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The video of Dee Gordon on the mound, decorated with #16, is f***ing heart breaking. I couldn't blame the Marlins if they tried to just forfeit the rest of the season.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Sep 25, 2016 -> 10:43 AM) Guy was always having fun. Screw the old players that hate on the new generation of players showing emotion. Its a game. If you had asked me to identify which player represented the heart of the game more than anyone, probably would have been Fernandez.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 23, 2016 -> 11:39 PM) Renting the Cell out for concerts is a dumb idea. Sox must need the money. Or Chance the Rapper (and Kanye) are trying to bring entertainment and fun to the South Side and engage the younger people in society. How you live in a college town is beyond me.

Great player, but more importantly he was always smiling out there. Seemed like the type of guy that was a great role model on the field.

Rest in peace Fernandez, rest in peace.

It's happened plenty of times. http://www.sbnation.com/2013/6/21/4450534/...m-horn-nickname

I'm honestly just numb at this point.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 15, 2016 -> 04:07 PM) When I say Fred Hoiberg, you say .... Pokémon Go!

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 23, 2016 -> 03:33 AM) You seem to be the media's watcher around here but this is what Google got me before and after my post. Ah. Yeah, I was looking up the arms deal over Rand Paul. Then Google News churns out more results.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 22, 2016 -> 03:48 PM) http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/...audis/90742378/ Rand Paul is trying to stop the US from a billion dollar plus weapons exchange with Saudi Arabia. The media is entirely absent. WaPo is the only "reputable" source who has reported on it. Congress will b**** and moan about things that should be decided on a state level for decades but as soon as there is a proposal to sell arms to the Middle East every congress is cool with it. Shameful. I can't get a quote but Paul said in some interview that the US would sell the arms to Saudi Arabia, pick out the targets and then execute. It's not like Obama's administration hasn't already been drone bombing Yemen into complete hatred of America already, but this is just egregious. It was on the wire two days ago. Looks like most places just used the Reuters story. The exchange got through. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saud...s-idUSKCN11R2LU CNN, Fox News and Huffington Post all had stories on it per a quick google search.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 22, 2016 -> 04:09 PM) Does it have to be one or the other? Individuals who hurt others who don't deserve it are all wrong in my book. Regardless of job, color, sex, etc. The old two wrongs don't make a right saying. Agreed. Both are terrible at this moment.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 22, 2016 -> 02:58 PM) This just reminded of when Bush threw out first pitch at the World Series in New York after 9/11 and threw a perfect strike. As a kid who was a pitcher and entirely nationalistic at the time, I remember being so proud. Had to be the height of his presidency, lol. That's the single greatest first pitch of all time. Nothing will ever top it. QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 22, 2016 -> 03:03 PM) The greatest trick Donald Trump ever pulled was convincing liberals "maybe W wasn't the worst after all" I think he's a bumbling fool when it comes to politics. But all in all, a good guy.

I really wanted Bush to throw his hat in for MLB Commissioner. While I disagree with him as a politician, I've never thought of him as any but an honorable man.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Sep 21, 2016 -> 04:15 PM) Seriously? By my count, among the current roster, Coop gets credit for developing Sale, Quintana, Rodon, and Nate Jones. And if we want to go back a little bit further, you can include Buehrle, Danks, Floyd, and Jenks. And then he got some really nice shorter-term results out of Loaiza, Garland, Contreras, and several others. You'll be hard-pressed to find a better active pitching coach than Cooper. It's the fourth week of September and the Sox have only give up about 670 runs (for reference, the Sox gave up 645 runs in 2005). What's been "atrocious" has been the Sox's offense, not their pitching. Hell, Miguel Gonzalez. Putnam. Petricka.

