Steve9347

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 02:50 PM) Update from the Sox-still confident.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 02:44 PM) Call me crazy, but grades don't mean everything. You can be socially inept and come off like a gigantic idiot, even if you are really good at retaining information from your Anthropology classes. I know plenty of people who got terrible grades, but are actually really smart. And people who aren't every smart that got great grades. It's more about effort than intelligence. So yes, in the times I have seen Sherman on TV, my impression of him is that he is a big f***ing idiot who can't control his emotions and looks clinically insane. I actually have to agree with this post. Getting a whopping 3.7 gpa in Communications doesn't make Sherman not an idiot. I have college grads as co-workers who are f***ing morons, too.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 02:46 PM) Being a woman was just as much of a "lie" as having those degrees/job history. There's quite a disconnect with your feelings and how the whole transgendered community feels.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 02:14 PM) This is the part of the story that cracks me up - it's great we're having an open, productive conversation BUT NEVER TALK ABOUT SOMEONE BEING TRANSGENDERED OPENLY AND PUBLICLY. THAT'S WRONG! Wait. What? You are completely missing the point. Said person was not "out" when the author "outed" said person.

Non-Tanaka MLB pitchers looking for new contracts must be really tired of this s***.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 01:49 PM) I am very hesitant to jump out and say that since Dr. V did some things very wrong, that she deserved harm beyond what those wrong things merited. It is one thing to be outed as a liar and receive what comes from defrauding people of their money and time. To be outed as a transgender person, in all likelihood, is unfathomably traumatizing. She likely lived much of her life in absolute turmoil about her identity. By all accounts, the outside world very much saw a young man. She felt like a young woman. If Dr. V was anything like most other transgendered people, being able to live as a woman was incredibly liberating on the most fundamental level. I cannot fathom how it must feel to finally feel like I am in the correct body after feeling as if I were in the wrong one for so long. Dr. V clearly wanted to get away from anyone associated with her past, which makes sense -- she doesn't want people tiptoeing around, trying to figure out pronouns and that sort of thing. She just wanted to be herself, a woman. The consequences of being outed means all of that tumbling down. The brief moment in her life in which she was finally happy in her own skin getting interrupted by the very past she meant to disavow had to be incredibly unsettling. It is the most damaging invasion of privacy one can ever imagine. We don't know how much this came to fruition before her death. Hannan outed her to that investor, but we aren't sure if that investor reacted. Hannan let Dr. V know that he knew, but he obviously didn't publish anything before her death. We simply don't know how seriously threatened she felt. Perhaps everyone in her personal life was finding out because of all this. Maybe not. She certainly had issues more complicated than "I will kill myself if I am outed." However, it very well could be that if she was maybe 25% of the way towards doing that, feeling as if she had been outed could easily be a significant enough moment to push her the rest of the way toward action. She wasn't blameless. She probably deserved humiliation -- how humiliating it would have been for everyone to find out that she made up her credentials, talked all funny to sound like a scientist, tricked Gary McCord, sold a bunch of golf clubs on false pretenses -- but being unveiled in such a public way in regard to her gender identity is just so incredibly personal. I wish I could explain just how significant that is. That isn't to say that all trans people should or want to live in absolute secrecy -- this is clearly not the case -- but they have to handle that on their own terms. You can obviously say that she walked herself into this. Lying about your identity in general certainly puts your gender identity at risk of being compromised. She even could have probably snuffed out Hannan earlier in the process, giving him no window to her in a significant way. However, what do you say about a guy walking home alone at night that gets mugged? It's his fault? What about the mugger? Who do we blame? If Martha Stewart got whacked by another inside trader, is that deserved? She played a dangerous game, maybe dangerous people could have come along. She increased her risk. That doesn't mean she deserved to be killed. You can imagine all kinds of scenarios, but you get my point. Putting yourself at risk does not mean you deserve the worst possible outcome. Doing something wrong doesn't mean you should risk punishment beyond your transgression. There is an argument to be taken seriously here that Dr. V received a punishment, by being outed, that far exceeds her lies. Being Essay wasn't a lie, it was the only truth she had ever known. Dr. V was a lie and that is where we should focus our condemnation -- but we also need to take into account that Dr. V probably came about because of a person who spent her life struggling dearly for acceptance. I've already talked about the article and how I don't think it is horrible, but it is important to recognize that trans people being outed shouldn't be a run of the mill thing to happen if you happen to not like them as a person. This is a fantastic post.

I can't believe we have to likely watch a Super Bowl with s***ty conditions when the entire country is filled with state of the art stadiums in warm weather as well as domes. F*ck New York/New Jersey. Close all the bridges.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 01:38 PM) Hell no. I'm poor. That's a long-ass flight, too.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 01:18 PM) Derrick Rose (sadly I am only half joking) Oh yeah.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 01:09 PM) To make The Weather Channel money Well, there it is.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 01:12 PM) What would you give up for Eric Gordon? Anything? 2014-15: $14,898,958 2015-16: $15,514,031 - Player Option Nothing.

Why are we naming winter storms now?

