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On Brandon McCarthy's wiki page: Early life He graduated from Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2001. McCarthy was playing baseball for Lamar Community College in Colorado when he was drafted in the 17th round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft by the Chicago White Sox. Now he is considered by popular baseball analysts as the "greatest" pitcher in baseball; edging probable Cy Young Award winners.

Distant cousin of double rainbow guy?

Jake I saw that when it said 30k/week, LOL. Sign me up.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 5, 2012 -> 02:08 PM) You can die in a car wreck every time you drive, cant live afraid. Come on. One is an accident, one is not. Enough of these happen, people will start living afraid, and rightly so.

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 4, 2012 -> 12:57 PM) We'll disagree. I do not believe what happens to the football program weighs heavier on the decision than personally losing your career and going to jail. You really believe the next PSU President would cover up a child rape if the football program was spared. You can choose not to believe it...but it just happened! People knew consequences of these things and still acted to protect the football program. Of course it could happen again.

Forecast calls for this game to get washed out.

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 4, 2012 -> 12:38 PM) I find it so sad that people believe that without punishment to the football program, that crimes will continue to be committed at other universities. That people at universities will see Penn State and say, well we would do the same thing tomorrow if they left the football program alone. Really!? Guilty people are behind bars, their reputations destroyed, careers lost, all on a personal level. But that isn't enough for a high ranking university official to react. Somehow without innocent people losing their jobs and their futures hurt, it could happen again? I don't see it. I don't see another university thinking they would risk jail, ending their career, and the rest, as long as the football program would be spared. Balta works at a university, how far would you go to protect the football program? Would you go to jail for it? Does it really take destroying the football program to have you do the right thing? The answer to your last question at Penn st is "yes"

Had no idea. Just looked really odd to see an intentional kick count.

Um you can apparently kick the ball in Olympic volleyball...?

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 09:00 PM) The lesson it teaches is guilty people are prosecuted and punished, not innocent. And no, the players would not suffer the most. There are a lot of companies, and individuals whose paychecks are directly tied to the program. There are vendors who supply services and equipment. Think of all the people who work directly and indirectly for PSU football. The businesses who benefit on gameday. Look at the economic impact that having a team means to a community. It is way more than the players. Look at the "moral" impact having a team means to the community. Way more than victims. The team and program was above the victims. To this day, for a lot of the idiots at PSU, it still is. I know you haven't been in here a lot, so I'm posting this article again: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/07/23/ber...ball-continues/ Here's another similar story: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/01/ber...iant-insulting/

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 08:03 PM) *They* are all gone. The "Theys" that are remaining, and who would suffer the consequences, never had a chance to do the right thing. Never knew any of this was going on. I believe in punishing the guilty. And this is why I place the greatest blame with McQueery. he should have immediately stepped in to stop the abuse and called police. Not calling his dad the next day. What lesson does that teach people? If you commit a bunch of illegal acts for the betterment of your program, as long as everyone that was involved, you get rid of/dies, you're good to go. BTW, the "theys" that remain have the option to leave without penalty. The players, who would suffer the most, have a free out.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 07:47 PM) Nothing gas happened with a protested game since 1986. No chance something comes of this on a call that happened in the first inning. There's rules in place for a reason. I'm sure it's a tough bar to reach, but it doesn't mean it can't happen, eventually it will. Plus, the inning doesn't really have anything to do with it.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 07:47 PM) Since the ball didn't hit him, its the umpire's discretion whether or not his being outside the lane caused the bad throw. If the umpire just thinks the catcher made a bad throw, then interference isn't called. If the ball hit him or he interfered with the first baseman catching the ball or the umpire believes his position was the cause of the bad throw, then interference is called. I can see where you could make an argument the throw was bad because of where Paulie was, you can also see the catcher just making a bad throw. Billy Ripken was actually going over this rule a couple of nights ago and he thinks they should get rid of the lane. If you're running in the lane, especially from the right side of the batter's box its a crazy route, and really you can't run a straight line unless you hit first base with you left foot. The protest will be denied. It's hard to say that the throw wasn't partially caused by being outside the lane, as his window to the base to actually hit Pujols is very small at that point. When in doubt, you're taught to call the interference, unless the throw is way, way off. I don't agree with getting rid of the lane - you can't have guys running wherever they want inside the line. Imagine bunts and choppers. You'd never be able to call a runner out for interference. It's really not a crazy of a route as it only kicks in on the last half, and only if it's a play from behind the runner.

