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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 21, 2011 -> 03:20 PM) I won't argue his response sucked. I just think it was an intentionally bad question asked in hopes of securing a sound bite. Agreed.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 21, 2011 -> 03:11 PM) Dayan Viciedo hasn't played in front of him in four months. No, but he's the guy Sox fans have been wanting to bring up for the past 2 months. I can't believe Cooper is completely oblivious to that. He should've just taken the high road and said "I don't know, I'm not the one who makes that decision." or something like that. He was obviously in a bad mood from the beginning based on his answer to their other question which was actually about a pitcher.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 21, 2011 -> 02:57 PM) See I don't think the question was "reasonable" from a common sense stand point. They could have asked him anything about the pitching staff. Anything. Instead not only do they ask him about a position player, but a position player who isn't even in Chicago, and not only that, but a guy who Cooper hasn't seen since March in all likelihood. The hosts were doing the radio equivalent of trolling, and Cooper took the bait. That isn't a question for the pitching coach, at all. How do you think the Score guys who would answered Cooper if he asked them about what was going on at Q101? That's not really a fair comparison. The guys at the Score aren't going to have a clue what's happening at another radio station. They asked him for his opinion about the struggling Sox offense and if a player that has been tearing up the minors could help. The offense that has been playing directly in front of him for the past 4 months. He said they need to score more runs so obviously he's watched them. He just decided to play dumb and act like he doesn't have a single clue about what's happening with the team other than the guys on the pitching staff. I really find that hard to believe.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 21, 2011 -> 10:21 AM) If I was on the rooftops that's pretty close to what I would be probably. I assume the view isn't that great and with unlimited food and booze well, I would be getting hammered (not at a company event of course). I went last week to a Cubs game and was honestly the only one in the upper deck that could tell what was a good hit and what was just a pop up. I know it's a bit harder to tell up there, but seriously you should be able to read the difference between a shallow pop up and something going close to the warning track. It's easy to tell by just watching how the fielders react.

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Jul 21, 2011 -> 10:51 AM) I don't mind Coop having a meltdown; as somebody else pointed out, he's the one guy we KNOW is getting the job done and yeah, it's gotta suck putting that pitching out there and then watching us lose game after game because the Sox can't even score 2 runs, even against some no-name rookie pitcher. FWIW, that rookie pitcher has only given up 5 runs in 2 outings this year. Every other one he's given up 3 or less. So the Sox aren't the only team to not hit him.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 21, 2011 -> 10:17 AM) And this is why Coop will not be offered the manager position if it becomes opened. He can't handle the media well at all. I was about to say this exact same thing. He's way too touchy and defensive. I even hear it in his voice when he talks to Ranger on the pre-game show.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 08:26 PM) I went to the game today for a company outing. We were on one of the rooftops. I swear, nobody there was actually watching the game. I know nobody cares since the Cubs suck, but seriously, you're at a baseball game, at least take a damn peak. In other news, water is still wet.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 04:51 PM) They could have made the Dark Tower series, which was recently canceled. There's still a chance somebody else picks it up. QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 05:01 PM) If they're ever going to make another Stephen King movie, the simplest and possibly greatest would be Running Man. The movie that they did make was an abomination and had only the slightest resemblance to the book. That book was the first one I honestly did not want to stop reading. A movie that follows it pretty strictly would be both amazing and doable. I imagine that they would have to change the very ending, though. Agreed. I'd also like to see the Long Walk made into a movie. As long as they didn't veer too far away from the book.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 11:20 AM) Based on Dunn's career numbers, what makes you think this is his new norm? It wouldn't be the first time a professional athlete has lost the ability to do something they had been doing their entire career. Although the only examples I can think of are guys that had trouble throwing the ball, not hitting it. Chuck Knoblauch and Rick Ankiel.

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 18, 2011 -> 09:04 PM) None of you live in the damned desert. Quit yer b****in'! I'm not. I'd much rather have to not mow my grass for 2 weeks than shovel snow every other day.

I haven't had to mow my grass for 2 weeks.

