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Higher-than-expected revenues from football's Husky Stadium, generosity of donors Wayne and Anne Gittinger and others plus the new millions from the Pac-12 television contracts have combined with an ultra-motivated and grateful team to create the best start to a UW baseball season in 20 years. It's also created a jewel of a new ballpark.
By Gregg Bell
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SEATTLE – It's the day before the opening of the Huskies' jewel ballpark, and Lindsay Meggs is standing at home plate on his sparkling, new FieldTurf playing surface.
He looks as proud as he is impressed.
Meggs, Washington's fifth-year coach, is the commander of this project , one that was decades in the dreaming and has revitalized Husky Baseball. He is the visionary who first took sketches and ideas to contractors years ago. Now he is looking south at his new reality, beyond the purple seat backs in the quite-grand grandstand. Past the $4.5 million Gittinger Team Building – named after the project's lead donors, Wayne and Anne Gittinger -- with new offices and locker rooms, beyond the new, $2 million Team Performance Center with five indoor batting tunnels and state-of-the-art computer pitching system.
He sees Husky Stadium, the seven-month-old football palace, a couple of long home-run drives down the street. And he ponders whether his new Husky Ballpark would exist if not for revenues from Washington's new football stadium plus those from the Pac-12's $3 billion television contracts with ESPN and FOX.
"Probably not," Meggs says.
Meggs' Huskies are 17-5-1 after their seventh consecutive victory and 14th in 15games, Tuesday night over Gonzaga in the rain at the "Diamond on Montlake." They are off to their best start since 1994. That is the only season in which Husky Baseball has won as many as four games in an NCAA tournament, which UW is trying to get to for the first time since 2004,
This – one of the best college baseball stadiums in one of the most picturesque settings in the country, and the best start to a Huskies baseball season since Bill Clinton was in his second year as our president – is not an accident.
Husky baseball's resurgence is the result of football and Husky Stadium's success.
It is what UW Director of Athletics Scott Woodward foresaw when he said at the start of Husky Stadium's renovation in November 2011: "Our donors and our fans recognize the importance of this project, not just to the football players but to the volleyball players, the soccer players, the golfers, the gymnasts , the baseball player -- to every Husky athlete.
"To be the best, to fulfill our goals to win championships, you have to have the best facilities."
New Husky Ballpark and UW Baseball being 17-5-1 is also the flip side to those maddening, 8 p.m. kickoffs on as little as six days' notice the last two football seasons. To those 9 p.m. basketball tip-offs inside Alaska Airlines Arena. To the Huskies and every other Pac-12 team in all sports being playing and us watching whenever and wherever ESPN, FOX and Pac-12 Networks desire.
UW's athletic department projected football's new home would produce about $14.3 million in increased annual revenue over previous Husky Stadium. That $14.3 million was the sum of expected annual sales from new luxury and patio suites plus club suites, plus from additional Tyee Club and season-ticket revenue.
Well, in its first season in business last fall the new Husky Stadium exceeded that $14.3 million in estimated revenue for 2013. Credit the new luxury seating, new amenities, new sightlines, a rising team on its way to its fourth consecutive bowl plus an attractive home schedule that included the perfect unveiling against Boise State then games with Oregon and the Apple Cup.
"The stadium performing so well is the impetus behind new Husky Ballpark," said Jennifer Cohen, UW's senior associate athletic director for development and its senior administrator for football and baseball.
Not only that, donors to the Huskies' athletic department exceeded by about $2 million UW Athletics' goal of raising $50 million privately toward Husky Stadium's $250 million renovation.
That giving carried on to Husky Ballpark over the last year, far enough to cover the debt service UW Athletics owes on the baseball stadium: $850,000 per year over the next 30 years.
The late Wayne Gittinger and his wife Anne provided the leading push that made the ballpark and the adjoining baseball facilities a priority to happen now, rather than the later Husky baseball had been hearing for decades.
"Our donors and our fans recognize the importance of this project, not just to the football players but to the volleyball players, the soccer players, the golfers, the gymnasts, the baseball players -- to every Husky athlete."
Has this been a windfall for UW Athletics? More like a perfect storm.
The Gittingers and fellow Husky donors stepped up at the same time UW and the rest of the Pac-12 began realizing their new revenue streams from those new TV deals.
The institutional distribution for Washington in 2012-13 from the conference's contracts with ESPN and FOX was $16.1 million, according to figures from UW Athletics' chief financial officer. That distribution is $16.6 million in these 2013-14 playing seasons and is scheduled to be $17 million in '14-15 and $17.9 million in '15-16.
Over the life of the contracts with ESPN and FOX that end in 2023-24 – mammoth deals that show how valuable live sports broadcasts remain to networks in this broadband, wireless and TiVo age -- each Pac-12 athletic department is expecting to end up receiving an average annual revenue of $20.8 million. That doesn't count the $800,000 per year Washington and each conference school is receiving per year from Pac-12 Networks, which the league owns entirely.
Before these new contracts, each Pac-12 athletic department was receiving $6 million per year from television rights. So the net gain each year in TV money (ESPN, FOX, Pac-12 Networks) for Washington was $10.9 million last year and is $11.4 million this year.
Last weekend John Canzano of The Oregonian in Portland reported how each Pac-12 school may not necessarily be realizing every dollar of the new TV money as had been ballyhooed nationally -- at least not yet. Canzano described how Stanford and Oregon State, to name two in the conference, had to pay $1.3 million each to Learfield Communications once the Pac-12 had struck its new media and marketing deals.
But at Washington, the timing of its deal with IMG meant UW didn't have to pay back to its marking rights holder to buy out the previous contract. That's meant no such minus off Washington's new TV revenue.
Canzano also described how schools such as Arizona and Oregon State have been asked by their universities to "payback" to their schools with some of the league's new TV money. At Oregon State that meant another $6.5 million off its approximately $11 million net gain to athletics for this year.
While other Pac-12 schools such as California have subsidized their athletic departments for year, Washington's athletic department has long been virtually self-sufficient; the only money UW Athletics receives that is not generated by Husky sports are the federal dollars earmarked to each university in the country that complies with Title IX laws. UW Athletics hasn't taken from nor has it paid back into its university.
OK, so Husky Baseball had the resources. The timing was ideal. But it still took a trigger man to make a reality out of what had been promised to decades of Husky baseball players and alumni.
Lindsay Meggs had already been that guy.
Meggs was the coach at Indiana State for three years before arriving at Washington in July 2009. In those three years he became the Missouri Valley Conference coach of the year while getting Indiana State to break ground in May 2009 on a new baseball stadium.
"Coach Meggs got here and it was obvious he was a doer," John Schreiber, a UW outfielder in its Class of 1990, said Friday as we watched pregame festivities on Husky Ballpark's opening night from the patio of the Gittinger Team Building.
