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QUOTE (greg775 @ May 3, 2016 -> 09:05 PM) Excellent line. Thank you for that. The nice posts in this thread are starting to lessen the sting of all the vicious, classless things said about Danks in game threads the last two seasons. I hated reading the word bum in game threads about Danks. It'd be nice if somebody in the NL picked up Danks and allowed him to continue his comeback, but I assume they'd have to pay him. So he must be done. That said ... one of my favorite Sox ever. It's not his fault he got hurt. I think some haters thought he should give the money back. It doesn't work that way. Danks is a class act. It'd be great if he could continue his career. In conclusion, I loved Johnny Danks and we've had a lot worse pitchers stand on the mound at the Cell in White sox uniforms than Johnny Danks! Go Danks! He wouldn't even survive in the NL at this point sadly. His one hope is reinventing himself as a pitcher, possibly learning a knuckle ball. I don't know. Kinda wish he would have gone to Charlotte to work on things.

"Don't you take it so hard now And please don't take it so bad I'll still be thinkin' of you And the times we had"

Was probably gonna be one of the best #2 pitchers in the league, hell he could have been an ace. Then his shoulder happened. He earned his contract with the Sox. Then his shoulder fell apart. Then he battled and always gave everything he got. It's a shame that it came to this, but I won't miss his terrible starts. I will miss the starts where he suddenly could reach back and battle his way through a great start. It was easy to want him to succeed.

Expected, but still shocking.

Hell no.

QUOTE (hi8is @ May 3, 2016 -> 09:54 AM) Reminds me of some Areosmith song... How'd the chorus go again?? Dream on Dream on Dream on

Eaton

QUOTE (iWin4Ron @ May 2, 2016 -> 10:17 PM) That's a really sad stat. Oh NBA... To be fair, that's the Warriors, Kings, Lakers, Clippers, Spurs, Mavericks and Rockets. That's almost half the conference.

QUOTE (iWin4Ron @ May 2, 2016 -> 09:58 PM) Cubs might win 125 games this season, they are that good. Greatest team in the history of the sport good? I'd hold off on that. They have as many wins as the White Sox.

Eddy Alvarez finally had a good day.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ May 2, 2016 -> 03:54 PM) I am glad that Michelle Maclarene left Wonder Woman, Variety said that her film was too focused on action rather than character and it had a talking tiger. DC has their Braintrust and it's made of Zack and Debbie Snyder, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan who advises on everything. Here is a clip of Charles Roven explaining how it and how it is filmmaker friendly: Apparently they're keeping the tiger.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 2, 2016 -> 02:59 PM) Foreign box office has made over $200 million already for Civil War. And that's without China and the US. Sweet-baby-jaysus

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 2, 2016 -> 01:33 PM) FWIW, this is actually the opposite of what has happened. Sanders hasn't pulled the shenanigans and gained universal hatred in Congress like Cruz has, and it's been Clinton supporters making the argument that Sanders isn't a "real" Democrat (technically probably not, he was an independent until he ran for the Democratic nomination) and that his supporters aren't "real" Democrats (partially true in that he's gotten support from both inside and outside the party). Sanders supporters keep saying Hillary is a moderate Republican masquerading as a Democrat.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 2, 2016 -> 12:23 PM) That would be crazy if Heyward played poorly enough that he didn't opt out and actually played out the full 8 seasons in Chicago. Just always expected him to be gone in 3, still assuming that happens. I'd die laughing.

QUOTE (kapzk @ May 1, 2016 -> 11:22 PM) The National league is soft. And Kershaw is God. I love Sale, but as long as Kershaw keeps this up, he's #2.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ May 1, 2016 -> 11:09 PM) Fair enough, but that's obviously not his point. No matter the experience he gets he'll never have played pro ball, he'll never understand the mental or physical side of the game, or anything relating to the human side of the game. To Benetti, the players aren't men, they're just amusing little mice with statistics. To Hawk, the players are living breathing men in the trenches of a war, with injuries, differing levels of intellect, different strategies, different levels of nervousness, different backgrounds etc. things Benetti will never be able to comment on. Thanks for telling me the guy's batting average benetti. I get it. He gets on base 34% of the time. That's what the number means. Oh, you want to use advanced statistics? How dare you act like you're teaching any of us baseball- you've never played. I'm sure he's a nice guy and he'll be great. This is just my hazing period for him. And rightfully so. No Sox fan should just hand over the keys without him earning it. It'll be hazing season for a while, hopefully a long while. He's trying to replace one of the most unique and iconic broadcasting figures this world has and will ever see. A true master and a true legend. You know that how?

