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Stryker's hate of saladino is among the more bizarre grudges on the site.

Phew, I thought our marketing had fallen off.

I find this very funny for some reason: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archiv...denmark/497543/

You need to reverse. I have baldwin. It's .5 ppr, I still think eventually Bryant will start getting those "every third down throws" he used to get. But bird in the hand, you know.

Friend is giving up on Dez Bryant. Offering him for Baldwin plus i get keenan allen in a keeper league. Thoughts?

I would like to borrow your cat please.

No need to play that game. Lets just admire this 3 position, great base running, great defense, super sub we've developed.

I really enjoy the roundtable pieces where you got writers from across different sites to talk on topics. Obviously, not expecting you to force those writers to always write, but I liked the format to steal from. For articles like "prospect of month" I think it'd be interesting for each to bring their spect vs. just an authoritative article. Since you are also covering the leagues by way of following the sox. I think it would be interesting to get occasional Sally league or other league notes of interesting players or happenings as you come across them.

You guys really spend a lot of time on whether some group of posters you can't remember ever believed or did not believe in a player at any one time.

Don't go in the attic

FYI, posted in financail thread but just some incredibly great news from the census report today. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/business...-2015.html?_r=0 2015 was a great year for people. Incomes up, poverty down, inequality down.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 13, 2016 -> 09:34 AM) I have a hard time believing that keeping those tournament games would have cost the NCAA money. People aren't going to stop going to North Carolina or Duke games because of a law that doesn't affect 99.9% of the population. As caulfield mentions, you aren't thinking of TV. They need CBS to be profitable to get huge deals in future. It's easy choice for them to make, plenty of states have stadiums.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/business...-2015.html?_r=0

The poverty rate dropped from 14.8% to 13.5% year over year. 5 million people are out of poverty from year before. That is incredible\ Hell, just read Justin Wolfers twitter: twitter.com/justinwolfers This is one of the best census reports ever recorded. Largest ever gains from 10th-80th percentiles. Income inequality decreased.

I think you are all overstating the pessimism of Saladino at SS. When we started acquiring, I think it was just weighted with "if we are going to compete you need more than a .620 OPS player at short". That was true, but was least of our troubles.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 13, 2016 -> 09:25 AM) I do agree with the NC GOP lady re: her comment on Baylor. If you're willing to remove your tournaments from the state, why not remove Baylor (or other schools) from competition? Right, the thing about the NCAA is it is too morally corrupt to ever make moral stances, but, they do respond to money. I think this is a sign that hosting there would take a bigger hit due to PR than having things hosted there. Then throw in NCAA moral outrage.

Some really great news as it was just released that real median household incomes rose 5.2% in 2015. We had seen volatile monthxmonth wage growth that looked either good or average depending on the time period, but this shows that finally we are seeing some meaningful wages rising for middle class. Those in the bottom tenth saw incomes rise 7.9%. Just great news.

I was trying to find a thread where we predicted what would be acceptable from Saladino, and I swear it ranged from .630-.650 OPS with stellar defense. Cheers to him on being the one player to truly surpass expectations. The sox have been slowly getting position players to develop into regulars. Now we just need some all stars. That parts easy, thou, obviously.

Why do I love watching the Rams fail? Going to bed leaving myself open for plausible comeback

Boomer is sooooo painful

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QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 12, 2016 -> 05:42 PM) I didn't put them in the same sentence on person. Hastings was perhaps the last real investigative journalist and his work made me interested in politics. I was a huge fan. I've see/heard most all of his interviews. He used to make jokes that he'd never kill himself and if he went missing it was probably nefarious. To your point, Hastings was the first reporter to ever report on Bergdahl. Breitbart was more personality than journalist. Not in the same realm of Hastings but the circumstances around his death understandably led to conspiracy theories. I know, I just wanted to make case for Hastings. His body of work could actually be threatening to US gov't. Breitbart just ruined innocent peoples lives, anything to hurt the optics of the democratic party.

I generally support Snowden as I think the United States should make an explicit decision to support those measures. I'd prefer they explicitly restrict them, but it seems like that is a battle to be fought. I support Greenwald as a journalist but he can be hysterical. Of the work of foreign policy journalists I've always favored Spencer Ackerman and Juan Cole. But I trust that Greenwald will perform due diligence with information. That is my complaint (along with anti-semitism) of Assange. He doesn't appear to understand what he releases.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 12, 2016 -> 05:26 PM) Considering SS had the same response, the misunderstanding is probably on me disseminating my opinion as opposed to you two interpreting it. I get it now, and I think that is a defensible position.

I hate seeing hastings and breitbart in the same sentence. Hastings was an actual journalist who actually rattled leadership. Breitbart was a charlatan. It should be noted that hastings last reporting was on Bagdahl.