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QUOTE (Dunt @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 08:51 PM) @BNightengale - 2m - The #Dodgers, while confirming their interest in Tanaka, say they won't spend wildly on him, particularly with Kershaw about to hit FA Just my feelings but letting the agent of player looking at big payday know that you will not be outbid may be a perfect scenario where you bid against yourself.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 09:59 PM) Wow penn state is overpaying Frankin. Just wow. Vanderbilt had pretty much let it be known that if Franklin left it wouldn't be for money. I'm guessing that's what happened here.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 07:58 PM) LMAO Northwestern. This on top of the awful bloody uniforms: http://deadspin.com/northwestern-to-wear-s...gain-1498595359 "Northwestern is just like that guy you meet who tells you he's from Chicago even though he's from Naperville. Own your city, man." LOLOOLOL

I don't buy that he wouldn't come to US to be a star. He could be quietly dominant in Japan. Why come here if not wanting everyone to know you are the best?

Wellp, it was fun while it lasted.

The Bulls have a President of Player operations who punched out a coach. Their medical staff nearly killed a player. The GM fired the coaches favorite assistant for talking s*** at a local charity event. They are not a well run organization. They do have a good mascot.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 06:45 PM) Haha Bmags..I was coming here to tell you all that I've decided Melo is going to sign with the Bulls. They will find a way to clear the additional cap room to be able to sign him as a FA. Melo, despite all the b****ing in New York, is clearly a tremendous scorer. He's never played for a coach who stressed defense. Not saying Bulls are champions with him, but that is a nice looking roster, especially if you can do it and find a way to bring our Euro over plus somehow end up with a lotto pick in this years draft. I think that would be a core that could potentially win. I also look at it as Melo, playing with guys like Rose, Noah, Butler (and coached by Thibbs) would might actually get his head on straight from a defensive perspective. It's interesting. Problematic for the bulls that despite knowing they have atrocious outside scoring, have tried to plug that gap with "3pt scoring man". And we keep swapping them out. You are only going to make marginal gains with your outside shooting by adding one 6th man 3pt specialist. They can be easily taken out of the game. But when you are talking about adding a SF with legitimate range and a PF with legitimate range (some assumption with Mirotic) it becomes an interesting lineup. But defense is going to take a huge hit. It seems like Knicks have tried to improve their achilles of no d effort by signing A D effort guy. Basketball team chemistry is complicated.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 06:23 PM) It's no coincidence Decker's stats skyrocketed once Manning took over. If he wants to get paid, he can go catch balls from EJ Manuel or Jake Locker. I'm sure Peyton can find a much cheaper replacement. Every receivers numbers would skyrocket after Tebow.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 05:12 PM) Whoa dude, you read way too much into my post. I have never, no ever will, blamed MJ for his father's death. I was just making a crack about how there's always something "worse" people could do. I could have gone with rape, but, that'd be too far even for me! Oh, nvm. Anyway, no one will ever replace Jordan culturally. Do you all realize the only reason Chicago is known outside of North America is because of Jordan? Say you are from Chicago and the only thing people know is "Chicago bulls! Michael Jordan!" If you are lucky they know Al Capone. Beside that the world knows LA for hollywood and New York for being New f'n York. Now that that's closed, I want to bring up something: Sometimes it seems like media driven narratives become reality just because people talk about it so much. I believe Sam Smith tried to do this for 12 years with KG to the Bulls but it never took. Which leads me to right now. Something that will not go away nationally despite making no sense and not a peep locally is this: Melo to Bulls Thibs to Knicks. It's. not. stopping. Is there more there than I realize? Is this just national media laziness?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 06:00 PM) Jrue Holiday has a stress fracture in his leg and is out for a long time. Another point guard bites the dust. Good lord.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 05:46 PM) Seriously guys... Charles Tillman ‏@peanuttillman 3h I just saved 15% on my car insurance. I'm so excited, just thought I should share this with y'all. Hahahahaha! He just lost all good will from his years of charity AND football prowess!

