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Now I'm offended you didn't read my post Basically I said they all do it but only the Dems are reported on in the media because they always protect the Republican

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 7, 2012 -> 12:41 PM) I'm not really sure an apology (real or fake) is necessary...I just don't get it when I hear people say things like that. If a Republican was caught evading taxes, I'm MORE than positive it would be all over the news...so, why do people try to pretend otherwise? The same applies to a Democrat caught for something similar. This is like hearing people say things like, "the major media is republican biased", when it's obviously not (MSNBC), or having to listen to Fox news followers claim how fair and balanced their "centrist" reporting is, when it's glaringly Republican skewed. No, the major media is not "Republican biased", and no, Fox news is not "fair and balanced"...regardless, I hear people say things like this all the time and I just don't get it. I responded to a post that called out Dems, and especially Obama Dems, for loving to tax while evading personal taxes. The OP has posted probably 100 times that Dems receive free passes from the media. I didn't bother to reply in any meaningful way, I just made a fast and sarcastic post. QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Dec 6, 2012 -> 09:09 PM) Why do Democrats, especially ones that like to raise taxes and work for the Obama admin, LOVE to cheat on or forget to pay their taxes? Guess they don't hold the responsibility of paying taxes as highly as others... The poster is well known for taking any and all shots at Obama and defending all Republicans by screaming media bias. I really shouldn't have even responded.

Maybe he wants the Marlin's job

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 7, 2012 -> 09:19 AM) The first part I agree with...the second part...are you kidding me with this? Any politician that does something like this eventually gets reported on for doing it, regardless of their party affiliation. The media merely has to catch wind of it, and I guarantee it gets reported. Edit: This is why it's so hard to have political discussions on this forum with many of you -- it's like trying to have a discussion with a bunch of Ostriches that stick their heads in the sand after they make an obviously biased statement like this one. A statement that I'm positive they know is a total fabrication of reality, but they make it anyway, because it sounds good or something. Sorry for my post. It was in the same mold as the post that started it all. I should have elevated the conversation instead of lowering myself to that level.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Dec 6, 2012 -> 09:09 PM) Why do Democrats, especially ones that like to raise taxes and work for the Obama admin, LOVE to cheat on or forget to pay their taxes? Guess they don't hold the responsibility of paying taxes as highly as others... Because there isn't much different between Dems and Reps in the real world. Of course the media only seems to report when it is a Dem who does that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 7, 2012 -> 07:59 AM) If he really wanted to leave the Twins, he would have done so a LONG time ago. You are probably correct, my idea was a bit of a long shot. Or it could be the rebuilding is taking longer than he originally thought. Family things. Almost anything. Sometimes you get in a situation you can't quite figure out how to get out of.

Maybe he wants out but would never come out and say it. He would be unemployed about as long as it would take to review the offers and pick one.

Dropped off the seminar paper, we will be meeting for drinks next week to receive our papers.

I wish I didn't see that.

Unless they said lead-off hitter who can play 3rd, they lost me.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 4, 2012 -> 04:10 PM) And yet, I find that much less concerning than black teenagers getting killed because they are automatically viewed as a threat. Maybe teenagers will stop loitering and looking threatening. Go find another place to hangout away from the public.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 4, 2012 -> 03:45 PM) Your dismissal of them doing that crap doesn't help either. At this point those people are rabble-rousers and nothing more. I remember when I was in high school 6-7 black kids went to a high school football game and started a brawl in Decatur. The school expelled them (as they should have). Jackson went down with his coalition, screaming racism and injustice. It shut the school down for a few days, became a huge thing, and he bullied the school into putting the kids into alternative school instead. They were a bunch of dickheads that deserved to be expelled, but they were black so the punishment was immediately too harsh and wrong. That was my first exposure to Jackson being the problem with racism, not the solution. Perhaps they should have been expelled, that could be debated for reasons below. However, everyone I hope agrees that they should have received the same punishment that anyone else, regardless of race, would have received in that situation. Expulsion should be the last resort. Expulsion is problematic because the kids are then enriolled in a new school district. It becomes a nice way for districts to move their problems to surrounding communties. The problem is in too many places black kids start brawls and white kids had a little fight. Black gets are expelled, white kids receive detention. Black kids are trouble makers, white kids were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Equal transgressions should receive equal punishments. So either start cranking up the penalties for white kids or crank them down for everyone else.

Done with one class. Nice to start my grad career with an A. Turning in another seminar paper tomorrow and this semester is in the books. 12 more days of teaching and then a two week vacation. I need it.

I'd rather cheer for him in the NL, but he would look good in pinstripes. All he has to do is f*** with a Red Sox player early and the NY fans will fall in love with him.

As anti as I am about them getting in, I would like to see a display of the steroid era or even expanded to notorious players. Don't ignore it, acknowledge it. Mention the players and their accomplishments. It would be an exhibit, but the players would not be HoF members. Would the pro Rose and Bond find that acceptable?

http://www.houstontexans.com/tv-media/phot...18-981add75062e Gave 12 kids 80 seconds to fill their carts at Toys -R- Us Isn't he the same guy who was sued by his ex-wife for child support?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 4, 2012 -> 08:07 AM) He won 3 MVP awards without them. Or at least without the really good PEDs he got from Balco. Which kind of makes it worse, doesn't it?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 4, 2012 -> 08:00 AM) Rose broke the cardinal rule of baseball, knowing what the consequences were. I have no pity for Pete Rose. I have none either. On the slippery slope of letting in people who disgraced the sport, he's the first I would. You do make an excellent point that he fully, without any equivocation, knew the consequences.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 4, 2012 -> 08:29 AM) Then he'd be lying, because he knows that if AJ is brought back, it's to be the starter. Doesn't that say something about how he compares his skills to AJs? I like him saying he wants to play, I am trying to figure out what it means when he thinks he can only be the starter if another (better in his mind?) player isn't there.

I was thinking, between Rose and Bonds, I believe Rose deserves it more. His hits were all legit, and he would be going in as a player. I still would rather see them both out, but if one was to get in, I prefer Rose. Who knows what Bonds would have done without PEDs?

How's this for a better quote "I expect to be the starting catcher for the White Sox next season. What the club does with AJ won't change that."

What does it tell you that Flowers doesn't think he can start if AJ is there? I love the idea he wants to start, I'd rather he be thinking that he's better than AJ and would be starting even if AJ returns.

Could any of these be bought legally without a prescription? If the players thought it was ok, why didn't any player piublically say "I'm bigger because I'm taking X? They knew it was wrong.

It seems to me that if you disgrace an organization by cheating or attacking the credibility of the competition you probably are not someone who should be held in high esteem by that organization. To hold up Bonds or Rose and say "these are the greatest individuals in baseball history and MLB is proud of their accomplishments" would be a joke. Baseball was made worse by their accomplishments and actions, they should not be honored. Plus they lied and lied until finally the evidence was too much or they needed to make a deal. Not the kind of people baseball should be honoring. If MLB started with Rose and Bonds, it never would have survived.