Schreiber, who after graduating from Washington got into the financial business, is now the president and chief financial officer for InfoArmor, an identity fraud-prevention firm based in Phoenix. He played on old Graves Field next to the UW golf driving range out by the Baskin Robbins of Sand Point Way, a baseball place that was even more Spartan than Husky Ballpark used to be – if that's possible.
He'd listened to presentations for years on what might become of a new baseball stadium at Washington. But when Meggs arrived, it was different.
"His legacy was as a stadium builder," Schreiber said.
Andrew Ely, the Huskies' junior second baseman from Eagle, Idaho, said he heard while he was in high school all about how Washington would get a new baseball stadium. Someday. Maybe.
"I remember having people tell me, 'You know, they are going to tell you about a new stadium. They've been saying it for years,'" Ely said last week.
"But when I got here on my recruiting visit Coach Meggs had the actual documents on the construction and the plans for the stadium. I remember him telling my parents and me, 'This is happening. It will get done.'"
In football a new stadium is huge in recruiting, to attract better players to win more games, which means better runs at championships.
In baseball, a new stadium can be a more direct factor in winning titles. Better facilities attract better baseball players who produce better team records. That can lead to hosting NCAA regionals, which is a mammoth inside track to advancing to the College World Series in Omaha each June.
Oregon State had appeared in one CWS – ever – way back in 1952. Then it got its Goss Stadium renovated in 1999. The Beavers then went to four College World series in nine years and won their first two national championships, in 2005 and '06. They are currently ranked seventh in the country.
Oregon didn't even have an intercollegiate baseball program – it was a club sport for three decades – until its PK Park opened in 2009 in Eugene next to football's Autzen Stadium. The Ducks have been to the NCAA regionals in each of the last two seasons; they advanced to a super regional in 2012. Oregon entered this week 17-5 and ranked eighth in the nation. The Ducks come to Husky Ballpark next week for a big series that will a barometer for Washington.
"When you talk about postseason play, think about getting to go to a super regional and the College World Series, the results speak for themselves about being the host for a regional," Meggs said.
"This stadium gives us a legitimate chance to host a regional."
Could that be as soon as this spring?
The players understand the wondrous opportunity they just received to become competitive with the nation's best programs. They know the stadium has risen from where fans used to watch while in gravel or on splintered wooden benches, with Port-a-Potties as the ballpark's "facilities."
They know where there were once swampy marshes there is now the Team Performance Center. It not only is already giving current Huskies training opportunities they've never had at UW but will attract future Dawgs from across America.
"The thing that I'm most excited about in that building is we now have a self-feeder to pitch batting practice to us," junior second baseman Andrew Ely said last week, days after he was named the Pac-12 player of the week for leading the Huskies to their first series win at Arizona State in 10 years.
"I don't need a coach to take batting practice now. I can go into the indoor cage at 11 o'clock at night if I want to, press a button, and I can work on hitting by myself."
Hmmm... Is it a coincidence the Huskies lead the Pac-12 with 11 home runs – one more than UW had all last season?
The point is, the new stadium, new locker room, new indoor practice facility and the excitement around it all are sparking this team to Washington's best baseball season in 20 years. At least so far.
Oh, yes, the players are grateful. And driven.
"Now that we have this, we don't take it for granted," junior pitcher Jared Fisher said. "We are all ready to prove this is a stadium we deserve. We are going to get after it. We are not going to take this for granted."
They are going to take this as motivation.
"Nobody is picking us to win the Pac-12, which is understandable given our recent seasons," Ely said.
Ah, but that was before all this. Before Husky Stadium and the TV money. Before new Husky Ballpark turned an unfulfilled dream into stunning reality.
"Yeah, man, I like it," Ely said with a grin.
"It's a very exciting time to be a Husky right now."
Gregg Bell is an award-winning sports writer who joined the University of Washington's staff in September 2010 as the Director of Writing. Previously, Bell served as the senior national sports writer in Seattle for the Associated Press. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
Gregg Bell Unleashed can be found on GoHuskies.com each Wednesday.
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Prototype implementation. Provides separate methods for manipulating class constants while keeping backwards-compatibility (constants can still be added via {{setProperty}}/{{setProperties}}). The only possible break is that {{getProperty}}/{{getProperties}} will no longer enumerate constants.
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Throughout my blogging career I have occasionally been taken to task for using insults and ridicule on select occasions, and have in turn often discussed the ethics of insults and ridicule. And in The New Atheism+ I articulated some of those principles again, and then I went overboard in using the tactic in comments.
People rightly brought up issues with that, so I reexamined my actions there and what people had to say on the subject, and retracted and apologized for some of my actions there. In discussing the matter further I found I was wrong about a few other things, and realized this is an important issue that deserves an article of its own. Getting things like this right is what Atheism+ is all about, and debating and educating each other on these issues is valuable and ought to be welcome.
Because this article necessitates using offensive (in some cases extremely offensive) words in illustrative examples, a trigger warning is in order for anyone who might have a bad reaction to that. This is a clinical, philosophical post about proper and improper use of words, and should be approached as such. But if that is not possible, you should avoid it.
The Context
In my previous post I wrote:
[Being compassionate] does not mean we can't be angry or mean or harsh, when it is for the overall good (as when we mock or vilify the town neonazi); ridiculing the ridiculous is often in fact a moral obligation, and insults are appropriate when they are genuinely appropriate (because, in short, human happiness would be destroyed if we didn't marginalize that which can destroy it). It also doesn't mean that we won't act against evil, ignorance, and all the sins of vanity, greed, or self-righteousness. To the contrary, it is our compassion that compels us to do so. Our compassion entails we will and must always be the enemies of the uncompassionate.
The hyperlink was to Ashley Miller's aptly-named talk, Do Be a Dick (sometimes): Emotions and Skeptics, wherein she discusses the art and ethics of insult and ridicule along lines similar to what I have argued throughout the years. Her talk also provides some good examples of appropriate insults and apt ridicule. I am planning a future post about why ridicule is a necessary tool of social change, when used judiciously and appropriately. But here I will be focusing solely on the case of the insult.
I find that when people take offense at insults and ridicule, sometimes they are right to, but often they are relying in their judgment on mistaken assumptions, or are merely in the thrall of unjustified taboos (or are being insincere: claiming offense is a common tactic used in an attempt to silence, or shame or intimidate into silence, someone who says things you don't like).
An example of an irrational taboo is always taking offense at the word "fuck" no matter where, when or how it is used. There is no rational basis for that. There are uses and contexts in which the word would be inappropriate, but also uses and contexts in which it is not. Merely being offended by the word itself is simply unreasonable and not commendable.
