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QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 09:15 PM) If you run a lineup of... Teague Snell Butler PF from trade (Taj and Booz gone) Nazr or player from trade. You aren't gonna win a damn game. Who is picking up Boozer's contract? The Bulls can't amnesthetize him until next summer and any team that trades for him can't use the amnesty on him next summer.

That's not a bad dollar amount for him and he absolutely needed to come to the AL where he could DH sometimes. I'd have paid that if I were in Hahn's chair and I had a $125 million budget and the ability to win this year.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 06:12 PM) I have no idea if they should punt the season for Jabari or not. They'd have to shoot a couple guys to make this happen.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 06:06 PM) I think Rangers are making Soto their primary catcher. That was the word earlier anyway. Good luck with that then.

QUOTE (lord chas @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 04:57 PM) People are seriously overvaluing how much the Bulls can get back in potential trades They need to hope they can find a way to get under the luxury tax, that's the obvious goal.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 03:28 PM) D-Backs have a ton of pitching. I really think we have a lot to offer to the Dodgers. They need a starter, a SS (probably as Guererro may be better served for 2B) and back end bullpen pieces. Ramirez, Santiago and Reed for Joc Pederson and Kemp. Just spitballing and I doubt either team would do it but the match is there. The key would be how much money the Dodgers are chipping in. I don't care who they're sending along with, I'm not going to pay $128 million over the next 6 years, until he's 35, for a guy who already seems injury-prone at age 28 and hasn't played a full year in 2 seasons. I would not claim that contract on waivers, not to mention trading anything for him, if I'm sitting there looking at $100 million payrolls the next few years.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 02:02 PM) It's what my knee did in baseball and it was just hyperextended. I jumped and turned to catch a ball in CF, felt my right knee slip right in and out of place and heard the nastiest pop. I tried to get up but really couldn't, though I eventually was able to walk/shuffle for a small distance before I had to remove pressure from it all together. Was able to walk off...it can be possible. Just gotta hope. This sounds disturbingly familiar. Of course, I've never fully recovered from any of the times it happened, so I suspect something in there is partially torn.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 01:47 PM) Isn't a sprain technically a small tear. From what has been posted by alleged insiders, and having the Portland doctor look at him, I think they know it is an ACL injury, and the MRI is confirming how bad. Hopefully I am very wrong. I think they'd need the MRI to plan for the surgery anyway.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 01:32 PM) Surely you are not referring to the DC appeals court. Take a look at their case load and tell me they need 3 more judges. It has declined steadily over the years. This is testimony to Congress from a Judge on the 10th circuit court of appeals, Bush appointee and head of the Judicial Conference's Standing Committee on Judicial Resources, which tracks the workload and personnel needs of federal courts. He added that the DC Circuit's caseload “has been relatively steady the past ten years or so.” Former justice on that court, John Roberts, once wrote a law journal article discussing this fact and justifying counting its caseload differently since many of its appeals are from Washington agencies. Even if you just use the statistic of "total number of cases", there are 25% more or so before that court right now than in the mid-2000's when 3 of George W. Bush's nominees (including John Roberts) were confirmed to that court. By both the actual standard used by judicial resources and by a simple counting which they say is inaccurate but you want to use...it's clearly ok to fill all the seats when a Republican is in the White House but unnecessary when Democrats are. And that, of course, isn't the only one missing judges.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 01:25 PM) And right when I ask that Adrian Wojnarowski says we still got a few hrs until he gets the MRI done in LA. It's 10:30 a.m. on a saturday.

