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  1. Fucking hell...

     

    Boston Red Sox reliever Carson Smith suffered a subluxation of his right shoulder when he threw his glove in the dugout Monday night, president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski told reporters Tuesday.

    Smith was placed on the 10-day disabled list Monday, but Dombrowski said there was no timetable for his return.

    Dombrowski called the injury "unfortunate" and said Smith is seeking a second opinion.

    "It's got the potential of being a major injury," he said.

    Smith said he's concerned.

    "Any shoulder injury isn't a good injury," the right-hander told reporters. "Elbow's one thing, but a shoulder is something you don't mess with. Yeah, I'm concerned."

    Smith allowed an eighth-inning home run to the Athletics' Khris Davis in Boston's 6-5 loss Monday night. When Smith left the mound he threw his glove in frustration, causing the injury.

  2. We really need a "crazy celeb wives and the stupid shit they do," but Imma put this here for now:

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    PGA Tour player Lucas Glover was attacked by his wife during the Players Championship, according to police reports. Following the tournament's third round, Krista Glover was arrested and charged with domestic battery and resisting arrest.

    Police arrived to a residence rented by the Glovers on Saturday night due to a disturbance 911 call. A document from the St. Johns County Sheriff's department states Lucas was berated by his wife for his poor play (he shot a third-round 78 for a MDF—made cut, did not finish). In the report. Lucas told deputies "when he plays a bad round of golf, Krista proceeds to start an altercation with him and telling him how he is a loser and a p***y, how he needs to fire everyone, and how he'd better win or her and the kids would leave him and he would never see the kids again."

    The police report said Lucas was tired of these altercations, but simultaneously tried to dissuade officials from arresting Krista.

    Police noted multiple lacerations to both Lucas and his 62-year-old mother, who had blood on her shirt and said she was hit in the chest. Krista told police she had been attacked by Lucas' mother, but police reported no visible injuries.

    Police officials noted in the report that Krista resisted them, refusing to get in the squad car by "blocking herself from sitting down." She reportedly attempted to wrap her legs around the car door, but deputies were able to push her in. Krista reportedly damaged the inside of the vehicle by kicking the door.

    During the transportation process, the report states Krista's handcuffs were loosened and she attempted to flea. Two lawmen were able to re-handcuff her.

    The report also states Krista berated the police, using threatening language.

    Lucas informed officers that Krista had been drinking. The altercation allegedly occurred in front of their children.

    On Tuesday afternoon, Lucas posted the following message on Twitter: "On May 12, my wife and mother were involved in an argument to which the police were called. Everyone is fine. Regrettably, although Krista was charged, we are comfortable that the judicial system is able to address what actually happened and Krista will be cleared in this private matter. We thank you for respecting our privacy as we work through this unfortunate situation."

    Glover, who won the 2009 U.S. Open, married Krista in 2012. Glover is not in this week's AT&T Byron Nelson field.

     

  3. 2 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:


    Why is that? His suspension who be up at game 120. That’s in August.

    You get busted in season, you're ineligible for playoffs.  That's the rule.

  4. I was fortunate enough to take an "English literature" distribution class from the legendary David McHam called "Literature of Journalism" my senior year in college that is still my favorite class ever.  It was me and 20 journalism majors.  I found Tom Wolfe there. 

    Amazing career, not because of the volume of the work, but because he was a pioneer, and because when he hit a home run, it went 500 feet. 

    Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was literally the first book I ever read for fun that wasn't about baseball.  The Right Stuff was... well, it was the right stuff.  (I did think Bonfire of the Vanities kinda sucked.)

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    In a career that spanned more than half a century, Tom Wolfe wrote fiction and nonfiction best-sellers including The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities. Along the way, he created a new type of journalism and coined phrases that became part of the American lexicon. Wolfe died Monday in Manhattan. He was 88.

