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QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 03:27 PM) Yeah no push. I don't know what to bet. I block sigs at work so not sure that's really a threat to me. This is a sucker bet though, I don't know how I can lose. They are on pace to go 82-0. 25 cold, hard American dollars. I can do paypal or chase quickpay.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 02:17 PM) For whatever reason, I could never get into Eminem. *shrugs* You were too old to love his early albums and have them blow your mind.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 02:37 PM) I'll take that over. put it on the board! what are we betting? You've got over 17.5, I've got under? Is that cool?

God damn Shady is spittin'.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 12:08 PM) Right but winning 22 games is a far cry from people thinking this would be the worst team of all time. The article wasn't arguing they'd be a playoff team, just that they would be a lock to win over 17 (especially with other teams that will be tanking) They won't win 17 games.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 30, 2013 -> 08:52 PM) The Marshall Mathers LP 2 was leaked today. Downloading now. A friend of mine heard it today and was not impressed. Your friend must not be easily impressed. I just gave it a listen. It's a wonderful combination of early Shady and modern Shady. First spin "love", will listen to it 8,000 more times before Monday.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 30, 2013 -> 02:28 PM) I hope you all realize the entire last 4 pages or so happened because a few people decided to s*** on me for no reason for saying I thought the IR blaster in my phone was cool. Never said my phone invented the technology, never said it is the only phone to do it, and never said a damn thing about iPhones not being able to do it (which I had no idea if they could or couldn't, because I couldn't care less either way). Just said I thought it was cool. Basically what I've learned here is I need to be super jaded about technology and not be impressed by anything, because god forbid someone else has used this technology before me, I will be criticized for being out of date and easily impressed and thought of as a kid. Duly noted. I think people shat on you for disrupting a college class that a lot of people pay a lot of money for - and thinking that people thought your old technology was mind-blowing.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 11:30 AM) Derrick might not play. f***. Step off the ledge. Derrick Rose missed the morning shootaround with a sore neck and is a game-time decision for Friday's game. This news seems relatively benign as it pertains to Rose's neck and not his surgically repaired knee. Rose said he's fine and plans to play in Thursday's game against New York.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 10:52 AM) It's funny, yesterday a sixers fan friend of mine posted an article about how the 6ers are not trying to lose this season, but just didn't care about winning. Sure enough, team looks like it's a lot of efficient role players who will play hard. They will easily lose 60 games this year. Sample size, people.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 05:49 PM) They thought it was awesome. I obviously didn't turn it off during a lecture, I'm not stupid. But before class started I turned it on, which freaked them and the students out. Then I explained it was my phone and the were amazed. My prof said I should go down the hallway turning projectors on and off scaring teachers. Technology is amazing. I don't know if I believe this one. This isn't anything new to the world. Woopteef***ingdoo you turned on a projector with your phone. Everyone in that class has had the same phone or better for years and just didn't do "that" because they don't want to be a disruptive pain in the ass.

Jake, you were a trainwreck in this thread last night.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 04:58 PM) Who watches SportsNation This.

That's one hell of a trailer. Unfortunately the actors from the original X-Men movies look like a joke alongside the excellent cast from X-Men First Class.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 04:37 PM) We like to pretend this never happened. But it did. That gif doesn't even do the sequence justice. Jordan then demanded the ball on the next inbound play and promptly threw it straight out of bounds missing a cutting Scottie Pippen.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 03:51 PM) http://twitpic.com/dj8o59 I'd be sobbing too if I'd just signed that contract, let alone coming from where he did. Let's hope this kid is a monster. QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 03:54 PM) I can't wait to win a World Series with this guy Take it easy, chief. Stop talking for awhile.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 03:38 PM) Garfein just tweeted a picture of Abreu wiping tears away walking on field Most would link.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 01:40 PM) lol, the grand revisionist It's pretty impressive how he does that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 01:11 PM) This should answer all of your questions... http://www.nba.com/bobcats/roster/2013 Yeah. Al Jefferson really won't make them that much better, sadly. They suck balls.

It's like the 1990-91 season, a lot like it actually, when Michael Jordan's Bulls were trying to catch the two-time NBA Champion Bad Boy Detroit Pistons, the team that had thrice beaten the Bulls in the playoffs on the way to those titles. And those Bulls, with Jordan leading the way, had to go through the Pistons the same way these Bulls, with Rose leading the way, have to go through Miami. Slaying the dragon that torments you is usually the only way to glory in the NBA and it is no different for these Bulls. Taking down a sitting champion requires, yes, a wonderful team. But of even greater importance it demands a supremely skilled, relentlessly driven -- if not outright ruthless -- player in his physical prime who (usually) has suffered enough indignity in his basketball life to play with utter defiance from November through June, to attack the season as if it's a prize fight. And what we're looking to see, beginning Tuesday night in Miami, is whether Rose, his body up to the task once again, is that player. All we can see thus far, through 18 months of coming back from the knee injury and eight undefeated preseason games, is that Rose -- at 25 years old -- is so very different than he was at 23. You can see it and hear it in a 20-minute on-the-record conversation Sunday at the Berto Center. When I asked Rose to tell me once and for all if he made the right decision to sit out the entire 2012-13 season, if he made the right call to turn a deaf ear to the critics who mocked him last spring because he didn't change course and ride to the rescue during the playoffs, Rose answered with absolute certainty that it's "the smartest decision I ever made." Of all the things we talked about, the most impressive thing Rose said, in my opinion, was that he played his first four NBA seasons primarily off talent. He didn't stretch, didn't watch his diet, didn't obsess over his conditioning. But he does now … all of the above … fanatically. More from this fantastic piece here.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 12:10 PM) It just seems like trophy ceremonies always work against the defending champs. Since 1999, the defending champions are 11-3 in their first home game of the next season.

GET PUMPED UP YOU LITTLE B*TCHES!!!

Speaking of Jimmy G Buckets, this will be delivered sometime soon!

Guys. Let's focus on and live in the now. Bulls @ Heat tonight. #TheReturn will be official. Will the Champs be distracted by their rings? Will D-Rose get nasty? Who ya got? I have Bulls by 5 with Derrick having a pretty rough night from the floor but making up for it by getting to the line and hitting a couple threes. I see Taj as having a nice game, too.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 11:33 AM) Right, but we're focusing on the playoffs and specifically a series against the Heat. 15 players averaged 40 mpg+ during the postseason last year. Oh - yes. Sorry, lost in translation. Yeah, he'd play 40 easily come the playoffs.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 11:27 AM) More like 40, and I'm not sure why he wouldn't. He's what, 22? He's not 30. Well, let's be honest, no one in the entire NBA averaged 40 mpg last year. http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/player/_/stat/minutes He'll be up there, though.