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QUOTE (SCCWS @ Mar 24, 2014 -> 09:19 PM) Your living in the 50's. These players all have big time agents. Do you actually think their agent is advising them to take a huge risk and blow their own cut???? They all have special policies that in the case of injury their income is protected for life. Once they sign the mega deal they drop the policy. It is why colleges are able to get a one and done player a policy to protect them until they make it to the NBA. Agents = $$$ Insurance = $$$

Honestly if I was a young pitcher who is already successful I'm not sure I could pass down a team friendly deal in hopes of a huge FA payday. That is such a huge risk that a freak baseball to the elbow even will cut your value to nothing.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Mar 24, 2014 -> 07:12 PM) Hahn has gotten Sale and Quintana (at the time of both extensions) for 14 years (4 of which are options) worth a total of 107.5 million. Unbelievable. Man, wrapping up a true ace and true #2 for roughly 15 million per year/avg. through the decade is crazy. That gives us a lot of ability to over allocate resources to other positions.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 24, 2014 -> 03:58 PM) so teams dont want to draft a guy who has a freak knee injury? Must be a very good scout. I have a hard time believing players like Embiid would drop too far even if he suddenly showed a stress fracture or something like that.

I think this year kind of taught us not go get caught up in the pre-conference play numbers. There was a lot of great offensive performances early in the year and that just dropped off like a brick as soon as conference play started.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 23, 2014 -> 02:33 AM) Bulls expect Rose to be back for the playoffs Not this s*** again. I don't even want him back. He's not going to be good and look what's happened to Westbrook this year after a similar injury. Westbrook is fine.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 23, 2014 -> 12:47 AM) Saw Hawkins bat a few times today. He has no plate coverage at all. Unless it's on the inner-half, I can't see how he makes contact. I thought the same thing. He took a fastball down the middle.

2 straight MEATBALLS from Paulino leads to a 3 RUN HR

Rough inning for Nieto

This will be a fun at bat for Eaton

Dang Blake sure can make some highlight plays...

Semien to Alexei looks pretty dang sweet.

Argh this high pitch RINGING

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 21, 2014 -> 11:18 AM) Did he ever have the rep as a bad person at Rutgers? Maybe not but I think old men sportscasters get a hard on for treating college kids like garbage.

Get the depressing ones out of the way first, I see.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Mar 21, 2014 -> 02:33 PM) Totally agree, I am anticipating the SoxTalk meltdown in June saying that Hahn is moron who acquired a bunch of bums when some of these guys start to struggle through their first full seasons. Offensively this is going to be a season of us taking our licks and getting the some of the kinks worked out. We are starting 3 rookies to start the season and could be up to 5 or six by August 1, this is going to be a year for getting guys accustomed to the majors. I've already written off Davidson. Soxtalk hath spoken.

I actually don't even hate on beats. It is overpriced, and is all marketing. But the market for headphones really was confusing. You had an explosion in mobile music players in 00, and basically no revolution for headphones there, despite the "specialty" market exploding in pretty much every other market (food, clothing, etc). Your big name (consumer facing) headphone makers (sony, panasonic, etc) had so many products, at so many pricepoints, how do you decide? You can't be brand loyal because th $20 sony headphones are horrid. How do you know their 110 are the best anymore? So you had insanely expensive headphones and terribly crappy cheap ones. And nothing in the middle. Yeah, monster head phones aren't amazing, but they also aren't horrible. Consumer ignorance was begging to be exploited there. Now that people know there's a market there it's going to work itself out, may as well thank Beats for that.

"Not only will fans be able to enjoy the game in a really cool setting, the Xfinity Zone will give them the opportunity to experience our TV, Internet, home phone and home security and automation services first hand. We'll even have sales staff on hand that can assist and sign up customers." I personally cannot wait to try their home phone.

Ugh, reading digitally advanced restaurant makes me want to throw up.

That is hugely overstated, just because you'll have compressed audio doesn't mean better head phones won't make it sound much better than a $20 pair of sony ear buds. Beside better base and texture, the higher end headphones help dramatically with ear fatigue, again, regardless of whether you are using compressed files. There are true audiophiles in this world, and then there are people that feel like they should know it and in reality could not tell you the difference between the AAV and lossless formats. But you certainly would be able to get a much more decisive preference for consumers having them listen to a $100 pair of headphones and $20 pair listening to itunes files, than a $20 pair listening to lossless files.

I think the way he was controlling the media and players was indicative of being a bad person. Though certainly Josh Freeman actually ending up being one of the worst QBs ever sort of helped out in that he was right in that part.

I remember when World Wide Wes was pushing Lebron to the Bulls and we were the favorites.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 19, 2014 -> 05:48 AM) It involves them either S&T Lin and Asik to NY for Melo or they have to trade them for pure cap space, but both of them have a $15M hit. Weren't there sign and trade limitations build into the new CBA? Anyone remember what they were?

QUOTE (ptatc @ Mar 19, 2014 -> 05:55 PM) There are many studies which show the adverse effects of marijuana. They are much worse the tobacco for cardiovascular risks. You can pretty much guarantee a heart attack if you smoke it regularly. I posted some articles in another thread. One of the paradoxical effects is the TCH and the anti-inflammatory capabilities. It is prescribed for some inflammatory conditions such as glaucoma for this reason. The other side is that any other injury will take much longer to heal or won't heal due to the inflammatory process not occurring. So in the short term and long term it will have an impact on your health, which in turn may have an effect on the long term health care of the state. I mean, people are already using it. I don't know if there's good data yet for uptick in actual usage, so the uptick would be marginal i'm guessing. The population increase would widen the tax base, and hopefully they'll move to dense areas.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 19, 2014 -> 04:56 PM) I really wanted to vote in last April's local elections. Unfortunately, I could find almost no information at all about any of the local candidates beyond a bunch of empty slogans. Hell, if any of them had even bothered to hand out fliers and go door-to-door, they could have gotten my vote. Just voted in Guzzardi in logan square. Seems like a smart guy, and somehow younger than me. But it's not just voting, people wouldn't believe how much actually writing to your congressman affects their views. If you took the time to write, they'll assume you'll most certainly vote.