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Folks, I am all for gay rights. For sure. But I think people are overreacting. This law isn't mean to deny gays service. The problem, and I'm glad the governor is getting fried, is nobody can understand how to read a f***ing law. The mumbo jumbo legalese is impossible to understand. So this is a lesson to governors everywhere. Write your damn laws in words we can all understand!

Five or so below .500. I hope the team is much better, though. I bought mlb.com package. Nothing would surprise me. I've said it time and again ... can this team start winning series in the Central? I hope we get one in KC to open the season. It would be buzzkill to get swept by the AL Champs who will be playing with house money as everybody honors them opening series.

I hope he makes their team. Would love to see him get a chance.

Awful. No words.

Didn't Obama or his press secretary actually praise OU for kicking those guys out of school? I thought I saw that somewhere. I wonder if there's any update on this story.

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 24, 2015 -> 01:12 PM) Northern weather. It snowed 2 inches yesterday, it's 60 with T-Storms on Wednesday, then it will go down to 15 on Saturday. That's really insane. I hate the March/April snowstorms. Hate to get in an accident or something when it should be 60 every day as a minimum.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Mar 24, 2015 -> 04:09 PM) They didn't rule out 8 in the bullpen to start the year earlier this spring. I don't think it'd be a great idea either. If Sox have eight relievers, let's see if they have the longest games in the majors during that span.

QUOTE (ROC Sox Fan @ Mar 24, 2015 -> 06:03 AM) I love Q, he absolutely deserves it, but Shark makes sense on the match-ups and Sale coming back plus that extra respect card to get him to re-sign with us. No issue with this at all, I've anticipated this all along when Sale went down. I think he will eat up the "new" KC (FU Rios), not as much as Sale would but Ventura vs. our new line up against Big Game Shields' vs. last years line up doesn't phase me. Sox will be 1-0 at the end of the day. Book it. Don't be so confident. That team is talking about doing in the regular season what it did in the postseason last year. Lead after six innings then bring in those 3 untouchable relievers. Also you still have to contain Hosmer, Moose, Cain and Perez who can put up the 3-4 runs that they need to win most games. Sox need to end the hex vs. KC.

Poor Andy Wilkins. Shouldn't they trade him somewhere he's got a chance to play?

Hey who won large class state in Illinois? I lost interest when my beloved Benet team fell out and my beloved Brother Rice team had no chance this season.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Mar 21, 2015 -> 07:16 PM) That's not at all what it says. He's been part of searches with the Cavs, Warriors and Timberwolves. I think he goes to the NBA at some point, but there's nothing to suggest he's ready to leave yet with a Final Four caliber team returning. College coaches have to be in it for more than the slight chance they'll win it all. They make great money as Hoiberg does and they, if successful, are icons in their towns and on their campuses. I know you NBA fans think the NBA is the top and all that, but for the most part, NBA coaches are buffoons and caretakers of the big egos. I have a friend who is a very important NBA official and he told me all the NBA wants nowadays are guys who can make the players laugh. They don't give a f*** about Xs and Os. If Hoiberg and some other college coaches like Self want to coach in that league, more power to them, but coaching in that league is all about the payday, not the experience (unless u get LeBron, Durant on your roster). Fred Hoiberg has a heart history and is beloved in Ames. He has a family. He should stay put, but will he? p.s. What is the Bulls' problem in not appreciating Thibs? He seems dandy to me.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 22, 2015 -> 05:09 AM) They match up well vs Kansas, but Kansas is still a much tougher out than WSU. I know it's a cliche, but Notre Dame really wanted it today in a game against an equally fiery Butler team. We will find out Sunday how much Kansas wants it. Will their sometimes zombielike turnover prone team play balls out basketball as Butler and ND did? We shall see. From what I've seen, ND is a FAR superior team over Kansas.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Mar 22, 2015 -> 02:14 AM) Brad Penny gets $100,000 if he goes to Triple-A for the #WhiteSox. He has an opt out on 6/1 if he's not in the majors. https://twitter.com/CSNHayes/status/579420985671041024 My prediction is they dont hand him 100,000 bucks to go to the minors. He either makes the team or they release him. Giving him the ball is no worse than giving it to Carroll as the fifth starter for one start or two to see if he can pitch. They won't donate 100,000 to him IMO. It's big league team or release.

It's amazing the money in the TV contracts. Are TV networks the only businesses that are thriving during the lean economic years/current recession? All you hear about are the huge network contracts.