Also worth noting: I've seen millennials already ragging on Gen Z/Aughts/Post-Millenials/iGeneration for being spoiled with tech, which is amusing to say the least. But I'm sure that's been a common complaint from older generations ever since the technology boom started.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 21, 2016 -> 02:37 PM) You're definitely not wrong. To be fair, I did say "if I had to generalize like greg." Every generation of youth has its detriments and its gripes coming from their elders. I am in my 20's so when I speak on millennials I am speaking on my experience with the age group. Certainly the people on the south side of Chicagoland is a specific subset but the results have been pretty meager and I am from a nicer suburb. In fact, when a few of my classmates conspired to kill one kid's parents CNN referred to my hometown as an "affluent Chicago suburb. I am going to sound arrogant but I just don't think my generation is a good at making decisions. You have all these people saying, "go for your dream job" and all of these parents raising their kids with the idea of, "you must go to college." I am being simple and curt, but a lot of teenagers and young twenty year olds have terrible dreams and there's a good chunk of population that has no business being in college. I couldn't tell you how shocked I was going to a bar crawl at 22 and seeing all the kids I went to high school with. I could count on my two hands (if I needed the second one) how many actually had a good job or plan. Those who graduated don't have jobs, those who shouldn't have gone to school are working at factories to pay off their student debt and those who party were going back for their fifth years. A lot of these kids are coming from Big 10 schools. I have a buddy who's been working at a construction company since he was 17 and has spent the last six years trying to put himself through college. In high school the kid would cheat off of me to skate by academic math classes. He has a great work ethic and is awesome with people, just not conventionally intelligent. At this point he's management at the company but he's been bouncing around from community college to commutable University losing thousands of dollars in credits along the way. There is no doubt in any of our minds this guy will be successful without a degree but his parents' voice in the back of his head and societal pressure have him working his ass off to get some bulls*** marketing degree. It's a waste of money. The kid could be buying a place to live but he just wants a degree he'll never use. I have plenty of girl friends with degrees like communications, gender studies and political science and they're all asking me if I could find them jobs at the restaurant I had worked at in college. My old man is throwback but when I was 17 he told me to pick the best value school I got into or pick a union. Luckily college went a lot better than me for high school and I am in decent spot now. The best value for me was a local school and I decided not to go away to U o I, Iowa or ISU. Since I went local, a lot of weekends I spent working and studying. All my friends at Iowa were drinking the whole time and aren't doing anything now. Kids in my generation want to get a degree no matter what, drink all the time and pick majors that are more interesting than challenging. So when they're 50K in debt without a degree or useful degree to show for it I can't help but think they dug their own hole. Maybe I am an asshole for that, but my old man raised me to make myself useful and as soon as I went off that path he'd cut me off. Maybe I am just blessed with great parents, but I still don't feel bad for these people who knowingly took bad risks. Then you get Bernie Sanders coming along and all of these people who have drank their way out of college, can't find a job or don't have a clue what they want to do with their life are like "Wooh, free college!" like it's any bit feasible. I wish I didn't have tens of thousand dollars in student loans out of school but I can still understand that if everybody is given college degrees that they lose their value. On the flip side, I have plenty of friends who seem to be workaholics working two or three part time jobs to get through school with practical degrees. My brother (Gen X, loathes millenials) got the theater degree in the family while I got the journalism one, both of us having gone to Missouri with intent of going through the J-School. Our parents, bless them, paid for both our degrees. Now I've got a sweet job lined up once I finish my master's degree, but my Gen X brother (who used to be a workaholic) is looking for acting gigs. Communications and political science aren't useless degrees if they're applied correctly, but more and more fields are now asking for experience* that can really only be obtained through internships, many of which are unpaid. Taking those internships and paying for them with loans can rack up debt. *The best part of the Missouri School of Journalism is the fact that it gets you the real world experience in school. Yes, people in our generation seem to want to follow their dreams more and more and take a job that they want to be happy doing in life. That's what we were raised on (as you said). And for some, they go for it because they might come from a poor family and want to escape that cycle. I had a friend from high school on a full ride to Mizzou and looked like she would break out of that cycle. Then her parents made her come home because they didn't like her being far away, so now she's got a community college degree and is working two part-time jobs back home. A lot of my high school friends couldn't get the scholarships to go to college and couldn't afford it and are just doing what they can to get by. Then there are ones like my best friend that went to Illinois State, partied a lot, did get some debt, but got his business degree and is now making a six figure starting salary with Google. Do we have our problems? Yeah. Do we have our strengths? Also yes.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 21, 2016 -> 12:56 PM) Here's my question... Is this Don Cooper's last season with the Sox? At this point, pretty sure Coop would have to murder someone on the mound.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 21, 2016 -> 11:58 AM) Did you actually watch it? He claims that in 1994 Bill Clinton tried to bribe him And that the "Clinton Foundation" misappropriated funds designated for Haiti. The problem with attributing this to Hillary is that Hillary was not even part of the "Clinton Foundation" at this time. Haiti occurred in 2010, Hillary did not join until 2013. So even if we are to believe every word he said, none of it involves Hillary. The bigger problem is that everything he has said about the Clinton Foundation has been fact checked numerous times and no one can figure out where he is coming from. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-ch...as-never-built/ But yeah, believe the guy who blamed the US for his failed coup in 1982. http://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/02/04/Ber.../6577381646800/ And dont misinterpret this as support for Hillary or Clinton, this merely just my personal hate for lazy fact checking. That last paragraph you quoted is a f***ing roller coaster

Greg

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 09:42 PM) I don't think you have to worry about sending any messages to children. The Millenials have proven that parents are doing such a poor job of raising kids that they don't want to work, they are lazy and all the other things people say about Millenials. No need to worry about children. They have no chance cause since American adults certainly have proven they don't know how to raise kids. Participation trophies; coddling them, screaming at teachers who give Johnny and Julie a B instead of A, on and on. LOL

QUOTE (Donaldo @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 06:51 PM) I've had the same thought. The Cubs are another prime example of this. I can't think of anyone other than Soler and Bryant being together for an extended period.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 02:39 PM) And who exactly will police the rest of the nation when every police officer is at this symposium? Or do we just hope that nobody notices all the police are gone today? See: Entire plot to The Dark Knight Rises

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 12:55 PM) Thanks for the government lessons. There are two different Republican House Committees. The one in this discussion is not a Republican house committee. In fact, other than Chaffetz, the individual asking HRC's lackeys the most questions in these hearings is (D) Elijah Cummings. I said technically correct. Jesus.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 11:02 AM) Christopher Kamka ‏@ckamka 56m56 minutes ago Jose Abreu: .370/.417/.641, 14 HR, 40 RBI over last 45 games. #WhiteSox Give his son 2015 Drake LaRoche status. He'll rival '04 Bonds.