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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 13, 2014 -> 03:59 AM) I agree. Those people at that counter should be maced and beaten with clubs. That's america. I'm slow tonight. I have no idea what your last two posts meant.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 12, 2014 -> 07:30 PM) I understand the scaring part, the faux threats, the treasure hunts that could get you in trouble, even th drinking competitions. But the sodomy stuff, what THE f***. Not only would I never want that done to me, but I would never ever in a million years want to do that to someone else Yeah, that's how I feel.That's why I posted that about evil coming out in these cases. To want to do that to someone else means the perpetrator is depraved. Is a sexual deviant. I guess they are out there and when you are allowed to turn the lights off as a senior and scare the freshmen, the deviants in the group apparently see it as a way to perhaps get away with a sexual crime. Weird and sad and sickening cause like you say a normal person doesn't want to sodomize a freshman football player. I'm glad they canceled the season. The innocent kids ... yes I"m sad for them, but hopefully they can go out of basketball. Or some of 'em can, or track in the spring.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 12, 2014 -> 07:41 PM) I know. Could you imagine preventing a business from being able to serve customers just because of unfair treatment? How horrible that would be. That's totally un-American. Thing is, once the protestors start doing stuff to impede other people's rights ... that's when the protestors are gonna get maced and beaten with clubs, etc. You can't block entrances to stores, and prevent traffic from going through lights, etc. Seems like the protestors are getting antsy and causing some commotion rather than being peaceful.

TMZ caught the NBC employee who was quarantined out shopping. So you could see how selfish stupid people could help spread this rather quickly.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 12, 2014 -> 02:51 PM) The coming of age and membership rituals go back centuries. From long periods of fasting and isolation to debutante balls they all are part of the same ritual behavior arc. We have graduations, retirement parties, swearing in ceremonies, and dedications. Think about the blood brother rituals, the fight your way in, or sex your way in to certain groups. Prove you are tough, can take pain, be silent, respect the traditions, etc. Now why do some groups take these to extremes? Great post. A pessimist could say man is inherently evil or evil exists and if perverted people are included in the group the ritual makes it easy to bring out the evil. If those 7 perpetrators are sexually depraved people this gives them an opportunity to commit violent sex acts and maybe get away with them. The evil comes out in the ritual. These acts are definitely crimes and it should be interesting to see if those 7 kids go to jail or get only probation. Intersting quote in the Yahoo article today... "Getting to the root of the problem is difficult when victims, for the most part, are trying to become part of an inner group," said Brendan Dwyer, assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University's Center For Sport Leadership and a former college football coach. "They're willing to be part of a hazing ritual if they're going to be accepted on a team."

Lot of arrests last night. Protestors are getting more aggressive. Holding a sit in front of a place of business and preventing people from people going in is not a good idea. St. Louis police chief says rocks were thrown at cops. That's another good way to have mass arrests happen.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 12, 2014 -> 06:49 PM) Hospital stated it was due to a violation of treatment protocol without saying what the violation was. This hospital isn't covering themselves in dignity. This article really states how serious this is. They quarantined the woman's pet and have put fliers on the doors of a lot of people's apartments in a four-block radius. There just has to be a good chance some more who were in contact with the hospital worker come down with symptoms.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 12, 2014 -> 05:01 AM) People on here absolutely s*** on De Aza whenever they got the opportunity, you included. We're frustrated cause he stunk in Chicago. Who is to blame is the question.

I've never understood these hazing crimes. Seven high school football upperclassmen in Jersey are likely facing prison time for basically raping freshmen in the locker room. Four kids would allegedly pin the freshman player down while others did bad sexual stuff to the freshman. I've read stories in the past about high school and even college teams doing this kind of stuff. If I'm a head football coach the first day of practice or at a team meeting the day before practice I read the players the riot act. I tell them "there is no f***ing hazing in my program. I don't care if it's a "tradition" to haze, it will not happen. We are a team, freshmen through seniors. If I get word of anybody doing anything improper you are not only off the team but the cops will be notified immediately." Geezus. WTF were these 7 kids thinking. Thankfully my frat didn't haze in college aside from the seniors throwing eggs at us after we returned from Walkout. I'd have quit that frat before I let anybody haze me. I don't let anybody abuse me physically even if its tradition passed down. Also no sports teams I ever played on pulled this bulls***. Any of u been "hazed?" http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2014...al_assault.html

