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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 09:12 AM) What were some jokers saying at the beginning of the season about John Wall already being better than Derrick Rose. Derrick Rose just might be the best player in the NBA. Let's not get carried away. He's not as efficient as you would like him to be. He's still pretty bad at defense, though Thibs' schemes are doing a good job of hiding them, he still jumps way too much to pass for a PG who's taller than 90% of the PGs out there. And the next time he throws a no look pass will be the first time. What I mean by that, is that he telegraphs what he's going to do way too much still. If he's going to shoot it, you pretty much know he's going to shoot it. When he's going to pass it, you know when he's going to pass it.

QUOTE (Felix @ Dec 11, 2010 -> 11:59 PM) Since you asked for it: Kevin. Love. I'm hardly a Kahn fanboy, but I do think he gets way too much crap from the overall public. There's plenty of talent on the team right now, but given their age and immaturity, it hasn't led to as many wins as desired. Had they been able to hold onto a couple of wins down the stretch, this team could easily have five or six more wins right now. There's plenty of reason to be at least conservatively optimistic about the Wolves future. I didn't see the game tonight and I'm glad I didn't. Looked awful. Not too surprising though, we aren't too good on the road and the Bulls are a fairly quality team. s*** happens. Kahn has added talent to that team, so that's a great thing. They need to trade some of the young guys for better players/vets and they'll be cooking. Their most missing a penetrating PG who can be Rubio. I absolutely hated the Johnny Flynn pick though and still do.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 07:32 AM) THe Vikings/Giants game has been postponed until Monday night, the game might be postponed again due to the Metrodome roof collapsing under snow. Update: the dome has collapsed Wow. Thursday nighter? Then again, it's too soon to turn around and have a game on Sunday again. As far as Bear weather, you suckers who like it are getting it. It's snowing with wind here in Oak Forest, and it's going to be colder over there. Pats 13 Bears 10.

I wonder how Muschamp will do. I wonder what Miami will do. I think they need to hit a homerun because the legend of Miami could end up being no more. They haven't really been relevant since their last National Championship game against an OSU team.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 07:17 AM) Yeah, I think you were one of them, when I mentioned Teahen plus a relief prospect for Lyon. I obviously know that Teahen is valueless, but including a relief prospect along with him for a good but not great reliever atleast might work. Depending on whose metrics you want to use - baseballreference or FanGraphs - Andruw Jones by himself, in limited playing time, was worth 15-20 times that of Carlos Quentin last year. I don't think Quentin is THAT bad in the outfield, but he is not good defensively, and that does cost the Sox runs and games. I also think you are being delusional if you believe that Mark Teahen is worse defensively in the outfield than Carlos Quentin. I don't see anything that suggests that at all. If you compare them 3B to RF, then sure, you have an argument, but that's about your only argument, and that'd be even more ridiculous. Quite frankly, Carlos Quentin is Carlos Lee/Jermaine Dye/Adam Dunn bad defensively. That affects his game and overall value tremendously. I would say he is obviously quite a bit better offensively, but he should be DHing or playing 1B for someone. You know that I don't think the Sox should trade Quentin unless they can get proper value (and I don't believe they should because they won't get proper value). It's not ridiculous to think that a Mark Teahen/Andruw Jones platoon could be more effective overall though. Good post and I agree.

Yep, heck they have bets on who scores the first bucket, who creates the first turnover, and who's likely to make a 3 pointer first.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Dec 11, 2010 -> 02:34 PM) Crandall will be fine. Remember he lost all of last year to a knee injury so he still in recovery mode. Yeah, but they're literally too deep in the backcourt. Next year: Abrams, Langford, Paul, Richardson, Head, Bertrand, and Henry/Richmond at the guard spots. Good look cracking that rotation.

Yeah, if I'm Bertrand, I'm definitely transferring because he has no future with Illinois. I'd consider thinking the same if I was Crandall Head too.

QUOTE (Mr. Showtime @ Dec 10, 2010 -> 07:45 PM) Here is the funny thing. The Bears have said on the record they are worried about injuries on the field turf. Fine, then why do they practice on Field Turf at Halas Hall inside the bubble then? I understand it is an indoor facility and there are not a lot of options besides that, but you play 8 regular season games at Soldier Field and 2 pre-season games. Yet, I'm sure they practice more than 10 times in the bubble. Isn't there far more of an injury risk that way? I never got that either. They should do like Green Bay and make a synthetic mix of actual grass with turf.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 9, 2010 -> 07:04 PM) NOT TWO DAYS!!!! I know and that's only because I got lucky being a student. Amazon offers Amazon Prime for free to students.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Dec 9, 2010 -> 02:01 PM) Watched "Inception" for the first time. Wow! Holy sh** that was good. Target and Amazon have the 3 disc Blu Ray/DVD combo for only $17.99. Ordered from Amazon for 17.99 yesterday. Wish I knew Target had it. I would've picked it up from there instead of waiting 2 business days.

