42 thoughts on “July 2, 2012: No Love For Canada Yesterday??”

  1. Best part of my weekend was playing in my company's dodgeball tournament. It was my third tournament, and the best part was WE WON!!!

    Every year we have 3 teams from the actuarial department, and each year those teams usually finish at least 1 & 2. This year all 3 finished 1, 2, 3.

    The downside is that I'm sore as hell today. Thighs and my right arm from shoulder to forearm all hurt. But it's a good hurt.

      1. I've been in a kickball league at Lake Nokomis the last two years and it's so fun Sheenie got her company to start having kickball tournaments.

  4. Consider the source, but it looks like that book that JoePos is writing is going to be a lot messier.

    On Feb. 26, 2001, Curley reportedly wrote an email to Vice President Gary Schultz in which he said his plan was to talk to Sandusky and also contact the Department of Welfare.

    But the plan changed.

    Despite his obvious implication to the grand jury that he only talked to Curley once, in early February of 2001, Paterno talked to the then athletic director a second time on Feb. 26, 2001. Curley then reportedly wrote to Spanier the next day and said, “After giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe … I am uncomfortable with what we agreed were the next steps.”

    The Department of Welfare was never contacted. There was no attempt to locate the child who was later found by a jury to have been victimized by Sandusky. Perhaps because the emails show that the primary concern, the only concern, was making sure that Jerry was treated kindly. So he had a little problem with a young boy in the shower, straddling him from behind in what anyone would have construed as forced anal intercourse? Jerry Sandusky wasn’t a crisis: a football team that had gone 5–7 the season before was a crisis. What had happened to a 10-year-old boy wasn’t a tragedy; losing to Toledo at home on national television was a tragedy. The most important element of the Jerry Sandusky matter was to keep it mum.

    So they did.

    “There is a more humane and up front way to handle this,” Schultz reportedly wrote in an email.

    “We want to assist the individual to get professional help,” Curley reportedly wrote.

    “The only downside for us is if the message (to Sandusky) isn’t ‘heard’ and acted upon, and then we become vulnerable for not having reported it,” Spanier reportedly wrote.

    2. Penn State is lucky they haven't had players get caught selling jerseys. Then the NCAA would really be after them!

      Shouldn't there be death penalty talk for this football program?

                  1. Well, the Gophs can say, man, we suck in almost every revenue sport, and we've had a colossal academic scandal, and 90% of our football team's fans remember WWII, but hey, AT LEAST WE'RE NOT PENN STATE.

      1. If there is a Hell, Spanier's going to get that statement branded on his privates, methinks.

  5. Back. And this turns out to be one of the craziest days I've had at work in a long time. Also, I'm gone from work the next two days, so... better get it all done (ha!).

    Good thing there aren't any interesting discussions about ethical duties to report harm inflicted on minors or anything like that going on here today...

  6. @DanBarreiroKFAN: Congrats to part-time catcher Joe Mauer making All-Star team for fifth time -- as a catcher!

    I think this is called moving the goalposts.

    Or maybe just being a dick.

    3. Mauer has played in 71 games so far (3 games he was a pinch hitter, so 68 full games). He has caught 35 of them (14 at 1B and 17 as DH) and has a slash line of .388/.461/.530/.990. OPS+ 178. 3 of his 4 homers have come while he was catching.

      that dude needs to tear up he contract and negotiate a lower price.

    1. I went out to mow the lawn at about 845am hoping a) it was late enough I wouldn't piss off any neighbors, and b) it was early enough I wouldn't melt. When I got the lawnmower going, it started spraying oil out the side and smoking. Needless to say, the lawn was not mowed.

      1. Hey, oiling the lawn will probably work almost as well as mowing it. At least it won't squeak.

    2. The freakin' St. Louis Weather Defense Shield™ appears to be up for the summer, and is blocking the pop-up thunderstorms from giving us any rain here.

  10. I know that Rick Sutcliffe is a moron and I should ignore him, but he just suggested that baseball "needs the Cubs to be good" because they are such a good draw around the country. Because, you know, up to this point in time, all of the Cubs' success has really been essential to the growth of the league.

    1. Here I thought it was my giving him an honorable mention for Elizabethton player of the month that got him attention.

  12. First Monday Book Day will be delayed until whenever the hell I get around to writing it. Maybe wednesday. Or late tonight.

  13. Passan on Sano and the movie about him. It's a long read but the movie basically accuses a guy who works for the Pirates of spreading rumors to drive down the price so the Pirates can sign him. If it's true, then the Twins have a lowlife to thank for signing their best talent since Mauer was drafted.

  14. I don't always agree with Ed Thoma, but I definitely agreed with this sentiment:

    And, to be blunt about it, the people complaining Sunday on Twitter about Mauer's selection were simply willfully ignorant.

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