Texsox

Has anyone seen a diagram of how prisoners are secured in the vehicle? I had assumed that they are secured in a way that a "Blender" couldn't occur. Obviously I was wrong in that assumption.

QUOTE (LDF @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 09:01 AM) this so called gene pool as you said, is border line racial insult. there is no gene pool. there is a pool of new applicants who wants a job. somewhere along the line, something triggered something that made these cops think that it was kool to do this crap. identify it, and get rid of it. I'm not certain how that could be considered racist. Gene: a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring. If you keep pulling from the same pool of applicants, with the same characteristics, you will continue to have the same results. You want to get rid of "it" once they are on the force. I want to get rid of "it" before they get on the force. I'm surprised that you would disagree with that.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 03:51 AM) I ask every year or so, so I figure now is as good of time as any. Do I still have the highest warn rating of any poster not banned? I know that "warn"rating" was a technical term at a point in time, I am just curious if that still applies, and where my ranking on said list would be. It would be greatly appreciated to find out considering the lack of time I have spent on here in many years now. Much obliged. I couldn't find a way to rank posters by "warning levels" but you may still hold that distinction. However, there are posters closer to being banned than you. The warning level is only one criteria that is looked at. Time on the site, the nature of the warnings, etc. BTW, May 13th must have been a good day to join soxtalk

QUOTE (LDF @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 02:10 PM) let me see if i got this right, there are some crooked cops, the IA knows of this, but since there is a shortage of good applicants, ergo you won't do anything.. Cleaning shop and creating a better long term force and firing some crooked cops are two completely different things. If you keep firing some guys and keep dipping into the same gene pool the problem will continue. If you want to clean house and build a better long term department you have to fire the bad cops and replace them with something better. Anything less and you are just treading water. Same problems, new faces.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 01:53 PM) He was compensated greatly for allowing the Nationals to move. Not only from the sale of the team, but the 85 percent equity in masn Plus, the sox have been sharing Chicago with the Cubs for 115 years. Totally different scenario. AngeloS is too much of a scumbag to understand working together. Kind of like how McDonalds and Burger King would work together. Coke and Pepsi.

QUOTE (LDF @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 12:16 PM) i don't know. i think many are really avoiding the point. the f***ing house is f***ed up. fix it before it gets worse. make all the excuses you want, there are great people working on those PD, but they are getting painted black b/c of f***ed up cops. You can't clean up the house when there is a shortage of applicants. You can clean up the house when there is a mile long waiting list of qualified applicants.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 12:46 PM) Yes, but he lost a HUGE market share with the Nationals moving in 40 miles away. What would the White Sox fan base and revenue be without the Cubs in Town. It really hurt his franchise in the long term. I don't blame him for being angry with baseball and the Nationals. In a similar scenario familiar to Chicago fans, Dollar Bill Wirtz blocked a NHL franchise from ever going to Milwaukee.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 11:42 AM) Did I really need to specify that it was my opinion? I would have thought that was fairly clear. What was unclear to me was to what group you were thinking about? Owners? Perfect Player's? I haven't read any opinions, but I assume they aren't happy losing an off day Fans? I'm guessing the reviews are mixed. Some fans will be happy to see a double header, some are worried about how it will affect their team's record. I only see Sox fans as really being upset. You (and I)? OK we think it is a joke, but that probably isn't very important. So as commissioner do you go along with the owner involved over the players and a few hundred Sox fans who really care?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 08:57 AM) If he is scared to step in and do what is right, the game of baseball is in trouble. Not playing the games in Baltimore on those days was the right thing to do. Trying to keep the games in front of home fans is within the scope of right things to do. The biggest losers are the players and are you really surprised that the owners's interests trumped those of the workers?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 07:10 AM) If this series was really screwed up because of personal dislikes, the MLB Commissioners office is a damned joke. Damned joke to who? Certainly not to the people who hire him.

The challenge is creating a system that allows for weeding out the poor performers while making the job attractive to top performers.

It's become a States owner's rights issue. The new commish is off to a great start with the owners, the only people who really matter.

I'd be fine with him back. But it ain't going to happen

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 02:53 PM) My question is are they still going to play the players walk up music and announce the batters and things like that? I could see some players wanting them to just so they don't get out of their routine. They probably will for the TV cameras. I'm thinking this may be the highest viewed game of the year that doesn't feature the Yankmees of the Red Sox

Nothing is as bad as that game in Baltimore . . . nobody showed up.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 02:14 PM) I know this is f***ed up, but lets not pretend that there was anything they could do but bend over and take it. Ah, isn't this the same owner that voted to strike when he had the best team in baseball? The ownership group has proven to be baseball first, team concerns second. I'm not surprised at all. And they will rightfully expect the same benefit should it ever be reversed and there was a problem in Chicago.

Now the players could go back to their roots Hey batter batter, s w i n g batter batter . . .

I understand that is why they do it. Now look at it from a competitor's POV, they may lose business to the government. The example that really hit with me was when a customer of mine back in the electronics days, an assembly shop, lost a long time customer to a shop that was basically set up to job train prisoners in Wisconsin. The prisoners got the work, my customer got to lay off workers. There were great reasons to train prisoners for real jobs, etc. but the consequences were innocent people losing their jobs.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 02:08 PM) "Let me tell you something, Stone Pony. Nobody hits with runners on base in an empty stadium better than Gordon Beckham." https://twitter.com/NotKenWilliams/status/593128067528200192

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 02:02 PM) Why not go ahead and play two tomorrow (when the teams have just had two days off) as opposed to playing two on May 28, when the Sox will be in the middle of playing 17 straight days? QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 02:04 PM) That is what I am wondering. Start the game at 11 or 12 local time and just play two games and be done by 6ish and fly out. It's pronounced KA-CHING!! $$$$ Concessions etc etc Or with the appeals they are looking to use the twin bill somehow to the teams advantage. Use that day if the appeals don't an out and it might not change the rotation schedule.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 02:02 PM) What I didn't get into there either is, some departments use a points system for military and/or college time, effectively putting people with either or both of those at a major advantage in hiring. Philosophically I am opposed to government entities competing with private businesses for for-profit work. However, I do like the idea of a PD based "private" security firm.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 02:00 PM) It happens in soccer all the time across the world as punishment to overzealous (violent) fans Thank you. I should have thought of futball first.

I was trying to find a list of sporting events played in empty stadiums. I'm guessing it has happened before, I just can't think of a professional match. I have heard of High School and perhaps a college that cleared out all the fans to play.

I wonder if there were other credible threats if the game was played in front of fans.

I see the same thing in teaching. The proposed changes in salary and performance reviews will basically drive any good teacher out of poor areas with a history of low test scores and into areas where the kids are already achieving.