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The reported Nats deal seems pretty risky. I feel Robles is pretty far away to be considered a major piece & Giolito could end up being comparable to Chris Sale at some point, but that's obviously best case! Where is the SURE THING in this trade or at least the appearance of great odds in our favor? Plus this is a nobrainer for the Nats since it doesn't hurt them now whatsoever. I don't want the Sox to be on the other end of a nobrainer.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 26, 2016 -> 02:17 PM) Yes. Completely and utterly. Yes. This can't happen. Doesn't matter which side you are on or lean towards. If this recount determines HRC should be president lock your doors. There will be blood in the streets, lone wolf attacks in DC and state capital cities- people will die. All faith in government and the democratic system will be severely challenged or lost. Am i crazy?

QUOTE (PolishPrince34 @ Nov 26, 2016 -> 10:29 AM) You can't predict injuries perfectly for any one player, but if you take a cluster of pitchers with the same delivery issues that Walker has, given the research on guys with upright finishes and high release points, you can say that overall the group will be more injury-prone with the shoulder than a control group without that kind of finish. That was changed two years ago in his delivery. If Walker went back to his old mechanics health shouldn't be an issue I bet Seattle wishes they had you in their FO. They could have fixed him this offseason, let him dominate April, and then traded him for way more than they just did.

QUOTE (PolishPrince34 @ Nov 24, 2016 -> 10:50 AM) Hopefully Arizona fixes the flaw in Walker's delivery. A couple years ago Seattle shortened his stride which has led to more injuries with his shoulder and seen a decrease in velocity. Would be an easy fix and his elite stuff would return and health wouldn't be in question. Law and Crawford have been harping on that for 2 years with how Seattle has hurt Walker's development. Easy fix eh? How easy, like a couple starts? Just asking because I have no pitching coach experience.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 25, 2016 -> 01:15 PM) Yet another way middle class Americans will get squeezed. Grocery/food prices, higher rates on loans (rich just pay off in cash), gas prices, health care costs, tuition costs. Always will have a disproportionate impact on those with less money...probably the tax cuts will barely offset these, but some will argue they have more money in terms of disposable income but not the decreased purchasing power. Yes and the skyrocketing minimim wage is going to blow it all wide open. That's doomsday

Wow an A+ player like Sale on an A+ contract can get an A+ unproven prospect like Urias? Sox sure have some audacity asking for so much

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.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 20, 2016 -> 09:06 PM) And he decided to make a difference in the way he cares about. Find the people with the strongest record of hate towards every racial group he can. This race thing is so overblown and i'm starting to get really sick of everyone buying into it like sheep. People act like the Jim Crow Laws ran for president and won.

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 03:10 PM) He doesn't strike me as a guy looking to break the bank. I don't NEED a hot supermodel wife necessarily...

QUOTE (hi8is @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 03:43 PM) I wouldn't be surprised if right now the Dodgers are telling teams they "don't really want to let go of Puig anymore because he has shown encouraging signs". The point it this: You can't trust a damned thing in the media during an offseason. Yessir. Your post is all that matters, and it should really be PMed to every member at the beginning of each offseason as a reminder. Best to just ignore it all until it's formally announced. I learned years ago what a fruitless waste of time it is giving interest to people with sources, or those who get pride from cracking a story an hour before it's announced- what a colossal waste of a man's time. Even if a story is cracked early it still doesn't become at all interesting until all the pieces are known. And that only comes from a formal announcement. Hang in there Sox fans; hope we get a BIIIIIG bat!

