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QUOTE (Sonik22 @ Jun 5, 2017 -> 01:03 PM) Wow. Thad Matta just stepped down as coach of Ohio State. I don't know how to feel about this. Rumors this morning were that he would step down at the end of the upcoming season. A little surprised it's now. It should have been 3 months ago if they wanted a shot at Archie. I assume they'll go the interim route this season and then look for a replacement after next season. edit: wow, sounds like this was OSU's decision. If so, what a dumb move not doing this earlier when prime candidates were available.

QUOTE (2005thxfrthmmrs @ Jun 5, 2017 -> 11:59 AM) If Warriors win in 4 or 5, they will go down as the greatest team of all time. We're in the Finals and they haven't even been tested. 4 yes, 5 they're in the conversation, as silly as that is. If they had just won one more game last year they'd already be the greatest, cementing their legacy this year.

This is like watching an all star game. Awful defense, terrible shot selection.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 1, 2017 -> 06:25 AM) Tiger has displayed zero forgiveness for people who he feels have slighted him through the years. Tiger has displayed the somewhat common arrogance that all top athletes tend to have. Tiger has crafted an image for advertising endorsements. What he has created and done is now coming down around him - again. I do believe many of the attacks will ease up now that the results of the tests came back that he wasn't drinking. No need to when you go right to the opioids. I found it interesting that he blamed prescription meds vs. alcohol. Is it really any better? He's been on those drugs for nearly 10 years now. He should know better. And what drives me nuts about these morons is, call a f***ing uber. You're tiger woods. You could get anyone in the world to drive you home. But I guess that's part of the sad story here - despite being Tiger Woods, he doesn't have anyone.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jun 1, 2017 -> 09:11 AM) Here's the fundamental impasse. I completely disagree that your assessment of the most fair scenario is, in fact, fair at all. That doesn't take into account people being born into poor socio-economic situations through no fault of their own. Is it then fair if they can't afford to pay for medical treatments that someone like me was able to afford, simply out of sheer luck? Here's the problem though, and someone mentioned this to you before but you never responded: Ok great, we all agree, whites are privileged. They get a leg up. So what? What's the next step? Should white people pay more? Should white people feel sorry for winning the life lottery? Very few people out there believe that we should treat minorities differently than whites. We all object to racism and discriminatory practices. OK, so that's the baseline. What you're suggesting, I guess, is that white people should go beyond that. But the reason why white people (as a generalized whole) object to that is because not all white people are in positions that are well enough to pay more/be discriminated against. That's my objection to affirmative action or minority preferences when it comes to contracting. On a macro level that may seem like a good idea, but on the micro level you're making a victim out of an otherwise innocent person based strictly on their skin color. So, I'm still curious, now that we're all aware that we are privileged, what next?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 31, 2017 -> 02:02 PM) It has nothing to do with hatred. How could a son mistake that prop for his dad? Look at it. He isn't 3 or 4, he's 11. It was BS. He was watching his cartoons or whatever and suddenly that came on. OK. Entering your kid into the story is usually not a good thing. Trump seemed to not mind Obama had young daughters at home when he with through all his Obama s***. I work for a company that started a couple of years ago letting people work from home once in a while. You wouldn't believe how often kids are now sick. 40-50 days a year at least. If they took away the work from home, they would be doing the kids a favor with their health. But no one dares question the legitimacy of kids being sick all the time. The Barron story doesn't add up. That is plain to see. Again, what she did was disgusting, but getting the kid involved is for Trump's personal gain. I'm not really invested on either side here, but seeing a prop of your dad's cut off head is probably not a great experience, even if he knows it's fake and just a prop. The kid went through the last 2 years having his dad in the news on a nightly basis, most of which was very negative. I'm sure that's a pretty f***ed up situation to go through for an 11 year old kid. Sure, they're milking it for that angle, but let's not completely ignore the possibility that the kid saw it and had a reaction to it. Also, I have 2 young kids and can attest that they get sick all the time. I'm sure some of your co-employees abuse the system, but many aren't.

Illinois advances to the Final Four of golf for the 4th time in 5 years. Amazing for a school that can't play golf for 6 months out of the year.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 30, 2017 -> 10:07 AM) Police report said he did a breathalyzer. http://deadspin.com/arrest-records-describ...dium=socialflow That just goes to show you how bad reporting is and how false narratives get started. Last night and this morning it was being reported that he had slurred speech (accurate), that the officer smelled a lot of alcohol (not accurate) and that Woods refused a breathalyzer (also not accurate). Most of the coverage was about Woods' statement and how it was BS.

QUOTE (Brian @ May 30, 2017 -> 04:54 AM) It's kind of sad that so many people enjoy an athletes personal struggles. I don't know that it's "enjoy" so much as being in shock about it. It's a train wreck. You don't enjoy seeing it, but you're certainly interested and want to pay attention. He's the biggest fall from grace athlete other than OJ, but he's 100x more popular than OJ. He's probably on the Mount Rushmore of world-wide professional athletes all-time.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 30, 2017 -> 09:47 AM) He blew a .000. His prescription meds statement was actually 100% accurate. I thought he refused to blow?

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 26, 2017 -> 12:49 PM) Safe spaces in college are stupid. The point of college is to challenge your beliefs. End of story. Of course your privileged whiteness would say that, you've never needed a safe space before.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 25, 2017 -> 01:59 PM) Bears sign Victor Cruz to a one year deal. If it were 2011-2012 that would be a great signing.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 25, 2017 -> 01:23 PM) I honestly think there's a significant difference between your examples and this. A violent felon? Has that happened? I don't recall an incident of a public official getting SUPPORT for attacking a journalist in the United States of America. I think felons are worse than a guy committing misdemeanor assault. Where was your outrage when Markahm elected a felon as its mayor earlier this year?

