Jordan4life_2007

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 04:30 PM) No Perez: Ken_Rosenthal Smoak, RHP Bevan, RHP Luecke, IF Lawson heading to #Mariners. #Rangers #MLB half a minute ago via txt Whew! I was about to compare the Rangers to the 2007 Braves.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 04:24 PM) Furcal has 100 fewer PA yet his WAR is still nearly a full win higher than Hanely. That answers my question. I didn't realize Furcal was having such a fine year.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 04:19 PM) Add Smoak to the list they will regret trading later for the Rangers, but they are going for it, and I admire that. Better Lee to the Rangers than the Twins or Yankees. But wow. I can't wait to see who the other three players are. If Martin Perez is one of them I'm quitting the sport of baseball.

The Mariners got Smoak? You gotta be f***ing kidding me!

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 10:58 AM) Rafael Furcal has been the best SS in baseball this year. So weird. Better than Hanley?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 04:07 PM) Personally, I love it whenever a team plays for an isolation/single shot on the last play of a game; I would much rather see a team start moving the ball with 8 seconds left and try to run a serious offense. Isolation plays are too predictable. I defended Lebron dumping the ball off to Williams for that open shot, for example. The worst example I ever saw of this was the Bulls with Gordon. Gordon isn't good at creating his own shot, but VDN and others insisted that was their only option; he had to go 1 on however-many-defended-him. I agree. But let's face it, lots of times a play either breaks down or there simply isn't enough time left to really run an offensive set. So it ends up being an ISO regardless. And with Kobe being a better shooter, ball-handler and MUCH better FT shooter, Kobe over Lebron is a no-brainer.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 04:06 PM) Yet time and time again Kobe comes up empty in those spots in the playoffs. Not really. Kobe hasn't had as many as Jordan or Bird, but he's had plenty of defining clutch moments. Off the top of my head there was Game 2 against the Suns and Game 4 against the Pacers in 2000. I remember a game-winner against the Spurs in 2002. The one against the Suns a few years ago. And clutch isn't just hitting the last shot. Kobe's had countless 4th quarter explosions that either brought the Lakers back or held off a furious rally by the opposing team. Either way, give me Kobe over Lebron in the last two minutes of ANY game.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 04:02 PM) It is incredibly difficult for me to remember any game winners or Jordanesque moments Kobe has had during any of the Lakers championship runs. It was always a role player like Horry, Fisher, Artest, etc. that made the big shot. Sure the Bulls had Kerr and Paxson but Jordan hit tons of game winners during the playoffs. I was talking Kobe/Lebron. Kobe puts the fear of god into my ass whenever he shoots a game-winner. I don't get anywhere near the same feeling when Lebron takes a game-winner.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 03:41 PM) It helps that after he bricks it Gasol and Artest are there to put it back in. I'll almost take a Kobe brick over a Lebron make in that situation. Lebron still doesn't have a great jumper and I sure as hell wouldn't trust him at the line.

I don't give a damn about advanced statistics in this case. If there's 10 seconds left in the game and I need a basket to win, I'm givin' the rock to Kobe 10 times outta 10 over Lebron. Anybody who says otherwise needs to quit watching basketball and take up Lacrosse as a hobby or something.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 01:50 PM) I'll root for Scheyer, as he was significantly better in college than I ever thought he would be. Just heard the Heat are already talking to guys like Raja Bell and Kwame Brown. They get those two along with Miller and they've got their snipers and big that can rebound and defend (those are the only two things Kwame does well). See how simple this is? The rules change when you've got three players of this caliber on the same team.

Palehose, you're my boy, but you're a Heat fan. There's no way for you to be objective. This isn't Bulls fans picking on Lebron. This is EVERYBODY calling it what it is. You're bringing up Jordan and Magic and Kobe and any other superstar who won a title with great players as some defense for Lebron. IT IS NOT THE SAME THING! Imagine MJ's a free agent in 1990 and he bolts for the Lakers to team up with Magic and Worthy to win rings? Would Jordan be anywhere near the consensus GOAT? Hell f***ing no. What if Kobe had left the Lakers after 2007 only to team up with Tim Duncan and the Spurs to win rings? Could you imagine what people would be saying about Kobe? Nobody is saying Lebron is obligated to win rings with scrubs. He obviously wants to win and is making sacrifices to do so. But he's settling. That's where the criticism comes from. There's no authenticity. At least not for a guy that many believed had a legitimate chance to match or exceed MJ's legacy. But it's obvious he doesn't and never really cared about his legacy. He's not Michael. He's not Kobe. We thought he was, but he's not. He's not the cut-throat competitor that he liked us to believe that he was. He wants rings and will do whatever it takes to get them. And I can respect that in a sense. But "King" and "Chosen One" and "the Gift" and whatever dumbass name that he never really earned anyway, nobody wants to hear it anymore.