    Wolfe didn't start a novel with a character or a plot, but rather, with an idea. In 1987, wearing his signature white suit, Wolfe told me how he began his first novel, a panoramic story of New York Society:

     

    "I looked at the whole city first," he said. "I wanted to do New York High and Low. I figured Wall Street could stand for the high end, and also some of the life on Park Avenue. And at the low end, there would be what you find caught up in the criminal mechanism in the Bronx. Once I zeroed in on these areas, I would then find the characters."

    The novel that grew out of Wolfe's research — The Bonfire of the Vanities — was the tale of Sherman McCoy, a wealthy bond trader who loses everything after a wrong turn in the South Bronx with his mistress in the passenger seat. It was a huge critical and commercial success. Wolfe had written the novel from the same "you are there," stream-of-consciousness, first-person perspective that he pioneered in his nonfiction 20 years earlier.

     

    "I've always contended on a theoretical level that the techniques ... for fiction and nonfiction are interchangeable," he said. "The things that work in nonfiction would work in fiction, and vice versa."

    Wolfe began working as a newspaper reporter, first for The Washington Post, then the New York Herald Tribune. He developed a unique style, incorporating literary techniques — interior monologues, amped-up prose and eccentric punctuation. It was called the "New Journalism."

    "When Tom Wolfe's voice broke into the world of nonfiction, it was a time when a lot of writers, and a lot of artists in general, were turning inward," says Lev Grossman, book critic for Time magazine. "Wolfe didn't do that. Wolfe turned outwards. He was a guy who was interested in other people."

     

    Wolfe was interested in how they thought, how they did things and how the things they did affected the world around them.

    "He showed us how to walk into a cocktail party, a NASA training center — how to walk down the street and see in front of us this incredible drama of amazing richness, and amazing significance," Grossman says.

    In 1979, Wolfe published The Right Stuff, an account of the military test pilots who became America's first astronauts. Four years later, the book was adapted as a feature film.

    "The Right Stuff was the book for me," says Grossman. "It reminded me, in case I'd forgotten, that the world is an incredible place."

    In The Right Stuff, Wolfe popularized the phrase "pushing the envelope." The title of Wolfe's nonfiction essay (later published as part of a book) about Leonard Bernstein's fundraiser for the Black Panthers, Radical Chic, became a catchphrase for leftist liberals. In a New York magazine article, Wolfe dubbed the 1970s "The 'Me' Decade." Grossman says these phrases became part of the American idiom because they were dead on.

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    Wolfe — in his signature white suit in 1966 — coined or popularized phrases that became part of the American lexicon, such as "radical chic" and "The 'Me' Decade."

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    "He was an enormously forceful observer, and he was not afraid of making strong claims about what was happening in reality," Grossman says. "He did it well, and eloquently. And people heard him. And they repeated what he said because he was right."

    To get it right, Wolfe said he first did extensive research, then he made an exhaustive outline — and then he started "having fun."

    "I like to use the technique of what I think of as a controlled trance," he explained. "I'll actually sit in front of the typewriter, close my eyes, and then try to imagine myself into the particular scene that I'm going to write about. Once you know what you're going to say — I give myself a quota each day of 10 triple-spaced pages on the typewriter. And that comes out for me anywhere from 1,600 to 1,800 words. That's not all that hard to do."

    All those words started a revolution in nonfiction that is still going on, says Grossman.

    "Everything that bloggers have done for journalism — and I personally think they've done a lot — Wolfe did it first, he did it 30 years earlier, and he did it better," Grossman says. "And I think we're still catching up to him."

     

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  5. 7 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

    It’d be interesting if Cano got popped while in the hospital after that HBP broke his hand.

    No, the case was pending before that.  It's why he gets to count the DL stint as part of the 80 games.

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    The co-pilot, who was wearing a seatbelt, was pulled back in.

    This right here is why you're not supposed to write in passive voice.

    Wouldn't knowing *WHO* pulled him back in be an interesting piece of info?

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    Leading air safety experts have concluded that the captain of flight MH370 deliberately crashed the plane. They include the man who spent two years heading the search, who now says Captain Zaharie Amad Shah carefully planned a murder-suicide mission.

