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QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Jul 1, 2010 -> 08:38 AM) What an exciting f***ing day. And the odds are it will end exactly how it started.

Can of corn for 1 dog.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jul 1, 2010 -> 08:10 AM) Who cares about lefty on lefty when the lefty pitcher you use is no good? Ozzie Guillen.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 09:02 PM) Richard Jefferson opts out of San ANtonio, walking away from 15 million dollars. WTF Lockout. He wants to get a 4 year, $8-10 million deal from someone before the new CBA hits and the best he can do is 3/$12.

Perhaps the most ambitious cleanup effort yet.. A private effort to raise money to hire 100 people and buy 100 vuvuzelas and have them play all day outside of BP's corporate headquarters.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 05:40 PM) I don't think the Raptors have room without Bird Rights and they would want SOMETHING in return. Isn't the transaction I'm saying basically: Raptors sign Bosh with Bosh's bird rights Raptors trade Bosh to team under the cap Raptors thereby clear Bosh's new contract. I think that's how the Joe Johnson deal with Atlanta originally went down, the Suns got a pick option back along with Boris Diaw, but didn't have to match the full contract.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 05:21 PM) Well no, those are the options if Bosh wants max money. If a team is fully under the cap to the point that they can afford Bosh's contract, can't the team deal Bosh straight up for a draft pick and just absorb the cap hit? Toronto doesn't have to take salary back.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 04:45 PM) and i take a bow Keep reading.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 04:38 PM) Absolutely. You'd have enough room to sign Lebron as well because Deng's contract is gone. I agree. That'd then leave us with basically $8 million or so under the cap to go out and sign a starting center and shooting guard.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 04:35 PM) http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/sp...W&year=2009 http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/sp...W&year=2009 as I said earlier today, b-r is f***ing amazing I know those are there, I just didn't have the time to spend compiling 7 years worth of team splits.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 04:31 PM) I'd do that in a heart beat The question is, would you do Deng and Noah for Bosh.

The Kennedy school releases a study consistently finding that the news media referred to waterboarding almost unequivocally as torture until 2002.

I don't know of any easy way to compile this, but is it possible to look at first/second half pitching and first/second half run production stats? I'm wondering if there's an "overworked pitcher" effect somewhere buried in there.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 04:19 PM) lol lebatard CLARIFICATION: I was referring to James Jones (he was released.) Have NO IDEA what LeBron will do. Stugotz 3 minutes ago via web This man's brain..Fail.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 03:13 PM) Zack is back on track. His last 5 games, he's given up 4, 6, 3, 3, and 1 run, with that first 3 being a 9 inning, 12 k complete game. He's been good the last 3 games but no where near last year.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 03:33 PM) Paul Konerko's grand slam had more to do with the White Sox winning that game than Scott Podsednik's home run. In fact, Paul Konerko's home run increased the White Sox chances of winning that game by 58%. They had a 28% chance to win that game before Konerko came up to home plate, and they had an 86% chance to win it after he crossed home plate. Now, why doesn't Konerko get a lifetime pass, but Podsednik does? Because Podsednik is cuter? What were the Sox's chances of winning after Jenks gave up the tying run?

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 03:30 PM) Blalock just needs to change his shoes again and he'll get hot. That was Kevin Mench.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 03:23 PM) My friend just sent me a text about Melo, saying he wants the Bulls to trade Deng/Taj/JJ/Picks for Melo, then sign LeBron to form some sort of crazy super team. Where would you put Anthony? As your SG?

It's not just the deep fried diets. There are 3 other things playing into this: 1. Fast food. 2. Sugary Sweets/drinks 3. Lack of exercise options I'm pretty sure that if you plot the numbers for state consumption on the first 2 and exercise time on a map of the states, you wind up with the same basic data as above. It's not just the deep fried okra or the slab of ribs, it's the slab of ribs one day, followed by the McDonalds/Burger King/KFC/Pizza delivery rotation for the rest of the week, with Coca-Cola to wash it down, followed by some time watching the TV.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 02:36 PM) I really don't see it being that hard for them to build a 50+ win team around Wade and Bosh, especially when they'll still have a fair amount of cap space with Wade and Bosh only taking up like $35 mil. Just sign a rugged, defense-oriented center like Brendan Haywood (or bring O'Neal and/or Haslem back on the cheap selling him on a shot at a ring) and add a couple of shooters that don't do much else like Randy Foye or Chris Duhon and Rasual Butler (or Ray Allen if the price is right), then you have basically the same roster with Bosh instead of Beasley. That's a pretty decent upgrade. Well, first point is that even though Wade and Bosh will only be taking up $35 million they're still holding a couple other guys like Beasley that they'd have to find a way to turn into something useful. It'd get easier every year for them, because every year they could make use of the MLE to add additional players. But that first year, they're a 50 win, non-championship caliber team.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 12:02 PM) Wonder if the Nuggets would have any interest in something around Gortat, VC + something I can't imagine what kind of hypnosis it would take to convince a team that taking on VC is a good rebuilding plan.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 12:56 PM) I'd give up Noah in a heartbeat for Carmelo. I've really grown to like him, but it's a lot easier to find a rebounder/defender than a 30 point scorer on the wing. If you give up Noah in a Carmelo deal, the big problem I see is that you're still a middle-seed in the conference at best until you can find someone else to help you out. You've got 2 very good frontline players but you're weak at 3 positions, and since your 2 frontline players are or will be max deals and will probably be even more painful under the next CBA, the ability to fill any other hole depends on you either getting really lucky in the late first/2nd round (i.e. Rondo-style) or having another team help you out (Gasol-style). Bosh and Wade together is the same problem. The thing that really helps the Bulls right now in avoiding that problem is that 2 of their starters are still on cheap rookie contracts and they have potentially 2 other guys (Gibson, Johnson) who are at the very worst solid backups who are also on rookie contracts.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 10:13 AM) Someone made a good point on the radio this morning - what needs to happen to clear the confusion is for Congress to enact a Federal law about this. Like the Assault weapons ban? Yeah, that worked out great for everyone. Anyway, ignoring the politics of the matter for a moment, strategically, I actually feel this is one issue that is best controlled locally, because it strikes me that Chicago ought to have different gun laws than western Wyoming, for example.

I have no deep thoughts on this but figured he deserved a thread.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 10:05 AM) For overall crime rates, my hypothosis would be less guns equals less gun crimes. So I'm not certain that the ban would have no affect on gun crimes. The reality tends to be a lot more complicated, unfortunately, because the places that have instituted restrictions on guns typically see very little change in crime in general or in gun crime specifically, but it's also a very difficult signal to pick up because you always have the importation problem.