The emotional reaction of "taking offense" is not always justified, and as such is not itself automatically justifying of anything. Daniel Fincke has analyzed the matter in No, Not Everyone Has a Moral Right to Feel Offended by Just any Satire or Criticism, which articulates the basic principle that "the right feeling of offense is…a proper cognitive recognition of the truth that one has been wrongly slighted" (emphasis mine). His entire article is worth reading, even if you don't agree with every point in it.
Fincke has valuably continued his analysis of this question in his still-in-progress series Summarizing Objections to My Stance Against Epithets, Incivility, and Quickly Personalized Arguments, which elaborates on the ideas behind his comments policy in Making My Comments Rules Explicit: "Don't Bully People with Insulting Names" and "Make Personal Charges Against Others Only in Egregious Cases." Part of his point is to distinguish different zones of discourse, so that his principles are not necessarily intended to be universal, but relate to what sort of tenor and discourse he wants to maintain on his own blog (which is why we all have our own comments policies, differing in various respects). But his is a good template to start with: you should have a good reason to deviate from it. Forcing yourself to think through such reasons is a valuable exercise.
Basic Principles
For any use of insult or ridicule to be morally appropriate, at least six criteria have to be met, and here I will start with ridicule in general as the paradigm:
- (1) What you are ridiculing must actually be true.
- (2) What you are ridiculing must actually be ridiculous.
- (3) Ridicule must be judicious and selective and not overdone.
- (4) The context and venue must be appropriate.
A skit on The Daily Show is an obvious example of meeting condition 4. The comments threads on Daniel Fincke's blog is an obvious example of failing condition 4. As would be someone's wedding. Or any public occasion that's supposed to be fun for everyone (unless it's a roast or a playful insult among friends, for example). Condition 3 is met by being sparing in the use of the tactic and smart about how you frame it and how often you resort to it. But it's conditions 1 and 2 that require particular attention. Right Wing media often violate those two principles, and that's what makes their use of the tactic so vile. People confuse this with the tactic itself being vile, but that's a fallacy: there are morally appropriate uses of insults and ridicule.
For example, if you ridicule someone for something that isn't true about them, you are using the tactic immorally. You are essentially lying, degrading them undeservedly. Likewise, if you ridicule something that isn't ridiculous, you are using the tactic to do harm to the innocent–to hurt people you merely don't like (rather than people who are actually bad). And besides, ridiculing what isn't really ridiculous will only make yourself look ridiculous. As when I was repeatedly mocked and ridiculed for advocating the virtues of compassion, integrity, and reasonableness in my Atheism+ comment thread: advocating the virtues of compassion, integrity, and reasonableness is not in any plausible sense ridiculous, so people who mock that only make themselves look ridiculous.
Insults must follow the same principles: they must be true (given the connotation of the words used in the context), they must be deserved (the quality being called out must actually be reprehensible), they must not be overused, and it must be a suitable place for their use. But insults require two other criteria to be met (and likewise certain other forms of ridicule):
- (5) The insult must not be insulting to an untargeted party.
- (6) The insult must not be pointlessly triggering.
It's these criteria that can sometimes be hard to apply correctly, since not everyone is well informed about what effect various words have (educating each other can correct that), while not everyone has the right to take offense at just any use of a word, and thus (per Fincke) that it offends someone is not the same thing as that it insults them. To insult a third party, the word still has to violate one of the other criteria (the insult has to be false or target the undeserving; or become excessive or ruin someone's party or occasion), or be so strongly associated with abuse that a really compelling reason must exist to still use it (and rarely is there one).
An example of the latter is "nigger" (which Crommunist has ably discussed in The N Word). It does make a difference who a word comes from, because not everyone is in the same position of privilege, and context is everything: "nigger" on the lips of a white person has a completely different appearance and implication than the same word on the lips of a black person. The context of where and how the word is used matters (no word should ever be interpreted or reacted to "out of context"). And context includes the social position of the persons speaking and spoken to, and the historical associations that come with that.
And yet, "nigger" is never an appropriate insult, even on the lips of a black person: because it violates rules 1 and 5. The word as an insult means or implies slave, animal, subhuman, and a whole galaxy of inherently racist character aspersions. It doesn't just mean "lazy," for example (one of the ways the slur is sometimes intended), it means "black people are biologically lazy," which is racist–and it's racist because it's false. More importantly, using the word gratuitously reminds all within earshot of its whole ugly history, which can make the blood run cold, and is thus pointlessly triggering, violating rule 6.
Another word like this is "tranny." See Natalie Reed on Being the Pejorative, and A Transgender Manual of Style, where she makes the point that various slurs (like "tranny" and "shemale") are inherently abhorrent because they only serve the purpose of unjustly demeaning the target (always violating either rule 1, 2, or 6). As she says, we must not use them, except to talk about them, or unless you are "one of the people directly referred to by the term and are doing so ironically or as an act of reclamation in reference to yourself." The latter is an example of context changing the connotation, changing what it signifies and suggests, and not merely because such a use is not intended as an insult, but because of who is uttering it–just as when black people refer to themselves as "nigger" affectionately or otherwise without intended insult. (Although as Crommunist points out, he would rather abandon even that.)
Such are the general principles. Next I will examine how they apply to some particular cases.
From Insult to Slur
An insult, when morally deployed, serves the valid purpose of marginalizing that which ought to be marginalized. Which is why rules 1 and 2 are so fundamental to a morally appropriate use of insults. And we need to marginalize the reprehensible–those performing acts or possessing character traits that are harmful to society, things that could be corrected or avoided by them or others, and will be, the more they are despised or evoke shame. And it is through insulting and ridiculing the reprehensible that it comes to be recognized and internalized as despised and shameful. But when someone seeks to accomplish this purpose (to marginalize some behavior or attribute, by causing it to be recognized and internalized as despised and shameful) against things that aren't reprehensible, that aren't harmful to society, then they are resorting to slurs. And these are not the product of compassion or moral concern, but of the personally mean and hateful. They aim to hurt the innocent. Or do so whether aiming to or not.
There are obvious sexist and racist slurs, as most everyone by now well knows. Words that categorize, and intend to categorize, a gender or a race as in some way inferior to another (whether directed at the whole race or gender, or a particular member of it). Calling a woman a "cunt" is an obvious example. Like "dick" it only makes sense as an insult if it is intended to be an aspersion on character, which means it can be used in either of two ways: to suggest that all women are loathsome ("women are all cunts!"), or to say that a particular woman is ("what a cunt!"), or in some cultures a man. In the one case, it's always false (violating rules 1 and 5); in the other, it can in some cases perhaps be true (the same way "dick" can be).
But unlike "dick," "cunt" has much stronger connotations of sexist disdain for women–though "dick" is generally not used to suggest men are inferior to women, "cunt" is often used that way of women. It thus, like "nigger," violates rule 6 (even if not to the same degree, still to a sufficient degree to be more restrained in how you use it); and also, being thereby so much more vulgar in practice than "dick," it will more frequently violate rules 3 or 4. As an insult it is therefore rarely if ever appropriate. [For a thorough treatment of this point see Jen McCreight's Cunto Bingo Card and Matthew Smith's follow-up and my comment thereon, although what I say here now supersedes everything I said there, which was not entirely correct.]
