Texsox

I am pulling as hard for Tiger 3.0 as I was for everyone who was competing against Tiger 1.0

I’m doing more coaching than playing. My team is flat out good. My #1 has been -5 (70-73-68) and -6 (71-67) in winning his last two tournaments. My #2 is struggling but keeping it in the mid 70s. We’ve broken almost every school record. Best of all they are really great kids. This past weekend we were staying at a cool resort for the tournament and when it was time to leave their condo was clean and neat.

For a gun to be useful for protection it needs to be readily accessible and ready to shoot. That is not a combination I am comfortable with in my classroom. Basically if I can get it fast, so can a student. Plus, most schools struggle to buy supplies, where is the money coming from? Increased school funding? We accept that an arms race wins wars. From rifled barrels during the Revolutionary War to the "Mother of all Bombs" in WW2. But with the rising numbers of gun deaths we believe it is the individual that changed, that the individual has become more deadly. I certainly agree we have, but to not address the fact that we are legally providing more deadly weapons to people who wish to harm us is a disservice to the next people who get murdered. It is a complex problem that required a complex solution.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 11, 2018 -> 03:48 PM) Duncan is 72. He's 10 years older than Coop. I guess I never realized how young Coop is. In my mind I had their ages reversed.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 8, 2018 -> 10:22 AM) Literally the only time I turn on AM radio is to find a Blackhawks or White Sox game, or to listen to 780 AM for news. I refuse to listen to sports radio in general, it is almost as bad as political talk radio. X2 Any show that has callers is an automatic turn off for me.

Heir apparent or he’s not interested in leaving the couch?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Feb 10, 2018 -> 11:58 PM) We should do a poll of who wants greg to voluntarily leave Soxtalk and who wants him to stay. I still say I have a silent majority that would vote for Greg to stay. Since you brought it up, (I wouldn’t have otherwise) the messages that I’ve received as a mod and admin is exactly the opposite. The lesson here soxtalkers is we do accept contrarians who follow the rules. I’m probably your biggest defender and honestly I believe you are a class A troll based on some of your work away from Soxtalk. At your best you create and propel meaningful discussions on important topics, at your worse, well Balta may have best summed your *image* here. I’m not going to label anyone based on their online persona on a message board and hope no one would label me without meeting me.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Feb 8, 2018 -> 11:08 AM) Had you not started this thread, I'd bet that 85% of the people on this board would've never even heard about this story. I haven't run across a single news article, Facebook post or interacted with another person IRL that has brought this story up. Not an issue in Texas. And I work in education.

At my age I could live on the winnings from a scratch off ticket.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 7, 2018 -> 07:22 PM) It's even easier to say "Alexa...fart" The joys of life with toddlers. And yes, she farts. Thank you! I love adding Alexa skills.

Schools aren’t social matchmaking companies.

Having school events and stopping half the students is a bad plan. Fathers and daughters can go on "dates" during their own time.

I'm trying to wrap my head around the Sox as WGN's flagship baseball team. I get the games on sat radio.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Feb 3, 2018 -> 12:18 PM) Let's hope there's not another strike then. Shades of 81 and 94, both times the Sox were rolling, there was a lot of fan excitement and things were looking very promising....then... It couldn't happen three times when the Sox were good could it? Wow, that would suck

What other distraction is as persistent as phones? We've all watched people sit on their phones for the majority of games. The other distractions like vendors are shorter and less intense. Phones are just one, but probably equals all the other distractions combined. Next time at a game add up all the people distracted by vendors and those watching their phones and we'll have the answer. So teams should accept that phones add to our experience at the games and take steps to help fans who are using their phones, and they have. It's a nice positive step for phone users. Why try to shift blame from a device that is a necessity in our lives?

There is a facebook group for hosts. I'm not certain if they accept people considering hosting. Have you considered any of the Dog bnb?

Probably not. But what I want to see is either hey we are cutting X so we can cut your taxes. Or we're going to spend more on X so we are going to raise your taxes. How much support might a border wall get if it was going to raise your taxes? How about jumping into a war with North Korea that will cost you an extra $500 a year? You want to offer junior college to the masses? It will cost every an extra $300 a year. My concern is we have lost all connection between income and expenses. We claim that we are going to be bringing in more money into the treasury after the cuts. OK, who is writing the bigger checks for more money to come in?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 23, 2018 -> 08:21 AM) https://smucker.house.gov/media/press-relea...nment-shutdowns There are lots of similar ideas out there. On the Republican side, they (typically) want to automatically chop 1, 2 or even 5% across the board if a full year budget can’t be reached. Of course, that wouldn’t affect military spending, only discretionary spending areas. You do realize the last two major shutdowns were GOP-led? I do, but my position will not change if it was the Dems.

I would demand to know what they were cutting. I believe if there is a raise or lowering of taxes there should be an accompanying list of spending cuts/additional programs or costs incurred.

Creating policy with guns to people's heads is a dangerous path. I'd support a constitutional amendment to make it illegal. I don't see a legal way however, to make that possible,

MLB.com written by and for the benefit of MLB. Just a little something I teach my students.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jan 22, 2018 -> 08:59 PM) Yea Brady is in the Super Bowl again. Way. To. Go. Do their fans even care about regular season games anymore? I love watching the White Sox so much on a summer night that I don’t think I’ll get spoiled. I may desire to see them get a bigger challenge though after 4-5 straight championships. Maybe MLB will consolidate the NL into one super team to try to beat the Sox...which will still not be enough, but at least competitive. I shared Bulls season tickets with a couple buddies during the Bulls runs. We told ourselves we would never become Laker fans who only showed up to playoff games. Well 41 regular season games becomes a chore when you start having kids, and it does get expensive going to so many games, and it is nice to help people you know out by selling a few games here and there so they can go to a game . . . Yeah, we basically waited for the playoffs by the third championship season.

You give money back to the poor and working class and it always moves up hill to business owners. Give money to the rich and hope if flows down hill. It seems like letting the working folks touch the money for a moment isn't such a bad thing. I would love to have a law that when taxes are lowered they must list a corresponding list of true cuts in spending. AND When adding an expense, either the tax increase to pay for it, or again the actual spending cut that is happening to pay for it.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 4, 2018 -> 03:32 PM) The Red Sox fan base is probably ten times the size of the White Sox. The Cubs are the same. Anywhere you go in the country, you will find an abundance of Yankees, Red Sox, and Cubs fans. You will not find the same thing with the White Sox. This doesn't really bother me either. When you live away from Chicago you realize that the Cubs are the baseball team from Chicago. And oh, yeah, they have a second team

Live sports is the problem for us. My wife is a big college football fan, especially UT. We can get to a couple of the home games, but the away games are a problem.