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QUOTE (Tony @ Mar 15, 2016 -> 07:16 PM) Also, MSNBC is just giving zero f***s tonight hiding their disdain for Trump. Wow. The Morning Joe show has actually been pretty supportive of his candidacy. Going back to his announcement, they have basically been one of the few to believe he had a chance.

QUOTE (Baron @ Mar 17, 2016 -> 10:30 AM) What are you referring to? Your incredibly sophisticated views on properly educating children in the 21st century.

QUOTE (Baron @ Mar 17, 2016 -> 10:23 AM) http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/adam-la...baseball-031716 LaRoche's view on school is probably the dumbest thing I've read in weeks not counting political stuff Jesus, how the hell would you even be qualified to know?

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 17, 2016 -> 10:16 AM) I don't see how there isn't at this point. There needs to be a resolution on the situation by LaRoche, followed by some massive damage control by management with the clubhouse. I'm actually hoping the opposite will occur, along the lines of your Major League analogy.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Mar 17, 2016 -> 10:10 AM) Most athletes don't have their children around constantly. This isn't some industry-wide thing. That isn't the point, and yet people continue to argue it as if it is. The point is that the Sox told him he could have his kid around all the time and then they changed their mind, after he relied upon their decision to come to his own decision to sign here. Obviously if the Sox agreed to this in the first place, that is one piece of evidence suggesting that professional sports, and baseball in particular, is NOT similar to the working environments the rest of us report to every day. Would you even make this request in your job interview? Can you imagine what your prospective employer would say? Of course you wouldn't. And your prospective employer would laugh in your face. And yet, LaRoche DID make this request, and the White Sox AGREED to this! So can we please stop with the comparisons to my freaking office job or someone's job as a butcher and all the other bs comparisons I am reading?

QUOTE (shysocks @ Mar 17, 2016 -> 10:03 AM) No, but he started a war of public opinion with his hashtag activism, with his son who he loves so much at the center of the controversy. It seems more like the actual players started this "war."

QUOTE (shysocks @ Mar 17, 2016 -> 09:52 AM) This is what's getting me the most. Are all of these athletes too stupid to understand gray areas? The guy can still see his f***ing son every day after work, like 99.9% of the people in the world with children and a job.? Is it the athletes misunderstanding their own industry, or the outsiders misunderstanding it?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 17, 2016 -> 09:40 AM) Banning and "toning it down" are the same thing as well. Point is things change with ballclubs/jobs and if you dont like it then fine, go somewhere else. Next time get it in writing. I would never accept someone's word for something in business. He did go somewhere else. Its not like he's suing them.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 17, 2016 -> 09:28 AM) In writing? And now they dont, big deal. Teams ban smokeless tobacco, facial hair, jewelry, music etc from clubhouses every year. He's the one who decided to retire from the entire sport like a baby. Yes, necklaces and kids, pretty much the same thing.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Mar 17, 2016 -> 06:37 AM) Adam said that he doesn't believe in school. He thinks that Drake will learn growing up in a baseball clubhouse and taking standardized tests instead. I disagree. I think he needs to be socialized and be with kids his own age instead of growing up around adults in a baseball clubhouse. I didn't think this stance was that controversial. This entire situation is so weird. Why would anyone want a 14 year old kid around their workplace constantly? I can't believe anyone is siding with LaRoche on this. But you are conflating two different issues here. 1) You obviously disagree with his parenting skills; and 2) Having a 14 year old in the workplace As for the first issue, this is obviously a special case. He's not choosing to take his kid to the steel mill or to a regular office job. He is a professional baseball player, who travels the country, with a team, and plays in front of tens of thousands of fans every day. That is an incredible experience and life and to be honest, I'm not really sure any of us can say with any real certainty what is "best" for the kid. Is it ideal for him to be at the family home with his dad on the road for half of the year? So he can be in some classroom every day? I value education as much as anyone, but let's be honest here, there is more than one way to educate a child. Plenty of children have been educated in methods similar to this and turned out just fine. While it may not be ideal to educate every child this way, I think we can certainly accept one child being educated this way. It certainly doesn't give anyone enough evidence to comment on whether LaRoche is a good father or not. The second issue I tend to agree with the majority, but then we have all kinds of evidence of the players supporting keeping the kid around. I really have no comment on that.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Mar 17, 2016 -> 06:32 AM) Nailed it. Keeping your kid in a baseball locker room is not good parenting. The kid should be in school. Oh for the love of christ, lay off this crap. How the hell do you know?

