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Basketball hell is just no fun.

Chicago's ppv is 'Payback' again, June 1. See you there.

I feel like Rick is more open and honest in these interviews than most gm's. He's also very well spoken, he really is a great interview.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 04:28 PM) One thing we're not talking about is this part of the article. Now, Jordan’s message said she was calling to propose a deal. When I phoned her back, Jordan explained the offer. I could fly to Arizona and meet with Dr. V at her attorney’s office, where she would show me proof of her degrees from both MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. V then got on the phone and added another detail. Once I saw the documents I would have to sign a nondisclosure agreement barring me from revealing any of the details I’d learned about Dr. V’s past. The “deal” was one I could not accept, and when I explained this Dr. V got upset. Why couldn't this be accepted? It sounds to me like PROOF that she had the degrees that were in question was offered, but at this point the great Caleb Hannan made the decision he wanted to break a wild story about a transgendered person creating a magical putter. This part of the article has never once been addressed - the fact that the degrees were indeed being offered as proof that she had all the know-how (as shown in the design created) to create something like this. So the journalistic agreement to begin (about the product, not the scientist) was being blatantly ignored for the gotchya expose' on Dr. V. I just think the whole thing's f***ing sick, and this "journalist" blogger chasing his own fame is rightfully being vilified for it. There's wayyyyyyyy too much that can go wrong in that situation. There's no way a journalist can accept that deal.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 04:18 PM) But it also doesnt mean that hes smarter than someone at a community college who just never tried and let their brilliance go to waste. I was the perfect combination of dumb and not trying in school.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 04:17 PM) As for real news, Astros owner states they are in on Tanaka. http://www.rotoworld.com/headlines/mlb/417...st-in-sp-tanaka He'd basically double their payroll this year.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 04:01 PM) I do understand that there is some difficulty in reporting the entire story in any way resembling its current form without saying what her former name was. This is, for the most part, why many have insisted that outing her gender identity change (if we may call it that) to the investor was the most problematic part of the deal. Remember how her former supervisor only barely insinuated something was amiss when Hannan spoke to him? That would have perhaps been a little better. Of course, we don't know how the conversation with the investor went; somehow this was a part of the conversation that didn't matter enough to include in the article, even though the investor having thought she was attractive was worth including. Reporters love dropping random facts with no explicit purpose and they do this under the guise of "just reporting the facts" when in fact, this is just a sneaky way of hiding your biases. Why include this and not that? If he's not going to make his agenda public, then Hannan can't be mad when people say he included the investor's comment about how she was good looking while giving no attention to the very serious topic of outing her to mean that Hannan didn't give a f*** about transgender issues. Let's get this straight -- the article was presented the way it was because 1. she died and 2. she was born Stephen Krohl If the article was about 1. the putter and 2. the liar, it would have been quite different. It would have been shorter. There would have been much of the beginning of the current article and not much of the end. "I found these lawsuits in which she was involved during these dates, dates that should have placed her in D.C. After finding her credentials weren't checking out, I found another legal document - a change of name. She was born under the name Krohl, but has since divorced herself from her entire family as far as my research can tell. Moreover, she has held a number of odd jobs in these cities at these other times in which she says she was working for the Pentagon. Moreover, nobody going by her former name graduated from Penn or MIT." Oh, wow! Neat! Very cool investigative reporting. He totally called her out for being a fraud. Look at how all these people placebo'd into liking her silly putter. And then someone else finds out she was transgendered(and it would happen) and all the sudden the journalist looks like he's deceiving on purpose, no?

