Nitt Picks Is All About The Benjamins

The Flyers suck really, really bad if they lost to a diver.

reading Cataldi’s rants Tuesdays in the Metro are enough for me. I really don’t do sports radio period to be honest.

.500 when I’m on – which is rare enough these days.

The other .500 I either miss completely, think of 5 minutes too late, or the the brotherhood has to step in to prop me up.

I’m from Lancaster too…hence the screen name

/with the memories of pain flooding back to me…

Guilty on Possession with intent to distribute (indisputable that they pulled $800 worth of crack outta his sock)
Guilty on Possession of Paraphernalia (also pulled a bag of mini-baggies from other sock)
Not Guilty on Distribution, which killed me. This one woman stubbornly held onto ‘the cop didn’t see what was transferred’ from 100 feet away (in his secret lookout spot, where it was his sole job to spot this very activity) argument. I tried everything in my persuasive powers. Well, everything in my respectful persuasive powers. I stopped short of ridicule, and only lightly used sarcasm, all probably to my detriment. In my one big moment with the floor, I used the whiteboard and drew a line down the middle. On one side was ‘hand to hand transaction of crack’ on the other was ‘two guys shake hands only’ and asked them to focus not just on which of these two ‘is posslble’, but which is ‘more reasonably likely.’ I gave an example for myself that ’I’ll allow that it is possible that two guys (who were subsequently accosted by the cops who found a small amt of crack on one and a large amt, plus cash, plus baggies (all unanimously agreed-upon by our jury as indisputable) walked past each other on the street, said some brief words, possibly ’what’s up’, gave a quick dap to each other and moved on, and that this dap did NOT involve a crack transfer.’ But that it was my job to assign an ‘amount of reasonableness’ to this possibility and I give it only 15%. This helps me make my decision that the other possibility is more likely and I give it 85% reasonableness. This is just a device to help us all pick one of these two sides, and, oh, by the way, our job doesn’t end there: we also have to convince all 11 other ppl here that this same side has at least 51% reasonableness.’

At this point some jackass had our job twisted and actually suggested that we don’t need unanimity for a Not Guilty verdict and enough of them thought this was a viable enough possibility to send a note to the judge asking for clarity, a break which sapped all my argumentative momentum and, I must admit, a small piece of what I think was my soul.

From there, with my tail between my legs, my bank account dwindled from my own incarceration, my weekend slipsliding away, and my spirit squarely broken, I meekly followed the others across the fence to ‘the cops/gov’t didn’t do enough to convince all twelve of us’ and agreed to let him off on this charge, anything to get me the fuck out of that traphole. I’m still a little rattled from learning that what I thought of as one of my strongest skillsets (the articulation of Reason) served none of us, in any way.

Good times.

What in hell would a Low Budget Robot Party be?

a la you bring it/you break it style?

I’ve been trying for two years to bring back the Pimps & Ho’s party to no avail. SUCK. Never get married.

It was just funny because every other school was like “thanks for your interest, keep in contact if you ever plan to transfer, etc.” FSU’s letter just seemed rude.

but he is actually a pretty good looking guy. Now Hillary…I had always assumed that she just sorta got worse with age, since I never really understood why he was with her. Guess I was wrong. Then again, from all the “affairs” he’s supposedly had, he’s never really seemed to have high standards.

to be taught by a ex-PSU player in school

With him, I don’t even really have any predispositions. It really is more ignernce than anything. Other than fielding a team mostly consisting of texans, he’s been largely forgettable to me.

Forgettable being neutral. I’m open.

It’s so him.

Since when do we suddenly have a grammar police on BSD? Have you read anything on this site? Half of the main page posts have some sort of error on them, and some of those guys own grottos in their back yards!

Although it is funny to have Roland say that he’s an exceptional student, and then blow the grammar in the same post.

now you’ve done it. Gone after the blogmaster’s lady.

…for the record, the FACE thing was kinda funny. Out here in Cali that is the equivalent to our 70’s MODED (pronounced mow-dead) and I have no idea where it came from or where it went but I have been bringing it back for years with RAD and other wasted gems to the utter shock and horror of my stuffy neighbors out here

but instead that it was a Pitt grammar mistake (ewwwww).

BTW, I too love when people make mistakes in their “correction” of someone else’s grammar/spelling mistake. I swear it happens nearly 100% of the time, and it is just so…satisfying.

He is a great example, and I know there are tons of great kids deserving of their situation. Its just so frustrating knowing there are rotten ones too, they overshadow the good ones like Hull and Paul C and Paul Puz and the like.

No one cares about academic all americans, they care about “weed smokers 4:20 omgz”

Thats why I wish there were more stringent academic standards. Instead of saying 2.0 or you are off the team say, 3.0 or you lose part of your schollie, then 2.0 or you are done.

Maybe not that harsh, but I say make it more academically challenging, no athletic scholarships like the Ivy League. Those kids still get their school paid for but it is through other means than worshipping their 40 time or bench press.

That said, I love PSU and we are head and shoulders above the norm in the NCAA with these issues, its just personally frustrating sometimes when I see kids like Mo Evans and Quarles spissing it away, maybe Im a little too bitter, but everyone has a pet peeve i suppose.

for the glory!

I want there to be a better way to divide the bad guys from the good guys. I don’t know how to do that, but It would be nice to live in a perfect world no?

Playing lacrosse took up a tremendous amount of time, between lifting, practice, games, and what not. I think only one guy on the team had a part time job and then you are only allowed to work 20 hours a week. And this was a sport no one cared about…football has to be even more time consuming