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You guys are all high rollers with your guac. So damn expensive.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 02:20 PM) +1 It's fine, but it's not earth shattering. And certainly not worth the $10-12 they charge. I will say though, that their guac and lime chips are the bomb. I could that stuff all day. I think I spend like 7 bucks and get a massive amount of food.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 02:17 PM) I don't get what is so great about Chipotle. It isn't that good. There are so many dive type places I would rather go to that just blow it away. Give me a Taco Burrito King for starters. Well I don't view it as mexican food, but in general, its affordable, high quality ingredients that you can turn into a relatively clean meal (as long as you monitor the portion aspects). It isn't greasy, etc.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 01:21 PM) What's the harm? Clear some cap space, try to get an extra late first rounder this year, and our lineup next summer has Rose and Butler and a couple bigs including a young Portis and a need at SF. If we don't land him, then we're in the same boat we are now except after 2017 Rose's contract comes off the books. We still have 1 young all star locked up for 3 years right now. I also think they should be looking at Boogie and Blake Griffin too. And if the Lakers are down on Russel, why not see what you can do there. In no way am I saying we should be frontunners, but Pax needs to be aggressive.

Eh. He's a pretty lousy player.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 12:25 PM) This is a really interesting conversation we keep having about greg posting things he's watched on cable news and how the media loves hillary. You know...I don't really get it. A lot of what Greg has said is actually true. Have you guys watched a lot of the clips. Most of the time I watch any coverage on the election, I just roll my eyes at the absurd arguments made on both sides of the court. You all do realize the vast majority of people who vote know nothing other than some slight aspects from what the media says and more often are going to go and vote based upon party and likeability. For example, someone just not liking someone because of there look is a total normal reason to not vote for someone or how they carry themselves. History has shown how superficial voters are and yet all of you want to ignore those facts. I have talked to numerous people who like trump purely because they here the media say he tells it like it is. None of them know what he actually is saying, he just "tells it like it is". Thats it. You all give people too much damn credit to be frank. And maybe someone will whine and say, well now we are smarter, no we aren't, Howard Dean's speach ended his campaign (did he have other issues, sure, but that one speech sure has hell torpedoed any remaining odds he had and it isn't like he said anything bad). Plus lets be realists, I could make an argument that Trump (and I think by now, all of you know I don't like Trump) is the most selfless of everyone in this campaign as he's the only one who hasn't been totally bought out (of course I'd also tell you he has a gargantuan ego and that is probably more to do with him running). They are all selfish candidates who have all kind of interests with gigantic egos. Anyone thinks otherwise is delusional. The potential exception to this is Sanders, who genuinely seems passionate about what he wants to do (and I'll give him credit for that) and is an extremely rare candidate from that regard.

Yeah I'm a burrito bowl guy. Rice, black beans, chicken, veggies, mild, medium (corn and medium), cheese and lettuce. f***ing delicious.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 12:34 PM) Mike Brown. Flip Saunders. Doug Moe I think with the Nuggets. The Bulls almost hired Doug Collins when they hired Thibs. It happens, but Thibs isn't coming back. He can find a job way too easily, and the public shaming was ridiculous. I like JR, but that was classless and unnecessary, and IMO he got played by Gar Foreman. I really wonder if things are as bad as some of the insiders are reporting, with Gar, whether he even makes it to the trade deadline. I truly believe Gar is absolutely gone.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 12:23 PM) It is a flawed roster. I doubt we'd be 7th in east, thou. Clearly if this team is healthy, it is still a top 3 team in the East. Just look at the recent collapse (and all the games this team has lost which it should have won...where it just inexplicably blew it)...and we are still just 4 games or something off the Celtics and the 3 spot. That said, as Pau said, we've been an inconsistent team for a year and a half and clearly aren't better off because Thibs is gone. Anyone who thought Thibs was so bad that Hoiberg could come in and make them a championship team was crazy (i.e., Gar). I don't know if they legit believed that or if it was more that they just felt they needed a better working relationship (and improved health or more time, including continued development from some of the young players, who have all taken steps backwards with exception of Doug, who quite frankly, could only get better and should have given his health). This is a very flawed roster and a beat up roster. Oh and if Thibs had played Butler all those minutes, good lord people would have complained.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 11:33 AM) Right now they're 7th in the East. Blog I just read suggests this is 7+ games for Jimmy. Bulls are 1.5 games ahead of the Hornets, in the middle of a losing skid, now without their best player. I sure as heck would be trading Gasol for the best deal I could get in this situation, probably also trying to clear either dunleavy or Gibson out so that they can make a full max contract offer to anyone and everyone next offseason. What's the harm? Butler + Rose + Durant sounds like an adequate setup to me. You know Balta, we agree. Everyone else acts like we should just give up and not try for Durant, but I say screw it.