But there are also slurs that are slurs by proxy, violating rule 5. As a prime example, I now try to completely avoid false genderized language like "pussy" (for coward) or "having the balls" (for courage), after realizing (thanks to Cristina Rad) that it perpetuates a factually false sexist notion that women are cowards or you need balls to have courage. Which means there is no context in which these terms would be correct. Not even as metaphors. And the very use of them entails you endorse the sexist falsehoods underlying them–because if you didn't, you wouldn't think the terms were insulting (or in the case of "having the balls," praising). From habit I can still slip into the balls metaphors when speaking rather than writing, but I police that as much as I can, and it's my aim to get rid of it from my vocabulary altogether.
Of course, context can always change things. "I got kicked in the balls" and "Pussy Riot" are legitimate uses of those words. Because they are not being used as insults, and assume nothing false about men, women, pussies, or balls. Similarly, "gay" can be a normal descriptive word ("gay pride"; "my uncle is gay") or a word completely unrelated to sexual orientation ("we had a gay time"). But whenever it is used as an insult ("that's gay!") it violates rule 5, because it is only an insult if you are assuming there is something bad, inferior, or defective about gay people (and in practice, such an insult usually involves assuming that all gay people like or do certain stereotyped things, which, being also false, is akin to being sexist, violating rule 5 again).
That's how it is for racist and sexist slurs. But there are also ableist slurs. Ableism has been defined in various ways, not all of them defensible. But the most appropriate and defensible definition will usually be found in a good standard English dictionary, for example: ableism is "discrimination in favor of able-bodied people; prejudice against or disregard of the needs of disabled people." (On the value and importance of combating ableism in general see Andy Semler's primer on the subject, Creating a More Inclusive Humanism in an Ableist World.)
Racism, Sexism…and Ableism
Ableism is not exactly the same as sexism and racism, of course. Obviously assuming that a blind person can't see is not ableism, but the opposite: it's taking into account a very real difference, one that does makes them inferior in ability to an able-bodied person (but in only that one single respect: visual impairment). And it is not universally possible to accommodate all disabilities in every respect. We can ensure that the mentally retarded have their needs and welfare met, and are compassionately treated, but we can't rewrite all books and media to match their reading comprehension level, for example, nor should we.
But these caveats do not diminish the fact that ableism exists in just the same sense as sexism and racism, and is just as much in need of purging from ourselves and our society. And like sexism and racism, it has malicious and nonmalicious forms, and both must be done away with by every practical means–it's just that nonmalicious forms are easier to curb: once pointed out, it's usually corrected, there being no malice to stubbornly resist doing that.
For example, there is the malicious racism of the KKK, or this guy. But there is also the racism born of simple innocent ignorance or lack of reflection, in short, there is racism that consists simply of "the attribution of ethnic group characteristics to individuals" even when inferiority is not being implied, or when a person making the assumption honestly doesn't know better (see Crommunist's Racism: A Definition and his article on Polite Racism). The latter kind of racism is not a character defect and thus should not be treated as such. It should be treated as an information problem, and solved as such. I know the internet's availability bias can make douchebags and malignant racists seem overnumerous, but in reality most people are well-meaning and educable. We should all in fact operate on the assumption that we always have a lot to learn and thus be ready to be educated on matters we know less about (it's called "listening," which does not entail always mindlessly agreeing, but does entail being thoughtful and receptive to the possibility of being corrected, and not just being a stubbornly immovable contrarian).
All the same goes for sexism. And ableism. They also have malicious and nonmalicious forms, both of which in need of correcting.
Ableist Slurs
The demand that all words that are disability metaphors are "ableist" is not particularly reasonable. If I say "That's lame" or "You must be blind" or "You're being childish" I am not insulting or referring to the lame, the blind, or children, and none of these terms have significant histories of abusive deployment (unlike "gimp" or "idiot," for example…more on that in a moment). These uses are thus not ableist. They are just an ordinary deployment of metaphor. So all they have to be is correct.
There are those who disagree, who regard "lame" as ableist, but it appears no more ableist than "blind" or "childish." When I say someone is lame (or being lame or doing something lame), I am not saying they are physically lame, nor am I insulting people who are physically lame, since I am using the word in the connotation relating to quality of thought or argument (or art or style), not physical ability–I'm not even referring to the disability at all; a lame thought is not a lame leg. A "lame idea" is only like a "lame horse" in the single sense that it is weak or less able to get from here to there, which is a true fact of both, and thus not really an insult, any more than calling an actually blind person blind would be. In fact, like "blind," in either the literal or metaphorical sense, "lame" is often not really an insult, but just a description–there is simply nothing reprehensible about being lame, even metaphorically (see the entry for lame in the urban dictionary). So actually trying to insult someone with the word "lame" is itself lame.
By contrast, calling someone with a limp a "gimp" is not only an insult, but a slur: the word exists only to demean; and therefore, even using it metaphorically as an insult will violate rule 5 at the very least. (Except perhaps when it's a contextually-appropriate term of affection or self-reference, under conditions such as Natalie Reed described for tranny above; or maybe [?] also in private consensual sexplay: see the urban dictionary on gimp. But we're not talking about those uses here, but it's use as an insult.)
Similarly, "weak" is categorized by some as ableist, but in reality we routinely refer to people who are physically weak as in fact weak: it's just a correct description of their disability (whether chronic or acute). "My wife was too weak to get out of bed" is not an insult; neither is "his ideas for fixing the problem were pretty weak." (Though as a Whedonite I prefer "weak tea.") That's just a correct use of metaphor. And there's no overwhelming history of abuse here. Getting your hackles up over such word usage is not reasonable. And we don't have to accommodate unreasonable expectations.
On the other hand, terms referring to mental illness or defect are another story. I have long tried to resist using terms such as crazy, insane, mad, nuts, loony, etc., of people, unless I really mean to hypothesize that someone is in some sense off their rocker to some degree. In any event we should never use these terms as an insult, but merely as a declaration of suspicion or worry–or as a description of an action or event or thing ("that's crazy"; "I've been having a crazy day"; "we've been losing players like crazy"; "that's a crazy policy") or pretty much anything else that's not an insult ("they're crazy for each other"; "we're crazy that way"; "I get a little crazy sometimes").
Thus, someone's extremely alarming behavior that implies a complete break with sense or reality may have to be called out as such–but only as a straightforward suspicion of fact, not an insult. And context matters to meaning. "Stalin was a madman" does not imply that everyone (or indeed anyone) with any mental disorder is like Stalin. In the context of such a use we understand this only references a particular kind of disturbed mind, and as such appears to be historically apt. But calling just any person with any mental illness "mad" or "crazy" is going to be wrong if you leave it to imply that they are "suffering a complete break with sense or reality," which is false (violating rule 1). In other words, be clear what you mean, and make sure what you mean is correct.
