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It would be the job of someone away from the team on a daily basis to address the issue with the player.The hope would be that the club house would function better if the blame was on the "front office" and not a teammate to teammate issue. How many people have the option to bring their kids to work every day? At some point the players have to do their damn job and get to work instead of entertaining kids.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 10, 2016 -> 12:45 PM) Calling it discriminatory and a "pink tax" is ludicrous. But regardless, there shouldn't be an exception to any of that stuff. Tax the piss out of it. We gotta pay for free college and healthcare somehow. I think a fair taxing structure for everyone is not taxing the necessities of life such as food and medicine. I'd also like to see an exemption on cheaper clothes. America is an expensive country to live in. We want the best roads, security, military, healthcare, etc. That requires the people with the most resources to pay more. Now let's look at a fair America that survives at the tax rate that the lowest can afford. Slashes our military, less for roads, less for healthcare (you don't mind sick people in your food supply do you?), fewer cops, less garbage pick up. Looking at countries where it costs less to live and they are not the ones I would like to live in.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Mar 10, 2016 -> 09:11 PM) Mine as well. Starting shortly after my grandparents were married. I think this is year 17 for me. Same thing. Grandparents, all my aunts, uncles, cousins. At the height we'd have five cottages. Great memories.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 10, 2016 -> 09:51 AM) Combining a work trip into a long weekend in Boston and coastal Maine in a couple of weeks. Not the best season for it, but it lines up with my wife's spring break. Mainly looking to eat lots and lots of seafood. One of my favorite memories of our last trip to Maine was eating a lobster boil from a gas station / camp store / laundry on a wooden picnic table next to the highway. It had all the charm and elegance of a Chicago dog from a street vendor and damn it was good.

Does this thread have anything to do with Star Wars?

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Mar 9, 2016 -> 02:04 PM) 88-74 QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 9, 2016 -> 02:15 PM) Back from the dead to chime in. . . 88 wins in 2016. Good enough for at least a WC spot. QUOTE (iWin4Ron @ Mar 9, 2016 -> 06:01 PM) 88 QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 9, 2016 -> 07:49 PM) 88 wins and the team is in the race until the final week. The key will be the first month of the season. They need a fast start. After the Orioles series they need to be 15-9 possible 14-10. If this season starts iff crappy, I just don't see it turning around. QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 10, 2016 -> 02:08 PM) 88. QFT

There is a line of sportsmanship that shouldn't be crossed. Baseball has stayed too far away from that line, but I also don't want choreographed homerun celebrations.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 03:30 PM) To the attorneys on here ... how is Hillary not in jail over this latest report by the Washington Post? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cli...e7df_story.html This is no partisan witch hunt folks. Get used to Bernie time. For Bernie is waiting in the wings if jail comes calling http://www.investors.com/politics/editoria...e-just-blew-up/ p.s. Please read the last part of the article ... It says, "Under the law, gross negligence in handling classified material is all that’s required for a government official to face criminal charges. At this point, is there anyone who can honestly say that Clinton wasn’t being grossly negligent?" I ask you: I know some want Hillary to be president as part of a lifetime achievement award. They want her in there because she it's her turn. But at some point in most baseball seasons when you realize your team is not good enough to win, you finally give up. Why can't America "give up" on Hillary and realize what she did was criminal? If somebody does what she did she must pay. All I ask is she be prosecuted like anybody else in government who does what she did. Because she is well connected and there is a vast conspiracy to have her elected President. Of course it isn't a coincidence that the President is of the same party. Basically the Demon-crates have taken over the world. Feel better?

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Mar 10, 2016 -> 01:11 PM) I'm making two separate trips to St Germain in June. One with friends, one with family. My family has been going up there every summer for over 50 years.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 10, 2016 -> 12:59 PM) To clarify, when I said "San Antonio / McAllen", I certainly meant the team would be in the former, not the latter. Just citing an influence area for illustration. Just like Albuquerque clearly is where a team would be, not Santa Fe. I thought he meant locating the stadium somewhere on the southside, perhaps even down 37 towards Corpus or 35 towards Laredo.

