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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 20, 2015 -> 12:27 PM) Anyone here have experience building a house not in a subdivision? We're considering doing this in 3-5 years but I wouldn't even know where to start trying to find a home builder/general contractor who doesn't want to build $500k+ homes. NOt sure what city it is, but sometimes if you have no clue where to start the city/town has approved contractors for houses. Angie's list better place to start. If you google architects I'm sure you could start narrowing down.

I'm looking forward to some analysis that can bring clarity to this mess.

Wow. Didn't expect that.

is there a good rundown of what happened at this thing I can be pointed to?

I was amazed when I read the grantland article reviewing the previous project greenlight winners that they all clocked in at like 70 minutes.

No way we could get Arenado.

Yes. To everyone in the country and the world, the reason why this is a story, and why the fault lies entirely with the administrators and police, is that upon questioning the kid and clearly seeing it is not a bomb, and exactly what the kid said it was (a clock), they arrested him. The administrators are both adults and paid to be better.

Yes, it is possible. And when that law enforcement arrived, and he told them it was a clock, and they see it's clearly a clock, they could have done the obvious thing and... not put him in handcuffs. Problem solved. As for everything else, if he says it looks like a bomb, that sounds an awful lot like it is not a bomb, eh?

I doubt it. The DA is more important in that respect anyway. As they could move forward even without victim help.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Sep 23, 2015 -> 08:44 AM) I can't believe anyone is really surprised that the school officials over-reacted the way they did. We hear stories all the time of kids being suspended for bringing cough drops to school, or having a plastic butter knife in their lunch bag. Or eating a god damn POP TART into the shape of a gun. I'm pretty sure a kid could bring an actual clock into school and someone would think it's a bomb. At least they are punishing in-house. I think it's a big problem that schools lean so heavily on law enforcement for discipline. My high school changed policies in High School to arrest any students in fights. We had the highest amount of arrests in the state, I believe. Fights didn't go down, but dozens of kids were sent through the criminal justice system who otherwise didn't need to. I'm sure that improved things.

The thing that I do not like, aside from this specific story, is when national stories about teenagers come up, when people view the kids actions in a lens of them being psychopathic, calculated adults, and not ...this scene: To take reports of him being evasive and sarcastic when being questioned by authority figures for doing nothing wrong and thinking that makes it likely he was put up to it vs. it makes him more human and a teenager is bizarre. You want to know why people reached out to him? Because many saw this story and thought "aw man I remember when I was a teenager and trying things, I'd be heartbroken if that was the response". And there's nothing wrong with that.

If people think that the kid may be being taken advantage of once in the spotlight and used as a symbol...yes, I do think that is a possibility and likely.

I would recommend if we do go in lightly, and cannot improve offense, any addition needs to improve defense. Not maximizing the pitching staff would be poor.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 22, 2015 -> 04:38 PM) I want more facts but my position is the cops over-reacted in cuffing him. The facts are blurry. One report I saw said the initial teacher the kid was trying to impress told him it was a nice job but don't bring the clock around the school or people might think it's a bomb. The kid did anyway. My point is I think there's a real possibility daddy set this all up. Again, is it possible he was just being a kid?

Thank you for listing some possibilities explicitly, we couldn't have interpreted that from the context of DA's post.

But he wasn't sent to the principals office. He was arrested. A kid was arrested at school for, in his spare time, tinkering with a clock to show his teacher. The problem you are not seeing, is that is not just a mistake in handling, that absolutely should not happen. Kids in school who outside of school are continuing to do educational activities should not be punished. They should be encouraged. Hence the response to encourage a kid who had been discouraged in the harshest way possible (outside of shooting him). You are seeing a kid who had been jailed and automatically assuming there is a reason for it, and that he is a threat. He could have been obnoxious, and he could be arrogant. That's part of being a teenager. He should not have been jailed. But he was. That's a fact you can't wash over. People see a wrong like that and they want to try and make it right in a cosmetic way. You see a wrong and think, well maybe they were right.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Sep 22, 2015 -> 04:16 PM) Personally, I find Sanchez's second half incredibly encouraging. He has a .281/.324/.438 line and has played plus defense all season. If his bat can stay at a low to mid .700 OPS range, he's a 3-3.5 WAR player. I hope that is the case, and I hope he just is a slow starter after promotion. But what if he is a player that has a 1.5 -2 month slump of complete futility, and then those numbers? Overall, I think we will be fine at 2b/C, 2b we should see if we can keep a cheap player on their rookie deal, C I think will be too expensive and not provide the offensive boost needed (even if a relative improvement).

There are not two issues. They are the same.

Trying to imagine the situation where the people who overzealously jailed an innocent minor for bringing a clock to school are not the issue, but those who overzealously praised a student whose clock was not actually that impressive.

I honestly have no clue. We have one star on offense and then a whole bunch of average to below average. Yet the outfield is crowded with crap and hard to change due to organizational committments and money. The infield...well, good luck. Everyone wants a 3b. We have 3 second basemen that each possess one great skill the others lack, and none are likely starters. We need legit star talent. Plugging below average with average isn't enough. I have no idea how you fix this. I look at the rotation and think we coul dbe the mets, but we aren't. Our pitching underachieves, our team tail spins.

Even if he was showing it off, kids acting like smartass teenagers now is an arrestable offense. Lucky he wasn't shot.

Next from Greg, how the Virginia news shooting was a set-up hoax to bring on gun control so the new world order can take over.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 22, 2015 -> 03:05 PM) I want the media looking into the possibility the kid's family had him disassemble a clock (not make his own clock), put it in a box with wires sticking out, pretend it's his own invention, act like a little jerk when questioned about it, now trying to raise money for himself over his 'mistreatment,' have the kid admit to a Dallas reporter he 'didn't want it to look like a bomb.' Why would a kid excited about his making of a clock even think about it being a bomb if he was merely excited about building a clock? I applaud Bill Maher and his panel for questioning this! Kudos to Mark Cuban as well! Please buy the White sox Mr. Cuban! Another article on the likely hoax http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/09/21/judg...purposeful-hoax Why would a kid excited about his making of a clock even think about it being a bomb if he was merely excited about building a clock? because he was arrested and asked repeatedly why he brought a bomb to school, as he responded that it was a clock.

Where does that rank compared to claiming the president is a secret muslim born in Kenya and illegitimate as president, above or below on the bush league scale?

As far as hoaxes go, "son take this clock to school, say it's a clock, watch them arrest you, get released and then shame them"...I mean, the fact that that works kind of shows there is something wrong anyways isn't there? Either as a response to school shootings or a symptom of the general incarceration issue, schools have been using jails way too often. I'm skeptical that using jails as rehabilitation for minors has been a helpful strategy.