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 11, 2014 -> 04:11 PM) A few million dollars a year could change anyone's mind. Yep. Great post. Money talks. Why the Dodgers think they have to pay him a ton of money though is beyond me. He's just another guy IMO although I will give him props for '05.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Oct 12, 2014 -> 12:21 AM) De Aza is just a good ballplayer. Shame a lot on here couldn't see it. A lot "on here?" Blame the White Sox front office and coaches. He was a headcase in Chicago with all those mental mistakes on the basepaths and miscues in the outfield. The Sox pretty much were forced to dump him for little to nothing in return. Even Hawk and Stoney got on him on TV he was so bad. If he's a great ballplayer, it doesn't look good that the Sox were not able to bring it out of him.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 11, 2014 -> 06:39 AM) Bud Norris will go in Game 2. Here's why, 18/79 (current Royals) against him, just one homer, six RBI's (Ibanez has hit him the best and most, and is likely to get the nod over Butler IMO at DH), .228/.274/.291/.565 slash line. Likely Game 3 starter Wei-Yin Chen has been battered and bruised by KC. 41/129, 6 homers, 17 RBI's, Hosmer and Butler with two homers each, .318/.343/.535/.878 slash line. Seems quite obvious, but the Orioles simply have to win behind Norris, because the loudest stadium in MLB history and those startling career statistics against Chen equals doom if they go to KC down 2-0 in a best of 7. Think it's a good thing for KC that Ventura gets to go in the daytime/late afternoon instead of the primetime lights. The glare/shadows will definitely help him out a lot. This is why all the advanced stats don't matter much of the time. Norris gave up nine hits in 4 1/3 innings. Norris sucked today. One thing is for sure. Tigers fans have to be wondering how the Sox (2005) and Royals (this year) have had no problems winning postseason games compared to their poor Tigers who more often than not, choke.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 10, 2014 -> 03:07 AM) It's not outrageous to think Ned Yost should be fired after the playoffs. I chuckle at all the criticism of managers. He implements the bunt. Big deal. Lots of teams still bunt. His one mistake this year IMO was bringing in Ventura in relief the other night. Other than that it's just fans being fans in criticizing him. If you lose you can always blame the manager. People are blaming Robin for certain moves he makes with the historically inept bullpen. So dumb IMO.

Makes sense. He'd have more money to work with. No biggie either way.

This has all spread to St. Louis. Protestors stopping cars, stopping traffic, some rock throwing. This is starting to heat up on ustream tonight. My guess is once the gangs get involved in this it could get ugly. Something's got to be done. This situation in the St. Louis area is a powerderkeg. It could go either way right now, but people seem to be getting more violent. You might call me an alarmist, but from the video I've seen I wouldn't want to be in those cars stopped by the mobs. The mobs have been yelling at people in the cars and wouldn't let an ambulance through for a while finally relenting. Once somebody sets one of these cars on fire, or tips one over, look out. Obama is going to have to get involved. This is tipping toward violence. Ferguson protests on a nightly basis were becoming "routine" with lots of chanting, no violence. This St. Louis stuff is a much tenser deal.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 9, 2014 -> 08:13 PM) There is a huge, huge difference between baiting law enforcement and/or other government officials into reacting a certain way and baiting asshole Cardinals fans into reacting a certain way. Yeah, last night's video was pretty compelling. Any pictures of the scene have to be award winners. One of the video bloggers had shots of black women about a foot from the faces from a white cop, yelling at him and screaming at him. He didn't do anything and tried not to look at them. They were so close to his face it was creepy.

Good column by Whitlock IMO. He says the "no justice no peace" protesting crowd is missing the boat. He says the protestors at the Cardinals game were trolling for trouble. The violent overtones here will not play well at the Cardinals' games coming up. http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/1166898...s-busch-stadium

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 9, 2014 -> 06:17 PM) The kid fired three shots before being shot himself, but his family is insisting that the police mistook his sandwich for a gun, so the sandwich must have fired the shots. This spread of misinformation is amazing and dangerous. I was watching ustream last night and it was really tense in St. Louis. At one point the protestors did stop traffic until the cops showed up. It could have gotten really bad had some of the protestors decided to smash the car windows or hurt the people in their cars, etc. They were all talking about 16 rounds shot into the victim and how he was just holding a sandwich. Crazy times. And Twitter just has people frothing at the mouth printing misinformation like it's the facts.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 9, 2014 -> 02:43 PM) No it isn't. How would the deputy get it then if he merely was in the guy's apartment checking it out?