    The Malaysia Airlines jet was on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board when it disappeared.

    Analysis of satellite data indicates it ran out of fuel and crashed in the Indian Ocean west of Australia, thousands of miles from its intended destination.

    Some debris from the Boeing 777 has been washed up on Indian Ocean beaches. But the biggest underwater search in history, coordinated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), was called off in January 2017 after two years.

    The seabed search was led by Martin Dolan, who told a special edition of the 60 Minutes Australia programme: “This was planned, this was deliberate, and it was done over an extended period of time.”

    Captain Zaharie, aged 53, was accompanied on the flight deck by an inexperienced first officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid – who was on his first Boeing 777 mission without a training captain overseeing him. 

    Six days after the plane disappeared, their homes in the Malaysian capital were searched, and computer equipment taken away. It contained evidence suggesting Captain Zaharie had used flight simulation software to prepare for diverting the aircraft.

     

    Captain Simon Harvey, a British pilot who has flown the 777 widely in Asia, said the mission was “planned meticulously to make the aircraft disappear”, including flying along the Thai-Malaysian frontier to avoid either side taking action.

    “If you were commissioning me to make a 777 disappear, I would do exactly the same thing,” he told the programme.

    A Canadian air-crash investigator, Larry Vance, said he believed that Captain Zaharie put on an oxygen mask before depressurising the plane to render the passengers and crew unconscious: “There is no reason not to believe that the pilot did not depressurise the cabin to incapacitate the passengers.”

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    Mr Dolan dismissed the possibility that terrorism was involved. “If this had been a terrorist event, it’s almost invariable that a terrorist organisation will claim credit for the event.

    “There was no such claim made.”

    The panel disagreed about whether Captain Zaharie was in control of the aircraft at the time it hit the ocean. 

    Mr Vance said he believed the pilot “ditched it deliberately to keep it as intact as possible,” while Mr Dolan said the evidence was that “the aircraft spiralled into the ocean and crashed”.

    Here's a short article in case you don't want to watch a 49-minute video.

  8. 13 minutes ago, VolenteHawk said:

    I think it will land on "about the same".  There are lots of hands in the cookie jar for widespread sports gambling...leagues want compensation, governments want their piece, and ultimately those hands are powerful enough to get it done.  All in all, if I'm betting legally in Texas but paying a worse price due to all the mouths to feed, I'm going offshore or through a bookie, anyway.

     

    I think the leagues will heavily bribe -- excuse me, "lobby" -- state legislatures to license the newly-approved gambling, so that you will only be able to bet NFL games with an NFL-licensed bookie in your state.

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    15 minutes ago, slorch said:

    He’s not even a Top 10 player, and it’s mostly because of his defense.

     

    There are literally zero people in this thread claiming that he's an all-time top 10 player, yet that's what you're arguing against?

     

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  10. 30 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    To the Ginobli haters, I get it. He whined a lot. But man, if you just look at the incredible heart and hustle, combined with the weirdest basketball moves ever, you have a truly special player.

    So you don't actually get it.

    (I like Ginobili a lot.)

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    2 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

    Sprewell
    Kidd
    Iverson
    Rondo
    Payton

    You just made my list, buddy.

     

    23 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

     


    Hakeem? Guess he blocked too many of your team’s shots.

     

    No shit.  My two favorite NBA teams were Seattle and Dallas, and Hakeem just abused both, but I seriously don't understand how anyone can hate Hakeem.

     

    My lists:

    NBA

    Malone

    Stockton

    Ainge

    Kiki Vandewedghe

    Bill Hanzlik

     

    NCAA

    Harder to hate college players.  I tend to hate the guys that the media gloms onto and completely overrates (hey Vitale):

    Wojo

    Grayson Allen

    Danny Ferry

    Jon Pinone

    Reggie Williams

     

    I have always liked Laettner.  Dude was a fucking warrior.

     

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