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Come on offense. You score 11 runs yesterday, but can't hit Gil f***ing Meche?

s***.

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ May 30, 2009 -> 06:49 PM) ...and nor far behind is trading for Juan Pierre. We could have had him for a bag of balls prior to Manny's injury. Now, he is indispensable for them until Manny returns.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 30, 2009 -> 06:43 PM) First pitch pop up by Pods. The magic for Pods is completely gone. If Josh can still play left field, you gotta bring up Beckham for third. Pods is just horrible.

Pods, I don't have much confidence in you here, but just knock in Getz, please.

Atta boy Getz. come on Josh, get him in.

Leadoff walk for Getz. Let's steal second and then Josh can knock him over.

I hope the crow is lo-cal!!

QUOTE (fathom @ May 29, 2009 -> 03:55 PM) Has anyone noticed how fat Russell Martin is now? He really needs to cut down on the partying. I thought his Canadian-model girlfriend settled him down. That was him right?

Come on Kemp. I feel like he is the team's most dangerous hitter w/o Manny. Have a 2-homer day.

God I hate Marmol. Yeah he's got great stuff, but he walks the world.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 29, 2009 -> 03:31 PM) But as an athlete, you need a lot less merit to get into a school like that. Do you really think that Deng got a high enough score on the SAT to actually get in as a normal applicant? It's pretty damn hard to get into Duke. Obviously not. Duke is a top 10 academic school, not many athletes can get in there like Myron Rolle if he wanted to. But I am pretty confident in saying that Deng is smarter than Rose, appreciably smarter at that.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 29, 2009 -> 03:28 PM) Heh... Fixed. Looks like I'm the dummy.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 29, 2009 -> 03:09 PM) If Derrick was really that good to begin with, why the hell did he need the grades to get into Memphis? Is Memphis even a good academic school? Dumbass kids get into Duke just based off athleticism. You're telling me that Luol Deng is that much smarter than Derrick Rose? Hell, if anything, he would have made the changes to get into either U of I or Indiana, because those schools are actually good at certain majors. I think Luol is a lot smarter than Rose. Remember, while Deng may not appear that smart in interviews based on talking, he isn't a native speaker like Rose. And at Duke, especially under Coach K, you wouldn't be allowed to be a moron like Rose academically. As much as I hate Duke and K, they take academics seriously and Rose could never have dreamed of going to Duke.

The Dodgers patience at the plate will help against Marmol. I think they scratch out one against him or Gregg. Now, Billingsly has to hold the one-run Cub lead.

Kemp!!

Another thing that is wrong here is making kids even go to college because it clearly isn't for everyone. IMO, it should be you either can skip college and go to the NBA or you go to college and have to stay for at least three years like the NFL. Rose never should have stepped foot in a college classroom because it just makes a mockery of the entire system. How many times did he go to class? How many times did he actually do his work?

David Delucci (sp) was designated for assignment by the Indians. I would like him as a fourth OF more than Wise.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 29, 2009 -> 11:45 AM) What's funny is that this is all the NCAA could dig up with regards to Reggie and Derrick. This also shows how Illinois had no chance at Rose...ever. Weber was not going to give a kid's brother some money and deal with all his shenanigans.

Maybe this will be the opposite of our normal hitting days. Usually, a guy with s*** numbers owns us. But we hit Bannister well, so maybe a guy with great numbers will get the s*** kicked out of him. I know it's frustrating losing three straight sweep opportunities, but just keep winning series.

Once you go skim, you never go back. After a while you get used to the taste of skim and come to enjoy it.

A lot of this also comes down to Reggie Rose who clearly is the ring leader in this. Derrick is clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer and Reggie needed to live vicariously through Derrick to realize his own failed basketball dreams. So he probably told Derrick there is nothing wrong with cheating on the SAT, everyone does it to play college b-ball and told him more lies. He looks up to his brother in a big way and follows his orders acquiescently. I blame Derrick a lot and this shows what a moron he is, his lack of character and really makes me like him less, but Reggie Rose is the biggest culprit IMO.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 29, 2009 -> 10:13 AM) He cheated in high school. We've all done it, he just did it better than most. Good for him. You've had a grade illegally changed on a transcript and cheated on your ACT or SAT? Because it's clearly not the same cheating than just taking an answer from a classmate during a test. Yeah, we've most all glanced at a kid next to us for an exam answer, but I doubt anyone here did what Rose did.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 29, 2009 -> 09:40 AM) Lets be clear here, the guy never cheated in sports, it wasnt steroids, it wasnt a game day thing, he cheated so that he could get to the next level in an organization that he had no future in anyway. Its really not that big of a deal to me now to be honest. DROSE is too good of a bball player for this to do ANYTHING to his image. I'm pretty sure everyone or at least 99.9 percent of folks on this site knew he had cheated at some point in the process. That's part of the problem, though. We overlook negative things about our sports heroes because they are real good at their sport. That's OK?

I personally think this is as bad as the ML steroid users. If we lambaste those guys, Rose should be, too. What does it say about us if we shed a blind eye to someone who had to cheat in two major ways just to get into college for athletics?