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 9, 2014 -> 03:01 PM) I am pretty sure most men have been to strip clubs and those who say otherwise I straight up lying. And "many" or most men got drunk in college or smoked pot or had a one night stand along the way. Crazy how going to the strip club probably costs this guy this election.

So Brownback, the loon Republican in Kansas who has hurt this state in many ways already, catches a break and probably will win. What did the Democrat do? Heaven forbid he went to a strip club when he was single in his 20s. Oh the horror. Looks like the conservative voters who abhor strip clubs will use that as a character flaw of the democrat. What a joke. p.s. This is why a friend of mine, who now is an important federal judge, never drank or smoked pot in college and never picked up a girl for a one-night stand. He'd only be with a college coed in a proper dating situation. He knew he had aspirations of being big-time and did not want to do anything that could come back to haunt him. He led an impeccably clean lifestyle so nobody could do something like this to him someday. He once confessed to me that indeed was the method to his madness, not giving people anything to use against him someday. Brownback being re-elected? Wow.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 8, 2014 -> 09:04 PM) If they are rioting they are not innocent. I meant innocent people like ones who might be driving their cars into a neighborhood that's rioting. People turning over the cars and killing the drivers, etc. I'm thinking there's a chance of all-out mayhem in the streets of many cities in anger after the cop is not charged. I mean, this thing could go either way. It could just be a Ferguson thing or could spur riots in big cities like St. Louis, etc.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Oct 8, 2014 -> 11:02 PM) The guy who had it has died. And apparently a deputy who entered the guy's apartment is now showing symptoms If so, then this Ebola may be morphing into a condition that can be spread in more ways than trading of bodily fluids. Hmmm....

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Oct 8, 2014 -> 09:45 PM) But those other issues are often there and what you look for when rebuilding. Is this manager the person to get you to the next level when you have the personnel in place. There's little about Ventura that indicates he knows what he's doing, imo. And even the defenders can't really itemize the good things he does. Your post is ridiculous IMO. You said, "There's little about Ventura that indicates he knows what he's doing, imo." How can you say that? No manager in the history of baseball would have been able to win any more games with that pathetic bullpen. Robin actually did a helluva job coaxing as many saves as he did out of that s*** bullpen. He switched closers at exactly the right time, riding a few of them for as many saves as anybody possibly could. When the current "closer" closed himself out of a job, Robin switched at exactly the right time. There's no way in hell any fair person could disagree with his use of the bullpen. Of course the bullpen made him look bad several times. Again, nobody could have made better bullpen choices. To all the Coop lovers ... when is he going to "fix" some of these bullpen guys as he does starters? Next ... you could argue Robin did some stupid things like bunt when you didn't want him to. These are criticisms of basically all managers that bunt. Whenever a manager calls for a bunt you could criticize such a call. HOWEVER many managers still do call for the bunt. Just say you hate the bunt and managers that call for the bunt in ANY instance, don't pin it on Robin. It's still a play firmly implanted in baseball's "book." As far as defense and bonehead decisions by players ... I will accept a possible criticism there of Robin. I have no idea if they work on defense and baserunning and bunting enough during spring training and/or the regular season. It's possible he's deficient in working on these skills enough. Finally, the use of everyday players and the batting order ... considering the entire roster, he pretty much used the players perfectly. Nobody was clamoring for any certain player to play more. He played the best guys and did a damn fine job of managing a roster that was exceedingly deficient. And as far as the clubhouse ... by all accounts he's done a marvelous job. His handling of the Sale incident appears to be masterful. By all accounts, we've been told the players like him. I'm assuming they respect him; I have no way of knowing that.

The protestors spoke in New York and said, "Be prepared to die if you come join us in Ferguson." They are planning to go crazy when the cop is not charged. Total rioting. Some pundits fear this one could spread and be a powderkeg for lots of riots all over the USA. This is one of those deals that could get a lot of innocent people killed in rioting over the USA.