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When Sale gave up that homer, my thought was "meh, not even worried. He's got this." It wasn't even a bad pitch, it was barely in the zone, low and away.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 20, 2016 -> 12:59 AM) Even after reading this? Hillary turns to her husband to run the economy. Even the staunchest Hillary supporters must realize she has shown a great weakness in making her husband in charge of such an important part of a president's workload. Please tell me you support her after this bombshell. https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-argument-cli...6289370166.html This is a bombshell to you? You know the president doesn't actually do everything right? All presidents do something like this, Obama delegated the same task to him when he was running for re-election in 2012. In Hillary's case she just happens to be married to him.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ May 19, 2016 -> 06:16 PM) The most recent season of the Serial Podcast was all about Bergdahl and thats what REALLY soured me on the whole trade. It seems like there was so much shady back door stuff going on to be able to get this trade to go through including bypassing the mandatory vetting that is conducted by numerous government agencies to determine if a gitmo prisoner is released if they will be a threat down the road. According to the podcast it sounded like whoever was running this show knew the 5 guys wouldnt be cleared so they just skipped the whole process and pushed the deal through. I also think it sets a bad precedent. Youd think any Americans over seas could be more appealing to capture knowing that we will do unbalanced prisoner exchanges. Nah, they already wanted to do this, what are they gonna do, like super duper extra wanna do it?

QUOTE (Tex @ May 19, 2016 -> 04:38 PM) "even if he's a criminal" means after he is put on trial? How would you straight out call him a criminal? im honestly not trying to debate semantics. I said what I said

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 19, 2016 -> 03:39 PM) You called him a criminal but he hasn't been court-martialed yet, right? I said "even if he's a criminal" meaning "even if he comes back and is put on trial and convicted," I wasn't straight out calling him a criminal.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 19, 2016 -> 03:23 PM) I guess innocent until proven guilty isn't a thing in the military. I prefer the exchange then a trial, if necessary. If we start deciding who to try and save based on anything less than a legal, fair, trial, I believe we take a giant step backwards and leave soldiers at risk. Huh? Of course it is. How would you deduce that from what I said?

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ May 19, 2016 -> 11:34 AM) Plus, I think he definitely likes it here too. I was never a big fan of John Fox, and to be honest I'm still not, but one thing I can say in his favor is he's got a reputation of being a good coach to work for and players really like playing for him.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 19, 2016 -> 11:26 AM) I would think so. He wanted to be traded last season. I didn't really blame him for that. He didn't really sign up to play OLB in a 3-4 and he thought he was coming to excel as a 4-3 rushing specialist, which he was doing, and the new defensive scheme was holding him back. But he started finding his place maybe he changed his mind.

Listening to Bell talk about Anderson, it sounds like he is the kind of shortstop who will have exceptional range to make plays that would get into CF or LF with another shortstop, but he will also make more throwing errors because he's got more of a degree of difficulty on them. Alexei was really prone to that, but he would also have mental lapses because as 2K5 put it a few years ago he has the attention span of a hummingbird with ADHD. Anyway, that's actually a net positive for a shortstop, because increased range means a significant number more putouts than a shortstop with average range, which more than makes up for the errors (which would be base hits anyway).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 19, 2016 -> 10:29 AM) Jake Peavy, the guy who was a Cy Young and 3 time all-star? The guy who came back from a historic first surgery for a pitcher to still put up some big years even as he has gotten into his mid 30's with greatly diminished stuff? Yeah, I'd say he backed it up. The only thing Peavy was guilty of was having s***ty luck while he was here.

Hopefully this mismatch gets us back on track.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 19, 2016 -> 10:11 AM) Would be much better if Anderson played like Jeter, unlike GordonBeckham, who said he wanted to be Jeter before he'd ever proven a thing in the major leagues. That kind of talk, about being the captain, face of the franchise and future of the organization, I think it took its toll and turned into a burden over time (I saw it happen with Alex Gordon when I lived in Kansas City as well, it was "this guy's going to be the next George Brett" from the day he was drafted out of Nebraska). It also caused some friction because Ozzie didn't like the young/er guys getting too much attention before he felt they deserved it. Of course, lots of White Sox fans to this day blame the Sox for moving him from SS to 3B to 2B and attribute that as part of the reason for his eventual downfall. I think someone else made a comment about Anderson bringing more and more African-American fans to the game...that he would be that kind of electric presence. Well, I hope it's true, but I also hope we don't put too many unrealistic expectations on him early. He sounds like a great kid who's confident but never forgets his roots and won't let being a big leaguer get to his head. Character issues have never come up in any discussion that I've seen about him online, and that's always an added plus. Why's this bad? Pretty much all young athletes do some version of this. Who doesn't want to be the best?

It will feel like a huge relief to have drafted and developed a standout positional player that wasn't acquired somewhere else. The Sox came close with Beckham but in hindsight he was probably rushed.

