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QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 11:38 AM) I'm bout to be "that guy" Probably a good 60% of people singing Tim Duncan's praises everywhere right now were people who spent 10+ years derisively talking about how "boring" the Spurs were, and only started giving the Spurs proper respect when they beat Miami that year (and had come close the year before). Those two teams though were quite different. They did speed up pace, they did amp up passing. They did just use to slow the game down to a crawl and use their fantastic defense to their advantage. It was boring. But also, it was insane to watch this 38 year old man go out and give you 16/10 every night, and still have playoffs where he dominated. More than that, to watch a guy that was absolutely the face of the franchise so gracefully bring in other teammates and stars without any drama.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 11:29 AM) Evan Bayh did as much to block his own party from doing certain things as anyone who wasn't a Republican, or Joe Lieberman. I remember when he retired, it was some sanctimonious bulls*** about how the "environment had deteriorated" or something, and he was otherwise pretending like he had nothing to do with that. He made a bunch of money doing that though and received fawning profiles. He's still better than nothing. I hated landreiu/nelson, but when they left you weren't getting a moderate republican you were getting a crazy tea partier.

Also posting this so that Greg can respond with "That's not a very good article, the author wasn't objective how come nobody is covering what a b**** she is?" http://www.vox.com/a/hillary-clinton-inter...dership-quality

Ron Fournier probably just sobbed himself to puking over Evan Bayh running for Senate. Though he is probably really confused why he has a label again

Did anyone watch the night of?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 10:43 AM) I disagree that he's projecting more as a reliever. I think he's a starter long-term. But I agree that a bullpen look THIS year probably makes sense. He struggled at first in AA, made a few adjustments, now he's dialed in. I think you send him to AAA now, and if he still looks good, you put him in the Chicago pen by August. Then he can go to the rotation in 2017. Did you see the Keith Law tweet last night to the effect of "it's good to see Fulmer back to his Vanderbilt delivery" Did he stop doing the delivery changes he was trying out and is that why he's back to his dominance?

In no way should we give up on him as a starter, but yes, fine if he comes up as reliever this year. This is worth developing: "After he struggled early in the season, Fulmer has been in a groove. In his last seven starts, Fulmer has a 3.51 ERA and 54 strikeouts in 41 innings. He also has cut down his walk rate almost in half. In his first 46 innings, Fulmer averaged 6.65 walks per nine innings. He has reduced that to 3.73 per nine over the last 41 innings."

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 09:04 AM) I actually was catching a Beedrill the other day and i caught it, and it popped out of the ball and I had to catch it again. I dont know if that was a glitch or whatever, but when it was rolling towards me it jumped out This happened to me but i was in a grocery store parking lot so i ended up just running away.

The comments on Burdi were great.

The early early to mid 00 spurs made me not like NBA basketball, the 2011-2013 spurs made me love it again.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 10, 2016 -> 10:07 PM) Simmons is gonna eat people. He's going to need a really good coach though to maximize his talents. He does get trapped a lot and then still tries to make the exotic pass. It needs to be him taking the ball down the court on transitions but not a huge amount of his possessions. There was a point in the game where he got stopped by a 6ft guard 7 feet from hoop and he was just looking around to pass it.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 06:38 AM) I feel like the Bulls should be the team taking advantage of the issues in Philly where they basically want to give away Jahlil Okafor. I question "give away" as his most recent trade rumor was 3rd overall pick.

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Valentine definitely impressive in his court vision and offensive awareness.

Simmons v Bulls. Everyone looks bad

Crap. If we could only play with 8 guys on offense

3 straight fastballs, may see him get tied up now

this JB Anderson connection in innings has been great

JB fire

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Eh, with his serve hell rarely get broke but he was not very competitive when Murray served and that showed I the tie breaks

Raonic not providing a very memorable match here

Telling a baseball announcer to shut up and just announce the game is such a ridiculous comment. There's not that much going on in baseball guys.

Wish I'd have gone today. It's beautiful out.

QUOTE (shipps @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 04:37 PM) Dye in 06'? Yeah, man that's a while. I just remember Dye and Paulie way back when.