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Hate to see the high ankle sprain for Crosby tonight -- that sucks. He's gone 4-to-6 weeks.

QUOTE(SoxFanForever @ Jan 19, 2008 -> 04:29 AM) Why not show some maturity and just drop it? Stop instigating, it is absolutely pointless. Have you seen what he's done in this thread? Have you seen the stuff he does in other threads? You're right -- I'll drop it and I apologize for mucking up the thread for everyone else (not being sarcastic here). ---------------------------- DK: "What do you think Lang is going to do here?" EO: "Probably shoot it."

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Jan 19, 2008 -> 03:26 AM) Grow up man... Yes -- the guy who just came back from the suspension says I need to grow up. Right.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Jan 19, 2008 -> 02:45 AM) Nevermind, I obviously can't win in this thread and I'm bored with trying to argue with a brick wall. Pot, meet kettle.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Jan 19, 2008 -> 12:52 AM) Why don't you take a chill pill, sorry to argue with your best friend about something. No -- you make the same stupid ass comments time and time again. I could care less that it's Krush -- it's when unreasonable people like yourself start insinuating and looking for stuff that isn't there. You have a history of doing this exact same thing -- is it that difficult to be a reasonable person? Apparently so... So yes -- get a f***ing clue.

Another question here: I have a dilemna that may or may not be important to my question, but I'll give the background anyways. I'm taking a Macro-Econ course this semester that is taught by the same professor that I took last semester for Micro-Econ. For this class, I feel like all I'm doing is memorizing stuff for the tests and not truly learning anything -- she basically uses Powerpoint or an overhead projector and has us copy everything that's on the PP/projector. I probably made a mistake taking her for a second semester, but I like familiarity and comfort in my classes, so since I knew what to expect (don't have to buy a book, homework is only once a week done electronically, no quizzes and three tests), I just took her anyways. I don't know if I had to say all that, but -- I'd like to actually feel like I'm learning something so... anyone have any recomendations for a good economy (doesn't have to focus on macro, as I'll explain) book? This doesn't (necessarily) have to be a school-type book -- an 'application' book would be great. Just something that isn't terribly difficult to understand but something that may give me a good 'economic' basis (if that makes any sense).

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Jan 18, 2008 -> 05:58 PM) Dude, say what you will, he still only gave up 1 goal and has looked far better than Khabibulin this year. We get it, you think Bulin is still the man and remember him leading Tampa to the Cup all those years ago. What's the difference between Lalime and Khabibulin next year other than like 4 million in salary? Do you honestly have a f***ing clue? Cripes, it's always the same lack of reading comprehension with you -- same ole, same ole provocative bulls***. Krush never said that Khabibulin is an awesome goalie -- he's said that ( a ) the losing streak wasn't completely on him, despite everyone wanting to do that and ( b ) Lalime ain't going to get us anywhere. He's not touting him as Roberto Luongo, just saying that there was a LOT of blame to go around. It wouldn't surprise me if Lalime puts up very good numbers over the next couple games, but I'd bet that has more to do with this team starting to get healthy (namely Sopel and Wizniewski -- I'd say 95% of the goalies in this league would suck with Seabrook, Keith, Byfuglien, Barker, Zyuzin and Richmond playing in front of them) than Lalime himself. That takes nothing away from Lalime, BTW -- he's played well and every one of us hopes that he can run off a ten game streak where he only allows 15 goals.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Jan 18, 2008 -> 01:37 PM) I usually do the 12 dollar turbo sit & go's 180 man on pokerstars. They finish in a little over an hour usually.. maybe hour and a half and first place is 600. I usually do pretty well in them... I started playing last week or so after a long break. Put in $100 and now I'm at $1000. If your new though i wouldn't suggest the turbo's......maybe a 4.40 180 man. That I've won twice too and first place takes i think $215ish. Ehh -- I'm not really a fan of those turbos, way too much luck involved. It basically turns into an 'all-in' fest much faster than I want it to.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jan 18, 2008 -> 01:53 AM) Average won't be skewed by outliers in a closed system. If no new chips are coming in and none are leaving the system, average is a just a function of the number of people still alive. That's why you'd want to know (get the feel of) median vs. mean (the average). What you really want to know the range, or standard deviation from mean/median. But since you're not going to be able to easily calculate any of those (aside from average) you just have to go by feel. Yeah -- I don't know why I said the average would be 'skewed'. I think what I meant was that if there were a couple of guys with massive chip stacks, it'd be skewed in that most everybody would be below the average. My tournament play has got to improve. I've seemingly settled into a nice 'groove' in (relatively) small buy-in Sit-and-Gos, but my tourney play usually goes like this: stay around average for the first half (ie if it's a 200 person tourney, when there's 100 people left) and then slowly bleed away until I'm basically pressured into moving all-in on a hand (K-10, let's say) that I really don't want to go in with. I don't think I'm one of those people who feels pressured to 'cash' -- I think it's because I don't make the most of it when I really do have a hand.

