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The home crowd, a winning streak lost, and getting blasted for 4 HRs. Yeah, I'd say he was frustrated his s*** his pants that night.

Gotta swing that bat.

wow at this thread

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 26, 2013 -> 01:19 PM) Both parties being very far from perfect doesn't mean that one isn't demonstrably worse on basically every major policy area. True, it's a generalization. Seriously, they don't really do anything to help the people of this country. They all just pretend to care when it comes to election time.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 26, 2013 -> 01:12 PM) Eh politicians are people. People have the profound ability to want to argue instead of finding common ground. IE It seems that people dont like patriot act/drone strikes. Yet instead of going "Hey we both think this is bad, lets stop it", they instead fight about which side is worse. QFT. I think it's hilarious how people argue that one party is better than the other. It's like the special olympics. Republicans and Democrats are all one breed, politicians!

Imagine if politicians did their job. I bet money that it would be raining money and problems albeit not every would be solved at a greater rate.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 04:30 PM) Democrats say crazy s*** too. The GOP needs to focus on the white vote and start offering them more free stuff. Easy win. Hillary is VERY beatable with the correct strategy. Democrats say their crazy s*** but it's not the super crazy s***. I'm no democrat or republican, I tend to shy away from voting for the two major parties come election time. I'm a independent, you know only the voter that really matters. Republicans can be extremely off putting and that's not going to sway independents.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 02:13 PM) Bush looked OK, kind of the consummate businessman. Not grotesque-ish. The professional look can work. Ask women. They don't think W. was gross or anything; I've heard some think he was handsome. Gore was a pretty boy on TV . He almost won. Kerry looked like Bush, gray hair, businesslike. As far as my theory on the eye-test, Gore probably should have won, I'll give you that. In his mind, he did win, though. Recount asked for. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... shame on... shame on... shame on... the point is, we can't get fooled again." -G.W. Bush

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 01:47 PM) Lol, bingo. Also LOL at liberals who think this is the end of the Republican party. Opinions change ("homosexuality is immoral...oh wait, i'm ok with it because I can get votes and I need California money!"). Guys with D's next to their name were against civil rights legislation the most (and some of them just happened to remain democrats until they died) Hi! Democrats do what's necessary to win. Republicans try to pander to their base and lose. It will be the end of the Republicans if they don't adapt and survive. That's all anyone has been saying.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 01:28 PM) Yeah, I really look forward to the Hillary presidency so i can be called a sexist instead of a racist for a change every time i disagree with her. You gotta ignore the trolls man. Rational people know that differing opinions exist.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 01:18 PM) And I honestly dont see how Ted Cruz or Rand Paul are hateful, bigoted assholes. I dont get it. I can see McCain being an old asshole. I can see Romney being an out-of-touch imbecile. I can even see George Bush, who were now realizing wasn't all that bad, getting some hate because the Katrina fiasco. But these guys are clearly different than that old Republican Party both in demeanor and in policy. Duke you are missing the point. Their party is littered with clowns like that. I'm not saying Cruz and Rand fit the bill but when you have people in your party saying stupid s*** like that, it brings the whole base down, especially among independent voters. Remember how that one senator from MO said some stupid s*** about rape. Every republican tried to isolate themselves from that clown. It's kind of like some white people believe that all blacks are criminals because of the actions of a few. Same s***.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 12:58 PM) Have the Republicans really alienated Asians? And they tried to appeal to blacks with Michael Steele but everyone just pointed and laughed at them (as they should have). Hispanics also aren't as staunchly anti-Republican as everyone makes them out to be just because the illegal immigration issue. Besides, I dont think you can think of a bigger departure from the traditional Republican Party of the last 20 years than Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. That's a pretty massive shift. The last two elections, the Republicans trotted out complete jokers. Yes, the republicans alienated just about every non white you can think of. Look at an RNC event, it's a sea of white people. Hispanics and blacks for the matter could easily identify themselves as conservative, since they are mostly a religious bunch. Republicans have to get these hateful bigoted assholes out of their party and welcome whomever with open hands. I will tell you about an incident that occurred in my life. If you don't know, I'm black. My Dad is an Republican. He ran for office down in my hometown in central Illinois. One day, I went to a republican breakfast social with my dad. When we walked in, everyone pretty much stared us down like we didn't belong there or something. Needless to say, it was super awkward. They were cordial but you could get the sense that they were thinking that this was the white people's club and that some negro trash had just crashed the party. Granted, that was just one example but this type of behavior is probably more common than you would like to believe. Democrats just pander to everyone and that's why they keep winning.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 12:38 PM) Because Ted Cruz will really alienate hispanics. I think there is a growing sentiment in this country that the way things were, even with all its faults, is a lot better than the ways things are now. People are starting to recognize the havoc the government has wreaked on our daily lives and they want to go back to better times. The key is predicting this s*** isn't to just take a snapshot of the way a majority of people think in this moment right now, but were the general consensus is headed. Duke, for God sakes man stop being so narrow minded. Hispanics are just one group that the GOP has alienated. What about blacks, Asians, LGBT, and other various minorities that make up the US? White people alone will not get it done. They have to cut their bigoted act and reach out to others and that's the bottom line. If they want to continue to trot their pander to white people act, they'll find themselves obsolete soon.

Can we just all agree that s***bags come in all colors? These clowns got arrested for their crime and will be prosecuted accordingly. Asshats are just complaining to complain now. This us against them mentality has been played out ad-nauseam. This has no comparison to the Zimmerman case. Why do people feel the need to compare s*** when they are simply not similar?

Duke is in the twilight zone. Republicans need an extreme facelift to deal with the America today. Their antics might've worked back in the day when it was "white friendly". However, times have changed and the Republicans are living in the past. The democrats have just evolved and took advantage of the situation. Republicans are going to need to love the blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities to even sniff being in power. Unless they can unite all the white people... then they may get somewhere... but that's just absurd. So yeah, the republicans have a lot of work to do to change their image before 2016 or we can probably expect another 8 years of democrat rule.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 22, 2013 -> 12:25 PM) Welcome to developing rookie pitchers. At least one of his walks last night was simply "there's no one on base, Billy Butler is up, I'm going to throw him a bunch of pitches out of the zone and maybe he'll swing at something". It's totally the norm for a guy to come up and be intimidated when he's facing an all star for the first or second time and be overly careful to him. IIRC Rienzo also got himself in trouble and behind in the count when he had a runner on 1st who could steal and started throwing over there a lot. He also kept feeding Lough curveball after curveball.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 22, 2013 -> 12:01 PM) I feel like I see a lot of guys come up throwing that big breaking ball and eventually they learn to sharpen it into a real weapon with time. I sure hope so. He hasn't been to bad in his 4-5 starts it seems. He's gotta stop walking people though.

QUOTE (Hawkfan @ Aug 22, 2013 -> 09:14 AM) That's going out on a limb I would be willing to bet heavy money on it too. The cubs are perennial losers. Some teams just don't have what it takes to win.

They will square up his curveball and send him back to Rio. Mark my words.

I think the Sox will win another WS before the Cubs do.

Yikes...

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 21, 2013 -> 02:29 PM) This response makes me angry. Woosa

Getting rid of sexy Alexei with out a proper replacement is foolish. The grass is not greener on the other side.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 20, 2013 -> 03:20 PM) BECAUSE ONLY 8 PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME HAVE HIT THAT MANY HOMERUNS WHY IS THAT SO HARD FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND?!?!?! Banned for excessive caps.

Loads of hindsight geniuses posting on this particular thread... ahem greg ahem jerksticks