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http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/11754873...se-leaving-team

I have been a Christian most of my life, though I don't identify with any particular denomination. I have regularly attended Catholic, Presbyterian and Baptist churches in the past as well as a couple minor denominations and non-denominational churches. There is such a variety of Christian denominations that it's hard to lump them together on just about any subject. I will say that leadership in most major denominations would advise that God expects us to be good stewards to the planet. However, in most evangelical circles, people are so fanatically anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage that they will accept the conservative political position on just about any issue that comes up. This is one of the main reasons I'm having such a hard time finding a denomination that I really like, because I'm fairly conservative theologically yet very moderate politically. I've left a few churches that I liked from a doctrinal standpoint because their extreme right-wing political positions really pissed me off.

May not make a bad #2 hitter, but definitely not giving up a Top 10 prospect for him.

Are we all talking about the Jason Heyward who slugged .384 last year, or is there some other Jason Heyward I'm not aware of who is actually worth giving up prospects for?

No problem whatsoever.

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw someone with ebola at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

During the awarding of this year's AL GG for SS, it will be announced that the award is being renamed the Jeter Award. Only half-kidding.

OK, but in my alternate universe, Adam Dunn is a more than adequate backup QB for New England in 1999 and Tom Brady ends up never getting drafted and you can't put a price on that.

When I was at ND, there was only one course that might fall into that category. The lowest course offered university-wide to fulfill the freshman math requirement was the equivalent of an 11th-12th grade trigonometry-precalc class. Students could get exceptions based on their HS transcripts to take a college algebra class. In theory the exception was open to any student, but in practice the only people who got approved for that class were scholarship athletes and the children of rich donors. Other than that, there were no classes that contained only athletes. I had six different football players as well as several athletes in other sports in my various writing/theology/philosophy classes and none of them were easy. There were definitely majors and classes that were softer than others (though I never heard of any to the extent of greg's class), but they were open to every student.

I think the more important question is, "Did baseball ruin Adam Dunn?" Maybe he could have made it as a quarterback.

Wendy Davis

I think a lot of these kids were in the position of having to take these fake classes or not being able to stay in school. They didn't really have a good option either way.

Just get one friend that is a bisexual woman who is half black, a quarter hispanic, and a quarter native american. Then you're all set.

Yes to Upton, but what is it going to take to get him from Atlanta and how likely is it that he would sign an extension?

I guess I should rephrase my statement. It can happen at any school on a small scale, but I think it's more difficult at schools that care about their academic reputation. It may have happened at Minnesota, but the school didn't turn a blind eye to it for 10 years they way they did at UNC.

Voided wins are a hollow punishment. I don't see the NCAA having the balls to do this, but I think you could justify a penalty of a complete shutdown of the athletic department for an entire year. From July 1 to June 30 there are no scholarship athletes and no paid coaches.

Maybe not the only school doing this, but I don't see this happening at Big Ten or PAC 12 schools, or other elite schools like ND or Vanderbilt. I also don't see it happening very many places with the large number of athletes it did here.

Made a separate thread on this since it involved both football and basketball, as well as other students and student-athletes. http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/...ed-sham-classes http://www.businessinsider.com/unc-athlete...campaign=buffer

Didn't know you could just buy a rooftop without buying the rest of the building.

ND/ACC announced the complete football schedule rotation through 2025, with dates set through 2019. http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102114aaa.html

So basically, you're asking whether or not we would object to bringing in any pitcher with 13-18 wins.

Basically Milton Bradley sucked at The Game of Life, always getting himself into some sort of Twister, and never really able to Connect Four good years together.

It's best benefit is the threat. It probably helps employee retention because most employees don't think about the high probability that the clause won't actually be enforced.

I do believe that there is some merit to the argument that a bad pitcher with a higher variance in his performance will win you more games than an equally bad pitcher with a lower variance, but I also believe that a good pitcher will win you more games than both of them.

I have a job that is probably about as high on the stability/reliability meter as there is, but I'm sick and tired of it. My wife is finishing school and will be employed in a few months, and I'm willing to risk that stability to find something that's meaningful to me. Plus I really don't like living down here. Everybody says I'm crazy, but that's how I feel.