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I think all you guys b****ing are just ridiculous. We witnessed one of the greatest moments in the history of sports in that game 7, and all you care about is annoying Cubs fans on the train. It's been 2 days. They're allowed to be obnoxious. Are you guys really that sensitive that it bothers you? Man up.

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Nov 3, 2016 -> 10:11 PM) Great ball game, sure. But I love the guys who live out of state and don't have to deal with these asshats telling us how we should feel. I lived in Chicago for five years, and Iowa for 10 (which is all cubs fans) You can't pull that card with me.

I really don't understand the hate Sox fans are throwing out there at all. I don't understand - if you're a true fan of the GAME of baseball - how you could watch last night and not have adrenaline pumping through you, and not revel in the BEAUTY of how perfectly scripted it was. I wrote this on facebook today: Ross's home run in the last game of his career? Kluber and Chapman getting shelled? Davis' home run to tie it up? The divine intervention of the rain delay? Heyward's speech? That bottom of the 10th? The roller coaster ride, the ups and downs... It was a thing of beauty. If you're still pissy after watching that, you're no true baseball fan. The end.

Best baseball game I've ever watched. It was literally a hollywood screenplay. Pretty cool stuff. Reminded me why I love this game.

All I know is that I've never cared less about the White Sox than I do now, and I've been die hard my whole life. It's a pretty big bummer.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 30, 2016 -> 11:52 PM) I'm getting a kick out of my prediction coming true. The attack on Comey has begun in full force! It's Hillary's best way to get through this and she will get through this and win in a landslide. I don't doubt that for a second. http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/28/opinions/fbi...llan/index.html Bro, it's because Comey legitimately f***ed up. Even Jeanine Pirro on Fox - who is VEHEMENTLY anti-Hillary said she thinks Comey broke the code of conduct the FBI is supposed to uphold, and that it was absolutely unacceptable to do what he did. When that happens, you know this isn't legit. Sorry, greg, but this isn't your big moment of victory.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 12:19 AM) You don't agree that the Clintons are full of smoking guns? You don't agree the Clintons are shady characters? Why are you behind her so much? Do you even accept the fact she might be guilty? If not, why not? I am more skeptical. There's no reason to support Trump because of all the things he's said and done in his life; and there's also no reason to support Hillary. I'm not looking forward to her raising taxes on everybody, either. I want the 1 percenters out of the political game. Why don't you? MEANWHILE, Wolf Blitzer gets hot under the collar trying to save Hillary's hide on the issue http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/10...nfo-sot-tsr.cnn GUILTY. OF. WHAT?

QUOTE (oldsox @ Oct 30, 2016 -> 09:42 PM) Are you an expert on this subject, Southsider? I doubt it. Lol, both of the things he said are common knowledge these days. H is a big issue right now. And no, I don't do heroin AND I know that! Crazytown!

QUOTE (Tony @ Oct 23, 2016 -> 11:11 PM) Greg, if anyone ever had any respect for you, it should be gone now. The media turned Trump into Cosby? It's the media's fault? That's disgusting. unreal.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 23, 2016 -> 11:06 PM) It's not gross, it's true. Accomplished? What has she done? Like when SNL zinged her last night on the "last 30 years debate question." She's done very very little on the positive side. A common person who did what she did would be in jail or disgraced. Hillary? The FBI turns the other way. First ever student commencement speaker at Wellesley College. Distinguished graduate of Yale Law School. Editorial board of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. Co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. Former civil litigation attorney. Staff attorney for Children’s Defense Fund. Faculty member in the School of Law at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Former Director of the Arkansas Legal Aid Clinic. First female chair of the Legal Services Corporation. First female partner at Rose Law Firm, the oldest and one of the largest law firms in Arkansas. Twice named by The National Law Journal as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America. Former First Lady of Arkansas. Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983. Chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession. Created Arkansas’s Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth. Instrumental in passage of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. First Lady of the United States. Promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses. Successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health. Worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War (now recognized as Gulf War Syndrome). Helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice. Initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act. First FLOTUS in US History to hold a postgraduate degree. Helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries. Two-term New York Senator and the first ex-FLOTUS in US History to be elected to the United States Senate. Served on five Senate committees: Budget (2001–2002), Armed Services (2003–2009), Environment and Public Works (2001–2009), Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (2001–2009) and the Special Committee on Aging. Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Leading role in investigating the health issues faced by 9/11 first responders. Worked with Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York on securing $21.4 billion in funding for the World Trade Center redevelopment. Former United States Secretary of State. Brokered a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in 2012. Go ahead and try to show what the other candidate has done in the public interest during his whole worthless life.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 23, 2016 -> 05:24 PM) If Trump entered later none of that would've been a factor it would've never come up You understand that 1) The Clinton campaign has always had this stuff, or at least knew how to get it. The timing only happened because it was orchestrated that way, and it would've happened regardless. 2) Statistically, the more people see of Hillary (or the media's portrayal of her) the more they dislike her - which isn't surprising given her unprecedentedly skewed media coverage - but the longer the race goes, the closer it's actually become (if not for Trumps ridiculous gaffes) The facts here literally run opposite your argument in every way.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Oct 23, 2016 -> 11:15 AM) It's a shame the first woman president is going to be a joke and a schmuck that was only elected to avoid Trump. I always thought some great woman would eventually inspire the country and win in a landslide. It's a shame, it really is. She's going to get all this historical credit and most women don't even like her. This is gross. Hillary is the most accomplished woman in American political history, but yeah, sure, whatever you say.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Oct 16, 2016 -> 09:37 PM) The election is going to be a lot closer than some think, I see a large group of voters who have not voted in awhile voting. Electorally it's just not going to be close at all.

