Jack Parkman

Velocity wise, sure. Lopez gets destroyed on his fastball just like Gio does when he gets hit around. The spin rate difference between the two is marginal. When Lopez sits 93-95 for an inning or two he gets killed just as badly as Giolito does.

Giolito FB spin rate: 2073 RPM MLB AVG spin rate: 2263 RPM. Again, that difference will make 95-96 look like 90-91, and 97-98 look like 93ish.

Yeah, he's got the same problem as Lopez. I'm going to look up his spin rate on his fastball just like I did with Lopez.

The one thing he has to do is get his change down, he keeps leaving that up it will get killed. That was the first bad pitch he made the whole game. I have to wonder if he's tipping. There is no way they should have been on him like that. When it is hot/humid like this in an extreme hitters park there isn't much a pitcher can do. If they get in the air, it is going for an XBH. It is like when the wind is blowing out at Wrigley.

Damn, Giolito making good pitches and just getting beat.

Gio has to tip his cap to Gennett on that one. That was not a bad pitch.

OF misplayed that into a triple, should have been a double in the worst case scenario.

NO!!!!!! Their issues are important. Why can't both be of equal priority? Again, I understand some of this stuff WAY more than most white males. I understand what it is like to be afraid for your life when you are approached by a police officer. I was out wandering my neighborhood at 3am about 10 days ago on my phone talking to my dad who was working overnights. I was lucky the cop flashed his lights at me, because otherwise I would not have known he was there, and I responded. If the guy didn't flash his lights right in front of my face and if he was behind me when doing it I may not have noticed. I probably would have been unaware that he was there and who knows if I'd be typing at this computer right now. I turned around and walked home, because I was afraid if I stayed outside I was liable to be shot. The officer obviously thought I was suspicious because he wouldn't have approached me otherwise.

The biggest issue is the public school funding system that states have. This is the biggest thing that perpetuates racial inequality. Schools are still segregated, whether one wants to believe it or not, and those that serve large numbers of minorities get significantly less funding than those that serve Upper middle class and Upper class White America. Until we solve the public school funding issue for K-12 schools, the racial barriers will close. More minorities will test into college just by access to a better K-12 education.

Yes, I agree in principle but you're getting more people in the 25-40 age bracket that are falling for the conservative trap. Scapegoating minorities leads to fascism. I'm very concerned, as I see more people in my age bracket swayed by hate speech, I can't help but wonder if there this fight will last forever.

Yes, I realize that and those people are cuckoo for cocoa puffs. They're delusional. They're brainwashed. There is no use arguing with people who have no semblance of rational thought. It is talking to a brick wall. I've tried this. I've given the evidence, and to them they are all lies. They have to realize their biases on their own, nobody can show them the light. They have to want to remove themselves from the Cult of Personality that is Trumpism. They are basically addicts, and they're addicted to their privilege. They're addicted to putting others down to lift themselves up. The first step for those people, is they have to admit they have a problem. Until they do, they're gone. They're lost, and they will never vote rationally. They will never give rational solutions, nor will they ever be decent human beings, until they admit their biases. They have to admit they have a problem before anyone can address the issue.

I understand that there are people who don't believe that minorities deserve the opportunity to advance themselves. I do think that if you could eliminate the systemic poverty, that it would go a long way toward helping the social issues. Again, they're intertwined. I deal with social discrimination myself, I get accused of many of the same stereotypes of the AA/Latino communities as well. I deal with a lot of the same issues. There is a systemic bias in the economic system against minorities. I want to eliminate that. You're never going to eliminate hatred of different people. That is so ingrained in our brains. Everyone has biases. I have been accused of being racist against white males by conservatives, which is hilarious because I am one. What is hilarious is that they can't grasp that there are systemic biases against non-white, female, and disabled people. I could go on about how the portion of the population that gets screwed the most are disabled people without an intellectual disability, because I don't think any other minority group has an unemployment estimate in the 70-85% range.

