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QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 6, 2013 -> 04:32 PM) The theory that their success was tied to the mourning period, you my thesis that it was premier marketing more so than an emotional release? Your theory on the Beatles theory.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 6, 2013 -> 04:11 PM) The 50th Anniversary is in a couple weeks and network coverage will be wall to wall. I am taking a cultural studies course this semester focusing in the assassination. My seminar paper concerns the supposed connection between a mourning period after the assassination and February 9th, 1964, the arrival of the Beatles. It is mentioned fairly often that the Beatles popularity was in part to the nation looking for an emotional release after a two month mourning period. The Emmys this year even based a segment on that theory. It's crap btw. And I can prove it. Anyway, for my generation, Kennedy's assassination is much like 9/11 to younger people. I grew up in the post JFK world, like we're now in the post 9/11 world. Things change and in a hurry. Would love to see you elaborate in the theory...

I'm 6-3 with the 5th most points scored and 7th most points scored against me. Started out with some tough luck, things have evened out a bit in the last few weeks.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 6, 2013 -> 09:56 AM) Incognito Sr putting those suicide attempts out there in the public is pretty low, if they are in fact true. And if they are in fact, true, then Jr and the entire Dolphins coaching staff that suggested he needs to be toughened up need to get suspended. What happens if it comes out that Martin has had head trauma and is suffering from CTE, leading to some sort of depression that leads to suicidal thoughts/attempts? That would be a collossal PR clusterf*** for the NFL Yeah, I just think this is the last thing the NFL needs right now. Considering the lengths they've gone to promote player safety, they need to handle this very sharply and swiftly.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 6, 2013 -> 08:46 AM) Crap like this is what makes me very thankful that I have a cousin who is a Sergeant with the State Police and a very close friend who is an Assistant US Attorney. Local police and prosecutors will be in a deep pile of s*** if they try to violate my rights like that. It doesn't sound like they have any aversion to piles of s***, if you ask me.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 6, 2013 -> 08:20 AM) I'm not sure why grown men should be settling things by punching each other in the face anyway. What I've heard is that Martin was a quiet, soft-spoken introvert. He's probably the type to avoid confrontation and wouldn't go looking to punch people in the face because they're douchebags. And that says nothing about his ability to play in the NFL. I watched the 30 for 30 last night on ESPN about Bernard King and Ernie Grunfeld. King was from Brooklyn and went to the University of Tennessee in the mid-'70's. He was not treated particularly well by members of the community, especially by the Knoxville Police Department, and it led him to drink excessively. He was a loner off the court, despite being the star of the basketball program, along with Grunfeld. Yet no one will deny that ON the court, he had a killer instinct and a very stong persona. It was described as "flipping the switch" once the game began. King's troubles continued during his career in the NBA. I think this is a perfect illustration that someone can be an incredible player and competitor within the confines of the game, but be a totally different person off the court.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Nov 6, 2013 -> 08:10 AM) I don't buy that and had that argument with my brother-in-law. First and foremost, guards typically have to be and are physically stronger than tackles. Tackles have to be quick on their feet. So right there alone you have the chance for Incognito to kick the crap out of him. Secondly, and probably more importantly, Incognito was probably leading the charge, but other guys were probably backing him in the toughening up. In Martin's mind, going after Incognito means going after 3-5 guys. He'd be stupid to do that too. Just because Martin is a football player does not make him, by default, someone that has the capacity to go around beating the s*** out of people, even those that say despicable things to him.Why do so many people assume that the two things are somehow interchangeable? And before someone says "He's a football player...it is his job to beat the s*** out of people," that is simply not the same.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 6, 2013 -> 08:05 AM) Sort of. Golic was not at all excusing the stuff Incognito did, but he was saying that if Martin really had the stuff of an NFL player, he would have beat the living s*** out of Incognito instead of just quitting. Ahh....doesn't surprise me... I used to think Lebatard was just Heat/Miami apologist, but after listening to his show the last few weeks, I actually find him to be pretty intelligent, despite his annoying habit of over-enunciating even the shortest of words.... I wonder how Golic would have felt about things if his own son had done the same as Martin...

Anyone happen to hear Mike & Mike this morning? I heard that Golic and Lebatard got into it about the Incognito/Martin thing. I am guessing Golic was advocating on behalf of the "need to toughen up the players" side of things...

Wow, I am blown away by some of the comments in here.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Nov 5, 2013 -> 12:04 PM) Should probably start Foles over Ryan right? Ryan's facing the Seahawks. That and Ryan has no one but Tony G to throw to...