Ya, I'm not worried one bit about Tanaka actually being a good pitcher, I think he'll do just fine in his first year or two or even three but when we're talking 7 years for a pitcher, I'm going to be terrified of this guy after those initial few years.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 03:53 PM) Setting the racial aspect aside, I'm still struggling to see why what he said was so idiotic or stupid as opposed to just cocky or arrogant. I'm with ya. Nothing he actually said was stupid.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 03:47 PM) Articles like that do more to damage race relations in this country than most "racist" things do. There is no such thing as an "honest" or "open" talk about race in this country, and this is exactly why. It would be nice to have a conversation like this without the theme of the discussion being everyone trying to assert some sort of moral authority over anyone else who doesn't agree. Racism will never die in this country because it is used as a wedge and it waters down any real change of progress. I agree with your premise but unfortunately deadspin can write articles about this stuff because there are still ignorant morons who bring race into it.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 07:50 AM) Party Down South is almost as enjoyable as first season of Jersey Shore. These hillbillies are getting plowed. Agreed. Love the little blonde chick.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 05:21 AM) Show is dull but he's had decent matches in the past year with big guys. I've always been a Lesnar mark so it works either way. If Batista wins the Rumble, ill self mutilate. Maybe Agreed on Big Show, he bores the hell out of me as a face(he has his moments as a heel), I would have much rather gone Lesnar-Henry but oh well, not going to complain about that too much. Anywho, I hope I'm wrong but it looks like your main event at mania is skinny jeans/nose ring vs. Orton and then Punk-HHH is the other one that is pretty much set in stone. I still think we're getting Brock-Taker as well unless Sting finally decides to jump on board. What's that leave for Bryan and Cena? With HBK on the Rumble panel, I'm hoping that somehow gets them to set up HBK-Bryan at mania and I'll be a happy person even with that god awful main event.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 02:23 PM) The paragraph I just wrote said nothing of that. It asked whether the writer could have written a perfectly solid expose on the putter without the gender issues coming up at all. Frankly, yes he could have. I'd have to find the link again but I already saw a version of that where someone else had rewritten it in that way. If that would have happened, I guarantee someone else would have discovered that Dr. V was transgendered and it would have became public knowledge anyways.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 01:54 PM) Let's be fair here...as far as the article presented, the author did not seem to show interest in actually looking at the science of the putter itself. It was treated very tangentially in the article, and the article featured virtually no talking to anyone in the actual company or involved in the design, production, or promotion of the putter itself. The author never met with the main person in the story nor did he really seem to meet with anyone working on the product itself. Based on the way that article was written...if Ms. Vanderbilt had offered additional details on the putter or the science, does it seem like the author would have been interested? Maybe he would have been, but the article itself doesn't show that at all. He finds reasonable questions to ask about the background of the person, asks them, but in the process gets dropped a juicy personal detail and that becomes the #1 point of the article from that second on. He seemed very interested about the putter. I also think Dr. V's first email back to him basically saying "don't you dare look into who I am" peaked his curiousity.

Blah.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 20, 2014 -> 09:30 PM) Maybe MSU can play with Kansas but that's about it. I think there's a few teams that are right there with them but it's funny how all it took was big 12 play for KU to get their s*** together. Bill Self just owns that conference.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jan 20, 2014 -> 08:35 PM) He has been medically cleared from his concussion last week. Ya I saw that. I meant along the lines that I think they're saving him as a "surprise" entrant that blows the roof off the stadium. All the Wyatt's destroy him after their match, kayfabe wise he's just done then music hits during the the rumble and the crowd explodes. That said, if they do that he better win cause you take the chance of the crowd s***ting on Batista if Bryan is in the rumble and doesn't win.

Anyone else find it bizarre how they're not saying whether Bryan is or isn't in the Rumble?

Ok I'm bored of Batista already.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 20, 2014 -> 06:05 PM) I think Simmons' piece is very-well done and I agree with just about all of it. Christina Kahrl's piece, on the other hand, is a bit ridiculous. I'm trying to think about the relationship between the fact that Vanderbilt was a transgender person and the fact that that's also what threw Caleb Hannan off her scent. I find them almost inseparable and therefore necessary to the story. I said as much Saturday. Do we, as a society, have a ways to go when it comes to accepting and learning to properly respect transgender people? Yes, absolutely. I think about the progress made with gay and lesbian folks and think about that same progress when it comes to transgender people. On the other hand, this trend we also seem to have as a society to celebrate faux outrage and morality dick-measuring contests is also quite bothersome. We're all so quick to trip over each other in an attempt to see who can be the most morally or politically correct Mother Theresa, and that usually happens shortly after the first person stands up and begins imparting blame (as we saw in this case). Frankly, if it took 56 hours for someone to do so, and then turned into an all-out cascade of criticism, I find that pretty compelling evidence. I shudder to think we may enter an age in publishing where a writer can't report an interesting story without fear of somehow offending someone for something. I love this post.

Great article.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 20, 2014 -> 04:43 PM) Richard Sherman used PEDs - he claimed it was adderall, but the NFL drug policy prevents the NFL from specifying the offending substance, triggering every player to say they used adderall since it doesn't strike people like steroids do. The NFL can't correct them Nah he claimed he wasn't taking adderall, it was widely reported that was what he tested positive for.

At this point I'm not moving Quintana or Johnson whether we land Tanaka or we don't but that's just me.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 20, 2014 -> 11:44 AM) Nothing's going to happen today. I mean, at 11:45 AM CST, it's currently 2:45 AM JST. Tanaka is SLEEPING. You don't know that.