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@ChicagoSports: #Cubs Jason Hammel apologizes for comparing Wrigley Field to Baghdad, via @MDGonzales. http://trib.in/1IVm1oY

Colleen Kane ‏@ChiTribKane 4m4 minutes ago Micah Johnson dove for a grounder in the first inning, was holding his side. Sox out to talk with him but he stays in game.

Brian Davis ‏@BDavisAAS 6h6 hours ago Texas officials prepared to go as high as 6 years, $18 million to land Shaka Smart. @statesman http://shar.es/1guyoa

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 2, 2015 -> 01:49 PM) Rant A VP forgot his password while on vacation, calls the helpdesk who of course change it for him without checking to see if he is on our network. He isn't so the password never syncs to his laptop, and he refuses to go to our nearest branch location (50 miles away) to get on our network to sync it. Instead he wants a new laptop shipped to him (he's in Panama) and he's going to ship the old one back. So pretty much he's going to spend more time shipping/receiving the laptops then it would take him to drive to the branch and just hardwire it in. But since he's a VP we pretty much can't say no. And I'm sure there will be documents missing as I bet the last backup time wasn't today. All this because he can't remember his password while on vacation.... What the hell!? /Rant SO WHERE IS MY LAPTOP?!?!?!?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 2, 2015 -> 12:34 PM) All right, no calling him that until we change announcers. I was wondering what Harrelson had done to him and scared for a second. Yeah, but then I have to spell out his whole name... who has time for that?

QUOTE (LDF @ Apr 2, 2015 -> 01:24 PM) i little nice chunk of change there. In terms of a baseball salary, that is nothing. Even when you include all of the players making the $500k minimum in MLB, the average salary this year is $4.3 million.

Scott Merkin ‏@scottmerkin 7m7 minutes ago Brian Anderson has officially been released by the White Sox

ESPN Stats & Info ‏@ESPNStatsInfo 3h3 hours ago Kentucky's starting 5 is a combined 405 inches tall (listed height) Only 1 NBA team has started taller lineup in a game this season (Jazz)

ESPN Stats & Info ‏@ESPNStatsInfo 3h3 hours ago Justin Verlander (headed to DL) has had declining WAR the last 3 seasons 2014 1.1 2013 4.6 2012 7.8 – 1st among SP 2011 8.4 – 3rd among SP

Chris Kuc ‏@ChrisKuc 2h2 hours ago Confirming, #Blackhawks can't activate Patrick Kane from injured list until playoffs due to salary-cap restrictions. No room at the inn.

Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 24m24 minutes ago 25-man will be set Friday.

Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 3m3 minutes ago Sox reassign Brad Penny and Scott Carroll to minor league camp. Penny said he's good with going to Charlotte. Carroll headed there, too. Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 3m3 minutes ago Brad Penny said needs innings, wants to start season as a starter. Can't do that anywhere except at Charlotte w/ #WhiteSox rotation full.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 2, 2015 -> 12:05 PM) So the single, only reason you can cite for why these cases aren't comparable is that race is a protected class. Ergo, you are either choosing, you think race should not be a protected class and you would be ok with businesses discriminating against mixed-race couples or you think that sexuality should be added to federal and state protected classes. Which is it? Your defense to whether it would be ok is "it's a protected class". That's not a moral argument, that's avoiding answering the question based on a legal statement. Is it ok to discriminate against a group if its small enough or disliked enough to not receive protection? The irony is that because Pence misjudged the backlash from this, he is being put into a corner to give more Gay rights in Indiana, then have ever existed before. For his agenda, he would have been better off to have done nothing at all.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 2, 2015 -> 12:09 PM) LOL deep down you love me. Well there is the part of Kyles transition... but other than that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 2, 2015 -> 11:09 AM) The Dodgers are paying players about $40 million to not play for the Dodgers next year. Which isn't much less than the Marlins and Astros are paying for their entire major league payroll.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 2, 2015 -> 11:00 AM) I can see it now! Samardzija is gonna suck. Sale will probably be injury plagued. Abreu will have like 10 HR's by September. Cabrera will be suspended. Eaton will be stuck on a wall somewhere. Alexei will get traded for some dope. Micah wont be God. Robertson will be demoted to set-up man then long relief. Penny will be in the rotation. Bryant will be MVP. Cubs in playoffs. fathom will have permanent diarrhea. Dick Allen will find no use for being argumentative any longer. kyyle will transition to a woman... etc. etc.. I knew I hated you for a reason.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 2, 2015 -> 11:33 AM) I really hope Hawkins is 1. Not saying he will, but that would be great. With what Hawk did during spring training, I have a really good feeling about him in AA this year.

Mark Lazerus ‏@MarkLazerus 4m4 minutes ago ICYMI yesterday, we already know Corey Crawford is playing tonight. Expect Scott Darling tomorrow in Buffalo. #Blackhawks

QUOTE (kev211 @ Apr 1, 2015 -> 11:44 PM) I would be all over this if it was another two month portion of the season. Guess my 14 game plan will have to do. It wouldn't be offered this cheap for any other time of the year. The point is to fill the part during its least utilized times.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 1, 2015 -> 09:25 PM) this has to be the dumbest argument I've ever heard I had someone tell me yesterday that this would now allow someone to go into a Muslim printer and have Allah's face along with the word "pedophile" put on to a shirt.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 2, 2015 -> 09:19 AM) Why would they pass a law to provide a defense to something that is already legal? They were trying to get votes for backing religious voters who have an issue with gay marriage. It's the same reason other states have passed the same type of defense of religion law. Not to mention that the wording of the law makes it applicable in extremely narrow and limited circumstances. You couldn't deny a gay person pizza because there is no substantial burden of a religious practice there. Maybe at a wedding because that may be an activity supporting a sin or whatever, but even then it's a tough case to defend in states that have this law but also have sexuality as a protected class. Pence has been pandering to the religious right his whole term. This law was to pander to those people and legalize gay discrimination. It was the same thing they were doing with a gay marriage ban constitutional amendment, even when they knew the Supreme Court was throwing this crap out. A big part of this law that they aren't also acknowledging is this was the first state to take the RFRA stuff, and apply it to businesses, not just individuals.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 2, 2015 -> 06:53 AM) Loved Big Hero Six. Best movie that I've seen this year. Easily 4 out of 5 stars. I liked it a lot too.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 2, 2015 -> 08:47 AM) It's not though. That's the intended consequence in a limited, specific circumstance, but the point of the law is to provide protection to Christians that don't want to work gay weddings or in some way support gay weddings. As some people have already come out and said, they'll serve gay people, they won't serve at a gay function. There is a distinction there, whether you agree with it or not. As someone who knows the Pence agenda well, this is a flat out lie. It is absolutely meant for that. They are hiding behind a couple of technicalities to make that claim with a straight face, but it isn't true. By not having an protections for gays, and refusing to add them, until the public shaming happened, this is exactly what the bill accomplished. You can't claim discrimination without the ability to be recognized as a class. That is how Pence gets to keep lying to everyone without actually "lying".

So Wal-Mart kind forced Arkansas's governor not to sign a bill like Indiana's down there. Boy that has to conflict some people.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 1, 2015 -> 04:01 PM) That's fine for you, but when you're a company trying to gain some positive publicity it seems completely disingenuous. Now that I think about it, it's also interesting that people believe Hobby Lobby was such a terrible decision because corporations can't hold religious beliefs, they're just legal entities. Yet corporations can have "beliefs" about social issues like this. What's the difference? Except in Indiana, businesses can now hold religious beliefs.