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05-09-2017 , 04:12 PM
no. half the country does not agree. in fact, our house of representatives just passed a law to repeal obamacare and now many babies can die of cancer and many other diseases and as they get older they can die of many other things too. er, they have to freedom to die. its freedom.

seriously dude, where the *** have you been?
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05-09-2017 , 04:29 PM
Flabbergasted SEers: is this your first Bobbo interaction?
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05-09-2017 , 05:14 PM
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welcome to "political discourse" in USA#1
There has been strong arguments against empathy for a long, long time.
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05-09-2017 , 05:26 PM
I legit hate the Ringer. https://twitter.com/ringer/status/862040042470027265

too be far, i don't really read articles like this, so i guess technically it could be funny... but there's just no damn way it's funny.

i hate the name. i hate the look. i hate the staff. i hate everything about it except the occasional Simmons podcast.
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05-09-2017 , 07:37 PM
Do they come up with their articles the same way the manitees in South Park do for Family Guy?
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05-09-2017 , 11:18 PM
I assumed that was written by Shae Sorrano from the title. It wasn't so it was roughly 1000 times better than I expected.

Was it good? Of course not.
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05-10-2017 , 12:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Conz
I legit hate the Ringer. https://twitter.com/ringer/status/862040042470027265

too be far, i don't really read articles like this, so i guess technically it could be funny... but there's just no damn way it's funny.

i hate the name. i hate the look. i hate the staff. i hate everything about it except the occasional Simmons podcast.

Haha that article was cute and fun for an office/baseball fan.
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05-10-2017 , 12:07 AM
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I legit hate the Ringer. https://twitter.com/ringer/status/862040042470027265

too be far, i don't really read articles like this, so i guess technically it could be funny... but there's just no damn way it's funny.

i hate the name. i hate the look. i hate the staff. i hate everything about it except the occasional Simmons podcast.
The best part is that the article is not only dumb, but almost certainly wrong. Mike Scott was better than Ryan Howard.
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05-10-2017 , 12:15 AM
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The best part is that the article is not only dumb, but almost certainly wrong. Mike Scott was better than Ryan Howard.
Uhhhh the last sentence of the article is literally "Scott clearly comes out ahead, which feels fitting: A nice sentimental moment gets ruined out of nowhere by Michael Scott."
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05-10-2017 , 12:16 AM
Wait I was supposed to read the article?

Last edited by minnesotasam; 05-10-2017 at 12:16 AM. Reason: never made it passed the headline
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05-10-2017 , 12:34 AM
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Do they come up with their articles the same way the manitees in South Park do for Family Guy?
Yeah, that was my theory too. It makes the most sense

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Every time I see a headline from The Ringer come up on twitter I can't help but think they follow the same process for ideas as South Park shat on Family Guy with how they came up with their jokes.



Just seems like they think up a bunch of random "quirky cool" things that just end up being hot garbage.
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05-10-2017 , 12:51 AM
nothing else makes sense
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05-10-2017 , 02:23 AM
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Why did ESPN ever hire Rush Limbaugh in the first place? That's one of the strangest additions to any telecast that I have seen. It's up there with sticking Dennis Miller in the MNF booth.
They think we want politics with our sports. They probably noticed that the average NFL fan is comically conservative (advertisers notice too, in-game commercials feature a branding iron burning the interest rate onto the screen for $80,000 pickup trucks). Now-a-days they sort by number of twitter followers when choosing on air talent and the twitters are mostly liberal. Most of their shows are now either hot taking or talking tweeting any way so it makes some sense. The bigger issue is that their programming is trash.
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05-10-2017 , 09:02 AM
espn headlines about tweets piss me off. espn headlines about lavar ball tweets make me homicidal
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05-10-2017 , 09:11 AM
Chris Berman's wife was killed in a car accident last night.
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05-10-2017 , 09:11 AM
05-10-2017 , 11:20 AM
Holy **** that's sad. Sports Media Discussion (RIP ESPN)
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05-10-2017 , 11:25 AM
Yeah, I think his son was scheduled to get married in a couple of weeks, too.
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05-10-2017 , 11:52 AM
Don't deux deux deux and drive
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05-10-2017 , 01:45 PM
He is about to get nailed with a multi-million dollar lawsuit. Wife was behind and hit car and that driver died too. Sounds like she will be 100% at fault. Other driver just left the cemetery visiting his dead mother. Life crusher.
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05-10-2017 , 01:56 PM
They are really good at re-creating accidents nowadays. Hopefully she wasn't speeding, texting, or using her cell phone. She is going to be held at fault regardless. Not sure what the cap is on auto insurance.
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05-10-2017 , 03:38 PM
http://www.newstimes.com/policerepor...photo-12877130

This was violent collision. The car she hit flipped over and her car went into a body of water and both drivers died. Chris Berman's wife would probably be looking at involuntarily manslaughter if she lived. Poor guy has to mourn his wife and as well as another person who his wife "caused" their death too. How does one recover from this tragedy?
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05-10-2017 , 03:44 PM
Berman's wife was 67 years old and the other driver was 87. Either one of them could have had a medical emergency that caused the crash rather than assuming Kathy Berman was negligent.
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05-10-2017 , 04:15 PM
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Berman's wife was 67 years old and the other driver was 87. Either one of them could have had a medical emergency that caused the crash rather than assuming Kathy Berman was negligent.
Articles mentioned that the 87-year old had a medical condition and his daughter said he was fine.

I don't have any idea exactly what happened. Read reports that she was behind and hit him. Unless she also had a medical condition at the same time, it is likely she will be found at fault. It seems from the pictures that it was a very high-impact collision to kill both drivers and cause significant damage to the cars. This was not a head-on collision.

It will probably fall into careless/negligent rather than intentional. Unless she was excessively speeding, drunk/drugs, or texting. They will run toxicology tests, get cell phone records, and re-create the accident.

All I am saying is that this isn't over by a long-shot with the funeral and he moves on with his life. There is another person dead with a family of his own. Who no doubt thinks she is 100% at fault. We all would think that if we had a family member killed by someone ramming into them.
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05-10-2017 , 06:20 PM
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Don't deux deux deux and drive
nh sir. Chuckled more than I should have.
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