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QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 08:05 PM) so they get rid of Taj then Melo decides to stay in NY. Then what? lol The Bulls are stuck in the middle of the East. Exactly where they would be if they didn't get rid of Taj.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 02:22 PM) Honestly this thread has just turned into trolling and is silly. You didn't expect that when you posted it?

Broncos 20, Seattle 17.

Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor and Jeremy Irons as Alfred cast in upcoming Superman/Batman movie.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 11:30 PM) The NCAA also was selling players jerseys with names on the back for profit until Jay Bilas called them on it. Just pay the players. It's only right. Or at least let them market themselves. Why shouldn't RGIII have been able to sell 1 million jerseys to Baylor fans? Why can't Andrew Wiggins do the same at Kansas? And those Kentucky players? They could make a fortune selling autographed jerseys. Self and Calipari make more than 5 million a year; at least let the players sell their own merchandise to make a huge buck. Why should RG3 be able to sell jerseys using the Baylor license and colors? Michael Jordan can't market his own line of Bulls material.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 08:56 PM) I don't get it. Are we comparing Westbrook to peak Shaq? If so this is the last post you'll read from me because I'm going to kill myself with rat poison. 99-00 shaq ? No, but Durant seems like a long ways ahead of 20 year old Kobe too. 2004 Shaq when they were all kinda collapsing?

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 09:25 PM) My experience at games was that they didn't hate Dunn too much. He's your best chance at seeing a homer, which is the best thing that can happen as a fan Well, best chance until Jose Abreu goes for 74.

QUOTE (chisoxfan310 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 08:37 PM) De Aza wouldn't DH. Viciedo would get DH at bats against righties and Paulie would against lefties Wow that sounds bad

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 08:29 PM) Yeah, I'm not really sure how this would work out. Dunn doesn't seem happy in Chicago, the fans arent happy with Dunn and the Sox seem like they would prefer to trade him, so he could refuse a qualifying offer to try and get a multi-year deal or a one year offer to try and rebuild his value. Some team out there might take a chance depending on how he hits this year. I think best case scenario is hope he hits well enough to be traded come June/July , wish him well and move on. Would you trade a 2nd round pick for Adam Dunn at the end of next year? I sure as hell wouldnt.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 07:23 PM) Durant has Westbrook. That isn't exactly nothing. QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 07:53 PM) I have no problem with anybody who says Durant > Kobe as a scorer. But please don't use scoring titles in any way whatsoever as an argument for Durant. Kobe spent the first 8 years of his career playing second banana to Shaq O'neal. That is a BIG deal. Kobe easily racks up scoring titles well before '06 without Shaq. 2k5s should have been directed at you.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 06:56 PM) It's hard. Kobe's numbers also rely on a few years of not giving a s*** about getting his teammates involved. That 2006 season was insane for his rebounding and scoring, but yeah. So maybe with KD. I was thinking of going this way but then I looked at the stats and found that KD has already picked up 3 scoring titles and is on his way to a 4th, by the age of 25. Kobe only had 2, at age 27-28. Yes, Kobe had other guys around him, but 4 scoring titles at this age is something to behold. If he keeps going and peaks in 3 years like Kobe's numbers did, we could be talking a guy with 8-9 scoring titles.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 05:13 PM) Ok, officially, go Broncos. Does this help push back?

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 05:04 PM) Tolerable is the key word. And given that he's a 22 year old right now, you simply aren't going to convince me that it's impossible for him to ever become tolerable with the bat. He is just that young...he might need years of work, he might need the right coach, but esp. given his speed (which could give him the ability to do a lot of successful slap hitting), it's at least plausible he could turn into a really valuable player.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 03:57 PM) At absolute best, he is a 24th/25th man. That is his top. The kid is never going to hit enough to play everyday. Guys like that are a dime a dozen around baseball. With how the SS position has evolved, I find this to be very much 2000-vintage thinking. Right now, if you're tolerable with the bat but great with the glove you're a $50 million/5 year contract level shortstop.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 04:36 PM) Frankly, Law saying that Semien would be an ideal utility player is a good thing, because it means he believes he is good enough defensively at all 3 spots to be useful while being good enough with the bat to stick. To me, that's usually going to be a starting caliber player somewhere in the lineup. I'm not sure Law is really thinking about it that way, are you? I'd get more "His bat just isnt' good enough to be a major league hitter" as the statement I'd interpret out of "he's a utility player".

