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QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 04:11 AM) I was slightly hammered one night and asked in a post what would be a good new user name for me. I threw out a few suggestions, and shipps took the liberty of creating one for me...combining the suggestions I tossed out there. Now I like the name. What was your original name?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 10:12 PM) Oh I know. But you know how sensitive some get around here. I didn't want death threats if it was implied that I was saying Westbrook was equal or better than Rose. And how about that Ibaka? That dude is a fricken monster. The Perkins addition has had a noticeable impact on him. He's more freed up now to just wreak havoc on the boards and shot-blocking. I think he had 9. But he changed or altered at least 5 other shots by my count. That team is built for LA. Ibaka is going to just continue to get better. He's showing nice development and the upside is there with his athletismism.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 10:05 PM) I wasn't debating Rose and Westbrook. Rose is the better player. But Westbook is clearly a star player. Yeah, he was sporadic and definitely needs to play a smarter, more disciplined game going forward. And even with that he still fills up a stat sheet, though he stunk up the joint tonight. I guess ultimately what I'm saying is that you're in pretty damn good shape when Russell Westbrook is your second best player. Ridiculously good shape. Westbrook is a bonafide star and he's the 2nd best player on his team. No team is better set going forward than OKC. THey have legit talent throughout there lineup, nice depth, and seemingly a couple quality bigs, plus if they wanted to spend some money they could probably find a nice 4 to help them out. I love watching OKC and I think it would be pretty fun if for the next 5 years we saw OKC, Chicago, and I suppose Miami battling it out (Chicago/Miami in the East) and OKC in the West. It should also be important to indicate that someone is going to get some help a year from now when Howard, Paul, Deron, etc are all FA's.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 06:02 PM) Of course I searched it. I really didn't see anything but old baseball gloves though. Me too

Nice. Good luck Sqwert. Where on the west coast?

His defense has and always will be garbage.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 26, 2011 -> 05:11 PM) I just grilled about 2 weeks ago. It was the last semi-decent day before all this bad weather. I'm due to buy another grill, but I'm pretty happy with the propane style cooking. I grill in the rain, haha. But every Sunday I'll pull my old BBQ out. A new favorite of mine is some bbq'd pork tenderloin with a one day marinade. Comes out delicious.

Omaha is a nice city and I've heard the college world series is an awesome event to attend as a fan.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 09:45 AM) Boozer hasn't been great but I haven't been thrilled with how they've utilized him. Hey sort of isolated him from the flow of the offense and just sort of tossed the ball to him to "get him going". He plays much better with pick and pops. And also the passes to him were usually a second too late. And even in addition to that, the refs were hounding him on the offensive end. The Bulls need to improve and work in Boozer. The guy is a very very efficient offensive player and unfortunately, given the team wasn't able to practice with him and hasn't had a lot of time playing with both Noah and Boozer, they just haven't developed the appropriate offensive rhythm with Carlos. I expect him to play significantly better next year (from an offensive efficiency standpoint) and I still think they'll get him going better the rest of the postseason. Boozer is a guy who has produced pretty well, from a historic standpoint, in the playoffs and against longer players (he's had some strong playoff series against the long Lakers).