It's an interesting conference. Looking at the history I realize that some conferences are actually independent from their teams in a way. UT-RGV has formed an exploratory committee headed up by Mack Brown (former UT head coach) to see if football will be a fit. That would cause the university to leave the WAC.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 10, 2016 -> 12:11 PM) Returning to Estes Park/Rocky Mountain National Park this summer. When were you there last? We've been planning on going every couple of years to follow the blight and how nature is dealing with it.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 10, 2016 -> 12:35 PM) This is ludicrous. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/b...0310-story.html I assume the argument is they are health items and should be exempt. Sales tax and food and medical items is crazy.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Mar 10, 2016 -> 10:28 AM) South San Antonio makes no sense. Austin is 80 miles from San Antonio, so a team is better off building on the TX130 between Austin and San Antonio or I-35 between Austin and San Antonio. The Rio Grande Valley and Mexico tourists make San Antonio attractive. TX130 makes sense but is away from everything. I-35 is crazy with traffic, but probably a better bet. I think I-35 between the two but closer to SA makes more sense. Every few years the Cowboys threaten to relocate their training camp. Perhaps the stadium could serve double or triple duty.

We have a busy summer planned. We will be working from a remote mountain house in June cataloging a writer's unpublished works for possible publications. Later in the month we will be flying to the Pacific northwest for some hiking and camping. Later in the summer we're heading to Chicago and then St. Germain Wisconsin for a couple weeks. I'm also trying to fit in a golf coach's camp.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Mar 10, 2016 -> 07:19 AM) Op-ed writer. Can you vote?

The tale if a smallish conference and their autobid. Their dream is to get whacked in the first round.

In thank you!

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 09:12 PM) But I thought college sports were about the student athletes, not the money? Without the money there are no student athletes.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Mar 9, 2016 -> 09:16 PM) They're part of the fun of March though. We could just eliminate automatic conference bids all together and just let a committee decide the top 64 teams if we want to go that route or just get rid of the one and done tournament and make it a series of games. I was surprised how my attitude changed when my university UT-RGV went from independent to the Western Athletic Conference with an auto bid. I didn't think getting in a conference would really change anything for me. I still enjoyed going to the games, who cares if it was a conference or non conference game? Now I actually pay attention to more games. The women's team has been strong and could gain a spot this season. Something just a little extra to cheer for. In the major conferences it really doesn't matter. The top four or five teams get in.

June will be two weeks in a remote New Mexico mountain cabin cataloging and possibly editing a deceased author's unpublished works. Late June possible to the Fourth of July ten days in the Pacific northwest hiking and camping. End of July a week in St. Germain, Wisconsin and Chicago with the family. I will try to fit in at least one golf coaches camp. Summers make up for the school year.

What job can you have and be allowed an opinion?

One of the vastly overrated skills of a great president is cheerleader in chief. After Nixon's scandals, Ford's falling and WIN! economic policy, and Carter being held hostage Reagan came in bigger than life on a giant white horse and gave America back it's swagger. Trump can do that, but only for the portion of America that has been feeling left out for 8 years of Obama. HIllary doesn't do that. I doubt even Cruz can pull that off. We all know that most of what a Presidential candidate runs on doesn't or can't become reality. So I'm not too worried about America if there is a Trump victory.

Our home course has kicked out Taylor Made and bringing in Callaway. Our previous home course was a Titleist shop. We've been a Titleist team for the past years. I'm considering the switch to Callaway. This season my varsity played ProV1 or ProV1x while the JV and Fresh-Soph played DT Solo. Clothing I switched to Nike from Antigua, but the UA rep has a nice package for me so I may switch one more time. My budget has been stretched thin by travelling more for tournaments so I've been shopping harder.

We're getting close to our end of the season championships. My #1 is on the sidelines trying to become academically eligible. My #3 is worried about college and working and has missed about half the practices this past month. I have no depth so we just went from near the top to trying to stay out of the bottom. Hey, Robin, I know your pain. Meanwhile, one kid lowered his average from 113 last year to 97 this year. As soon as we crank up his short game I figure he will drop another 10-15 for next season. Plus he's smart as can be with great parental support. Already I'm thinking about next year . . . I'm starting to hit a few more balls myself getting ready for the coach gets to play season. I shot seven over for 9 holes last week from the tips (3700 yards). The bright spot was six pars. The two doubles and a triple were problems, but that smoothes out after I play more.