Jake

I still think we're seriously undervaluing what it means to go to college for free. I'm happy to make some tweaks, increase some benefits, but I don't think they should be getting compensated like professionals. They are getting a tremendous benefit already. I think we should make sure they can make the most of the value of being in college, but I'm not particularly fond of turning college students into a college's highest paid employees. I think it harms the student community. People often don't like the special privileges given to athletes, but knowing that the athletes are doing something that ends up benefiting the school in general usually evens things out. Turning college students into free market assets is not what college is about, IMO.

People from within the system during Kenny's time as GM have talked about the problems - they not only had to identify the best players, they had to find the best ones they could afford. Mix that in with the normal high probability that guys don't work out, and stuff probably won't work out. Kenny has never been highly involved in scouting as GM, though, especially in terms of amateur talent.

Policemen are highly and continuously trained and still occasionally make mistakes (though I have no reason to believe this is one). This is, in part, why I hate the idea that we should be able to carry guns around. Nothing happens in a vacuum and a person using their gun "properly" may still put themself in harm's way because it is pretty damn hard to tell that you're shooting that guy because he tried to harm you or if you are the bad guy who is shooting people. Given that reasonable people may misinterpret the situation, imagine people that aren't reasonable in these circumstances that defy lengthy, logical reasoning

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 4, 2013 -> 01:12 PM) ...whoa You can find pictures of procedures like this on the internet, but I'm told that they "saved" it. What they do is attach it to a stable blood source (like your arm) until the groin area is ready for reattachment. I have since decided that medicine is not really my thing

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 4, 2013 -> 10:49 AM) Except in the case of the guy who's trading you Julio Jones, his WRs besides Julio and James Jones are bad. It's not like he's loaded at WR and only needed a good TE to succeed. I don't know what he's doing, but it appears he's just making wild trade offers to people. If I were you, I'd be happy I got Giovanni Bernard for Alshon Jeffrey. You laugh, but it is now inevitable that Bernard will tear an ACL while Alshon racks up 100 catches

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 4, 2013 -> 12:23 PM) If only. You can head to the ER if you have a sliver. Or a cold. Or a runny nose. I see you've never been to a f***ing ER to have even said this ridiculous nonsense. I have been and of course our system also makes people feel compelled to go to the emergency room for minor problems. Unfortunately, the horrible emergency room that you are thinking of also drives these people to ignore these things because it is so time-consuming and inconvenient to bother. I have volunteered at "The MED" in Memphis which is downtown and is pretty much the place people who don't have insurance go to. Let's just say I saw a guy walk in there with his dismembered penis in his hand. Some people might think sitting through that s*** is worth it to get some cough medicine, but many decide that it isn't worth it

What happened to the murmurs of a potential (not quite grand) bargain that would restore some sequestration cuts, implement chained CPI, and raise the debt limit?

I certainly believe in "clutch" - we know physiologically that you can use adrenaline to drastically increase strength, improve vision, think quickly. With that said, I think "clutch" is incredibly hard to measure. Baseball requires large sample sizes because some guys get very lucky, some get unlucky. Beyond that, there are other variables than clutchness that can affect a player's clutch statistics. Maybe the way people pitch in the playoffs, or the way relievers pitch, or what happens with a man on first base vs not, etc etc can explain good or bad performance in the clutch. Imagine Conor Gillaspie - he could have a super-awesome clutch ability, but that might make his OPS against LHP only go from .350 to .600 in clutch situations

Lack of access to healthcare is a lifetime problem. Just because people w/o insurance can head to the emergency room when they are near death to prevent that death, this does not change the fact that they are systematically prevented from good health. Go speak to some homeless people and see how many of them have developed physical disabilities. I have to wonder how many people become homeless because they were unable to treat conditions that prevented them from working.

