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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 04:08 PM) I don't quite know what Carson is doing, but he's essentially out of the race. He won't be attending the debate on Thursday and sees no path forward. Not sure what exactly that means and why he hasn't yet suspended his campaign, but that clearly is next. He needs to continue to con seniors out of their retirement money.

Really informative article and quote from DiGenova, an attorney who has been gnashing his teeth at Benghazi for 4 years and contributes heavily to Republicans, and worked for Romney. No actual evidence was provided, just a nice hit piece right as she figures out her candidacy.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 09:17 AM) World Cup Rosters are getting announced today. https://mobile.twitter.com/MarkLazerus/stat...026763563397120 Anisimov and Panarin were named to Team Russia. Teräväinen was named to Team Finland. Dang that's commitment to write out the special characters.

NS I think the disconnect between your view nad others, is that as the road to actual victory becomes more and more remote for Rubio/Cruz, their donation base dries up. People won't keep shelling out money for a lost cause, as Hillary Clinton saw in 2008. It takes money to go all the way to the convention, and they won't have it. So, yes, I think Trump is a foregone conclusion, because the forces that remove others from the race will start to be felt.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 11:27 AM) Ya come to think of it Im struggling to think of many recent sports movies I liked that werent boxing (Creed/Southpaw/The fighter). I suppose Foxcatcher might qualify but as you mentioned I liked the 30 for 30 about Dupont better than Foxcatcher. I also kind of liked Million Dollar arm but I certainly wouldnt call that a popular movie. Rush was great if you haven't seen it.

Does the MVP award come with an additional amount from the league?

Jenks of "what is the coach supposed to do?" reminded me that there are very few actually good basketball coaches, and it's very frustrating we let one get away.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 01:15 PM) Both good points. I tend to think Hickory's point is stronger, because fundamentally, Trump needs to do quite a bit better than he already is to make it work. But bmags' factor is true too. I'm sort of puzzled why most (but not all) the media I am seeing is making it seem so inevitable. It really isn't. Because while Trump has a difficult road to 51%, the others have a pretty much impossible road considering none of them have, say, the poll numbers hillary had on super tuesday, where after South Carolina you knew she'd have an easier road. None of them have a group of states they are ahead in aside from Trump.

I'm pretty certain Q will just have to get a 15 win season for people to take notice. For all the talk about "wins" not being good to evaluate a pitcher, you can tell its dragging him down.

