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Had our first community mock draft of the year on the subreddit. I acted as the White Sox and a second team that escapes me at the moment, here are the results. https://www.reddit.com/r/MLBDraft/comments/...103616_results/ I ended up nabbing: Round 1: Mickey Moniak - I was shocked that he lasted that long, I think that he is a top 5 talent and might be the best pure hitter in the class and he should stay in CF and play solid defense. Comp Pick: Kyle Cody - I got a big arm with Cody that projects to be a solid back of the rotation arm for a plus reliever, should be a fast riser through any team's system. The rest of the results are in the link

Based on what we're seeing/hearing in spring training what are some predictions on the team heading into spring training. Here's one: The White Sox will buy out John Dank's remaining salary and he will not make the OD roster.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Feb 29, 2016 -> 09:49 PM) Alec Hansen - RHP - Oklahoma. 3IP, 3H, 2R, 1ER, 3BB, 5K. #MLBDraft. Pitched a total of 4 IP through 2 starts, he's walked 7 guys. He really hurt himself not playing in the offseason and now people are saying that he might be a reliever.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 29, 2016 -> 01:51 PM) Dude, GTFO with this nonsense. The plot was almost non-existent and anyone saying otherwise is spitting some serious art school bulls***. I enjoyed the movie a ton, but let's not pretend it is something that it's not. Also, Max never had a daughter, so I'm not sure where you're getting that part of the plot from unless you're assuming that little girl haunting him throughout the film is actually his daughter. I knew he had a dead son and I assumed they changed it to a daughter because it's a soft reboot. I have to look that up. But please do us a favor and let's have intelligent conversation, please keep the acronyms in the high school cafeteria. Mad Max had a plot, it might have been simple but it had a plot and told a story. The movie did have themes, did you know that all art whether it's music, photography, film, literature has themes. Mad Max explored it's themes with such subtle depth, yet they were so prominent in the film. It's about surival, escaping to a higher power, feminism, female empowerment, and redemption amongst other things. The script is very good and it's the best directed and well crafted film of the year. Go online and watch the BTS and look at how they made the movie from the development stage to shooting and post production. It's staggering. Is Spotlihht a bad movie? No, I think it's a great movie but I happen to think Mad Max is better. I really hate it when people say that big budget movies/genre films can't be artistic, it's complete bulls***. Big budget films can be every bit as artistic as their smaller counterparts. Being a drama or a smaller budget film doesn't guarantee artistic merit and being a big budget film or a genre film isn't a guarantee of being mindless entertainment.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 29, 2016 -> 08:30 AM) I couldnt disagree more, Max Mad was a nice Sci-Fi flick but it lacked any depth whatsoever. Spotlight and Room were tremendous. That's not true, it was a story about a man running away from tragedy, a tragedy that saw him fail his wife and daughter. And when he's at his lowest he stumbles upon Furiosa and the wives. The movie talked about mental illness and had a very strong feminist overtones and imagery. It had a ton of depth. Maybe we didn't see the same movie.

QUOTE (LDF @ Feb 29, 2016 -> 05:59 AM) i know, i made a oscars post, but i decided to delete it, i was not going to stay up and watch it. my movie won. spotlight. excellent ... excellent movie. however the movie Tumbo is equally great. i don't know, Leo won in best actor ... i just can't see it. the Brie won best actress. that was a tough category .... well deserve. I think that Mad Max should have Best Picture and Director, it's by far the most well crafted film of the year, great premise, wonderful editing, thought provoking subtext and great performances. How did the Revenant not win, if it won Best Director?

Who wants to talk about race in America?

#TankWin

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Feb 26, 2016 -> 08:40 AM) Good grief, Collins needs to shut up about the backwards hat. That's just too pretentiously nit-picky. It's ST, who cares! Then again, I'm not surprised. I've had people from the generation before me give me a hard time for wearing my hat backwards and I've been wearing my hat backwards since the late 70's/early 80's when I was a kid. If the sun is out I wear it the usual way to shield my eyes ( ginger's don't like sunlight ) but otherwise, I prefer it backwards and always have. Society is too wrapped up with what is socially accepted as the 'proper' way of doing things. I appreciate your insight from an African American's point of view on Baseball. It's amazing how far society/baseball has come and yet still has a long way to go when it comes to accepting the cultures of others. When will people learn? I think Rollins, Anderson and Saladino should all wear their hats backwards and make a statement. Jackie Robinson might have broke the barrier, but the color line in baseball is something that still exist in today's world, it just changed forms.

QUOTE (daggins @ Feb 26, 2016 -> 07:17 AM) There doesn't have to be segregation. That is actually not allowed, so its a really bad (and strange) example. Collins calling out Yo for something very benign may not be racially motivated (although it is easy to see how it would be), but it doesn't have to be for the point to stand. There are a lot of Terry Collins' in the baseball world. Some are coaches, some are players, some are scouts, and some are executives. All of them have a rigid idea of how to "play the game the right way" which is such a stupid notion I won't even get into it. The point is that a young, athletically talented black kid with options will probably prefer to play a sport where there are less Terry Collins' to tell him he is wrong to be himself. I will toast my drink in your honor tonight, you nailed it.

