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QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 13, 2017 -> 09:06 PM) I am talking about television. Obviously respected outlets like the WSJ cater to a different crowd. I'm talking CNN/Fox/MSNBC. Talking heads do not talk about debt in any meaningful way. They are far more concerned with Trump and bipartisan bs to talk about a real issue. Do you think the spend more time talking about Trump's tweets or this country's insurmountable debt? That's not conspiracy. I don't know how much you covered the Obama administration's drone war but if you think the media was covering it fairly and often I'd love you to share the links. The US government got caught spying on leaders in Brazil, Germany and others. If you're saying that's not happening, you're the one touting conspiracy theory. The mainstream media does not cover the Federal Reserve. Unless, there's a new chair or a new policy, it's not covered. To call it a huge topic all over the media... I don't know. CNN Federal Reserve coverage: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer...federal+reserve Fox Federal Reserve coverage: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer...federal+reserve MSNBC Federal Reserve coverage:https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=msnbc+federal+reserve It's all stuff on Ron Paul and MSNBC has some interest rate stuff. There's no coverage of it. So now we're focused just on talking heads on TV? That's a whole different topic. Earlier this was about NYT, WaPo, WSJ - high quality media outlets. Obviously your Fox/CNN/MSNBC's of the world spend a lot of time on fluff. But they also cover the Fed, the debt, drone attacks, etc. Maybe not at the level of balance you'd prefer? I said it was conspiratorial to think the US is regularly spying on it's citizens outside the law. You curved it to be about foreign countries - that is a whole different matter, and ALL countries do that to each other to varying degrees according to ability.

With the huge improvements to the farm system, the focus has been heavily on Moncada and more so, pitching prospects. And for good reason. But the next most interesting grouping among prospects is probably the wave of outfielders who will open 2017 in A-ball. Here's a look at seven notable outfield prospects you should keep an eye on, and which of the two Class A affiliates they are likely to be assigned to in April. Which of them are you most looking forward to tracking? Who is over- or under-rated?

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 13, 2017 -> 08:28 PM) What Trump says on policy is relevant. I used an example about healthcare to say exactly that. What Trump says on Obama's birth certificate, quibbles about the election, etc. This stuff doesn't matter. If it's unsubstantiated, he'll look dumb. Regardless, no lives are affected by the things he said that are unrelated to policy and his job. He said the stuff about illegal immigrants voting for HRC. The media spent a full week on it. People in here are still talking about it. Absolutely nothing happened as a result. No policy, no lives changed, no liberties taken, etc. If we were in an argument about his character, then yes, I suppose that would be relevant to that one fruitless, irrelevant conversation. That being said, nobody in this subforum other than maybe brad have ever spoken highly of Trump's character. We have people here who honestly believe he's Hitler reincarnate with some rape mixed in. We had people say Trump being elected was the worst day of their life based off of things he had said. These things are not relevant to the real, serious problems in this country. The whole TMZ politics stuff is a big problem because all it does is distract from the real problems. The fact that the corporate media will spend days covering some dumb comment Trump made that is totally irrelevant to anything meaningful is a problem. They will never broach the debt in any meaningful way, they will never cover the way the military is murdering civilians in an accurate way, they will never cover how the government spies on the whole country without maligning the character of Snowden/WL/Assange first (why?) and they will never cover the Federal Reserve, but they will spend day after day dissecting some sub 140 character comment that Trump made on Twitter that has no effect on anything that matters. Nobody sees this as a problem. The Presidency is not a software program. It is, more than anything else, about influence and thought leadership. What a President says has enormous effect. It causes others to act. Words of Presidents create policy, but they also point his administration, and the party he leads, and everyday Americans in a direction. He signals what is OK and what isn't, and people act accordingly - some of whom have enormous power to effect people's lives. Frankly I find it stunning that you don't see that. As for your last graf, most of that read like conspiratorial nonsense to me. Never broach the debt? I've seen that topic discussed in WSJ and WaPo at the least, and I'd guess the NYT has too (though I don't know off hand). And talking heads on TV discuss it regularly. Military murders not covered? You can't be serious here, that stuff is splashed all over the news all the time, as soon as something happens. Government spies on the whole country? What evidence do you have they have been spying outside the bounds of the laws on Americans? I am sure it happens but the idea that it's rampant is not supported by any facts I have seen. The Federal Reserve? That's a huge topic of conversation all over the media, especially when they have their meetings (maybe I'm seeing that one more in financial sections, but that's of course where it belongs). Does the media ALSO waste a bunch of time on garbage? Yeah, especially the CNN's of the world.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 13, 2017 -> 07:17 PM) There you go with the ad hominem. You can't ever keep it civil. You don't have to call names when you can't back your own posts up. I'm going to go eat this steak now. I'll talk to you three minutes after the next time I post in the filibuster. There was no ad hominem in his post you quoted. Anyway, I wanted to just reply to you on one general point. You keep saying that what Trump says is irrelevant. History, and the basic functionality of foreign AND domestic policy, makes it abundantly clear that the President's words matter. A lot. You'd have to be ignoring all kinds of basic history to think otherwise. If you want to argue that his bluster shouldn't all be taken to extreme reaction, sure, I'll go with that. To say they are irrelevant though? You have to know better than that.