QUOTE (Nyx81 @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 01:21 PM) I thought the same. I'd figure he'd have his MRI this morning. What's taking so long?! IIRC the results can be clearer if you give some time for initial swelling to go down?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 12:23 PM) That's NOT what I said in ANY regard. I'm saying if I was caught doing that, I'd 1) get my license suspended, 2) go to jail, 3) pay fines into the thousands on top of 1 and 2. This is what prevents us from doing this. If the fine was a few pennies, everyone would speed, all the time. What I'm saying is you don't take a mega corporation and slap them on the wrist for blatantly ignoring laws. You fine them hundreds of millions and let them know whats what, while deterring other mega corporations from trying something similar. I agree with you wholeheartedly. But you and i both agree right now we have a system where they instead pay a lobbyist $5 million to get the DOJ to ignore them or leave enormous, JP Morgan sized loopholes in the penalty. The way to fix this problem is not "Shut down the judiciary". It's not "shutting down the government". You're begging for something to happen which only the government can do - enforcing the laws. What you need is to support people who are pushing the DOJ in the other way (senator Warren, for example) and to minimize the power of the people who think that by enforcing the laws the government is being too hard on business. Having no judge in the chair is "I'm mad so I'm going home". It fixes nothing.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 12:39 PM) It isn't that easy to get that type of star. The Bulls were horrible a long time and couldn't draft one. The just got lucky with the lottery. The other thing that will hold it back is Rose's contract if he can't play at a high level anymore. If Rose is suddenly average to a little better, the Bulls are screwed. Even without that, the Bulls are screwed. They're right back to not having a superstar and that's how it's going to be for the next 5 years again.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 12:14 PM) This injury probably goes a long way towards proving the guy just has a disposition to the injury, and it was going to happen no matter how much rest he got. That's a good point.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 12:17 PM) I'd rather the chair be empty so long as the person that's going to fill it is going to do nothing but protect corporations over the people. And by and large, that's exactly what they've been doing. I mean, look at the recent judgement against Google for illegally spying on people...what was it, a 12 million dollar "record" fine? That's like me doing 150mph in a 30mph zone, and getting a ticket for 16 cents. Yea, that'll show me. So your solution is to get rid of speeding laws? Because quite literally that's what you're saying. You know darn well I agree with you, but that's not a solution, that's a temper tantrum. That's taking your toys and going home.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 11:59 AM) These are the same judges that allow stuff like incredibly generalized software patents and patent trolling to occur...because the corporate masters that control the politicians have them appointed in the first place. Do we REALLY want more of these? Until I start seeing some sanity in our judiciary, I'm about done adding more of them to the system. They're so busy protecting the likes of Verizon and AT&T, that a 2 gig data package costs 60+$ a month, which isn't enough to cover a single f***ing Netflix HD movie. I'm pretty much done with our entire government, and judiciary, because it's clear who they're writing laws for and who they're protecting in the courts, and it sure as hell isn't 'we the people'. So the answer should be an empty chair? This one isn't a problem with the legal system and it's not a good reason to stop having judges. It's a reason to fix the law at the place the law is written, Congress. Which of course...would require getting a bill through the Senate. The Senate where a 60 vote majority will be required, where decent laws go to die.

At the very least, you didn't spell out at all in that post why it's a good thing that we don't have enough judges to handle the cases in front of them. That's legitimately the problem here, the judiciary is disturbingly vacant.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 11:08 AM) Its hindsight, but it makes not punting on last year all of the more stupid. They could have already been in year two of this and having some guys in position to start to rebuild this thing. Considering this will be 4 blown seasons out of his career, hell, may as well enjoy the fact that they broke the Heat's streak, because that's the best they could have gotten.

Sigh

QUOTE (Jake @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 10:15 AM) In their defense, they didn't want to block appointments. What they tried to do was shrink the size of the courts until there was a Republican in the White House because only they should be able to appoint judges.

For trade talks having heated up, the white sox still appear pretty cold.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 22, 2013 -> 04:59 PM) Germany had no guns to stop him when he rose to power though. He was named prime minister following a closely-divided election after his party kept coming closer and closer to actually being able to put him as prime minister. How would guns have played into that at all? Shooting people as they attempted to vote? Shooting Hindenberg before he could name Hitler PM?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 22, 2013 -> 02:47 PM) None of this matters. Eventually, everything leads to cancer, just check WebMD if you don't believe me. Except guns.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Nov 22, 2013 -> 02:30 PM) Water has drowned a ton of people. And amazingly, kept a lot of people alive too! See why this is a silly game?

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 22, 2013 -> 02:05 PM) The use of guns ended slavery, put an end to the Nazis and a host of other good things. If you want to do this, the use of guns also killed a couple million of the murdered jews of Europe, massacred people in the balkans, killed millions in places like Cambodia, and took out John Kennedy for good measure. They've done a whole host of bad things also.