Balta1701

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 01:59 PM) Let's just hope Humber returns and can give us a 4.75 ERA type rest of season. Otherwise, I don't know how to do it without using Viciedo.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 01:54 PM) Blake Griffin hurt his knee in practice today, and went directly to a specialist. Anthony Davis was immediately summoned. That could be a problem. Now that is how you time signing a contract extension.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 10:45 AM) That would be the right thing to do. Then again, I though Kirk should do the same. The only people getting hurt are the people in his district. If you really care about your district, that should be in the back of your mind somewhere. if it's acutally a short term thing, and all he does is miss votes on overturning Obamacare that are totally inconsequential anyway, then his staff can actually deal with most of the details that a Congressional office needs to handle, constituent issues and so forth. Depending on the staff and district it starts becoming important after a few months, because eventually important votes come up and funding bills start getting written that directly impact that district, and the staff can't handle those without his active participation.

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QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 01:45 PM) Can't let this slide by without asking. ??? All I got is that when the Barons visited Tennessee mid June, as far as I could tell he was benched the whole time with no injury statements.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 01:29 PM) Seems like if there was ever a case of lack of institutional control over a football program this would be it. If Tressell in essence losses his job over tattoos, the Penn State program should go the way of SMU. This case makes it seem like that statement gives "lack of institutional control" a bad name. I mean, a janitor caught an old man having oral sex with a kid, took it to his supervisor, and they agreed that even though taking it to law enforcement was what they should do, if they did so they'd be the ones who would be punished.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 09:35 AM) A janitor caught Sandusky performing oral sex on a kid in 2000 and didn't report it to police, only other janitors. They chose not to report to police because they believed they would be fired. Later that night they saw Sandusky driving through the parking lot alone. They surmised he was driving through to see if anyone had called police regarding the incident. I literally can't get the stupid acrobat "Excerpt text" part to work, but if you want to read something that will make your skin crawl, go to the report and find this section. This part is creeping me out from having read it.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 10:04 AM) Should be intersting to hear "turbo Tim" testify in two weeks about the LIBOR rate fixing scheme, and why the NY FED did nothing about it. That's a new one.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 09:57 AM) <!--quoteo(post=2644783:date=Jul 12, 2012 -> 08:41 AM:name=caulfield12)-->QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 08:41 AM) <!--quotec-->Septimo's going to be on short notice too if he has a couple more outings like Sunday. Walks and no clue about holding the runner (Rajai Davis) on base....wild pitch, the perfect storm of a bad appearance. It's one thing to do well against the Yankees in games that are out of reach, but pitching when the pressure's on? I've seen you make this same statement four or five times now. Why on earth would you jump to conclusions on a reliever after one appearance unless his stuff was terrible? Clearly that's not the case and he's new to the majors. Let's give him some time before we write him off. The problem of course is that if a rookie reliever comes up in a pennant race and has repeated outings where he can't throw strikes...he might well have a great future as a solid reliever for the next 20 years, but he'd still be a liability during that particular pennant race.

The report also indicts the Board of Trustees for having basically no oversight of the athletic programs for a period of a decade, and failing to respond appropriately in 2011 to the reports of the police investigation when Spanier first reported the existence of the investigation.

One other thing that they hammer on is that at no point did anyone seemingly show any thought towards the actual victims. Even after the reports were made, none of them made any effort to figure out who the kids were or to talk to them to see if they had been harmed. The administrators always focused 100% on Sandusky and the football program, never once on the actual victims.

A few things the report makes clear... Joe Paterno was intimately involved in every decision on how far to go in terms of reporting to police. He may have reported up the chain for legal purposes and avoided legal liability that way, but every single step where it is described how the decisions came about, the 4 names are always included (President Graham B. Spanier, Senior Vice President-Finance and Business Gary C. Schultz, Athletic Director Timothy M. Curley and Head Football Coach Joseph V. Paterno). The University clearly had no interest for a period of 20 years of meeting federal crime reporting standards. They made no efforts at all to implement a 1980's era law requiring an annual campus safety report until 2007, and no one on campus had any training regarding the requirements of the law until after that point. By the standards of that law, Penn State should have been basically ineligible for federal financial aid. The report is very vague on 1 thing...they spend a whole lot of time highlighting the fact that Sandusky received a very unusual status, including a lump sum retirement payout, after the 1998 incident, they stress that no one else on campus received anything like the money or access he received, but then state that they can't establish it was related to the 1998 incident. The report sounds for all intents and purposes like it was a payment to make a problem go away, but they can't prove that so they don't say it.

A janitor caught Sandusky performing oral sex on a kid in 2000 and didn't report it to police, only other janitors. They chose not to report to police because they believed they would be fired. Later that night they saw Sandusky driving through the parking lot alone. They surmised he was driving through to see if anyone had called police regarding the incident.

Full report linked here, btw.

Wow, CNN actually taking the time to read a report as it's released before giving the full details.

A legal analysis of Jay-Z's 99 problems.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 11, 2012 -> 05:56 PM) Any Direct TV people here? http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/t...nels/56149394/1 Going to take me some effort to figure out how to watch Futurama.

Last night.

Oh the movie never ends it goes on and on and on and on...

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 11, 2012 -> 11:27 AM) Man, one outing sure changes everything with Septimo. And no thanks to Juan, I don't want to see him anywhere but 3rd base and we can cover that position just fine. My solution to all of this contract stuff is to just win the World Series. If we win the WS, we'll bring EVERYBODY back and perhaps even add on top of it His BB/9 had dropped to 4.7 at Charlotte and has been going down the last few years too.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 11, 2012 -> 01:34 PM) How much does budinger make this year? Taking an expiring contract might make sense. $942,293

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 11, 2012 -> 01:22 PM) I will admit, those are literally like crack. Correct.

Although various varieties of kettle chips are excellent...this is my winner.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 11, 2012 -> 10:04 AM) Build Keystone NOW! Call me defeatist, but it's going to happen. We may as well take note of how complete the failure is to regulate the pipeline industry and try to get that improved before the first major spill happens in a couple years. At least that would be a Pyrrhic victory.