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QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 10:39 PM) JR just needs to stop being a cheap ass and this team needs to be sold to someone with the Steinbrenner mentality or invest in better scouting, development. I'm hoping "money is tight" is just a smoke screen. Didn't the White Flag mentality go out with the 21st century?

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2009/...s-practice.html

And I will throw this out here Re:Albert http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...,7287484.column

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 10:32 PM) Orton would have no head right now. Are you kidding me? Caleb Hanie would have been on IR at this point.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Nov 11, 2009 -> 12:58 AM) Can I get my member line changed to "Resident ISU Homer"? Done and Done.

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 10:29 PM) + Bad decision-making by him. Sure, he's good and there's really nothing else to do end-of-game. But across the year, he's forced it down there in game situations where it wasn't necessary. Take the 3 sometimes. With essentially no time on the clock, you try to make a play. It was a hail mary from 12 yards out.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 10:28 PM) Its a combination of a few things. Tight area. Our receivers are horrible at making plays. Hit them in the break basket on a slant, sure. Make a decision on their own. f*** that. Olsen for all of his talent can't get open. Bad line puts lots of pressure on QB. Crappy Line + receivers who can't catch or run routes or get open + small area + QB who knows he is the only one that can make the play = bad red zone execution. The receivers have to give Cutler something to hit. The problem is Jay refuses to give up on a play.

And I do have to say, the D was great tonight. Everyone was expecting a high scoring game, and the D kept them in this one. Too bad no one on the offense could step it up when it mattered.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 10:21 PM) No no no no time for a screen pass!! The screen was the biggest play of the night.

So Cutler rescues this drive how many times, after how many bad penalties, and marches them all of the way down the field for that? Ugh.

Funions anyone?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 09:54 PM) Yeah, 7 years, $100 million, at age 24. Besides that one, is there anything worth mentioning?

Their revenue has always been good. What is the biggest contract they have handed out? The last Pujols deal, right?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 07:11 PM) I think the Cardinals will pay the big huge extension, frankly. Even if he wanted more than ARod?

The personal crap stops now. Ok?

Dude.

Its hard to argue that the Hawks don't have one of the best D corps in hockey.

Wide right.

QUOTE (hogan873 @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 01:07 PM) Okay, sure, but he's not available. I could see a scenario where he asked for a big huge extention making him available.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 04:06 PM) Right. But none of that violates what I said. If you can't report the facts in a semi-unbiased factor without an emotional response, well, should you be reporting the facts at all? There are no checks on the media. There isn't a studio head saying, woah, woah that is completely out of line. There is no union of broadcasters that censures these irresponsible uses of facts. All of the facts that you talk about, right I can focus on that he is a Muslim--but what types of inferences I draw from that, well, that I can control. I can draw responsible inferences and RESPONSIBLY focus on that fact equally with others or I can be irresponsible. Facts are neutral, and if people can't present them neutrally, perhaps they are in the wrong line of work. And I disagree that life experience has to temper how we present facts. If I'm talking about something highly political that I care about with my friends I can do so while expressing my opinion. When I talk about that same issue in class (see torture and obedience) I can discuss it ONLY in the context of Psychology. How does Psychology explain this? What biological explanations are there? What social factors? What personality factors? I do NOT have to marry my job is to my personal opinions. If I can do this, why can't journalists? I feel that the very process of what facts you pick and concentrate on are where your opinions lie.

O-Gun goes over and gets into the face of Vernon Davis during pregame warm ups. Glad to see someone has some pride. Now lets see if they can carry that on to the field.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 01:00 PM) I don't know. Facts are facts--of course facts themselves mean nothing and need to be spun or interpreted. BUT it is possible to do that in a responsible way. It's like the difference between Psychology Today and the Journal of Memory and Language. Both of them include facts. Both of them often include the SAME facts. But in one case you have Joe Schmo with a BA in Psych telling you what the facts are and spinning them. In JML you have PhDs giving you the facts and spinning them. In JML you also have peer review that makes you accountable for the way you spin the facts. As a result you don't get cracked out interpretations and wild conjecture. You get less diluted facts that have been thoughtfully rendered. Sadly, today's news options aren't even Psychology Today. It's like Star and being spun and rendered by developmentally disabled monkeys. And yet people treat it like it was gold. The reporting of facts can be taken from a completely different view point based on a person's life. For example look no further than the facts surrounding the Ft Hood shooting. It is a fact that the guy was a Muslim. It was a fact he bought his guns publicly, instead of military issue. It is a fact that he took to heart that Obama was going to get us out of Iraq and Afganistan. It is a fact that the guy treated PTSD troops coming back from wars. Now which facts even get made into news reports tells everything about a person, and their biases and opinions. Fox is going to focus on the Obama angles. MSNBC is going to focus on the gun issues. Some focused on the Muslim angles. All of them are factually true. It doesn't change that which ones get focused on, are a large part of that particular groups opinions.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 12:19 PM) Not really, that would be like saying everybody is racist to one degree or another. I believe it 100%. You and I could watch the exact same thing happen, at the exact same time, from the exact same vantage point, and you and I would tell our stories of what happened completely different. It doesn't make it wrong or right, but our up bringings, our backgrounds, or expertise, our understandings of things would factor in to how we saw a situation, and how we would tell the story of what happened. The same thing happens in a news report, just on a much larger scale.

at the end of the day, all news is opinion to one degree or another.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 10:24 AM) When Hossa gets back, I want to see him on Kaner's line finishing these great plays. [drools] Seriously if Kaner hadn't have spent so much time with guys like Buff and Madden, he could have 30 points so far.