For these and other reasons we should be sparing and judicious in the way we use terms for insanity. And in any event, we should not use them as insults. They are either honest descriptions or hypotheses–or slurs. The mentally ill are not "reprehensible," are not generally a threat to society (those few that are, do not impugn the vast majority that aren't), and are not deserving of insult. So if you insult them, you are violating rule 2; and if you are trying to insult someone else by reference to them, you are violating rule 5. Either way, bad on you. (For more on insanity talk and ableism see Christina's Ableism in Atheism and the ensuing thread.)
For a starker example of ableist epithets, "gimp" and "retard" and "idiot" and even "stupid" and "dumb," when used to refer to people who actually are disabled in the ways those epithets imply, is unmistakably intended to unjustifiably cause harm (violating rule 2) and thus those words are slurs. They attempt to belittle or marginalize those who do not deserve to be–rather than simply describing them (as more accepted words for their conditions would do).
But this also means that when these words are used to insult other people, by metaphor, we are saying "it is reprehensible to be x," that "being x makes you bad for society," the only proper meaning of an insult (rule 2). But that violates rule 5: people who actually are unable to walk, actually are unable to speak, actually are mentally retarded, are not reprehensible or a threat for society. It only compounds the fact that words like "retard" have such hateful histories that they are needlessly triggering (violating rule 6). Words that have become more mainstreamed, like "stupid" or "dumb," you should still not overuse, and mostly use of things rather than people, and only use of people descriptively, not to insult them (and even then there are usually gentler ways to do that, like "he's not too bright").
This is what I have come to realize. And I have changed my ways accordingly. So should you. But some might think I'm just being irrationally PC. So I will say a little more about this last point before concluding.
The Problem with Stupidity
I am convinced now that "stupid" as an insult against a person is ableist, as is idiot, idiotic, moron, and moronic–and above all "retarded" (and not just the pejorative "retard"). And I will be endeavoring to avoid these words in future. Here's why.
Let's start with the seemingly most innocuous of these: stupid. It's true, such a word does not assume false things about disabled people, nor is it directed at disabled people, and as long as it is truthfully applied (the person did behave stupidly or the idea really was stupid), as metaphor it does not violate rules 1 or 2, and with suitable usage, rules 3 or 4 could be met as well. And rule 6 would only apply to the other words ("retarded" especially): those words (whether you are aware of it or not) do have a horrible history of abuse against the mentally disabled and haven't been mainstreamed as anything other than slurs, so they are needlessly triggering (even when used of things, like a "retarded idea," so we should curb our use of even that idiom). There are plenty of words to use in their place (see this list of ableist words and their suggested replacements).
But no matter what, for all these words (even "stupid") rule 5 intervenes: it is simply not true that nothing false is being assumed about others not targeted by this insult. An insult by definition is only moral if it truthfully declares something is reprehensible about a person, something that makes them in some way a cancer or stumbling block to society or the social good, and thus deserving of scorn or rebuke (again: rule number 1 and rule number 2). But genuinely unintelligent people, genuinely retarded people, people who have historically been clinically classified as morons or idiots (a practice now discontinued), are not reprehensible or bad. Think about it. Would you really insult someone as "stupid" if they were mentally disabled? But if they aren't, then what quality in them are you insulting? Insult that instead.
Thus these terms, especially "retarded," are just like "pussy" and "gay" (when used as insults), and therefore just as wrong. Not only do they run afoul of rule 5, these terms also assume the accusation that the target lacks intelligence, as opposed to failing to use the intelligence that they have, and thus the use of these words also violates rule 1, once we properly grasp just what it is we are doing when we use them.
It can be different to say an idea is "stupid" or "dumb," because those two words have been mainstreamed into a milder idiom, such that when used of an idea, context now allows this to be a metaphor for a failure to think rather than an incapacity to think (with no implied reference to any medical condition). You can always accuse the originator of a dumb idea of being, say, lazy, careless, unreasonable, or stubborn, as long as you think that's true; whereas if you instead think the fault is that they are uneducated or miseducated, that's unlikely to be their fault, and thus is not a sound basis for an insult, but can be a sound basis for a descriptive assessment–and an effort to fix it.
To better parse such distinctions think of another word: "freak." That can be used as a demeaning slur to a disabled or deformed person, and has a horrible history of such abuse. But it also has well-established connotations that make no metaphorical reference to that one. For example, "get your freak on," "freak out," "that sculpture is freakish," "you're such a freak!" Notice, first, that none of those alternative uses is an insult. And none of them refer to someone's physical appearance or even deficiencies in physical ability. Thus "freak" does not produce any analogy to recover an acceptable use for "retarded" (or even "idiot," "moron," or "stupid") as insults. We should just do without such words altogether when engaging in the art of insult.
Clarification of Content: Note that this article and its thesis is only about insults (not words used in other ways) and the morality of public discourse (not what you say in private vocalizations or conversations). You should still be cognizant and thoughtful of any consequences of your words in other domains, of course, but the conclusions reached here will not necessarily apply there.
Comments Policy: Note that I will be especially strict in enforcing my comments policy on this post. I want clinical discussions of the issue only, no gratuitous mockery or jokes or other nonsense. And of course, because we may have to discuss even the worst of words in this context, my entire trigger warning applies equally to the entire comment thread.


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Hunt Harris is a self-taught photographer whose images come from his travels around the world. Born in Moline, Illinois he traveled to California's Pomona College and Stanford University for his bachelor's and master's degrees in economics and business. A successful entrepreneur, community activist and philanthropist Harris is recently retired and continues his love of photography and travel. His exhibits have hung in several Quad Cities venues including the Figge Arts Cafe, Augustana College, the Quad Cities Botanical Center and DeWitt Opera House. His Antarctic exhibit permanently resides at Trinity Medical Center's Rock Island campus. More of his work can be viewed on his photo website, www.TheArtfulLens.com.
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Career: Ended her Tulane indoor career having played in one set...recorded one assist at Rice (10/7/12)...named the 2013 Fall Conference USA Spirit of Service Award winner for Tulane.
Senior (2013): Did not appear in any matches during the indoor season.
Earned Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll Honors for a 3.0 cumulative GPA in the spring.
Redshirt Sophomore (2012): Appeared in one match, playing a total of one set...saw time at Rice (Oct. 27)...recorded four total receptions and three total set attempts in the set against Rice...notched an assist in the set..earned Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll honors.
Redshirt Freshman (2011): Did not appear in any matches during the indoor season...was a Tulane 3.0 Club and Conference USA Commissioner Honor Roll selection.
