Everything posted by bmags
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NCAA basketball 2015-16 thread
In the Kim anderson era, mizzou is 3-29 against power 5 opponents. Against power 5 opponents this year, they have been down 20 points at least once in ever game.
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Cespedes Re-signs with the Mets
Well. 3 days before frazier trade we heard frazier talks were dead. I'll just hold that memory.
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Financial News
Don't buy AAPL for short term gains as smarter people manipulate the stock better than you can. If you like their company and how absurdly low their P/E is, this shouldn't worry you too much.
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Cespedes Re-signs with the Mets
I'd say I want news, but the reality is I only want good news at this point.
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Ken Griffey gets 99.32% of Hall of Fame vote. Highest ever.
QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 7, 2016 -> 11:01 AM) I wonder if it is the voter who voted for Eckstein. When David Eckstein is on a ballot, you can't pass up that chance to vote for him.
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Ken Griffey gets 99.32% of Hall of Fame vote. Highest ever.
I would love to have been able to say that I cast a ballot for Ken Griffey Jr. to be in the hall of fame.
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2015-2016 NBA Thread
QUOTE (Knuckles @ Jan 6, 2016 -> 08:22 PM) Bulls quietly putting a nice streak and offense as potent as we have seen it, Fred Hoiberg finally payin off? Yes, I fall for it every time, and everytime I remember that there is no sport where repetition with the same group matters more than basketball.
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Financial News
Excellent article if you have access. i learned a lot http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-...aluable_company
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Oregon
I was surprised Oregon police have let the men go in and out for supplies.
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2015-2016 NFL Thread
QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jan 7, 2016 -> 09:29 AM) This makes sense and is something the Bears should have done to protect Cutler. The Bears carousel of coaches on the offensive side of the ball and hiring defensive minded coaches sans the buffoon Treastman has led to a constant state of flux. Now Gase is gone and in comes a new offensive guy. It seems the offense changes annually. No. Nobody is going to look at the Bucs firing their head coach to promote their coordinator and say "Bears should have done that".
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Cespedes Re-signs with the Mets
The three year thing is really so stupid.
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2015-2016 NFL Thread
Why the hell would you fire lovie two years into his tenure as every other team in the league looks for a new coach?
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NCAA basketball 2015-16 thread
God Missouri is awful. Kim Anderson killed the program.
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2015-2016 NBA Thread
QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 6, 2016 -> 06:15 PM) You were the guy at the Rec center that everyone hated playing with, weren't you? I was open
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Ken Griffey gets 99.32% of Hall of Fame vote. Highest ever.
While I'm happy for him...who is the idiot that doesn't vote for him? That Babe Ruth wasn't unanimous says all you need to know.
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Cespedes Re-signs with the Mets
I still think at this point I'd take power over OBP. I would have preferred Gordon, but I could not stand how it took 4 singles to get a run last year.
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Anderson wants to prove he can play SS
Can WE hire Ron Washington?
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Cespedes Re-signs with the Mets
QUOTE (SoCalSox @ Jan 6, 2016 -> 04:14 PM) His 1.4 fWAR w/ Houston was in 2014. Not very long ago at all, actually. I think caulfield is trying to say the 1.4 is probably a better benchmark to look at.
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2015-2016 NBA Thread
Also, I say this as a horrible basketball player who could not shoot worth a damn... It is very hard to turn down open long shots.
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Heyman: Justin Upton to the Tigers
This is a pretty smart move by Upton, but I would be terrified.