In other news, good thing Wan is sticking around.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ May 1, 2016 -> 09:57 PM) Edgar Wright knew about the shared universe, he was actually the first director in the MCU back in 2004 and is one it's original architects. Edgar Wright did not like how Marvel would not let him be Edgar Wright. He wanted to make an Edgar Wright film and Marvel wanted a Marvel movie. Marvel isn't known for letting their directors fully express themselves, it's like they have a sign on the door that says, 'No Auteurs.' That's why they like young, journeymen filmmakers. WB is the exact opposite. Man of Steel feels and looks like a collab between Nolan and Snyder. BvS feels and looks like a Zack Snyder movie. Suicide Squad is 100% David Ayer. Marvel is very producer driver and DC is all about the filmmaker. No one approach is better than the other, but it makes sense why a guy like Edgar Wright would leave Ant Man. I know Edgar Wright was the first one to come along, it's why Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne weren't in the Avengers. The problem is they wanted it to have certain things connecting it to the overall MCU that he didn't want to include. Branagh got to make his Shakesperean Thor, Favreau got to make Iron Man, Johnston got to make his serial film, Russos got to make their spy thriller, Shane Black got to make the exact same film with a new coat of paint like he usually does, etc. The only ones that got heavy interference were Age of Ultron and Iron Man 2. Meanwhile we just had the second filmmaker leave DCEU for creative differences. The thing is Marvel has someone running their show, while Snyder was given free reign to establish the tone of the entire DCEU with his film and serve as the de facto Feige. Edit: Forgot. James Gunn made the most James Gunn-ian film possible.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 1, 2016 -> 08:19 PM) Yep, that's Quintana I know Latos had a bad start, but come on, he's still pretty cool.

FanSided had a list of trades that all MLB teams should make. Sox: Avi, Leury and Danish for CarGo. I laughed when my friend read that one to me.

I doubt Edgar Wright wants this, because he didn't like that Ant-Man had to tie into the MCU. Right now it feels like the DCEU is going to be even more interconnected.

Using infinite mod powers, I shall allow this thread to continue, lest we all forget the humble beginnings from whence game threads game.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 10:06 PM) I'll find the link. But his column ripping the MU student president was awesome. Also he points out how MU as a university has been totally crippled by the inappropriate actions of Black Lives Matter on that campus a few months ago. For starters, read this one. Excellent. http://j.school/post/133025099640/crying-w...es-real-problem This second link is perfection. http://j.school/post/140818405005/concerne...-tacticsresults Here are some of the greatest paragraphs in written history Our best and brightest young people are being used and abused. Addicted to social media and popular culture, assimilated and enslaved mentally, they’ve bought the myth that anti-white is the new pro-black, that improving white people is the key to black progress. They want black lives to matter more to white people than they do to us. Any slight by a white person is a reason to whine, cry and demand government intervention. The Missouri football players and a group of their student peers created a $32-million budget shortfall over “hardships” and rude behavior so frivolous that they’re embarrassing to repeat because they point to a fragility that has never defined black folk. Mizzou’s freshman enrollment is down nearly 20 percent. The interim chancellor, Hank Foley, announced the school will slash its budget 5 percent across the board. There’s no money to pay for the programs and policies demanded by Concerned Students 1950, the Missouri group inspired by Black Lives Matter. The school’s brand has been significantly damaged. What was gained? A Spike Lee documentary? The resignation of a figurehead who will be replaced by another figurehead? Whatever was gained won’t be offset by the hardened hearts and feelings powering The Winter of Drumpf. The mainstream media, bloggers and Twitter activists who rode Black Lives Matter to relevancy won’t explain the ramifications of childish, emotional and in-your-face civil rights strategy. They’ll say eight years of Obama made America more comfortable with bigotry. They’ll never admit that black rioters, inspired by BLM, burning down a city controlled by a black mayor, black police chief, black attorney general and black city council ripened American voters for Drumpf. The propagandized code phrase “respectability politics” makes it easy for young people to dismiss the advice of elders and belittle the tactics that helped deliver us from slavery and Jim Crow and would serve us best in the fight against mass incarceration. What’s difficult to refute is the superiority of the victories won by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and our greatest generation. Whitlock does raise good points, except Baltimore wasn't burnt down. And I can't find what he wrote about Payton other than the fact that Payton being called a slur was trivial. You know what? f*** that.

QUOTE (Tony @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 11:08 PM) Two Bears on this Top 5 list: https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2016/...-the-nfl-draft/ God, Pace sucks.