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QUOTE (longshot7 @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 02:31 PM) why was Miller even on the floor at the end of the game - that's my question. "Veteran presence" or whatever that means, I assume. I wouldn't want him there either, but he's probably less likely to take a stupid shot than Thomas, I will grant that.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 02:10 PM) Someone gets it... Fox News's new Fox Nation website this morning:

Some American Express customers are being told to send in copies of their tax returns or Amex will cancel their account.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 02:17 PM) Yes, but ozzie wants him to be ''fully'' rested for the weekend. I actually can buy that explanation. I just didn't want him to have actually had a setback.

By the way, someone may have asked this earlier but wasn't there talk yesterday of Getz being ready to go today?

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 02:03 PM) I'll say the play ran last night for Brad Miller was a good play. Very good. Only thing is, if Miller was faster, he would've made it. For him particularly, I would've liked it if he popped a jumper or threw passed last second to Salmons when everyone collapsed on him. Ben was being triple teamed, so again, the Bulls made a good call on that pass. Now, as far as Hinrich, VDN stated he wanted to get him in the game for more of the second half, but he kept bleeding so they had to repatch him and he wasn't able to gain rhtym since then. Hopefully, we get physical for the next game. I think if we do, we'll shake them up. Depends on what the refs allow. I think almost everyone here will agree that you have to hit Rose a lot harder than you have to hit Rondo to get a foul called on you this series so far.

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One other little note to think about...if you're one of those people who occasionally drops by and gives blood, now would be a good time to think about it (not that there's ever a bad time). In the event that this flu does blow up, the demand for blood probably won't go up that much because it's the flu and not injuries, but if something like 5-10% of the country gets sick over the next few months, that could put a major dent in the available supplies.

Today's Bachmann... "FDR applied just the opposite formula, the Hoot-Smalley act." Corrections; the Smoot Hawley act was passed under Hoover.

Yovani Gallardo has pitched 8 innings of 2 hit shutout ball, and the Brewers lead 1-0. The Brewers lone run? A Home run by Yovani Gallardo.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 12:36 PM) I cant believe the amount of people down here who think's the elbow Howard threw is no big deal. Newspaper columnists, fans all think the Sixers are whining and that the elbow is just part of the game. HUGE difference in throwing an elbow to clear out after getting a rebound and throwing an elbow as a strike. As Barkley said, that elbow was the same as a punch. With Lee out, Howard just guaranteed a 7th game and anything can happen in a 7th game of a series. Winners, apparently, hit people in the head.

QUOTE (ChWRoCk2 @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 11:51 AM) Been watching CNN all day, seems they are warning people to stop traveling to Mexico and some countries are cutting off travel to Mexico. I guess I ask to you increase borders protection? You certainly can't ban people from crossing the border since this is how trade is done and how we gain resources. Suppose you also warrant people to stop eating pork/bacon which seems ridiculous. Good thing I don't eat bacon. At least the early thinking is that the bug shouldn't be transmitted through food as long as you cook pork adequately. Is there such a thing as Pork Sushi? On the travel thing...another point that the WHO has brought up is that you're often contagious while you're asymptomatic and vice-versa. Those first few sneezes you get a day or two before you really feel bad? That's the point where you can transmit things very effectively. The really feeling bad part happens as your body's immune system is reacting, and therefore you're not necessarily as contagious once you feel sick.

QUOTE (scenario @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 10:53 AM) Christian Marrero 2-2 so far today for the Dashhogs. That raises his season average to .403 He keeps this up we're going to have to come up with a nickname for him pretty soon. Jesus?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 10:58 AM) If everyone knew what a joke she was, I'd be in agreement. But to me, its sad, in a train car sort of way. She's obviously not very bright, clearly full of hate and anger, and yet there are still going to be people who support her. I know its hard to look away, but, I am trying to. Palin/Bachmann 2012.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 10:46 AM) The problem goes back to one I've been harping on all season. VDN is a rookie head coach and never had coaching experience. He sucks at drawing up last plays, and it bites us in the ass all the time. Calling a play for Brad Miller... get outta here. Sure, it worked... it got him open, but it's still Brad f***ing Miller. No problem with the concept of getting the ball to a big man on the last second. It's a type of play I wish we'd try more; if teams are expecting us to go to Gordon, and we send the ball inside, you're likely to get a high percentage shot which is helped by the fact that the defense will be out of position because they're expecting the ball to go to Gordon, so you wind up with things like Rondo being the guy going after Miller. I wish we'd try things like lobs to Tyrus or Noah off of the inbounds more often as well. Doing the same thing over and over only works if the opposing coach is Vinny Del Negro.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 06:24 AM) But when someone resigns, party affiliation is not considered when the Governor appoints a replacement. Actually, this varies state to state. In some states, the governor is required by law to appoint someone of the same party. In other cases (see: Judd Gregg) the governor will pledge that he will appoint someone of the same party even though he's not legally required to do so.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 10:22 AM) http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/artic...me%22-Americans qft. unfortunatley most Americans don't understand basic economics anymore. What do you think our economy has been built on the last 20 years?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 10:48 AM) We get it, she's bat-s*** crazy. Can we just ignore her now? Please? She's a voting member of the U.S. congress. That's up to the people of Minnesota in 1.5 years. (After that of course, she's almost certain to become a regular contributor to Fox News)

