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I've always been a big fan of Happ. Until his prolonged hitting struggles this past season, his trajectory was similar to Schwarber. There's nothing wrong with having a switch-hitting second baseman who can hit with power. Move Javy to SS, fire Russell into the sun, and the team's ready to go.

Personally, the bar to which I hold students is how willing they are to acknowledge their mistakes, apologize, and learn. Doubling down on "I did nothing wrong" is enraging.

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Quote from: Yeti on January 21, 2019, 09:32:12 AM
... in today's outrage and jump to conclusions society, I enjoyed seeing how that teenage kid thing was overblown. I agreed with the anti-kid sentiments, but I enjoyed all those getting indignant on social media and their indignation was bullshit

I think the kid comes off a bit more sympathetic than at first glance, but, regardless of his carefully crafted explanation, it's hard to see past that smirk on his face anytime I watch the video.

Fuck him.

I concur with this.

Third.

Fourth.

Those kids are a bunch of rich fuckers who have enjoyed privilege their entire lives and have yet to suffer any consequence for their actions.  They are racist pieces of shit and, although I have hope that this will lead them to change the way they think about the world around them, more likely they will turn into Brock Turner and Brett Kavanaugh and still never face any real consequence.

Fuck. Them.

I felt sorry for the kid who is prominent in the video.  He seemed to be embarrassed.  On the other hand he wears a MAGA hat, so screw him!

I suspect that he felt tremendous panic when his face appeared all over social media, especially in light of his school threatening investigations and expulsions. He's not sorry, he's only sorry he got caught.

That said, I'm reading now that there's evidence that this whole thing was spread by the same kind of Russian bots who interfered with our elections, so the whole point of this has been to cause dissent and conflict. It worked.

Quote from: Yeti on January 21, 2019, 09:32:12 AM
... in today's outrage and jump to conclusions society, I enjoyed seeing how that teenage kid thing was overblown. I agreed with the anti-kid sentiments, but I enjoyed all those getting indignant on social media and their indignation was bullshit

I think the kid comes off a bit more sympathetic than at first glance, but, regardless of his carefully crafted explanation, it's hard to see past that smirk on his face anytime I watch the video.

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Quote from: Canadouche on January 17, 2019, 09:18:57 AM
I love my job, but holy shit, the problems they are dealing with. Of our 45-or-so 8th graders, four have lost parents to tragedy. One's mother had an aneurysm seven years ago, and while she's still alive, she isn't remotely the person she was. We had the father of a student, and mother of another, both murdered in the span of 9 months. And one of my students is losing her mother to breast cancer.

That doesn't even factor in the number of absent fathers that many of them have. Way too much tragedy for kids who are just beginning their teenage years.

Are you still in Toronto or somewhere up north?

Toronto for life. We're actually in the process of a remodelling project on our house, which means I'll be back in the inlaw's basement for a solid year.

Technically I work at an inner city school, though it's in a nice neighborhood a good 3 miles out from the city core. You can see the CN Tower and some other buildings from one of the main avenues in the neighborhood, though.

I was just there and will be back a few times this year. I typically stay at the Sheraton City Center, which is kind of fancy but that's where they keep booking me, so whatever.  Not far from Rogers Center...and apparently, a pretty cool dispensary although I haven't been yet.

You're talking about Cafe 66, which has a number of locations in the city, including on York Street near the Rogers Center. You should definitely check it out, but probably bring cash to play it safe.

There's also a pretty good BBQ place not too far from the Rogers Centre called Cherry Street BBQ. Look it up the next time you're in town - you'll be surprised, I think, at how authentic and tasty it is.

Let me know the next time you're in town - same thing goes for any of you who come to Toronto. I'd be happy to show you around/take you to one of our local restaurants so you can experience good food while you're here.

I rode on the chairlift with a guy who lives in Toronto yesterday.
Nice guy.

I was in Toronto on a high school trip in 1989 and remembering thinking, "This looks just like Chicago, but clean!"

You should see it now. The city has had ridiculous growth in the near 17 years that I've been here. Too bad our metro is dog shit.

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We don't have a Penstory thread, so I'm going to post this here, since there is some relevance...

I live across the street from a former Cubs prospect. We live in a cul-de-sac on a quiet street in suburbia outside of Boulder. It's a very close-knit street and most of the neighbors are pretty close overall. Kids playing together in the street, neighborhood BBQs, etc.   Said prospect is also the head coach of the local high school baseball team.  He has another job as well, though I don't know what it is.  Overall, we're not that close with him and his family, but certainly friendly (borrowing various household goods from each other on multiple occasions.) 

Multiple times he has seen my son and I in the street, practicing baseball. Hitting off a tee, playing catch, etc. He never offers any advice, and one time when I specifically asked him if he had any tips, he basically brushed it off and went inside. Not a bad dude, just a bit distant. 

Backstory: He has a teenage son (big baseball player) and his wife died about 5 years back, before we moved in.  Super sad.  I think it was breast cancer.  After his wife died, her sister moved in to help raise the boy.   She doesn't have a family of her own.  The relationship between Dad and Sister-in-Law is super weird. We assumed for the first couple of years that they were a married couple and she was the boy's mom.  We're still not 100% sure what the relationship is between the adults, in terms of intimacy, but it's ultimately neither here nor there. It's weird and fun to speculate, but doesn't change the day-to-day dynamics whether she sleeps with him or she has her own room or whatever.  Still, for those of you for whom this is relevant, imagine your brother dying and then you drop everything in your life and move in with your sister-in-law to raise their kid.  It's at least a little bizarre.

Fast forward to about 18 months ago...