TCU does it - 85-82. Tie game, 4 seconds left, TCU goes to put up an off balance 3 from the corner and a KU player barrels into him for the 3-shot foul. TCU makes all three. Not sure who the KU player was who made the foul, but that was ugly and a really poor decision.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 9, 2017 -> 03:35 PM) Kansas has spent all year doing this. Hopefully they lose, but the late rally has been their specialty this year. Probably KU pulls it out. But the combination of playing a desperate team when KU doesn't have as much at stake, and being on a neutral floor, things can happen. I also just noticed, hadn't realized before... Kansas only lost 1 true road game this year (WV). Their other losses were at home (ISU) and neutral (Indiana).

Hey, TCU up by 9 over Kansas with 14 minutes left to play. Wish I could turn on a TV here. That might put TCU close to an NCAA bid if they could pull it off, though it would still be a stretch.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 9, 2017 -> 11:48 AM) TCU and Texas won the play-ins. Texas was a mild upset. First main round game just started, Ok State vs Iowa State. Clones win at Hilton South, 92-83. Play winner of KU/TCU on Friday at 7pm CT. Seems like right now, ISU is a 6-seed for the Tournament even if they lose to Kansas. Have a chance to get to a 5 or maybe even a 4 if they win two more, but that's a tall task.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 9, 2017 -> 11:55 AM) A big dumb wall also does nothing to stop the ~40% of undocumented immigrants who entered the country legally but overstayed their visas. And many of those who came in illegally, did so via actual checkpoints - not in the middle of nowhere. And the number of illegals coming in has been dropping rapidly for years. But yeah, OK, let's build that wall!

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 9, 2017 -> 11:53 AM) Also funny to me that building a wall on our southern border also doesn't allow us to cut back on CBP agents. Which is why, if you even want to bolster border security (one could argue whether it's needed or not), the best thing to do is add a few more boots and more sensing technology to the current picture instead of a wall. It's much cheaper, and it doesn't come with the lousy side effects like making the US look like goons and doing significant environmental damage.

TCU and Texas won the play-ins. Texas was a mild upset. First main round game just started, Ok State vs Iowa State.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 9, 2017 -> 11:33 AM) Trump Weighs Cuts to Coast Guard, T.S.A. and FEMA to Bolster Border Plan So to pay for a border wall - which will cost $20B or more and do next to nothing to stop illegal immigration - we are going to cut security in areas of actual concern? Brilliant.

QUOTE (MnSoxFan @ Mar 7, 2017 -> 08:23 PM) Signed on his 29th birthday (if he signed today) He actually signed in late February - the stories on these minor signings usually don't bubble up to the media right away.

With the Sox in a rebuild, what they do on the International Amateur market is a key part of the process. This includes Luis Robert, but of course other players as well. Here is a White Sox-focused preview: a brief history, the landscape and rules for this and the future period, and a look at the options for the Sox. This by the way is also the FS debut for James Fox, known on here as Y2Jimmy0. He's done really good work here.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 8, 2017 -> 12:59 PM) And I am talking about one specific person. Nancy Pelosi. You can play pedantics if you want to. I was just pointing out that it only became party partisan because of your approach, then railed against the thing you did.

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Mar 7, 2017 -> 01:03 PM) Yeah because Israel is a joke. A made up country that mysteriously appeared after some people said, yes, yes it should exist. This is cutting very close to politics. Fair warning to all, come no closer than this, please. And in fact this may be a little too far. This is a baseball thread. Discussing the lax eligibility rules are fair game, but commenting on whether or not a country is "real" is not.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 8, 2017 -> 12:29 PM) Absolutely. Just would have been nice to hear a female in power say, "He shouldn't have said that about a fellow colleague", instead of "Well, her boss is a bigger asshole!". But politics. I mean, you say "But politics". Look at what you did. Poster A points out something Trump said that was not only misogynist, but also seemed to say he was OK with sexual assault. Your response is, yeah, but some other politician in the other party said something stupid but less offensive! What does that accomplish, other than furthering the partisan noise? BS didn't talk about the GOP (in this case). He talked about one specific person.