Cyborg needs an origin story, Aquaman too

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ May 18, 2016 -> 09:44 AM) 'Batman v. Superman' Fallout: Warner Bros. Shakes Up Executive Roles This is probably something DC should have done a while ago. I think it's a smart move to put Geoff Johns in charge. He's done a great job with the DC TV universe. Geoff Johns should've been in charge from the beginning.

People SAY they want the NBA to strictly enforce traveling the same way they SAY they want NFL refs to call holding every time they see it. They don't, really.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ May 17, 2016 -> 10:54 PM) Has Lebron ever beaten a good team on his way to the Finals? It's pathetic that Toronto is in the ECF. The Bulls in 2011. That's it basically

QUOTE (Deadpool @ May 17, 2016 -> 09:59 PM) This is absolutely it. Your "star player" is really only a "second best player on the team" caliber player. We were briefly saved from this in 2008, being given an actual star player capable of carrying a team to a championship and... f*** it I can't type all this again

#NBAHell

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 17, 2016 -> 07:59 PM) Applebee's has wood-fired grills now, not sure about Lawrence, KS yet. My issues with Obama: 1) Guantanamo Bay took forever 2) We never really forcefully went after anyone on Wall Street or limited the control of the banking industry 3) His foreign/war policy in terms of drone strikes increasing and for half of his presidency not being distinguishable from Bush He does deserve a ton of credit for pushing through the automakers bailouts...that was a huge win, that Trump would never give the Dems credit for. In fact, that's a weakness for Trump, all Hillary has to do is ask "Donald, wouldn't you have done the same you did four times in your business career and allow Detroit to go bankrupt?" Hard area for him. You keep talking about wanting to keep jobs in America? Do you see the inconsistency? Forcing hard-working Americans who can't afford health care to pay fines...that just doesn't seem like something a Democrat would or should do, it feels a little harsh and cruel. He also deserves SOME credit for pushing the environmental aspects as far as they can go...although progress against entrenched interests is a tough one. Did he deserve the Nobel Prize? I'm sure the committee in Oslo, if they could go back and do it over again, would say that was one of their most dubious selections in recent decades. This drives me crazy, the Iraq war was in no comparable to any of Bush's foreign policy. That was a WAR, we had hundreds of thousands of troops there, almost 2 whole years of my life was dedicated solely to it. The "wars" that they talk about in the comments sections of Mother Jones articles or Glenn Greenwald talks about are not the same thing.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 17, 2016 -> 07:56 PM) Stealing this

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ May 17, 2016 -> 07:10 PM) Ive never been fond of Obama's politics but I have always found him likable, and thought he did an amazing job at getting people who have felt alienated by Washington inspired again. I think it was important to finally have a President who wasnt an old white guy as well. A couple things that bothered me about Obama's presidency were the Iran deal and the prisoner exchange for Bergdahl. I know he had a hostile congress and that made things difficult at times. I want everyone to get health care as much as the next person but I really dont like some aspects of Obamacare, particularly that they fine people who cant afford to pay for health care. Dont get me wrong, I think its great that people who were previously uninsurable are guaranteed coverage. I just genuinely dont understand the logic of fining people who cant afford insurance. Hillary is a different story for me. Id rather have Obama be the President for the rest of my life than have her as President for a single day. She is the most untrustworthy candidate I can think of in my lifetime. She has been a part of so much corruption for so long. Id honestly prefer Trump to be President than her (Im shuttering just typing that) That video that greg posted a few pages back of Elizabeth Warren telling a story of a personal experience she had with Hillary where Hillary convinced Bill to veto a bill sponsored by credit card companies about bankruptcy and then when the bill came up again when Hillary was a senator and she voted for the bill. Warren says that Hillary was bought by the credit card companies and the financial influence was too much. Thats exactly what Bernie brings up at all of the debates and she laughs it off and claims shes never swayed by money. Bernie is another guy who I REALLY dont like his politics but he comes across as the most honest politician and I believe the things that he says. This election really makes me sad for the future of our country. I cant believe there isnt a candidate on either side that I can even get a little excited about. Edit-Forgot to mention. Obama's Press correspondence dinners (or whatever theyre called) where he roasts people are hilarious. I was really surprised how funny he can be and keep a straight face. i didn't like the Bergdahl thing either. I didn't really freak out about it, I just didn't understand the logic. I get it, he's an American life even if he's a criminal, and I get that the Israelis do the same thing, but I felt like a sports fan questioning if his GM gave up too much.

Greg is probably a pretty cool dude in real life lol I've actually met several Soxtalkers and all of them are cool actually.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 17, 2016 -> 05:28 PM) So what you're saying is we need T'Challa as president? We've already had one East African, why not another?

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 17, 2016 -> 05:23 PM) Meanwhile I listed a whole plethora of things that made him a lousy President. Refer to first 4 words Read in an East African accent if you've seen the latest Captain America