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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 12:09 PM) Bears jerseys don't look much different They shouldn't. Why mess with something that's solid?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 01:29 PM) I've heard that his elbow injury is alot worse than being reported. Woudln't surprise me at all.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 11:13 AM) States have all rights not restricted by the federal govt. Furthermore State Supreme Courts are the final say on the interpretation of the State's Constitution. Im sure there are cases where a State Supreme Court interprets basically the same language differently than the US Supreme Court. I can add another example on to this...California's Prop 8 being overturned by a Federal Court and then being challenged to the US Supreme Court, where it will be upheld on a 5-4 ruling if the current court stays together or perhaps overturned if any of the Republicans are replaced.

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 01:33 PM) BTW, just to help with understanding, gated communities seem to be much more common in the south than in the north. I assume it is in part because of the cost of snow removal. I have not seen any pictures of the neighborhood but here "gated communities" can be anything from very modest (like mine), lower middle class, to the mega millions. The other big motivation is "Security". Whether or not the demographics of an area play into that, I leave to the gallery.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 11:24 AM) Going back through Google, I see a wrist injury, elbow, and shoulder this year... Plus the concussion. So yeah, he's probably "Biting the bullet" so that the MVP can stay on the bench.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 11:21 AM) elrock? lol. Wow, this dude's got 3 accounts now. Technical difficulties.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 11:18 AM) I haven't been impressed with CJ since he came back from the concussion. I wonder if he has really been healthy, or it just playing to bridge the gap until Rose is back. I believe he had an ankle thing as well, right? I'll bet there's a whole lot of gap-bridging happenign.

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 07:04 AM) Preseason 2012-2013 rankings NBC has the same top 2.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 10:34 AM) The court's opinion states that this happens to every incoming detainee at the two jails regardless of offense. Yes, there's a security issue, but that needs to be balanced against other concerns. If there's a good reason to search a particular person based on the nature of the arrest and/or previous history, by all means. But this ruling makes it ok for the police to strip search anyone. This measure goes way, way too far in my opinion. It's not that everyone arrested will be strip searched, it's that they can be for no reason at all and they have no recourse. If there's no legal reason not to do so, then there's little to no reason not to strip search everyone. If you have a 0.0001% chance of actually preventing a serious problem if you do a strip search, and 0 chance of anything bad happening if you do so, and no additional costs incurred during the process, then the logic says to make it standard procedure.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 10:35 AM) I'm sure it's been discussed in depth, I'm trying to out-source some google work! If I were to Google that, all I'd get was recent 2012 news documents thanks to their new search algorithm.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 10:16 AM) I know you havent experienced it in a long time, but theres no where else to go but down. High expectations make failures hurt so much more. There are quite a few Big Ten schools in the top ten on that way too early list. My pick for the team that challenges IU the most is MSU. OSU is still a year away from another run, but will be decent. Our best recruit from last year barely saw the floor at all this season. It's the big ten. I expect that the best team in the conference rarely wins the conference, because they're facing off against something between a 4 headed monster and a 6 headed monster most years, and things are close enough that a few foul calls or a bad shooting day winds up determining the tournament. But you get some stellar games to watch. The real fun for the B10, IMO, winds up being in the tourney, because if the conference is on...the teams have wound up beating the crap out of each other for 2.5 months before the tourney starts, 1/2 of them wind up ranked lower than they should be because they had the audacity to lose to a top seed at home, and then they hit the tourney and the competition level actually drops for the first 2-3 games.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 10:07 AM) He had a copy of the paid receipt in his glove compartment too I read. Not sure why he was even arrested in the first place. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that he's black.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 09:25 AM) jon greenberg ‏ @espnchijon Bulls hadn't lost consecutive regular season games since dropping Ls at Golden State and Portland on Feb. 5 & 7, 2011. Eighty-six games. That streak was second-longest in NBA history. Utah went 95 from 97-99. And with Boston on Thursday, they're staring at a ready-made 3 game skid.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 09:58 AM) Birmingham is going to have a fun rotation to follow with Molina, Castro, Hernandez, and Quintana in it. Not sure who the 5th starter will be, but I'm sure Petricka will be up fairly quickly. Castro's going to BHam? Are you sure? That'd be a disappointment.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 10:03 AM) Now that they are beginning to enter the 'newer model is nothing more than a minor spec bump' era, their sales will begin to peak/slow. I think this is the year Apple will peak in those terms before people simply stop upgrading just to have the newer models that look nearly identical the older models, and don't really do much more. The 4S was only a moderate upgrade on the iPhone4, but it pushed Apple to their best quarter ever.

Not that it actually matters, but here's the President's comments on the Court case, yesterday.

Feds now officially actively involved.

Nothing unexpected there.

KC Seems to think Rose will be cleared for contact practice today.

LOL, the Tribune this morning is running a poll "Will Kentucky's title eventually be vacated?" 73% Yes.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 09:12 AM) None, they had already bought them out. He had signed a 3 year, $38 million deal to buy out his arb years through 2013. So effectively he's on a 12 year deal? OK, I'm impressed.

QUOTE (Rex Hudler @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 08:15 AM) Will somebody please explain to me the allure of setting things on fire (couches?) and turning over cars when your team wins someething big? I have never understood this. It's right up there with putting anchovies on pizza. Who the hell does these kinds of things and WHY? When Indiana "rioted" after 3 different games in 2002, there really wasn't a lot of damage until the night the police decided to teargas people. Once the police acted, the crowd responded.

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 07:04 AM) Preseason 2012-2013 rankings Scrolls down, sees #1, smiles, doesn't bother looking at the rest of the list.

How many arbitration years did Votto have left?

QUOTE (Springfield SoxFan @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 07:40 AM) I thought there was some spring training news that AJ would hit second. Ventura is making his first bold statement if he plans to hit Dunn third in the order. Out of that lineup...I'm not sure there's anyone in a position that really angers me. Yeah, AJ hitting 5th behind "Just stop throwing me fastballs" is weak, but that also surrounds him with lefties and thus makes it darn near impossible to do late-game matchups with all 3. If Dunn can hit like Dunn, then that gives Konerko a lot of RBI and GIDP chances, Morel is a good contact hitter at 2, Ramirez is in a decent spot where he can clean up what's left after the middle of the order, Viciedo's in a low pressure spot, and then Rios gives whatever he gives if he can stay in the lineup. If Viciedo or Rios start raking, then they can move up to the 5th spot, but dropping them down for starters doesn't anger me.