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QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 05:20 PM) I'm just saying good luck played a huge part in the Heat winning. And it could play a huge part in us winning. Luck is a factor in all sports, its a factor in every victory or defeat. Yeah, luck and having 3 top 15 players in the NBA. Something you refuse to acknowledge

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 05:16 PM) OKC only won one game against the Heat, do you think the Spurs or Lakers couldn't have done at least that? It's not as simpel as saying Heat > OKC > Spurs therefore Heat > Spurs It also isnt as simple as saying "Derrick got hurt, Howard got hurt, Spurs and Lakers lost, Mario chalmers got hot, and that makes the Heat not as good as everyone thinks" Again, the Heat rolled the postseason. No matter what caveats you want to throw in there, they won it all, beat everyone in front of them. If the Spurs and Lakers would have been such a great matchup, then they should have beaten the Thunder.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 05:07 PM) Yes, LBJ and Wade getting hurt would be lucky for us. If you look at the Heats title run, an amazing amount of lucky happenings aided them. 1. Derrick Rose got hurt, taking the Bulls out of contention 2. Dwight Howard got hurt, taking the Magic out of contention. 3. Ray Allen and Avery Bradley got injured, severely weakening the Celtics. 4. Spurs and Lakers got eliminated, either one of them might have given the Heat a better fight than the inexperienced OKC team 5. Shane Battier, Mike Miller and Mario Chalmers got hot. Health/good luck is needed for any title run, Bulls just have not had it the past 2 years. LMAO, the Spurs and Lakers got eliminated in short order by that same OKC team that got steamrolled by the heat. You just cannot admit it, the Heat are the best team in the league. Regardless of what happened to Derrick.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 05:02 PM) Doesn't make much sense to me to go after Howard without an extension when there's no guarantee Rose will play at all during the 1 year the team would actually have him. If the other pieces of the vaunted "core"(Noah and Deng) are traded for Howard, and Howard doesnt stay, the Bulls have a hell of a lot of room to go out and build around him. To be honest, right now I would prefer going into 2013-2014 like that than I would going in saying "PLEASE STAY HEALTHY ROSE DENG AND NOAH WHO NEVER STAY HEALTHY AT THE SAME TIME"

I am so glad he didnt give up good prospects for this guy, like he always does

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 03:05 PM) I just hope it doesn't distract Hester. All Hester has to worry about is returning kicks, this shouldnt distract him from that.

How does this make any sense at all? They are trying to drag 3rd and 4th teams into the deal to make it work, period. If they could have just done a straight up trade, then why didnt they just do it in the first place?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 12:42 PM) Yeah, they need a nice ballpark like Cleveland, so that when they have a team 3 games out of the lead in their division, they won't be 29th in MLB in attendance. Cleveland did set an attendance record for like 13 seasons after they got their new ballpark. But when it fell off, it fell off a cliff

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 08:07 AM) You never answered the question. When is possible to blame a coach/player/manager 100% for their actions without being able to make up an excuse to rationalize it? Im not answering your question because I am not about to get into a discussion about social responsibilities of fans and players with you, I see no need to talk about any murderer(s) in the same discussion as a baseball player getting booed for bad performance. You want to make everything into a social experiment/discussion, I want no part of that. I feel bad for Dunns kid, I cannot imagine what that is like. I have no doubt that it affected him last season, but that needed to be recognized and dealt with as opposed to continuing to throw him out there. Having him take time off and put him on a list similar to bereavement to deal with it probably would have been best for both parties.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 07:34 AM) There is an excuse for everyone now in America. It's not the solution to blame external causes. For example, Jake Peavy in 2011 didn't say he sucked because he was still coming back from his surgery. He might have mentioned it a few times, but his barometer was always his performance level back in 2006-07-08, even if he had diminished velocity, he still held himself accountable for getting similar results. So my question then is, what can we appropriately blame someone for? Another example, even though a lot of my "B" class students are super rich, spoiled and lazy, their parents or school administrators won't take any responsibility when their IELTS scores are low. They'll blame the teachers for not motivating them, not pushing them hard enough, etc. Maybe it's human nature. The GM blames the manager, the manager blames the players (or his coaches), it's a vicious cycle. Same thing happens in schools. High school teachers always ask how the hell did middle school teachers ever pass the students on when they were so improperly prepared. Middle school teachers ask what the heck was going on in that elementary school? Elementary or K teachers blame the parents when the students have only mastered 2000-4000 vocabulary words by age 5 when many of the suburban kids are at the 20,000 mark. It's like saying I'm going to blame Greg if the White Sox lose 2/3 to the Royals or get swept...because his bad "aura" or energy or "qi" will rub off on the Sox players from the stands, as he is projecting them to fail, so they will feel Greg's negative vibes from the OF bleachers and self-implode. This would be an appropriate time for Ed Norton.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 07:55 AM) The journey to 100,000 continues with his forgetting the multi-quote function. He will never get there if he takes the easy way

