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psu should have no coaching staff for saturday's game and no fans should go, i think that would be funny.
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2011 Arizona Fall League
TruffleShuffle replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
The CS and PO were the same play and it was his first time picked off/caught stealing in the AFL season: yeah i was referring more to the 4 SB/10 CS with tennessee. -
2011 Arizona Fall League
TruffleShuffle replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
wtg vitters. although his baserunning seems to leave a bit to be desired. -
shouldn't intentions matter quite a bit, at least as far as judging him morally? if he (for whatever reason) thought the situation was being handled properly by the administration then it's not as bad. if he was actively trying to do the bare minimum with the goal of covering his ass legally while ending up with the abuse swept under the rug, that's quite a bit different.
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Nationals C Wilson Ramos Kidnapped in Venezuela
TruffleShuffle replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in General Baseball Talk
isn't this sort of thing (kidnapping/threats against family) disturbingly common among well-off baseball players? hopefully they just want a ransom and he comes through this ok. -
yeah i don't think you can use that as a guideline because normally ncaa violations take a couple of years to come to light/be properly investigated, and most of the time the guilty party or parties have moved on. in most cases it's clear ncaa rules are being violated expressly for the purpose of giving a competitive advantage to the athletic program; this is a lot more murky because no players were involved, no ncaa guidelines were violated (as far as i know) and the only competitive advantage psu got was for people to not find out that a former coach was a child molester. but yeah, the players/coaches after-the-violation are almost always going to be the ones penalized, because that's the only way that you can have a punishment with any teeth.
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really riveting first period between the flyers and lightning. when the flyers have the puck in their own zone, the lightning are playing a strict 1-3-1 zone with 3 guys stacked up at the red line and the lead forward also in center ice. so basically no attackers. the flyers don't feel like attacking into the zone and turning it over, so they probably spent two or three minutes in the first period with their d-men just skating around in their own zone doing nothing while all five tampa guys stood around at center ice. not surprisingly, no goals were scored and the number of scoring chances was low.
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thankfully google does not accept ads from nambla
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(when i said "support to the local special olympics programs" i wasn't actually talking about money - they've been instrumental in giving s.o. athletes access to penn state athletes in various sports... usually the s.o. athletes will have at least one practice a year with soccer, tennis, basketball and other psu programs, and athletes who they look up to. every year there is a fund-raiser involving the football team and special olympics, and there's another s.o. fund-raising race that uses beaver stadium as the finish, and gets great attendance because people enjoy running down the tunnel and onto the field. so it's much more a matter of giving their time and access to players/coaches/facilities than anything financial) but in all honesty, everyone, i am sorry that i wrote that, which caused something to break in kyle's brain and only read one can see how someone with this level of reading comprehension and rational thought ends up reporting for the williston daily herald. anyway, just wanted to clarify my position and express my deepest apologies to nsbb. back to your regularly scheduled thread.
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Jesus please tell me he hasn't been at this special olympics thing for the last day? it's like he's trying to be the new IMB, except without actually being witty or intelligent.
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in other news, our friends at the westboro baptist church have announced that they are taking a break from protesting at funerals and will be protesting at beaver stadium this weekend. a bunch of hateful homophobes in the midst of 100,000 alcohol-feuled sports fans, sounds like a fun mix.
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like i said, plenty of mistakes were made. even psu "fanboys" seem to be in agreement that (besides sandusky obviously), curley is most culpable in this matter - first for taking 10 days to schedule the meeting, then sweeping it under the rug and then (allegedly) repeatedly lying to the grand jury. then there are the other players who messed up. i just don't find the "i'd beat his ass with a crowbar" reaction to be very helpful, nor do i think that it's solely a matter of "protecting the program" because this kind of thing happens in organizations, schools and athletic programs across america.
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you know, you can be outraged about what happened at psu without making things up.
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sometimes people go to two schools.
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here's something he says that i don't really agree with: everyone keeps saying that if they were in that position they'd call the cops immediately, or run in and beat the [expletive] out of sandusky. but mcqueary's reaction is really common. so is the one within the psu administration (basically ignoring or rationalizing the problem - NOTE this is not a defense of what they did in any way). because this isn't just a penn state problem, this is something that happens all over the world - a "pillar of the community," "close friend," "family member" is seen doing something that completely conflicts with the upstanding, good-hearted person that those around them came to know. so people push it off, don't report it, assume it was just innocent horseplay, because such-and-such would never do something like this. i just think that it would be more useful if people tried to understand why people react the way they do, and (using this terrible example) train people to react differently, rather than just the usual "i'd never let that happen" from people totally detached from the situation.
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i was just curious. "not notre dame" will suffice.
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yeah, but where did you go to college?
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The part that I find most odd is where people are acting like he's the judge, jury and executioner in state college, knows everything that happens in the town, calls all the shots. Look he's enormously popular there, but he's always been a football coach. He never got involved in local politics, generally stayed out of administrative matters and let them handle it when players got in trouble. The idea that he would have known everything about the Sandusky investigations/cover-ups is probably not accurate. If it turns out that he knew about the 1998 investigation, did the bare minimum in 2002 and knew that the whole thing was being swept under the rug, I'll be quite disappointed, but I'm not willing to make all those assumptions.
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i don't know that he knew the exact detail that mcqueary described to the grand jury (that sandusky was having anal sex with the boy). i figure we'll find that out eventually, through mcqueary's testimony. regardless, he told curley and schultz (the overseer of campus police, who would have had jurisdiction in this matter) that mcqueary had witnessed "fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy," which is certainly enough to trigger an investigation. so as i've said, i don't think it matters much because paterno told the that mcqueary claimed to have witnessed something clearly criminal in nature, and this led to them interviewing mcqueary directly (where he says he told them about the anal sex).
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toledo beat western michigan 66-63 this week; last week they lost to northern illinois 63-60. i wonder when the last time was that a team played consecutive games where each team scored at least 60 points. btw the western michigan qb threw for 548 yards, 7 td's, 0 int's and LOST.
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go eagles. or don't, who cares really.
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"Analytics-based" show coming to MLB Network
TruffleShuffle replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
mitch williams owned a bar like 50 yards from where i used to swim growing up. sometimes i went in there for water ice (italian ice). him being sabermetrically-inclined would be perhaps the greatest shock i've ever experienced. -
i guess you see the video as making it seem like he doesn't care about the victims. i see something different. to each his own opinion. also i'm not sure how he could "make things worse" considering that he's being accused of being a despicable human being, complicit in allowing child rape, PSU football should get the death penalty, etc. unless he comes out and says that he supports child rape in all its forms, things aren't really going to get worse.
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he brought it up twice (once from the window and once while standing outside), which is two times more than most reporters have mentioned it in their "will joe get fired" gang-bang. everyone has apparently forgotten about the guy who did it, or the athletic director who didn't report it, or the VP/overseer of campus police who didn't investigate it, or the victims of the crimes.
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is anyone sold on him being more than that? i don't think anyone's talking him up for closer or shutdown setup man.