Congrats Bmags! My son is almost 9 months old now...there's nothing like it.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 08:01 PM) As in typical pro athletes talking about "banging the chicks" that they met in the bar the previous evening. Not appropriate for a 14-year-old. LaRoche is pretty religious...I have a feeling there wasn't much talk of banging chicks around him or his son.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 07:49 PM) Nobody. Lots of new people in the clubhouse this season, and some of those new folks likely had an issue with it. Were Konerko's kids around every day? Did they have their own lockers? Dusty was the manager, and he made the rules. True, it's much less appropriate for kids to be hanging out with a bunch of pro athletes who are cursing and having sexually suggestive conversations. Do you want your kids hanging out in a locker room that's been "decorated" by Nick Swisher? Ozzie's kids are a good example of what can happen when you expose your kids to that kind of stuff. ?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 16, 2016 -> 03:39 PM) Doesn't that kid have other things to do? It's super weird. It's sure looks like other teams were jumping at the opportunity to acquire him..... If your dad was a f***ing major league baseball player, where do you think you would want to be?

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Mar 14, 2016 -> 07:34 PM) Got an interview Wednesday morning with Northwestern Mutual for their financial representative internship. I am beyond nervous. Don't be nervous...they should be the nervous ones.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 14, 2016 -> 04:26 PM) If you think you have a clear path, more power to you, and best of luck. Those are the big things I have seen in the trading industry that can pull down a new firm. No, I appreciate the words of caution. My larger concern is them blackballing us a bit more so than them sueing.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 14, 2016 -> 11:12 AM) If it is something that your current employer could see as pulling dollars from their pockets, be prepared to be sued, even if there is only marginal merit to it. The simple act of dragging you guys into court early and often could achieve the goal of killing any potential competition as they bleed you guys dry. The bigger hit this would cause to their bottom line, the more likely they would be to come after you. I don't think they would mind the business we'd be in...more so just leaving with some of their employees. The consulting business doesn't compete with their business.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 14, 2016 -> 10:16 AM) Is this something to do with the business you are in now? If so be careful of any NDA's and anything that could be considered proprietary information belonging to your current employer. They will have a team of lawyers on retainer, who could easily bankrupt you before you get going. Yes, this would be an energy consulting firm. Good point...especially considering the number of people from the mothership that would be a part of the founding team. The nice thing is, one of them is a lawyer.

Considering starting a consulting firm with some colleagues...anyone here have their own firm? Work for one?

I thought David Gergen made a really great point in regards to the Bernie Sanders thing...actually it was in response to both candidates sort of flubbing the issue. Ultimately, these are two very well-meaning people who have done a lot to help minorities, but are struggling with how to navigate the minefield that is being a white presidential candidate discussing race relations. So Bernie should have said "White people don't understand what it is like to live in poor black neighborhoods" instead of "ghetto." Cut them a little slack already.

I've jamming out to VS and Vitalogy this month...I miss good music...

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 12:31 PM) Ugh, if $5 million is a stretch then we should've sold off. I don't really understand this...perhaps they didn't have a whole lot of money to spend this season...that doesn't necessarily dictate a change in the longer term plan, especially if you don't necessarily believe the results on the field last year truly represent the talent that was in place. I feel like we are going to take a big step this season, not only because of the additions this offseason but because of some additions from last offseason. I feel very similar to how I felt going into '12...like we will be pretty competitive.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 09:31 AM) Saying someone shouldn't say things is one thing, which is what Tony did. He never said Eaton shouldn't be ALLOWED to say them, which is where the first amendment would actually come into play. Yeah, I agree, I didn't read it that way either. But I think it's fair to say the poster did.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 08:54 AM) This is just hurtful. The first amendment is to protect the people from the government taking away free speech. Plus realize if you want to cite freedom of speech as the right to say stupid things, you are absolutely correct. Since you apparently skipped Civic's class, the part that you are missing is that the freedom of speech would also the protect the right of the rest of the country to tell you that what you said was stupid. This is exactly what is being done, thus proving that instead of your precious freedom of speech isn't under attack here, in fact it is proving quite healthy, even moreso than was realized by most Americans. There is no freedom of getting to say whatever you want without consequences. If you see that in the constitution somewhere, please point it out to me. I don't think he is arguing that no one can respond to Eaton's comment. I think he was simply taking a quite literal interpretation of what Tony posted.