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  1. irish

    irish DSP Staff Member Administrator

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    evidently :retard:
     
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    that chicago police shooting is a case for the death penalty wtf is that shit and how did that uberdouche get a gun and a badge?
     
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    Agreed.


    But when a cop tells you to drop a weapon and you don't, something very bad will happen. Unfortunately this cop snapped.
     
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    But what happened to trying to wound a guy...rather than empty your fucking clip into him? Damn.
     
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    Has anybody been to the Shrine Auditorium for a concert before? If so, how does the seating work there? Is it specifically assigned seating or do you just buy tickets for a specific section then it is first come first serve? Trying to look this shit up but I can't find a definitive answer.
     
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    just saw my morning jacket a couple of months ago at the shrine
    its assigned seating and there are upper and lower seating areas
    i was in the lower but walked all over and honestly the upper level is a pretty cool perspective
    very cool old building
     
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    Thanks for the response devil. This is super last minute so it looks like I may have to buy an additional ticket so that I can get 2 next to each other.
     
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    np, but it depends on what kind of show you are seeing because w mmj no one sat the entire show
    but if you are going to say, van morrison, then you will need the extra seat if you need the room...
     
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    Going to see Dom Kennedy





     
  10. irish

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    lol, don't get shot
     
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    When he's already on the ground incapacitated.
     
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    agreed, a slug in the thigh would put most people [not on pcp] down
     
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    it looked like the first one or two dropped him and then the cop completely lost it i guess
    would almost think another cop might have shot the guy shooting when the guy hits the ground
    the only argument that holds any weight at all would be that he thought it was a gun but awfully hard to see how that could have happened
    doesn't help when the cop appears to be a troglodyte .
     
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    the other glaring issue is of course that rahm emanuel chose to sit on that video for over a year
    but democrats don't ever pay the price so he's safe
    but he is also clearly guilty of sweeping it under the rug until after his election was won
     
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    Yeah...the "Dumb and Dumber" haircut is beyond comprehension. Troglodyte may be a compliment.
    Your point about Emmanuel is excellent yet unsurprising considering his personality. There should be a penalty to pay for that kind of behavior.
     
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    lol scott should bench himself

    Byron Scott say benching Kobe not an option
    by Kurt Helin | NBC Pro Basketball Talk — 30 minutes ago

    Kobe Bryant‘s shooting woes this season have been well documented. Let me explain… no, there is too much. Let me sum up. Kobe is shooting 31.1 percent overall and 19.5 percent from three, all while jacking up more threes than ever before. He was 1-of-14 shooting against Cleveland, and that’s as many shots as rookies D'Angelo Russell and Julius Randle got combined.

    If Kobe keeps shooting like this while dominating the ball, is it time to bench Kobe? Coach Byron Scott laughed at the idea, as reported by Baxter Holmes at ESPN.

    “I would never, never, never do that,” Scott said after practice at the Lakers’ facility. “That’s not an option whatsoever. No, that’s not an option.”

    It’s not an option because this is the guy the fans have paid to see, at home and on the road (the Lakers have still sold out every road game this season, the only team to have done so). Kobe is the draw, he’s going to play.

    That doesn’t mean Scott is handling all this well, Kobe has no repercussions for his actions.

    Byron Scott is an enabler with Kobe. In his mind Kobe has earned the right to play poorly because of his career, which is just hard to watch.

    The real issue I have with Scott enabling Kobe is the double standard — minutes for Russell and the other young players get jerked around when they make mistakes. Scott sounds and acts like a guy with a couple rookies on a veteran team where the objective is to win as many games as possible.

    This can’t be emphasized enough: the primary goal for the Lakers this season is to develop Russell, Randle, and Jordan Clarkson (and Larry Nance Jr., who has impressed). But Russell has sat a lot of fourth quarters, and when Scott is asked if playing in those blowout minutes might help develop the young point guard faster, he says, “Nah.” Scott has benched Clarkson at points and called him out in the media.

    Reduction of minutes can be a valuable teaching tool with young players — if the conditions of them getting those minutes are precisely laid out. Clear rules with rewards and consequences. That is not the case in Los Angeles, where Russell has said Scott has not spoken to him much about what he’s doing wrong and why he’s spending the ends of games benched. That’s not coaching a guy up; that’s not player development. There need to be clear guidelines and structures for young players to follow.

    The only guideline in LA seems to be “Kobe has carte blanche.”​
     
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    Kids learning the Lakers way. By "getting it" not by coach hand holding.
    You want to know why you aren't in there in the fourth?
    Figure it out.
    Once you do you will never sit again.
     
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    Agree, Rube, but unfortunately that's a tough sell in the new age of entitlement...
     
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    What bunch of pussies. They got the right manager for such a soft team.

    http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on...-tv-analyst-tommy-hutton-fired-for-negativity

    Reports: Marlins TV analyst Tommy Hutton fired for negativity.



    Tommy Hutton spent 19 years as a TV analyst for the Miami Marlins. He didn't make it to 20 because the team fired him earlier this week, and reporter Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald seems to have found out why.
    The team, from the front office down to players on the field, considered Hutton to be too negative:
    Hutton said there have been only three incidents in recent years in which a Marlins employee expressed discomfort with something he said. Hutton relayed all three --- and nothing he said seemed out of line or inappropriate --- but he was willing to discuss only one of the three on the record.
    That one involved former Marlins catcher John Buck. When Buck flied out to the deepest part of Marlins Park to end a game, Hutton shouted “in any other park!” --- meaning the ball would have been a home run in a stadium with more hitter-friendly dimensions.
    He said a Marlins vice president called him after the game and said that owner Jeffrey Loria prefer he not mention the ballpark's dimensions.
    “Did I complain about the park being too big? Yeah,” Hutton said, noting the dimensions are being changed this off-season. “But if that was the reason, they knew that the day after the season. I didn't say anything negative the last six weeks.”
    Hutton said no player ever complained to him, but if anyone had a complaint, he made himself visible.
    “I was always in the clubhouse and on the field,” he said. “I know a lot of announcers who just go to the booth.”
    Andy Slater, a radio reporter in Miami who has been on the Hutton story and other Marlins issues, has indicated that players did lodge complaints against Hutton:
    Via multiple sources, I was told this past Marlins season was the absolute worst when it came to complaints.
    After games, on numerous occasions throughout the season, players would go up to team PR staff and owner Jeffrey Loria complaining about what Hutton said during the telecast.
    "Players would have their wife, girlfriend, family member, and even friends texting them things Tommy said," another source added.
    There were also certain incidents where Loria wasn't happy with Hutton. Loria didn't like it when Hutton would talk too much about another team's player, another source told me. "Anytime (Hutton) would bring up a ballpark flaw, Loria would be very upset," the source said.
    The complaints against Hutton happened at Marlins Park, on the road, and even on the team plane, I was told.
    It's one of the oldest stories in baseball; as long as there have been TV and radio reporters who dare speak their minds on a game broadcast, there have been players, coaches and executives with rabbit ears listening for the slightest slight.
    The Marlins have averaged nearly 92 losses over the past five seasons. Loria has gone through six managers in that span, with Don Mattingly set to begin his first season in spring training. The organization has been dysfunctional from top to bottom, and if Hutton is the least bit honest about his job, the team's failures would be reflected in the broadcast.
    Apparently, he was too honest.
     
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    The Padres give their announcer a hard time as well. And he is a pretty famous broadcaster.
     
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