QUOTE (Elgin Slim @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 07:51 PM) This is the problem, is that we have no true leftist party in this country. The Cold War has scared too many people of leftist ideas that could work, and because of that we are left with the Dems, who are slightly right of center imo, and we just view them as leftist because the Republicans are so far right it is scary. Biggest example is the imagined "Pension Crisis" It isn't a problem with the public workers, it is a problem with the private workers. Private workers were complacent, thought that "being in control of their own retirement" was a good idea, but in reality they were just going from guaranteed income to going to the casino that is Wall Street. Now that private workers realize their mistake, and are jealous that they lost theirs, they take it out on the public workers instead of fighting back. That is too selfish, while instead they should be organizing themselves to recreate the labor unions of years past. IMO there is no industry that doesn't NEED a labor union anymore. Most employers have unreasonable expectations, because they a) can and b) labor is so easy to come by right now. Labor unions need to be smarter though, there needs to be a minimum standard for productivity that is collectively bargained, and firing bad workers needs to stay an option. It should not be impossible for someone to lose their job for poor behavior/attendance/productivity. It should be harder than "right to work" states which is really "right to fire" For example, you should not be fired for having a confused look on your face. There should have to be quantitative data to get fired. The opponents of labor unions say that those who work in them are lazy, but the reality is that those who DON'T have one are the lazy ones because they take the easy way out: they don't have the stones to organize. Jesus

I bet the Sox are asking for Seager, as they should be, and the Dodgers are countering with these lame Urias proposals everybody is pitching on here. Look, average major leaguers get traded for average major leaguers all the time, and good major leaguers get traded for good major leaguers all the time as well. Chris Sale is not only a superstar but a top superstar. I can understand the Dodgers being hesitant to start a deal with Seager, but that's because it's a fair place to start. This whole Urias is untouchable talk is utter nonsense. Urias is not a good enough get as the main piece. Not even close. Seager, more interesting for sure. Even he is a little bit too unproven. I know it's popular to underestimate the capabilities of the front office but this is CFS we're talking about. The franchise is going to get a historic ransom if a deal goes through. I don't think it will. Salary inflation has made it nearly impossible for the Sox to get fair value.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Nov 14, 2016 -> 08:48 PM) The guy is 20. Let him develop more. It's impressiveehat he accomplished last year as a 19-year old. I feel ya but he could easily be Brandon Wood. Would love to get an established young guy. It's Chris frickin Sale

I feel like Sale gets any prospect in baseball. Sox should identify the one prospect in baseball they want and build from there. Is Urias really the guy? I dunno if that wows me after watching him struggle against the cubs' weak lineup.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 12, 2016 -> 05:36 AM) He was folksy, relatable, like to hang out on his ranch and hunt, average student...drug and alcohol problems. Gore was pretty much the polar opposite, stiff and didactic, invented the internet/environmental movement (in his eyes), totally different type of Ivy League blue blood who was groomed by his father since birth to run for president. Not only that, but the relationship with Tipper turned out to be something of a facade. Remember the Gore/Tipper kiss? Looked like Al's first kiss and he watched Dumb & Dumber for pointers. I was going to say Cuban is a good idea since he's central and smart enough to realize big govt is rarely good. So he'd have a better chance of winning the white vote and the educated vote. But then I look at Obama, Hillary, Kerry, Gore, Clinton. The only two that won are the guys whose platforms were "I'm a cool guy and I play the sax/shoot hoops." MAYBE the key to a democrat victory is never going to be policy again (because it's usually pretty stupid in general), but energizing all the minorities and young people. So the real tenets moving forward for the DNC will be coolness in some way and make sure to spout out the phrases "climate change", "free tuition" & "diversity". Landslide.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 9, 2016 -> 08:14 AM) Right, it's not up to Trump individually but more so about the justices he will appoint. Right. But I think it's safe to say R v. W isn't going to be reopened. I mean don't you think the right to abortion is here to stay? You seem to lean super left- curious what you think. I think one of the main things to take out of this election is that the Republican Party finally shed the baggage of having to protect the highly religious right. Sure they can still vote GOP for economic policy or whatever but a vote for a republican is no longer going to be a vote against all gays and abortion. If you look at it that way, this is a good day for American politics moving forward. The days of the crazy ass policy of the left is certainly less crazy than the crazy stone-aged ideology of the right are ending. It's getting closer to just being about economic policy which is great.

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Nov 6, 2016 -> 04:29 AM) Sale and Rodon for Mike Trout Where do I sign?

