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The GAG is complete.

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 4, 2012 -> 01:14 PM) Look at the positions of the people who lost their careers. Who had their reputations ruined forever. Who lost any respect they had among friends and possibly family. The personal punishment is enough. Again, what is a bigger deterrent Football team being punished or Losing your career, respect, and possibly going to jail? I just do not believe the next PSU president would risk his life in God forbid, the same situation, regardless what happens to the football program. We have sent one message. If you are a janitor or asst coach, tell someone famous and you are off the hook. Use your company as an example. A former employee is caught wrestling naked with a kid in a company restroom. The president of the company is told and does nothing. Should you lose your job so that another company doesn't do the same thing? This is not a company. This is a public institution supported in part by tax payer dollars. In the business world, anybody is subject, every day, to being replaced if they screw up. Tenure and crap like that are not part of the equation. This is a message that needed to be broadcast, loud and clear, across all of academia.

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 4, 2012 -> 12:57 PM) We'll disagree. I do not believe what happens to the football program weighs heavier on the decision than personally losing your career and going to jail. You really believe the next PSU President would cover up a child rape if the football program was spared. This was a hideous crime against children. Tex, this was a no brainer and PSU dropped the ball. Perhaps college boards will vet theor AD hirres better in the future, and the AD's vet the HC hires better and so on down the line. That is the why these sanctions are so necessary.

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 4, 2012 -> 12:38 PM) I find it so sad that people believe that without punishment to the football program, that crimes will continue to be committed at other universities. That people at universities will see Penn State and say, well we would do the same thing tomorrow if they left the football program alone. Really!? Guilty people are behind bars, their reputations destroyed, careers lost, all on a personal level. But that isn't enough for a high ranking university official to react. Somehow without innocent people losing their jobs and their futures hurt, it could happen again? I don't see it. I don't see another university thinking they would risk jail, ending their career, and the rest, as long as the football program would be spared. Balta works at a university, how far would you go to protect the football program? Would you go to jail for it? Does it really take destroying the football program to have you do the right thing? Will the crime happen again? Yes. There are too many Sanduskys out there. The penalties will send a "no-doubt" message to Head Coaches, AD's and university presidents in regards to how to react if something like this is reported up the chain at another school. That is why this is 100% justified and necessary. And yes, I still think PSU should have received the death penalty.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 11:11 PM) The post you're agreeing with is incorrect. It's a $22M option with a $4M buyout. The marginal cost is $18M, not $14M. Which I have already acknowledged.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 02:00 AM) Ya I'm probably not much of a quality posters, usually thrive on game threads and try to break news, but that southsider2k5 always beats me to everything He's good at that stuff. What can you do?

QUOTE (sunofgold @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 08:22 PM) Just thought of this idea while in the john. You always hear about how it is disappointing that certain outstanding, classy players never received a world series ring. I thought about honorary degrees given out by colleges. How about something similar in baseball. However, to make it more fun than just giving it to the player why not figure out a way to have the recognized player play/coach for all 30 teams during one regular season. For instance, we can use Jim Thome. in 2013, Thome spends at least one game on the active roster of every MLB team in baseball. To make this easier, maybe a rule change. You can have 26 guys on your roster if Thome is your 26th guy. Can you imagine what an honor and how much fun a guy could have playing for every team and wearing every team's uniform. Interacting with every team's players, coaches, and fans. I know that this idea would need somE improvements to it. But what do you think of the basic idea? While I can appreciate the spirit behind this post .... NO. It would cheapen what having that world series winning ring means. They have an honor for great players that may have never won a ring. It's called the Hall Of Fame.

Reed has less blown saves this year than Thornton had in the first two weeks of the season last year.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 09:52 PM) Whenever I open a thread, I see tons of names of people that are in the thread online who never post. ... How can anybody read posts and not get the urge to post? You would think everybody who reads posts would want to vent their own opinions in the age of Twitter. I read a lot of threads without posting. I don't feel 'the urge to post' just for the sake of posting. If I have something to say that no one else has already said, I'll post it. I try to make quality posts and am not at all concerned with quantity.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 09:03 PM) And it's not like I was being overly critical as much as making an observation. We woin and I am happy. I am happy that Reed pulled it through but you can't keep giving up walks and hits in the final inning of a save situation without it biting you in the rear someday. He and other rookie Sox relievers have blown some games That's true and rookie relievers are more apt to blow some due to inexperience. They won't always be rookies and won't always be inexperienced. Oh yeah, veteran reievers also blow games.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 05:14 PM) His option is for $22 million, so the marginal cost is $18 million, but I agree with your other points. I stand corrected. You are right.

Peavy is going to cost $4M if we let him walk. That is locked in and will be on the books. Period. So, if we pick up the option the effective cost is $14M. Now, who can we sign for 1 year at $14M that will be better than Jake Peavy? Probably nobody. Also, you are giving up potential mid-season trade bait is we suck next year, or a draft pick if he says all year. I'd say to pick the option up.

Whew!

That's one way to knock a pitcher out of a game.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 12:34 PM) Although, I have to say I've never liked the fact that the pitcher gets off the hook due to his own error. I remember questioning that as a kid. My father explained to me that ERA was a reflection of his pitching performance, not his defense. It's amazing the little things you recall after a few decades.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 12:30 PM) Oh, they just changed it in Gameday. Now tallied as an unearned run. As it should be. I checked and it showed earned. I was thinking WTF?

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 12:27 PM) That was an earned run. He advanced on error. What makes it earned?

Too many unearned runs allowed lately. They gotta put a stop to that stuff.

Rios thing ... I got it. "Her name is Rio and .... :

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 02:07 PM) Kaplan says Tigers and Cubs discussing Soriano. This could still happen in August.

Deep fried twinkies are awesome.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 29, 2012 -> 01:06 PM) I doubt coaches give up numbers to players. Liriano will probably go with 57. If Liriano wants 47, i'm sure he'll get 47. Coaches, in general, just want jobs and don't care about numbers from what I've seen. That said, Guillen, Ventura, Baines, etc ... those numbers stay with the man regardless.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jul 29, 2012 -> 02:57 AM) It sure makes your pitching look better on paper. It makes your pitching better, period. Those guys have confidence in the defense and they don't have to nibble, which keeps them away from needless walks.

From reading Soxtalk all these years, catch the ball is a very underestimated part of the winning equation.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 29, 2012 -> 12:35 AM) It's not who you play, it's when you play them! Go for da SWEEP ^ This!