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Man, Nba is great. I'm pumped to see Twolves back healthy, Nola, Magic, Wizards, let alone all the established teams. I hope this is a great year and not some year of the injury or something. I'm even pumped for Boston to see how Pressey does in NBA and see if he can hack it.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 06:13 PM) Since 1999, the defending champions are 11-3 in their first home game of the next season. Well I'll be. I guess answer is just don't schedule Chicago teams.

KW on Abreu: "One of the things that we did not want to entertain was a guy who was just one dimensional. This guy is a hitter." ???

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 05:59 PM) I've always had such a hard time betting on a single NBA regular season game but I'll say Miami wins by 5-7 tonight, hopefully I'm a liar. It just seems like trophy ceremonies always work against the defending champs.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 05:21 PM) They won't be but the 6-8 seeds aren't going to have to be very good. Yeah I don't see how Detroit doesn't get in playoffs.

I like how J4L will ride the jock of any marginal player that happens to have a good game on TNT one night but refuses to acknowledge the value of upgrading from Keith Bogans to Jimmy Butler.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 04:50 PM) I am in the minority I know, but I think the Nets will be an old, disjointed, injury riddled s*** sandwich. Like D'Antoni Knicks type s*** sandwich. It's possible. I would have never guessed the Lakers could be as bad as they were. I guess I just think Garnett will hold that team together defensively and there is so many teams to feast on in the east.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 04:29 PM) Miami 4th? Do LeBron and Wade drive off of a cliff together? I think there will be a lot of resting this year in the regular season.

I'll be short East 1) IND 2) CHI 3) NETS 4) MIA 5) WASH 6) DET 7) NYK 8) ATL West 1) SA 2) LAC 3) HOU 4) GS 5) OKC 6) MEM 7) PORT 8) NO

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Oct 28, 2013 -> 09:31 PM) Looks like they did include Garcia Oof.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 28, 2013 -> 08:59 PM) Ya I actually think a 1 loss Bama team would jump OSU. That being said, I don't really see Bama losing this year until the championship if FSU or Oregon gets there as well. Honestly, no way. The only examples we have of this are non-bcs cons like TCU, Utah and Boise State. No way a major conference team that's undefeated gets jumped by a 1-loss team unless that 1 loss team lost in the first week adn then beat everyone by 100 pts after that.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 28, 2013 -> 07:05 PM) I think the most interesting scenario is Ohio State and FSU or Oregon (but not both) go undefeated and the SEC teams all have at least one loss. Does an SEC team get the championship berth over OSU? No. I don't think Alabama or the SEC has the pull this year. There is no LSU of past, and say the world becomes perfect and Mizzou wins out and beats Alabama, no way they leap 2 undefeateds in major conferences. Add in the fact that it's probably everyones dream to see FSU v. Oregon.

I wouldn't worry if I was Fla St. If they win out, people are so intrigued by Winston and wanting to see them play the big game, I'm guessing they'll get pushed in the polls. I would have a hard time believing this year will feature 3-4 undefeateds from major conferences. There's a long way to go.

Add in Alabama @ Auburn. That will be a great game and by no means decided.

Describing domestic abuse as a social nono is kinda underplaying it to say the least. What Marshall did was terrible, but he has put in a lot of work to his condition and never doing it again. That's why you hear about it less than say, Chris Browns past.

In our league a team started 3 bye players and an IR player. They still nearly won because they happened to have Calvin Johnson and the Bengals defense. It has continued a ridiculous trend for my friend's team, who coming out of the draft had the team everyone thought would take it (auction draft, got: AP, Ridley, AJ Green, B Marshall, Romo as qb and gates at TE). He wasn't deep but that's star power none of us matched. He's 0-7 and has played the weeks highest scorer 5 times. Had this person started all their positions he'd surely be 0-8.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 27, 2013 -> 10:21 PM) What? What he said is 100% true. Beckman is done at Illinois if he can't win a Big Ten game, and rightfully so. He is very likely gone regardless. I was remarking how terrible that recruiting is.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Oct 27, 2013 -> 06:57 PM) Beckman does not have 1 player recruit even ranked in top 300. The whole class is 2 star Ohio players with no other major college offers. He does not win a Big Ten game he is gone! Good lord.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Oct 27, 2013 -> 06:18 AM) Ya, we "win" this one No I get that your program is in bad shape. I'm more talking about how so many of mizzous defining losses have had such absurd things happen in them (fleakicker, five downs, edney, missing a 3 foot field goal after being up 17-0 at home in fourth)

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Oct 27, 2013 -> 05:30 AM) Wrong Hardly Try us.

Nobody knows pain like a Mizzou fan knows pain. Par for the course. Congrats Miami for beating wake forest.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Oct 25, 2013 -> 05:16 PM) I generally agree that the preaching of patience at the major league with veterans will most likely not change them. However, this hire was made to have an impact on the minor league system to have a common philosophy taught and preached throughout the organization. That's why this is a big move in my opinion. Do hitting coaches often coordinate the instruction to the minor leagues? Or are you talking more about how this is a symbolic shift.

Was hoping for Tom Emanski personally.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 07:53 PM) Because they don't want him to get hurt for an extended period of time again. Missing a top 3 PG in the league for a year and a half can't be a good thing for the league. I didn't say it was a bad thing. I thought he drove so fast and hard before refs just didn't know. Wade gets a lot of BS calls but he also has a move that makes it look like he gets contact. Rose didn't have that. Now they seem to be on top of the fact that he is getting crushed but he just ignores it.