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For wife's bday thinking of heading to Tulum Mexico. Great beaches, Mayan ruins. But there is no electric grid, most only offer electricity from 7pm-midnight. Anyone ever been in a place like this? Is the breeze enough to be comfortable at night?

Yes, we have a lot of retrospectives from this cop apparently. What's Mike Brown's side of the story?

I mean, that's like, the least implausible part of the story. They may have wanted the cigars to transform them into something else.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 18, 2014 -> 09:26 PM) A BIG part of that was the team pushing them due to being in the playoff hunt, it should be noted. Had the team been 15 games back and the staff been given the choice of how many innings to work them for solely based on developing them, different choices might have been made. Right, I'm just remembering Sale's year in relation to Strasburg, where Strasburg was sitting. If we do get in the playoff hunt, perhaps they move forward. Only way to stretch out the arm is to pitch I imagine.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 18, 2014 -> 10:03 PM) I said this earlier, but if I had to guess at next year, I would guess something like 175 to 180 IP. That'd be great, I was assuming 160. At 6 IP per start that would be about 26 starts.

What do we believe Rodon's innings limit will be next year? What do you think he'll end up at this year? Sorry for all the questions.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Aug 18, 2014 -> 09:42 PM) He pitched nicely in 2013 after he signed. Didn't dominate, but they were what you'd consider encouraging numbers. His problem in 2014 is that he has become insanely hittable. His K/9 and BB/9 numbers aren't terrible, he is just allowing asstons of hits and homeruns. Interesting enough, since his promotion in AA this year, his rates have all gone the opposite way. He is now striking out less, walking more, but reducing his H/9, and cut his HR/9 down substantially, which has resulted in his ERA being dropped to normal figures. He just has to put that all together now. Thanks. So doesn't sound like he's out of the league, just more development than we've come to expect from a top college pitcher.

Did Appel do well to start off last year?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 16, 2014 -> 07:37 PM) Boyhood is definitely one of the five best films of the year. Not sure when I would want to see it again (maybe never), but thoroughly enjoyable for a 2 hour 46 minute movie. Heh, yes I feel the same. I was also glad I went to see it in theatre to remove myself from distractions.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 09:13 PM) Dude is near 30 on 200000000 nba minutes so far. At some point the HGH he injected in high school will wear off and the Kobe Doctors will be knocking. Point is Davis' basketball intangibles were off the chart. His effort to keep balls alive, to block shots toward his teammates were crazy. If he can stay healthy he's at least a KG level player.

Holy crap. One year after rupturing his left patellar tendon, Atlanta OT Sam Baker ruptures his right patellar tendon. I can't imagine how painful that is.

Went to game. It was a lot of fun, will write more. KD leaving makes the team dynamic a bit awkward, but fairly certain this team will not lose as long as Anthony Davis is there. He will be best basketball player in the world, if not this year than next. He is incredible. I am checking the bulls schedule now for if we get Nola at home.

I feel like Williams returning kicks is almost a certainty at this point.

LOL great one man lolololol

Yeah thought that was coming after the crap game from bellamy and weems

I'm pumped for tonight

Ugh...guess Marion is officially out. Did we even call him? Make sure he goes to the Cavs, bulls. Ugh.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 16, 2014 -> 03:11 AM) The religion of outrage. This is probably more aptly applied to the poster you quoted.

QUOTE (balfanman @ Aug 16, 2014 -> 03:43 AM) IMHO, that's not what he's saying at all. He did not say that women "athletes" were afraid of contact etc., he's saying that women in general are not as tough as men....generally. Female athletes are a very small percentage of the overall female population. I'm in my mid 50's and probably 98% of the women I know would have nothing to do with a collision. I find absolutely nothing wrong with what Hawk said and in my opinion the P. C. people are way over the line here, as they are on most issues. Good God of course that's not what he said but for some unknown reason a poster put a comment that a man's baseball team would beat a women's baseball team. Perhaps they felt that was productive. And if you don't think what hawk said was wrong you should go to your niece or daughter or nearby young girl, show her the clip and explain to her why it's not wrong.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Aug 15, 2014 -> 09:24 PM) IMHO, if you were to put a women's team in almost any sport up against an equivalent men's team (i.e. women's college basketball vs men's college basketball or women's fast-pitch softball vs men's fast-pitch softball), the guys are going to win more than 90% of the time. That’s not to take anything away from female athletes. It’s just simple fact that males are typically bigger, faster and stronger. Fine but Hawk's criticism isn't that women aren't the equivalent athletes to men in baseball he's saying women would be scared of contact and aren't tough, dainty, not meant to get dirty, etc.

eh, you know what I mean.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 15, 2014 -> 08:28 PM) Yeah but in the grand scheme what % are we talking about? 1%? 5%? 10%? To SS2k5's point, the problem is you (and certain communities) seem to either think, believe or convey in your arguments that that number is much closer to 80-90%. That we should assume the police are always in the wrong more than in the right. What point would be your critical mass? If you were a business owner and 10% of your employees were doing illegal s*** to their customers that would be a gigantic deal.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 15, 2014 -> 08:19 PM) Mainly because there was a female cop. I find it hard to believe she'd be in on it and ok with it. But again, it's possible. I just bet there's more to the story. The desire to protect your own in a job as stressful as police officer is apparently quite strong.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 15, 2014 -> 08:14 PM) That's terrible if true. But I have a difficult time believing cops would just randomly start beating someone. I'd be willing to bet he resisted, hence the need for more than one officer. I wish some of you guys interned or job shadowed at a criminal courthouse. You're all wide-eyed optimists, and the degree to which people lie is astounding and would shock you. I'm not at all saying that's what happened in this case or the Brown case, but you all seem to discount the possibility. I covered the courthouse daily in college. I'm not surprised at all. There are many people that do claim police were over the top (especially whiney rich college kids who tried to break into bars), but my emphasis is there is a higher standard for police than for a citizen or criminal. Because you are dealing with bad people does not mean you are allowed to sink to that level. A kid who steals cigars is probably a self-entitled punk, he also deserves the chance to grow up after he is punished. edit: typo

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 15, 2014 -> 08:12 PM) According to witnesses, he was shot as he was running away. He then turned around and put his hands in the air before being shot several more times. This should not have had to have been repeated so many times.