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 08:48 AM) Can someone explain this to me? Yet, in this reliable Republican state, they are voting for a man that is running on a platform of being "an outsider," of being "not from Washington," of being not a Bush or a Clinton. So, how can voters in these states vote for "not another Clinton," yet, keep incumbents that have served since 1983 and 1999 respectively and expect change? Well I think most Americans (even center lefts to medium lefts) probably realize a conservative SCOTUS is safer for the people. That's why Trump will probably win. But I think to your point, in case of a Hillary victory, most people probably want a republican congress to slow any Hillary/Bernie ideas down. For example, those crazies want complete govrnmt control of healthcare. Scary scary scary to those who fight for their dollars. I think you'll see that reflected in the final voting.

Doesn't hurt like i thought it would. Very surprising actually. Maybe it's because they don't really have a face of the franchise- nobody has been on the team more than a couple years. Rizzo maybe? And then 100s of millions in a few mercenaries. I dunno if the team is that likable. It doesn't hurt that bad. Maybe cuz they didn't really earn it the way we did.

It's a shame the first woman president is going to be a joke and a schmuck that was only elected to avoid Trump. I always thought some great woman would eventually inspire the country and win in a landslide. It's a shame, it really is. She's going to get all this historical credit and most women don't even like her.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 23, 2016 -> 08:34 AM) Unemployment figures track underemployment. Na man. That's like believing in the Easter Bunny. It's bad out there in the real world. I don't feel like working in the service industry is ever reported.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 13, 2016 -> 10:13 AM) Combined with the recent good news on wage growth, it seems like the recovery has finally started to spread more broadly. I disagree. People are less skilled than ever. What's not in those figures are the millions of americans getting part-timed to avoid insurance costs. It's rampant. Technically the guy spinning the sign has a job, but he still lives in his mom's basement. People turn a blind-eye to the major problem with the ACA. Sure the poor get health insurance which is awesome, but it also MADE ABSOLUTELY SURE WITHOUT A DOUBT that they will remain poor their entire lives. Correct me if I'm wrong, just a casual observer.

Just saw the news. Sorry bros

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 19, 2016 -> 11:18 PM) I actually like Hillary. I think her heart is actually in the right place. She has the stink of corruption around her, but when you've been investigated virtually nonstop for 30 years - that happens. Do I think she's clean? No. But, I don't think anyone is. But I think all the scrutiny has probably made her cleaner than most. Jesus man. Dig a little deeper than CNN. There are like 100 brutally horrible things about Hillary. Nothing provable of course, but it stinks man. Do a little research, connect a few dots and it's hard to not puke on the keyboard. If you think her heart's in the right place...ask yourself why she was a senator from new york and why she was secretary of state. To serve the public??? GMAFB. It's to be the first woman president nothing more. Watching her talk about her 30 years of "service" is sickening. Fame & Power drive that bus, not a call to serve. Not saying trump is any better regarding fame & power. But he doesn't have the history of corruption, possible dead people, and using one of the highest offices of the government to lobby & prosper attached to him. I respect your opinion to like her by the way. I just think you aren't putting your detective hat on or you turn a blind eye to certain things because they aren't proven. Dude you know she's green-lighting the violence inciting at the rallies. Not provable but it's one step from the front door. I think it's fair game to connect those 2 dots for example.

Thank God for FoxNews and now some of these internet news streams. I lean liberal on some things and conservative on others but I'm not stupid- i acknowledge the huge bias and agenda in mainstream media. Everybody sees it. Everyday I read CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews etc...all sides. It's incredible the smear against Trump and the sweep-under-the-rug for Hillary. And most people notice it too. The only ones that don't are ignoring it for their own personal reasons, or they roll on a sound bite. It's just sickening. If that guy who went undercover and exposed the violence-creating at trump rallies by the DNC Offshoots is telling the truth, and CNN won't even cover it or page-10s it, I'm done forever. What's everyone make of it? Pretty effed up if true