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Oregon
QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Jan 6, 2016 -> 02:42 PM) The crux of the issue between the citizenry and the BLM/other federal agencies (largely the US Forest Service) is in regards to economic activity on that land. Rural communities in the West are dependent on extracting resources from that land for economic livelihood. That economic need is balanced against environmental, climate, and conservation needs. Most of the economic drivers are hard on the land. The not-fringe position is returning the land operated by the BLM/USFS to the states. The Senate actually took up a vote earlier this year that would have paved the way for this transfer of land (couldn't get to 60 votes). As mentioned earlier in this thread, there are significant costs associated with the states taking on that land including, but not limited to, the massive amount of funds the feds spend fighting forest fires on federal land (and private land) each year. The BLM has its problems, but the critics of the BLM and the USFS is economic in nature. Calling the feds the bad guy and those opposed to the feds the good guys (your category B), grossly misstates the actual issue regarding the use and control of federal land in the West. Finally, on the pardoning, in light of the economic costs associated with wildfires in the West, if the Hammonds were pardoned it would exclusively be because a bunch of armed militia occupied federal land. Even in the event that a pardon was justified, and the occupiers themselves faced prison time for their acts, it emboldens militia in these land use disputes. After the incident at the Bundy ranch, the feds really can't embolden those groups further. I disagree with mandatory minimums, but I've in practice seen them used in scenarios much, much worse than this. And honestly, arson in the west is a pretty terrible thing. Forest fires cost billions to fight every year, push insurance costs through the roof, and endanger hundreds of lives. It's a more serious issue than I think you are giving it credit for. Thank you, I enjoyed all of this post. "The BLM has its problems, but the critics of the BLM and the USFS is economic in nature. Calling the feds the bad guy and those opposed to the feds the good guys (your category B), grossly misstates the actual issue regarding the use and control of federal land in the West." I agree. I don't actually support many of the economic arguments. The grazing rights are already subsidized, and quite frankly, in a degree that would be difficult for the states to accomplish as easily as the Fed Gov't. But currently there seems to be too much tacit local sympathy of violent and destructive measures just because of the negative view toward those federal agencies. Usually when that happens, the viewpoint of group B is "yeah they went too far, but they had no choice" Whether or not is is usually patently absurd. With cases like this where: - The economic changes they request are a non-starter - Restrictions are likely to increase (as they have in last 4 years) A responsible way to still accommodate that population is to make sure there is a structure in place to hear their concerns and recommendations. While moving to the states would obviously also give it a huge advantage to reduce local restrictions, it's also evidence of a lack of process. The bolsheviks did not support the leftist parties in Europe, as their piecemeal socialist victories like 40 hour work week were enough to satiate the local population and weakened their foothold for recruitment and revolution. The lesson there is when there is destructive, adamant minority, the local population is especially prone to submitting to the will of that group. Undercutting that with some goodwill measures can go a long way toward stability. For your last paragraph, you are probably right. The likelihood is they have no control of what happened after starting the fire, and that it wasn't larger was luck. But, despite SS's claims, there are many reports I've read that they have a lot of local support. The father here is older, admitted guilt and served time. Frankly, to me, reducing a federal statute applying more time to a local man is a pretty good symbol to start some outreach.
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Alex Gordon Thread
Rabbit do you need to be asked? Rock? Rock I know your source dried up but what are your thought on asking.
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Oregon
QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 6, 2016 -> 01:53 PM) Then I remain confused as to why you seem to have zero understanding and think pardoning a couple of ranchers who have broken the law repeatedly for over 20 years, threatened various federal employees, and endangered the lives of others would have a positive impact on local relations with the BLM. eta Nancy Langston, the author of the NYT piece I linked, is a professor of environmental science and published her first book in 1995. I am reasonably sure that she is not 24 years old. eta2: also I would appreciate if you would acknowledge that the Hammonds were made explicitly aware that the government was going to appeal the original sentence, that the government wase guaranteed to win that appeal, and that the sentence that would be imposed was the same deal that the Hammonds agreed to. It doesn't seem particularly "cruel" but absolutely routine. I have explained myself clearly. You have held two ideas in your head that a) there is a fringe population in the west that has acted out in illegal and damaging activities due to an ideology that they have been slighted by the fed regulation of the land. There is a fringier population among them who is currently holding land hostage by force. b) There is a larger population of people that do not support the first part of a and certainly second part of a, but do support policies in a range of exploitative grazing/mining or use of land for quads. Yet actually hold them all together as one group. My concerns are about group B, whom in all reports on your google searches on the matter, do not support the actions of A, but always caveat to sympathize with the handling of the lands under federal management. You continue to read that, and assume it's about group A. You remind me of discussions of Black Lives Matter, where no discussion of the actual grievances of human people matter because you really want to talk about the group that rioted. Nothing and no where have I stated anything that the group that stormed the federal land should receive leniency in punishment. In a similar way that you may pardon a protestor arrested for legitimate reasons but has sympathetic support may be a strategic consideration to show understanding, pardons could be applied to groups StrangeSox doesn't actually agree with. Also, the "years of government outreach" do not necessarily mean anything. Good governance is effective governance.
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Oregon
None of what I said is arguing against your second and third paragraphs, except that I disagree that pardoning does nothing. Please, for the love of god, stop posting a bunch of article put together by 24 year olds who googled this for 3 hours. I have already THEM and already read the articles that they GOOGLED.
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2015-2016 NBA Thread
Jenks, we get it, your entirety of bulls fandom is being pissed off that rose destroyed his knees and is not openly talking about how he's a terrible player. He should not be fined every time he shoots a 3. He has halved his 3PA this year. He's trying.