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I'm still really mad about 1 think about last night: The heat were doing cheap shots, the bulls were fouling hard. Yet all you hear is the game was "physical". All actions were equal.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 9, 2013 -> 08:36 PM) I'm guessing he wants to be paid like a 1-20 pick, while the Bears are arguing that they overdrafted him big time. Have picks around him signed?

Anyone have 18,400 lying around? There are 2 courtside seats available for Monday's game.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ May 9, 2013 -> 07:19 PM) Am I the only one who found The Great Gatsby book in HS to be extremely boring? I mean, I'll admit I only read about 5% of the assigned books throughout grade school/high school/college, but I remember the Spark Notes being incredibly boring w/ that book. I guess I just don't get it, or I'm not cultured enough. Yeah, probably.

still talking about this, eh.

Shame that it has died so fast in Illinois.

Seems like a guy trying to spout his mouth to get a better sentencing.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 9, 2013 -> 01:33 PM) the thing is, it pretty much guaranteed a blowout. the refereeing got so out of hand early that the Bulls trotted out a lineup of marco-teague-nazr-cook-gibson early in the 2nd quarter. The Heat did nothing but bully tactics and cheap shots and got away with it. THe bulls pretty much had no chance to win this game. This. It was a good strategy by heat. Start doing a bunch of cheap fouls and goat the bulls into retaliating, bulls were more than happy to comply, refs feel like they have to gain control of game and call a bunch of tic tac fouls that put bulls in foul trouble. Bulls then come into second half scared to foul, leaves lanes wide open for layups, suddenly we are down by 40. The game should call into question why daquan cook is playing so much. He hasn't hit a 3 pointer in 12 years. He keeps stepping out of bounds...which is just bizarre. He's okay defensively, but such a negative otherwise. Meanwhile even Malcom Thomas and VladRad showed more than him. Radmanovich has like 8 steals and 14 points in 10 seconds. I get that Rip sucks, but no way he is worse than Cook at this point.

Duncan has that old man sixth sense now, where they are old and slow, but seem to be able to just use their big ass to move you out of the way and get a slow motion uncontested shot in.

Nuts. I'd try again if I were you.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 8, 2013 -> 07:53 PM) Tried to get a deal with Comcast today, of course I don't actually have any alternatives and they know it so I get charged more for the same plan than many other people in the area. Did you do this over the phone? I've never been denied when actually speaking to someone. As long as you are willing to wait they usually don't even push back much.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 8, 2013 -> 07:31 PM) Not only that, it took a WS to bring attendance back. Even when the White Sox successfully rebuilt and got Thomas, Ventura, McDowell and Fernandez in 4 consecutive drafts, and suffered through 3 seasons of barely drawing 1 million fans, it didn't lead to the "sustained success" that many here now say is a requirement for fans to come to games. I really think people are confusing the NBA with MLB. Not many teams bottom out, trade all their best assets for prospects and are contending anytime soon. The strike kind of killed baseball good will in mid 90s.

It's a shame what the refs do to the poor Canucks.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 8, 2013 -> 04:15 PM) Wasn't brought up here yet, but the Incidental Economist blog has a whole bunch of posts covering the Oregon Medicare study that came out. Oregon Medicaid – Power problems are important How should the new Medicaid study change our policy preferences? Oregon Medicaid experiment “is a Rorschach test of people’s views of the ACA” What about power for the blood pressure result? (And so much more) That study is a prime example for Nate Silver's prescription in "The Signal and the Noise" to prefer a Bayesian method of scientific knowledge.

I'll just choose to be happy that a player who tore his ACL looks back to normal.

on NPR this morning, apparently LAPD brought 70 police in riot gear to a party of black students at USC. 6 were arrested. They were responding to noise complaints, the students had registered the party with campus officials and had been checking student id's at door. No guns, weapons or drugs were present. Across the street a party of white students went unharmed. But since there are no racists, we can only justify this by saying they were using some formula, or that the neighbors felt threatened and needed to be prepared.

