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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 20, 2014 -> 09:03 AM) Held on to the Q101 playlists, there is new stuff but they play a ton of 90s alternative I'm more wondering whether the new stuff is any good.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jan 20, 2014 -> 07:58 AM) I had a bunch of guys over for the football games yesterday, including a couple of zealots from Boston. The word they got from their contacts there is Tanaka will go to either Scrubs, Yanks, or Dodgers. All FWIW. Decision Day is Friday. Friday is the 24th, that's the drop-dead posting deadline day, so saying that doesn't add much.

Good quality rock still or the garbage from the last decade?

When is the last time the Super Bowl had two #1 seeds?

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 19, 2014 -> 09:45 PM) Most people who see them on a regular basis do have a good idea. You just can't suspend them without absolute proof. When you see them in the locker room, it's usually pretty obvious. Then point to us the specific physical change in Arod between the mid 90s and 2001 which tells you when he started doping and let us know when he actually started.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 19, 2014 -> 09:14 PM) I don't think he was doing it in the minors. I was working for kane county when he played for the appleton foxes. I saw him enough and he didn't look like it. He was no doubt the best player by far but not PED like. If it was as easy as this then people should be readily, easily saying which guys dope before they get caught.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 19, 2014 -> 09:01 PM) Sf getting screwed by no calls. You seriously were prescient with this post.

Wtf was Seattle doing there?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 19, 2014 -> 08:58 PM) Someone update me please. Score? 17-13, end 3rd quater, San Fran leading, Seahawks ball in sf territory.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 19, 2014 -> 08:34 PM) It's too bad that we will never know how good A-Rod and Bonds would have been playing "clean". Those two seem to me are the two guys that went from superstar to mega superstar with PEDs. Sosa, Mac, Palermo, and that crowd all went from very good to superstar. But Bonds and A-Rod started at pretty high levels before PEDs. That assumes you can say when they started. I think its entirely possible they were doping much longer than just the latter portions of their career. Not every drug makes a person explode, Bonds could have just switched drugs in the late 90s. Even more possible, ARoid could darn well have doped his entire life. We know he was doping in the early 2000s, we know he said he stopped and that very second he was finding a new supplier. He acts like a guy who knows nothing other than juicing. Why should I even consider that he was clean beforehand when all we know of him is juiced? He was supposedly an athletic freak in high school, why can't the explanation for that be a good doping schedule?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 19, 2014 -> 07:08 PM) In what world is shoulder to shoulder a penalty? The problem was he left his feet there with no attempt to tackle.

That. Was. Fast.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 19, 2014 -> 05:49 PM) And control. It is no coincidence that our best pitcher of the last 20 years threw slower than most people drive on 294. Shingo?

The 4th down sack while in field goal range. Now that's a big play.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Jan 19, 2014 -> 04:07 PM) Just because they featured me in a netflix documentary wearing a sparkling pink glitter pony jammy set doesn't mean I'm the homosexual. It's just honestly the best table ever explored - showing the world a greater path to unification and friendship. This board should really consider ditching all interest in the white sox and becoming a my little pony gathering spot of magic. Anyone want to cuddle? Yes.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 19, 2014 -> 01:26 PM) I'm not convinced the Yankees are in a position to compete this year. I suppose. I wouldn't be placing my bets for them to be in the playoffs,though it isn't outside the realm of possibility They wrote a bunch of "win now" contracts. Beltran, Ellsbury, McCann. They get Tex back, potentially Jeter's last year. They still have a major need for a top of the rotation starter, and one is available. The match is just painfully obvious.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 19, 2014 -> 12:09 PM) In two games this year, SF had scored one TD against Seattle. Doing that 3 times though is going to be tough.