QUOTE (MAX @ Jul 17, 2011 -> 03:24 AM) You are assuming those people wouldn't want to talk to him if he took other actions. I realize that. I was just thinking about the fans that decided to keep other famous baseballs to sell them later. I don't remember them getting as much publicity. This guy seems to be getting so much because he did the "right" thing.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 02:43 PM) You are talking about intentionally hanging a jury just because you want to see another trial take place. Is it really illegal or just immoral and unethical? I'd imagine it'd be extremely difficult to prove somebody was doing that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 12:55 PM) I feel like that's pretty much a normal game for him except no one swung. I remember hearing either Steve Stone or Ed Farmer say that you could go to the plate without a bat and most of the time count on him throwing 4 balls before he throws 3 strikes.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 02:23 PM) You have said multiple times that you would have gone out of your way to commit an illegal action if you were on that jury because of your belief. That is the textbook definition of vigilante. I'm not quite sure how we got from voting "guilty" as part of a 12-person jury to wanting to intact vigilante justice. If Greg was on the jury and truly believed she was guilty the very best he could have accomplished was a hung jury.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 10:10 AM) I took both JCL and Cobol in college...hated both. I hate mainframes and the outdated code that rides on them. I vowed to never program in COBOL or anything related to mainframes after graduation...and I've kept that promise. COBOL was the first language I learned and I took to it pretty well. I had a harder time with Visual Basic and C for some reason. I been using JCL for about 10 years now but I just recently learned how to create emails with it by incorporating HTML into it.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 09:57 AM) Wow, thats rare. Most guys i know that can write in COBOL are over 50. I tell my clients I may be one of the younger folks they meet that knows C++ When I was in college they were still teaching C. Then 10 years later I went back and tried to take an Advanced C++ class. That was rough. I still don't really have a good grasp on it. I'm much better with older mainframe stuff. Even languages most people have never heard of like PL/1 and Natural.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 08:51 AM) A lot of them do this because they get education discounts from Apple, or even donations for free computers...and since you can run either OSX or Windows on a Mac, if you have the money, you get the best of both worlds. I witnessed this very problem when I was in college, and I actually raised concern to the school about it at the time (which was ignored). To this day I tell students I meet that in the computer science arena, there is no room for solely learning outdated computers/materials/tools, it's detrimental to the students who will be entering the real world with outdated knowledge. I tell that that in addition to what you learn at school, be sure to do things at home, on your own, in order to learn the most up to date methods, etc. While it's not always bad if you want to begin working for an organization that never updates anything...it's counter to what this industry represents. When I was in college, they were giving COBOL classes because that's what much of the corporate world used at the time...and while that was useful for a time, it's simply behind the curve. IMO, students need to be AHEAD of the curve, or at the very least, with the curve. Students shouldn't be learning on Windows XP...it's nearly a decade old. They should be learning on Windows 7. I was hired for my current job 1.5 years ago mostly because I know COBOL and I'm still under 40. I guess I'm one of the rare ones. The last 2 programmers they hired didn't know any COBOL at all. But they need younger people to take over when everyone starts retiring in the next 10 years.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 09:15 AM) That review is correct that a Juror can't bring outside items into the deliberations without permission, but the law regarding what jurors can do as far as I understand it is far less open and shut than is presented there. Although judges can give substantial amounts of guidance about the rules jurors can follow, a juror actually has wide latitude to decide how to go about considering a case. I didn't know how accurate it was considering the source but I thought it was interesting. It's been awhile since I've seen the movie. It was in an English class during my sophomore year.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 06:12 PM) I think Greg needs to read 12 Angry Men or whatever that book is called, that seemed like a pretty easy guilty verdict they were talking about too. Read more: The 5 Most Wildly Illegal Court Rulings in Movie History | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_18815_the-5...l#ixzz1SBOBlSKt

This guy is arguably getting more by just giving the ball back to Jeter than he would have if he'd have kept it and sold it. Suddenly companies are lining up to give him stuff and help pay off his debt and tons of TV and radio shows want to talk to him.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 08:52 AM) It's kinda hard, you either destroy the redbox and take everything, or you need a credit card to get the game rented. Credit cards tend to be linked to personal info and get charged when you don't return something. That's why you steal er... borrow someone else's card first.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 01:52 PM) I'm sure Jordan feels much like he should be more tolerant with a couple of hundred posts telling what a bigot he is.... Honestly, if he really did hate gay people, I am not really sure that a lot of this thread would do to change his mind. Getting slammed from a couple of dozen different people at once isn't exactly an invitation to open your mind. I’m not necessarily trying to change his mind as much as trying to understand his point. His admitting that he thinks people actually choose to be gay made a big difference. Like his kid would do that just to be different or to shame him in some way on purpose. Now I would be upset if my child grew up and chose to become a serial killer or a child molester. Although I have read that people like that have a chemical imbalance in their brain so maybe that’s not much of a choice either. Either way I’m still trying to figure out the strawman argument of not wanting to be in the same house as 2 gay men while they are having sex. I wonder if it would be different if it were a straight couple. Or 2 lesbians?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 12:20 PM) Would this apply to straight roommates? What if you didn't hear them? Or is it just the thought that it could be or is happening? eta I don't want to hear or see gay sex either, that's not the issue here. I'm still waiting for an answer to this.

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