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Eno Sarris ‏@enosarris 4h4 hours ago The average Major League Baseball Player in 1900 was five foot eight & weighed 173 pounds. Last year, he was six-one & weighed 201 pounds.

KLaw chat from today http://meadowparty.com/blog/2016/11/22/klawchat-112216/

JJ Stankevitz ‏@JJStankevitz 3h3 hours ago Brian Kelly says he has "zero, absolutely none" when asked if the head coach has any culpability in the cheating that happened.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 01:00 PM) I would say so. I mean would you want a guy embarrassing the team by cutting up uniforms he doesn't want to wear or throwing temper tantrums when his buddies are traded? When it comes to the top level of professional athletes, it takes a lot to blow their trade value. Most of those things have to do with not being on the field.

Barry Rozner ‏@BarryRozner 17m17 minutes ago So it's as if those years at ND didn't exist...sort of like Te'o girlfriend.

QUOTE (shipps @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 12:40 PM) I refuse to make excuses for him anymore though. He is one unlucky motherf***er to always have a combo/collection/one bad element of bad coaching, bad line, bad receivers, bad play calling, bad route running that lead to his doom. The thing is that anytime he is out, it gets worse.

QUOTE (shipps @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 12:35 PM) I cant say I feel bad for him. He was supposed to win when he came here. He didnt. He was supposed to be one of the better QB's in the game. He wasnt. Even when fans came around to accept him for what he was he under performed to that expectation as well. That invited all the unfair criticism and he has to just put on his big boy pants and accept it because, by in large, he failed here. The problem is that he has just been surrounding with some awful teams. Yeah he hasn't done anything to help the matter, but this is just a horrible run of Bears teams.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 12:12 PM) Never realized how insanely expensive pinball machines are until I tried researching them last night. Scratching that idea off the list. Totally. I fell in love with the Addams family pinball when I was in college. I made the mistake of looking up to see how much one would cost. Uh, no thanks, I'd rather buy a car.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 11:14 AM) Is there any reason we can't cut him, even when injured? There would need to be some sort of an injury settlement if he was under contract and not medically cleared.

RIP 2016 football.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 05:48 AM) I typically agree with raBBit on just about everything, but I'm not sure how anyone can think this is ok in any sense of the word. It's sickening and these guys need to be punished for it. Otherwise it'll be a chain reaction and it'll happen again. He's not saying its OK. He is saying this is viewed differently as a culture there. There is a difference.

Well that was a dud of a game.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 01:12 PM) Who could have possibly imagined he could become this player. I don't think even Garpax saw it I gave up on thinking he hit his ceiling years ago. Playing with a true superstar in D Wade? Who knows what that does for Jimmy.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 04:31 PM) 2K - the Dems won the popular vote by 1.5M voters. They picked up seats in the House and Senate. They lost the Presidential election because Donald Trump promised to bring jobs back to a depressed portion of the country - promises that he can't possibly keep - and flipped the Rust Belt Red. Clinton didn't pay enough attention to the Rust Belt. She didn't articulate her policies to that part of the country well. She took for granted that they would vote for the party of Labor rather than the party of management. I don't see how you can say that the Dems lost the election because they mocked ordinary people. The guy that mocked ordinary people actually won the Presidency... They are losing all over the country. http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/30673...te-legislatures

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 04:29 PM) And what are we supposed to do when an entire party decides they're going to do things like figure out strategies to make sure as many african american votes are blocked as possible? What do you do when a party calls for "Self deportation"? What do you do when a party makes a key part of its campaign that there should be limits on where one religion should be able to build their facilities? That it's a large portion of the population makes it worse. A large portion of the population was more than happy to turn a blind eye when their own party declared that they were going to do anything they could to keep certain groups from voting. Now it's in their face, and that same group said "this is fine". "How dare you assert that our party is beholden to a bunch of racists" seems like a message that shouldn't fly anymore when Sieg Heil's are being thrown around. And yet despite all of that, that Dems lost. I am sure it isn't their fault and they have nothing to learn from it. This is fine.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 04:23 PM) Well I think that's actually the critical flaw in that analysis, and it's something he kinda just skirts around in parenthesis. 8 years of full obstruction and increasing radical political positions culiminating in an overtly bigoted and hateful gameshow host becoming their nominee has resulted in them being in their most powerful position in nearly a century and stealing a Supreme Court seat that should have dramatically shifted the overall stance of the court to the left. Why shouldn't we take away the lesson that policies matter little and beltway political theater (obstruction etc.) matters less and that full-blown demagoguery is the best way to go? It worked for Trump, it worked for the "Leave" campaign in Britain. It totally misses the party in charge being out of tune with the ordinary people, and leaving the door open to this crap. Again it misses that instead of seizing what was available, and identifying with them, they mocked and lost them.