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 07:12 PM) Thanks for sharing. I actually quit after my junior year of high school summer ball. Could not stand the coach, he took all the fun out of baseball, and besides that, I and others felt he didn't know the game very well, he was full of odd strategy. One of the last things I remember about summer ball that year was I was in RF, bases loaded and no outs, there was a pop fly to shallow right, I came in and dove for it and missed it by just a little bit. It got by me by a little bit since I was on the ground post-dive, and instead of it being bases loaded again, the extra run scored and it was 2nd and 3rd instead. He was adamant that I should have just pulled up and kept it in front of me. Well, hindsight's 20/20 after the catch isn't made. I was within a foot of making the catch, you never tell a guy to pull up on that if he's that close to making the play, especially on a pop fly, it's not like it was going to the wall. I would have loved to see his reaction had I pulled up, it probably would have been "why the f*** didn't you dive and catch that, it looked like you could have had it." Couldn't win either way. That kind of pushed it over the edge amongst all the other things that year, and there was plenty. I was a backup OF my JR year and even though there was a very good chance I was going to start as a SR, my heart just wasn't in it anymore after that summer. He made me hate baseball. Tryouts were in the winter, and I didn't tell anyone I wasn't trying out, I just didn't show up. A couple of my good friends had a feeling that might happen, but they didn't know until I never showed up that morning. Sometimes I look back and think I should have sucked it up and played, but in the moment, I hated baseball, hated the coach, it wasn't fun anymore. I don't know that playing would have been worth it. Oddly enough, my start in umpiring was largely due to me not playing my senior year, and I happened to be needed for an emergency game. I did a 14 year old travel game with absolutely zero experience on how to umpire and the mechanics, just a good understanding of the rules. I had about a 2 hour notice. Somehow I got through without major incident. I had a coach just like this when I was like 11 years old. I was friends with his son and one of the better players on the team, so I didn't get yelled at individually a lot, but man, he used to tear into us after a loss. After the game, he'd take us out just behind second base in shallow center field and rip us all a new asshole. At 11 years of age. I remember my mother fuming as she drove me home after the game, asking how could this idiot have the nerve to swear and yell at a bunch of 11 years olds like that. Personally, that stuff never really bothered me until much later, when I knew better. My "career" ended when I tried out for my freshman year team and didn't make the team. I was always one of the best players on the team until about the 7th grade, and then I simply lost the ability to hit anymore and seemed to psyche myself out in the field. It was like I developed a permanent case of the shanks. Ended up taking up golf instead and played throughout high school. Now that I think about it, my decline in baseball seemed to coincide with my introduction to golf...probably jacked up my baseball swing.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 5, 2013 -> 11:41 AM) That's kind of what I was thinking. Foles was brutal against the Cowboys in his previous game too. I wouldn't be surprised if Foles got concussed early on in that Cowboys game and it wasn't recognized until later. His performance in that game was inexplicable.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 5, 2013 -> 10:35 AM) You have to be at the right place at the right time. If you speak Spanish, that's very helpful. I should have gone to Venezuela or the Dominican and worked with the winter league teams, but if you work for a minor league team, offseason is all sales work. If I had things to do all over again, I would have accepted an internship from the Red Sox paying I think it was $300-500, but I instead took a job working for a minor league team because I thought it would give me a broader array of experience, I could do sales/marketing right away and earn more money (at least $1000-12000 per month, plus they gave me a free apartment). I also had a job with the Cardinals but I blew it by joking around with the interviewer about what I would do if I had free tickets....the answer, even in jest, wasn't selling them. But, oh well. If you're not a former professional baseball player and you haven't gone to an elite school, the odds are stacked against you. Twenty years ago, everyone was following the new/emerging sports management trend. Right now, I'm sure almost none of the GM's have degrees in anything but Econ, Math/Quant Analysis, MBA/Law School, etc. Very very few liberal arts majors, I think one or two English or Communications majors. Daniels was in marketing/MBA/advertising if I remember correctly. I made the second big mistake of meeting the wrong NFL football player and placing my trust in working for him and organizing a charity for him. I wasn't at all surprised a decade later when he was convicted for real estate fraud ($11 million total) and ended up in Federal prison in Miami. Made me think of him last week when I saw a similar story about Irving Fryar. I think the number one skill required is to be able to think analytically at a high level. It doesn't matter what you majored in or graduated with an advance degree in per se, but those subjects which encouraged and developed your ability to analyze complex subject matter were probably more helpful. Mozeliak happened to be in the right place at the right time; he went fly-fishing with Bryn Smith, ended up getting a job with the Rockies, but then happened to have a father who worked for IBM that helped him provide some defensive data for the Club. This got the attention of Walt Jocketty, who then brought Mozeliak with him later to the Cardinals, and then when Jocketty left to go to Cinci, Mozeliak became the GM of the Cardinals. There are a number of different paths one can take, but sure a key factor is being in the right place at the right time to take advantage of the opportunity, as you mentioned.

I managed to win in our Soxtalk league with Peyton/Welker/Demaryius Thomas on bye...was up 2 going into Monday night with McCown going against Rodgers....thank you very much! 6-3 on the year now.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 5, 2013 -> 10:42 AM) I used to think Seneca Wallace was best backup QB in game, but damn he has no arm anymore. Kind of stuck though if you are packers. Tough to pick up a QB off the street and expect them to perform well. Maybe just do some power running all game. Maybe they will call up Favre...

QUOTE (chw42 @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 08:31 PM) What holding call? Total bulls***. Ahh, you saw him try to run to pursue and Bennett had him pretty good

Smart play Matthew!

Off tackle more

We need to keep running off tackle instead of inside...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 07:53 PM) Having the poor man's Brandon Marshall in Alshon is great when you also have Brandon Marshall. Hah...awesome

We're still going to win this game going away

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 06:55 PM) Rumors going around that Rodgers busted his collarbone. He jogged off the field relatively painlessly. If he's got a broken collarbone, he's got the highest pain tolerance of anyone I've ever seen.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 07:07 AM) It's clearly a catch, as was the Andre Johnson play, but by the way the rule is written and has been enforced ever since the Calvin Johnson play a few years ago, they were both correct calls. I don't know why the TJ Graham play is relevant to the other plays either, it was obviously a catch and fumble. The problem is the officials are enforcing the rule to the letter, when some common sense should clearly come into play. They need to use common sense to determine if the receiver ultimately had possession of the ball long enough for it to be a catch. Then if it moves or hits the ground after that, but the player is down, then it's a catch and the ball is down. They're turning it into something it should have never been, which is the player must hold that ball until his body stops moving entirely, which gives the defender time to continue trying to strip it away even after common sense tells you it was a completed catch and the player was down.

Gary Kubiak collapsed on the field at halftime...NBC goes ahead with their halftime highlight reel. Wtf?