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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 23, 2015 -> 04:00 PM) Besides Jimmy Carter and maybe Gerald Ford, name just one from history without one of the biggest egos. Maybe Bush, Sr. (Note the fact that none of them are thought to be close to the top tier). Read 1776 by David McCullough. Think Washington was modest? Think again. Bill, Barack and George W.? Huge again. Trump? Out of the stratosphere. Someone will probably use Abraham Lincoln as an example, but he was a once in a lifetime leader that wouldn't see the light of day in today's media climate with the focus on looks and pithy sound bites. Also, Nixon/LBJ/TR, probably wilson too

Greg: familiar with history.

Wish I knew more about evidence bags.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 23, 2015 -> 02:50 PM) Call me crazy, but I would do Sale for Puig, Seager, and Barnes. Rodon looks like an ace, Q is a more than solid #2, the guys you're trading for are young enough to where Fulmer is gonna be around and should be a front of the rotation guy, and there are a plethora of guys who you can slot in to the 4/5 a year or 2 from now. I prefer trading Q, but if you can get 3 good young starters for one Chris Sale? I'm game. I would do this in a heartbeat. Frankly, nobody is going to give up this much talent for a single player, no matter how valuable. That's why the best value you are going to get for Chris Sale is by keeping him.

From the police dept: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=714079612025162 What a weird turn.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Sep 23, 2015 -> 02:20 PM) He was pretty inconsistent early but his past 7 starts have been damn impressive. 4-2, 6.88IP per start, 1.68 era, 45k/16bb Right, my point isn't that Rodon isn't terrible, it's that young pitchers have bad games, and they don't always mean anything.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Sep 23, 2015 -> 02:09 PM) Yeah Rodon's worst start was 3.0IP/8ER against the Yankees Which was the worst performance I've ever seen in my life. It was 2.5 hrs into the game and only in the 3rd inning.

Jeeze guys, this is what development looks like. Remember Rodons 2 IP 13 ER game? Montas should be developed as a starter for as long as possible. Pitchers acquire new pitchers quite often.

This is all crazy. So much speculation based off of the theatre, I hope eventually some details emerge that can be verified.

He must not have tried many cases then.

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.