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Adrian Fussell, a New York City-based photojournalist, 23, has won the Ian Parry Scholarship for 2012 for his project "My Name is Victory." The series follows members of the Patriot Guards, from Francis Lewis High School in Queens, NY, a community of immigrant youth who assimilate through participating in the volunteer military program. The award, which comes with a 3,500 British pounds cash prize, was announced this evening at the Visa Pour L'Image Festival in Perpignan, France. Two other finalists were also honored. Photographer Marcelo Pérez del Carpio of Bolivia was named "highly commended" and Hilde Mesics Kleven of Norway was "commended."
In addition to receiving a cash prize, Fussell is automatically added to the list of finalists for the Joop Swart Masterclass, organized by World Press Photo in Amsterdam. Fussell and the two commended finalists will also have their work shown in the Spectrum supplement to The Sunday Times of London and in a print exhibition to be displayed for two weeks, starting September 26, at the ad agency MOTHER in London.
The scholarship was created in memory of Ian Parry, a photojournalist who died while on assignment for The Sunday Times in 1989. It honors young photographers who are either currently enrolled in a full-time photography class or are under the age of 24, to help them receive support and launch their careers. Fussell is a graduate of New York University, and also studied at the International Center of Photography.
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Friday, July 1, 2011
First Quilts On the First
Thank you, AnneMarie, for your First on the First series. It's been a lot of fun and I'm happy to be included!
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- Melissa said...
My first quilt was made with Funkey Monkey also!
- July 1, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- Pieces to Love said...
I love the monkey!
- July 1, 2011 at 8:36 AM
- Live a Colorful Life said...
with my first quilt, I spent days agonizing over the fabric choice, and it was only a double nine-patch with four fabrics!
- July 1, 2011 at 9:33 AM
- Mitzi said...
awww, that's a perfect first quilt. I love the Funky Monkey - especially the girl one.
- July 1, 2011 at 9:41 AM
- Elizabeth D. said...
I loved your piece over at Gen X, you absolutely had me laughing with the bit about your best early sewing skill was the shopping :)
- July 1, 2011 at 9:52 AM
- Amy said...
I love the monkey quilt!!
- July 1, 2011 at 10:03 AM
- LeAnn said...
Your first quilt is a treasure--so cute! No child would ever notice any wonkiness.
- July 1, 2011 at 6:01 PM
- Dianne Neale said...
Just been over to GenX to read about your quilt. Great laugh. Clearly there's hope for us newbies!!
- July 2, 2011 at 12:12 AM
- Ric Rac and Polka Dots said...
Hi Lee,
I'm your newest follower, also from Wisconsin! I loved your story about your first quilt. I think you did an amazing job considering you were a new sewer/quilter. I am pretty much self-taught everything, with a little instruction as a child from my grandma on sewing on an old old Singer and casting on and doing the knit stitch. But I was hooked, and have loved making things all my life. I just didn't know how to do anything. Then I figured it out on my own, unfortunately learning from mistake after mistake. The good news is once you make a time consuming mistake it is a lesson well learned, right?
Please come visit me at my new blog, Ric Rac and Polka Dots. I am brand new, but have lots of fun planned to share with everyone. Bring your friends!!! I hope to see you there.
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Deloitte Ride Across Britain Bike Ride
Land's End to John O'Groats: 10th-18th September, 2016
Deloitte Ride Across Britain is the best way to cycle the legendary Land's End to John O'Groats bike ride. No other event comes close to the experience of riding the entire length of the UK in just 9 days with 93% of riders saying it rates as one of the best experiences of their life.
With regular pit stops, medical support, experienced chaperones and campsites providing hearty food and hot showers, Deloitte Ride Across Britain is one of the best-supported cycling events in UK. Whether an experienced long-distance cyclist or an amateur looking for a life-changing challenge, this event never fails to deliver an unbeatable coast to coast cycling experience.
Last year over 800 riders took part in another sell out year on Deloitte Ride Across Britain. Records were broken and friendships forged. Click here to see the highlights of 2015's event.
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- Assistant Professor of Oncology
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- Medicine at Sibley Memorial Hospital
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- MD, Freie Universitat Berlin (2003)
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Oncology (2010)
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- American Board of Internal Medicine / Oncology (2009, 2019)
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Selected PublicationsDr. Holdhoff's research is focused on translational research projects and clinical trials in neuro-oncology. As a member of the Brain Cancer Program and the Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics at Johns Hopkins, he heads a working group for the development of blood-based biomarkers in malignant gliomas. Dr. Holdhoff graduated from medical school at Freie Universitt Berlin and he received his doctorate degree (German PhD equivalent) at Charit University Medicine Berlin. After internal medicine training at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center he completed his medical oncology fellowship and subspecialty training in neuro-oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Holdhoff is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology and he has a clinic for patients with primary brain tumors, CNS lymphomas and other malignancies of the central nervous system.
Journal Citations
Holdhoff M, Supko JG, Gallia GL, Hann CL, Bonekamp D, Ye X, Cao B, Olivi A, Grossman SA. Intratumoral concentrations of imatinib after oral administration in patients with glioblastoma multiforme. J. Neurooncol 2010; 97: 241-5 (Epub ahead of print Sept 19, 2009).
Holdhoff M, Schmidt K, Donehower R, Diaz LA, Jr. Analysis of Circulating Tumor DNA to Confirm Somatic KRAS Mutations. J Natl Cancer Inst 2009; 101: 1284-5.
Holdhoff M, Parsons DW, Diaz LA, Jr. Mutations of IDH1 and IDH2 are not detected in brain metastases of colorectal cancer. J Neurooncol 2009; 94: 297 (Epub ahead of print April 7).
Holdhoff M, Wung PK, Petronis JD, Couzi R. Persistent positron emission tomography-positive liver lesions after successful chemotherapy in mediastinal seminoma. J Clin Oncol. 2007; 25: 2482-4.
Holdhoff M, Kreuzer KA, Appelt C, Scholz R, Na IK, Hildebrandt B, Riess H, Jordan A, Schmidt CA, Van Etten RA, Drken B, le Coutre P. Radiosensitization of a human glioblastoma cell line by imatinib mesylate through inhibition of platelet-derived growth factor receptor. Blood Cells Mol Dis 2005; 34: 181-185.
le Coutre P, Kreuzer KA, Na IK, Schwarz M, Lupberger J, Holdhoff M, Baskaynak G, Gschaidmeier H, Platzbecker U, Ehninger G, Prejzner W, Huhn D, Schmidt CA: Imatinib in Philadelphia chromosome positive chronic phase CML patients: molecular and cytogenetic response rates and prediction of clinical outcome. Am J Hematol 2003; 73: 249-255.
le Coutre P, Kreuzer KA, Na IK, Lupberger J, Holdhoff M, Appelt, C, Schwarz M, Mller C, Gambacorti-Passerini C, Platzbecker U, Bonnet R, Ehninger G, Schmidt CA: Determination of alpha-1 acid glycoprotein in patients with Ph+ chronic myeloid leukaemia during the first 13 weeks of therapy with STI571. Blood Cells Mol Dis 2002; 28: 75-85.


