StrangeSox

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 14, 2013 -> 10:55 AM) If the risk was losing the next RGIII? They would draft them, and have it hurt the team until they maybe matured to help the team. Could you actually evaluate HS talent as "the next RGIII?"

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 14, 2013 -> 10:53 AM) Baseball teams do. Why wouldn't NFL teams? If you can draft a player with the upside of Andrew Luck or Robert Griffin III or Tom Brady or Peyton Manning in the 5th or 8th round, and you can let them grow and develop on your practice squad for 3 years or carry them around as a backup? Yeah, I think a lot of teams would take the minimal investment that would take. Ok, but then they're being kept on a practice squad and not subjected to actual game NFL physical requirements. Why would you even want play an undeveloped, undersized linemen? RGIII does represent a decent counter, though, because teams will obviously put the players in dangerous situations.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Feb 14, 2013 -> 10:51 AM) For sports teams I think they are a must. Coming out of high school most of them are far too immature physically and socially/emotionally. Physically it does the league and the player a disservice because they are an injury waiting to happen and can be a danger to themselves and others around them. Socially/emotionally they do not handle becoming a millionaire over night very well. Between the entourages and people taking advantage of it or the late night scene, it really is a disservice to them. I've seen far too many players just not handle it well at a young age. How does that really change after 1 fake year of college, though? Wouldn't the whole college scene and the wider national exposure make the late night scene and the hangers-on even worse?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 14, 2013 -> 10:51 AM) You must be, atleast in ND, 19 to serve alcohol at a restaurant. You must be 21 years old to work in a liquor store. I don't necessarily agree with the NBA's rule, but full understand the NFL's. They feel it is simply too dangerous to play progressionally unless you are 3 years removed from college graduation. The problem therein lies with a guy like Amobi Okoye who graduated at 20 years of age. Those examples are so few and far in between that I think their rule is probably the best. Saying "you must have two years experience" or "internship required" or whatever else is merit based. There are absolutely some jobs where they will not consider you unless you have experience. Consider their year in college or Europe to be an internship to gain experience, and it's not nearly as unruly. But that's the league setting requirements for individual teams, not exactly the same as an individual company or manager setting requirements for a certain position. If Lebron James were coming out of HS this year, why shouldn't the team with the #1 pick be able to take him?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 14, 2013 -> 10:47 AM) Age requirements in the NFL especially are so underdeveloped kids don't get killed by much bigger and more mature players. Does that restriction need to exist, though? Would an NFL team actually draft and play an 18-19 year old who wasn't physically mature?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 14, 2013 -> 10:48 AM) They aren't forced to do anything. They can do something else if they don't like it. That's just restating "that's the way things are," not justify why they should be that way. If they want a basketball career, they have to leave the country or play for a college with no play, probably for a coach making millions of dollars a year if they're good enough that they would have been drafted right out of HS. Why does that system make any sense?

They're forced to take unpaid jobs that generate billions of dollars for others or to leave the country for at least a year.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 14, 2013 -> 10:43 AM) That's a whole other discussion in itself. I'd be more accepting of the current age restrictions if they could be adequately compensated for the billions of dollars they generate.

I don't see why these kids should be forced to make money for the NCAA for 1-3 years while receiving no compensation for themselves.

the majority party could have actually reformed the filibuster if not outright eliminated it.

Remember that time Democrats blocked one particular judge using a dumb procedural gimmick? That's totally just like Republicans blocking a vote on every nominee to the NLRB and the CPFB in an effort to nullify the existence of those bodies and the refusal to allow a vote on a former Republican Senator for Secretary of Defense.

Tesla pushes back strongly against a recent NYT review of the Model S where the car supposedly ran out of charge much earlier than dashboard instruments said it would. http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive

We go from a manager refusing to manage without an extension to one turning an extension down.

Hooray! The Senate is functional again! Nominees can actually get a vote!!!!! Oh, wait...

soxbadger why do you have to lawyer up every argument?

here's an excellent example of why Politico (and 'fact-check' articles in general) are terrible http://wonkette.com/501294/politicos-super...me-a-fact-check

i'm on the googlez, creepin ur house

"Every dollar being lent to the government is a dollar that is not being invested in our economy" is 100% absolutely wrong, especially right now. There's no 'crowding out,' and debt-financed government spending is not taking money away from "our economy." Moreover, government spending doesn't just vanish into nothingness, it gets spent on things. Or it's used to provide money to people who then spend it on things. It doesn't become magically detached from the economy. During a full, robust economy, yeah, government spending can crowd-out private spending. And the appearance of higher interest rates can make a large debt load a significant issue. But right now? With a huge GDP output gap, high unemployment and being stuck at the zero lower bound for years? No, absolutely not. "The debt" isn't what's causing people to have bad jobs or no jobs.

This is so completely wrong.

thats what she said

And so the endless circle of life comes to an end. Meaningless and grim. Why did they live? And why did they die? No reason.

Some of it appears to be "radiowaves give you teh cancer!," some of it is "Agenda 21! UN is taking over!" paranoia and probably with heavy overlaps.

I'm loving the story about Ron Paul calling on the United Nations to confiscate the domain names owned by his supporters.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 11, 2013 -> 07:24 AM) Crazy.

QUOTE (G&T @ Feb 10, 2013 -> 11:22 AM) The biggest mistake people make in negotiation is not understanding what a fair deal is. You have to get the invoice price independently which will cost a few bucks on KBB I think. Then come up with a fair price for yourself and the dealer. If you are unreasonable then they know you are a sucker. If your price is fair then you can feel comfortable walking away to another dealer. Information is everything. After that don't get suckered into their add on garbage. Edmunds is pretty good for pricing, too.