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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 09:14 AM) What are your issues? I only subscribe to the U-Verse internet. It's been about 8 months and I've never had a slow down, cap or a random outage. My router went bad one night, they were there at 9am the next morning to replace it. Maybe I'm just in a good area though. On a slightly different topic, anyone else a Hulu Plus subscriber? Basically my wife and I ditched cable when we moved to our new house in the spring. Decided to get a decent internet package (12mb) and rely on Netflix and over-the-air stuff. While I miss the occasional Food network porn, I really can't say that I've missed anything big. All of our favorite shows we either watch on Hulu, the network's website, or we buy through my PS3. 90% of my sporting events are on major networks or espn3.com. I do have to rely on the radio for most Bulls/Sox games, but at least WGN and WCIU carries them occasionally. Bt anyways we just signed up for Hulu Plus so we don't have to keep connecting the laptop to the TV. So far so good, especially for 7.99 a month. Anyone else have opinions on it? The idea that i'm paying for the content WITH ads kind of annoys me. There are sites to use to stream those games and they're pretty reliable.

No Flowers and No Castro please(unless it's a bench catcher). I rather have Olivo, whether our pitchers like him or not. And keep in mind, only Buehrle remains from that rotation who supposedly disliked him.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 2, 2010 -> 02:11 PM) WojYahooNBA RT @KCJHoop: DRose on whether he will watch LeBron's return to Cleveland: "I got my second season of Dexter to watch." Get'Em DROSE!

Forget PK, resign ManRam

Just saw the score and we're getting torn apart by Vince Carter. Wowwwwwwwwzers. We need a better SG fast.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 07:30 PM) With the way the Magic like to chuck threes I'm really worried about the Bulls perimeter defense. But Boozer-Noah-Deng with Gibson coming off the bench... I don't think there's a better rebounding front line in the NBA. Not even Boston or LA. I think the Bulls were already #1 last year without Boozer. The game really depends on if the Magic make their threes. If they're hot like they were the other night, Bulls will be in for a tough one. If they don't, I could see the Bulls winning by 10.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 04:57 PM) Youre not supposed to believe anything. But at this point in time the NCAA does not have enough information to say there was wrong doing by Auburn or Cam Newton. Furthermore no one is going to really push the issue because the SEC/NCAA dont want to lose Auburn potentially being in the NC game. A NC game between Oregon-TCU or Oregon-Stanford will most likely be less profitable than Auburn-Oregon. So the NCAA/SEC decide to let Newton play the remainder of the season and investigate further. My guess is that eventually none of these wins will count and all records will be vacated. But the NCAA/SEC will have their money, Cam will have his money in the NFL, and no one will care besides the record books. This is the argument I think he tried to make. I'm 95% sure that Cam knew about it and money switched sides. At the same time, they're not going to destroy the money maker themselves. Now if Auburn loses on Saturday, you may see everything come out. Until then, expect wins to be vacated down the line. This brings me to my next argument, what's the point of having awards if in the end, players and teams are going to be ineligible for them?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 05:52 PM) Wasn't good. People out west knew all about Westbrook. He was overshadowed to an extent by Collison/Farmar/Afflalo (I think one of them wasn't actually on that team, but I might be wrong) but the guy was very very productive and incredibly explosive and showed that at UCLA. Westbrook was always the second best pure NBA prospect on that squad and he had tremendous work outs on top of it. I thought it was surprising he went 4th, but everyone knew he could jump out of a building and was an upper echelon defender in college. Farmar was the only one who didn't play with Westbrook. They had a deep team for a few years, then I don't know what happened. Either way, I just remember thinking Westbrook had no position and him being a better scorer than PG.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 1, 2010 -> 01:34 PM) As someone who watches a lot of UCLA basketball, I have no idea how you could have thought Westbrook was overrated. He was a strong defensive player in college, who was a nice passer, and explosive athlete. His shot got better during his brief career at UCLA and has continued to improve in the NBA. That UCLA team was very well coached and prepared for the NBA. Eh, he didn't too much and in college, he didn't have a position. That's why people are shocked he was taken #4 overall over Jerryd Bayless. He had great workouts, but Westbrook, in no way, showed the capability of what he does now, in college. He didn't suck, but he nowhere met his hype from when he was in high school. Same goes for Jrue Holiday.

Meh, I could see both sides of the argument, but this opens up flood gates. Just let your parents handle the money and you'll be fine.