They are intertwined. Helping a group economically goes farther than helping a group socially. If minorities are employed in higher paying positions, more people are exposed to the fact that most are decent, hardworking people and the negative stereotypes go away more quickly.

I have two words for why BernieCrats lost in IL: Mike Madigan. I was involved during the primaries and Madigan was attacking BernieCrats as GOP in disguise.

Yeah, but it is harder to do that in MLB or other sports because of the nature of other sports. In the NBA, Having 3 of the top 15-20 players is good enough. In the other 3 major sports it isn't. It would need a multi-year free agent coordination. Also, baseball is the sport where players are paid the best, so it will be harder to put together these teams, unless you're the Yankees or Dodgers.

I generally agree with this as well. Which is why they have to do everything in their power to stop the voter suppression laws the GOP is trying to pass. If they succeed in that, we're on a runaway train. However, the majority of congressional seats are in rural white areas, so that strategy *might* only work for a presidential election. It definitely won't work to take back Congress. If the Dems want any chance of controlling Congress any time soon they HAVE to convince rural whites that it is in their best interest to vote D. Otherwise, they might never win an election again.

Guys, we(the fans) should be glad the Sox decided to rebuild when they did. If they put it off even one year, there is no way they'd have gotten a return anywhere near what they got for Sale/Q/Eaton. For MLB teams top 100 prospects>any major leaguer in value for one reason-dollars and cost control. We're reaching a tipping point where eventually trading players at all at the deadline will be counterproductive because any prospect that has at least a 40% chance to be an MLB player at any point will be untouchable. I hate to say this, but baseball is becoming broken, all sports are going this way, and the best way to battle tanking is simple-less team control of players.

Shit, GSW don't have the 90s Bulls as a goal, they're shooting for the Russell/Havlicek Celtics at this point.

I live in the the Far West burbs, which is pretty purple, and I've spent a lot of time in small town Wisconsin for the last 16 years. I talk politics with people in both places regularly. And the answer is yes, the Senator from Illinois is out of touch with Middle America. To them, it's the economy, stupid taken to a whole new level. These people don't have good jobs available to them, they want decent jobs. I've been to plenty of small towns in Wisconsin. I look at what there is to do for work in town. They're lucky if they have a food manufacturing plant in town. Most jobs in those areas are in retail and food service. There really isn't much else. They want upward mobility. The best jobs in a given town used to be public school jobs, but since Scott Walker destroyed the unions there, there really aren't good jobs to be had in small town Wisconsin. Even in my own life, I'm struggling to get an opportunity to earn a decent wage. I have my own issues, but that shouldn't prevent me from earning a decent living. Mainstream Dems are deaf to this problem, and until they acknowledge it, they will continue to lose elections.

A 1-1 deal wouldn't get it done, so why discuss that. It would take slightly less than the Sox got for Sale to get Thor

Actually, there is. 1. 40 man crunch 2. RHP surplus. 3. Taking complete uncertainty into significantly less uncertainty. If there was any training staff I'd trust to keep Thor heathy, it would be the Sox.

If you could get Syndergaard for Kopech, Rutherford and a low level lotto ticket wouldn't you consider it? It actually makes small amount of sense to me because of the upcoming 40 man roster crunch. If there are two spots where the Sox are loaded in the minors they are RHP and OF, they won't have enough 40 man spots for everyone as time goes on, so why not? It takes away some of the uncertainty of some of the minor league RHP, and they do have an issue with a 40 man roster crunch and not enough spots in the rotation for all of the pitchers to get here around the same time, so I actually think it is feasible to do something like this.

Yeah, I know that, but he is still striking out the world and not walking a lot of guys, has poor BABIP luck and also pitches his home games in Coors. You have to be a HOF caliber pitcher to have an ERA under 4 pitching your home games there.

It was positive, but I do remember people saying that they were ok with it, it was probably the best they could do, but still light for a perennial Cy Young caliber pitcher with 3 years left on an extremely team friendly deal.

IIRC most people thought the Sale trade was light, and needed either Benintendi or Devers instead of Diaz.