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 09:23 AM) This Boozer news doesnt bother me. Boozer has been 100 percent the weakest link on this team. His defense made Hansbrough look like an all star at times, he was missing bunnies all over the place, taking ill advised jumpshots with a hand in his face, taking 3 second penalties left and right. I dont mind seeing Gibson taking up time on the floor at all. I just wish it would mean we could see a bit more of Rasual Butler The thing is, we'll need Boozer. That said, I really like Gibson and think if he started for a full season we'd see how productive he really is. He needs to keep working on his jumper in the off-season and post game but I'm a big Gibson fan. Boozer won't have to worry about these big long teams for a while though since Orlando only has Dwight, the Heat aren't big, and Boston isn't as big as they once were. I expect Boozer to have a bounce back series and he will be a big key to how far the Bulls go or don't go this postseason, imo.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 26, 2011 -> 10:51 PM) We matched up very poorly against the Pacers. They had George and another F doubling Rose. Only Granger is a factor on offense so they could go max intensity on Rose. Hibbert caused problems underneath, too. The Heat don't have anything like that. They're not going to put Wade and James on Rose, they'd get tired too quickly, and they don't have the bench to make up for it so it'd cost them offense. Boston doesn't really have the answer either, although we are more evenly matched against them, and they don't have Perkins anymore. Atlanta is a total mismatch, I wouldn't be surprised if that ended in a sweep. Orlando is not particularly scary either. Stop them from killing you with threes, which the Bulls can do without that much difficulty, and it doesn't matter if Howard scores 45, they don't have anything else. Orlando scares me and I think they will be pulling off 3 wins in a row. Dwight is a beast and historically the Bulls have struggled against them. However, I will point out we played them well this year. Still, if they get hot, with there outside shooting, the Bulls could be in a tough spot. That Pacers series was tough though. s***, I really thought I'd get a relaxing first round before I had to start getting nervous as a fan. Glad they made game 5 easy And better yet, Drose will get some much needed rest.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 26, 2011 -> 08:02 AM) Interesting spin there... This might be the accountant in me, but how is 100K equivalent to 5M but 300K equivalent to 25M in payroll. Not really following that fact pattern there.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 05:11 PM) I'd like to say in advance...I don't care one bit about the Royal wedding, stop telling me about it, stop making me change the channel every 4 minutes to avoid hearing about it, just stop. Christ almighty. + 1 for me, My wife on the other hand, would smack me for saying that, haha.

I wanted action over the weekend and finally saw Battle of LA. I don't care if it makes me an idiot, but I was thoroughly entertained throughout the entire movie. Very enjoyable flick and was worth seeing in the theatre because of the effects/sounds of the battle scenes. By and large, if I see a movie in the theatre now, it has to be a movie that is enhancded by the fantastic sound systems cause otherwise I'd just as well watch a movie from home on my big screen for a buck, haha.

Thanks for the bday wishes!

Bulls have looked horrid all series. Rose is being too much of a hog and the offense is way too stagnant. This is just disgusting. I hope it is just Indiana matching up well agains the Bulls because if they play like this, they won't make it much furhter in the playoffs.

QUOTE (G&T @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 05:11 PM) How long was it between the use and application? 4 or 5 years. And it was in California. The guy tried once in highschool. Had just graduated college and was applying into the police academy program.

I think giving a rookie off for a mental break makes a lot of sense.

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I accidentally merged the reasons for optimism thread in the doom and gloom thread so with that, I'm starting a new reason for optimism thread. My reason #1 for optimism is that Fathom is optimistic!

I noticed at spring training that his bat speed just looked slow. He had trouble catching up to any fastballs and it looks right now that he's completely in between on his swing.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 10:44 PM) I didn't have a chance to watch the game, but CP3's line tonight was quite mediocre (for him) and regular-season like. Did the Lakers finally give him more attention on defense? You mean the entire regular season where he was above average, but not near the player Rose was? Oh wait, I thought we were all jumping to conclusions based upon one game and had declared him a deity? Sorry guys, I had to. I'm not one to sip a ton of coolaid, albeit, I watch sports because I enjoy watching them so I try not to ever get angry watching a game, but Rose, while he has flaws, is one of the best players in the world right now and is playing out of this world.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 08:39 AM) This is already being incorporated to a limited extent. Ya. I know they have some gift certificates available that you can use (starbucks being one of them) and the eticket for planes is pretty sweet. Anything that means I don't have to carry a wallet is pretty nice.

QUOTE (G&T @ Apr 19, 2011 -> 04:14 PM) I am applying to the WI bar. It asks if I ever used marijuana. Of course the answer is "yes" while I was in college. It was only a couple times actually and haven't touched it since. I am going to admit to it though they wouldn't find out, but lying is probably worse than admitting it. Anyone have any experience with this? Do they actually care at all? I'm not going to lie, I'd probably lie like hell. If you don't use it regularly and used it a few times in college, putting it down is probably going to create more work than you'd want to deal with and no one would ever know that you lied. I knew a guy who was applying to the policy academy and they asked him if he ever smoked marijuana, he said one time (which was true, he tried once in his entire life). They told him he'd have to reapply at a later date. I don't know more details than that.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 08:31 AM) Seeing that modern smart phones can replace at least 50 other gadgets that you may own, it might be a good idea to maximize what you get out of the phone. Its only a matter of time until all of our credit cards and everything are on our phones.