CardinalBacker

Yeah.:.. she’s not talking about any accountability for the guy who was wilding out.

When they say “defund the police” they’re talking about taking the money that police departments operate with. Some people want to see less police and some people want them to be completely disbanded. That’s what the Minneapolis City Council voted to do this week. Completely do away with the police force. Some people believe we’d be better off with no police.

That word means different things to different people. Some just want to see police budgets cut to teach them a lesson or make them de-militarize. Others want police budgets (Or a part of them) taken away and given to community outreach programs. Others mean that they want the police departments dismantled, period. It’s a good question.

This is why everybody should have stood up for the truth whenever the first people started saying that the police and the justice system are racist, as evidenced by incarceration rates broken down by race. It went unchallenged, so now it’s generally accepted that law enforcement and the legal system as a whole are racist... what choice do they have but to do away with it like an offensive statue? This isn’t the end game. The American flag will be next, the means of production, and ultimately property ownership because they all are “systematically racist.” I’m telling you... you’re already in danger just for dissent against the movement. Im afraid that at some point we’re going to have to decide to subject ourselves to the mob or take up arms.

He only played in 15. The qb in 16 was a lb in 15. It was his first year under center in the “T.” We also lost the starting wing before the Silsbee game in 15. That kid was a first team all district back in 16, but unavailable in 15. Plus y’all had Tyler in 16. Silsbee had Calvin Tyler, Tre, Barnes, etc. in 16. It wasn’t a rebuilding year. There was one kid that played at the next level from that BC team. Y’all had something like 6, I think. Don’t quote me on that.

It was just an example and I'm sure that we could find plenty that go the other way...

I’m sorry that you feel that way, but it’s just not true. Contrary to what you believe, successful business owners want the best candidate for a position, period. The only color that they care about is green. That ol’ racist NFL would prefer to give all of those player salaries to white guys, right? So why don’t they?

Do it, Soulja!

I disagree. I don't think anybody believes MCM will be the same this year if they are forced to play in an empty stadium. Have you ever been to a MCM?

That was a gross injustice, lol.

Should have... that's a 5A D2 School beating up on a 4A D2. I've been so disappointed the last few years. It's not even fun anymore.

42 two points hung on superior athletes two years in a row. By a bunch of slow kids from BC. Sounds like y'all have it figured out. Seven on seven should have y'all ready for the Pirates. Carry on. EDIT..... HJ (1-9) point more points on the Tigers in District play in 2019 than any other team... even WOS.

Let's be honest.... there's Mid County Madness and then everybody else. Attendance is a big part of it. When tickets can't be had and every seat is filled..... You know the crowd is 100% pumped on both sides of the field. Relative parity is important, too. The fact that the series is relatively close and the fact that you can throw the current season records out the window at kickoff because it's anybody's game.

Honestly, we were gashing them so bad that we weren't killing much clock. Better athletes on the Silsbee squad, they just weren't ready for the T. I still favor Silsbee in the matchup with Vidor, but I could see it being a potential stumbling block.

Hiring based on skin color, sex, or any other such “qualification” is wrong. Even if you’re doing it to try and correct a wrong. It’s still wrong. I have a cousin that got a CJ degree from Lamar in the mid 90s and his plan was to join the DPS. He admittedly wasn’t a top-tier candidate, and at the time the DPS was committed to hiring 60% minority candidates if my memory is correct. The only problem is that they weren’t getting enough minority candidates of any tier... you had to be Superman to get hired if you were white, but preferred (POC, female) candidates would get hired if they could fog a mirror. He’s in school administration now, lol.

17 would have been a down year and then we got clobbered by injuries. Dubois was gone in 18, hence the “run it well.” You guys always have good teams. 15 was our first year in the system and we out 42 on you. Y’all had a year to get ready and in 16 we put 42 on your D again. If a bunch of slow white kids (y’all have us on speed) hang 40+ on you repeatedly with a ball-control offense... you’re having trouble with the slot-T. That’s been several years, no doubt... I guess the question for you, Defender of the Tigers, is whether or not you guys have faced anybody that ran a good “T” since we beat Calvin, Tre, Barnes and the rest of those “scrubs(?)”for the DC in ‘16? Because that was a good Silsbee squad.

The most talented group to ever come out of Silsbee got done up by a bunch of slow white kids running the T in ‘16. Maybe Coach Smith has helped with defensive discipline... I just believe that Silsbee hasn’t seen much of it, and when they did they struggled. We held them fairly close in 15, too... with the starting wing out for the season. 17 was a wash for us injury wise, then we abandoned the T. Any time a slot t team hangs fifty on you, you’re struggling.

You know who knows that Bible through-and-through? The devil. I flew in and out of Chicago O’Hare about 15 years ago. We had time to kill before our flight out so we decided to hop on the El Train and see downtown. Not smart. The whole way down there looked like we were rolling through the part of town that JJ lived in on “Good Times.” I felt like I had a “mug me” sign on my back. And I lived down in Port Arthur, lol. My opinion on the state of affairs in Chicago comes almost exclusively from looking at shooting and murder totals from whichever sources toss up a headline. I normally don’t get too deep into the articles.

They haven’t faced any that I’m aware of in that time span. I’m aware of. Somebody from Silsbee can correct me if I’m off about that. Correction.... Lumberton has been running it some, but not well

I’m excited about Silsbee Jasper coming back this year.

I think Beaumont tries hard to be the kind of police force that they need to be. They parted ways with Chase Welch after two shootings in a short period of time (and an additional shooting after he left the Beaumont PD) and it's pretty obvious that this guy was having problems doing the job without shooting people, indictments or not. In another case a young officer that I know personally was having some real problems with anger management. I'm aware of a domestic violence incident and another off-duty fight. Beaumont PD cut ties with the guy before he ever turned into the kind of cop that we all worry about. He's intimidating people at HEB, now, lol.... Wasted a trip through the academy. Beaumont PD tries.

That's not how contracts work, buddy... If you have a contract and don't perform the duty that you promised, then your contract becomes unenforceable, generally speaking. That's why everybody talks about "game checks" in the pros, buddy.... you get paid for performing. If you don't perform the duty that you were giving in exchange for the consideration (money, in this case), you don't get the money, buddy.

Should high school coaches still be paid a coaching stipend when they aren't coaching? Should we even be paying head coaches (guys that don't teach) at all if sports are canceled? Should school bus drivers get paid if they don't drive buses any more? These are real questions that will get real answers as the taxes paid into the schools dry up because of a failing economy. And no, the pro athletes aren't getting paid right now. The big fight in baseball is whether or not to honor their contracts if play resumes. To illustrate... If they're only going to play 1/2 of their games, they should draw 50% of their pay, right? Wrong. Because there will be no revenue generated in an empty stadium. No tickets sales, no concessions, no merchandise, no parking.... The teams can't afford to pay players what they would have been paid in front of a crowd. It's basic math... that's why they aren't resuming play without fans unless the players come off of their money.

The problem is this.... people who work in the medical field see this one way. It's seen a completely different way by people who work in business. People who are still drawing a check see it different than a guy whose business is shuttered. Sometimes there are no answers. Sometimes we just get a reminder that we are a part of the animal kingdom and disease is a reality that we forget about. A surgeon can tell you exactly how to avoid catching the thing. He'd recommend that you scrub your hands for 20 minutes, wear a mask and gown, clean every surface with antibacterial disinfectants and never leave the sterile environment of an operating room. He wouldn't be wrong. Except we can't all do that.

What if you provide for your family through sports? Or any other industry shuttered by the fear of the virus?