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The Ringer has a good write up about how we might get to see Team USA Melo in the NBA finally. https://www.theringer.com/nba/2017/9/23/163...anthony-thunder

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 23, 2017 -> 09:29 AM) I wish the POTUS would have stuck to low rent reality tv Yup.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 02:55 PM) I kinda liked the hill. Baseball fields are too samey now. Wasn't it removed because it provided an injury risk?

QUOTE (GenericUserName @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 03:33 PM) Me too, but if he falls to our second pick, is it worth the risk then? Yes

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 12:55 AM) N. Korea may test nukes over the pacific ocean now. Kim's statements are inflammatory. This should all prove interesting. Why wont China criticize Kim and tell him to grow up? China would be beloved if they took control here. Russia, Greg. I highlighted Russia.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 21, 2017 -> 11:23 PM) Wow Kim says he will respond with fire. It's weird to think the world as we know it is in the hands of Trump n Kim. I wonder if China can do anything to stop the nuke warfare that appears imminent. China and Russia must step in, uh NOW. Not something you want.

Well, was actually excited for his start tonight.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Sep 21, 2017 -> 03:47 PM) IMO it's way to early to tell regarding Beer - it's all about how his year is going in 2018 at draft time. Yup. Going into the 2016 draft season, Alec Hansen was the 1-1 favorite

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 21, 2017 -> 03:16 PM) This is an excellent evisceration of the Bulls front office by Stephen Noh from The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/107214/2017/09/21/h...rative-its-you/ I would not trust Gar Forman to pick for the Sox.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Sep 21, 2017 -> 02:43 PM) As to evidence, we have thus far evidence that: 1) Manafort offered access to a Putin associate while he was running Trump's campaign; 2) Kushner tried to create a back channel between Russia and the White House after the election and before inauguration (pretty sure that's the right timeline); 3) Trump, Jr. took a meeting that he understood to be with the Russian government and the context for the meeting was that the Russian government had dirt on Hillary Clinton; 4) Flynn had unauthorized contacts with Russians about sanctions prior to inauguration. 5) Russia meddled in the election in an effort to get Donald Trump elected President. That's a lot of direct evidence of contact between Trump associates and Russia. It might not get to Trump, and it's certainly not direct evidence of collusion. But there's a LOT of smoke here. And to expect anything definitive from Mueller's investigation at this point is absurd. And pointing to the lack of anything definitive as evidence of lack of guilt is equally absurd. The smoke is basically blocking out the sun at this point

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 21, 2017 -> 01:02 PM) I love NOah. Dude didn't work on his game? When bulls season was tanking without Rose and trading Deng, Thibs asked him to become a point guard and he DID it and was GOOD at it. All while being the DPOY

Man, the gymnastics going on here. Meeting with Veselnitskaya to discuss "adoptions" means they discussed sanctions. Which if I recall stuff from the Flynn scandal, is potentially super illegal.

If we drafted today, I'd be looking at Turang.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Sep 20, 2017 -> 09:04 PM) No Tbh thought we were talking Gio at this point

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Sep 20, 2017 -> 09:17 PM) With that HR Moncada has now surpassed Devers in wRC+. Pretty impressive considering where they both were just a couple weeks ago. Where's the one fan that was so proud he kept hyping up Devers?

