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Posts posted by Beau Vine
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55 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:This is amazing that they're able to do this: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/jump?year=2019
Wish they'd had this back in the day so people would have understood why slow looking Richard Hidalgo was a very good defensive centerfielder in Houston.
Or why Ken Griffey Jr should've been moved to a corner fairly early in his career.
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This is amazing that they're able to do this: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/jump?year=2019
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12 hours ago, Lhorn said:
Describing Texas as “Different” and saying “with that being said” he’s still happy to have an offer doesn’t strike me as great thing.
I’ll hang up and wring my hands
I thought the apostrophe abuse was by far the most galling part of the tweet.
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WaPo:
QuoteOn Nov. 9, 2016, the day after Donald Trump clinched the presidency, a student at Oberlin College entered a local bakery and convenience store, hoping to leave with a few bottles of wine.
Instead, Jonathan Aladin, 19, ran from the store, chased by an employee, Allyn D. Gibson. A brawl broke out between the two men — the young black student, a sophomore at the time, and the white businessman — which turned into a standoff between the liberal arts college and the downtown establishment, a proxy war in a larger struggle over free speech, racial sensitivity and town-gown relations.
The skirmish came with a price tag for the college of $11 million, the sum awarded on Friday to the business by a jury in Lorain County, Ohio. The judgment, which found the college responsible for libel and infliction of emotional distress, provided a bookend to the bitter conflict, which has divided the Oberlin community, nestled 35 miles from Cleveland.
Gibson’s Bakery is a century-old, family-owned business whose fortunes are tightly bound to the college. The shop long supplied Oberlin, the largest employer in town, with bagels and pastries. Alumni return for the apple fritters and whole-wheat doughnuts.
The storied business sits adjacent to the campus, a bastion of liberal activism. Founded in 1833, Oberlin was the first interracial and coeducational college in the United States. The town was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Today, it is nearly 15 percent black, as is 5 percent of Oberlin’s undergraduate population.
In recent years, the college has been an epicenter of the campus culture wars — a site of vehement debate over trigger warnings, safe spaces and the limitations of the Western canon. At Oberlin, no issue is too trivial for critique, not even the authenticity of Chinese cuisine served in the cafeteria.
In the fall of 2016, students were on high alert following the dismissal of an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition, Joy Karega, over incendiary statements on social media, including her suggestion that Israel was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Karega, who is black, said she was a victim of discrimination. The college’s Black Student Union, assailing Oberlin as an “unethical institution,” had previously called for her tenure.
Against this backdrop, the conflict between Gibson and Aladin erupted, leading to the student’s arrest and arraignment on a robbery charge. The encounter spurred allegations of racial profiling, igniting protests that unfolded in the overwrought days following the 2016 election. Residents of Oberlin favored Hillary Clinton to Trump 11 to 1, while the surrounding county, where the case was later heard, came down on the side of the Democrat by scarcely more than 100 votes.
When Aladin arrived at the front of the store, Gibson, 32 at the time, told the student that he was contacting the police, saying he had seen him slip two bottles of wine under his clothes. When he pulled out his phone to take a picture, according to a police report, Aladin slapped it away, causing it to strike Gibson’s face.
Gibson followed the student from the store, where they began exchanging blows across the street, which is campus property. Police said they arrived to find Gibson on his back, with Aladin, joined by two friends, punching and kicking him. All three undergraduates were charged, Aladin with robbery and his friends with assault.
Students mobilized, encouraging a boycott of the establishment, which is owned by Gibson’s father, David R. Gibson, and his grandfather, also named Allyn.
“A member of our community was assaulted by the owner of this establishment yesterday,” read a flier distributed outside the bakery, calling Gibson’s a “RACIST establishment with a LONG ACCOUNT of RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION.” The leaflet recommended 10 rival businesses where patrons could go instead.
Police later conducted an investigation and found that 40 adults had been arrested for shoplifting at Gibson’s in a five-year period, among them six African Americans.
On the Friday after the arrest, Oberlin’s then-president, Marvin Krislov, and its vice president and dean of students, Meredith Raimondo, emailed students putting reactions to the confrontation at Gibson’s in the context of “fears and concerns that many are feeling in response to the outcome of the presidential election.” They pledged “every resource to determining the full and true narrative” and said they were “deeply troubled because we have heard from students that there is more to the story than what has been generally reported.”
The college suspended its Gibson’s order the following week — later saying this was an attempt to “deescalate student unrest” — but restored it in early 2017.
