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QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 18, 2013 -> 06:01 PM) What do you think his ceiling is? 4th OF? If so, he shouldn't even be considered a top 20 prospect. No, his ceiling is certainly a starting outfielder but not exactly a franchise changing one. At his best you'd expect a fairly high average, but probably not .300. He should take walks, though, so an adequate OBP. I don't think anyone sees him even hitting 10 HRs, but that would probably be a max HR output. He should spray some doubles and triples and ideally swipe 40-50 bags with good defense. That's a not a value-less player by any stretch, but a secondary contributor on a good team. Alejandro is not the worst comparison, but ADA has more power and is not such a good base stealer.

I'm done counting on Miami and counting out San Antonio. I don't know what will happen in Game 7. With that said, the end of that game was not good to watch. It was a bunch of hacking, turning over, chucking, and choking. One team won because someone has to win.

ESPN Stats & Info ‏@ESPNStatsInfo 11m The Heat had 8 2nd-chance points in 44 minutes with Duncan on court. They had 9 2nd-chance points in 9 minutes with Duncan on the bench.

QUOTE (DOWNTOWN PANTHER @ Jun 18, 2013 -> 11:37 PM) With as bad as the White Sox are you would think that they would be bringing up some of these guys for a look. Charlie Leesman may not be #1 on their radar, but the dude keeps striking fools out. He had another 8 ks tonight. Get this dude up to Chicago!! Y not???? Youre losing to the Twins and Astros. What is there to lose???? Well, for one, our pitching staff has been pretty great. We already have more MLB starters than we know what to do with.

That was probably a foul too if it occurred at any other point in the game

Fitting way for it to end. Manu plays like crazy and a Miami foul doesn't get called.

Ruh roh. Terrible offensive set for San Antonio.

Wow, SA gets caught not hustling

I'm not sure who benefits from the overtime. Spurs scuffled early in fourth, then Miami pukes it away and Spurs rally, then a missed FT or two and a big shot from Allen. I don't know who has momentum.

LEBRON SO CLUTCH

LEBRON SO CLUTCH

You can tell the Heat are trying not to hurt people's feelings and make sure everybody gets their touches down the stretch. That teams needs a new coach and they might get one at this rate.

TONY PARKER CAME TO PLAY

PARKERRRR

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 18, 2013 -> 09:40 PM) You should look into custom icon packs. Those are nice. How did you get 1000 apps on the bottom task bar (I forget what that is called)? Custom ROM feature?

Ty Lawson ‏@TyLawson3 4m I'm never wearing my headband again either #riptotheheadband

It's like holding in football. You know LeBron is fouling on every offensive possession, so you always assume that calling it is right. Now and then, you mistime it but you know it evens out in the long run.

Spurs missing some makeable shots now

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jun 18, 2013 -> 10:29 PM) I'll be interested to see how long Wade stays on the bench. Lebron has so much more room to work with shooters out there. zero longer

The Spurs could start playing some help defense at some point.

Mitch Kwiatkowski ‏@Jesus_Phegley 1m If LeBron takes a shoe off then game over

The Heat didn't get some calls in the third, but I can promise you that they'll get them now. Spurs have to figure that out and adjust. They're playing like they're trying to get calls

There's the mythical on-switch

The Heat are the most mentally weak team I have ever seen. Good grief.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 18, 2013 -> 09:35 PM) You can get by without rooting, but there are some very nice perks that come with custom ROMs and kernels. I don't think I can own a phone that isn't rooted and without a custom ROM, I've just gotten acquainted to too many things from custom ROMs. Examples: 1. Custom quick toggles: Instead of the limited toggles Google includes the quick toggle drawer, I can have toggles that switch on/off GPS without having to go into the settings app. I can toggle sync, auto rotation, WiFi tether, torch, etc as well. You can even create your own custom toggles. 2. Navigation customization: I personally use custom buttons and I assign long-press actions to the navigation buttons as well. For instance, a long press of the home button will kill the current app and a long press of the back button will take you back to the previous app. Speaking of killing apps, that is another perk of custom ROMs. When you swipe the app card away in the multi-tasking pane, the app's process isn't actually killed. So when you really need to hard-kill an app, the only real way to do it is to actually kill the process. You can't do that on a stock device. There are also other cool ways to navigate your Android device. One of them is called PIE and they're basically an array of virtual on-screen buttons that auto-hide. Here's what it looks like. And a good FYI since you own a HTC One. You know that annoying bar with the menu button that pops up on the bottom of the screen for apps that aren't designed for Android 4.0 and above? You can get rid of that if you root and flash a custom kernel that allows you to map the HTC logo to an actual function (such as the menu). I would root and flash a kernel for that alone. 3. System-wide themes: not a huge deal, but there are some nice themes for CM and CM-based ROMs. 4. Custom lock-screen: you can change up the lockscreen wallpaper, change up the text color, display options (such as battery percentage), etc. Not so bad to have. 5. Custom LED notification colors: that notification LED is really useful, but it isn't all that useful if you don't know what apps correspond to what LED color. Well, custom ROMs allow you to change that. You can also set the length and interval of the LED flash. Really useful. 6. More battery life, faster performance: not all custom kernels are good, but the good ones do wonders for battery life and performance. If you know what you're doing, you can undervolt or do custom Hotplugs to take total control of your CPU and maximize battery life. Custom kernels also bring better frequency governors, I/O control, and overclocking, allowing for better performance. 7. Total control of your file system: want to pull an app you bought and back it up? Better root. Want to make a certain app a system app so you can get around MLB.tv blackouts? Better root. Want to uninstall annoying carrier apps forever? Root. 8. Lots of customization options: color of your battery, clock, etc, custom batteries that show percentages, and a bunch of other small things that more or less can help you complete the maximal Android experience. I mean, there's nothing wrong with going stock, especially if you have a Nexus device or any device with stock Android. But you're not getting your entire money's worth until you root. Thanks for this post. I'm going to bookmark it. I'm going to wait for the shine to come off this thing before I start tweaking, but I'm glad you wrote all that so I know what I would be getting into.