Well this has been one of the more interesting offseasons of the last 5 years, that's for sure.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 04:00 PM) I hated Lebron when he did his whole thing. THe fact of the matter is he's an amazing player and a pretty good dude who always plays hard, works to get better, and is just a transcending player. I have a lot of respect as to how (post decision) he's gone out and shut everyone up. I hate the Heat (literally hade Dwade) and don't like rooting for them but I do find myself cheering for Lebron again. He was my favorite player in the league when he was with Cleveland and he is starting to become that again. Just incredible to watch. I feel this way. I also have noticed that I tend to like Lebron a lot more the less I watch him.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 03:40 PM) PSU is going to have a really tough time in their division, of course not all PSU fans care about winning, for example: Always, Always holier than thou. To this day they think they are the cleanest program ever ran. Ha! What is that quoting?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 10, 2014 -> 04:22 PM) Do other apps work with MMS? Or is it only Hangouts? Stock works with MMS. I just turned off hangouts handling SMS and everything is back to normal.

So, I don't like MJ as a person (though my grandma did see him film a Hanes ad in Chicago and thought he was handsome), but Steve's sentence is kind of unfair. While it is terribly selfish to gamble to the point of a family member in trouble, it's not like he wanted his father to die if that scenario would be true.

So, that one issue aside, James Franklin to me was going to be the best hire in college football. I thought if the stanford coach left he was a lock. Penn State will be a tough win for the next few years, and mizzou like gains back an easy win! Woo hoo!

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 9, 2014 -> 07:56 PM) Why can't you? From this: http://buzzmobile.us/sprint-apn-settings-android-us/, it looks like you can. Negative. The button is there but it's a grayed out link I can't access.a

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 9, 2014 -> 08:19 PM) We laughed at them because we didn't trust the FO, but moving Deng wasn't exactly a startling move, it needed to happen. Really, the guy made a duh prediction at the time when it was in the works and being talked about. Predicting James next move is a lot bigger of a shot in the dark IMO I don't know, I put a 2% chance of us trading Deng. I was shocked.

I just don't think James will do that. He's not going to keep hopping franchise to franchise. It's CLE or MIA, but 99.999% MIA. But, yeah this NYDN thing, I am perplexed by how we're getting beat by this.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 9, 2014 -> 02:19 AM) But that would leave them unable to spend that money in March when free agency actually opens. They'd get the dregs in June. Well, couldn't you spend the money "set aside" for rookies, knowing you'll clear up the money for their salary after June 1? edit: this is actually a question, I don't know the answer.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 9, 2014 -> 05:48 PM) I think a lot of them can. Japan, for example, is a geographic nightmare. UK/France has a large salt water body between them. This is one place where you might be able to blame a lot of government-related things so you should like it. It's insanely expensive to build infrastructure in the U.S. compared with the rest of the world. Building the same train in the U.S. costs like 3x or more what it costs in Japan, and they're a much bigger earthquake risk to boot. It's probably a lot of factors. Local/provincial issues (I'm not moving my house!), tax issues, feifdoms, environmental requirements, lots of power in the hands of local issues/leaders (my richest constituents use that road every day, how can you put a train line across it), unions, the federal/state budgeting processes, and I'm sure you can add to it. Of course, one counter-point is that it might be easiest to make things like that happen in a country with an extremely strong central government that can shove people out of the way...which fits very well with why China is able to pull off a variety of projects like this today at dramatically lower costs than we can. That may not be the model we want to follow either. This is where infrastructure projects need to begin with this issue. The insanity is when a commission on this was done they couldn't even figure out a specific reason, it's just...all of it.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 9, 2014 -> 04:41 AM) MMS works for me. Make sure your APN settings are correct (depends on your carrier). I can't b/c of sprint. And judging by their dev forums I'm one of many people with this problem.

Can someone let me know when hangouts can actually handle MMS and isn't a garbage app.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 9, 2014 -> 04:20 AM) Clarkson buying into his NBA hype? From the parts I saw, it looked like he forgot he had teammates. Looks like it. Whole team was garbage and game was called SEC style.