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 08:23 AM) The difference is in who it targets. Normal flu kills those with weak or compromised immune systems, such as the very young and elderly or those with AIDS. This particular strain targets healthy adults with strong immune systems. I'd agree that there's some hysteria of this, but this isn't your normal flu virus. As a counter-point, I have to say that we heard the exact same thing repeatedly during the SARS outbreak a couple years ago. Those reports were fanned repeatedly by the media, but they wound up being incorrect; it turned out that when the full outbreak was examined, the disease had hit a few people of normal health and those got a lot of the press, but like most flu's it did most of its damage in the elderly, the young, and the people sick from other reasons. Frankly, I'm just not buying that bit without a full understanding and accounting, which we don't have. Let me make the case for currently bad data. The numbers in Mexico as of yesterday were on the order of 5000 infected and 150 dead. If those numbers were accurate, this would be the single worst flu bug in recorded history. That is a 3% casualty rate. Even a 1% casualty rate is an order of magnitude above the normal flu rate. 30,000 or so die a year in the U.S. from the flu, if there was a 1% death rate, that would mean that only 3 million people got the flu every year, which is quite a bit lower than the number that actually get the flu in a country of 300 million. The fact that this flu is reportedly killing 3% in Mexico suggests that what's missing is at least 10,000 cases, 2/3 of the infections or more, which probably wound up not being severe enough to be reported or to involve hospitalization, or if they were reported it was over the last few months before people realized they were dealing with a new strain. And who is most likely to not report a flu or to not seek treatment? The young and healthy who can get over it normally. So the only ones where it is reported are the really severe cases in the young and seemingly healthy or the cases in the young/elderly. What I do find interesting is that we've got something on the order of 100 cases now in the U.S. and 1 casualty, and that casualty appears to have been an infant. That suggests a roughly 1% casualty rate, and it suggests that it can hit like a normal flu; doing most of its damage amongst the young and old and already sick. If the casualty rate winds up being about 3%, we should start seeing more deaths rapidly. I doubt we will. A 1% death rate is really, really bad for the flu.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 09:54 AM) Are you kidding me? Why the f*** should Derek Rose get the ball? Seriously, I'm sick of people that continue to complain about Gordon. I was Gordons biggest knocker throughout his career but come on. Derek Rose was awful yesterday and giving him the ball, puhleease. Maybe he'd have tripped over himself or gotten bailed out on a block call and than b****ed and cried to the refs like he did last night all game long. I'm not buying Rose as much as most on here are. I think he's got the potential to be great but a lot of people here have annoited him far sooner than he should get annoited. Yet its guys like Hinrich, Gordon, Noah, heck even Salmons (defensively Salmons has played good, offensively, you can tell he's hurting big time) that are as much a part of this series as Rose. I think other people have replied in different ways, but I'll put it in my words. I have zero problems with Ben Gordon taking last shots. He's a pretty good shooter and can hit things even when he shouldn't (see; the 3 in OT1 in game 4). The problem is...if you just give him the ball and run an isolation play for it, and everyone's expecting it, then unless the opposing coach is dumber than Vinny Del Negro, the defense is going to be prepared for it, so they're not going to give him a good look. Either he's going to have a hand directly in his face with a man right on him or he's going to face a double team or he's going to wind up having to hit a shot like the game 4 shot...something that he'll probably only make 20% of the time because it's so expected and well defended. The reason to put the ball in Rose's hands is so that you at least start off by running your normal offense, so that the guy you want to take the shot has to move and you have a chance to actually make him open. Take a look at the 4th quarter shots Allen has hit this series, they always seem to have him open. Why? Because they never give the ball straight to him off the inbound, they never rely on him to get open on his own, they start off with the ball in Pierce or Rondo's hands and use a screen or motion to create an open, easy shot for him to bury. I'd be content with the ball in Hinrich's hands, or on a lob in to the big guys, followed by a kickout, whatever. The problem isn't Gordon taking the shot for me, it's that we don't give him anything to make last second shots easier.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 09:02 PM) -Where was Tyrus all of OT? VDN's been using his small, 4 guard lineup with either Noah or Miller down the stretch the last 2 games and only putting in TT when he really needs a rebound. To be fair, TT has been to my eyes more effective in the first half than in the 2nd half of these games, but that's one of those things I've been b*tching at VDN about all season.

Hey, we didn't get shut out! Somehow, I think this game is Vinny Del Negro's fault.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 08:50 PM) Hell even Charles Barkley said it was a flagrant which many here agree with, though Miller mighta still missed the free throw anyway. But on a flagrant, it would have been 2 shots and possession, so even if he'd missed one, we'd have had about 2 seconds to throw the ball back in and attempt another shot.

QUOTE (T R U @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 08:34 PM) The reason he wanted out of Arizona is because they used Hightower a lot and threw a lot, he wants to be the man still so I wouldn't see that working out. No one's going to sign him to be the man again or offer him the man kind of money. He's going to wind up being a part timer at best.