In August, the three students at the center of the tumult pleaded guilty to amended misdemeanor charges — Aladin to attempted theft, aggravated trespassing and underage purchase of alcohol. Before their sentencing, which involved restitution but no jail time, each student read a statement acknowledging that Gibson was justified in trying to restrain Aladin and that the owner’s actions had not been racially motivated, according to court documents.
A lawyer for the teenager pointed to political turmoil in explaining his client’s behavior. “This election, whatever side people stood on, is very emotional,” he said.
For Gibson’s owners, the plea deal reached by the students with prosecutors did not settle the matter. In November 2017, they filed a civil complaint against Oberlin in the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas. Accusing the college of lending support to the protests, the Gibson family sued the institution, as well as Raimondo, for libel, slander, interference with business relationships, interference with contracts, deceptive trade practices, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent hiring and trespass.
The owners argued that college leaders facilitated the “illegal defamation and economic boycott” by helping students copy and distribute the fliers, as well as joining them at protest actions and allowing them to skip class and gain credit to continue their campaign. According to the complaint, a Facebook post by an Oberlin academic department stated, “Gibson’s has been bad for decades, their dislike of Black people is palpable. Their food is rotten and they profile Black students. NO MORE! "
“Gibson’s Bakery has suffered a severe and sustained loss of student, professor, administrative, and college department business,” the complaint argued. It also pointed to a “severe emotional and physical toll” on the family. Their home had been damaged, they claimed, and their car tires punctured.
The college responded by arguing that none of the statements cited by the bakery’s owners had been defamatory. Instead, they represented protected speech. Specifically, the filing maintained that the allegation of racism could not be grounds for a defamation claim because it was a statement of opinion that could not be proven false.
Lawyers further argued that Oberlin was not responsible for the views expressed by its students. Raimondo, in her response, said she was present at the protests to ensure they did not descend into violence.
Oberlin acknowledged that some of its students viewed the bakery’s owners as racist. Lawyers for the college accused the Gibson family of adopting an “us versus them” mentality toward the campus community, citing posts on social media by the younger Gibson that took aim at “entitled” students. In a further response, the college denied allowing students to skip class in favor of their protest activity.
Jurors in Lorain County heard the case this spring. Communication unveiled in court filings and at trial revealed how different members of the college community reacted to the controversy. Some were apparently embarrassed by protest activity they felt reflected poorly on the campus, while others said the boycott had been effective in targeting Gibson’s with a “smear on their brand” since the business was unresponsive to other forms of pressure.
Raimondo took the stand and denied accounts that she had instructed college staff to engage in unruly behavior at the demonstrations. She said she lacked “control of the students.” Court documents revealed how she and another administrator shared a sense of outrage after a professor spoke against the boycott.
"[Expletive] him,” Raimondo wrote in a message, the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram reported. She added, “I’d say unleash the students if I wasn’t convinced this needs to be put behind us.”
The lawsuit ensured it wasn’t.
On Friday, jurors awarded Gibson’s and its owners $11 million. According to the Chronicle-Telegram, the court found that the college had libeled the bakery and its owners, in addition to inflicting emotional distress on the owners. It found that Raimondo was also responsible for libel, as well as for interfering with the bakery’s business.
The court assigned $5.8 million to Gibson’s father and $3 million to his grandfather, as well as $2.2 million to the bakery. The plaintiffs could gain more in punitive damages, which are the subject of the second phase of the trial, set to begin Tuesday.
Reacting to the verdict, an attorney for the bakery cast the controversy as a story of David and Goliath.
“I think part of what we did here today is answer the question as to, ‘What are we going to tolerate in our society?’" he said, according to the Chronicle-Telegram. “We’re hopeful that this is a sign that not only Oberlin College but in the future, powerful institutions will hesitate before trying to crush the little guy.”
In an email to the college alumni association, an Oberlin vice president, Donica Thomas Varner, said legal counsel was reviewing the verdict and deciding how to proceed. Oberlin’s spring semester ended on May 19.
“We are disappointed with the verdict and regret that the jury did not agree with the clear evidence our team presented,” she wrote. “The College and Dr. Raimondo worked to ensure that students’ freedom of speech was protected and that the student demonstrations were safe and lawful.”
The administrator reiterated the central argument made by Oberlin’s lawyers — that colleges “cannot be held liable for the independent actions of their students,” as she put it.
In the episode’s aftermath, however, the college has aimed to mold the behavior of its students. Last year, Oberlin’s president, Carmen Twillie Ambar, wrote to the local business community about a set of new initiatives designed to teach incoming students how to be a “good neighbor” to local establishments.
The effort includes encouraging students to buy local goods and a new orientation program whose title makes its aim unambiguous: “Community 101.”
I love how the VP is criticizing the jury before the jury has decided on punitive damages. That seems like a great plan.