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Utah Shakespeare Fest: Entertainment for All
"Nothing will come of nothing," so head to the Utah Shakespeare Festival and discover something new. Read More
"Nothing will come of nothing," so head to the Utah Shakespeare Festival and discover something new. Read More
Utah Children's Theatre is now registering kids for its summer camps, and if you get in two weeks early, you'll save about $25 per camp. Read More
Utah Children's Theatre announced the return of one of our favorite Shakespeare festivals. Read More
Put on your tunic and tights, your jerkins and breeches, and head out to the Utah Valley Renaissance Faire. Read More
If you can't make it down south and have kids in tow, check out The Children's Theatre's own Shakespeare Festival. Read More
The Children's Theatre, you know, that cute playhouse for kids that just moved into what was formerly the Avalon Theatre, has announced its first-ever Shakespeare Festival for Kids & Adults from Aug. 17–25. Read More
To see or not to see, that is the question. Generally, when it comes to a Shakespearean play, you can't go wrong, and Hamlet-perhaps one of the Bard's longest plays (if not the longest) is no exception. The Pioneer Theatre Company's latest interpretation of the classic tragedy is good, it's worth your time, but you have to be willing to lose your preconceptions a bit-and willing to sit for three hours. Read More
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Consumers put faith in the government to assure the safety of the food supply, but this
report will document how the government has betrayed that trust by allowing a well-known
food hazard to sicken and kill consumers year after year.
Virtually all shellfish harvested from the Gulf of Mexico in the warmer months carry Vibrio
vulnificus bacteria.(1) Public-health
officials estimate that Vibrio vulnificus in shellfish causes around 50-60
serious illnesses each year.(2) Half of the people
who develop a blood infection from this hazard die from it,(3)
making this one of the deadliest types of food poisoning.(4) Those who are most at risk of developing a Vibrio
vulnificus blood infection after eating tainted shellfish include the 12 million to
30 million Americans(5) who have an underlying
health condition, such as liver disease, AIDS, or diabetes.(6)
Nearly all of the deaths from Vibrio vulnificus-contaminated raw shellfish have
involved oysters harvested from Gulf Coast waters.(7)
Public-health officials and the shellfish industry have known about this hazard for
over a decade, but have not implemented any effective measures to prevent it.(8) That is because the Food and Drug Administrations
(FDA) feeble food- safety program has given away much of its authority to control
shellfish(9) to a group called the Interstate
Shellfish Sanitation Conference (ISSC).
The ISSC is a coalition of shellfish-producing states and industry representatives that
set state standards for the shellfish industry. The Conference, which was designed to
facilitate the interstate sale of raw shellfish, such as oysters, clams, and mussels, lets
the shellfish industry play a leading role in setting the policies governing its industry,
while excluding consumers and their representatives from meaningful participation in the
process. The FDA has allowed the Conference to assume responsibility for setting standards
governing hazards, such as Vibrio vulnificus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus,
and Norwalk virus, in shellfish products. Today, the same Gulf Coast shellfish
industry that has been linked to nearly 150 deaths and hundreds of illnesses over the past
12 years(10) uses the ISSC to prevent
urgently-needed public-health protections. This report documents the history of the FDAs
and ISSCs failure to adequately address the public-health hazard posed by Vibrio
vulnificus in raw shellfish.
Conclusions and
The story of Vibrio vulnificus is the story of
the fox guarding the henhouse. Quite simply, the shellfish industry and its home-state
regulators, which dominate the ISSC, have proven that they cannot police themselves.
Repeatedly the ISSC has put the short-term financial interests of the Gulf Coast shellfish
industry ahead of the well-being of raw-shellfish consumers nationwide. In the end, the
Gulf Coast shellfish industry has suffered economically because its products are widely
viewed as unsafe.(11)
For its part, the FDA has stayed on the sidelines,
seemingly fearful of the $40- million-dollar(12)
Gulf Coast shellfish industry and its powerful allies on Capitol Hill. Effective
government action could have prevented many Vibrio vulnificus-related deaths and
illnesses over the past decade and is still needed to prevent countless tragedies in the
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Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis featured in new NBA 'Laverne & Shirley' video
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In the video, Ellis and Jennings inspect 40% of the beer bottles and let the remaining ones clank off the conveyor belt.Hide replies
Pay the man Shirley!
Too good freshwater.
That's the commercial they should have made.
I'll pile on...
That was gold {fresh}>
Is the implication here that every other guard duo shoots in the 90th percentile? If so, Freshwater really needs to learn a bit more about the game.
Post of the DaY!
Keb. They R the worst shooting duo, by a mile ( which is what they sometimes miss by).
And people wonder why the NBA's audience is dwindling.Hide replies
if by dwindling audience you actually "record TV ratings 2 years in a row" then yes.
While some of the lesser markets (including Milw>) are experiencing
challenges to get people in the building the TV-World could not
be more popular and/or reaping Marketing / Advertising Dollars.
Fans are watching, just not attending as they might>
NBA core demographic must be ages 50-70, at least in Milwaukee.
Ten bucks says Ellis and Jennings had no clue what "LaVerne and Shirley" was other than "my grandma said she used to watch that show when she was little."
Looking forward to next year's NBA "Happy Days" reunion ad, the 2015 "Cheesehead mania" ad and 2016's controversial "Wrong-Way Drunk Driver" public service announcement.
Cute I guess . . .
But the fact they couldn't get these two in a room for the "Schlemiel, schlimazel, hasenpfeffer incorporated!" part tells all you need to know about the fact these guys can't play together.
Lavern and Shirley actually liked each other!Hide replies
I'm confused {Big}?
Are you suggesting tension/friction within the ranks?
Haven't seen it, read about it, or heard such.
Elaborate please, if such knowledge has passed most of us by?
Would two people who didn't like each other get apartments in the same building? BigTruth needs to do a little research before he spouts off.
I actually have a a source or two pretty close to the team and the word on the inside is their relationship is eroding.
Take it for what it's worth.
I heard Monta leaves his socks all over the locker room, and leaves candy wrappers on the floor all the time.
Picks his teeth at the table, never puts he cap back on the toothpaste...
Both miss the potty seat on their "aim" at times...too. LOL. Gets messy in there.
Too bad they aren't featured while wearing Golden State Warriors (or insert any other team but ours) uniforms.
