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QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jun 8, 2010 -> 11:56 AM) Thats my point, we go for the guys who will sign for cheap again over the guys that add value to the system. This is a fine philosophy if you are saving the money to make a splash elsewhere which remains to be seen. SO a top 50 guy picked there is picked because he is cheap, or because he has value? I get the impression you are throwing s*** against the wall hoping it will stick.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 7, 2010 -> 12:42 PM) 326 ppi on the iPhone4, It's sharper than printed magazines. I saw that, and it records video in HD. f***!!! I guess they are allowing existing iphone users an early upgrade. I have the 3gs which is good, but f*** I want that. I cant wait for OS4

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 7, 2010 -> 05:26 PM) Alright, we are all guys here, so here goes... I have been "going at it" the past few weeks like I am 15. I'm talking daily or once every other day. I have been doing my thing once a week at the most when I wasn't getting laid. I get "warmed up" at the slightest things it seems recently. What the hell is wrong with me? nothing, thats a good thing. Eventually you wont be able to get warmed up at all, enjoy it while it lasts.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jun 7, 2010 -> 02:48 PM) Thornton is a guy we deal because people will actually give up something tangible for. If KW gets a call, he should listen. I'd like it if Peavy, Danks, Floyd, Beckham, Ramirez, TCQ, and Rios could survive the purge. I might be being stubborn, but i think they still have long-term value to this franchise. Agreed. You are keeping Peavy, Danks and Floyd in your rotation due to age and frankly contracts. Peavy is going to be better for us than he has this year, he's just too got not to be. Becks and ramirez arent going anywhere and TCQ just doesnt have enough value to move for what you would get in return. Rios is our best player. You would hope to add Hudson to that rotation next season and either a FA or a 5th starter like Freddy. You have a few young guys for the bench, and you take your savings from Konerko, Jenks, Buehrle and AJ and spend those all on bats plus whatever you get in return from a trade. I honestly believe one of our best possible trade partners right now is the Cubs. DLEE, Fuk and Aramis could probably all be had at the moment if someone wanted them. I'd plug Fukudome into the lead off spot in place of Pierre and leave him in LF.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 05:35 PM) I got a few questions since I have the dvds but not everything that goes a long with them(nutrition guide, etc). Which dvd do I start out with and what's the whole order supposed to be like? Which week am I supposed to take my rest week? And am I supposed to be doing this 6 days a week or what? Obviously, I know I don't have to follow those things 100 percent but I'd like to try as hard as possible, at least to begin with. Thanks in advance. I have a ppt I can email you as well if you PM me your email address. I print it out and post it next to my computer to remind me everyday. Just keep pressing play. If you have a s***ty day and dont feel like it, just press play and try your hardest to do some of it, you'll find that your energy level picks up and you actually end up doing the whole thing.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Jun 7, 2010 -> 04:15 PM) Got to be honest, I have not been following the workouts to a T. I am trying to lose some extra belly fat so I have been doing running intervals instead of plyo/yoga/kenpo. I lost 15 lbs. before I started P90X and the weight loss seemed to stop when I started the program. I have changed it up a little, but I am still happy with the progress. You gotta do plyo, and make sure you do some of the core workouts as well. How's your diet? Thats my weak point. Chest and back today, yea!!!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 7, 2010 -> 04:36 PM) Name one thing I've posted that can be categorized as creepy. everything

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 7, 2010 -> 12:19 PM) More from Olney: I dont want to unload Peavy or Thornton anyway.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 7, 2010 -> 09:43 AM) WWDC is Today. Everything will be: magical. amazing, awesome, revolutionary, special, and trans transformative. And will prob piss me off since I just got my iphone 3g and now a better one is coming out.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Jun 7, 2010 -> 11:10 AM) I was listening on the radio and Weideman was saying that the linesman can only call 4 or 5 minute majors. He can point out a 2-minute, but it's the referee's discretion to call or not call. Obviously, they "didn't see" it, so they didn't call it. Which sucks, by the way. Yeah, I am aware, but I still think the comical no-calls are ridiculous. I was listening on the radio for a good portion of the game as well, and I think it was funny how much they talked about McCreary's inneptness

Away we go was actually a pretty funny movie.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Jun 7, 2010 -> 10:47 AM) I think ideally you'd move a guy like Pierre on, but I don't think many teams are going to be interested. Quentin is the wild card, we all know about his talent, but right now he's a major reason why we've struggled on offense. Depends on if a team if willing to offer something really good, but I think you keep him otherwise. Floyd you'd probably like to move considering what he's produced this season, but moving him could be hard also, although a team like the Brewers is desperate for decent starting pitching. Jenks you definitely try to move, Philly could be a good option, time to give Thornton the closing role, he's proved he can handle it. Should all be about freeing up some salary, bringing in some quality prospects, and try to re-tool in the FA / trade market for the next off-season. You dont move Floyd, Danks, Hudson or Peavy obviously. The rest can go as far as arms. You'd like to at least keep Thornton, Putz and Santos out of the pen, but I'm sure none are untouchable. As far as bats. You keep Rios, Beckham, Quentin, Alexei and thats about it. The rest can go. You'd hope to get some serious value for Konerko if you need to move him to be honest. Your entire push should be acquiring some cheaper bats so that we can free up salary to possible buy some pitching next season. C Lee should be there push although they prob wouldnt even try to afford him.