Didn't know how much of a terror Westbrook was on until I read this thread. Wowzers. I remember watching him at UCLA and thinking he was one of the most overrated players I had ever seen.

Please go to AZ PK.

QUOTE (SoxPride56 @ Nov 30, 2010 -> 05:01 PM) I asked him if that was an early April fool's joke...he responded with the above. I really like Beatnik. As far as the article, I don't mind going young, but do it right. Don't try to transition yourself into the next era, because that doesn't work unless you have tons of money to cover those holes. They need to trade the CQ's, let go of all FA's other than maybe Putz, possibly look at moving Pierre as well and try to acquire as much prospects as possible. In the near future, it doesn't seem like the Sox have any studs in waiting and that's a concern. I would even consider trading some of the older guys with a young prospect in order for that to change.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Nov 29, 2010 -> 06:23 PM) I thought it was bad and it wasn't even that it was predictable because most movies are. The characters were poorly written (typical Cameron with the most cliche villain imaginable), the dialogue was cheesy, and the love story was laughable. Not to mention the fact that humans in the movie are capable of traveling across a galaxy, and create the Avatars but they lose to a bunch of natives with bows and arrows (which by the way couldn't pierce the windows when they first encounter the gunships but could later in the movie)? GTFO. And let us also not forget that despite the fact that they can cross a galaxy with ships they can't launch a missile but instead have to fly an incredibly slow flying plane to drop explosives, just absolutely ridiculous. Agreed. It surpassed Citizen Kane as the most overhyped movie I've ever seen in my life.

There's nothing wrong with Wahlberg. In terms of Max Payne, the story is what made it suffer.

Anyone know if the Sox plan on going to arbitration with Alexei or are possibly going to offer him a multi-year deal?

Decent deal. Means no more Theriot for the Dodgers.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Nov 27, 2010 -> 10:29 AM) No its not. As I've said before, Boise was gassed in the 4th quarter and they were gassed against VT. You put that team in a conference where they'll have 6 tests in 7 weeks and we'll see a Boise team that will get worse as the season progresses. I disagree. That Boise team would recruit much better players and be able to play with the big boys. It works both ways. The competition would get tougher, but since their coaching is really really good, they would also get enough recruits to be an even better team than they are now. Either way though, I hate Boise. I've been riding with TCU for so long. Let's hope South Carolina could pull something out.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 26, 2010 -> 06:27 PM) If Jeter is using ARod as him comparison, he is stupid. Look at the ages they were at the end of their respective contracts, and the seasons they put up. There would have been a market for Alex, while not what the Yankees paid, him, it still would have been 80-90% of what he got. Jeter probably would be lucky to get a third of what he is asking for. I agree it's stupid, but Derek probably sees it as "I've done so much more for the organization, done whatever you guys wanted, am your captain, I never went into FA before, done more than A-Rod, it's time to pay up". Yes, their ages are different, but I don't think Derek really is paying attention to that. And I think A-Rod would get at most, 80% of what his last contract was and he definitely would not have gotten ownership stake in the team he signed with.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Nov 26, 2010 -> 05:09 PM) lol, sorry Boise and TCU. =[

I think the reason why he's doing this is simply because they gave A-Rod the world when no one else was going to and couldn't even if they wanted to. If they didn't overpay A-Rod, I'm sure Derek would be less crazy about his next contract. But they gave A-Rod a crazy base salary, incentives up the wazoo, and an ownership stake in the team. It's ridiculous what he got without having any leverage, and now Derek wants the love too.

I've always been a fan of having something epic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Ma4BvMUwU

Got Mad Men Seasons 1-3 on Blu Ray today for $10 each on Amazon.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Nov 24, 2010 -> 07:56 PM) The Ohio State President is taking a lot of heat for anti Boise State/TCU comments he made. I'm going to take the side of the Boise State President in this debate simply because the Ohio State guy apparently defended the BCS too, and you'd have to be some kind of idiot to do that. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news...stpresident-bcs If it came from someone other than him, it would have some validity, but OSU literally always underperforms. Who have they faced this year besides Miami who was #12 when they faced them, but now is unranked. I think TCU and BSU would wipe the floor with OSU.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 24, 2010 -> 09:58 AM) I know in this specific case that Martinez is being talked about, but really the explanation is for a very general purpose. or Manny Ramirez or Ken Griffey Jr or Sandy Alomar or Jim Thome(the outcry for Rowand was ridiculous).