Another part of this is inevitability. People tend to want to vote for the winner. I'm going to guess Trump's polls will get stronger as people will want to begin to feel invested in their campaign.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 12:03 PM) Hoiberg created the issue to get walked on when he benched the teams leader and than was afraid to call out its best player to get in line and run the appropriate offensive system. Everyone is in it for themselves and the reality is, this started a year ago when Gar reportedly gave everyone the authority to start walking on Thibs (because he was a goner) and it got even worse when Hoiberg came in and failed to put things under control. At this point, a new GM absolutely has to be in here, but it is going to take new players for Hoiberg to have any chance at taking things back over (or he's going to have to do something). And I agree, you could never have expected this team to be continually healthy but this is beyond what any of us could have expected from a health perspective and the front office believed it had the depth to withstand it and it might have if they at least did something remotely interesting with the backup PG spot (instead of just bringing back Brooks). That's a good point, and one of the reason Thibs gets as far as he does with players. Thibs would have never sold out to tell the media that he discussed noah on bench. He wouldn't have put Noah in the position to undercut his value. Jimmy would have been on bench if he wasn't doing the system. It would have never came out why, either. He never sold out players publicly.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 11:36 AM) I figure that is the approach but I don't know that Hoiberg gets a pass after this year. He'll officially be on the hot seat in year two. I just haven't seen anything from him that makes me think he's a good coach at this point. He isn't able to hold people accountable and while Gar deserves blame I don't ignore / not put blame on Hoiberg. He is letting the inmates run the asylum. I don't really think much of Hoiberg as a coach if we need to trade our best player to fit his system.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 11:44 AM) There are some interesting thoughts in there, but he seems to be over-pathologizing and the basis for some of his statements/conclusions seem pretty questionable. This seems to leave "academics" as a group without agency and with no political concerns beyond some narcissistic desires. Also, I'm left wondering what exactly that last sentence is referring to. What were Democrats delusional about in the 70's and 80's? The support for this is a link to a blaze.com article about a survey from www.247wallst.com from 5 1/2 years ago. You can find their latest survey fairly easily here. As they note in their explanations, this is a very difficult thing to even measure, and not everything is directly driven by governmental policy choices (North Dakota has been leading their surveys for several years, but that's entirely thanks to the oil extraction boom). For example, California was 49th in the 2012 survey linked by Cowen; it was 21st in the 2015 survey. California was one of the most heavily impacted states from the housing market collapse, and so you see a larger swing. In the most recent survey, 4 out of the top ten states as ranked by www.247wallst.com are run by Democrats compared to 2 of 10 in the dated survey Cowen linked. He also ends by declaring a push for a $15 minimum wage to be signs of delusion, so edit: I used to read MR off and on, but for whatever reason there's a pretty strong "race realist" contingent there in the comments section. Really off-putting. Yes, the comments are horrible, but I haven't seen a good comment section since Ta-Nehisi coates blog, which obviously was so difficult to manage it basically ended the blog.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 11:44 AM) There are some interesting thoughts in there, but he seems to be over-pathologizing and the basis for some of his statements/conclusions seem pretty questionable. This seems to leave "academics" as a group without agency and with no political concerns beyond some narcissistic desires. Also, I'm left wondering what exactly that last sentence is referring to. What were Democrats delusional about in the 70's and 80's? The support for this is a link to a blaze.com article about a survey from www.247wallst.com from 5 1/2 years ago. You can find their latest survey fairly easily here. As they note in their explanations, this is a very difficult thing to even measure, and not everything is directly driven by governmental policy choices (North Dakota has been leading their surveys for several years, but that's entirely thanks to the oil extraction boom). For example, California was 49th in the 2012 survey linked by Cowen; it was 21st in the 2015 survey. California was one of the most heavily impacted states from the housing market collapse, and so you see a larger swing. In the most recent survey, 4 out of the top ten states as ranked by www.247wallst.com are run by Democrats compared to 2 of 10 in the dated survey Cowen linked. He also ends by declaring a push for a $15 minimum wage to be signs of delusion, so edit: I used to read MR off and on, but for whatever reason there's a pretty strong "race realist" contingent there in the comments section. Really off-putting. It's difficult to measure, especially when talking about the quagmire democratic states are largely rustbelt states that are losing population/jobs. But then you have Minnesota. I think it hits on the point though of how could the Dems be so strong nationally and so weak currently at state level, and that would be the "elevation" of a status group within the coalition at a state level. Easy for people to think of well run Republican states and think of Texas/Utah, but the gulf states/lower midwest are there too. Massachusetts/MN have high outcomes. However, it helps explain how these states that are so blue that are getting killed at governor elections.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 11:14 AM) Creed seemed to do pretty well for a sports movie. Yeah boxing movies seem to do well, but they also are kind of an outlier in how accomplished directors take on boxing movies. The 1 on 1 aspect and the training journey is ripe with material. It's also just a lot easier to film then a football play.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 11:09 AM) Cruz had a strong enough showing that he has the card that if the establishment wants to go anti trump, it has to be either him or Kasich. Rubio is toast. Crushed in his own state. He needs to walk away and realize he'll have another shot 4 years from now (because I don't see Trump winning the white house and while Cruz has a better chance, I don't see that either; Kasich or Rubio could win but that doens't appear to matter). I guess if all of them stay in, maybe it keeps the delegate count low enough that you get to a brokered convention and at that point, all bets are off (that said, by that point, the republican party will be so splintered, it would be hard to actually rally behind whomever is truly selected (and I'm sure if Trump loses he'd go independent). Florida hasn't happened yet.

QUOTE (LDF @ Mar 1, 2016 -> 07:24 PM) this is in ref to movie-goers and racially motivated or not racially motivated moves. i am talking about one movie recently release. The Race the story of jesse owens. this movie is great but yet it hasn't even made 15 mil in the US or overseas. why is that??? this is history and of a great athlete and his going to the olympics before the WW2. why so little attendance ??? not enuf white people in the movies ?? then why is the african americans not supporting it ??? 15 million it has made in 3 weeks. Sports movies as a whole are a dying breed, I think likely because the 30 for 30 format is largely feeding that audience. Watching crappy movie recreations of sports moments aren't holding up to actually watching the footage with context added by those who were there. Had Rush come out 10 years earlier, probably does much better. Miracle was the last sports movie I remember anyone seeing en masse.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...-democrats.html It's pretty hard to excerpt a defining paragraph, I think much of this board will find it interesting.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 10:28 AM) I'm going to go to that as well. I'd rather go to the Saturday Game because it's probably a Chris Sale start. Didn't realize that. I am on a 2 week vacation prior to that, didn't want to take off another day at work so soon.

The GOP is unlikely going to deal with a brokered convention. Think about how long elections are now, they aren't going to want to only introduce their candidate 3 months before election before focusing their message. Trump and Cruz have already shown ability to play nice. Eventually the GOP will fall in line. Rubio will drop out after FLA.

Thanks, got Saturday tickets vs. Indians opening weekend.

ewok you are the best.

Thanks, beautiful subforum.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Mar 1, 2016 -> 07:18 PM) I was in 9th all year until the 2nd half of the year. I had Harvey and Kluber the 1st half until I traded them. It's an auction league and sign them to contracts. Read my leagues rules on the last page. Got it. That's insane and hard.

QUOTE (Chi Town Sox @ Mar 1, 2016 -> 03:43 PM) I just think it was a weird fit, personally. Harden is the ballhandler there Right. I thought he would just run a 2nd unit and increase the leads the way the bench mob used to do in Chicago. He may go look to be a starter but I'd enjoy seeing him signed as an experiment. Couldn't hurt.