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Garcia has tons of talent. It just isn't being realized, either due to poor development by the Sox and/or poor attitude/work ethic by the player. That's not something that would have been evident when the trade was made.

Preventing first responders from providing care is assault, at least it is in this state.

The people protesting in Minneapolis made this a blanket condemnation of cops, so blame them if you don't like playing that game. Remember all the witnesses who swore Michael Brown was shot in the back? That was the main trigger that started all the rioting in Ferguson, and they were proven by forensics to by lying. So yeah, as long as that kind of bulls*** continues I'm going to give the cops the benefit of the doubt every time until I see convincing evidence to the contrary. This outrage in Minneapolis is because people swore the guy was in handcuffs. That's going to be a pretty easy thing to prove/disprove. I get that minorities are getting a raw deal in a lot of ways, but making martyrs out of felons who get shot by cops protecting themselves and others is going to end up getting you less sympathy, not more.

The police have a lot more to lose by lying than a civilian. When does a black person ever come out and say, "oh yeah, the police were justified in shooting him. We're not going to make a big deal out of this."

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/11/18/2...ing-identified/

He was assaulting a paramedic, the police intervened, and the guy reached for the cop's gun. He wasn't handcuffed, but one black person can claim he was and all the rest are going to buy the story because they'll take his word over the cop's every time.

Not the ACC Champions. The ACC recognizes the tournament champion as the conference champion.

At least that's progress from believing that wins mean everything.

Of course not Illinois. They have to play the ACC Champions in a couple weeks.

For which team?

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/no...ark-shot-police I'm sorry, I don't give a f*** if you're black, white, or anything else, you interfere with paramedics working on a guy you just beat up, you're going to get shot. If you think this is racial then you are the problem and not the police.

November in PHT does start to look very similar to the Drunk thread in SLaM.

MSU fans are still in football mode, fans of the other three schools don't even know they have football teams.

Duke is the top program in the ACC Kentucky is the top program in the SEC MSU is the top program in the Big Ten Kansas is the top program in the Big 12 Maybe you could argue rotating Arizona or UCONN in as top programs in the PAC-12 and American, but really you've got the four that are going to get you the biggest draw. UNC or Louisville aren't going to get in because they aren't going to want to create intra-conference matchups.

Correction: I didn't know that rule got changed. You no longer have to wait a full year to trade drafted players. Now it's just until after the World Series.

Fulmer can't be traded.

I'd watch it if they played it in December. I'm still in football mode and not ready to watch basketball in November.

The committee chair said there was a decent gap between the top 4 and the rest at this point. Only two power 5 unbeatens on the outside right now are Iowa and Oklahoma St. Iowa knocks out OSU if they win out so that one takes care of itself. I still think it comes down to ND and a Big 12 team for the final spot (if ND can beat Stanford).

The way I look at is this: Is there a very slight increased risk by letting in the refugees? Yes. But if you don't let them come here, they go to some other country, probably one with worse intelligence than us and probably do more damage. Since 9/11, the US has had a pretty good track record at snuffing out terror activity. There were the Boston Marathon guys but they weren't with any organization and just did that on their own, and even for all their planning they only killed 4 people. I'd feel better about having them here than somewhere else.

If that had been me, I wouldn't be wasting my time asking the university to do something, I'd be filing a civil rights lawsuit. Those people committed Federal hate crimes.

Sox should trade Sale to Europe for Italy and an Slavic nation to be named later.

Bears offense >> Browns offense

The Medicaid expansion is a big deal to primary voters, and I disagree with your assessment of the Koch brothers on social issues. I think they care a lot about social issues. Kasich saying that while he disagrees with gay marriage, accepts it as the law of the land, has really done him no favors with the conservative base.

Primary voters don't care about appealing to moderates. It's the same group that wants to shut down the entire Federal Government over a few million dollars to Planned Parenthood.

Strasburg has to survive a year with Dusty as his manager first.