QUOTE (timbo @ Jan 19, 2014 -> 12:52 PM) How do they make sense ? They have a team that can compete right now, they have a huge need for a front of the rotation pitcher, and they have $25 million in space under the luxury tax line this season. They make by far the most sense. It would actually be dumb of them to not offer him $25 million this season, he fills a direct need on an expensive, veteran-laden team that has a clearly designed "Win-now" roster.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Jan 19, 2014 -> 10:29 AM) 5 more days fellas.. It makes me wonder, if the Sox were able to pull a move like that, how would it influence ticket sales. I think there would be a minor but measureable boost, probably in the hundreds, of season tickets/ticket packages. For this team, the big deal seems to be when they are able to put out ticket sale options to go along with postseason tickets.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 18, 2014 -> 07:27 PM) I think Balta should just admit it has nothing to do with outing this person, and everything to do with possibly painting a gay/transgendered person in a negative light. That's the only reason this story is getting any kind of response. If she had cured cancer and still killed herself, there's no "omg! he outed her! that's so wrong!" Um....bull.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 18, 2014 -> 06:44 PM) When it became obvious what the truth was, he stopped investigating further. And that's the problem. The only thing that mattered was "oh, sex change". The rest was unimportant.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 18, 2014 -> 06:43 PM) Didn't the article state there was no record of Stephen Krol earning these degrees? Yes, but the author also acknowledges earlier in the article " After all, Dr. V could have attended the schools under a different name. But why wouldn’t she have mentioned that?" The same could apply to Stephen Krol. If you want to publish that this person is a liar, you need to prove to me that you can verify, almost to a legal sense, that they're lying. This article as it is does not do that. It might meet a "preponderance of evidence" standard because it's easy to believe that people would make such things up, but it's absolutely not a "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard. Not with failing to tell me what happened for 45 years of this person's life.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 18, 2014 -> 06:19 PM) Didn't the reporter go into the initial conversation under the impression anything about Dr V. personally was off limits? Then didn't said Dr. volunteer some "facts". If you boast these claims, I don't see how you would expect any reporter worth his or her salt not to try to verify these claims. She tried to kill herself 5 years previously after a fight with her girlfriend. Her investor mentioned how she would always blow up if you ever disagreed with her. Any blame on the writer for her death is really a reach IMO. I think if ahe never voluntarily offered fake credentials, he never would have dug so deep. But to my standards, he never actually established that those credentials were fake. There's decent reason to believe so, but as soon as he discovered "oh, gender change" he stopped investigating on that matter. He got a birthdate, a few family matters, found out that "maybe she had a couple of kids", but otherwise basically jumps from 1953 to 1997. There's a 44 year gap spelled out as "worked as a mechanic, had a couple of kids, and was married twice". He never establishes to a solid degree that the degrees and the DOD work are lies. He never spoke to the person or verified anything about their actual education history. He never verifies that during the time a reasonalbe person would have been in college, Stephen Krol was at a different location or never could have done work under an additional identity. Any researcher worth his or her salt would go farther and actually verify that this person in fact was doing something else during those years. If he wasn't going to speak to the actual person, he needed that additional step, but he had a bigger "scandal" to publish.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 18, 2014 -> 05:35 PM) The information about the sex change became relevant to the story because it came in tandem with the name change which was part of what was behind all of her lies. No credible journalist would accept a deal like this. I don't know why you have a bug so far up your ass about this. She was a shady POS and he exposed her. You don't deserve "extra protection" because you are transgender or gay or whatever. If you are a shady f***, you should be exposed no matter what your secrets are. The only thing I can find in that article that actually appears to be a legitimate lie is the degrees. He couldn't verify either way on work for the DOD and the DOD would not have confirmed had she actually worked on that project, which he notes. Is there another lie anywhere in her story? Because otherwise, she's offering verification on the only lie he actually had her on. The entire article otherwise is personal details. He outlines a story of talking to one investor who lost money but doesn't explain how exactly that investor lost his money - there's no details given about what the projected return on investment actually was going to be or what risks were spelled out. No documents are given, nothing is established in the article. His big hit in that comment is, once again, "Did you know she was a man!" The entire article outlines 1 potential fabrication - the education, and then never verifies that in fact this person didn't attend those schools. It makes a decent case but goes no where near far enough to do so. Aside from the degrees, which he clearly isn't actually interested in, the entire scandal in the piece is "OMG it's a man that's the huge story".

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 18, 2014 -> 05:10 PM) The sex change didn't impact the credibility. The sex change was an incidental discovery while investigating her lies. If that were true, then why did Caleb turn down the offer of exchanging verification of those degrees for not publishing the information about her sex change? Yes, maybe you don't believe the documents, but that's a chance at a face to face meeting, to confront about the other issues, and to actually ask whether the part you believe is fraudulent is actually fraudulent.