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jul 9, 2012 -> 11:01 PM) Dude, I had no idea they are remaking ROBOCOP, siiiiiiick! I had a big smile on my face when i saw the ED-209 destroy that tank. And I love the end of the commercial hinting at Robocop, cannot wait to see him

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 06:49 AM) It's caulfield. Expect this. that was a bizarre tangent even for him.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 9, 2012 -> 10:50 PM) So if supporting their fans is so important to the White Sox, why don't they low their ticket prices or parking fees? It's a business. The White Sox are worth roughly $1.2-1.5 BILLION dollars. If they start giving away tickets for free or operating as a 501c3 nonprofit/charity, then booing becomes more questionable. That said, it's ridiculous to make so many excuses for players. That's the culture we live in today, where nobody is held accountable for their actions...it's scaring me, but maybe my dad was right and you do lose your "liberalism" as you grown older and understand the ways of the world. Comparing China to the US, having lived there for two years, you see the huge differences. If a student is fat or overweight, they're teased (pretty unmercifully) about it. Being overweight is not seen as a disability or something to be embraced or used as an excuse. And yet you see very very few obese people in Asia, except for the children of the very rich who are spoiled and spend all their time playing computer games and discovering all the latest apps on their cell phones. Menendez Brothers killed their parents....they were abused, so even though they planned to murder their parents with malice and forethought, excusable. In the end, every evil action in history can probably be excused. Numerous books have been written about Hitler's youth and childhood, looking for clues or reasons to explain the "pure evil" he later embodied. To go along with J4L's exaggerated point about Jaime Navarro, where does it end? Albert Belle had a tough childhood and was victimized by racism, so we should excuse his behavior towards fans? In the end, Adam Dunn would probably tell you himself that he let the pressure of the contract get to him, he came into the season unprepared physically, he came back too early from the appendectomy...he's not going to use his kid as an excuse for performance. Perhaps the boos that Rios and Dunn absorbed are what pushed them to be better players, in the end. Or can we still keep blaming Ozzie and the fans for the performances (or non-performances) of Joe Borchard, Josh Fields and Brian Anderson, for example? Brian Anderson was rushed to the majors, he was never allowed to experience failure, he was gifted enough to succeed without working hard until he got to the big leagues and then he was overwhelmed, Walker screwed him, Guillen hated him, he was too attractive to the ladies so he couldn't help but get sucked up into the Chicago nightlife scene, he wasn't properly instructed from a fundamentals standpoint by our minor league staff, blah blah blah. Can't we also excuse Ozzie for 90% of his Ozzieness because of growing up dirt poor in Venezuela? Is it really his fault where he came from? How can we hold him accountable, when he basically dropped out of school in his middle school years? We expect him to be like LaRussa, Scioscia, Maddon....who came from upper middle class backgrounds and has access to computers and great instructors growing up? The menendez brothers? Evil actions in history??? Hitler??? Followed by Brian Anderson???? WTF

again, that makes 1st rounders from the Nets and the Clippers, neither of whom will be close to the lottery in the next 4 seasons if this trade happens. I know orlando is trying to get something, but this is just a huge pile of s***. The owner needs to flog himself for buying into Dwights change of heart last season

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 9, 2012 -> 04:37 PM) We'll see what Jay can do with this offense, talk to me about this again in a year or two when this offense gets a chance to get situated I firmly believe those stats are a result of megatron and have less to do with Stafford. He's not that talented And there's a lot of flaws in QBR Big Flaws in ESPN's Total QBR Exposed After Tim Tebow Rates Above Aaron Rodgers http://bleacherreport.com/articles/889199-...e-aaron-rodgers QBR: ESPN's Deeply Flawed Made-For-TV Stat http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/Artic...or-TV_Stat.html So are you going to say Jays much better stats a year from now are only because of Marshall(assuming the better situated offense makes Jays stats better)? Of course Stafford has a great wide reciever to throw it to, that doesnt make him a lesser quarterback.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 9, 2012 -> 12:57 PM) So a bunch of garbage and 3 or 4 first rounders. Which most likely will be garbage because the Nets will be good, so it isnt as if you are getting lottery

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 8, 2012 -> 10:06 PM) I want to have sex with Emma Watson. There, I said it. That shouldn't be so hard to admit. She is of age, she is a good looking girl

That was crushed

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 8, 2012 -> 01:24 PM) Oh I agree, it's just why putting him on the mound with less than his best stuff was never going to work. 6 homers in 26 innings this year. Come on, the guy maxes out at 90, "less than his best stuff" is 86 instead of 87 mph. Maybe he just is getting burned because he isn't all that good.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 8, 2012 -> 01:20 PM) Would you throw a strike if you faced a home run hitting club with the stuff he has today? Well throwing balls isn't really helping him either

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 8, 2012 -> 09:54 AM) We absolutely do not have the resources from a talent perspective to land a top end starter. How many times have we said something like this only to see Kenny go and do just that?

My dog thinks the sox are in good shape today

THE OFFSEASON IS A SUCCESS!!!!!