Holy s*** that was a rocket.

And that's why this game is protested...just cost the Angels 3 runs. Depending on the result, and what exactly was explained to him, something could come of it. If it's a judgment call (which can't be protested anyway), then nothing. It depends what the explanation/interpretation of the rule was.

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 07:28 PM) I'm kindof all over the map on this. Jeffry Dahlmer used his locker at work to conceal some of his murders. Should that company be shut down? A couple executives sexually harass employees and rape them, should the entire company be shuttered putting innocent people out of work? In this case there were five or six people in the organization that should have acted, and didn't. Should all the businesses that rely on PSU football be shuttered? Should all the student workers lose their incomes? I have a hard time agreeing with those that believe the program should have been shut down. I guess I am also in the minority, next to Sandusky, McQueery, and now those janitors, will always be far more to blame than anyone else. They witnessed first hand a crime being committed and didn't immediately step in to stop it, or call the police. I place JoeP fifth or sixth in the blame game. Finally, hindsight is always 20/20. It is very easy to say what should have been done years after the fact. Hell, Sandusky should never have been coaching football. Victims should have come forward. His wife should have done something. But I'm not going to destroy an entire University of thousands and thousands over the actions of a handful. I doubt there were 10 people in all of PSU that would have made such a terrible decision. If everyone knew about it, sure. This has nothing to do with hindsight. You don't need hindsight to know child rape is wrong and that s*** needs to be reported right way. These weren't recruiting violations. The bottom line is they protected this stuff so football could go on. Well, now it's time for football, and that school, to pay for it. I would have been absolutely fine with shutting that down for a while.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 07:32 PM) So Paulie was out of the base path? Is that the issue? Yeah, he was well outside the running line (so think inside the line). The throw went from C to 1B. On a play like that, the rule is you have to have both feet in the running lane. It does not matter if the ball hits you or not. Angels officially protesting the game. HP umpire messed this up bad, it was such an easy call. It's not like one foot was barely outside and they may have missed it.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 07:31 PM) What's with the delay? Did they call him out? Still talking. Scioscia's livid as he should be.

That should have been a DP, Paul was outside the running lane. Easy.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 06:12 PM) This is one of those cases where every time you defend him...you put this story back on the front pages. Yup, and every time I (and I'm sure others) get more angry at JoePa and PSU as a whole. It's not helping anything. What's funny/sad is some of his family had to have known something while the whole thing was going on.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 05:43 PM) Olympic boxing is an absolute joke. Errol Spence from the USA just absolutely dominated the Indian fighter he fought today yet somehow the judges give the fight to the Indian fighter. Insanely corrupt sport and the judges in the Olympics seemingly award fighters for running away rather than engaging. Wasn't there also a guy that was on the mat 6 times in one round, then won that round and the fight?

Just can't accept the fact that he covered up child rape for the betterment of his program. Just keep trying to save his name, even though it will never happen at this point. All of you can go f*** yourselves for completely missing what's important in all of this. Also, good luck with the appeal. LMAO.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 04:37 PM) My puppy training is going well so far. He's learned to go to the bathroom when we say OUTSIDE, he knows how to give paw, and he's pretty obedient when we call his name and tell him to come. The only problem is that he still pees and poos at random times. The nice thing is that he knows to go on the training pads we have set out for him. The chewing is a problem too, but he avoids shoes and we just make sure to have some toys that he can gnaw on. For weeks ours would just piss anywhere. Eventually they learn. The one thing shack told me worked, when you clean it up with paper towels, place them on the pads, and don't change the pads often. Eventually she got the idea. Chewing is awful to deal with, we have 15 toys here but she will always find a table leg or something.

It came out in a few different large clumps, it had been digested for a decent while...but it sounds like she may have eaten too fast. She seemed OK otherwise, OK today, etc. We're now at the stage where she can jump on the couch whenever she wants, which is awful because we used to have to bring her up, and better yet, we were able to get her away if she was being annoying by just putting her on the floor. Doesn't work anymore. She also loves walking onto the coffee table regardless of what is on there.

She was kind of sniffing it but we got rid of it pretty quickly so hard to tell, but she didn't go right back to dig in. This was probably 2 hours or so after she ate it. Is it good or bad if she did want to eat it? She ate her breakfast this morning no problem.