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Quote from: CBStew on January 11, 2019, 11:35:59 AM

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on January 11, 2019, 08:58:04 AM

Quote from: Yeti on January 10, 2019, 09:51:16 PM
Why is he not cut yet?

It's still the Bears. They're not throwing nine million guaranteed dollars out the window.

So pay him the $1mill.  But that doesn't mean that they have to use him to doink kicks off the goalposts.  Let him carry a clipboard following Nagy around the sidelines.

Team chaplain. Every sermon will explain that Jesus wanted that kick to double doink.

Quote from: Canadouche on January 10, 2019, 01:28:16 PM
I mean, maybe this belongs in a 2019 Cubs discussion, but I am zero worried. They rolled the National League for almost the entire season with a shitty hitting approach and while some of their best players missed significant time. They have no deficits.

Fuck that. Harper or bust. I don't just want them to win, I want them to destroy all other teams along the way. I want Harper/Bryant/Rizzo/Baez/LeMahieu/Contreras/Schwarber back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back dongs at least once per game. Burn Miller Park and Busch Stadium to the ground. Embarrass the Dodgers so badly that they move out to Riverside County where not even Elon Musk will build a tunnel to see them. Burn, pillage, destroy.

Quote from: World's #1 Astros Fan on January 10, 2019, 09:13:22 AM
he was the 9th-most active kicker in the league when the Bears signed him

Please tell me you didn't hack his FitBit to figure that out.

A kicker losing a playoff game by hitting the uprights? Who could have guessed.

Quote from: Brownie on January 04, 2019, 10:02:48 AM

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Quote from: Brownie on December 20, 2018, 02:30:48 PM
Are we doing this again?

Yes, I have my email set up still:
thrillhoistheworst gmail

And Thrill has been paying attention to it because when I go to pop someone in that's died, he's already have done it. So, I can set up an auto-forward (or I'm assuming I can) so both email addresses will have it in case he dies again

Excellent.

Received from Teej, Krut, and TIME TO POST

And from Huey.

I will jam myself into so many DMs. Get the shit in.

I failed to jam into DMs. I received picks from Huey, Oleg, TJ, Fork, BigDrinky (I'm pretty sure that's TW), Butthead, Krut, Wheezer, PenFoe. Missing from last year: Chuck, CT, Saul, flannj, TEC.

Come on, fellas.

Chuck is busy running for public office, saving Glenview from Communism. TEC has a young family keeping him young and making him forget death. Flannj  probably is still consuming his Christmas gifts, has started slurring his speech and thinks today is December 29. I'm not sure what CT and Saul's excuses are.

I believe my picks were basically the entire Trump Administration, which I seem to have reverse-jinxed by making them. No longer!

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on December 20, 2018, 08:32:52 AM

Quote from: Saul Goodman on December 19, 2018, 09:59:21 PM

Quote from: CBStew on December 19, 2018, 12:28:59 PM
The Cubs acquired Descalso because...?
1.  They needed a guy with a 5 o'clock shadow instead of a beard for the team picture.
2.  They needed someone over 30 as a chaperone on road trips.
3.  ...(?)

Because we broke! Yep, we don't know how it happened but the Cubs no longer have any money.  Brother, can you spare a dime?

The Cubs are undergoing a spareadime shift.

Plenty of money to air "Grown Assholes Who Love Beer and Assaulting Women Are Actually Good" ads, but good baseball players? You think we're made of money?!

Quote from: CBStew on December 19, 2018, 12:28:59 PM
The Cubs acquired Descalso because...?
1.  They needed a guy with a 5 o'clock shadow instead of a beard for the team picture.
2.  They needed someone over 30 as a chaperone on road trips.
3.  ...(?)

Because we broke! Yep, we don't know how it happened but the Cubs no longer have any money.  Brother, can you spare a dime?

You could have just posted this.

Boy this terrible writing prompt for kids sure did lead to a lot of writing, hmm, really makes u think

Quote from: Wheezer on December 09, 2018, 01:28:12 AM

Quote from: Saul Goodman on December 08, 2018, 09:40:00 PMKids probably had a lot of opinions on it.

Well, the graph of the grades hasn't been presented yet.

QuoteMakes them reflect on topics like their own experiences, on childhood, on parenting, on philosophy, on morality, on argumentation and persuasion.

Philosophy? Morality? I swear to G-d, I thought I had seen the dumbest fucking comment possible (elsewhere), but now this. "Well done"? The whole point is that it backfired. Twice. And then there's the "Fuck those parents, Kurt. They are doing their daughter no favors. That's genuinely fucking horrible." and "borders on child abuse" crap.

You want to see horrible parents? Check this shit out.

Let's see your alternative lesson plan to show Kurt the horrible error of his ways.

Quote from: Canadouche on December 08, 2018, 03:52:02 PM

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Quote from: World's #1 Astros Fan on December 07, 2018, 02:37:27 PM

Quote from: Canadouche on December 07, 2018, 02:30:23 PM
I ruined Christmas for a family at my school yesterday. I'm teaching 7th and 8th graders; assigned them to write an essay: should we tell children that Santa Claus is real?

Turns out one of my 7th graders still believed. So, as the day was ending, her mother approached me with her little brother, who is in 2nd grade, and said "did you tell my daughter that Santa isn't real?!" I was more than a little surprised that she'd ask me that with her younger son in tow, so I just said I didn't really think it was appropriate to talk about just now.

Still, having overhead that, their son now also is distraught, as well as my student, and I have two very vocal parents who are pissed at me.

My daughter is in 7th grade and told me that she has a classmate who still believes in Santa Claus.  She said her parents are still doing the Elf on the Shelf.  Personally, I honestly feel that this borders on child abuse.

Fuck those parents, Kurt.  They are doing their daughter no favors.  That's genuinely fucking horrible.

Oh, for G-d's sake. It was a poor choice for a topic. Jesus, it's intellectually condescending. How this even sprang up in Knut's mind is baffling to me. "Was Jesus Actually Born on Christmas?" Perhaps "Is the Exodus Story a Crock of Shit?" would be a possibility for Easter.

They're 12-14 years old. At a school with kids as young as 3. On top of being only a few years removed from when their own belief in Santa was shook, they're around literally hundreds of kids who still believe -- and some of them have no qualms with shaking the beliefs of little kids whose parents wouldn't be happy with them for having done so. Asking them to actively think about their feelings on the subject is a good thing, because it not only invites them to process those thoughts, but it also provides them with an opportunity to constructively build an argument to justify the way they feel. Who could have a problem with that?

As to your other points -- I have already taught them that Jesus wouldn't have been born in December. I have already taught them that Exodus - not to mention most of the Bible - is not to be taken literally. Not sure why that should be the focus of religious discussion at Christmas time anyway.

I thought it was an interesting topic to give them and a good idea by Krut. Kids probably had a lot of opinions on it. Makes them reflect on topics like their own experiences, on childhood, on parenting, on philosophy, on morality, on argumentation and persuasion. Well done. Is this a public school?

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on December 07, 2018, 08:31:43 AM
Looks like he re-upped with the Angels.

Hmm.

Quote from: @desipiodotcom
They also refused to use my suggested headline: "Valbuena re-signs with the angels"

5:52 AM (PST) - 7 Dec 2018

Quote from: Tonker on December 07, 2018, 01:43:10 AM
Luis Valbuena

Last five: signed elsewhere, traded, fired, signed elsewhere, Oscar Taveras tribute. One of these does not belong. MODS!!!

Luis Valbuena, 33, is now bat flipping in heaven.

Can someone please check on Andy?

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on December 03, 2018, 08:44:20 AM
41 86ed.

Meh.