Gosh I hope James ain't seriously hurt. Rather dissappointing game and nights like these make me question Crean... they didn't seem to be running much of an offense against Louisville's zone other than screening the top guards which wasn't working. Not a whole lot of creativity or innovation on Crean's part.

Tonight is going to be tough. Louisville is finally healthy and playing on the road is never good. Marquette's going to have to play as well as they did at the Kohl Center to pull off a victory.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Jan 17, 2008 -> 10:24 PM) Yeah, avg. chipstack is really a bad way of looking at things. The safer bet would be to look at where you stand among the 100 left over. I play a lot of tourneys on pokerstars and dont bother even caring to see what avg. chipstack is... as long as im in the middle of rankings. Yeah, I understand that average can be skewed by outliers in either direction. I just asked the question to make sure that I was, in fact, correct and so -- if I ever needed to -- I could take a look at how many people were left and figure out the average myself. ------------- On that note, I'm sure you hold'em players don't need to hear yet another whiney bad beat story, but I just took a real bad one. This other guy and I were chip leaders, he made a real whack-ass all-in play in second position with JJ (nine person table, and he's second in chips at the table -- that's why I called it whack-ass). I had rockets so I couldn't call quick enough and, sure enough... he hits his two-outer on the river. Bleh.

Okay -- I got a question here for any poker players or people intelligent enough to work with numbers. I'm pretty sure I'm correct but just want to be sure: Say I'm playing in a card tourney that has 200 people and each person starts off with 1500 chips. When there's 100 people left, the average chip stack will ALWAYS be 3000, yes? And when there's 50 people left, the average chip stack will be 6000 (and so on and so forth). I'm doing this correctly, yes?

More sickening than Paulus is Mike Patrick -- his homerism for Duke is sick. The play where Paulus goes for the rebound is especially sickening -- when little guys go for rebounds amongst big-men, they tend to lose. Physical play should be expected down low, and Patrick made it sound like Paulus was intentionally given a forearm shiver down low. This says a lot, but I think I despise him over any other ESPN play-by-play guy -- including Dickie V.

Wait -- Malkin isn't in the All-Star game? That's a crime.

Skille is playing a lot better. He's really really fast and now he's starting to show some hands. I'll probably have more later as I was able to catch the second half of the game.

This is interesting... six minutes left, St Louis down three and the Blues have pulled their goalie.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jan 17, 2008 -> 03:28 AM) Pie or Hill better be in the deal. Neither is going to be, you should know that -- three of Murton, Cedeno, Gallagher and Marshall is what it'll (likely) be. My hope is that Baltimore gets Murton and the two starters -- that would give the Cubs no depth behind their back of the rotation.

Mark DeRosa had some not-too-happy comments about playing time in a Tribune (?) article today. He's right, too -- they have Fukodome in right, Soriano in left, A-Ram at third, Lee at first and (most likely) Roberts at second. None of those guys are part-time players. Anyways... if the Cubs would sell DeRosa low (and I mean low), I think he'd be a good fit for the Sox. One thing the Sox need is some power hitter off the bench -- DeRosa isn't a real great power hitter but double-digit homers the past two years is pretty bad. The Sox could certainly find time for him (Richar at second, vs some lefties as a DH for Thome), although they'd need to get rid of Uribe first (can't have two guys on the bench making a combined total of close to $10 million).

Kane -- great feed by Byfuglien. One-timer right in the slot.

Badgers goin' wild -- Bourque with a wrist shot from the far boards and snipes the glove-side corner. Weak goal, but 2-0 nonetheless.

Skille!

f***ing NHL.tv... I keep clicking on the Hawks/Blues games and they keep giving me the Wild/Flames game. This is some bulls***.

I was a fan of Colon earlier in the winter, but really... Egbert probably has as good a shot (perhaps better) of putting up 150 innings of a 4.75 ERA. Heads' man-love aside, it should probably say a lot that with all the prospects traded over the past year (too many to count, but I'll give it a shot -- Cunningham, Carter, DLS, Gio, Sweeney... I imagine I'm leaving out someone minor?), Egbert is still here. Someone up there loves his groundballing abilities, decent control and (so long as this past year is for real) good k-rate.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 16, 2008 -> 09:18 PM) Well here's the question though. Most people do not do 20 interviews a day, or even 20 job interviews a year, where they'd hear the canned response so often. Furthermore, they hear them even less from a person in the middle of a multi-hour session. So the question is, does a subtle answer like that, designed only to make you look better, hurt or help when people aren't used to hearing it and it isn't a key element of a short interview. Well yeah -- we're obviously talking about two different things with the comparison of a debate and a job interview. In the latter, as NSS has mentioned, I don't see how it helps you to give a cliche, 'weakness that's really a strength'-type answer. Obviously you don't want to incriminate yourself too much by saying something like, "I tend to be tardy" or "I have huge mental lapses throughout the day where I'm completely unproductive" -- but so long as your not going to that extreme, I'd think the interviewer would appreciate an honest response over something he/she's heard 50 times before.