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Don Baylor. Hah. Anyway, here's hoping that the Cubs have a lively and productive offseason that helps us put a contender on the field. So far, we've given Ryan Dempster an extension, and it doesn't look like Patterson is getting non-tendered. There's plenty of time. Just keep tellin' yourself.

It's not really draconian nor oppressive as it is, and it'll probably end up being relaxed, anyway. There's not really anything wrong with having to wear a dress shirt if you're doing some sort of charity obligation or whatever around town. Like we've been saying, the players did a good job of self-imposing a reasonable dress code before, and nobody had a problem with it.

Cute Sorry if I think this is all patently ridiculous, from the outrage by players to the outrage by Ripper

All of these comments do warrant a thread. There is a thread for them.

Oh yeah I have no problem with him, but every thread that even slightly concerns race relations is a foregone conclusion. I don't remember Michael Jordan or the Bulls looking like thugs.

Oh shit, Bears play Baltimore? So much for enjoying a Bears game this weekend.

Just as the sun rose this morning, Ripper is going to bat for black people, and it gets weirder every time. Whitey gon take our hair! Damn that hymie Stern. As I understand, high school athletes are asked to dress well for traveling and team functions, college athletes are asked to dress well for traveling and team functions, baseball players are asked to dress well for traveling and team functions, hockey players are asked to dress well for traveling and team functions. Why is it SO outlandish and unprecedented to ask NBA players to trade their $400 throwback jerseys and jeans large enough to smuggle a Mexican child over the border for a sport coat and a nice pair of pants when they're on a flight or at a community event? You know, dress like mature, grown men? I don't see how they have to buy a WHOLE NEW WARDROBE. If you're a professional at 25 years old, you have no excuse for not owning nice clothes.

Do you work at being an idiot because it's the one quality you have. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> YOU GOT SERVED

Kotz went old-school?!?

Never thought I'd hear a black man speaking out in favor of chains.

Oh God say it ain't so. No. No. No. No Leo. Don't do it. Just don't. Please.

"We make a lot of money, but we spend a lot of money too." Anyway, is it really asking so much for Allen Iverson to not look like trash? I bet the greats of the 80s and early-to-mid 90s could be bothered to look respectable for public appearances. I mean, come on. A Wilt Chamberlain Philadelphia Warriors throwback is what, 250 bucks? I don't think this is some draconian system here that Stern has in mind. It's just "don't look like you're coming out of a ghetto for photo-ops at the children's hospital." And most guys usually look professional already.

The White Sox winning is the outcome I dread most. I will be irritated by an Astros win, and frustrated by a Cardinals win, but a White Sox win will kick the crap out of me.

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They are still leading the series but mentally they are dead now. History proven over time and time again that in similar situations, you don't brush it off and win the next game. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Like when the Diamondbacks lost the series after blowing two ninth inning leads to the Yankees in back to back games? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh is it just me or DID HE JUST BLOW YOUR FUCKING MIND

Yeah well we all know your outlook on uphill battles.

What the fuck does this post mean?

Holy fuckin' shit. They deserve the World Series.

That one is pretty hard too. At least you don't like the Cubs and White Sox.

However, as discussed, the existence of the establishment was contingent on my being declined, so that the opposition to the establishment that justifies its existence can be present. By adding me to the establishment, it cannot exist. I defeated theestablihsmnt

You mean Questec?