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Teague will never see the floor. PGs take a while to develop, especially one as raw as him, but in the NBA players don't tend to develop on the bench.

Eh, if it was one of the original NATO members there would be no doubt.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 08:33 PM) He'd do good for himself to play for Tom Izzo. He's also be close to home, and Izzo has a good history with Chicago recruits.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 09:39 PM) A separate government survey of companies and government agencies showed they added 114,000 jobs in September. And it turns out that 86,000 more jobs were added in July and August than the government had initially estimated. Is this not an aggregate number of "companies" and "government agencies?" It also shows that federal, state and local governments added 10,000 jobs in September and a revised 63,000 jobs combined in July and August. The government’s initial estimates had shown government job losses for July and August So the government hiring 73,000 in the past three months = most? I'm willing to have read these wrong, I just don't see it It says we averaged 146,000 jobs created PER MONTH over the past three months....meaning 73,000/438,000 over the past three months are government jobs....? He was talking about the august and july revisions.

Regardless, it would be good news. If the private sector gains of the past 2 years had not been offset by government losses we would be in much better shape.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 04:27 AM) I think your post goes to show you that breaking it down by individual team W-L isn't an accurate way to look at it. Can't beat good teams except these two good teams and only beat bad teams except these two really bad teams. Maybe there just isn't a pattern... I could easily just say that if you flipped the records against Detroit and Kansas City that we look awesome. This post is awesome.

I feel like MSU has it in the bag, but that's just a hunch.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 09:04 PM) So pretty much all of the job additions for July and August were governmental jobs. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/us-...b71a_story.html That's excellent news.

what's the relevance of witesoxfan's quote?

I saw "Sleep walk with me" last weekend. Highly rec. Easy to watch, funny enough, good pricetag.

Guess not.

I don't think we'll ever compete with alabama (auburn or alabama) boosters. edit: nor do I want to.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 05:37 PM) Really not a surprise. Either was the brand new navigator he was driving. "white 2004 Lincoln Navigator" Our boosters must suck.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 01:42 PM) Now... whomever gets elected President, go out there and remove the uncertainties - fiscal cliff, regulations, etc. - then we can get to the business of a strong recovery. Congress.

Mizzou star Frosh Dorian Green-Beckham arrested for marijuana possession last night, suspended for Vanderbilt game. Welcome to the SEC?

They didn't LITERALLY give everything they could. /wordpolice

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Oct 3, 2012 -> 05:44 PM) What's with all the "what if's" people are throwing out there? We can do this all day, but I still think a 2 year sentence for that guy is over the top. Anyway, back to actual college football talk... I think this is a pretty cool chart. Shows 120 teams and their offensive turnover per play ratio. I'd like to see this broken down defensively too. http://www.coachingsearch.com/home/1358-ch...-per-play-.html Because I think peoples perceptions change when it's someone they relate to. It seems extreme because he's just some dumb drunk college kid that did something stupid, which we all did when we were that age. But that act is despicable, especially to do to a stranger. If it was some homeless dude doing it to someone on the train I don't think anyone would bat an eye.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 08:23 PM) Teams don't get to make their own schedules, other than being able to list a few weekends when their stadium would be unavailable for a home game. I know, the point is that the bears offensive line usually starts off absolutely woeful. So it helps to start off with an easy schedule, like we have. This team will start to look better as our team gets its act together upfront. Tice did a much better job getting help on the outside this game. Frankly, with Marshall, we can now basically run passing routes with 2 receivers and a bunch of protection and trust Cutler to find him and Marshall to get open. We just have to get that combo time and it will payoff. Also: Henry Melton is awesome.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Oct 3, 2012 -> 04:09 AM) Yeah, I probably would. But it wasn't a woman. It was a guy. And as weird as it is to teabag a complete stranger, I still don't know if he deserves jail time. Anyway, just a lesson for everyone else out there. Don't be stupid. What if it was a homeless man that did it and not some dumbass drunk college kid.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 03:26 PM) De Aza, Dunn and Konerko all hurt and Youkilis beat up will do that to an offense. Its easy to say its a choke, especially after they score at will once its all over, but as was stated previously, the tank was at E. There aren't many teams that can play with their 1,2,3 and 4 hitters hurt and score consistently. The Sox were really beat up this year. Probably more beat up than any year I can remember. Perhaps we should stop relying on a 3-4-5 of people 34+ with injury histories and start developing dynamic young position players.

The bears should definitely try to schedule the easy part of their schedules early in the season. Why? Because it appears inevitable that it takes 6 games for our Oline to work out the kinks and coaches to figure out the best protection schemes. The bears haven't played incredible football their first 4 games, but they are 3-1. In my estimation, they will get better as the season goes along. Unfortunately, it's also possible they get ravaged by injuries again.

I don't see how we can blame september on pitching. Short of getting a string of shutouts, when we were in the race and trying desperately not to lose, I couldn't help but look at the offense and wonder how we had gotten to this point. I feel like we rarely had a lead in the first 5 innings on ANY of the games in september. We were constantly shut out the first 5 innings and playing catch up. Our offense was just awful in september.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 01:15 PM) While mostly good, keep in mind a single crown or root canal will cost 1200$ or more...and the maximum is 2000$. So, essentially, don't let something major happen more than once a year and I'm ok. Even with good insurance, dental work tends to be pretty overpriced. But once again, this isn't the insurance company screwing us, it's the dentists. One of my best friends father is a dentist (just retiring), so I have a bit of insider info on these types of things...if you get a crown, the tooth they have to make in a lab costs about 200$-230$ to make, $230 model using top end base metals...yet they charge you upwards of 800$ for that tooth, and then the labor makes up for the remaining 1000-1200$ bill your insurance company will receive. I know, because I just received one. But once again, not the insurance companies fault that the markup on what should cost about 400$ to have done costs 1200$ instead. but anyway, I just ended up paying 65% of my cleaning bill. I have to call them today to see if that's accurate. If they don't cover that...smh

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 01:15 PM) While mostly good, keep in mind a single crown or root canal will cost 1200$ or more...and the maximum is 2000$. So, essentially, don't let something major happen more than once a year and I'm ok. Even with good insurance, dental work tends to be pretty overpriced. But once again, this isn't the insurance company screwing us, it's the dentists. One of my best friends father is a dentist (just retiring), so I have a bit of insider info on these types of things...if you get a crown, the tooth they have to make in a lab costs about 200$-230$ to make, $230 model using top end base metals...yet they charge you upwards of 800$ for that tooth, and then the labor makes up for the remaining 1000-1200$ bill your insurance company will receive. I know, because I just received one. But once again, not the insurance companies fault that the markup on what should cost about 400$ to have done costs 1200$ instead. They also prevented dental hygeinists from performing cleanings on their own, which would drive down cleaning appointment costs. ^this is something ACA addresses, too, btw.

I'm glad the refs that came back ended that pass interference fest that was the first 3 weeks. I agree that regular refs make bad calls, but it's just nice to see the game move quickly and decisions made fast.