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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 28, 2016 -> 02:25 PM) It's important for me to note that your dril reference did not go unappreciated.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 28, 2016 -> 11:57 AM) It isn't often you see a veto override vote of 97-1 http://thehill.com/policy/international/29...erwhelming-vote So let's say a family successfully sues Saudi Arabia in a US court. How is payment enforced? I don't understand who this helps. This bill is just nakedly political. What am I missing here?

It's not about the the manager being good or bad, it's about the messaging. This is a bad way to treat the fans.

Just reading the replies in this thread so far tells you everything you need to know. I will cling to the hope that it's just a dignity-for-Robin thing.

Happy f***ing Wednesday afternoon everybody. This is going to cause a very large backlash and the Sox would be very wise to reconsider their position.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2...-hale/91226072/ I mean...

Him talking about Rosie O'Donnell by the end was maybe my favorite part. Hillary couldn't have scripted a better outcome to the Alicia Machado attack. That might be the lasting mark from this debate.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 23, 2016 -> 04:57 PM) Awesome player, first ballot HoFer but damn that dude bothered me. Kind of happy I don't have to see him play anymore. I agree. Dirty player. Good riddance to

I started the year with Shelby Miller and James Shields on my roster. I placed 10th out of 12 teams due to a pitching staff I couldn't get figured out all season and disappointing years from Lorenzo Cain, Buster Posey, and Todd Frazier. I gave away Freddie Freeman for Taijuan Walker at the deadline looking for some keeper value. Walker struggled with his control the rest of the year and even went down to the minors at one point, and Freeman carried the other team to the title with his torrid finish, including 11-for-22 with 2 homers and 2 SB's in the championship week. Not my finest work. Brights spots were Brian Dozier, Dansby Swanson, Rich Hill, and Tyler Thornburg.

Is that good?

One of my favorite players. and everyone else's. RIP

Multiple Twitter accounts this morning reporting that Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident. This is awful news, the league was better when he was pitching.

Surprised by how close the poll is. Bevington was worse, guys.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 21, 2016 -> 10:36 AM) Not to make fun of the thread starter cause it's a fair question but who the hell knows with this organization. Word. How many people guessed Robin around this time in 2011?

Just want to say that reading through all these "f*** Cub fans" sentiments was very therapeutic for me. I'm with you guys.

The Oversight Committee's twitter handle is @GOPoversight.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 11:42 AM) ah, yes, #itsdifferent Plenty of people in the last 10 years were very much pro-gay marriage. I'm not exactly comparing someone's views from the 20's or whatever to today. This was in the recent past. She went on a talk show with a well known gay person and told that person she shouldn't have the legal right to be married. Of course she later "saw the light" when it became politically advantageous. And now she pretends like that never happened and she wants credit for being on the "right" side. Yes, the birther s*** was nonsense, and Trump was stupid for ever backing it, but now he's publicly stated that he's over it. So, like Hillary, we should all be satisfied that he's on the right side now, regardless of what an awful person he is. This really isn't a tortuous attempt to compare the two. It's comparing the reactions that the respective supporting sides have for their douche/turd sandwich candidate. It seems justified for one, but not the other. Trump was not just "backing it," he was THE birther. It is, practically speaking, the issue on which he started to build his political career. Hillary was never the country's leading opponent to gay marriage. This is why your comparison is ridiculous.

QUOTE (aryzner @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 11:17 AM) James Shields gave up a home run to Bartolo Colon. Nobody should have needed a medical report to know he'd be bad. But seriously, Shields' peripherals and velocity were foreshadowing trouble well before the 10-run outing. There was no way to know he'd be such a white-hot dumpster fire, but there were definitely reasons to oppose that trade as rumors of it came out. I don't think the Sox have any excuses here, but if they can get some kind of remedy then good for them.

Lest anybody take Mike's post seriously, it's a reference to this incredible Haugh column from before the season.

The best part of all is that he's answered questions about whether that power surge last year was a fluke.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 8, 2016 -> 06:38 PM) My wife got me an Amazon Echo for my birthday. What cool things can I do with it? So far the things I do the most with ours are ask for the weather in the morning, check MLB scores, and play music (everything you have on Prime!). It sounds lazy, but it really is nice to be able to do all that without grabbing your phone. I'm sure we've just barely scratched the surface of what it does. I know you can link your lighting to it.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Sep 8, 2016 -> 03:12 PM) He sure looks like he belongs and then some. All the people who thought he was rushed or that his callup was a desperation move were completely wrong. Helps one believe in the FO a bit more. They nailed this pick and they nailed preparing him and they nailed his timetable. Kudos Like Chili, I think it's way too early to say they nailed anything. But I can admit defeat about the rushed part. I criticized the Sox for bringing him up so soon, I thought he would flounder in the majors right away, but he hasn't.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Sep 8, 2016 -> 08:55 AM) I didn't know everyone was still so attached to headphone jacks, I've been doing everything wirelessly for a couple of years now. A couple people have refuted this to me, saying Bluetooth quality is not as good as wired headphone quality, but that's really not what's going on here. The vast majority of people upset at Apple are not people listening to high-bitrate, lossless audio on a pair of $200 headphones, they are probably streaming music on a pair of cheap headphones and can't tell the difference (but like pretending they can). Anecdotally, I have separate sets of wired and bluetooth headphones that cost about the same and the bluetooth ones are just not as reliable. Lots of cutting out as I walk around the city. I'm sure as you move up in price point it's a different story. I would not buy a phone without a headphone jack but I'm not an Apple guy to begin with, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Offense across the league is up significantly from last year. The MLB-wide OPS has jumped 20 points. Slugging is up 15 points. Players are hitting home runs every 32.6 plate appearances compared to 37.4 last season. Here's my favorite one - last year 19 players reached 30 homers. This year 20 players have, and we still have over three weeks remaining in the season. So even though Abreu's triple slash is practically a carbon copy of last year's (and that's good considering the long slump), the standard of offense is now higher. If he puts up the same numbers but all the other hitters get better, then he's less impactful. If he hits 30 homers again but so does everyone else, then it doesn't mean as much. He needs to raise his game too and for the Sox to compete he needs to be a star. That's not his fault, that's the front office's fault. Obviously he hasn't been figured out. That was wrong. Coming out and saying he's only done it when it hasn't counted is textbook moving the goalposts and also one of the more annoying arguments people make about any player. Flip the scenario around. If he had started hot and the Sox hovered 7-8 games over .500 until August, then he went in the tank and the Sox fell out of the race, would that be any better? Just look at a guy's line; trying to analyze his season based on where the team was in the standings when he hit is a meatheaded exercise.

We went and acquired James Shields. Our front office sought out the Padres and said "We need THAT guy!"