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Sep 20, 2017 -> 10:26 PM) Phillies win again C'mon bullpen. Don't let me down.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 19, 2017 -> 04:49 PM) Charlie who? Star Lord, man. C'mon, legendary outfielder?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 20, 2017 -> 01:35 AM) NK already has almost complete control of the media, they can just make things up they dont need real news. In my opinion one of the biggest problems is that people tend to just write off NK/Kim as completely crazy and underestimate that their may be an actual end game for them. I think that their is an end game, NK knows that unification of Korea isnt on the table so they promote that in order to obscure what their real goal is, and that is to legitimize NK as a real power. NK knows the truth, their survival is tied to China. If something were to happen in China (revolution, etc) NK is done for. So I believe that they are attempting to create their own alliances with countries that are openly antagonistic to the US. While this may be a small list, NK knows that if they can supply nuclear weapons to their "allies" that it will create a military stalemate. Thus NK is trying to show countries like Iran that if they work with NK and get nukes, they will be able to stand up to the US. So every time NK sends a missile and Trump makes an idle threat, it supports their end game which is to create an alliance of nuclear states opposed to the US etc. NK is getting everything it wants right now from Trump, they are getting him to threaten to wipe them off the planet, they are getting him to suggest he will renege on the Iran deal. My guess is that NK leaders saw Trump is prone to bluffing his way through life and figured that they would test him. They called his bluff about the missile laucnhes and now the US has for the short term lost. If the US attacks NK, we lose. If the US does nothing, we lose. I do not know how any American can be happy with how this situation has turned out. Olympics are about to be in SK, Kim is going to be the talk of the town. When I say easier, I mean literally easier. As in no effort will go into rolling that clip.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 20, 2017 -> 01:26 AM) I disagree with the premise. The US doesn't look weak here IMO. In fact it looks insane and crazy. I picture Trump as telling the truth. When I heard it I thought he meant it. Also there was a murmur in the hall when he said it. We can disagree here but I think Trump means it. Yes he's crazy enough to be the president who ends the world. Sure he is. You know I know not a lot are religious on here but I'm starting to wonder if the end times are near. Earthquakes, repeat hurricanes basically decimating a few countries so far, and two nutjobs: Trump and Kim Jong-Un to hit the nuclear war buttons. We have never had a nutty dangerous president like Trump to be matched against the crazies of other countries. As much as I despise Hillary and am neutral on Obama, they of course would not have us this close to nuke war. I disagree that people know the US can't nuke NK as you say. I think Trump would do it. Yes he's that irresponsible or whatever word you want to use. If one of Kim's bombs actually falls on land in Japan or Hawaii I believe Trump would blow NK off the map. The only thing that puzzles me is he hasn't ordered all US troops to get out of S. Korea in advance of possible bombings of the North which would force Kim to blow up South Korea and kill so many of our troops. Why? They have threatened us. Now the USA is threatening back while mocking Kim calling him Rocket Man. I disagree with your premise. Because the entire NK propaganda machine is based around making it look like America wants to obliterate NK for trying to have it's own power. So now Trump is doing exactly that. They don't have to edit s*** together, just roll the tape.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 20, 2017 -> 01:00 AM) I picture Kim really happy. All he wants is attention and to be noticed. He is getting everything he wants right now and in the process making the US look weak. He knows that the US cant nuke NK, its not an option. So the entire point is to show the rest of the world that they can call the US bluff as long as they have nuclear weapons. He has done more to promote nuclear proliferation in the 6 months than any other country had done in the previous 50. All the US has to do is make threats it can enforce. But Trump has to take it beyond what we can actually do, and in the process it has made the US look extremely weak. That is why you only threaten what you can deliver on. The only possible end game is for the US is to walk back all the threats and start the game over. It also makes North Korean propaganda much, much easier.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 19, 2017 -> 11:08 PM) Trump told the U.N. he might "totally destroy" North Korea and called Kim Un Jung "Rocket Man." Even if you hate Trump you have to love the Rocket Man reference. I wonder if Jung heard about it. s***, if you are an advisor and tell Jung about it, he might have you killed just for the hell of it. I hope you all are right and Jung doesn't want thermonuclear war. I don't feel like missing the 2018 Sox season living underground somewhere in a bunker. You gotta admit, as repulsive as Trump is, this tough talk is refreshing. Kim Jong Un is totally in the wrong with what he's been up to. GO SOX! GO USA! Greg, the President of the USA resorted to name calling and used an emoji and hashtag to threaten to murder over 25 million in a nuclear holocaust.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 19, 2017 -> 07:31 PM) Trump called Erdogan last week to apologize to him about the incident where Erdogan's thugs beat up protestors in the US. America first!

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Sep 19, 2017 -> 03:36 PM) Such as? Dios mio.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 19, 2017 -> 11:37 AM) They didn't wiretap Trump... they wiretapped everyone! As if that's better. Awesome. With a legal warrant for someone with an incredibly shady past. To make this partisan is hysterical.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Sep 18, 2017 -> 01:55 PM) J. Danks was a 7th rounder, right? Yeah. And a redraft.