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  1. 24 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    500 is the record?   Shit, I figured that was a normal night back in the old Playboy Mansion days.

    [obligatory] Or your mom. [/obligatory]

  2. 14 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    This is how I deal with pretty much any woman.    On my floor, there are about 200 people.    Easily 75% of those women.   They get super pissed off when there is some kind of disagreement on procedure or policy or what not and I just kind of sit there with reacting.   Low steady voice, calm.   Pisses them off something major. 

    My summer job in college was working at a credit union, either teller or accounting.

    There were three males employed there -- me, the president, and the vice-president. 

    Everyone else was female.  Half of them hated the other half for various specious reasons. 

    I learned so much there.

     

  3. 2 minutes ago, NastyDreams said:

    Fans pay to see a football game. They take time to travel there.  They give a ticket and go through a gate.  Player chooses to protest.  Fan can't leave and is basically a captive audience to something they are strongly against.  Now their sick to their stomach and not entertained.  Protester has stolen a moment of their time for personal beliefs.

    Kinda like a preacher preaching hell fire and brimstone at a funeral.  Its taking advantage of a captive audience which I detest. My opinion is the context and yours is 'the stupidest thing in the thread', if you don't agree with me evidently.

    This is so idiotic I don't even know where to start.

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  4. 5 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

    Yeah, I'm considered the asshole in our relationship, yet I say "I'm sorry" and "I was wrong" regularly.

    I've mentioned this before, but way back when my wife and I were having troubles, I finally decided that there was no sense in fighting, so whenever a disagreement came up, I would say, "You're right, my fault."

    That eventually drove her fucking bananas. 

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  5. 3 minutes ago, NastyDreams said:

    Sure. Put your dumbass on a street corner and protest.  People would pay I'm sure.

    How does this make any sense at all in the context of the discussion?

    How were "these workers stealing time and entertainment from their customers who PAID PAID PAID to see a game?"

  6. 1 hour ago, NastyDreams said:

    Exactly, which is subject of this thread.  The NFL is losing money and want to make business changes.  The consequences of the workers stealing time and entertainment from their customers who PAID PAID PAID to see a game.

    lolwut???

    I appreciate both sides of the issue, but this is the stupidest post in a thread that has gone fully Cloak Room.

  7. 2 hours ago, BrazilHorn said:

    Saw a tweet scroll by on espn from a player and last part was something like “and this decision made by people who call themselves owners”. Trying to I’m guessing draw parallels to slavery. 

    They call themselves owners as they own the business they’re running. 

    As owners they can establish whatever code of conduct they like.

    No, they actually can't, because code of conduct is subject to the collective bargaining the owners and the NFLPA have agreed to. 

    (This change does seem like it could possibly fit into the nebulous "conduct detrimental to the... public confidence in the National Football League" clause in the CBA.)

  8. 2 hours ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    This kind belongs in spirit even if I don’t know if a white person called on him. I grit my teeth watching this video.  Cop so keyed up every sentence is a confrontation.  Black dude so calm you might think he’s on the verge of falling asleep.  Backup called, surrounded, taken down, tazed.  

     

    https://deadspin.com/milwaukee-police-release-video-of-bucks-sterling-brown-1826275081

    It's a gotdam good thing that the popo had 8 officers willing to protect and serve the citizens of Milwaukee against this dangerous terrorist taking up multiple parking places at a Walgreens at 2am.  

  9. This is great:

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    Rosenthal: How Fortnite and a farting dog named Domino gave Jeremy Jeffress — and the Brewers — a boost

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    By Ken Rosenthal 6h ago comment-icon@2x.png 10 save-icon@2x.png

    A dog? A video game? These are the additions to Jeremy Jeffress’ life that are helping him stay out of trouble off the field?

    Well, yes, according to the Milwaukee Brewers’ right-hander, who just happens to be one of the best relievers in baseball this season.

    “After the game, I have to come home and see my little pup, let him out of the cage, take him out a little bit,” Jeffress said. “And then I go straight to Fortnite.”

    Jeffress’ history of substance abuse includes 50- and 100-game suspensions for marijuana use while in the minors during the late 2000s and an arrest for DWI on Aug. 26, 2016. A diagnosis of juvenile epilepsy in 2013 helped explain the high anxiety and seizures he has experienced as an adult, as well as his tendency to self-medicate.

    Fortnite, the wildly popular video game recently suspected of causing David Price’s carpal tunnel syndrome (it did not), is actually something of a godsend for Jeffress, who began playing in spring training with former Brewers reliever Will Smith and later was joined by two other members of the team’s bullpen, Josh Hader and Corey Knebel.

    “We play online. We have headsets. We talk to each other,” Jeffress said. “It’s a team thing.”

