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Is it really that I don't hate Ruth Bader Ginsburg for not hating Antonin Scalia? Maybe you could pm who I should hate on. You seem to know?

These guys had been going off for days.?.............. I post a very reasonable post, but happen to use a few "labels," that somehow snag you, and you immediately LAY DOWN THE LAW?! Good on ya mate!

It's amazing. You let the guys with 50,000 posts GO OFF! but the new guy? Slap the s*** out of him....

Let'S NOT F about. You hate Schill. You hate him, as you said, for "the things he says." You impugn his character, "for the things he says." DUDE. Do you just think we're stupid? We get it. You guys are all about not impugning a players character...... but ..... Hope it's ok to call out the moderator on a thread he has taken over.

Hey. No problem. Just want to know your rules.

Just to be clear.... you can have very strong, & clearly political opinions, so long as you don't mention what? So long as you are the moderator? You can impugn the guy's character... clearly on political grounds. But 8f you are rebutted, you play the moderator, & say that's off bounds?

But, at least we can just dislike him for what he "says," and simply intimate that he is a douche-nozzle, without mentioning from which side of the aisle he hails. So long as we simply intimate that he is a douche-nozzle because of the Party from which he hails.... it's all good. That's the important thing! Just don't mention Party labels.... or one's ideological persuasion. Just don't mention L or C, R or D, and it's perfectly ok to impugn someone's "character?" So long as you stay "no labels," it's all good. AND.... if you just "don't like a guy," and you are obtuse.... you can make the guy out to be a total "ass-hat," & it's all good....... intimation good! Saying things directly bad. as i've said... i'm not down with his rhetoric. I don't like the way some in "his camp," ( hope that meets PC standards ) frame political issues. BUT........ I most certainly do not like the way others, in the polar oposite "camp" ( again... hope that meets PC standards of this board ) frame and demagogue political issues. BUT seriously..... we all know that if Schill had a "different / opposite" political perspective, the guy would be a rock star at ESPN. calm down now..... breathe......

just looked it up. He did say he lost $50 million personally. ... ouch!

Bottom line. If you get a chance to watch that ALCS, & the incredible bloody sock drama of game 6, you will at least remember how great he was as a Red Sox player. That was fantastic stuff! We all know why many "don't like him," & likely if he had strong opinions of a different persuasion, he probably would still be employed. He knew the risks. He had been warned. I personally think he was crazy to knowingly walk head first into that buzz-saw, knowing he would likely get canned. That's on him. The business? When I heard what he was doing, I thought it was nuts. I wish I could recall just how much he put in, but I know it was a small fortune. Too bad! Bad business advice.... that is if he was taking any. Talking politics on a public stage when you are in business, and you can alienate 1/2 your customers? ??? Never a good idea. No matter what side you are on. Too bad we have such polarized sides!!!

The difference, as I understand it, is that Schilling invested somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 million of his own personal money into the business. So........ did he lose a small fortune personally? Yes. Is he totally broke? Perhaps not. But he sure ain't filthy rich anymore. He blew it with this company, but I think he wanted to do a good thing. Be successful. Create jobs... etc. But he clearly is not as bright as he thinks he is. I make be somewhere on the spectrum of the same political aisle as Schill, but I believe that the Schill, Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell wing of my party is destroying it with some pretty brainless rhetoric. Then again, the Dem. Nutty wing is sending them over the nutjob far left cliff. Slash was fundamentally right though, although we disagree on most things political. s***** businessman. Says really stupid things politically. ( yes. The double standard for left wing sports guts is obvious. I get it & it's laughable ) Red Sox all time GREAT, who should never buy a drink in Boston.

Personally speaking... Ruth Bader Ginburg / Antonin Scalia & James Carville / Mary Matlin are two great all American stories of ADULTS who understand that politics should never define your life or your love of people. Those who fail to ever get to that point in their life are poorer for it! I may be center - Right R, but several of my best friends & family members are center-Left Lib. Dems. God life would be an eternal bore surrounding yourself with all like minded thinkers & non-thinkers.

Oh s***! Could have done that in one post! My bad!

p.s. thanks for moving this for me. I do apologize for putting it in the wrong place. Sorry you don't agree with my take. I'll try to consolidate my thoughts from now on. Folks are clearly touchy about new guys inflating their posting stats. LOL. kidding.

In the middle of getting things settled for bed. Teen coming home. Just back from out of town with a neuro-sugeon. My bad! Trying to take care of things & post quick thoughts. Bit of pain too. I'LL try to be more carefull, but pardon me..... I hate to say it, but you boys can sure get a little picky? No? Try to calm down with the posts? I don't have 50 some odd thousand posts as many do on here..... Yeh! Screwed up & quick posted in the wrong spot. Guilty!!! Having a few non contiguous thoughts, & afterthoughts? Pardon me, but seriously? How often can I expect tat critique?

At least bring back a reasonably hard slide into 2nd base! THIS IS A joke! Gotta stay on 2nd. Gotta stay in the base line. But a hard clean slide should not be subject to check every freakin 2 innings!