southsider2k5

Disqualifying other people's life experiences is one heck of a limb to climb out on.

They have an agreement for prorated pay for 50 games already. So at worst that is in their pockets.

Just looking at the math here, they can play 50 games for 50 games pay, or they can play 76 games for 57 games worth of pay. MLB is asking them to play 26 more games, to take home 7 more games worth of pay. I would definitely call that a step back.

He and Tim Anderson seem to have developed a pretty solid relationship FWIW>

If only there were people who for a meager amount of pay would go out and gather new information on various topics that may be of interest to a subscriber base of readers who would then pay for the rights to read these new bits information (have to brainstorm on a name for this idea, the name should be short, catchy and to the point) so that its readers wouldn't have to suffer in ignorance. Sure some of this new information would be self-serving and maybe even lies, but there would be enough of the good new information out there that most people should be able to sort between the good information and the bad new information. That way people wouldn't have to suffer through ignorance of a specific topic of interest because all of this new information they would gather would complete an adequate circle of knowledge on the specific topic so as to give them enough education on the topic to enlighten them on it with all of this new information. The new information could even flow into our modern technological apparatuses so that people would have their new information almost instantly. Call it a new information expressway if you like. I'd bet there would even be people who chose to make careers out of gathering and delivering this new information to the masses, and maybe even become well respected members of their local communities for delivering this new information in an understandable format to the masses, thus liberating them from their ignorance. I know my idea for "new information" gathering people is probably a pipe dream, but maybe with all of our advances in technology we can make this happen. Let's go 2020!

If you had told me five years ago that Mitt Romney would be one of the most admirable and respectable Republicans in 2020, I would have literally laughed in your face.

He always had arm issues, it was just that that White Sox did everything they could to stop them before they became serious. The Red Sox didn't.

I love that the this isn't a big deal crowd didn't make a big deal out of this until people started protesting over issues in the black community. Then it's all WhAt AbOuT CoViD!¡!

Willfully ignoring what is happening around you is exactly that. Ignorance.

Trump has run the biggest non-recession deficits in history even before Covid. Those voters didn't give a shit until they started talking about social security and Medicare.

Almost got a "those people" that time.

And because of that they attend lesser funded schools... I mean you can see this at every level of attainment.

Yeah, I don't know why people are upset enough to riot and burn things. It must be because I don't think they can do anything. It can't be generations of social and economic policy designed to make them fail.

No, people like you need to stop looking down on people and teach adults and kids that the really do have a way out AND ACTUALLY MEAN IT. People raise their kids with no hope, because they have no hope. That's what 400 years of boot on your neck does to you.

Charter schools? For poor black kids? You don't know a lot about Charter schools do you.

It is absolutely family structure. That family structure is a result of 400 years of discrimination and policies designed to make the black family a second class citizen in the United States. Generations of wealth concentrated in one structure doesn't change overnight. Neither do the repercussions of segregation and slavery. People whose lives were stunted due to segregation are still raising families. They still believe the system is stacked against them, and are teaching kids that education is worthless because the system was designed to make them fail. Then they turn on TV and see George Floyd getting choked out by a cop. They see that people with black names on resumes are less likely to get call backs than people with white names. They see themselves as more likely to go to jail for the same crimes than white people are. They see themselves pulled over and harassed more often than white people. The see a rich person commit discrimination, tax fraud and defraud a charity, but get elected President. You want to tell them their life experiences are invalid? I can't anymore. No poverty programs aren't going to push them into a higher social structure. But neither is the bootstraps myth.

It would help if you would realize that the price of not getting people out of poverty IS the price all of the things that you listed. You are using this bootstraps mentality for people who don't have boots.

It is much better to say F those kids for not figuring out how to get past it. I mean what is the worst that could happen?

The long layoff could be interesting for the team. It is an older team with a lot of players with a lot of miles on their legs. Could the layoff give them some life?

Glad to hear it man.

We essentially did that with Tim Anderson. Sure he went to a JuCo, but he was a basketball players up until mid high school, and essentially came out of college with a high school level of experience. I'd love a Howard pick in concept, especially if we get an underslot deal to do it.

Its a bit hokey, as it is was designed for kids, but this is a great way of putting the generational effects of poverty and discrimination into a skit. It is WAY bigger than personal responsibility as a society. At the very end, where you have the kids who don't even run, those are the kids who turn into adults who poison the next generation, and they take down the generation after that, etc. Why run a rigged race? There are A LOT of people who feel that way, and teach their kids the exact same thing. So while it is easy to say it isn't my fault they ended up that way, WE ALL are the ones who bear the greater burden. Who pays for them as adults who can't contribute to society? We all do.

l think right now they can play the game. With no sports around, no one really notices this in the grander, non-hardcore fans sense. Now if Basketball and or Hockey start playing again, and baseball still hasn't figured this out, THEN we will be looking at hell to pay. We will see who blinks first, but I think the underlying agreement being in place means the owners can hold out a bit longer than the players.

How are people today personally responsible for their parents and grandparents being discriminated against.

Hey great. Now welcome to reality. We have built a society of disenfranchisement. There is a significant portion of the United States who literally don't have two parent stability. Many don't even have on around. So then what? As a society we have a choice, you can either pay in childhood to put kids into a position to succeed, or you can spend their adulthood paying for that failure. Incarceration, welfare, or education, pick one. We have generations of adults out there who can't teach their kids to read, let alone how to do math, science or anything that kids need in 2020. Too many kids are already starting from behind. If you forget about them, you build the next welfare generation and prison population.