Sammy Sofa

http://i38.tinypic.com/19p8vl.jpg Clearly. Which is why it took the refs like 5 minutes (when they're only allowed to take 2 at most) of watching to "figure it out." Totally clear. Again, that's the only angle where it shows it MIGHT be out of his hand (you can't tell for sure since the ball is blocking his fingers) while there are angles that show the ball is still touching his fingers without any obstruction. There was no unobstructed view where it could be claimed he had the ball away from his fingers. Why do you expect them to go with the ruling where there are no unobstructed views to back it up?

They would have become worse with the 1st and 2nd round picks.

Yeah, I don't see what is inconclusive. Upon replay, only one angle shows it might be inconclusive, and that's because the ball is blocking the view of his hand. The other angles where the hand isn't blocked shows his fingers still on the ball.

How can you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the ball is in his hands in that photo (I'm pretty sure I know the angle and photo you are referring to)? It looks like it is, but there's another angle where it looks like it's out. So which one is right? The only one you can argue shows that it's out (from the front) looks that way because the ball is obscuring the end of his fingers on his right hand.

Lord only knows.

I'm sorry but this is a foolish thing to write. Managers, in any career, should not be in the habit of throwing current or former employees under the bus, especially not publicly. If Hendry were to come out and say "I made a huge mistake, signing Aaron Miles was a waste of resources that could have been better spent elsewhere, and I apologize to the fans" then he is effectively insulting Miles as a player and professional. He would be burning bridges with that player, the player's agent, other players represented by the agent, and potentially the player's peers from former or future teams (who may decide not to consider the Cubs organization based on it's management's actions and words). You think black athletes had the Reds high on their list 20 years ago? Hendry is a businessman and he isn't going to single out a bad contract because it singles out the athlete's performance and disrupts the baseball family. Even if his intention is to fault himself, he is still effectively saying in public 'that guy wasn't worth the money' which is easily interpreted by the player and his peers as 'that guy sucked.' The only public apology a man in his position will make is if he gets caught snorting coke off a prostitute or some other perceived debauchery. No kidding. Who are these mythical GM's out there "admit to a mistake" that some people seem to expect? A bad GM that tosses players under the bus like that would be even worse than a GM that signs a bad player to begin with.

That's not the debate though. The debate is he better choice than say 140 or so games of Sam Fuld. The argument's been pretty clearly made that Fuld would likely be better, and that's not some kind of ringing endorsement of Fuld: that just means that Dye is THAT bad.

It sure seems like the Bulls have spent the better part of the last half-decade paying for every call MJ got. No, it really doesn't. Tough to lose it on a call like that, but only one angle made it look like he might have gotten it off (from the front) and that was due to the ball obscuring his fingers. That top angle going frame by frame makes it pretty clear his fingertips were still on the ball when the buzzer sounded. It's obvious that the Bulls aren't "there" yet, but I'm really enjoying watching this team.

I'm going to boil down my reaction to about 97% of the trade proposals on this site to the following: http://i40.tinypic.com/4h44kg.jpg

Lee still has his NTC.

Yeah, don't bother trying to trade for one of the best pitchers going because some guy on a message board will have to read about it.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2009-11/50365141.jpg His face is so tiny in the first one.

Yeah, how dare he not be able to just kick right through someone's arm. Lighten up, Mojo. I was commenting on his touchdown saving tackle. It's easy to take the wrong way right now.

Yeah, how dare he not be able to just kick right through someone's arm.

Alright, I've got better things to do.

Beautiful.

He was on top of Warner after a play, took his hand and deliberately punched him through the hole in the helmet right in front of a ref. Classy.

I don't have the game on; what did Harris do?

Hah! Noah rules.

Really liking how he's kept looking as good as he did in the 2nd half last season. Rip those boards, son.

Yeah, in an ideal world the Bulls still have Gordon, but who wanted to spend the money for 2010 on him? They can live without what he brought for a year.

Oh, OK, everything's fixed. I guess with Obama as President things like redlining, blockbusting and the 15% tipping point for white flight will vanish. All of those studies after studies that show that people whose names are considered or who even just sound "too black" are hired at a dramatically lower rate than white applicants of equal or lesser qualification are now all better, right? Mojo it's pretty simple, if African Americans are starting to take some of the highest offices in the nation, some of which are based on America's vote, we ain't as racist as feel good liberal minded white people like to say we are. Think about it, black man voted into office. If were really as horribly racist to the extent you think, it doesn't happen. Period. You're really not grasping this at all.

Well, it was Derwood.

Oh, OK, everything's fixed. I guess with Obama as President things like redlining, blockbusting and the 15% tipping point for white flight will vanish. All of those studies after studies that show that people whose names are considered or who even just sound "too black" are hired at a dramatically lower rate than white applicants of equal or lesser qualification are now all better, right?

Though you'll likely refute it it, you need to see that white racism and black prejudice (I differentiate because I think racism hinges on power. You can still be prejudiced as [expletive], however, without power) come from profoundly different places. The contexts, both today and historically, are completely different, so to compare the two equally is both the height of irony and intellectually dishonest. That's not justifying black prejudice across the board, but to generalize it as being the same as white racism simply isn't realistic. If a black person dislikes a white person, or anyone else, because of the color of their skin, its racist. Racism is wrong. I'm not saying that white racism and black racism are the same thing, merely that neither are justified. Black people justify it because they were oppressed. That much is a fact, but its also something that the vast majority of white people today did not participate in. White people use just as bad reason to justify their racism, either because they just think they're better, or they're afraid of black people cause they are more violent, also a fact. The bottom line to me is that both sides are using facts to justify their racism, but they are twisting the facts to make them fit and entire race when they simply don't. No, they are oppressed. Just because they're not getting whipped and enslaved or having the dogs and fire hoses turned on them on your TV doesn't mean that the racial divide in this country has somehow magically been "fixed" over the last 40 years. If anything, it's even more insidious since it's not so obvious. Who needs slavery when we can just rock on with things like residential segregation, not hiring people because their name "seems black" or intentionally not working with black businesses? You can keep acting like racism in this thing of the past that peple have nothing to do with, but the basic reality is that racist and racial ideas have shaped pretty much every aspect of how whites and blacks interact in this country, with one group coming out way on top and the other intetionally being kept down at the bottom. It's unfortunate that you seem to insist that the playing field is level to the point that everything can be judged equally. It's like you're effectively saying, "hey, knock it off black people. You've got your equality. Now play fair, say thanks and be nice!" "Black racism" does not impact white people in any way, shape or form even remotely similar to how white racism impacts, well, pretty much everyone else. For two groups to be "equally racist," both groups would need to have comparable power. That's pretty [expletive] far from the reality that we have in front of us.