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This s*** again

It also illustrates why bears will be unlikely to trade down.

This is great stuff: “Just say in theory you go down six picks,” Emery said. “That means you have to count the pick you’re giving up as one and now you’re going to pick six picks later. So you have to have six picks on the board that have that graded value, that you’re comfortable taking. You have to come up with six players where I would take any one of those six. And you will rank order them. And you may end up with the last one on the list. But that last one? You better want. Or you shouldn’t trade. So if you don’t have that number of players that you feel good about, you shouldn’t trade.” A trade up, Emery hinted, seems less likely for the Bears next week. “Trade ups are expensive,” he said. “Obviously. You’d just have to feel like the player that you’re trading up for makes a dynamic difference in your team.”

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 1, 2014 -> 09:22 PM) Forman and Thibs aren't exactly buddies. It wouldn't shock me if they would do this, but it kind of would shock me if the Lakers did this. They need players. Agreed. And in need of young players. And they gave Kobe that contract so they also aren't in amazing shape moneywise despite that crappy roster.

Ugh, it's probably going to be true. The lakers always get whatever they want because of pixie dust or something.

I haven't had this much fun since Carlos Quentin's start to 08.

I still fail to see how being a season ticket holder = supporting the owner (morally or otherwise). Most season ticket holders are so in spite of the owner.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Apr 30, 2014 -> 06:44 PM) I haven't read a ton of this thread, but I'm curious what you think the Bulls course of action should be? Shocking to me the ragging on TT as well. I understand he sticks to his rotations too much and can be stubborn, and while I'm a few credits short of my coaching degree, not sure what else Thibs could do with this team without a single scorer to speak of on the floor for his team, along with a Noah in the playoffs that could barely walk. Obviously this team is just 1 coach away ...

Ta-daaaaa

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 30, 2014 -> 02:56 PM) This guy suffered for minutes. How long did his victim suffer as she was shot with a sawed off shotgun and buried alive? Right, but this is under the assumption that because he felt it was okay to torture and maim I should be okay with torturing him. And that's not the case. I think he should be punished, just not tortured to death.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 30, 2014 -> 03:49 PM) You don't know what you're talking about, he just doesn't seem like the type of person that would do such a thing. In all of his interviews he came off very respectfully to shop store owners.

I guess because I think torturing and killing people is wrong.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Apr 30, 2014 -> 01:16 PM) This is well explained. It's almost impossible to give Rodon 1-1 money if you aren't picking 1st overall. If that is what he wants and Houston doesn't bite, I think he ends up going to back to NC State. Even after the way he was used this year?

So Eastern Illinois is going to be pretty damn good I'm guessing.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Apr 26, 2014 -> 01:02 PM) JJ Watt, too. Barr definitely seems boom or bust. I know for Mizzou they typically go and recruit a body type that they like and then build them up with muscle.

Well, I for one am excited for the offseason. And already regretting the disappointment I'll have in late july when our offseason sucked.

Not remotely sad that s*** is over.

Man Holliday is havin a rough day getting hit and foul tipped on

Rain delays. Great fun.

Laughing really hard at hawks weather app talk. Would love to see him using that.

I hate this. Yesterday I see a tweet that Sale is fine and all is well, and today it's gonna be that thing "oh, yeah he doesn't need DL he's not going on Rehab, no he's gonna be fine" and tomorrow it's "White Sox shut down Chris Sale indefinitely for elbow exploding in 6,000 places"

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 07:22 PM) Well, let's be honest, it is a bit faux outrage. This dude's been doing this kind of stuff for decades and the drum beat to get him out of the league never started until now and he was out of the league in what, 4 days? I'm not at all suggesting it's unjustified by the way. I'm just saying I can see Cuban's argument about how this might play out in the future, depending on what by-law/provision they used here. Life is unfortunately complicated and has different consequences for different actions. While being accused by NBA legend Elgin baylor of racial discriminatory practices was also "this kind of thing", Baylor didn't have a video tape of Sterling saying his accusations on tape as this person did. They are both "this kind of thing" but they are also different. It's really easy to always sweep things under the rug with "hypocrisy" and "well how come" but life happens and sometimes timing and circumstance cause bad things to be met with good reactions and no reactions. Life.

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 06:50 PM) Does anyone still have the Clips beating GS? I mean, couldn't you see a Major League type moment with Doc and the players? Win the whole thing to shove it down the throat of the guy, since he can't even take credit for it?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 06:40 PM) I get his point though. It's pretty dangerous to start a trend that anything an owner says in private - even if he doesn't act that way publicly - can get his team taken away from him. But I think the key here is that Sterling has been this way for a long time and people just kept looking the other way because it didn't directly affect the Clippers, a now prominent team. If the Clippers had still been the worst organization in the league I bet this doesn't happen the way that it did. Slippery slope arguments are not convincing to me. He didn't say "anything" behind closed doors, he said words that were hateful and directed at a community that makes up the vast majority of it's players and a significant portion of his fans. He didn't just say something that was offensive, he said something that was significantly damaging to the league he is an owner in and makes money being a part of. So if another says "anything" which has equal damage to the league, sorry, you will get paid 1 billion to leave that league.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 06:44 PM) You might think that intuitively, but there's always been this creepy side where his face almost constantly appears in the LA Times citing whatever award he's getting for giving some foundation a few thousand dollars. His companies spend a lot of money on his reputation otu there. The cares about his reputation side might run into his vindictive side though. The one that gives orders to evict a woman because she asked he fix the heat and water.