Guy has a lot of clubhouse issues, which concerns me. He's also had some injury issues. However, when he's been healthy, he's been very good and we have a good track record when it comes to getting guys healthy and getting the most out of our pitchers. I like this move from a pure depth perspective. Robin is going to have to earn his pay though. Some definite personalities in this lockeroom.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 09:44 AM) These flu bugs that run through households are ruthless. Something I never experienced until I had kids. Friday the 3-year old pukes up her entire breakfast. Saturday night my wife couldn't even keep water down. Sunday the 5-month old finishes a bottle of milk and immediately pukes the entire thing up. Last night it was my turn to spend the night in misery in the bathroom. Luckily the kids didn't get it that bad, but it's crazy how it just goes from person to person, day by day. Yeah...I never had an appreciation of this sort of stuff until we had kids. And the worse part is, that is when your kids really need you and you are just miserable and have to find every way to move forward. Stomach issue has gone through our house with my wife getting brunt of it and our 9 month old. So far my daughter and I have been lucky (and I'm praying it ends up that way). And then there are colds, which I swear, never actually stop in our house (at least amongst the kids). Build up those immune systems kiddos Who am I kidding, I never had any idea how much work it was being a parent until I actually became on, haha. Truly makes you appreciate what your parents ultimately did for you. And as they grow up so fast, you think, wow, before you know it they are going to be teenagers and not want to spend any time with you.

QUOTE (whitesoxjr27 @ Feb 8, 2016 -> 01:21 PM) I feel you guys are cool with me so i decided to post this and ask advice. I met a guy on a phone app and we talked for a week and met for Starbucks on Saturday. He is 23 and me 37. 14 year difference. We were there for almost three hours talking. I knew going in he has a boyfriend and that he just wanted to be friends. But half the time he was b****ing about his man. I even asked him if he told his boyfriend he was meeting me? He said NO. I got his number and a hug at the end of the night and now he wants to go to dinner and hit the clubs. Not sure if he is looking to dump his man or what? He even talked about coming over to my house some time. I am torn! Personally, I'm leery of anyone who isn't honest with their partner. If he's going to lie to his current partner, why wouldn't he lie to you? Now if you are okay with that and are looking for something not so serious, than fine, but I personally think little for someone who is with someone starting to see or even look into other people while they are still together. If they want to go down that path, than they need to break up. My immediate gut reaction is this is someone looking to play the field.

Would the Bulls be able to acquire Griffin or Durant in a trade? I presume no, but probably worth discussing.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 8, 2016 -> 11:19 AM) Is he the guy who had some, "racial" issues a couple years ago? Wasn't he a TE? Yep. Wideout (but good size for a wideout). Solid player (nothing special) but I don't know why if I were a GM, with all the potential guys to sign, I'd spend time on Cooper and bring that sort of distraction to my lockeroom.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 8, 2016 -> 11:15 AM) Eagles have released WR Riley Cooper If I were a team, there is no way I'd sign Cooper. Not worth it.

http://slickdeals.net/f/8491785-coupon-for...tphone-required If you aren't afraid of the health scare, free Chipotle burrito. They had me at "free" burrito

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/eli-ma...4b08069c7a7d1e5? How did no one post this gif. Hilarious.