He's only 21. Nice to have a bright prospect.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 18, 2015 -> 02:31 PM) I don't agree that expulsion from a public university was appropriate. It seems like a pretty clear violation of their first amendment rights. I have no idea why you're talking about video games, but if they made a game that was explicitly racist as the song they sang and was essentially a pro-KKK game set in 1920's Mississippi or something, it would be even worse than the song just based on the effort of that versus singing a song. It seems like you're still thinking the biggest problems with the song are that they used "n*****" or that it was somehow speaking approvingly of generic, non-racist lynching or something. At least that's the only way I can get to you video game comparison. The problem with the song isn't some sort of generalized approval of violence, it's specifically the racially targeted, white supremacist violence. Your first paragraph ... expulsion was the best decision, a great decision. Top administrators have the right to kick people out of their institutions. The frat members didn't deny that it was them on tape. Unlike a court of law where it's in the courts forever even if it's on tape that a crime was committed, university leaders, high school leaders can boot kids off campus if they do something incredibly asinine. Now maybe a high school would merely suspend the kid a month, but I believe it was full within the president's right to kick the frat boys out of school. Freedom of speech rights? Not in this case. It's a school. They did something terribly infammatory and the president of course had the right to boot their asses back to Texas.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Mar 12, 2015 -> 04:19 AM) It'll blow over Probably, Reddy. I wonder why she killed the 30000 emails. I'd think a simple retrieval method out of the trash could happen if she really wanted the emails read by public. I still think there's a 10 percent chance she doesn't run cause of the scrutiny. You guys think greg is crazy, but seriously .... she should not run at all; she should not campaign, then right before the convention decide to run. It'd be a lousy thing to do to the other candidates, but by being coy and leaking this strategy, she could just coast in at convention time after NO campaigning and still get the nomination. I truly think Hillary is different; she doesn't need to campaign, and could avoid the pesky media if she wished. She should hire me as her consultant I tell you. She's one candidate the less the public sees, the better. My strategy would guarantee fluff interviews til the convention. Q: Are u going to run Hillary? Reports are you are still considering a late entry? A: Well I am not planning on that as we speak. Result: HEADLINES. ALL POSITIVE.

Hillary Clinton is catching some serious heat about deleting 30000 emails. People are showing her mugshot next to Sarah Palin and mocking Hillary's looks. Why would she want the hassle of being president aside from the stuff I've mentioned before. This should be very interesting if the media decides to keep ruffling her feathers rather than worshiping her presence.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 10, 2015 -> 08:43 PM) a. There are a lot of people for whom that level of racism is just normal. We just don't hear about it until we get blatant examples, instead we hear about how its no longer a problem. b. They're kids. You've said yourself you did stupid things in college, we all probably have different versions of that. If you've grown up surrounded by people who think its ok to use the N word and joke about lynching, throw in a couple stupid college decisions and let's make this video and go cheer for the OK football team. c. You haven't paid much attention to actual incidents of racism since the year 2000. For crying out loud, go take a look at the Ferguson Police Department report. Those were policemen on duty making the same kind of jokes in their official email accounts. Good points all. Yeah I did some dumb things in college for sure. I don't know what I'd have done back then if I was on a bus and somebody started singing that. I would hope I would have stopped it. It's possible the me back then might have rebelled and stopped it on the spot. I remember one time in our frat, we were in a room, and we were passing a bottle of whiskey around (I guess we weren't afraid of germs) and a freshman opened his throat and started chugging the whole bottle and I knocked it out of his hands lest he kill himself. I hear you, though. Good points.

Did you see the SAE fraternity members singing a racist song while on a bus going to a party with dates from a sorority? "There will never be a (bleep) in SAE? I'd rather see them hang from a tree than join SAE???" Those are close to the exact words of the song. The Oklahoma University president within 24 hours of the release of the racist video closed the doors of the frat and told all members to get out. They ripped down the letters SAE from the building as well. They now will investigate and probably expel whatever students were doing the singing. My question is: a.) how can people be so racist in 2015?? b.) how can kids in this modern era do something so stupid and racist in the age of cell phone taping? Sure enough somebody taped it and released it. I want to know when the sorority members who also were laughing and singing get kicked off campus as well? I think this is one of the worst incidents of racism I've ever heard of since the Year 2000. Disgusting.

I hope Sox are either in first place or within 3-4 games when Rodon joins the rotation. On paper, if he's as good as advertised, Sale, Rodon, Q will be a great starting three to go with Shark and Danks. Lotta lefties, though. Lefthanded hitters on opposing teams are not going to enjoy four-game series vs. the Sox. Lefty hitters in the Central division are not gonna enjoy all those games against the Sox lefties. Righties will love the chance tho.

Here's what I meant about Hilly being entitled and figuring it's "her rightful turn" to be Prez. This Saturday Night Live skit is funny but so spot on. http://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-snl-...-174551623.html

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 3, 2015 -> 04:40 PM) This email thing is another reason why I wish someone beside Clinton could emerge. Considering the roll the US was on in the 90s, the lack of signature accomplishments by Clinton is embarrassing, especially environmentally. I just don't like the fact the only reason people say Hilly should be the next president is "she deserves it." This isn't the Queen of England honor. There should be no sense of entitlement with the office of president.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 2, 2015 -> 03:50 PM) I'm very confused by this. Looks like an overreaction, even though the homeless guy was throwing haymakers are the start of the video. They get him down on the ground, someone decks him, they tazer him, and then almost while a cop is on top of the homeless guy, another cop starts shooting. That is MURDER. You can't in a civilized nation shoot and kill a guy in cold blood. There were several cops beating on the guy and tazing him. Some cop is going to jail for a long time.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 2, 2015 -> 02:53 AM) You are one of the first fraternity guys I've seen that can easily use the word "Frat". I've always been that way for some reason. I know what you mean, though.