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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.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 22, 2015 -> 11:14 AM) I'd love to see the Bears win this game, but I'm not sure they are going to score a point. They'll score 3 points.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 22, 2015 -> 12:08 PM) Yeah but look at that list. You get hundreds/thousands of people sick, but no deaths. If your car engine turns off, chances are much, much greater that death or serious injury will occur. Not absolving this guy of anything, but it's more a comparison to other, worse decisions that had even worse consequences. If ss2k5 is going to light this guy up - which i'm fine with - there's not much of a bar on the severity of the crime to the punishment in other cases. When children or old people get sick with something severe like this, some die. The flu does not come close to killing everyone it touches, but it is widespread and hits the most vulnerable. A lot of people eat peanut butter. You'd have to be an idiot to be a CEO in the food industry and not know this risk.

Wow, I did not remember any of that. That's crazy,and seems like a relatively short turnaround for prosecution.

Pretty sure the story is they took off their jackets as they posed, he probably had no idea.

Can't believe Pagano is the scape goat instead of their awful GM.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 21, 2015 -> 10:21 PM) A Colts, Blackhawks, and Kentucky /Louisville basketball fan is complaining about their teams sucking? That's not allowed. SEriously.

Wow Indy fumble at the goal line

Winning games in bunches means solid losing streak to come

It was kind of weird watching us switch to the spread with Claussen, when we started out with 2 TE set with Cutler.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 21, 2015 -> 04:01 PM) Is Cutler's hammy injury believed to be serious or will he be playing next week? Good luck figuring this out with John Fox as coach.

Seems to be only a matter of time before the crazies burn out and Rubio takes nomination. He is a pretty good candidate who seems much more disciplined than any of the others, which bodes well for general. Thankfully a few years passed since it was showed how spineless he was.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 21, 2015 -> 02:41 PM) The other night he was throwing 97-98, got to 100 a few times, and froze a couple of guys with his slider. Make him a starter, but if that fails, this guy should be really good coming out of the bullpen. Yes. To me, he has a very high floor right now (in terms of making majors), so, he's great trade bait, and also a great asset to build a cheap bullpen.

Pay the man. JSIAA

SO, Jay Cutler really does have a strained hamstring. That is the injury.

Probably, I have a feeling there will be a very messy #3-#10 ranking this year. We thought the playoff last year was messy, this year looks like it will be a plateau after ohio state/MSU which will be hard to rank.