QUOTE (Doc Edwards Shot @ Feb 8, 2016 -> 07:53 AM) There has been a lot of conversation over the years about the time in the 1980s when Jerry was threatening to move the Sox to Tampa if he didn't get the city and state of IL to pay the bulk of the cost of the construction of "new" Comiskey Park (now U.S. Cellular Field). If this were to ever happen again and the Sox actually moved like the St. Louis Rams are currently doing, what would you do? Would you continue to follow the Sox remotely via a new TV premium package? Would you switch to some other team? Would you do the unthinkable and start following the Cubs since they would be the lone remaining team in the city? I don't know what I would do other than take a little time off from baseball to think about it - kind of like a grieving widower who would need some time before starting to date again. If they changed the name, given I live close to Angel stadium and follow the Angels as a secondary team, I'd drop the Sox and follow the Angels 100%. I think some of this would depend on what precipitated the move and how everything went down as well.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 8, 2016 -> 09:24 AM) Well, so here is the issue...some of the aggressive renewable portfolio standards, particularly in California, have brought a lot of wind and solar onto the western electric grid. Additionally, the production tax credits being extended through 2021 has finally provided developers with some sense of stability. So what happens is that certain states that are in proximity to states with high renewable portfolio standards, or in areas where wind or solar are particularly feasible to develop, have tremendous opportunities, if they have flexibility with their fossil fuel generating resources, to purchase solar and wind energy for tremendously low prices, sometimes even getting paid to take the energy, on the wholesale market. Enter distributed generation customers who now wish for the utility to compensate them for their solar energy at a retail rate that is often 5-10 times the wholesale rate. Why would a utility want to be on the hook for that? It's basically the second coming of PURPA, which many utilities are finally unwinding now. California, I must say, bless their hearts, are going to be paying many other states to take their solar and passing those expenses onto their rate payers. And then when they need other states' fossil fuel generation, they tax their ratepayers additionally for that dirty energy as well. I've long felt it was odd that the people with solar get paid a higher rate than the wholesale rate. It never made sense to me (other than essentially just using it as another subsidy / incentive to push solar). The other question in Nevada is what is going to come of solar in a state where theoretically, solar would make a ton of sense. I had read a few articles which indicated all the national carriers essentially left the state (no idea if that is true) but clearly the solar argument becomes much more null and void if the pay back period is significant. With all the incentives, you can justify solar pretty easily in CA (If I wasn't planning on moving to a bigger house, I'd have already put it on my current place). It all comes down to the fact that the solar industry still hasn't hit the fine line between reducing the incentives and the cost of solar coming down (to where you don't hit an eqilibrium point that significantly jumps the cost of installing solar back up). Auto industry has some similar issues with how it rolled out electric and hybrids, etc.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 8, 2016 -> 09:33 AM) What he did to Fisher was brutal. Made him install the triangle with zero players that fit the system(not to mention it is antiquated), gave him absolute s*** rosters which were further gutted, and then fired him how could one even tell if he is a lousy coach After asking my question, I did see a report saying the Knicks had already decided Fisher wasn't transitioning appropriately between his role as a player and a coach (per Windhorst). I'm guessing those are things you could visually see, despite the lack of a roster. That said, you'd also expect some of those things, given that he hasn't coached, and you can't expect him to be an expert overnight. I have a similar belief about Hoiberg (as much as I complain about him, I try to remind myself the NBA game is a lot different than the college game). But that is the optimist in me who always wants to hold out hope. Hell, I kept hoping one day a switch would go on for Del Negro, LOL (who I long said was terrible, but at least had the excuse, with the Bulls, for being inexperienced).

Is it really Fish's fault the Knicks have no talent? Or has he also proven he's a lousy coach?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 7, 2016 -> 08:47 AM) Nevada's Perplexing War on Solar Really surprised this isn't getting more attention here. Some key battles around the future of distributed energy, solar in particular, playing out in the west. The amount of disinformation in these articles drives me nuts, particularly, this notion that our current President, Barack Obama, doesn't know exactly what he is doing...no, I kid More seriously, this notion that the utilities want to pay distributed solar owners less than market rate for their electricity is simply not true. What the utilities want to pay distributed solar owners is closer to the wholesale rate for electricity, rather than the retail rate that customers want. Forcing utilities to pay retail for what they could get at a much cheaper wholesale rate elsewhere would simply raise everyone's rates and result in non-distributed generation owners subsidizing distributed generation owners even more than they currently do. It will be interesting to see how this continues to play out in Nevada and California and what the resulting rate impacts will be. Additionally, how this impacts not only the solar industry, but other forms of potential distributed generation. I've been following it (as I plan on getting solar when we move to our next place (which could be in 3 months or could be in 3 years...market is so s***ty right now outside of interest rates...prices just seem so absurd). California just delayed things for another few years but it is really interesting how Nevada was able to get its push and it will be interesting to see if other states eventually make that push. At one point it looked more likely CA was going to and I still think they will eventually, but to me there has to be a fine balance. Of course when i say I follow this, it is more casually and I clearly am not understanding of all the inner details. Definitely seems your project was a successful one (when you view it from your perspective though). A real win for the utilities and probably the non-solar consumers (if those costs ultimately result in lower increases or even decreases in their costs).

So my dad, die hard Dodger fan, says there has been a lot of talk in LA about Sox being aggressively interested in Puig. No inside sources, just what people on the radio are speculating. Evidently Dodgers are trying to push Ethier. But long story short, it is getting coverage in LA media as well (with there reports being the Sox aren't offering the front line pitching the Dodgers want...which I presume means Hahn is trying to get a deal sold around prospects). That probably means you need to get a 3rd team in and have the Sox give those spects to the third team with the Dodgers getting a front line pitcher.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Feb 5, 2016 -> 09:07 PM) Scoregate aside, still a game we should've one. I just wonder what the score actually was. Yeah that was crazy. I feel like the Bulls have had a ton of games, they should have won. I don't get how they can have these issues. I hope to hell they can fix it. By the way, as I gripe, I also realize that the team had to play Barstow minutes because Portis is so god awful defensively right now. Honestly, he's horrid. Bairstow sucked defensively too.