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QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jul 6, 2015 -> 09:59 PM) I'm confused. There's another major league team in Chicago?! The Cardinals.

I haven't played a actual game in the last 3 weeks. Two weeks were rained out. Last week only 5 guys showed up for the other team. We did have a scrimmage game with them though. Had to lend them a few of our players. We have double-headers this week and next to make up for the rain-outs.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 04:26 PM) Your post is great and understandable and 100 percent in line with how we as a society feel today. No way in hell kids are allowed to be kids and be alone EVER. I just want to say this. When I was a kid, from 10 years old on, in Mt. Greenwood, parents would allow kids to basically do whatever they wanted to do in the summer. Your bike was your friend. Unorganized sports with buddies was your friend! And nobody I ever know was hit by a car, kidnapped, abused, approached. Kids did play Little League from age 10 on. Drove their own bike to the games; parents rarely attended unless you made the playoffs or something. Great life. Nobody got killed or kidnapped or hit by cars. I'd make the bike ride from 103rd street to 115th Street where the fields were. Never a problem. We also got soft drinks if we won paid for by our coaches; we got nothing if we lost. For some reason people in my generation and ensuing generations refused to allow their own kids to have the same childhoods. We were too afraid of "something happening" to the kids. Can you imagine if coaches only bought soda for the kids if they WON nowadays? The horror. Buy those kids cokes win OR lose!! When I was in 4th or 5th grade one of the kids that was a grade below me was killed by being hit by a car on his way to school. As far as knowing your neighbors, I know that we have a least 2 sex offenders within a few blocks of our house. My girls had a few friends in the neighborhood but they all moved away before they even hit 7th grade.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 03:18 PM) This is the post of the year. Worded like Shakespeare. "over active parental oversight." That is such a cool way to say parents have coddled their babies for a couple generations now. You can blame it on the rare mass murders and kidnappings or whatever you want, but parents took away the kids' right to be a kid. No more playing baseball on street corners (you might get hit by a car, you know) or riding bikes with friends to hang out wherever their bikes took them (you might get kidnapped you know) to play whatever sport they felt like playing that day (throw a football, play whiffle ball or rubber ball with a wall as a backstop), play street hockey, go skating at the park in the winter. Nope, parents put uniforms on their kids at age 6 and organized everything lest their little babies get kidnapped or killed by some imagined threat. I know a few parents like that but IMO, technology is more to blame. Kids today can talk to and interact with all of their friends without ever leaving their bedroom now. They'd much rather text each other than talk face-to-face or even on the phone. They can play games with all their friends on their Xbox or PS3. They can sit and watch movies and TV shows all day long. None of that existed when we were kids. QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 03:18 PM) My original thread was misstated by me I guess. I just wondered why college athletes are expected to win and fans get all hot and bothered when they don't win (football, basketball) when their generation has been taught just competing is OK. How do we expect these kids to be "gamers" when all their lives they've been taught the result doesn't matter? I don't think the whole "winning doesn't matter" applies to college or professional athletes. By the time they hit HS the participation awards are done. That's only in little league or pee-wee football. The ones that are actually serious about the sport and really want to win are the ones that actually continue on through HS and college.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 08:21 AM) The real question is who will put on the brakes in the front office now and preach patience...one step forward, two steps back, etc.? We've been doing the one step forward, two steps back since 2006. We should try TWO steps forward with only one back. Makes for much better forward progress.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 10:51 PM) Is it too early to call him a bust? Mark Prior 2.0?

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 07:19 AM) Why? I tried canceling last year and last 3 months. Had to come back. I'll see how it goes. When my commute was 2 hours long it was an absolute necessity. Now it's less than 10 minutes. On weekends I'm usually driving my other vehicle that never had XM to begin with. I can always stream stuff from my phone through the built-in bluetooth in my car.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 03:28 PM) So you're saying it's bad that I make my 3 year old, from the time he was about 1.5, watch golf with me on the weekends and hit balls in the backyard and constantly tell him "this is your future, you're daddy's ticket to awesome golf courses around the world?" I just tell mine that her bowling skills could (help) pay for her college education. She's already got an account with scholarship funds in it from tournaments she's won. They give out LOTS of scholarship money to youth bowlers.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 03:18 PM) I don't think there is a controversy. Seems to me nearly everyone is behind taking it down. If that were the case, it would've been taken down a long time ago.

QUOTE (gravybread @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 03:16 PM) this probably means cubs go to 670 right? The article says they have the option. Doubt they'll pass it up.

