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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 19, 2008 -> 07:36 PM) Is this based on anything other than just wanting to say something that will shock people? It shouldn't shock people. There's a reason people were waiting for OJ since 7th grade. Both on the same tier. I don't consider one better than the other really in terms of impact.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 08:16 AM) I love BG as much as the next guy, but I mean c'mon. He's no better as I said. Ben has scored 50 before and has pretty great efficiency. Ben is at the same level as Roy IMO. He's not at a Kobe-type superstar level like some people would like to think. And again, we already had a SG on the team named Ben Gordon, so that would have been a waste of a pick unless you move Hinrich or Ben which would have been dumb at the time considering both guys were playing good basketball and their problems were in the front court. Get on them for not keeping LaMarcus Aldridge.

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ Dec 19, 2008 -> 05:24 PM) Do someting with the talent, then declare him amazing. This trick just got treated. DANG ps I do kind of agree, let's see what he does with his recruits. I'm interested nonetheless.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Dec 19, 2008 -> 12:11 AM) Brandon Roy dropped 50 on the Suns, he'd look awful good along side Rose right about now. No better than Ben Gordon.

Not so fast. I think McHale is a joke, but at the same time, a lot of people, including some of you here likened Love to Mayo. A lot of people didn't want to believe the hype or anything. So no, Mchale doesn't get a slap on the hand for that one at all. I still like Mayo over Rose and I think he will by far be the best out of this class. Thomas also tried to assemble talent. In terms of pure trades, no one could say Isiah lost alot of them. The thing is, he didn't try to build a team that would necessarily mesh with each other. He's guilty of trying to have the best players. McHale is guilty of pure stupidity. McHale loses.

That's terrible from a power pitcher

I think that Kim Matuska was by far the prettiest one he's ever dated.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Dec 18, 2008 -> 06:59 PM) Consistently throwing off a hitter's timing and balance > wildly blowing a pitch by a guy. If you have the ability to do it anyway, not everyone does. And he couldn't do that with a 100mph fastball? BS, the speed differential would be greater between his fastball and his offspeed stuff therefore making all of his pitches much more devastating. I love Bobby as much as anyone, but his control didn't drastically improve in my eyes and he doesn't have any great movement on that pitch. And as what was already stated, he doesn't have any variations in his fastball. He throws it the same everytime down. Now if he threw it at 100mph, then slowed it down to 92, then you would be onto something.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/peterson/1335...-121708.article It has her picture and name on the Sun-Times. Her dad, is understandably, livid.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Dec 18, 2008 -> 06:31 PM) You kind of contradict yourself here, are we talking about the same Bobby Jenks? Bobby has always had 4 pitches, there's no need for him to develop any new ones. He still has a fastball, but he isn't one-dimensional. Well exactly. He's always had those 4 pitches, so how does lowering the velocity of your most dominating pitch helpful if you're not even going to put more movement on the ball? It's a whole lot harder catching up to a 100mph you know is coming than a 94mph fastball that you know is coming.

I don't buy it. Only if all he threw was a fastball at 100mph would I. He has a hammer as well. How does lowering your velocity help you? I mean, I know it allows for a bit easier control, but at the same time, his reasoning does not fall in line with it. Because he still throws that fastball just as much, and he really hasn't developed any new pitches. 100mph which sometimes doesn't hit k zone & hammer >>> 94mph fastball which hits k zone more, but also gets more contact & hammer. Also, despite ERA, Jenks really made a lot of those innings very interesting. Always allowed a hit here or a walk there. He has gone from a strikeout pitcher to someone who depends on his defense a ton.

What about Joe Nelson from the Marlins as a reliever. He was pretty good last year.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Dec 10, 2008 -> 09:41 PM) That ship has sailed. The Reds have about 10 mill to spend. And the Whitesox don't move money in the other direction in trades. If they want to trade Dye this offseason is his highest value. Moving him at the deadline in the season will get us 2nd tiered crap. So its either move him now, or let it ride. Pretty much summed it up. The White Sox are done for the offseason.

How much you got?

That's when you hire a coach who was even mediocre at small schools. I have no idea in what DePaul was thinking when they hired him. Get a s***ty coach so he wouldn't leave the program?

Yes! Mayweather wants PacMan. Please Boxing Gods, let the stars align! http://www.mlive.com/mayweather/index.ssf/...wants_me_t.html

Um, where did John Heyman say this? I went to SI's website and it is nowhere. I couldn't find it on rotowire either.

Terrible deal. He's not better than Johan and he's absolutely crapped in his pants in the playoffs.

His crazy move will be not doing any more moves for the rest of the offseason.

I rather go for Bailey. Hell, send JD back to the Royals and get Zack Greinke for yourself.

He's pretty stupid. He was a guy who didn't want to be associated with the Daley machine, but still wanted to be corrupt. See what happens when you attempt to do things you own way? You end up in jail. And yeah, he's pretty stupid to try to extort the Tribune, and take bribes for an empty senator seat for the president-elect. All in all, he's a dumbass. He was going to get locked up after he was out of office. These two things just sped up the process. What a n00b. The sad thing is, the senator seat selection is still his.

Accounting Final tommorow. I hope it goes well as every single one of my finals. I have my Business Law final due Wednesday and my Management final due Wednesday as well. Marketing I'm pretty sure is due by Friday.

Agreed. I would've even liked to see Alabama vs USC. Ohio State vs Utah would've been decent and Texas vs Penn State would've been a good matchup I believe.

I honestly wanna see him and PBF go at it. I would pay massive money to see that. DLH was way too old. His last good fight was PBF, he gave everything he got and still lost.

QUOTE (sox1844 @ Dec 5, 2008 -> 07:40 AM) I liked it. At least it was something! Some life, some passion. Plus Balfour kept yelling F-U to Uribe, and OC was over it. Who cares if he looked like a fool. I'd rather look like a fool who goes down fighting than a fool who just stands by while his team gets destroyed. Bingo. Gimme someone who's going to defend his teammate and not stand up for that crap!