OUr best hope is that some of our tradeable vets pick it up and get us something of value moving forward. This team DOES NOT have the pieces.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 18, 2010 -> 08:05 PM) South Loop has been up and coming for 15 years. I don't know if it'll ever pan out. They overdeveloped the s*** out of it and it didnt work. Now there is nothing but a surplus of units for sale wit nothing around them to draw people into the neighborhood.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 11:20 PM) Linesmen can only call majors. They can't tell him they saw a stick hit a guy and then create a call from there. McCreary was in the far corner and missed it, not the first time a high stick has been missed... How quickly you forget about the high stick where Duncan Keith absolutely opened up Briere and that went uncalled as well. Should have been 4 minutes and Philly would have had a 5 on 3 for a minute followed by another 3 minute power play... Out of all the games, THIS is the one you complain after? 2 of Philly's penalties were pretty weak as well. Yeah, I know the rules, and I've said something after each game. I saw them miss one on the Hawks which was a big one and several on the Flyers again. Its not like they've all of a sudden made up for the ones they've missed all series.

Seriously, when is the NHL going to speak to the refs about how terrible they have been this series, especially to the Hawks. Pronger has TWO penalties the entire series? NIce high stick no-call directly in front of the ref, while the linesman was telling him he saw it. No biggie.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jun 4, 2010 -> 10:54 PM) worse nobody played even ok tonight and the remarkable thing is they were 2 inches away from tying it with 30 seconds left Disagree, we completely dominated the game last night and they got a few bulls*** goals and a a gift pp.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 3, 2010 -> 08:21 PM) If he said no, I do! ill give him till tomorrow.

Braxton Miller. Wow, didnt see it coming. Early verbal to OSU and a buckeye tat to boot.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 3, 2010 -> 07:45 PM) FWIW I know someone at work with the unreleased Motorola Shadow (hes one of the 25 non Motorola employees on the trial version), that thing is a complete beast. Huge screen, 720p video recorder, outputs to 1080p, hdmi, the apps created for it now are really cool, fastest phone out htere, except for some samsung phone but thats because the samsung was on 2.2 and the Shadow was on 2.1, once its upgraded the Shadow will be about 10x faster than the fasted phone available. Jesus. See, now how are companies going to stream HD video on a screen like that? The networks simply cannot handle a ton of devices like this, the volume of data moving around will be ridiculous.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jun 3, 2010 -> 05:16 PM) Seems like this board might die by October with all these 'fans' giving up! I still will watch every game, I you want this sundays tickets free?

Love the direction this thread has gone. As for Google vs Apple in the mobile phone world. I have worked on the droid from moto, the droid incredible and the iphone, and IMO the iphone is ridiculously superior. I do like that the competition will drive Apple to innovated faster, but honestly the droid wont be anything more than an iphone alternative. Gage-GSM is about 85% of the world's cell phone market according to the sources I saw, I am not sure what the GDMA is that you cited, can you point me there? I love learning about this s***. The best news for all of us in this is that as consumers we have very very large companies vying for an ever expanding turf. It can only mean good things for us as far as innovation. Several years ago Verizon was absolute s***, I chose Sprint and Tmobile over them because they were so terrible. Now Verizon has the rep of reliable while others have fallen behind. If Spring somehow masters the VOIP thing and lets us not only work with a large network, but also tap into large WiMax or Wireless networks, we then have an entirely new leader.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jun 3, 2010 -> 12:59 PM) Let me throw some conspiracy theories out there. Pronger should have spent a good amount of time in the box and there were three other elbows by other Flyers to the head of various Hawk players that were not called. I really think this is throwing the Hawks off of their game and the Buff line change may be a result of it and that will then have the Hawks making adjustments as a result of non-hockey activity. How the Flyers have gotten more PP's than the Hawks is an absolute joke. I find it odd how Comcast owns Versus, NBC and the Flyers...... The Flyers made crisp passes and have controlled the series after the second period of game two. I think the physical style is now having an impact and I am curious to see where it goes from here. The Hawks defense was atrocious yesterday by the way. Maybe the Flyers are better than I thought. The Flyers should have had at LEAST 3 more penalties last night. How they havent put Pronger in the box for a single crosscheck is a travesty.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 3, 2010 -> 12:36 PM) I believe Jason is referring to Sprint. And by the way, my iPad still rocks. I get more use out of this device than any laptop I have ever owned. I'm getting one shortly. We have rolled them out for most of our mobile workers in my office, and they literally have thrown their laptops away. It does eveything you need, faster. Running outlook on it is awesome, SFDC, SAP, anything is easier.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 3, 2010 -> 12:47 PM) So you don't find it ironic that the reason AT&T has a distressed network is because so many people are enjoying the use of superior products on it? The fact that that is seen as some sort of weakness on AT&T's part is, well, strange to me. Their 3G growth was exponentially faster than they thought it would be. CDMA's "3G" technology is really something that has been around a bit longer and didnt require the advances that GSM's did for rollout. Their "distressed" network is simply a lack of 3G coverage in certain areas which is overloading some of the towers which have to stream the data back to the sources. This wont be an issue for long as this has been ATT's push for over a year. In fact in Chicago, its made some major strides. Of course like I said before, CDMA devices interfere with GSM calls, so in large cities, more CDMA makes it harder for GSM devices to work properly. But clearly ATT has had superior devices, both on blackberries and now the Iphone.