, Cheney never was indicted for outing a CIA agent that put in risk and might've even cost the lives of secret agents, just because he wanted to embarrass Ambassador Wilson after his NY Times piece in which he debunked many of the Bush claims in lead up to the Iraq War. High treason that went unpunished, only a slap on the wrist to a Cheney underling.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 9, 2016 -> 11:30 AM) BLM has Obama as a counterbalance (who can't be perceived as being too "easy" on Africans-Americans, otoh he's often called an "Uncle Tom" so there's no winning no matter what he does vis a vis race relations). The theory is that Obama's moderation/centrism becomes more acceptable as result of leftist assaults. Not quite the same as the 60's, when you had the Black Panthers pushing the envelope by the time Malcolm X was assassinated...with Malcolm X (after he was kicked out of the Nation of Islam by Elijah Muhammad) much more moderate/less incendiary and King more frustrated and almost radical after his problems organizing in Chicago and Albany, GA. https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-questions-...--politics.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-amato/r...html?yptr=yahoo Guiliani has lost ANY respect and good will he built up in America after 9/11, pretty hard to do as a former top-polling candidate for president of the United States just four and one-half years ago. Rudy Guiliani has always been a fraud. Glad people are finally starting to see that now.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 9, 2016 -> 07:30 PM) http://www.denverpost.com/2016/07/09/phila...cial-profiling/ Castile was stopped FIFTY-TWO times by the police over the span of 14 years....WHAT THE HELL? MINNEAPOLIS — When Philando Castile saw the flashing lights in his rearview mirror the night he got shot, it wasn’t unusual. He had been pulled over at least 52 times in recent years in and around the Twin Cities and given citations for minor offenses including speeding, driving without a muffler and not wearing a seat belt. He was assessed at least $6,588 in fines and fees, although more than half of the total 86 violations were dismissed, court records show. In other words...stopped for being black.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 06:44 AM) God damn Joe Walsh is an awful person http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/j...ticle-1.2703883 When I first read the quote and saw the name, I thought for a second it was the Eagles guitarist great, lol. So glad it wasn't him.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 08:48 PM) Looks true. Great way to escalate. Yeah, especially since the US is a very safe country, hardly any violence unlike other countries.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 12:43 PM) ...ok, and back to the original discussion. I think we've derailed this enough and it's no longer even on the proper subject. I agree and just because I said I'm afraid of cops in the US and I feel safer back home

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 12:34 PM) No, that's NOT a fact. I posted data to prove this wrong, stop repeating it now. This isn't an opinion of yours. Stats skewed by cartel members killing each other. Context

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 12:30 PM) You don't think that gang violence skews the numbers in the US, or especially in Chicago? Yes it does, but so does the drug cartel related violence in Mexico. There a very safe parts in Mexico where there are no cartel related violence (where I live) and there are dangerous parts where the cartels are going at it, Tijuana and Cd Juarez, for example. You guys think all Mexico is non stop violence is just way off. There wouldn't be communities of American citizens living in Mexico if that were the case. Y2HH has no idea what he's talking about.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 12:22 PM) That's not what a voice of reason is. You can feel free to feel safer in Mexico than in the US despite Mexico being FAR more dangerous than the US. You try to cherry pick one geographic area, and then compare it to one of the US's most violent geographic areas as if that matters. People believe that GMO's are bad, and vaccinations cause autism too...and they're free to feel that way. They're morons, but they're free to feel however they want. I can see you didn't bother to watch the video I linked. The US is all around more dangerous than Mexico, fact. The numbers are way skewed because of the drug cartel killings but if you mind your own business and don't go messing with the wrong crowd (drug cartels), you'll be fine. I'll take a page from you and also add that about 95% of murders in Mexico are cartel related (I'm being generous, probably 98%)

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 12:10 PM) His home town has a substantially lower crime rate than Chicago (not where he's at right now anyway) or San Antonio (where he is actually at). Either way who cares, he's talking about how he personally feels as a minority around police in this country, and there are plenty of statistics to show that minorities do have reason to be more fearful of police than white people do. Thank you Finally a voice of reason and someone who doesn't feel I attacked him for saying I feel safer in Mexico than in the US