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Kate Beckinsale is so f***ing hot. Southsidedon, if you enter this thread and try and dispute this fact with a picture of New York, I will hunt you down and end you.

If Boise St can defile their field with a bad shade of blue than dammit these kids should be able to tp the court! /green

i despise dunkin donuts bagels. too chewy after being microwaved

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Nov 2, 2011 -> 11:24 AM) Sorry I meant Raines. if you ever do that again you are done here. banned. forever.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Nov 2, 2011 -> 10:58 AM) Which if it is a team philosophy can be useful. If you have one or two guys working the count and the remainder of the lineup swinging at the first close pitch they see, the walk is not effective. Boston and New York are successful because they can tax a good starter and get them out with the philosophy of fighting off good pitches and taking a ton of pitches. If Adam Dunn looks at a strike down the middle on 2-0 and gets a walk to get to the OPS terrible Alex Rios, this idea has failed. You have to have a team of OPS focused players not just a couple sprinkled in here and there. When Frank Thomas and Ray Durham were in sync it worked to perfection when Julio Franco was there to protect them. When Dan Pasqua was there to protect them, it did not work that well. Julio Franco never protected Ray Durham. Neither did Pasqua. Cora, yes.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 2, 2011 -> 09:11 AM) Last night, the Dallas Mavericks should have received rings and a banner while hosting the Chicago Bulls. I, for one, am glad the Bulls didnt have to be the away team that witnessed that. It should be the Heat Although that would probably be a good motivator for D Rose

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 09:38 PM) If I said the next Steve Smith is playing for Toldeo would you believe me? This NIU/Toledo game is insane

I dont know what episode it was, but i caught Kelsey Grammar snappiing on a hispanic construction company owner in his office, and it was intense. I never saw Kelsey in a role where he was that angry before

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 05:59 PM) Aren't Brian Robiskie & Dane Sanzenbacher the same person? except for one being 36th overall in the draft and the other being undrafted, sure. He is a big body and was supposed to be very NFL ready coming into the NFL, and he really never had anyone throwing to him. Maybe there is more to him

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 04:01 PM) Erik Kramer's son, 18, dies of alcohol poisoning. very sad, something tells me that a certain person who hosted a party is about to get a knock on their front door

Brian Robiskie cut by the Browns today. Brad Biggs tweeted that back in 09 the Bears FO was very high on him. Different OC then, but if he was a Angelo target before maybe he will make another run at him. Brad Biggs normally doesnt tweet Bears rumors unless there is legs to it

QUOTE (Brian @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 05:19 PM) Hope KBS stays ineligible. He maybe the worst guard I have ever seen at SIU. Mychal Cleveland. The End

QUOTE (mmmmmbeeer @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 04:06 PM) Weren't there a couple of opposing pitchers that came out this year and said that the Sox are overly aggressive? I can appreciate what Manto is saying, and he's right, but I hope that he hasn't identified passivity at the plate as a major issue with Sox hitters...I think that's a minor concern. Nick Blackburn said something about it to a Twins beat writer

ha, i didnt realize i mistyped EJO. myyyyyy bad

QUOTE (Fantl916 @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 01:54 PM) Andrew Brackman released by the Yankees today. Sign em up, Coop will fix him! Never heard this name in my life before this post

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 02:52 PM) I'd like to see our hitters bash line drives to the opposite field once in a while, but I've learned to not expect much of that. Our victory formula seems to be the long ball, so how bout a return of tons of home runs? So simple, so easy.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 02:41 PM) True. Now if it had been a complete hard slotting refusal to sign a contract, I couldnt tell you if that has ever happened. That would be a very dumb thing for a rookie prospect to do. I remember Josh Childress leaving the Hawks offer on the table to go to Greece, but thats about it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 02:32 PM) That being the biggest point for this discussion anyway. you said you couldnt remember the last time a player refused to sign a contract, i obliged QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 02:15 PM) Were the TWolves even allowed to do that though? I thought Ricky actually had to pay the "Posting fee" out of the salary the TWolves would have paid him, basically eating up his entire rookie salary for a couple years. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4437300 Basically his salary was going to be nil, but he was going to make plenty of money anyways. Staying in Spain for one year changed his buyout fee dramatically and brought him to the NBA a year later.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 31, 2011 -> 01:00 PM) Ya, it's nice to have college hoops back. SIU apparently didn't look as awful as most people are expecting us to be in our exhibition yesterday. Maybe we'll finish 8th in the league instead of 9th or 10th. Lowery hasnt revved up the bus yet, he has so many new guys to throw under it. Except for his cousin, who is academically ineligible. Such a great way to represent the family

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 02:07 PM) The Spanish team he was playing for also would have required several million dollars to let him out of his contract (Effectively a "Posting fee"). Yeah, I know, but that wasnt an issue. Ricky backed out of the deal, the Twolves were ready to pay it. QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 01:54 PM) Rubio was also already making money professionally...it's a lot easier to refuse to sign if you're already making quite a bit of money. Absolutely. You arent going to see kids coming out of college refusing these contracts because this is what they wanted from the time they started playing. its different in European basketball players minds, because they are getting paid as professionals as soon as they can play against professionals, like Rubio did at age 14

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 01:50 PM) Forget it, he's rolling. him and Mcgrad can be those old guys on the corner complaining about those damn kids on the lawn

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 01:51 PM) Didn't he sign this year though? He did. But he refused the initial buyout and went back to Spain for a year. And it wasnt a hard slotting issue, it was Rubio feeling he wasnt ready

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 01:32 PM) I think we have seen baseball as the sport that has the most people refusing to sign deals, by far. The NBA with its hard slotting is the least. I can't think of the last guy who refused to sign an NBA deal. Ricky Rubio