QUOTE (pktmotion @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 01:23 PM) Wow so it looks like Jesus Montero-David Adams-Zach McAllister for Cliff Lee. We could have gotten Lee for Flowers-Retherford-Torres. Unbelievable. I don't get surprised when the Yankees sign top guys in FA, but when they dupe teams into these trades; it's pretty evident how good their front office is. Except we're in no position to sell of valuable assets (Flowers) for a 3 month rental.

Oswalt still bitter about Game 3 of the World Series?

QUOTE (hitlesswonder @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 10:16 AM) I think people don't understand just how good the Heat are. Bosh/Wade/James and D leaguers is a 60 win team at least. And the Heat will have better than D leaguers on the floor with them. Here's a projection which captures just how damn good the Heat will be. This is very likely to be the best NBA team ever assembled. The Bulls win record will fall..if not next season then some time in the next 5 years. I don't think people really understand the gravity of what's about to take place. That's because we've really never seen anything like this. Three players of this caliber in their primes on the same team. So it's easy to be like "they don't have enough roleplayers." The typical rules of how to construct a championship team change dramatically when your THIRD best player is Chris Bosh. Yeah, they'll need a shooter, which they apparently already have gotten, and a big who can defend and pull down some rebounds (think Kendrick Perkins). But that's really it. It's really that simple.

QUOTE (zimne piwo @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 01:24 AM) I usually don't advise anyone to check out that s***hole, but it has provided some very entertaining reading over the past couple of weeks. I also noticed that one clown who uses up all the bandwidth with his ridiculous stats and his "The Cubs are 6-5 when the Santa Ana Winds blow on a Tuesday Evening" crap is still being his usual nimrod self. I despise that clown.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 10:09 AM) id much rather face yankees in a 5 game ALDS than in a 7 game ALCS I'd agree with a healthy Peavy.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 10:06 AM) Hughes>>>>>Burnett Hughes has been pretty s***ty since June 1. Burnett is more experienced and was money for them last postseason. QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 10:06 AM) Oh come on, you can't possibly know this on July 9th... That the WC won't come from the east? And I did say "likely" as far as the Rangers having a better record than us. Their offense is worlds better and we just lost Peavy. And the Rangers could still add a pitcher.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 10:04 AM) How can you leave off Hughes? He's been the best pitcher on that staff. Burnett and Javy have been overpaid hot garbage this year. They're getting a combined $27 million more than Freddy Garcia and neither one is outproducing him. I was looking towards the playoffs. Hughes and Javy won't sniff the playoff rotation with those first 4 in place.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 10:02 AM) Indeed. Which is why I'm surprised people are happy he's going there. I only wanted to see him go to the NL. Yup. Yeah, it's good that he's apparently not going to the Twins. But this pretty much eliminates any chance of us doing a thing even if we get to the playoffs (we'd play the Yankees in the ALDS, as the WC will come from the east and the Rangers are likely to finish with a better record than us).

QUOTE (RME JICO @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 10:00 AM) and they only won 1 championship in that span, which actually supports the claim that there is no way the Heat will win 5-6 championships in a row. lol. well those pistons team didn't quite have the same level of talent the current Heat team will sport. I say that's a pretty big difference.

Sabathia/Lee/Burnett/Pettite. Yeah, it's pretty much a wrap.

http://www.sbnation.com/2010/7/9/1560810/c...lb-trade-rumors I also saw this on the Sportscenter bottom ticker. This pretty much wraps up a second consecutive World Series title for the Yankees. Don't you just love sports?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 09:47 AM) There's not a chance in hell that happens. The Pistons made the eastern conference finals 6 years straight from 2003-2008. Yeah, that about says it all.

Just woke up 15 minutes ago and realized what happened last night. It really is true that certain events don't hit you at first. A little time has to go by. I can't believe the Heat are about to 6-peat.