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As long as Ragone is a better QB coach than local sports talk radio host, that's fine with me.

I can say definitively that I have seen Christmas Vacation at least 30 times. I believe I have seen both Airplane and Star Wars IV more often than that but am not 100% certain.

We got an inch of snow Saturday/Sunday. Schools were on a 2-hour delay.

Every winter when people post ST share opportunities, it REALLY makes me wish I lived closer to Chicago.

Right, but I think the rebranding is intended to send the message that these guys started from scratch. The Sith were destroyed, and sometime within the 25 years that followed, somebody decided to rebuild from nothing. Snoke may have relational connections (we know Kylo Ren does), but I don't buy that any of them were directly trained by Sidious, Vader or any other previous Sith.

There is a HUGE difference between 11th pick and 24th pick. I'm not saying the Bears should absolutely not do it, but you better be pretty damn sure of your QB if you are going to use the 11th pick on him and not start him. Now, if the Bears trade down to somewhere around 24 and do this, that's better. A guy who isn't ready to start right away probably isn't getting picked before then anyway.

They wear his jersey, more than any other Steeler.

I have no issue with picking Jay's successor if the right guy is identified and available, but can you really justify picking a guy at 11 that you don't plan on starting right away?

Good comparison, except that Cosby isn't on a team. His fans don't have loyalty built up the way Steelers fans do. I don't see too many people saying they are still Cosby fans after all this has surfaced the way plenty of people are still fans of Ben.

McCain lost the day he picked Palin as VP, and nobody was going to beat an incumbent Obama. No propaganda was necessary.

True, but we also know directly from JJ Abrams that Kylo Ren is not a Sith. So it doesn't make sense that Snoke is Plagueis from that respect. The implication is that the Sith have been extinguished and this is some new order that is using the dark side of the force. My best guess would be something like Snoke is a brother or nephew of a Jedi who has force powers but for some reason was never identified and trained as a Jedi.

I'm looking at it from this standpoint, changing it to the Bears for example. My wife knows who Jay Cutler is. My wife has no clue who Sherrod Martin is. If Cutler has a similar history as Ben, I have to answer to her as to why I'm still a Bears fan. If Martin has that history, it never becomes an issue.

Neither myself not any of the people I was having my original discussion with are big enough hockey fans to know enough about Kane to compare him to Ben.

Vader is dead, plus he was redeemed at the end of VI. I'm sticking with Palpatine's claim that he killed Plagueis, so I'm not buying that one either. I'm not entirely sure we will ever learn that much more about Snoke's background.

I can't stand either, but if those are my only two choices I'll choose the one who punches me in the face over the one who stabs me in the back.

Meaning that his mother was lying when she said there is no father? I don't see it going that direction. The central theme of Episodes I-III is Anakin being the subject of the prophecy.

Not same position. Not even close. Prince Shembo - what he was accused of, in the police statement, was not sexual assault, rape or even a felony. Prince even admitted that her statement was more or less accurate Ben Roethlisberger - what he was accused of, by multiple women, was sexual assault, and even though he wasn't charged the NFL thought it was serious enough to suspend him It's a very serious stretch to equate the two (again, consult a lawyer if this is over your head) just because both were labeled with the term "sexual assault" and both weren't charged. Imagine trying to make an argument like that in a courtroom? Then to add on a bunch of other things at ND that aren't even player-conduct related is pointless. I'm talking about, as a husband and father, having a very hard time supporting a team headed by a guy with Ben's history. I'm on the record now, if Ben were to somehow become a coach at ND after his career is over, I'd be furious about it.

He's the best defensive player I've ever seen at ND (Not old enough to have seen Buoniconti or Page). No idea if he gets back to that level post-injury, but if so, he's a value pick at 11 or anywhere after.

That? Have you ever actually read Lizzy Seeberg's police statement? Not what other people have said about the incident but her actual statement to police. Even if you accept her statement as 100% true, what she claimed happened does not rise to the level of rape, sexual assault, or any other felony. A misdemeanor at worst. Maybe you can find a lawyer to explain this to you. How is ND responsible for the media and the girl's family inaccurately describing what happened? I've said repeatedly that the video assistant's death was terrible and that the AD should have been held accountable for it. (Fortunately for BK, the AD was present that day and thus was the highest ranking person responsible, as much as I'd personally love to lay the blame on BK) I don't know how the university and/or football program has any liability for one of its players getting catfished. No evidence that the university knew she was fake until right before the story came out. The academic employee got canned and probably getting charged. (though you have used a very liberal definition of "prostituted" since no money changed hands). No university's athletic programs are without people doing bad things. The question is how the university deals with these things once discovered. I'll put ND's actions up against any FBS school in that regard. Five players missed the entire 2014 season for something that probably doesn't even get them a slap on the wrist at most FBS schools. Again, the video kid's death is the one time I really think ND screwed up.

Isn't it at least a little bit different when it's the QB though? The Bears picking up someone with Ben's past to be their nickel DB may make me uncomfortable, but the Bears picking up Ben may very well make me not want to be a Bears fan anymore.

Yes, are you attempting to reference an incident where Prince Shembo voluntarily stopped an encounter when Lizzy Seeberg began crying/screaming (while clothes were still on) but ended up being accused by the media of sexual assault/rape anyway, or were you going in a different direction?

Got into a very long/heated "discussion" on FB Sunday about Ben's past and whether or not it should affect one's decision to be a fan of the team. Predictably, the Steelers fans got very defensive and constantly trotted out: 1) Ben never got convicted or even charged, they were just allegations 2) almost every team, pro or college, has at least one player with some level of domestic violence accusations against them so why single out the Steelers My responses: 1) Ben was never charged but the allegations were from multiple women in different places at different times which to me, even though charges were never filed, is more serious than a single unsubstantiated allegation 2) A QB of a professional team has a higher level of notoriety than other NFL players, who in turn have a higher level of notoriety than any college player (who is gone is <4 years anyway) Any thoughts?

Last year I got mlb.tv as a birthday present. If you have a Roku or similar device, or can readily connect your laptop to your TV, you can watch games on your TV and mlb.tv costs less than MLBEI.

Assuming that you still live in Montana, any Sox game not on MLBN, ESPN, TBS, FOX or FS1 will be blacked out. Exception would be when they are playing a team in your local market, which I am guessing is the Mariners.

This is good news. I think Central Indiana is a huge untapped market for the Sox. Reds have been the most popular team but they are really down right now and it's a good time for the Sox to hit that market aggressively.