Balta1701

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Dec 29, 2010 -> 10:32 AM) Goodell has lost points in my book this year. Too many inconsistent decisions. I can't believe a guy can text pictures of his wang to an NFL Team Employee and get away without punishment. Unless Goodell has good reason to believe that its not his wang, she asked him to send it to her, or something else. . . this is pretty indefensible to me. This looks like textbook sexual harassment. Supposedly the complication is that it wasn't actually sent from Brett Favre Brett Favre Brett Favre's phone.

QUOTE (quickman @ Dec 29, 2010 -> 10:16 AM) Oney behaving like this, sends a signal to the rest of the whitesox. Can't go to ozzie with your problems or when Oney is around you need to shut up, because Ozzie and his idiot sons can't keep there mouths shut. They will need to find someone else to talk to, which is ashame. A player should be able to go to his manager, as a leader, mentor and coach and share an issue that maybe affecting there play. That said, I am sure Bobby is not out of his problems and these will re-surfice once again fortunately not for the whitesox. That's not the message this sends. The message this sends is that if you don't want your dirty laundry aired...then keep your own mouth shut. Ripping the team that knows all your dirty laundry? That's moronic. Every one in that locker room suffered last year because of Bobby's problems, and every one of them kept their mouths shut. Bobby Jenks left, and immediately decided that he couldn't keep his mouth shut, and blamed the people who were covering for him.

I still can't check.

I believe I saw somewhere last night that Camby wanted to stay in Portland.

Everyone cares about your fantasy team?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 29, 2010 -> 08:26 AM) My wife got a PhD in I/O Psych (Experimental - not Clinical). She received an assistantship which covered her tuition and school costs, and provided a very, very meager salary. She could live on it, barely, but if anything ever went wrong, she'd have been quickly buried financially. That sounds like the experience of every grad student I've ever met.

QUOTE (Crash73 @ Dec 29, 2010 -> 09:45 AM) That. And it has nothing to do with sports. When off-field stuff interferes with your performance on the field, then it very much has to do with sports.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 29, 2010 -> 08:38 AM) Good post. Jenks acting like a whiny little child, but Oney went up another two levels of asshole from there. We're basically watching two spoiled immature brats fight it out on the interwebs. Its sad, and it does NOT reflect well on the White Sox. I think the White Sox come out of this quite a bit cleaner than you suggest.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Dec 28, 2010 -> 11:29 PM) NFL is wacky and anything can happen, but with the 2 meaningful games to the bears at 12 and bears at 3, they should have no chance at the 1st at that point, so we'll see what Lovie does Lovie currently has said he'll prepare his guys with the plans that they're going to play a normal game. That said...they said exactly the same thing in 2006 going into a meaningless game against the Packers, and Grossman had a 0 QB rating.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 28, 2010 -> 11:26 PM) Pretty sweet. I booked my flight earlier today (didnt' want to keep waiting) so I'll just have a weekend to spend in Chicago. Nothing wrong with that Have a pizza for me.

Zero alcohol in your system?

Xenophobe.

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Dec 28, 2010 -> 11:16 PM) Thats another thing, finishing a masters at one school doesn't mean all the credits will transfer to a phd program at another school Even if a school is really strict about their requirements, having a masters degree will at least shorten the PhD course requirements though, that's an absolute guarantee. At a school like mine though, coming in with a Masters degree was the difference between lasting 6 years and lasting 5 years. At others, it's the difference between a 5 year program and a 3 year program.

Very useful, alka-seltzer.

Try to hit the toilet itself, not the wall behind it.

Really want to prevent that? try bourbon. Brownest of the brown liquors.

QUOTE (Tex @ Dec 28, 2010 -> 10:52 PM) That's what I am believing, but what kind of support and how much would be considered average or usual? I understand tuition and fees being covered but what kind of stipends would be possible beyond that? What is a "typical" package a student could hope for? I am also looking at any books or websites that offer a decent overview, but so far too much "search overload". In general...I'd say that based on my experience and the offers I got, if you're going into a program where you're working on a research Ph.D., you're setting yourself up for 6 years spent on the edge of poverty. However, it's on the edge of poverty with a long-term goal set up. If you've got severe college loans to pay off, that might be a problem. Otherwise, most of the people I talked to, at different universities, but usually within the earth science field, if you can get yourself set up with either a faculty member who has funding for a grad student or a school that simply admits general grad students, here's what is covered. Tuition should be fully paid for. The student should receive some sort of stipend. If you count the full value of the tuition and the stipend, you're getting a fairly large amount of money for the research, but the tuition subtracts so much that you don't wind up with a large takehome amount. At least for me, it was enough to cover rent, utilities, school necessities, and food, but it wasn't enough to cover much beyond that. Things like significant car payments, auto insurance payments, those are luxuries. If you're budgeting well, you can come up with some money for those things, but not a whole lot. You better be learning how to cook. I'm happy to offer a seminar on coupons and rebates (for a price) if you're interested, because I learned that F***ing quick. Actually getting a funded project can be an issue I should note as well. Without knowing how your son is set up, he'll probably be applying to several programs, with different ways of structuring things. When I got to grad school, I was admitted without being hooked to a specific faculty sponsor, but that only worked because the school was F***ing rich. Most places, you hook on, interview, and receive funding from a specific faculty member for some duration of time. The exact details are going to vary from school to school, but there are differences. What you want to do is math. Check the rents in the areas you apply if you receive an offer, understand that you're not going to be wealthy, and see how much you wind up afterwards. $10,000 in one city can be similar to $20,000 in another city depending on how the rents are.

WTF is this Favre Springstein crap? Anyone else see that? WTF?

Perhaps you should think for a moment about whether a being that is a fish below the hips would have the appropriate reproductive apparatus.

Without knowing all the details, clinical psychology seems like a discipline where Grad School would be largely paid for out of research funds, is that accurate?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 28, 2010 -> 10:44 PM) It wasn't right for Oney to make the comments he did, but there was going to be verbal retaliation of some type. Perhaps Williams and/or Guillen will say something else too. Hopefully they keep it civil while putting Jenks in his place, perhaps something along the lines of telling people he was non-tendered for a reason. There is now absolutely no need for KW or Guillen to say anything else negative about Jenks. They can legitimately take the high road and distance themselves from Oney's comments, and it doesn't matter because the message and some vague, 140 character summary of the facts are already out there. KW and Ozzie should chime in by decrying Oney's statements. All that would do is put more emphasis on them.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 28, 2010 -> 10:40 PM) You see, Balta, get rid of the current system the way that it is by actually making sure the details match what it is you're trying to actually do. No one has a problem with the nature of it, just don't be ignorant about the details. Kind of like passing a bill so we know what's in it? It's not about what the issue is, it's about doing things right, something that no one seems to be able to recognize anymore. The benefit of an international treaty is that other signatories also are obligated by the treaty to solve what are, in many cases, serious problems with their treatment of indigenous peoples.

Nobody thinks that the other players on the Sox are sitting there thinking "Man, I'm glad someone finally said that s*** about Bobby after how he was acting"?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 28, 2010 -> 10:13 PM) No response was even necessary. Bobby expressed disappointment with how he was utilized. That does not require any response from the organization. The beauty is...the organization has NOT responded. The guy who was fired from the organization for being a (insert profane word I don't want to type) last year, who happens to know everything behind the scenes because of a relationship with the manager, has responded.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 28, 2010 -> 10:01 PM) And on a sidenote, all you have to do is look at who Oney follows to get how big of a D-bag he really is. That brent lillibridge guy is a jerk.