ConstableRabbit

They haven't had Scottie Lindsay for the last two games. They'll be fine.

This guy likes jokes.

wanting lower taxes and easy access to guns are forgivable redneck political ideas. Being pro-Trump makes you a piece of horsefeathers human being. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic -- you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people -- now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks -- they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. But the other basket -- and I know this because I see friends from all over America here -- I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas -- as well as, you know, New York and California -- but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well. And hopefully, those are the MLB players we love who voted for Trump.

A kid turned down a full scholarship at Michigan State to walk on at Northwestern.

I totally thought he was dead after that.

I was excited about Bradley. Loved his OBP the year before and didn't believe that his attitude would compromise his talent. I wanted Pujols. Badly.

Better get, get him a tie that's not a clip-on

Um, I think northwestern is good.

The steakhouse is actually good.

ManesSurgery.

I actually think playing in a 30,000 stadium could be pretty cool.

Isn't the worst candidate ever actually Hillary for managing to lose to Trump? He's talking about "worst" in terms of basic humanity, not the quality of the campaign. Jeez, rough crowd.

Good point, I'll go sit in a corner for my poor judgement. I'm surprised (even though I shouldn't be) that no one even attempted to ask my why I thought they were both terrible candidates. First reaction was "you're wrong, that's dumb, everyone that supported him was stupid or a racist....," but no one is interested in really trying to understand why people were so turned off by their candidate, they'd rather develop a label to easily explain it away.it doesn't matter that they were both terrible candidates (which a lot of us agree with), it's that the one who somehow was able to win was the worst candidate ever. and it ain't even close. Isn't the worst candidate ever actually Hillary for managing to lose to Trump?

Doesn't matter. Trump will meet the Cubs next year so better to share.

Here come a bunch of lame White Sox jokes.

yup compared to what people pay for like netflix, it seems insane http://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenheitner/2017/01/10/why-2-1-million-was-invested-in-a-sports-news-subscription-site/#8290d5742c41 btw, still think it's dumb but at least it looks like they've lowered their rate...$5 a month monthly or $40 for the year. I don't really get why the $2.1m is being touted in the article as if it's some sort of justification that The Athletic is a good idea. That kind of money is peanuts in the VC world. Back-of-the-envelope, I can imagine that it would be incredibly difficult for them to become profitable (people don't like paying, it's probably not that good, people can share subscriptions/email content for free), and given that the audience is likely non-differentiated from the usual sports media consumption crowd and since the access/content/talent are not measurably better than what's at newspapers, I can't see this being a wise acquisition, either. With that said, I can't blame Greenberg, Powers, and Sharma for giving it a shot. Writing sports content for a newspaper must suck.

Not sure about anything specific to playing as a child, but there was a study a few years back mentioned on Real Sports that talked about the prevalence of ALS for soccer players. Basically that they overindex, along with players from some other sports. Here's a clip. ETA: And here's an article about it. The show also mentioned that Lou Gehrig himself suffered multiple concussions, which was interesting.

I swear he does it on purpose. What? Of course he does.

Snapchat.

This is the most analytical group of fans I know and the response to Maddon making some bad calls that luckily didn't blow up in his face is saying "who cares?". That makes ME the meatball fan? in a 180 game season a manager will make some bad decisions. I'm not going to whine about it a month after winning the World Series.Not whining about the bad decision. No asking for an apology. Saying it's out of character for Maddon to mic drop and weirdly crusty coming from a guy who likely knows that horsefeathers was a bad move.

But why? What is the point of making that statement? What will that accomplish? He's been a very blunt, forthcoming manager which has been refreshing in the managing/coaching world, which is incredibly defensive. His response to the bad move(s) he made in the playoffs has been out of character and closer to the norm than the exception we've come to expect with Maddon. It's something Dusty or some other garbage manager would say.

I'm not asking him to apologize -- just to say, "hey I got caught up in the moment and it was definitely not the best decision in hindsight. The good news is that it worked out!" Just because he usually makes the correct moves doesn't mean that he's immune from us saying wtf that was not the best call. This sounds kinda BFIB-ish... This is the most analytical group of fans I know and the response to Maddon making some bad calls that luckily didn't blow up in his face is saying "who cares?". That makes ME the meatball fan?

no, no it isn't. Dusty made stupid decisions repeatedly, in every series in every season, in nearly every game. His entire thought process was flawed garbage. Maddon gets it, and gets it done. He does things the right way much more than most. He did something stupid in that moment but the Cubs won and it should not and will not define him. There is no good [expletive] reason why he should be out there apologizing for anything. I'm not asking him to apologize -- just to say, "hey I got caught up in the moment and it was definitely not the best decision in hindsight. The good news is that it worked out!" Just because he usually makes the correct moves doesn't mean that he's immune from us saying wtf that was not the best call.

"Who cares if it was a stupid decision? It worked!" is some Dusty level horsefeathers.