Jake

When Phil Robertson thinks of sin, the first thing that comes to his mind is gay people. That's not being religious, that's wanting an outlet to vent your hate. Homosexual behavior is so far outside of the main aims (and there are sound arguments to be made that it is completely outside the purview of Christian theology) of Christianity that this quote is utterly ridiculous. He doesn't want everyone "to love each other and love God," he wants everyone to think alike.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Dec 18, 2013 -> 06:48 PM) Jeffery is an uncommon last name? The fact that professional broadcasters are screwing up his name is unacceptable. It's not like his last name is Saltalamacchia. Thought it was Saltalamacchias

LeBron didn't need the Heat to win with the way he's playing. The other guys on the Heat aren't very good. It's still the case that Lebron-led Bulls would beat Lebron-led Heat

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 18, 2013 -> 09:28 AM) That's not really true. Prime still has probably 10% of what Netflix has (even though Netflix isn't the greatest either). You really have to get both depending on what you want to watch. I wouldn't get just Prime if they're never going to take advantage of the 2 day shipping. Not enough content to justify the cost unless you have a few specific shows you want to catch up on (Downton Abbey, Justified, etc.) Ended up buying my wife a laptop last night at Sams. About $830 for an ASUS N550JA-SB71T. 15.6" full HD touch screen, Intel Core i7-4700MQ, 8GB Memory, 1TB Hard Drive, backlight keyboard, and some other standard stuff (cd/dvd drive, webcam, SD card reader, 3 USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI port, etc). Pretty good price I think. I was going to get her the Acer S7-392, supposedly one of the best ultrabooks available, but couldn't really justify an extra 3 hours of battery time and maybe a pound or two for 4-500 bucks. Especially since she will probably only use it at home to surf the web and do some work on the weekends. I've been really playing up the "we don't need a laptop" card the last week or two, so she's going to be really surprised. 15" laptops have become the best deals. If the only portability you're going for is from room to room in your house, I think you made a great buy. Going smaller, thinner, lighter, longer battery life only begins to matter as your portability needs go up.

I wouldn't let my son play football. Definitely not until until high school, if ever. A lot of the damage racks up while they're children, because their heads outgrow their necks and youth leagues are horrible at preventing unnecessary contact in non-game settings. By high school, I'm being my son will have other hobbies or sports to be interested in. If not, I'll evaluate the program and see what kind of shop they run. I know my team did a lot more hitting in practice than anywhere else, which led to all kinds of chronic injuries. The savvier programs will only have one day of "full" contact each week nowadays. Of course, on the track we're on public schools probably won't have sports anymore by the time I have kids.

They've been learning that for many of these cases, it isn't the concussions. It is the accumulation of sub-concussive blows. I went to a seminar put on by the leading CTE researchers from Boston and they're saying the picture is rather bleak. However, most (roughly three quarters) of these damaging, sub-concussive blows are occurring in practice. That, we can reduce drastically. They said youth football leagues are typically the worst offenders due to lack of training and care.

I enjoy Waddle and Silvy

Something about the White Sox, guys underperforming, and personal issues....

I don't mind the pet being featured prominently. I love pets. They mean a lot to loving families

I'm not going to crown Lillard until he gets his FG% safely above 40% -- it's .394 for now

There's nothing left for Davidson to prove in AAA and he already played 30 games in MLB and looked rather competent. As for Dunn, you keep him unless you come across a trade that costs you in little money and/or brings in real talent. He serves an important role on this team, which is being a useful hitter that hits left-handed and can keep those three righties from being slayed by RHP late in the game. While we're not going to blow our wad trying to win in 2014, you don't actively make the team worse for no particular reason.

Robin had nothing to do with the late collapse in 2012. Starting pitchers had little to do with it. The entire offense shut down in the final two weeks.

lol SS

1. Jose Abreu 2. Erik Johnson 3. Matt Davidson 4. Marcus Semein 5. Tim Anderson 6. Courtney Hawkins 7. Chris Beck 8. Micah Johnson 9. Daniel Webb 10. Tyler Danish 11. Trayce Thompson 12. Chris Bassit 13. Carlos Sanchez 14. Jacob May 15. Scott Snodgress

The DVR-esque functionality of XBone is appealing to me, I'll be watching to see how everything shakes out.

Once again, I have to choose between Cousins and Dalton. Both have good matchups. I'm leaning Cousins this time.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Dec 17, 2013 -> 08:38 AM) Heh. Number 2.

I hate to say it, but I'd feel more comfortable about this coming game if McCown was QB

Hope we get ourselves a real Josh Vitters!

Might as well grab Waiters and whatever else in exchange for Deng

He wouldn't be a number two on this team. He's not very good.

I've seen nothing from Baseball America throughout the years to indicate that Semien could be a great defender at SS. As is often the case, he is penalized for lacking a plus arm and for scouts not actually seeing him that much.

No reason to think Semien will be a bad defender

I think Kenny is still involved and this is exactly what he wanted to do for a few years -- they have talked about how JR had forbade him from doing a rebuild like this.

We should get into a big argument in here