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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.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 11:33 AM) Eaton has never struck me as a win at all costs player. But TWTW isn't the problem with this org anyway: Talent is. Please explain why? He busts his ass and is extremely talented. Just because you've been consistently proven wrong about him doesn't mean he's not a winner. QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 11:40 AM) Ironically, Eaton has a lot of it. And you always try to get rid of him in your posts. 9th best position player in baseball. QUOTE (SCCWS @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 11:46 AM) I disagree. The blame should rest on the shoulders of the person(s) who has decided each year that Robin will stay. Touche.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 12:38 PM) The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is a bipartisan committee but don't let facts get in the way of your narrative. 25-18 in favor of Republicans with a Republican chair. It'd be like calling the current congress a Republican congress. Technically correct, because we all know that majority party rules.

The blame here rests squarely on Robin's shoulders. They've got guys like Abreu, Frazier and Q that lead by example, character and grit. They've got intense, win-at-all-cost players like Eaton, Lawrie, Sale and Rodon. Anderson and Saladino seem like they've got fire. Avi busts his ass. Robin needs to get everyone else rallied. Seems like he can't.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Sep 20, 2016 -> 08:41 AM) I never saw him reach into the car. It looks like he was standing next to the car with his hands up, they tasered him, shot him and then let him lie on the ground and bleed to death. And yelled "shots fired!" Being the one who fired shots.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Sep 19, 2016 -> 09:56 PM) Im sure Huma is a lovely young lady. I thought she was great in the Weiner doc. Great film btw. Not trying to be inflammatory, just confused by that comment. And yeah, that doc was a fun ride. Dude could have easily climbed the political ladder if he had just kept his camera away from his dick. Best part of the film is the filmmaker going "...why are you letting me film this?"

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 19, 2016 -> 10:06 PM) I've lived in the same place for what will be two years on Black Wednesday. It's in the Loop. I have never had an issue with cellphone service here or really anywhere other than deep in the forrest preserve. I have Verizon. These past two weeks I have not been able to hold a call without going out on the balcony. I can't even connect to call someone from my bed. Very annoying. Has anyone else dealt with anything like this? SIM card could be failing. I'd take it to the Verizon store. My phone had spotty service at best sometimes in NYC of all places. SIM problem.

Wait...why is Huma questionable?

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Sep 19, 2016 -> 06:10 PM) Another shooting, in Tulsa http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/tulsa-...rence-crutcher/ Father of four. His truck stalled in the road. Was on his way home from class.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 18, 2016 -> 01:57 AM) Sports fans are amazing. The Royals fans booed Soria mercilessly this week when he pitched. And Yost for putting him in there. Fans always think they are the best. Then they pull s*** like that. Fans are all the same. A bunch of them are morons. One of the reasons I'm so loyal to the guys from the 05 Sox for years after they won it is ... they f***ing won it! I'm not going to blast them after giving me nirvana. At least at Mizzou, Royals fans had a real high opinion of themselves the past two years. Now? Nothing.

5 Reasons The WikiLeaks Guy Is Losing His Mind How have I never seen this before?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 18, 2016 -> 01:47 PM) Jim Brown on Syracuse.com says about what I've been saying about Colin's stance insulting the military and there being better ways to protest. SYRACUSE.com link for those who again think I'm trolling http://www.syracuse.com/orangefootball/ind...al_activis.html Brown, however, cautioned that police shootings and cases of police brutality can't be lumped together and protested against in bulk. "The things he's pointing to are things that should be evaluated and handled by those in a superior position to him," Brown said. "When you talk about police killing people and brutality, that is not something you can just march in the streets and protest against because every case is a different case and should be adjudicated. We have people in position in the political arena that should be spearheading those types of things. That issue is above football players." He also questioned the wisdom of using the national anthem to boost the visibility of the protest. "You can point it out but you don't necessarily want to disrespect the national anthem or the flag," Brown said. "There are outside entities that are trying to bring this country down. We have to go back to the memories of 9-11. If that memory doesn't do anything to you as an American, then you're not really that sensitive a human being. When you think of the sacrifices our firefighters make, think about the service of soldiers in foreign lands and listen to their lives, you have to be careful that whatever you do, don't cast a shadow on what these great people do. They make sure you have the right so speak out without retaliation, or at least no retaliation other than other people criticizing you." And veterans have said different.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Sep 17, 2016 -> 07:16 PM) See I think looking for a great CFer is not going to be worth the acquisition cost. We have some guys in Tilson, Engel and maybe May (nor sure on his D) who can straight pick it. I'd rather spend the necessary reaources to get a LFer who can absolutely mash n pick it. Then we'd essentially have two really good Lfers rotating the DH all over. The problem is the question mark surrounding all three of those players' hit tools.

29 injured. None dead. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/nyregion...WT.nav=top-news Homemade bomb detonated in a dumpster in NYC, people were injured by shrapnel. A pressure cooker bomb was found four blocks away. Happened in Chelsea, near a place I went a few times after work this summer. Crazy.