Things that irk you......

[bigpern23]

Youth basketball teams? You mean AAU teams?

Yeah.

 

[Alma]

Yeah.

AAUTeams that need a million dollars to fund usually exist to line the pockets of the people putting them together.

In other words, the charity is for grown men who like basketball

 

[bigpern23]

AAUTeams that need a million dollars to fund usually exist to line the pockets of the people putting them together.

In other words, the charity is for grown men who like basketball

OK. What's your point?

 

[Alma]

OK. What's your point?

That you wouldn't be able to raise two cents for a charity like that.

 

[bigpern23]

That you wouldn't be able to raise two cents for a charity like that.

OK. So? What is the stated mission of Cathy's Kids? I don't know because OTL didn't cite anything specifying the charity's mission. The story, as written, questions why the charity hasn't given to cancer-related causes even though it is named after his mother, who died of cancer. But without citing the organization's stated mission, whatever it may be, the story is making a leap not supported by facts.

 

[Justin_Rice]

When Barnes and Noble asks you if you're a preferred member every ****ing time you buy something and when you say no, they tell you much you would have saved and ask if you want to sign up . Then they ask for your
Email address as if that's normal and you're forced to say you don't want to give it. All this bc you wanted to buy a ****ing magazine.

Is that REALLY what you were doing at the bookstore?

 

[swingline]

Smart, pretty, cornfields, blah blah blah.

We've heard that story before.

 

[CD Boogie]

Is that REALLY what you were doing at the bookstore?

buying a magazine? Maybe you're making a pop culture reference I'm not getting here.

 

[Justin_Rice]

buying a magazine? Maybe you're making a pop culture reference I'm not getting here.

I'm sure we've got a Frequent Poster here who can clue you in to the joke I was making.

;)

 

[Vombatus]

buying a magazine? Maybe you're making a pop culture reference I'm not getting here.

PORN, man. PORN!!!

Sheesh.

 

[CD Boogie]

PORN, man. PORN!!!

Sheesh.

I do all my porn on the web, my man.

 

[Vombatus]

I do all my porn on the web, my man.

How many websites you on?

 

[CD Boogie]

How many websites you on?

right this moment?

 

[Alma]

OK. So? What is the stated mission of Cathy's Kids? I don't know because OTL didn't cite anything specifying the charity's mission. The story, as written, questions why the charity hasn't given to cancer-related causes even though it is named after his mother, who died of cancer. But without citing the organization's stated mission, whatever it may be, the story is making a leap not supported by facts.

Click on the link, go to the end of the doc under "primary exempt purpose."

http://www.espn.com/pdf/2013/0329/espn_otl_CathysKids2011.pdf

It was a sham.

 

[bigpern23]

Click on the link, go to the end of the doc under "primary exempt purpose."

http://www.espn.com/pdf/2013/0329/espn_otl_CathysKids2011.pdf

It was a sham.

I never said it wasn't a sham. In fact, I noted that if Jerry DeGregorio is the head of the foundation, it is highly suspect. The article should have quoted or referenced the organization's stated mission to support its claim. It's the reporter's job to give the reader the relevant information, not to make the reader sift through 10 pages of IRS forms to find it.

Do you disagree OTL should have included that in its story?

 

[Alma]

I never said it wasn't a sham. In fact, I noted that if Jerry DeGregorio is the head of the foundation, it is highly suspect. The article should have quoted or referenced the organization's stated mission to support its claim. It's the reporter's job to give the reader the relevant information, not to make the reader sift through 10 pages of IRS forms to find it.

Do you disagree OTL should have included that in its story?

It did include that information in a perfectly economical way:

"Some specific examples of what "Outside the Lines" found after conducting interviews and examining documents: NBA forward Lamar Odom's charity that promised money for cancer research has not given a dime in grant money to any cancer entity in its eight-year history."

 

[dixiehack]

Professional sports teams who think they are creating "atmosphere" with their cookie cutter vinyl banners name-checking everyone from the captain to the backup long snapper. "Bob's Buddies" "Rick's Rowdies" "Samuel's Squad". Just don't.

 

[Buck]

Did it become the common usage or was it always the intended usage?

Good point.
Perhaps it was always intended to be used this way, but it has become increasingly common in its use.

As for the half-game/game, if that is the case, which is a big if, it is a meaningless use of words that have a prescribed meaning.
I can't file for a permit to build a 40-foot extension on my house when in my meaning 40 feet actually means 20 feet.
There is a finite number of games played in a season. That number divided by 2 determines where .500 falls.

 

[Alma]

Professional sports teams who think they are creating "atmosphere" with their cookie cutter vinyl banners name-checking everyone from the captain to the backup long snapper. "Bob's Buddies" "Rick's Rowdies" "Samuel's Squad". Just don't.

Those are usually charities.

 

[bigpern23]

It did include that information in a perfectly economical way:

"Some specific examples of what "Outside the Lines" found after conducting interviews and examining documents: NBA forward Lamar Odom's charity that promised money for cancer research has not given a dime in grant money to any cancer entity in its eight-year history."

I disagree that sentence was perfectly economical. If it had added something like, "... according to tax documents filed with the IRS," I would agree with you.