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 24, 2017 -> 09:34 PM) Tomorrow will test the oft-posed question: Can you literally assault a reporter and still get elected in 2017? I'm not optimistic it's a no. Wow. You can be a felon and win office. You can be dead and win office. This story is not some benchmark that proves where we, as a country, are in our democracy. It's been f***ed up and broken for a LOOOOOONG time.

I'll never understand the point of a screener phone interview. I haven't done many, but one I had today for a large, global company, was so dumb and pointless. This person had no information about the position and only asked me broad questions like "what would you say are your strengths?" "is there a work environment that is not a good fit for you?" "tell me about a time that you were challenged in a team setting." Seems to me this person's job is to find out who the best bulls***ters are and that's about it. I don't understand the corporate HR world.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 24, 2017 -> 08:53 AM) People see the thing they want to in order to make it fit their narrative. Which is exactly what you do. You feel so much white guilt you wrongly assume that ALL minorities are in stereotypical positions of being poor, being in single parent families, having to deal drugs, etc. because of the White Man. Just own up to it. You wrote it. No one is inferring what you meant. We're basing it on the plain meaning of the words you used. It was an ignorant thing to say and it shows that your extreme view here about racism is based on some pretty ignorant assumptions.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 23, 2017 -> 01:35 PM) This entire discussion exists because of your fake outrage. The fact that you are the one labeling black kids as needing to deal drugs (even if it is "as an example") instead of doing what they typically doing the same thing as white kids in the same situations is as telling as anything. Again, speaking as someone who is familiar with poverty and the people in it, your stereotyping couldn't be any more wrong, or harmful to the people you are talking down on. The only one labeling people based on race here is you. If you don't see that or understand that, you really do need a lot of self-examination. It's ironic that he shares the same generalization problem that Trump suffers from. All black people are poor gangbangers living in the ghetto, apparently.

Reddy, the weight of your white guilt must be really tough to carry around on a daily basis.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 19, 2017 -> 01:14 PM) I wish something was done to motivate teams to win, and give the teams like the Bulls, the NBA hell guys, some sort of shot even with GarPax calling the shots. Of course I probably didn't feel that way when the Bulls were picking top 3 every year. What would really be interesting if they made the lottery open to all teams with the same odds, 1st round draft pick trades would probably go way down unless the guy was an absolute star. But you know that a team like the Cavs would get a good pick and then you've just compounded the problem. I don't like the wheel idea because you could get screwed on a s***ty draft year. At least now that s***ty draft year for the bad team means that the following year they have another shot at it because they'll be bad. In the wheel scenario you're stuck waiting another 6 seasons before you have a shot at really good talent.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 19, 2017 -> 12:48 PM) More likely he goes to OKC, imo. I heard someone suggesting that the lottery should be changed to include middling playoff teams (so 5-8 seeds) and that all teams in the lottery should have even odds. It removes tanking while also theoritically giving more "middling" teams who are trying to contend a chance to contend. The NBA has a serious problem, given how few teams can legitimately contend right now. You know who says this? Everyone but the NBA. The NBA is just fine being top heavy. They always have been. Come playoff time, when the real money from TV is made, they get monster ratings from having Cavs v. Warriors part 3 instead of Blazers v. Bucks. I think the NBA would like the real s*** franchises (Sacramento, Minnesota, Orlando, Phoenix, etc) to occasionally be good and make it to the playoffs so that their fanbases stay engaged, but if there's only a handful of teams with legitimate shots at the title, they're fine with that too.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 17, 2017 -> 04:06 PM) Trump’s first full education budget: Deep cuts to public school programs in pursuit of school choice My wife and I have planned for the last 5-6 years on that 10 year forgiveness program. We purposefully pay as little as possible towards my wife's undergrad and grad loans knowing that it will benefit us when the 10 year mark hits in another year and a half. I'm going to be pretty pissed if they cut the program entirely and apply it all the way back to when it started.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 17, 2017 -> 10:50 AM) A memo from the FBI director detailing the conversation he had isn't "hearsay," either. These guys are just really dumb or think their constituents are. Well, technically it IS hearsay (an out of court statement being used to prove the matter asserted), but it would still be allowed as it falls under at least one of the exceptions to admitting hearsay evidence - party admissions. It's a note about what Trump said directly to Comey. edit: "it" being Trump's statement that Comey noted in his memo.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 17, 2017 -> 10:38 AM) The qualifier for impeachment isn't committing an illegal act, though. It's "high crimes and misdemeanors," and it's entirely up to the House and Senate to determine what that exactly means. Bill Clinton was never convicted of a crime and the House still impeached him. It also didn't kick off a succession of serious attempts at impeachment of the next Presidents. The 25th Amendment would also give Pence and his cabinet more than enough room to remove Trump from office for being "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office." Gross incompetence that seriously undermines the country's national security seems like an acceptable standard to hold the President to. The country is at risk not only from executive incompetence but from a general inability to be governed right now. High crimes and misdemeanors, as a recall from my law school days, requires some sort of abuse of power. It's obviously close here, but i'm not sure if Trump requesting that Comey not fire Flynn or that he not investigate him is really an abuse. He didn't order him to stop. Comey obviously didn't feel threatened enough to stop. And his firing, while a terrible look, is within his rights since Trump was technically Comey's boss.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 17, 2017 -> 09:49 AM) So here's going to be my offseason thing. I have no idea how value works out. But, I'd like Bulls to keep butler and do whatever they can to get Sacramentos #5 pick. I think there will be great value there. You may ask what they give up. I really don't have an answer there. I doubt it's possible. but i hope it is. I had the same thought. Everyone but Butler should be available for a trade to anyone in the top 6-7 picks. Move up, take a guy you are sold on as being a solid #2 and see what happens.