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  1. Mr. Brooks
    Dodgers ownership isn't the GM though. There may be some GM's who could be meddled by ownership- ours for example. But I doubt Andrew Friedman is one of them. I'm guessing he has enough clout that ownership isn't going to meddle in his trade negotiations.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    Because only one team has interest.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    If it's a promise that you'll never break then there is no reason not to put it in the contract. Do you have an explanation for why they would make it a handshake understanding, rather than just put in a no trade clause?
  4. Mr. Brooks
    What if you have an employee that you know is stealing from the company, but the police say there is not enough evidence to charge them?
  5. Mr. Brooks
    I'm not sure where you are going with the comparison to the war on drugs. Drug use doesn't directly impact others the way that sexual assault does. Are you saying that if someone doesn't think drugs should be treated as a criminal matter then they are hypocrites if they think sexual assault should be? The bigger and more apt difference in this situation though is that nobody here is calling for these guys to go to prison. This is a university policy issue. Just like schools and workplaces can have a policy against drugs, which most of us who oppose the war on drugs understand is completely different than law enforcement, and are OK with.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Well we completely disagree to the extent that these cases are going to erode any principles of justice. And that's OK.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    I guess to me when you are only risking someone wrongly having to change schools (not jail time or having to register as a sex offender), then I'm OK weighing that risk against protecting women's right not to be assaulted. You may end up being right that it doesn't help. Time will tell. I'm still OK trying it though. You always weigh the consequences on both sides of a civil liberty issue. You don't have the freedom of speech to yell fire in a crowded theater. In a vacuum that is a clear violation of 1st amendment rights, but when weighed against the consequences, it's more important to protect people from being trampled. You can lose your 2nd amendment rights if you have a history of violence. Cops can search your house without a warrant if they have reasonable suspicion that danger is imminent, like you have a kidnapped person inside, or a bomb. Every single constitutional right, or civil liberty that we have, I can give examples of instances that public safety is given priority over your individual right.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    My point is that your solution is a societal one. It's not something the Universities can have much control over. Maybe when more is done on society and law enforcement's part, then the universities can walk some of these policies back a bit.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    The schools decided to step in and handle what they could in their end. They couldn't just sit around and wait any longer for the criminal justice system to come around. I agree that more needs to be done on the criminal side. I just disagree that it has to be either/or.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    When we start having an epidemic of unprosecuted murders at workplaces, then this will be an apt analogy.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    The school isn't charging them with a crime though. It is a policy violation. It doesn't have to be as difficult to prove as a crime.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    I believe Mike took that figure from an earlier post by me. I have to apologize. That was the number that was in my head, but it is actually 20%.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    And he actually takes the opposite side of the coin in the election thread regarding gun control. When innocent kids are dying, Levi suggests action, even if it means borderline constitutional infringement. But not when young women are being assaulted.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    What if the criminal justice system is completely not working? So far I haven't heard any suggestions from you on how we fix this epidemic.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    I would agree. The penalties don't need to be overly severe. Having to change colleges is not some catastrophic penalty. It could be argued these players are getting off incredibly lightly. Let's find a way to bring some kind of punishment though. The criminal justice system is clearly not capable of doing that.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    Does it really matter if May starts the 2nd game of the season or the 4th?
  17. Mr. Brooks
    Levi- you say tougher penalties don't work. States everywhere finally started getting tough on DUI several years ago, and that has drastically reduced alcohol related fatalities. Thirty years ago nobody feared the consequences of driving drunk. I've heard so many people of my father's generation talk about how the police would give them a warning and follow them home. Could you imagine that happening now? The cop would be fired. Sure, plenty of people still very behind the wheel, but a lot say it's not worth getting caught. I disagree that tougher penalties don't always work. In some cases they do, in some they don't.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    IMO, pitching prospects should be viewed as lottery tickets until they have shown success at AA. I'm also excited at what these guys could become, maybe, but I don't even pencil them into any future plans until that level. So, this is a big year for them.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Well said Brock. We are up to 4 in 10 female college students being sexually assaulted. The status quo of leaving it to law enforcement isn't working, and if that doesn't improve quickly, I'm not sure I'll be comfortable sending my daughter to college in 5 years.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Two things. Nolasco is on the downside of his career, and has enough innings to say the ERA is what it is. May is in his prime and doesn't have enough innings to use ERA as a predictor. Nolasco was a league average starter before he came here. I know that is hard to imagine, given how awful he was here. If May can be pre Twins Nolasco that has huge value because he's still making the league minimum.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    Yes, if May can become a league average starter that is huge. Do you know how much league average starters cost in FA? Right now we only have 1 starter that is league average or better.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    They do have more proof. They have evidence that some of the accused deleted messages and videos. The have statements from accused players that aren't consistent with video evidence. They have conflicting stories from accused partieside. In instances where there is insufficient evidence, they cleared some of the accused. You didn't answer how that jives with your accusation that they are going off her word only. The video only covers 100 seconds of the incident. The encounter could have began as consentual and changed at a moment not captured by video. It's also possible that she was scared so she didn't resist. I don't bring those points up to imply that possibilities equal evidence, just that the video is likely not of much use.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    Sorry, it's probably my fault but I don't know what you are saying here. This is not a criminal case. This is a university investigation into policy violations. The university is REQUIRED to investigate by title 9. The lack of criminal charges doesn't free them from that requirement.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    I think we have reached an impasse. You clearly think that the university should be required to have proof beyond almost all doubt. You think anything less than that is flipping the burden of proof. Do you care to address the students that were not disciplined due to lack of evidence? For some reason the university didn't have an agenda against those students? You seem to think that the university is lying when they say that they use the preponderance of evidence standard. You seem to suggest that an accusation alone, with no evidence is enough. But that doesn't really jive with the players who were cleared in this report. By taking the stance that the university has an agenda based conspiracy going on, you move the goalposts to a place where nobody can argue with you because in a conspiracy anything is possible.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    A9 claimed to be playing video games at A3's apartment. A3 told investigators that he wasn't. A9 was disciplined for lying to investigators, not for any sexual conduct. Also, I think A9 was only given probation, not suspended. I don't know that for sure though.
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