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The shooter is now in police custody:
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47 minutes ago, mulletpelini said:
This was a really strange storm. I started watching it last night in NW Kansas as it was heading mostly ESE. Then it damn near took a 90 degree turn and started heading and building towards the south. It hit here (Wichita) about 430am with front winds, 60 to 70 mph. I watched it throughout the day as it was literally the only major storm on the map. Such an odd storm moving in an odd way in odd direction. Seems like those are the ones that end up doing weird shit. Tornado that hit Lubbock was a storm like that too. Had pretty decent sized hail here a month ago from similar storm that totaled my roof.
We literally got the biggest lightening show I've ever seen down here, and it wasn't even raining any more, and nothing but green on the radar. And yeah, weird seeing a storm moving straight south.
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43 minutes ago, Helobious said:
Sounds like he’s gonna be fine. It’s hard to tell what happens from the video, but it looked like someone walked up behind him in a crowded restaurant and shot him in the back, then ran off. A very interesting “robbery” strategy. But the guy also seemingly had a layup of a headshot and opted not to take it, so it doesn’t seem like a targeted hit either.
Where were you tonight?
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2 minutes ago, WBT said:
So are they really going to keep the two games tomorrow in the afternoon? That's lame.
Ain't nothing lame about ditching work early and day-drinking.
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Hahahaha!!! Look at these millenial snowflake losers dogpiling! DERPDERPDERP!
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47 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:
While flinthead is correct, governing bodies such as TxDOT have a right to supersede these to a stricter standard. The operator also allowed leniency in shutting down in adverse conditions. From what I can tell through my ragged screen it appears to be a lattice boom crane. I know on the last several jobs I have been on the limit is 35 miles per hour not taking into consideration the operator or governing bodies discretion.
What really peaks my interest here is that with all of the various weather apps available that we watch continually are dangerous conditions why this happened. For the last 2 and 1/2 months I have been running anywhere from 65 ton to 100 ton cranes and monitor the weather continuously. While I am speaking now of strictly conventional cranes, the boom should have been laid down much much earlier if it all possible. If it is a tower crane which I cannot tell for sure you're pretty much at God's mercy. From The limited vision I have of photographs and various videos which I am not even sure came from this accident, the tower crane has no defense at all, nor can I feel whether it was a matter of a boom or tower failing, being blown over or what. However someone should have been monitoring upcoming weather conditions..
One thing I did immediately think of was the fact if there have been several tower crane collapses due to the use inferior Japanese / Chinese bolts used to anchor the base in the past. I hope to God we have learned our lesson and that is not the case here. If it was indeed a tower crane.
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I miss Montag.
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Seems like shooting David Ortiz in the DR would be signing your own death warrant.
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3 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:
Thanks for a Great series between Okie Lite and Tech...
Love college baseball. 🤘
Ditto. And the no-dogpiling thing is some tired and stupid shit. We started the no-dogpiling rule when we were literally going to Omaha basically every year, so going to Omaha was expected. It's stupid to project that on anyone else. Hell, it's stupid to still do that ourselves, as few times as we've been recently.
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54 minutes ago, WBT said:
LSU ties it on an error by the 3rd baseman but makes another dumbass out on the bases. Would have had runners on the corners with 1 out but the runner got thrown out trying to take 2nd.
My new favorite part of a college TOOTBLAN is when the runner immediately hops up, points to the dugout, and makes the "headphones" signal to review it, even when he's obviously out.
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30 minutes ago, spystud13 said:
That ball was fucking murdered.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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MadBum, Derka's favorite player.
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I'd still rather have driven up to Arlington to see Beltre's number retired, but yeah, it was really damn good.
Plus, there were a lot of hawt girls in dresses there and they sold booze. Win-win-win.
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18 hours ago, Goo Punch said:
yep. some guy named girdwood pops up every few days to neg me until he runs out, yet he never makes a single post.
He used to post. If he has traded posting for negging you, I for one thank you for taking one for the entire board.
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About time for someone to fuck something up somehow.
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Score it 5-6-5.
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That is about the stupidest fucking base-running ever. By both of them.
2019 Super Regional Thread
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I'm pretty gotdam amazed over the past few weeks how many of these top programs have guys who can't/won't throw strikes. That dude today walked the bases loaded, then started off the next guy with a first-pitch curve in the dirt. Then he threw another curve low. I seriously think it's both lack of talent and poor coaching. The reliever did the same thing. These guys don't seem to understand that once you're behind 2-0, you're basically fucked. Yet in that Tech game and the Michigan-Creighton game last weekend and this one, you had guys throwing breaking stuff on the first pitch of the AB with the bases loaded.