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I drink coffee everyday. I try to drink a lot of water as well just to help prevent kidney stones. I am fairly convinced that nobody will find much to worry about with coffee.

QUOTE (oneofthemikes @ May 29, 2014 -> 02:46 PM) Sale also isn't an 18 year old that throws 103. Yeah he was a really young pitcher that relied on sliders and horrible mechanics.

I hate to beat a dead horse, but after this season, where "obvious TJ candidate" Chris Sale is still healthy and 60 pitchers whom were not tagged with that label are under the knife, that part seems kind of meaningless to me. I'm more cool on Kolek because I just worry he won't really develop anything and end up in the pen.

Handzus actually had a few oppos in OT. Did Kane get a piece of that assist?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 29, 2014 -> 04:35 AM) You mean you also thought Eaton would make an out and our bullpen would proceed to blow it in extras? Considering we'd have lost the sac fly, no, did not feel confident. For a minute I thought they were purposely walking Sierra to set up a DP. Glad they didn't.

Martellus Bennett tweeted out that Indianapolis was the only city he's seen that looks boring from the aerial view and I laughed really hard. Lance Stephenson s*** is getting so old. Man this series has just been incredibly boring basketball.

I thought game was over when Sierra whiffed on 3-1. That was actually a damn good sequence. Everything was away away away, and he went with the pitch.

We should probably shut him down rest of year.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 28, 2014 -> 10:17 PM) KC about to get swept by Houston in KC. Ned Yost is about to be unemployed. James Shields could be the top target in July for contenders if not Samardzija. A lot of the Mizzou media I follow are KC fans. They are so depressed. I kinda feel bad, after all these years and this was gonna be the one (still could be). On the other hand I was secretly hoping all this wouldn't pan out for them.

I can't see any logic in hosting a winter games. So often they are smaller cities with no hope to use that money again.

Yes, she won!

That is definitely circled on the calendar.

Awesome story, 18 year old Taylor Townsend from Englewood is on a wild card bid. She won her first match and is playing her second. She won her 1st set.

I'm rooting for Radwanska to put it all together but unlikely. Women's will be fun. Men's side, even with Nadal's poor play this year, I have a hard time believing Nova will take him out.

Gotta love another stellar pitching line from Downs.

I'm comparing slavery to slavery, and I feel pretty confident in that analogy.

QUOTE (gatnom @ May 27, 2014 -> 10:05 PM) It might be worth noting that the figure you're throwing out here far exceeds the $7 billion figure being thrown around. Now, if instead of just paying money out like the article was seemingly suggesting they pooled a smaller amount to try and fix the schooling and other issues that have been mentioned, they might be able to make some headway, IMO. I'm not sure I trust the government to pull off such a plan, but theoretically it could work. TBH straight cash transfers would be the easiest with least amount of "waste"but likely the least palatable.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 27, 2014 -> 10:06 PM) The problem is that people cant admit that there will always be racism, unfairness, etc in society. And that all we can do is try and give people a chance. Not an equal chance, maybe not even a fair chance, but if the stars align anyone can be anything in this country. Sometimes you gotta make your own breaks. That would have been a great speech to give slaves.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 27, 2014 -> 10:01 PM) That's your problem though, the "government" didn't do a lot of this. I guess our definitions of "lot" differ.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 27, 2014 -> 09:44 PM) Now that is just slight of hand. If the government pays reparations, we all pay reparations. I do find that mindset interesting though. If the government was responsible for a disaster area, pollution, accidental explosion, etc, and it destroyed properties or killed people, and they sued, would people be like "I didn't do it, why should I pay?"

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 27, 2014 -> 09:46 PM) I'll move the goal posts, as Balta will erroneously claim, but killing 6 million members of your group and making tens of millions more homeless is a little different than what happened to blacks here in the US. The slave trade featured more millions of deaths, a tearing apart of 450 years of families, abuse and rape of a group of people. edit: don't want to get into an oppression olympics. The only difference is the time that passed.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 27, 2014 -> 09:28 PM) I read the thread, could not find a decent argument. My family moved to this country post 1900 and they were minorities who were discriminated against. Why should they pay reparations? Did your family ever benefit from Social Security? GI Bill? Did your family ever own a home? Were they able to get a 30 year fixed mortgage? Did they use that mortgage to move into their desired neighborhood? Did that neighborhood have good schools? All of these had specific structural barriers practiced on black americans. Imagine if that wealth was denied to your family in these points by the government. Worse, imagine that the denial of those legitimate means of achieving those goals (mortages from banks) pushed your family to try and achieve their dreams through other ways, which were predatory and artificially sucked more money than would be allowed to a non-black family, pushing many into foreclosure and many into poverty. "You" may have not done anything, but you have benefited from a social system that has by and large placed a high premium on building the wealth of white communities, at the very least, at the expense of black communities. And that's the nicest reading of it. The other reading is that it placed a high priority of building wealth of white citizens, and preventing any wealth of black communities.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 27, 2014 -> 09:39 PM) That was just a big swing and miss from Law. Ironically, he says Jim Callis's reporting over the years is what he strives for as a reporter. Law says when Callis says something, it's true. Ironcially, Callis's and Law's sources are saying complete opposite things less than two weeks away from the draft. In his chat last week there was a question on which teams' fans say Law hates them the most and the White Sox were not even mentioned. There was three or four teams mentioned and I think he said it was either the Cubs or the Giants. In any case, Law has been an admirer of Rick Hahn's work in the early going. As I said, I don't think he hates the white sox, but there did seem to be some antagonism during Kenny Williams reign and I did not see Law with much on the White Sox beside after the fact commentary.

QUOTE (gatnom @ May 27, 2014 -> 09:06 PM) Fair enough, bmags. I don't see anything wrong with debating it as he suggests. I just don't think his position is ever one that will be so easily satisfied, though. I understand. What I like about his advocacy is so often we've had these "Let's talk about race"moments and the focus seems to be on prejudice. That's fine and has its place. I think his point is our history is far more than Lincoln Freed the Slaves, Civil Rights act, and then all is well. American government (in all forms) and individual actors nationwide did not really allow Black Americans the right to their own property or accrue wealth for decades after reconstruction. The meme that Donald Sterling is a great example of American racism not because he told his girlfriend not to bring a black man to Clippers game, but that he generated wealth by housing discrimination preventing black families from moving into his areas. But the latter was fine. At least victims were able to seek retribution in this case.

QUOTE (gatnom @ May 27, 2014 -> 08:57 PM) This is the key point to me. Throwing money at it doesn't solve any of the root problems.