They get their car broken into in the driveway. We live in a very safe neighborhood, but it's the suburbs so this shit happens sometimes. The car was unlocked in the driveway and the robber(s) stole some golf clubs.  I think that was it. They didn't open the garage or enter the house.  Still, plenty invasive and scary.  The entire small-town police force was on the street in the middle of the night.

Since then, she has gone into epic paranoid mode. 

At least once per week now, she stops my wife to ask her if she's seen (insert Car X here, this week it's a black Escalade) driving up and down the street.  She is 100% convinced that there are people stalking her and casing her house. She has set-up many, many homemade "alerts" to see if people are on her property.  Things like Kathy Bates in Misery with the hair in the book.  Strategically placing branches in the backyard and then being terrified because they weren't exactly how she remembered them. Putting fishing wire on the back gate (the house backs to a walking pathway) and saying the line was snapped.  While I can't see them, she apparently has cameras all over the outside of the house and spends much of her nights watching the cameras from the inside, looking for shadows (of which she has seen many.) On a couple occasions when Dad and Son have been away at a baseball tournament, she'll stay in a hotel because she can't handle being in the house alone.  She texts my wife regularly to ask if there are any cars parked in front of her house.  She confronts landscapers in the neighborhood and yells at them to get away from the area (we have a park at the end of the street that the HOA maintains.) 

Yesterday, she saw my wife in Whole Foods/Target/Safeway (I wasn't fully listening) and said "I KNOW YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME BUT THIS IS TRUE."  Aggressively. 

It's a really sad situation, living across from the street from someone who truly never has peace in life because she's terrified of everyone.

So, Penstory short, I live across the street from a former Cubs prospect who won't ever fucking help my kid play baseball and his psychotic sister-in-law who has turned her entire house into a panic room for fear that "men" are out to get her.

Turns out she wasn't his sister-in-law, she was his girlfriend. We ended up getting to know her really well. She just killed herself.
It's all really sad.

Man, that sucks. I feel bad for the teenage son - he's had two mom figures in his life, and they're both gone. That can't be easy.

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Quote from: Oleg on January 18, 2019, 10:57:00 AM

Quote from: Canadouche on January 17, 2019, 09:18:57 AM
I love my job, but holy shit, the problems they are dealing with. Of our 45-or-so 8th graders, four have lost parents to tragedy. One's mother had an aneurysm seven years ago, and while she's still alive, she isn't remotely the person she was. We had the father of a student, and mother of another, both murdered in the span of 9 months. And one of my students is losing her mother to breast cancer.

That doesn't even factor in the number of absent fathers that many of them have. Way too much tragedy for kids who are just beginning their teenage years.

Are you still in Toronto or somewhere up north?

Toronto for life. We're actually in the process of a remodelling project on our house, which means I'll be back in the inlaw's basement for a solid year.

Technically I work at an inner city school, though it's in a nice neighborhood a good 3 miles out from the city core. You can see the CN Tower and some other buildings from one of the main avenues in the neighborhood, though.

I was just there and will be back a few times this year. I typically stay at the Sheraton City Center, which is kind of fancy but that's where they keep booking me, so whatever.  Not far from Rogers Center...and apparently, a pretty cool dispensary although I haven't been yet.

You're talking about Cafe 66, which has a number of locations in the city, including on York Street near the Rogers Center. You should definitely check it out, but probably bring cash to play it safe.

There's also a pretty good BBQ place not too far from the Rogers Centre called Cherry Street BBQ. Look it up the next time you're in town - you'll be surprised, I think, at how authentic and tasty it is.

Let me know the next time you're in town - same thing goes for any of you who come to Toronto. I'd be happy to show you around/take you to one of our local restaurants so you can experience good food while you're here.

Quote from: Oleg on January 18, 2019, 10:57:00 AM

Quote from: Canadouche on January 17, 2019, 09:18:57 AM
I love my job, but holy shit, the problems they are dealing with. Of our 45-or-so 8th graders, four have lost parents to tragedy. One's mother had an aneurysm seven years ago, and while she's still alive, she isn't remotely the person she was. We had the father of a student, and mother of another, both murdered in the span of 9 months. And one of my students is losing her mother to breast cancer.

That doesn't even factor in the number of absent fathers that many of them have. Way too much tragedy for kids who are just beginning their teenage years.

Are you still in Toronto or somewhere up north?

Toronto for life. We're actually in the process of a remodelling project on our house, which means I'll be back in the inlaw's basement for a solid year.

Technically I work at an inner city school, though it's in a nice neighborhood a good 3 miles out from the city core. You can see the CN Tower and some other buildings from one of the main avenues in the neighborhood, though.

I love my job, but holy shit, the problems they are dealing with. Of our 45-or-so 8th graders, four have lost parents to tragedy. One's mother had an aneurysm seven years ago, and while she's still alive, she isn't remotely the person she was. We had the father of a student, and mother of another, both murdered in the span of 9 months. And one of my students is losing her mother to breast cancer.

That doesn't even factor in the number of absent fathers that many of them have. Way too much tragedy for kids who are just beginning their teenage years.

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.

If I could freeze my kid, and keep him at 4.5 for the rest of his life, I'd be strongly tempted to do it. I have no doubt that watching him grow up will be the greatest experience of my life, but he's just so ridiculously amazing right now. He's funny, affectionate, caring, and incredibly kind. My heart is going to break a little bit when he stops wanting to hug and kiss his parents all the time.

Whenever I sign up for public wifi, to avoid spam emails, I always sign up with Al's email address.

Quote from: Yeti on December 25, 2018, 10:50:25 AM
Meryy Christmas.

Now turn in your deadpools

If I wanted to get in on that, could someone help me out?

Daniel Murphy.

I never expected Chapman to have competition for Biggesr Piece of Shit on the championship team.