I think the whole idea of participation awards making kids ok with losing is BS to begin with. I'm almost 40 and we had those awards back when I played. It's not a "new" thing. The thing is, kids aren't stupid. They know what those trophies are. They know that they aren't nearly as good as the first place trophies the other kids are walking around with. Often times we would get ice cream or some other treat after the game even if we lost but it didn't make us want to win any less. Honestly, I think the bigger problem is the kids that are getting pushed by their parents who are trying to re-live their failed sports aspirations through their kids. I have 3 girls and only the youngest had/has any interest in playing any kind of sport. She's not the worst, but she's not the best either. If she wants to continue to try and get better I'll support her but I'm not going to push her thinking she'll be the next Cat Osterman or Jennie Finch.

Guess I'll have to check my radio on my way home to see how well that station comes in. I just cancelled my Sirius XM subscription yesterday too.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 10:14 AM) Like Sox fans would be any different. I'd rather watch the tornado coverage.

He also used a corked bat.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 19, 2015 -> 08:46 AM) Yeah, or maybe we could be allowed to track and study gun sales to look into if there are any patterns for gun purchases coming from particular stores. That's probably a good idea and I think we should do that but isn't that kind of like closing the barn door after the horse already got out? Then they just move to the next gun store down the block...

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 19, 2015 -> 09:34 AM) But i'm also not on the other end of the spectrum like some people here who think that because 5% or whatever of people ID'd the wrong guy that means ALL eye witness testimony is crap. Actually, I think it's closer to 5% that identify the right guy. From the study linked above: We are talking about less than a 50/50 chance that an eye-witness is choosing the right person.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 18, 2015 -> 10:57 PM) http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/18/politics/oba...ting/index.html Here comes the gun control argument again... This is an awesome idea. We just need to get everyone that may potentially kill someone with a gun at some point in the future to register for a list so we make sure nobody ever sells them a gun. Or maybe we should just leave it up to the gun sellers to ask the question "Are you going to kill someone with this gun if I sell it to you?" Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 16, 2015 -> 12:58 PM) Screw this. All Star Game is voted on by fans for fans to pick players they want to pick. I think it is tremendous for baseball that the Royals of all teams are somehow able to get 8 guys in (as it currently stands). Way to go KC. PS: Yes, my opinion would be different if it were the Yankees. I admit it, but for Kansas City to control the ballets like that, awesome. Great resurgence. I also highly doubt it will end up this way. This should send a shockwave to the other market teams to vote for other guys. I would agree with you if the ASG was still an exhibition game that was just for fun. Since they have to play for something meaningful, the managers should be able to put the best team possible on the field.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 16, 2015 -> 01:19 PM) You don't think that cops have a better memory or a better ability to process memories than normal people? No. They are just as human as us "normal" people.

Eye-witnesses are notoriously unreliable. I don't know about this particular case but a lot of them would pass a polygraph with flying colors because they truly don't believe they are lying. They honestly believe they saw something completely different than what really happened. The human mind/memory can be a messed up thing.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 15, 2015 -> 02:57 PM) Infante now leading for 2nd base for ASG. 8 of the 9 starting spots to KC players. I didn't know that greg is the only person allowed to vote I've said it for years but the ASG voting is broken. Especially since "it counts". Have one or the other. Not both.

Reading the story, it sounds like the hero only tackled the guy AFTER he was stabbed in the face. It's not like he was trying to be a hero, it was mostly self-defense. All while the cop(s) sat and watched it happen.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 10, 2015 -> 01:24 AM) Good to see they fired the cop. The guy who fired the cop said the other cops acted tremendously and this cop just plain screwed up and escalated the situation. This outcome was perfect. That cop just plain f***ed up and got fired for it. Kneeing that girl in the back was ridiculous and pulling her hair, etc., just appalling. Cops need to get their acts together! resigned =/= fired

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 3, 2015 -> 04:34 PM) The odds are they aren't a playoff team. http://www.hardballtimes.com/the-meaning-o...ord-in-mid-may/ The Sox were 15-17 on May 15.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Jun 3, 2015 -> 07:33 AM) I think you missed something.I would agree when Kenny was GM and Hahn AGM " it was far fetched that Kenny made all the decisions". But now Hahn is GM and Haber is AGM. So now should we not conclude it is Reisdorf, Williams, Hahn & Haber making the decisions. Maybe Haber wanted Melky............................... I was just about to ask if anyone knew who the current assistant GM was. I had no idea.