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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 02:10 PM) Just follow a little bit of European soccer and you can see how big of a problem diversity is in Europe. American is miles ahead many European countries in terms of race relations. Except when you consider the fact that we have an incredibly stable neighbor to the north and we have a presidential candidate proposing creating a wall to prevent them illegally entering country.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 01:09 PM) Because people also want to make decisions for next year that put him in a starter's role. Considering the state of the team, I don't see why that is unwise. Worst case scenario he sucks, best case scenario he's good. As opposed to: -Finish outside top ten - Sign expensive Free Agent - Lose first round draft pick - Watch expensive free agent suddenly become worst offensive baseball player in history Seems like the fans clamoring him to smart are a lot more insightful then the nerds going "BUT GUYS BUT GUYS THE NUMBERS SAY"

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 01:51 PM) Though it is the same history repeating itself. 19th century America was frought with all of the same anti-immigration, and anti-specific nationalities during their respective periods of heavy immigration. Two off of the top of my head would be the Chinese and the Irish. Yeah, this is a great point. For what it's worth, the US is taking less refugees than 30 years ago. I don't understand why, when our population growth is slowing, it is believed we cannot accept immigrants.

I can't speak for all of you, but it's hard to look at family history and our stories of "ancestor grabbing last boat out of x-war-torn-country" and then look at these and be like "naw f*** it let it be hungary's problem" It's also funny to me just thinking about how hysteric our country would be if it actually had to deal with all of the human displacement that comes from our foreign policy adventurism.

I was at US open again this year btw. Saw serena v. bettek-sands, fun match. Love the US open in person.

ugh, purple camera, awful mms texting issues, incredible battery drainage (I'm typically at 60% by time I get to office just from using Twitter on train)

I just don't understand the handwringing worrying about Trayce. Everything we get from him at this level is gold as it did not look last year like he was going to make it or be much more than a possible defensive sub in a pinch.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 10:53 AM) My iPhone 6 is so much smoother than my S3 was. That being said, 9 months in, it's far less smooth than it was. I fear that it will reach S3 territory soon. I do worry about this, as I've heard more of that talk. In my head, my iphone would be like the iphone 4 i had for 3 ears and worked wonderfully with great battery life.

I can't wait to go back to the iphone with 6s. The HTC One experience was miserable. All of the cool things were of such marginal use and wore out after the first two months. The combo of sprint + htc one probably made things worse, but the things phones should be able to do pretty easily were hard for my phone (had 2 of them after one broke). SO yeah, i'm now the old person who just wants the things he knows and can trust.

Antonio Brown is very very good. Darrius Heyward-bey? Still an idiot. Fun game last night. Pitt offense looks like it's going to be rolling again this year.

Brett Bielema is saying what he is saying to make it more acceptable to have an 8-4/7-5 season and "if only they were in one of the easy conferences this team would be in the playoff" Big Ten fans get upset about comments like this and cry and scream "O the unfairness! Oh how mistreated we have been". No big ten winning team has ever had any slight remotely comparable to recent big 12 teams or wac. People cry about strength of schedule of the big ten, but you never actually lose out compared to other conferences.

Is there a talking points memo sent out to Big Ten fans of the weekly items for complaint against the SEC?

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 10, 2015 -> 08:46 AM) I think Sox fans are though. Yeah terrible for anyone to find any sense of joy through this miserable season. A player actually outperforming his talent? Let's pop this balloon! We must only have players performing at historically awful levels!

Honestly that article is dumb and makes me hate baseball. How many people are even paying attention to the white sox now? 5? 6? Definitely required a self-righteous "let me counter this overwhelming hype machine for a white sox late season call-up that no national baseball reporter even mentioned"

Glad to see JJ cooper did comment on sox players, when i followed it on twitter seemed like it was all comments on cubs prospects.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 06:08 PM) While funny, I feel like an old man in saying it's truly despicable to do something like this with potentially thousands of kids in the stands. Well, the good news then is very few fans are ever seated high enough in the stands to ever be able to make way of what band formation shape is.

Trey must have seen my power concern. I motivated him.

Yeah, but sometimes players are injury prone until they aren't. Hopefully that happens here.

Alshon practiced today. I hope he is 100% and not going to be banged up like last year.

That's what I thought he would look like but instead his at bats have been very patient and not pull heavy. So I'm sure long-run they are right but he's been very pleasant so far.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 02:49 PM) What is your take on Kansas State's band forming a giant D--K and penetrating a Jayhawk's mouth in the home opener last Saturday? League fined the Cats $5,000. Do you think it's funny or in this day and age of PC, unacceptable? They denied it was a d--k, said it was the starship enterprise. League still fined them. Yeah pretty sure that band performance would always be unacceptable.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 02:10 PM) Currently has a bWAR of 1.2 and fWAR of -0.1. Is that not large?

why does bwar and fwar vary so greatly with alexei.

Not to say Rodgers weren't insane, but it was just so demoralizing going up against a top ten qb, especially if they had a tight end.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 10:54 AM) Every year is different, but Aaron Rodgers vs Bears last year was insane. 40 of 55 for 617 yards, 10 TDs, 0 INTs. Passer rating of 149.0. Only played in 6 quarters. Any accurate QB was basically given the entire middle against the bears last year. Tannehill, Brady, Rodgers, Romo...god last year was terrible.