Of course, we're talking about the 58 o-rank player for the 25 o-rank player one being in a much thinner position than the other. Not nearly as obviously bad. Seems like the point of having great players is that you can afford to overpay for players you need

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 3, 2013 -> 09:36 PM) It's an unfair trade... If Gonzalez didn't have that monster game last week, it'd be an awful trade. Easy for you to say! I honestly don't know what normal protocol is for vetoing trades as I've never seen it happen outside of the obvious circumstance pointed out earlier

My Jones for Gonzalez trade was vetoed by the league. I've never seen that happen before except in a league where a guy was quitting and trading his guys for nothing to his friends

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 3, 2013 -> 04:38 PM) Recently in New York, police shot and killed an unarmed person and wounded two bystanders. Something similar happened either early this year or last year. This is why we need more armed citizens

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 2, 2013 -> 07:14 PM) I was thinking vastly improved funding of state schools. At a bare minimum, restoring the huge cuts. Not giving money to Harvard. Of course, you could also give money to people. As far as all that goes though, it was much, much cheaper for me to go to Harvard than UIUC. My parents made almost double the median income of the USA and that was the case. I didn't end up going to Harvard since an undergrad education there is a borderline scam, but the LAC that I ended up attending was always much cheaper. I also love how I had earned a Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship from the federal government...then Robert C. Byrd died and it was mere months before that was defunded. Thanks, I'm glad we can build some more tanks now

In closed door meeting, Cruz reveals he has no plan for ending shutdown nor knows how to implement a potential defunding of ACA...remains unwilling to back down

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 2, 2013 -> 08:55 PM) I voted against that first trade. How did you get the other guy to take Jeffrey for Bernard? One's a starting RB, the other's barely a WR3. He just offered, no negotiation or anything. I think there is some risk in Bernard and some serious upside for Jeffrey, but obviously I thought I was getting the better end in the deal.

I didn't accept 1 trade offer in my entire fantasy baseball season but am 2/2 in football, lol. I assume I'm "winning" these deals because the other party is trading from a position of strength...but that's not my problem

Daniel Radcliffe, talking about how he perfected an American accent, said that he always gave his soldier action figures American accents. You've gotta love how we've become such a neo-imperial power that someone who is British of all things associates soldiers with the USA from childhood

Wimpy won't be a pompous ass who makes just as many mistakes as his partner, though

I've grown to like Hawk more as time goes on. Please god, fire Steve Stone and get Wimpy back here

There are plenty of doctors, but our current system discourages people from becoming primary care physicians. It is well known that fixing our immigration system and the way the medical industry looks at foreign medical training would easily fix this, as there are lots of doctors from across the world that want to be primary care physicians in the USA. We generally treat all foreign medical training as null and void, requiring any doctor that can manage to immigrate here to then go to school for several years to receive American certification. Part of the reason nobody in the USA wants to become a primary care physician is because we don't help people go to college, so they must choose their specialty based almost solely on the most lucrative thing they could possibly be allowed to do since they are forced to take on an ungodly amount of debt to perform such an essential service.

The right has taken up the individualism to the extent that if Policy X doesn't directly and immediately affect the speaker in a negative way, then it is acceptable. Things included in "things that affect the speaker in a negative way" are, of course, any expenditures above revenues. Things that don't negatively affect the speaker include catastrophic harm to others that could be avoided by not taking an unreasonable approach to governance and budgeting.

Traded Alshon Jeffery for Giovani Bernard and Tony Gonzalez for Julio Jones This has been a good week. Had absolutely no backup RB and I have MJD as my RB2 (hasn't done s***). I've been looking for a true WR1 to go alongside DeSean Jackson and Jordy Nelson and now I have that. I have nothing (a nothing named Kellen Winslow) at TE this week, but I have Gronk on the bench ready to go in Week 6, hopefully.

There are few broadcasters as iconic and beloved as the Hawk. He should be there.

There is common practice of taking pitches early in at bats, for no particular reason other than it may lure the pitcher into a walk. Manto's little hypothetical situation was saying that he didn't advocate the approach of taking hittable pitches in situations where a hit was too important.