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Scouts had always reported Taylor as a plus RF defender

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 06:32 PM) The social defense for anti gay marriage is a terrible one. In a party that prides itself on protecting individual freedoms, they should be looking at the fact that gay marriage hurts no one, except the people getting it. This isn't like legalizing drugs, where there can be secondary consequences for things like insurance costs or running into DWI's for those who aren't partaking. It is also flat out hypocrisy. If the family institution is so important, how come these same people aren't fighting for a constitutional amendment against divorce, or against children out of wedlock? Way more families are destroyed by divorce, and single parent family parenting, than anything else in marriage. If you want to follow the bible, follow the bible. Don't just follow the parts that get you votes, hypocrite. That really isn't what the Republican Party is about. They are party to some libertarian types, but most people are the more classic sort of conservative; that is, the type of person interested in conservation. Conservatives are interested in preserving society where possible, which is why they tend to react so strongly against major shifts in tradition like gay marriage or the influx of Latinos. It changes our culture.

Part of the reason Abreu might seem to be better is that he has replaced nearly 2 wins below replacement production, making the swing rather large

Apple wields a whole hell of a lot of influence over the way they are covered in the tech media From controlling the narrative on their brand, to punishing journalists/organizations who don't cooperate, to pushing stories that make competitors look bad

When I was being recruited for baseball, I had one coach that really went negative. He also said "if [school X] wants you, though, you'd be crazy to go here and not there." So I realized he was indeed probably an asshole, but was also trying to just shoot straight with me. It's all about delivery when it comes to recruiting. My exposure to it tells me that you can often get the recruit to tell you what's bad about their other schools and when you hammer that point (not by talking about it explicitly, but emphasizing how your school does that exact thing well), the kid connects the dots. Them or the parents, that is.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 5, 2014 -> 12:12 AM) Loved my boy Linsley though. 4 of the 6 OSU draft picks are starting in the NFL. Pretty damn good hit rate. PFF had had Linsley as one of just two GB offensive players to be in the "strong positive contribution" category Peppers had a very bad game as well per PFF, but that was par for the course for the GB defense

The part about nude photos that is most inherently insecure is that people rarely take them for their own use. You're sharing it with somebody. You have to hope that the other party is just as technically adept as you for storing them and hope they do so despite having far less to lose. I think it can be a fun thing to do, particularly for people that are apart from one another and actually look good naked. There are some risks, though.

Conor's a nice little player. I don't mind him being a starter, but I think you're going to like him more and more the less he plays against lefties.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/02/apples-tw...reams/?ncid=rss While we don't know whether any of the iCloud recent hacking/theft victims had two-factor authentication, it wouldn't have protected their photos

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 3, 2014 -> 10:21 PM) Bryant will be better than Soler, but that doesn't mean both won't be well above average players. I agree, I was just thinking of the current MLB callups

Soler figures to be the best of the bunch. Baez looking more like late-career Soriano than peak.

I don't see any way Quinn wins the election. So that leaves Rauner

I do think Samsung is happy to mass produce a proof of concept

Diversity is an essential and high-priority aspect of education. Schools are not businesses. Their purpose is to educate, enrich, and give back to society. Fostering a campus with as many different sorts of people as possible serves many purposes. In the classroom, you avoid groupthink and allow people of both majority and minority viewpoints to be challenged regularly. There are other inherent benefits to being in social relationships among people that aren't just like you. Society benefits from this as well, disrupting hierarchies that are relics of a bygone era and bestowing knowledge to all classes of people rather than reserving the advantages and happiness offered by education to those who can purchase it. And trust me, people willing to pay for everything never get left out in the cold. I've borne witness to the kind of leeway these people get, not just in admissions but in academic and disciplinary policy. Some of you might prefer how some of the top private colleges do admissions, during which they claim to blind the committees to the finances of applicants. While there are other ways to glean this sort of information, its heart is in the right place. They promise a certain level of aid based on your income and they admit you and everyone else without knowing what the school's cost will be. Many people (myself included, at one point) are transfixed on only the most quantifiable aspects of a potential applicant. What is the GPA? What is the ACT? What is the number of clubs? Even when we aren't talking about social justice-oriented admissions policy, admissions committees should have other priorities in addition to those others. How will this applicant fit into the mix of personalities here? Do their materials indicate a lack of maturity? Has this applicant done something that can't be comprehended in list format that merits extra consideration? My undergraduate institution, for instance, targeted applicants who had been involved with noteworthy charitable causes as high schoolers, particularly those that spearheaded innovative efforts rather than doing the standard sorts of Key Club things.

Yeah, it seems to me that Sam should catch on somewhere. He's in that situation where he's very likely deserving, but not so clearly that we can make any assumptions about why he isn't on a team right now

It is true that you could get a lot back in trade for Quintana, but the assumption seems to be that we get a lot back without harming the pitching staff. But that isn't true - Quintana is what's good about our pitching staff.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Sep 1, 2014 -> 10:42 AM) What browser did you use before? Curious because we are implementing Macs at my job. Both Chrome and Firefox were equally poor. Firefox was my preferred browser. Apparently I'm not the only to notice this

QUOTE (JamesDean @ Sep 1, 2014 -> 12:09 PM) It seems to be a different type of game in Japan. A couple of high school pitchers threw a lot more than that this past weekend. Taiga Matsui, of Chukyo High School, threw 709 pitches over 50 innings in the semifinal match of the National High School Baseball Tournament which lasted fours days. His opponent Jukiya Ishioka, from Sotoku High School, who also lasted all 50 innings, threw 689 pitches. It wasn't all that long ago when an American pitcher might have thrown 160 pitches either. FWIW, that was a modified version of baseball in which they use a rubberized ball that doesn't travel very far. Tough to say what that would mean in terms of taxing the arm

It turns out that I do get reasonably close to promised battery life if I use Safari.

The personal disdain people have for players like Dunn worries and disappoints me

I like Noesi and expect him to be in the rotation next year

I wonder if we try to transition Sanburn into a starting role ala Bassitt

I think Dunn's an A+ human being who has put in his absolute best effort for the White Sox. I have nothing but good wishes for him.

All I know about my Soxtalk 12-team league so far is that my keepers will allow me to get Jamaal Charles and Brandon Marshall with the 11th pick in the 1st and 2nd rounds.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 26, 2014 -> 03:55 PM) http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/08/26/...e-of-diversity/ Thought this was interesting. I don't disagree with it and, as is pointed out, the "fixes" are not straightforward given their cost to the schools. What you often see at schools that stake the claim that they are diverse is that, in fact, there are lots of sons and daughters of lawyers, doctors, and businesspeople...it's just that those lawyers, doctors, and businesspeople come from lots of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.