    Jeffress’ agent, Joshua Kusnick, said the game not only is contributing to his client’s success, but also the success of the Milwaukee bullpen, which ranks first in the majors in ERA for a Brewers team that is 31-19, the best record in the National League,

    Of Jeffress, Kusnick said, “He doesn’t go out anymore. He’s obsessed with Fortnite to the point where there are no more distractions. He goes home after he’s done with work. He’ll do his video (study). He’ll do his research.

    “Then as soon as all of his work is done, instead of doing what he used to do when he would go out and party with whomever, he plays Fortnite with all of his teammates. I’ve never seen a major-league bullpen where no one is going out. They’re doing the right things off the field, and it seemingly is having a positive impact on the field.”

    While Hader has emerged as the biggest star in the Brewers’ bullpen, all but one of Jeffress’ 25 outings have been scoreless, including his last 21. His opponents are batting .120. His ERA over 25 2/3 innings is 0.35. Some regression is likely, but the average exit velocity against Jeffress is 85.4 mph, the 17th lowest in the majors for a minimum of 50 batted balls, according to StatCast.

    Jeffress acknowledged his enthusiasm for Fortnite — and the hours he devotes to the video game — make it easier for him to avoid the temptation of nightlife.

    “For sure,” he said. “Temptation is everywhere, man. You see temptation in every part of life — TV, the streets, the world, everywhere. Even in a restaurant, you can be tempted by anything. Taking those temptations away, or limiting them, is the best thing for you.”

    Fortnite, though, is not the only difference in Jeffress’ post-game routine. He also credits his newfound domesticity to his black-and-white pocket bully, Domino, a dog he picked up last November while home in Virginia.

    “He’s a fat little boy,” Jeffress said. “He takes up a lot of my time as well.”

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    (Photo: courtsey of Jeffress)

    Jeffress brought Domino to Arizona for spring training and mentioned him to Brewers manager Craig Counsell, who quickly sensed how important the dog was to the reliever. Counsell, his wife Michelle, and their four children, ages 8 to 15, keep dogs at home in Milwaukee. When the Brewers broke camp, the Counsells — minus Craig, who was with the club — took Domino with them on the drive from Phoenix to San Diego.

    “It was my wife, our four kids, her mom and dog and a farting dog,” Counsell said.

    Counsell was joking, but he and the rest of the Brewers’ organization consider Jeffress’ well-being a serious matter, and Domino figured into that equation. The mother of Jeffress’ child and their daughter, Jurnee, 4, live in Phoenix. Domino keeps Jeffress company when they are not in Milwaukee.

    “I definitely wanted him to bring the dog to Milwaukee,” Counsell said. “Look, we’re all looking for comfort and peace and happiness and companionship, all that stuff. A (dog), that’s a great way to do it. As glamorous as this life is, sometimes it’s a little lonely, too.

    “Everybody has their own way to cope with everything. Really, this is about J.J. maturing and understanding what works for him. We’re trying to help him with that. He’s got a pretty good support system that helps him through it.”

    Jeffress is grateful for the Brewers’ support — he agreed to a team-friendly, one-year, $1.7 million contract with two club options last Dec. 1 in large part because of his comfort with the organization.

    His history with the Brewers began when they selected him 16th overall in the 2006 draft. The team sent him to the Kansas City Royals as part of a package for right-hander Zack Greinke in Dec. 2010, re-acquired him as a free agent in April 2014, traded him with catcher Jonathan Lucroy to the Texas Rangers for prospects on Aug. 1, 2016, then re-acquired him for a minor-league pitcher at last year’s non-waiver deadline.

    “I know everybody from top to bottom,” Jeffress said. “There is no greater feeling knowing that, knowing you have people who know you inside and out, and that you can just be yourself around them.”

    These days, nothing seems to faze Jeffress, who has escaped a number of hair-raising jams in the season’s first two months, helping the Brewers win games that, in Counsell’s estimation, were “kind of hopeless.” Jeffress talks about becoming a difference-maker off the field as well as on. He will host the Brewers’ Bowl-A-Thon on Aug. 5, supporting children and families living with epilepsy.

    Does a dog deserve the credit? Does a video game? Perhaps the credit simply belongs to a pitcher who is trying to do the right things, on and off the field.

    “It hasn’t been an easy road. It’s definitely been a learning experience,” Jeffress said. “But I’m glad I’ve been through it. I can look forward to the positive things and try not to make the same mistakes twice.”

     

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  10. 5 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    Their recommended action if the NBA doesn't change the rule will handle it perfectly from the committee's perspective (freshmen ineligibility). That would send one and done types overseas. 

     

    That would fall into the category of "cutting off your nose to spite your face" as my grandmother used to say.  Having players like Deandre Ayton and Trae Young play is wonderful for the NCAA.  It makes NCAA basketball more interesting, more popular, and most importantly, makes money for the NCAA.  There is no way that the NCAA is going to approve freshman ineligibility.  It's a farce to even suggest it.  

    And thanks for your prompt reply.  

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