SageAgainstTheMachine

Field of Dreams gives it competition, especially with the whole father/son thing.

Haha, we all have those moments.

No Bull Durham?!?!? A League of their Own is a great movie.

Alfonso Soriano and Adam Dunn are in the majors, and quite successful. However, I suppose they are susceptible to sliders and slurves, not off speed stuff in general.

"Ride in the back of a cruiser" means that he was arrested and driven away in a police car, not that he was in the back seat of a friends' car when the gun was found.

It also doesn't help that many of the NHL's superstars speak broken English. Ovechkin has all the personality in the world, but you can't really understand anything that comes out of his mouth. Also, he's ugly as sh*t.

I've heard that using amphetamines in the lockerroom is still quite prevalent. I forgot which team it was, but in the lockerroom there was "leaded" coffee and "unleaded" coffee. Not so subtle. I think amphetamines are the dirty little secret of the NHL that everybody sorta knows about.

Alright dude, sounds good to me. That's what tends to happen when people have discussions regarding human nature.

You mean because of the Fugitive Slave Act? I have to admit, I don't know much about Fillmore...

Well I apologize for assuming you were uninformed, but you haven't been backing up any of your arguments with scientific data, you've just been saying that I'm wrong and then vaguely explaining why.

And I guess I should clarify my point a little. When I say "put down the bottle", I mean "Do everything in your power to put down the bottle." I realize that cold turkey only works for a very small percentage of addicts, the people that realize just how strong will power can be. Counselling, AA meetings, anything that helps a person to quit. The trouble is that I believe the whole victim mentality is a good excuse for people to not seek help. That's why I protest against the disease label. At AA meetings, the people say "I have a problem", not "I have a disease". Admitting you have a problem is the correct attitude and the first step toward beating it. Thinking you have a disease is the wrong attitude and an easy way give up hope of ever beating it.

Probably about as much as you. Sometimes common sense suffices, doesn't it? Problem: Cannot drink in moderation. Solution: Don't drink at all.

What does the man's religion have anything to do with this? Christians, Jewish people, Hindus...men of those faiths have killed their wives too.

Nope, I have many problems and personal issues of my own. I'm just man enough to take personal responsibility for them.

Putting words in my mouth again. I never said depression wasn't a real disease. And you are dead wrong about support not being important. One of the primary causes behind depression is the sense of isolation that sadness causes. People with a strong support system of family and friends are less likely to slip into depression and that's a verifiable fact. Why would talking to a psychiatrist help but talking to your brother not help? As for most mental diseases, I can only assume they are all "real" but I think that they are overdiagnosed. Some people have chronic fatigue syndrome, but other people diagnosed with it are lazy. Some kids have ADHD, but the majority that are prescribed Ritalin are just poorly behaved. Some people probably have seasonal affective disorder, but the majority of others just like to mope about the winter. As for anorexia and alcoholism, they are behavioral. Nobody becomes an alcoholic by drinking a couple of beers every weekend. They become alcoholics from drinking heavily. People make the mistake of drinking too much and some of them become addicted. The cure is to put down the f*cking bottle and stop drinking. The cure to anorexia is to pick up a fork and eat something. People who are unwilling to change their lifestyles in order to prevent themselves from dying do not have my sympathy. It's the same with obesity. Yes, some people have legitimate metabolism probles, but the majority of obese people just eat far too much and never leave their living room couch. And yet, morbidly obese people now qualify as having a "disability". It seems that in America, we're all about being victims. "I can't stop drinking, I have alcoholism". "It isn't my son's fault that he acts up in class, he has ADHD."

Any good psychologist or psychiatrist will tell you that non-medical treatments for depression can be just as, if not more, valuable than medical treatments. Therapy, counselling, support from family and friends, thinking positive (and yes, that includes smiling) all do wonders. Yes, pills are necessary a lot of the time, but saying that you "disagree 100%" that smiling more can help is just foolish. And would you please hold off on the Straw Man logic, it isn't fooling anybody. You turned "I don't believe anorexia and alcoholism are diseases" into "I only believe in diseases that you can physically see". Maybe I just have a different interpretation of the word disease than you.

Do you disagree that it helps? I'm no doctor, but I suspect a positive outlook is capable of doing things that pills can't.

Hilarious This one's even better IMO... http://www.theonion.com/content/video/pre_...coin_toss_makes

Not the hugest Danny McBride fan (thought he was intolerable in pineapple express), but this seems like a funny show, and it's about baseball which just ups the ante.

Aw man, Marshaw Lynch got arrested too? Why can't the Lynch family stay out of trouble?

Yippie Kay Yay Mr. Falcon.

My family has a pretty significant history of alcoholism, so I'm not separated from this issue. Having said that, I'm sorry, if the cure to your disease is eating a sandwich or not drinking beer, I don't consider it a disease. There is a difference between a disease and an addiction. An addiction can be solved with will power, no matter how hard it may be. Withdrawal is a horrible thing, but people DO quit their addictions cold turkey.

You know who ran a slow 40? Jerry Rice. How'd he turn out?

Ok, I don't want to sound insensitive, but there are millions of people out there in the world who barely have the resources to feed themselves every couple of days, and many of those people (including children) starve to death. And I'm supposed to feel bad for privileged girls from the suburbs who REFUSE to eat because of body image problems? Yeah, advertisements have created unhealthy ideals and everything but if these girls are dumb enough to blindly follow those ideals like lemmings, I don't see why they are deserving of pity. There's such a thing as free will.

I know, but just consider it an example of metonymy. "The Oval Office" is metonymous for "The Presidency".