Things that haven't worked for the Chicago White Sox: Hiring inexperienced, first timers into jobs that typically require experience, just because they used to play for the club. YEAH LET'S KEEP DOING THAT!

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 10, 2016 -> 12:15 AM) A lot of that was due to many more pop-ups and more weak contact I mean, a low BABIP is indicative of bad luck, but I'll take your anecdotal evidence into consideration.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 9, 2016 -> 06:41 PM) Jose Abreu had the 9th best OPS in the big leagues among 1b. Todd Frazier had the 15th best OPS in MLB among 3b. They're elite in the sense that their performance is significantly better than an average human being - I, for example, could not put up numbers comparable to those. But when we start limiting the comparison to guys in the big leagues? Martin Prado had a better OPS than Todd Frazier. While the long ball may be attractive, that alone does not make you "elite". These guys are solid big leaguers, but those seasons were no where near "elite". I'm aware they had down years. Frazier, for instance, had a BABIP 42 points below his career average.

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Oct 9, 2016 -> 01:48 AM) We don't have any elite tier players offensively. We have a number of nice players that are capable of putting up one great season but no perennial offensive all stars. 1) Very few teams have perennial offensive all stars actually 2) Abreu, Frazier (~100 rbi and 40 hr in a down year) and Eaton are all elite offensive players at their respective positions. With a core of Sale, Quintana, Abreu, Frazier and Eaton, we SHOULD be able to put together a hell of a team with the money we spend. Unfortunately we blow it on KW love-fest guys instead of players who will actually contribute

Personally I don't think the Sox's problem is superstars. We've got enough of those. Our problem is that below the elite tier, we have NOTHING. Our regulars who aren't stars are practically sub-replacement-level. Where our money needs to be invested is not more older, expensive superstars, but in developing the damn farm, drafting well, and signing decent mid tier guys. I know that's what we've tried to do a lot of, but they keep failing. Is it our scouting dept? I dunno. But whatever it is it needs to get fixed, because we'll never win just by throwing more big money for another superstar, if it means another year of 5 replacement level bats in the lineup.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Oct 4, 2016 -> 10:19 AM) Just for s***s and giggles I looked at some splits in certain clutch situations for comparison sake: Runner on 3rd, 2 out (your scenario): Baines - .236/.349/.362 Thomas - .298/.464/.599 RISP: Baines - .291/.379/.460 Thomas - .312/.447/.569 RISP, 2 out: Baines - .280/.392/.448 Thomas - .291/.453/.565 Late & Close: Baines - .284/.360/.474 Thomas - .275/.412/.482 Crazy that folks have already forgotten how monstrous Frank was.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 3, 2016 -> 05:52 PM) I shouldn't have to clarify that it was not an absolute statement. If I wanted to make an absolute statement, I would have, and would have clearly done it. I swear sometimes that people have gotten trained for finding offense in everything, and don't know how to handle something that isn't. To be clear. Hillary Clinton has absolutely brought the Bill Clinton Presidency into her campaign as a very clear roadmarker of the ways that she portrays she is qualified to be President. As I said earlier, this statement is no different than what George HR Bush or Al Gore did when they ran for President having worked in highly popular White Houses as a high level. Hopefully it isn't sexist to say that Al Gore ran on Bill Clinton's Presidency. Because of that it is absolutely fair to judge what happened both successfully and unsuccessfully under that Presidency for its merits on this campaign. the candidate introduced that as a deciding factor, not me. And yes, Hillary Clinton has a lot of her own record to run on as well. She has a long history of being on the wrong side of a lot of initial decisions, only to change her mind later on to the more politically popular point of view. A large part of her campaign is also built on temperament, and being able to make right decisions under pressure, and without foresight. That also makes things like what has happened in Syria, Libya, and Ukraine under her watch absolutely topics of relevance. It also makes her vote on Iraq important. It is easy to way you were wrong down the road, but as President the die is already cast, and being wrong isn't really a fixable thing. So before the offended train departs the station again, hopefully that clears things up. So she's running on her husbands legacy and only the parts of her record that support your narrative, is what I'm getting from this.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Oct 3, 2016 -> 06:18 PM) My Dad would classify this as a case of someone who can dish it out, but can't take it. You are my spirit animal right now.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Oct 3, 2016 -> 05:03 PM) SS2k did not say "All," but his statement also did not qualify what he thought HC was running on beside Bill's record. He said that HC is running on her husband's record. The implication is that is all she is running on. SS2k did not say she's "basically" or "mostly" or any other words that would imply that he thinks HC brings anything more to the table than Bill's presidency. This.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 2, 2016 -> 07:40 PM) That is because Hillary is running based on her husbands record, and her involvement in those things coming to fruition. ^^^

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 3, 2016 -> 11:30 AM) And there go the goalposts. Moving the goalposts when you said sexism isn't systemic? Lol those are some mighty specific goalposts! You're funny. Care to respond to the post prior, then? You're so good at evading from up on a high horse, but then again I guess horses ARE really mobile...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 3, 2016 -> 10:07 AM) This is a great job at hitting some of the best historical excuses. A It even has the thinly veiled racial reference to the "neighborhood". Has nothing to do with race, though if you're talking about race stemming from income inequality, then sure. One neighborhood gets a ton of foot traffic by wealthy, upper class finance guys and frat boys. One doesn't. Hm. I wonder which is going to sell more tickets.