LINEUP SS Anderson 2B Saladino 1B Abreu LF Cabrera 3B Frazier DH Avisail RF Bourjos CF Tilson (I'm assuming he will be healthy here) C Narvaez BENCH Soto (C, as a platoon with Narvaez) Sanchez (middle INF) Liriano (OF) Davidson (corner INF) ROTATION Quintana Rodon Shields Gonzalez Holland BULLPEN Robertson Jones Jennings (L) Putnam Petricka Covey Ynoa or Soto (L) or Luebke (L) - I can't decide Other possibilities: Hayes or Delmonico, especially if one of the outfielders gets hurt or Tilson doesn't recover. Rotation is basically 100% solid, but if someone gets hurt before OD, could be Fulmer. I am still baffled by people who want Leury on the team. He'll be 26 tomorrow so he's still young-ish, and he's fast. But he's booked 155 games across 4 seasons with a .462 OPS, and while he plays all over, he isn't particularly good defensively anywhere. Why carry a pinch runner, on a rebuilding team? I'd rather get a look at someone like Liriano, who might be part of a future. Heck even Delmonico or Hayes have more interest for me. If you have to lose Liriano or Leury to waivers, I'd rather risk Leury.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Mar 7, 2017 -> 10:06 PM) Nice! Obamacare replaced with Obamacare. This is going to piss off the base big time. I don't see why Democrats are pissed at all- this is still going to be a hemorrhaging pile of govt waste. Now they don't have to be responsible. There's nothing bold about it. There's nothing republican about it. Quit trying to rush this s***. Back to the drawing board, take your time & get it right. Obamacare that will drop about 15 million insured and dramatically increase costs over the current Obamacare, all the while having a much larger negative impact on the poor. It's the worst of all worlds.

I wonder if Trump realizes that his claim has to either be A) utterly false or B) if true, it means he was doing something really, really bad. He loses either way in the long run. Dude is way too stuck in the short game.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Mar 6, 2017 -> 03:57 PM) AP says they did it to their reporters. So no, it isn't that much of a stretch. And you all are taking 'wire tap' too literally. You know he means he was spied on, by whatever means it happened. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/govt-obtain...e-records-probe It's an enormous stretch. The AP stuff went through a court. This would have to as well. If that happened with Trump, either that means he was personally involved in something very illegal (in which case, where is the case, and why didn't ObamaCo release bad press on it?), or more likely he is just making it up. The bar the court would set for the Obama administration to set up wire taps on a Presidential candidate would be almost impossibly high, like they had evidence of direct high treason from Trump (which I doubt they had). It's a fever dream, nothing more. Also, that AP story was an investigation about getting a source for terrorism information, and on a block of individuals directly involved. That's an incredibly long walk from a Prez candidate. This isn't about Obama's motives. Even if you think he wanted to perpetrate some sort of evil here, the practicalities make it nearly impossible for him to pull it off.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Mar 6, 2017 -> 03:09 PM) Obama spied on reporters, is it such a stretch to think he spied on Trump? 1. What spying did he do on reporters? 2. Getting a wire tap on Trump would have taken extraordinary action from an FBI that already had a tense relationship with him AND to get through a court. So yeah, that is a gigantic stretch.

Thanks for the report!

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 6, 2017 -> 12:58 PM) To single out and humiliate all Muslims who don't have business interests with the Trump family. Partly this, but honestly I think it is mostly just that Trump's whole campaign was based on fear. Fear of the "other". Thus he had to make certain risks seem REALLY BAD, including this. And being the narcissist he is, he is more than happy to swing a bat and look tough regardless of A) if it actually makes a difference in safety or B) if it ruins people's lives.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 6, 2017 -> 12:06 PM) Really well thought out plan. Pakistan is excluded (wife of the San Bernardino attacker) as is Saudi Arabia (most of the 9/11 assailants). Well, how useful or intelligent the effort is, is another matter. It likely does nothing to decrease risk of terror, but screws over an array of people and uses a lot of political capital, so it's still pretty stupid. But perhaps it's at least not blatantly illegal. Progress, lol.