QUOTE (blackmooncreeping @ Feb 26, 2016 -> 06:20 PM) The site that hosts the draft board is experiencing server issues; they say it will be solved shortly. Condor13 asked me to relay this message, hopefully things are back up and running soon. THought I was the only one

Anyone live in Michigan here? I'm trying to find somewhere nice for the summer that's affordable and lose to Detroit.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 01:58 PM) Definitely agree. Anderson will gain so much more from Rollins than just learning about SS position. Anderson is mature for his age and carries himself very well, much like Rollins so I think their personalities will mesh very well together. Rollins is literally the perfect mentor for Anderson and this move makes me wonder if the Sox expect to see Anderson sooner than we may think. I know the Sox signed Rollins to have more depth at SS but there seems to be an underlying theme behind the signing and that to me is Rollins mentoring Anderson and Saladino. Same here. Two reasons for this that I can think of is 1) going by the African American friends I have and the folks I've worked with through the years, many African Americans are into basketball and football. Not trying to generalize, just based on my own experience is all. 2) we are seeing more Latinos coming from the Caribbean, Central and South America now more than ever. There has been progress, ever since the RBI program started we've seen more black players drafted than any time in recent memory. The lack of black fathers has something to do with it and another thing that contributes to it is that black people don't feel welcome when it comes to baseball, because the vast majority of us feel like our culture is not welcomed. Look at this: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseba...-his-hat-around You're a black player and when you do something 'not white' you're told to stop.

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QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Feb 24, 2016 -> 08:20 AM) Great points and going by Anderson's recent comments, picking Rollins' brain is exactly what he will do. Saladino will likely be doing the same. I'm hoping Rollins has two shadows following him everywhere he goes throughout ST. Anderson is a very bright kid and will benefit from spending time with Rollins this ST. I think the Sox deserve some credit for signing Rollins. There's a bigger picture than just signing Rollins to compete for the SS position. The additions of Frazier, Rollins, Lawrie should liven up the club house quite a bit. As an African American myself, I always wonder about how hard a time black prospects have adjusting to a ML clubhouse when the number of black players is constantly diminishing. I know that whenever I am in a unfamiliar environment/situation I always feel more comfortable after seeing someone who looks like me. I think this will do wonders for Tim Anderson's development.

I hope Rollins makes the club in a utility role. I was initially meh on the signing but the more I thought about it the more I liked it. I wonder how much the Sox had Tim Anderson in mind when they made this move. I think that it will do wonders for his development off the field and in the clubhouse to be surrounded by an African American player as distinguished as Rollins. Tim Anderson can go to Jimmy Rollins and instantly be able to relate with him and as a result when Rollins and Anderson are going over stuff (Assuming that Tim Anderson picks his brain) the impact will be that much more immediate.

I think the Sox had a good off-season. They were able to bolster the weakspots on the roster with the addition of Lawrie and Frazier. They were able to the bolster their biggest strength (The rotation) with the addition of Mat Latos and Jacob Turner to a lesser degree. And they were able to both without having to mortgage their long term future or give up and valuable young assets. Yash Thompson, Montas and Johnson are nice players but they're nothing more than a fourth outfielder, a bullpen arm and a utility player/pinch runner. Also they were able to improve their team while managing to hang on to their supplemental pick.

Trying to set up some kind of interview with Jason Groome at the subreddit.

The Witch, holy f*** that was nervewrecking. There was been a resurgence of quality in the horror genre over the course of the past few years. The Insidious films, Occulus, Babadok, It Follows, Sinister to name a few.

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Feb 19, 2016 -> 01:48 PM) Looks like he got his notes mixed up with Gar Forman. Thank you for making my day

I told my partner that I would propose to her if the Sox win 90 games. In all seriousness, I had the Sox winning about 84 games after the Latos signing. For the Sox to win 90 games, everyone on the roster has to perform to the back of their baseball card and the team has to stay healthy, which is going to be interesting to watch considereing that the team signed some guys with reputations of being injury prone (Latos, Avila, Turner, etc).

QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 02:14 PM) I work with a dude who has sex with anywhere from 2-10 dudes a week. He's famous where I am from, but it happens in extreme cases. My partner's ex, is an old friend of mine and he's been out for a few years, he would stay with us every so often. He's appears to be very innocent, church going, nice dude. This past summer, we shot scenes for the miniseries I've been working on in a strip club in Boystown (The location acted as this mob joint). We were setting up our gear and the dancers were getting in position. It was a small crew, about 5 of us: me, my co director, DP, gaffer and our make up artist and only three actors. We wanted this to look as authentic as possible, so we blacked out the windows, the DJ started playing music and we told everyone to have fun and surely enough there's half naked men dancing everywhere and people making out and were shooting all of this. Because I was going over the script, I couldn't meet with the extras we had. A hour into the shoot, Imwe were filming a scene where our protagonist walk in the room. And when they walk in, they get stink eye from these two guys. Our actors kept missing their mark and we had to do a few takes. And every take these two extra get way too into the scene and we had cut because things were getting too real, really nasty stuff. Me and the other director, go up to the actors and tell them to scale it back. One the extra pulls their face out and it's my partner's ex. I was completely shocked, I would never expect someone that innocent to be in a place like this, doing nasty things. They got a little embarrassed but he calmed down and was able to get through the day. We get what we need and I go home. I walk in and my partner tells me that, her ex was supposed to spend the night and my stomach sinks. As I was having a panic attack (I love awkward situations but this was too much), she tells me that he made other plans and cancelled. Ive never been more relieved in my entire life. So everytime, me and her ex see each other around the city, he say don't tell Hannah to each other. Not relationship advice but a funny story.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 05:00 PM) That is awesome. Congrats! QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 05:03 PM) Nice, hope it's everything you want it to be. Thanks a lot and I look forward to seeing Michael Bay in action and you know... THE EXPLOSIONS

My first job on a major film set was secured today, I will be working with the Chicago team on Transformers 5. It seems like my hard work is beginning to pay off.

Saw Triple 9 last night and its absolutely fantastic, forgot how good Casey Affleck is as a lead actor and the ensemble is top notch. The music and editing are great too.