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QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 05:11 PM) Didn't he sit out first 4 minutes of 2nd Q? I think he sat out 3:30.

Back to a 2 point game, yeesh.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 05:08 PM) Allen misses the T! (Crawford walks up to Allen, says he'll start randomly calling T's on the Bulls if he promises to miss the free throws so that it doesn't really hurt the game...)

Allen misses the T!

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 05:02 PM) I hate it when coaches sit down a guy to start the 2nd quarter when they're on fire in the 1st quarter. Nothing like benching Salmons for 1/3 of the 2nd quarter after having 16 in first quarter. The game's been 18 minutes so far, he's played 15.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 04:00 PM) Bills are supposedly going to be running a no-huddle offense. If anything, they are going to be a fun team to watch. Jim Kelly has agreed to come out of retirement to run it.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 04:51 PM) He will be if the Bulls win, but he SHOULDNT be. Since they actually called a flagrant on him they could upgrade it to a Flagrant 2 and suspend him for game 7 afterwards without having to say they screwed up, a-la what they did with Howard, if they wanted. How big is them not upgrading the game 5 play to a flagrant 1 now?

Wennington is saying he's thinking Rondo was throwing a punch as they were being pulled apart, so there was no contact.

Opinions from people watching...think Rondo is in for game 7 or not?

Rondo just threw a punch on Hinrich.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 03:21 PM) I don't really know where Republicans get off thinking they're so awesome on national security, though. Sure they can say "we haven't been attacked on our soil" but that's because of good work from the intelligence and law enforcement communities, not because of Republican foreign policies (read: Guantanamo Bay, Iraq). Tough on national security = a willingness to bomb anyone, anywhere, for any reason. The more wars you start, the better you are at national security.

Really? Really? (this came from a combination of the minority leader's office and the ranking member of the intelligence committee in the House (Hoekstra - R- MI). There's some footage of the Pentagon in there at about 1:14.

That's good news. Esp. with BA...if they're re-examining him tomorrow, that means that it's not so bad that he's an obvious DL candidate for a long period.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 12:36 PM) Closing down the borders would sure screw all those companies employing illegal immigrants that work for pathetic wages. ? No it wouldn't. Illegal immigrants don't go over the border over and over again. They go across once and then stay here as long as they can until they've earned enough to go home. If you go over the border repeatedly, you're increasing the likelihood you'll get caught.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 12:28 PM) It may be a good analysis on Noah, but then it ignores defensive schemes such as Zone defense, so I can't be too worried about Noah if he has assignments on top of the key. The problem is...I understand Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, or Rajon Rondo putting up solid #'s there, I don't expect Glenn Davis to be non-trivially ahead of all of them. Which means that something really ought to change with what we're doing to him. If we're putting Noah or Tyrus on him and they're not effective then that's a use for Miller. If we're putting Miller on him and that's not effective then use the other guys and have one hang back as a shotblocker. At least try something.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 12:18 PM) That would be dependent on who you are guarding. The person guarding Kobe or Lebron would be awful too, that has little reflection of their Dfense. Glenn Davis has the best +/- for the Celtics over the first 4 games.

Former (thank god!) NSA and Secretary of State Condi Rice gave some mind-bogglingly stupid answers to questions at Stanford U. during a talk last night. Video can be found at links. First, she comes out and says that Al Qaeda posed a bigger threat to the U.S. than Nazi Germany... On another torture related question...she literally gave the "if the President does it, it's not illegal" defense. If the President says it's ok, it doesn't matter what it is...it's ok. This woman was one of the most powerful people in the world for 8 years.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 11:56 AM) Even so, it starts to separate out some of the player performances on defense. Statistically there is very little defensive difference is Rose and Gordon, which is surprising, at least to me. Salmons and Noah have been awful. It also looks like those #'s don't include game 5 yet. Looking through the 5 man +/- numbers, it's also noteworthy that our official starting lineup, or our starting lineup with Gordon replaced by Kirk, are 2 of our worst lineups. This sort of suggests that we're really making a dent when we go up against their bench, and their starters are putting a dent in us to open the game. Game 3 of course made that worse by them running up the score early.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 11:57 AM) So how is stopping absolutely no one helpful? I mean even the President is talking about not going to school or work while you are symptomatic, but he isn't going to do anything himself to stop people from coming here who are exactly what he is talking about. It makes no sense to me. Shutting down schools or businesses where a person is symptomatic actually strikes me as the right way to do things if the case I mentioned is true...it's not the person who's already sick you worry about, it's the 10 people who sit next to them in class who haven't shown symptoms yet but who could be able to transmit it. You keep them at home and you cut off the spread, because once they're actually sick they're not coming in anyway. As I keep saying, the only option that would do anything regarding travel is to close the border and to start legitimately shutting down air travel, especially since it's already moved overseas (so you can't just focus on Mexico). If you're ready to endorse that step, then you think this is worse than the current reports say it will be. Could be you're right and the correct step is to just shut everything down now and let it burn out quietly.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 11:47 AM) Are you telling me that a person coughing, running a fever, etc, is not spreading this? I'm not saying that they can't, I'm saying that a typical progression for the flu is that you are at your greatest risk of transmission of the disease before the symptoms become fully developed, because the symptoms are your body's way of fighting back. I can't speak for this particular flu other than to cite the WHO report I linked earlier in this thread saying that it doesn't make sense to stop people at the border because they can be contagious without being symptomatic. It's possible, but the thing's been out there for 4 days, I don't think anyone knows very much about its development yet.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 11:39 AM) And we are stopping neither at the borders. Thanks for reaffirming my point. How do you stop an asymptomatic person at a border or on an airplane? The only way to do that would be mandatory blood tests before you board. Or keep everyone locked up in quarantine for 24 hours before allowing them to cross the border to see if they become symptomatic.

QUOTE (maki @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 11:09 AM) as per the attendance figures thread that includes a 0 for the first game of the DH, otherwise we would be tracking ahead thus far. Were there any of those 0 attendance double headers last year?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 11:06 AM) And our administration isn't doing anything to stop even infected people from coming into the country. Are you really trying to tell me that stopping people who have the infection does nothing to stop the flu from spreading more here? That is pretty counter intuitive if you ask me. If the contagious phase and the symptomatic phase don't happen at the same time, then it's true.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 08:50 AM) This pisses me off. I don't want to Buster-ize this thread, but, I have to point this out. Joe Biden is telling people that they should avoid flying, and the subway, because of the swine flu. STFU Joe. Normally my instinct would be to totally agree, but there's one thing that's bugging me; the WHO's decision to move to an alert that's 1 stage below calling it a full blown pandemic (the stage 5 thing they did yesterday). Given all the data that's publicly out there, the confirmed numbers of infected, the fact that they're trying to move the casualty numbers down and seemingly tell people it's not as scary as it's being made out to be, that's an official move in the opposite direction by an org that I'm hoping has at least some semblance of an idea of what they're doing, or at least which would be questioned loudly if they were obviously making a mistake. If they're moving the alert up when all the signals are saying "it doesn't look that bad right now", it kinda makes me wonder what they know that I don't.

QUOTE (Chet Lemon @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 09:38 AM) Interesting take. However the devil we have known was a player made of glass. Now he's more of a player made of cracked glass. If you put enough tape on it, cracked glass can hold up against the wind for a little while. Frankly, right now that's what we need. Just get a few games out of him, maybe a few walks and a couple of hits. It'd be better than what we're getting out of Owens, and it'll give us a little more time to get healthy.