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https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/290121495768870912 Very interesting.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 12, 2013 -> 02:33 AM) This thread is pretty hilarious. My posting started with "eating healthy is more expensive than eating unhealthy", we somehow are back there, just with different participants haha Anyways time to go out and lower my life expectancy, huzzah! Maybe it was due to your pedantic arguments and thinking lake and halsted was the same as lake and Cicero.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 12, 2013 -> 12:52 AM) They do own a car. But they have to pass a ton of junk food places. Why dont they just go to the closer easier places? Why do they take the time and energy to go shop somewhere farther away? Because its important to them, so they go out of there way to do it. Yeah? Do you expel a lot of time and energy driving?

I'm guessing they own a car in your suburb.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 11, 2013 -> 11:43 PM) Do me a favor and drive down Lake Street westbound and tell me how many healthy food joints you can find along the way before you hit Oak Park. The answer is 0. Do not tell me J&Ds Fried Fish King is not healthy!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 11, 2013 -> 11:25 PM) Not sure where you buy your food but when things like Petsmart come up in the results I have to wonder how good the shopping choices are in that area.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 11, 2013 -> 10:25 PM) Its a pretty complicated subject and it requires more than a superficial understanding of the US post 19th century. LOL

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 11, 2013 -> 10:35 PM) Django has no chance and it's no surprise Tarantino didn't get a look as Best Director. Waltz should get Supporting Actor and QT has a shot at original screenplay. In the end, though, the Academy hates the type of s*** that QT makes. This isn't so much something the Academy does but most establishment awards organizations around the world. The guy who clearly has a massive amount of directorial and artistic talent and has the following to show for it but doesn't make "serious" films...no Best Picture, no Best Director for you. I don't think history quite agrees with you.

The trib article was updated with Trestman denying. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/footb...0,7941124.story

QUOTE (Boogua @ Jan 11, 2013 -> 07:07 PM) Just like Martz and Lovie? Turner loves throwing the ball downfield too and the Eagles offensive line is just as bad as the Bears is. If they had the right personnel, then yes, it would be a perfect fit, but I feel like it could be Lovie and Martz part two. Turner's success has lasted through so many teams with so many different talent levels (offensively). Martz's offense worked well once with one of the most talented teams of all time. Turner was the first coach to make alex smith look like a real QB. I don't think you can compare the situations.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jan 11, 2013 -> 05:35 PM) ESPN Radio talking about Norv Turner and Lovie working together in Phlliy. That would have to be one of the best combos that could exist.

Nonetheless, we were all just taking the piss until larry literal came in to try and act all high and mighty.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 11, 2013 -> 04:56 PM) I think there are safer bets and there are riskier bets. General logic is that the safest bet is to hire a HC that has already been successful in the NFL. After that, you have different theories. Some would say that the next safest is OC/DC as they are already in the NFL and thus they are familiar. Others would say HC at College as they already have experience as HC. But I think most people would agree that after those 3, you then enter much riskier territory. Sure you could find the next Bill Walsh coaching arena league, perhaps you could find another Lombardi coaching some small HS. And this is ultimately why I was not super enthusiastic about the Bears firing Lovie Smith. I just have no faith in their front office. I'd tend to agree if I didn't see so many OCs and DCs not pan out. It appears there are lots of intangibles to being a successful nfl head coach, that we can't put our finger on. That said i hope this is false. Though it'd be great if a great D coach came back out of the woodwork, and Emery chose trestman for offense.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 11, 2013 -> 04:39 PM) That was 35 years ago. Should we be hiring people in other industries the same way we did 35 years ago? I'm open to it...and from all accounts, the guy is a pretty bright guy...but usually there is a reason that bright people get stuck working for mediocre companies or in positions they seem overqualified for, and that is because they have some kind of fatal flaw. Just makes me wonder if he has one. I haven't found that any position has proven to be any more of a sure thing than any other one in head coaching for the NFL. Previous head coaching experience hasn't meant much. OC experience, Oline, DC, College, etc. We heard a lot about Thibideau, why was he an assistant so long, etc. Maybe this guy isn't great at marketing himself. But he's been successful pretty much everywhere he's gone. At some point people will find you.

True, they have been too fat and lazy recently. A little starvation will toughen them up, and they can use their leathery skin to make boot straps out of, and then raise themselves from poverty (LOL)

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 11, 2013 -> 04:35 PM) More like gifted a win. True, but I know for vandy there is nothing sweeter than beating kentucky. If that were to happen in a mizzou kansas game I would be livid and swimming in officiating conspiracy theories.

I really like the Browns hire, but I'm not a fan of hiring coach before GM. Unless I missed their GM hire.

Ahoy comrades, what government rations should we shove down the gullets of our subjugated peasants today?

Head coaches are a crapshoot regardless of where they come from. I don't see the CFL as that different than picking a coach from college. Marv Levy was a CFL coach. I just want to make sure we hire a coach that can command respect. Great football minds have amounted to nothing if they can't focus the team.

Life of Pi is the type of oscar favorite that makes people hate the oscars.

So Kentucky really stole that game last night. Really bulls*** call.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 11, 2013 -> 02:00 AM) From the perspective of teaching for 4 years in a couple of "inner city" high schools, the first thought that came to mind was of many of the single mothers out there struggling with the workload of having 2-3 jobs and also having to take care of kids... I'll never forget one of my students who said his mother never cooked anything for him and there was never even any food in the house, she just came home, shut the bedroom door and had sex with her boyfriend and ignored her kids after she got home around 8-10 p.m. at night, with the kids having no supervision from 3 pm until that time. What do you think unsupervised kids will eat? What's the average nutritional level of meals served in daycare centers that serve mostly lower middle class or poor parents? Just not having the energy, and perhaps some of it is knowledge about cooking/nutrition...some of it is ease of access and price/s of healthier fruits and vegetables, there are a ton of factors. I also think of how many of my former students had jobs involved in the fast food industry itself...and how many often ate there, because of ease/availability/cost issues. On a personal level, I have an absolutely atrocious diet. I drink 2-3 sodas per day. My cholesterol level is on the borderline of being a bit dangerous. My father died of a heart attack at only age 63...but I'm too lazy to change my diet or cook for myself. On the other hand, I usually walk or play badminton or do something physical every week, and I've never been above 190 pounds at 6 feet tall, so I keep telling myself I can put off making diet and nutrition changes to the time when I'm 50 years old or so (just like smokers think they can stop smoking at any time and reverse 75% of the damage)...that I can change eventually when I have no choice. Perhaps part of it is the idea at some future point I can go on cholesterol medication and that will take care of the problem. And the fact that I exercise quite a bit, enough to where I at least sort of believe it's keeping me "healthy enough." You should really tackle the cholesterol problem now, it's very hard to reduce.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 10, 2013 -> 10:21 PM) Excuse shack, he hasn't hit on enough secretaries today. White people don't rationalize well without enough office spankings and layoffs. Great second sentence!

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 10, 2013 -> 10:15 PM) Not sure why you spend so much time here amongst me and the others harboring all the disgusting stereotypes than out on the tough streets of Lincoln Park with all your brethren in the soup kitchens. I don't live in Lincoln Park, but I appreciate that you use stereotypes in all aspects of your life. Congrats. At least you are consistent.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 10, 2013 -> 10:06 PM) You are condescending to just about everyone, and trust me, I'm not near alone in making this observation. And you didn't correct anyone. You may have a high level of understanding about certain things, but sports, and very obviously nutrition, are not among them. I assure you, that I would much rather be considered condescending by iamshack at soxtalk, then actually hold in my heart these disgusting stereotypes thrown out in this thread.