I have comcast and have had no problems. However, I'd never rent equipment from the cable company, it's a racket for them and they treat the equipment like hell. I remember returning a router to comcast at their equipment drop off, she grabbed it from me with two fingers and tossed it across the room into a box.

Speaking of Thomas Jane, this is the greatest thing ever. Seriously, read this below: http://brianjaeger.tumblr.com/post/27339881979/w-t-underwood

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 8, 2013 -> 04:06 PM) 94 Rockets. Unless you consider Sam Cassell or 2-3 year man Robert Horry a star. Ha, I was gonna say Vernon Maxwell but then I looked it up and holy hell. 13 ppg on 38% shooting. I was young those years, but I thought he was better than that.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ May 8, 2013 -> 04:00 PM) Hawks penalty kill has been awesome, Hawks power play has been not awesome. Tepid and boring PP. Last night was the first playoff game I've been able to catch. Felt gooood. I'm not too concerned about our first line, we should just more be thrilled that our 3rd line has done what they should be doing. Also, loved Foley calling out how bad Handzus has been, then Handzus scoring immediately. I love when the reverse jinx works out.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 8, 2013 -> 04:03 PM) You can seriously make the argument that the only two teams to win an NBA Championship in the last 30 years that didn't have atleast 2 stars on it were the 2004 Pistons and the 2011 Mavericks. Considering Chandlers progression, fair to say he propelled himself to "star" status that year.

From KC Johnson tweets...it looks like we might not even have deng/hinrich for game 3.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 7, 2013 -> 06:28 PM) My brother passed the field sobriety test and almost got off without a breathalyzer. He later blood tested .19 -- the legal limit in CO is .05. Sounds like field sobriety test just sucks as an indicator. It's so crazy to think what something like that can do. I'll be honest, my brother and I think the reason he got accustomed to doing that was when he drank underage. As a high schooler, he would go to "parties" and drink with his friends and he would basically have to drive home so not to attract the attention of our parents. Of course, my parents would say that they would pick him up anytime for any reason, but high school kids don't weigh the potential death of self or others versus getting grounded very well. Once you've done it a few times, you start to think it is okay. "My threshold is higher." "I've done it a million times." It's a tricky problem to solve because the people committing the offense are physiologically disabled to a certain extent when it comes to making good decisions. I'd imagine many of the people that do this (not all, by any means -- there are some assholes that know exactly what they are doing) would say they wouldn't ever drive drunk when they are sober. Then they have some drinks, maybe don't realize how much they had, maybe think it's just a one time thing, think it is their only option that night for some reason...who knows. With all that said, AFAIK drunk driving rates are trending downward. It's hard to deal with because it is so entrenched with some people...it's far easier to try to get young people to never start than it is to get the town drunk to quit doing the thing he's done for 20 years. My dad said when he was a younger guy in 70s, 80s he and his friends would ride MOTORCYCLES drunk. They never even thought about how that might be illegal -- he said if you got pulled over, lots of cops would just take your alcohol or drive you home. This is why I'd prefer to raise kids in a walkable neighborhood. Too many deaths from automobile accidents in my hometown and towns around me. Really hit hard on a few.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:13 PM) With all the times in the past two weeks that the Bulls have had "no chance" of winning....I can't help but have some optimism for now. The nice part of all the injuries is that I won't feel that bad if/when we lose, but we play so hard and so well that it is just magnificent to watch no matter the result -- especially when "win" is a potential result no matter who plays. It's fun to watch their grind right now. The way they were doubling lebron, where 3 different players would come in, pressure, then return, was so great. Joakim has turned into a great center. Better than probably we fans can even realize, with the amount of times he probably bails out teammates without us noticing. Truly great playoffs for him so far.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 7, 2013 -> 07:10 PM) Combine any chances of the heat tensing up with the fact that the Bulls can crank down their defense in the last few minutes if its close...and yes. Wellp, I'm preparing for an LBJ 40pt first half. If we are within 10 after 3 I'll start feeling confident.