QUOTE (Sleepy Harold @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 04:00 PM) if it meant getting/was the difference between getting a Torres/Fraizer/Rutherford back in a deal then sign me up...Headley's not very good but he's versatile (me trying to talk myself into the idea)??? I am all for taking on a bad deal or malcontent if it means improving the prospect return. The White Sox should absolutely be willing to take on guys like Pablo Sandoval, Yasiel Puig, or anyone else if the sending team is willing to include higher level prospects in order to take the player on.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 04:11 PM) This was basically the argument laid out by an Italian writer re: Berlusconi. His absurdity was similar to Trump's, and he'd always get his opponents to respond to every crazy little thing he does rather than offering their own message. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/opinion/...sist-trump.html Don't know how much I agree with it, but I think it's right up your alley. I think there is some solid logic there. I think I also agree that is why the GOP largely left themselves in a position for a Donald Trump to win. They spent 8 years of being the party of Not Obama and they never really presented a personality that was able to step into the post-Obama void. Instead the one guy who seemed to have all of the answers, as stupid as they were, was the one guy that people could largely identify with. It isn't just the Democrats that can learn from this election, I just think with them being the party out of power they have the most flexibility to actually look inward and change things.

Galveston Island is always a great getaway spot, and it is only about a half hour drive from Houston Hobby airport. NASA at Johnson Space Center is also there.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:57 PM) There is no hyperbole with the racism in this upcoming administration. There is no need for exaggeration. Are we supposed to turn a blind eye? With this upcoming administration? No. The problem is the decades of using this as a standard tool to attack everyone. Again, it is meaningless when said now to a large portion of the population. So much so that a new label had to be made up to try to scare people with, but of course it didn't really work. The Democrats aren't going to win by using the Trump game plan of name calling. They are going to win by offering a smarter alternative.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:58 PM) If that is the case, we aren't winning another game. I say this now, but watch Barkley come in and shock us all. That would mean the game against the Niners would be the game to decide who gets the 2nd overall pick (cause ain't nobody catching those Browns). Having Matt Barkley come in and turn this into a 5 or 6 win team would be the most Bears thing ever.

Bulls Talk ‏@CSNBulls 33m33 minutes ago Bulls' Jimmy Butler named Eastern Conference Player of the Week - http://ift.tt/2gvV5aG #BullsTalk

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:48 PM) So Jay Cutler may have suffered a season ending shoulder injury. This team will be funny bad the rest of the year. Again, curse the Browns.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:45 PM) I agree. We should respect the important contributions of racism to the fabric of our society. And this is exactly the attitude that has relegated the Democratic party to a secondary role in this country as they have lost the federal stage, and the vast majority of the states as well. This holier than thou, anyone who isn't with us is a racist attitude just isn't effective as a political platform. All you have to do is look at the results of where the party is right now to know that. Eventually one of these two parties will become disaffected enough with lowest common denominator politics to realize that in order to be truly effective it is the high hanging fruit that will be the most productive. But if you want to keep engaging in the Trump style of politics, then you will continue to get these results. The party that campaigned against the politics of fear and hate for so long has fallen into that trap, and has this Presidential election to show for it. Again, congratulations for electing our worst nightmare as President.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:40 PM) If only I had gotten behind more voter suppression laws none of this would have happened. Maybe insulting more people would work out better?