Finally got my Mad Men Blu Rays in the mail. Have the day off tomorrow. Will have a Mad Men marathon.

Anyone play NBA2k11 with the new update? I think it sucks big time. Everyone has a really fast release. Guys like Jordan and Kobe have no hangtime on their jumper. It seems like if anyone touches you, the animation for a dunk changes to a layup right away. Turnovers were wayyyyyy jacked up, if you go in the air to do a jump pass like Rose does in real life, you can bet there will be a turnover. Also, at times your player won't respond to what you want when the shot clock is winding down. I played a game against my brother, did a cross move and attempted to shoot with Rose at the basket for an easy bucket and he didn't shoot. Instead he was called for a travel. It's happened to me a few times. The worse of them all is the ball disappearing on me for 3 quarters of a game. It seems like they waited for Elite to give up and then just released this crappy product.

Balls a ton lighter than a regular men's ball. I don't know what the refs were thinking. And yes, it is super tough to get in sync. You guys saw what happened a few years ago when the NBA just switched the texture of the ball without asking the players. Even that threw them off.

One thing I noticed reading today's Tribune is that Konerko was ready to take 10 million to play for the Dbacks per season. So we basically had to up the ante to pay him and he would've given a hometown discount to get out of here or maybe because it was his home.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 08:19 PM) I wonder why Boozer's been sitting out for the entire 4th quarter. Couldn't play defense.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 07:37 PM) Can't Zobrist play SS if needed? He can play anything.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 07:36 PM) I think Pierre is exactly a Williams player. He fits everything Williams has ever really looked for in a leadoff hitter - hits for a good enough average, can take a pitch and walk a little bit, and steals a lot of bases. The fact that he doesn't hit for a lot of power or that he does play good defense are generally irrelevant. I agree. Pierre is a KW type of guy.

I'm fine with Pierre batting leadoff as long as he can get on base. If he can't drop him in the order. Either way the Sox lineup is good enough. If you can get a clear upgrade, do it, but don't deal just to deal. As far as the trade front, I could see Flowers and a lower level player getting dealt for bullpen arms.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 05:33 PM) Rays trade Bartlett to Padres for Adam Russell and Cesar Ramos. Who is their SS? Beckham? Brignac? It'll be Brignac, but Beckham is their future. Good trade for the Rays. Ramos is a nice piece.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 03:31 PM) Give me a dome any day of the week. There's a reason humans used to be migratory. This. But it's not Bear weather and they have to play in Bear weather darnnit!

Glad Duke, Kentucky, Kansas and MSU all agreed to meet each other for the next couple of years. MSU is overrated every year, but they end up winning the big ten, and do good in March which is all that matters, right? Either way, I really don't like MSU this year at all.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 04:35 PM) Mayo needs to be traded to a team that's willin to make him a PG. Don't think he'd be a good fit with the Bulls as a SG, especially alongside someone who dominates the ball as much as Rose does for instance. e.g Atlanta would be an interesting option I disagree. I think his bread and butter is SG. It's a matter of not being on Memphis though where Gay and Conley handle all the ballhandling duties until Randolph gets the rock. And also, Lionel Hollins is teh suck as coach.

JR has always been a nice guy. It's a downside to him though too. There are certain guys he identifies and he likes and has a relationship with and he just won't let them go even if it's time to or if it means overpaying. He did this with the Bulls with Hinrich and Deng.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Dec 6, 2010 -> 10:26 PM) Well...they lost 59 dingers getting rid of LaRoche and Reynolds. Their such and up and down team and I really don't see a whole lot more upside than we've already seen. I agree they have some decent young talent like Upton and Kelly Johnson (if you wanna call him young at 28). Could they (the young guys) put it together this year? Maybe...but I wouldn't hold my breath. You seem more optimistic than 99% of DBag fans out here... Would you feel good going into the season with a rotation of: Ian Kennedy Joe Saunders Hudson Duke ? It's not a bad team. It's actually a nice setup for the future. I do agree though, they had a "good, young team" for the past few years and they just haven't been able to put it together. I thought their future was bright when they made the playoffs a few years ago, but they've stunk since. Upton is a good player, but I think he's overrated. Stephen Drew is another guy. I think it's time for them to tear it apart and build up all over again which it seems like they're doing. I like their rotation so far.