Regarding the trade: Would it be unreasonable to have all 3 guards on the court together at key times? I could see Jennings and Ellis' slashing ability aiding Reddick from distance and freeing up opportunities for the bigs.Hide replies
I actually read something interesting today on one of the NBA sites that said one of the big reasons we made this trade, besides the obvious that JJ can actually make a 3 when needed (Did you hear that Monta??), is to keep Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis from playing together so much. I don't know if they're insinuating it's because they don't like each other, or because they're both ball hogs or they just don't play well together for so many minutes, but it sure is an interesting theory to get them from both being on the court together so much.
kinda of a bassakward way of doing it, don't you think?
Betahh way would have been to trade Monstah.
I think they like each other a little too much, if ya get my drift. Nudge, nudge. Say no more.
You dont need 3!!! You dont need 3's! 3's dont win games! You need Josh Smith and what he brings and the matchup problems he would have posed for 29 games! And if you are seriously going to invest in Jennings you need to get him a complementary player next to him like Smith....NOT JJ REDICK who would take some of his time away! Forget the 3 ball! jennings hits 3's, Dunleavy and Ersan hit them and so does Moute on occasion....you need another big who can get to the line and commend a double team in the low post and finish around the rim and guard the basket with Sanders on both ends!!! You did not need to replace Udrih with Redick. That was dumb.To say nothing of the fact you gave up Lamb and Harris too for a rental just to make the 8th seed. You make deals like this for Redick IF YOU ARE CHALLENGING FOR A TITLE....not the 8th seed!!!
Does it look like we have Bogut or Dwight Howard on our team? Then you dont need Redick. Don't give me this "we need to hit 3's crap" I would not have minded this if we had got Redick and Smith but we did not need Redick at all. You can get Redick in the D-League! Redick comes a dime a dozen. If you were going to get a guard get one with some size who can defend. Not a shooter.You might as well kept beno.
Guess the use of the theme song makes it a L and V thing.
Anyway, if this is being produced for a national audience,
then I welcome it. Its been too long since something positive
went global regarding this franchise.
Even during the 'Trade Talks' when the mic went hot to Legler,
alll he could muster up was, "ya don't hear many free agents
wanting to go to Milw. (Smith)." Winning would cure that,
and such promo's and PR Marketing such as this also brings light
to the fact there still is Hoops In Milw>
Now, as {freshwater} alludes too,
Lets get busy crunkin on that FG percentage,
and Just Win baby....>
Just thinking here but could this video be the reason why Monta was "untouchable"?
As a national piece and not a local piece more money, time, and production value were involved in this segment. Couldn't just scrap it all.
Please Bucks make Larry the face of the franchise.
Montage of blocked shots.
Being taken down by manimal.
Coming back to stuff Lopez for two games straight.
Larry's hand to brow searching for his swatted shot. Audio of Lar-ry chants.
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Please don't give the 'Deputy' any more conspiracy issues..................and, yes, I had the same thought.
Monta is untouchable because Kohl is content with this team being competitive for the playoffs. He could care less about them ever being really good, and doing what's necessary to get to that point.
To be perfectly honest, I thought this ad makes the Bucks look rather bush league. Although that's probably how the rest of the world looks at this franchise.
He is "untouchable" because many people value talent over production.
The Bobblehead Day the first game after the trade deadline and this farce of an ad makes you wonder if this is why Monta was not moved?
Legitimate question. If only Josh Smith got here in time enough to do with with Brandon and Monta then maybe I would like it more....NAW...I hate it in any form. It is stupid and embarassing.
Oh, my. Thank you, Bucks and NBA officials, for clearly illustrating why this team has been irrelevant -- and bad -- for so long. This video is horrendously bad.
Gee, thanks for nothing NBA marketing department. That will really connect with fans. What an embarrassment.
Would they do a send up of the show Adam-12 to promote the Lakers (Kobe is Malloy and Nash is Reed, how hilarious!). Yeah I don't think so.
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Miami Dolphins in the market for TWO quarterbacks
One quarterback just won't be enough this offseason.
That's correct. I've slightly softened my stance – just A LITTLE – on how many quarterbacks the Miami Dolphins could, or should add to the roster.
That belief has been altered based on a few conversation I've had at the NFL combine this week. Miami's really combing through this draft's quarterback talent.
It's impossible to say with conviction right now what the Dolphins will do at quarterback this offseason. But here is what we do know based on the clues provided.
We know Matt Moore is viewed as a solid backup. He had an impressive season that one source told me solidified his NFL standing for probably the next five years. Moore will always be viewed as a solid NFL quarterback, and get recycled plenty.
Unfortunately for Moore, he'll probably need another injury to prove himself AGAIN as a NFL starter.
We do know Peyton Manning and Matt Flynn are atop the Dolphins' target list.
NOBODY can safely say who is higher than who on that list, but most believe if Manning leaves Indianapolis and wants Miami, and if he's healthy, South Florida will be his landing spot.
Landing a healthy Manning makes Miami one of the five most interesting teams in the NFL, and owner Steve Ross desperately needs that.
We do know the Dolphins are enamored with Robert Griffin III, but suspect they realize acquiring him will be expensive IF Washington doesn't sign Manning, and Cleveland doesn't land Flynn.
We also know just about anything being put out there regarding the Dolphins and quarterbacks right now is a smokescreen.
The one thing I've been convinced of is that Miami feels they need two quarterbacks. One will likely be added during free agency, and the other will be selected in the draft.
However, don't be surprised if the drafted quarterback is taken in the later rounds, much like the Packers selected Flynn in the seventh round in the same year they drafted Brian Brohm one spot ahead of Chad Henne.
It might not be a had idea to double down on quarterbacks.
There are some talented quarterbacks in this draft, which is something I address in this story.
There are also some talented quarterbacks who will be available later in the draft, and some would be ideal targets in rounds four through seven.
Richmond's Aaron Corp (played at USC), LSU's Jordan Jefferson (that arm is NICE), Northern Illinois' Chandler Harnish, East Carolina's Dominique Davis, Furman's Chris Forcier (played at UCLA), Florida's John Brantley (better talent than he showed at UF), and North Greenville's Willy Korn (played at Clemson) are some of the quarterbacks flying under the radar.
Some of these arms didn't have the best careers – either at one of two colleges – but they do have the tools to be an NFL quarterback.
Now, don't get overly excited about the Dolphins using an early draft pick on a second quarterback like Ryan Tannehill, Brock Osweiler or Kirk Cousins if they address the position in free agency.
Even thought Moore only has one year left on his contract, Miami has plenty of needs to address – pass rusher, offensive line, cornerback, defensive line, safety, tight end – to make this Manning or Flynn led team competitive. And we're talking about a third quarterback to develop in 2012.
That guy usually gets five snaps during practice and runs the practice squad offense folks.
But considering it takes a few years to get the west coast offense it would be wise if Miami started early, adding someone to compete with Pat Devlin, developing someone young during the Manning or Flynn era just in case.