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 03:16 PM) He's taking ABs away from Viciedo, DeAza, and Gillaspie, and he is taking a roster spot away from Leury/Elmore/Danks/the list goes on. AAA Charlotte is already loaded in the infield as it is. He's taking away a LOT and for what is in all probability no return. No return. And you still have to pay him $15M no matter what you do and no matter what he does. If they were concerned about those PA's, they wouldn't have spent an extra $2.5 million on a completely unnecessary right-handed DH. They made their call.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 03:09 PM) It's not, but the main point remains: Dunn's a nice guy, but he needs to go. And the main counterpoint...that the Sox would have moved him already if they could get anything useful for him...remains as well.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 02:36 PM) It's not like schools are walking away with earnings of 100M which they just hand out to the President or other board members. They go back into the school to fund other athletics, building projects, etc. Some schools (Iowa for example) LOST money. But his point, which is true, is that the enormous salaries of the coaching staffs at these top-level programs are that high because the money doesn't have to be spent anywhere else. If you've got a coach who you have to pay $15 million in order to turn a $10 million profit, you do that...and that's a big pool of money going to a coaching staff that could be directed elsewhere.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 02:21 PM) The NCAA itself made that much in surplus (profit) revenue. When you add in the conferences and schools, it amounts to billions of dollars a year. Alabama generated over $100M alone last year. In the grand scheme of things, that really is a lot of money and more than enough to pay for athletes' ongoing medical issues. There are huge amounts of money thrown around to coaches and administrators throughout the NCAA, and there's nothing that says they're entitled to the entire revenue stream while locking the players out. There isn't some law of economics that says if suddenly the athletes got a bigger share of the revenues (via medical insurance, better scholarship guarantees, stipends, etc.) that existing expenses are fixed in stone and that the only possible source would be additional revenues. That doesn't happen anywhere else and there's no reason to expect it to happen here, even if they aren't publicly traded for-profit companies. There's a big problem here that I point out with budgeting. Alabama generated over $100 million in revenue last year, but where does most of that go? A lot of it goes to fund the athletic department and in particular to fund the facilities available on campuses. When you switch from "Revenue" to "profit" you wind up with a much more complicated story because things like "100,000 person stadiums" are very, very expensive and are often financed through government-backed bond issues, creating a wide net of subsidies and off-the-books accounting tricks. Some programs turn significant profits on their athletic departments for a while, while others don't, but in all cases they benefit from saving a whole lot of marketing dollars that they would otherwise have to spend. There are more than a few cases where the 8 football home games and conference moneys the athletic departments take in do not cover their costs (particularly if they're firing a lot of coaches or doing renovations). The University of Tennessee has had to dump several million dollars into its athletic department the last couple years to keep it solvent, for example. The money the NCAA makes is almost entirely due to revenue on the NCAA tournament, which they hold the rights to for some reason.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 02:19 PM) That was actually the title on Twitter. Then I insist you retweet my rant to the Tribune.

Yeah, that article is a Rosenbloom rant and it doesn't suggest anything new like "Sox still trying to trade Dunn" as the headline of this thread says. More accurate would be "Rosenbloom wants Sox to trade Dunn".

This should absolutely not be played while at work or in the company of anyone who isn't ready to attend an R-Rated movie.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 12:35 PM) I remember it being 20 below in January 1994, and classes weren't cancelled. By far the coldest I've ever been. But I don't remember how long that cold spell lasted or how cold the winter was overall. That happened the week of January 17, 1994. They canceled 3 days of class in Portage, Indiana. I know this in detail because that Monday I woke up with such a sore throat I couldn't eat, went back to bed, woke up to find Los Angeles had been devastated, spent the whole day watching earthquake coverage, would have missed the next 3 days with Strep Throat but didn't miss any extra days of school because the next 3 days of school were canceled.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 09:08 AM) This winter is being compared to the brutal winters of the late 70s. I wonder if we're slipping back into that type of pattern where we'll have a few winters in a row like this. Right now there's about a 50/50 chance that 2014 will be an El Nino year, which will throw a wrench into anything you're expecitng if it happens.

Ok, just checked in. That conversation is over, now.