Oh yeah, and Teague's TS% is .308.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 12:29 PM) Austin Rivers, with actual playing time, had one of the worst seasons in the NBA/ABA era (I'm talking 308th in the league as a defender, nearly record worst 43.1 TS%, 5.9 PER.. yea I don't need to go on) and is still doing s***ty this year, albeit not as s***ty as his god awful rookie year, but still s***ty, yet you still spill out the same bulls*** most of us already know (although not nearly as awful as you portray the kid to be) seeking the "hey look at me" attention to your posts no better than J4L in this thread (who is miles smarter than you about the game of basketball btw) and then still pout about others in this thread who might not be as factual about certain aspects of Thibodeau's tactics, advanced statistical strategies (especially defensively... his abolition of illegal defense he fully leveraged and was really the first to do so, by loading up the strong side box while having the weakside defenders zone the back side of the defense.. just a brilliant mind) or about a Bulls player in general (and yes some are warranted) and yet respond to one, two, sometimes ten word snarly remarks back to others reminiscent to SoxFan1 who does it.. well.. almost all the time. No wonder why some good basketball minds here rarely post or just avoid this thread entirely. Of course I'm only pulling your leg and halfway kidding Steven. But yes, Teague wasn't properly developed here and he sucked. Bulls did what they needed to do to get under the tax. Best of luck to the kid. Maybe Jason Kidd can teach him some things with his high basketball I.Q. like how to properly bump into him with a drink in his hand without getting caught on camera. Though I find the venting of everything you despise about Steve9347 (which is cool; the feeling's definitely mutual), your timing in defense of Marquis Teague probably wasn't the best. You just waxed poetic on Austin Rivers and his 5.9 PER being terrible while Teague has rocked a 0.1 PER. ZERO POINT ONE. Teague's received over 12 minutes per game. That's a sample size. I was just pointing out the level to which Mr. Teague has sucked and the hilariousness of a team willingly trading for him.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 20, 2014 -> 08:18 PM) Frankly I think the extent Simmons went to apologize is a bit nauseating. 15 smart, intelligent, long-time editors/journalists peer-reviewed that piece, and not one of them thought of the 10 things he's apologizing for. That to me is a sign that this story is a non-story. It's a sign that a guy born out of the internet has clearly over-valued and over-estimated the internet. Yeah, apologize for using the wrong pronoun. I can support that. Apologize for maybe not editing a few lines that make it seem like the guy is creeped out about a tranny (as if that's not a normal reaction for most people, regardless of the opinion of acceptability). I still can't get behind not reporting the truth. If this is the standard, I don't know how reporters are supposed to do their jobs. They shouldn't care how the subject, especially a subject that voluntarily talked, might feel about it. Yeah, Simmons' article was largely filled with bulls*** to end the discussion. That's fine, but 15 people did not review that article, because someone would have said "yo, this is f***ed up".

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 18, 2014 -> 06:27 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!" Well, let's be honest, the author did out her to a business partner. That's f***ed up.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 18, 2014 -> 03:47 PM) "Oh no, a reporter is going to reveal that I'm transgendered. Oh look, a plastic bag." No one else got that possibility as they were reading it, that having this part of her life revealed publicly against her wishes could push the person to that? I didn't notice this thread on Soxtalk until now - and yes, reading the lengthly article, it seemed, to me, that she made one last plea for the writer to come see her proof and then squash the story, and he said hell no and she killed herself.

To summarize, the Nets just willingly traded for quite possibly the worst player of all-time.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 11:51 AM) Hahn is gonna announce the signing in his interview on STL tonight. That would be sick This makes absolutely no sense, why do people keep saying things like this?

Dalibor Bagaric was 17x better than Marquis Teague.

Marquis Teague has a 0.1 PER. As a rookie, Dalibor Bagaric had a 3.3 PER.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 11:03 AM) Also interesting that it doesn't seem to be allowing for progress from Viciedo. Viciedo blows.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 09:47 AM) Sqwert, no doing this if the Seahawks lose http://deadspin.com/49ers-fan-allegedly-sh...of-b-1505721518 CAREFUL I WAS KIDDING YESTERDAY AND I THOUGHT HE WOULD SHOOT ME We all Marko.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jan 21, 2014 -> 11:29 AM) Something about that part of the earth being closer to the sun and the rotation of the earth being 1.254% faster near the Sea of Japan and how much healthier Japanese people are... Well, the last part's easy - they don't eat red meat.

Marquis Teague might very well be the worst player in the NBA. He's one of the top 5 worst players I've ever seen play for the Bulls. He had very little talent to start and was given absolutely no chance to develop. As a fan that stuck with them in the 2000s, that's saying a lot. I think Khalid El-Amin was a better NBA player. I think Marcus Fizer was a better NBA player E-Rob > Teague? Absolutely. And f*** that guy. Of course, that's talking like some highly regarded turds of that era. AJ Guyton, Fred Hoiberg, Trenton Hassell - those dudes would run LAPS around Teague. Jake Voskuhl was likely worse, though. I don't know that Bagaric counts as a Bull, but yeah, likely a bit worse. (EDIT NOPE CAREER PER OF 10.2 BLOWS TEAGUE AWAY) But yeah, f*** Marquis Teague. Peace.