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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 17, 2013 -> 09:16 AM) The Red Wings model come to life. Hold on to your superstars, trade your 2nd and 3rd tier players for draft picks, and draft/develop well. Well - no. The Red Wings "model" existed in an area without strict salary caps in place

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 08:48 PM) If there's no clear cut offensive pick, maybe Sale gets the MVP. Can't argue with 6 up 6 down. LOL, easiest money in the bank ever was 20:1 for "the field" which included Mariano Rivera. He had it before the game even started.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 11:01 PM) It looks like if Stan doesn't add anything else, and guys like Pirri, Ben Smith, Morrin and Bollig get serious roles, there should be around 2 million in cap space to take on around the deadline...... It will be fun watching these kids gel. If it works, this is how you can sustain true elite success in today's NHL. Gotta keep hitting on picks/trades.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 05:35 PM) Carcillo to the Kings. Adios. YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 03:36 PM) Like I said.. Also, if you took Bulls draft picks (as in players the Bulls took out of the draft, not picked in their exact slot) since 2000, here's a roster you could have of active players. PG: Rose/Hinrich/Duhon SG: Butler/Gordon/Thabo SF: Deng/Snell or Artest/Johnson PF: Gibson/Thomas/Murphy or Mirotic C : Noah/Chandler/Asik Ron Artest was drafted in 1999. If you decide to go back to 1999 instead of 2000 to include him, you have to include Elton Brand.

The Heat waived Mike Miller - By wiping his salary off the books, they move from the third tier of the luxury tax threshold into the second tier which = about $17 million saved.

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QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 10:10 PM) Frank THomas in the Celebrity Softball Game Dammit. Is this being replayed?

I can't believe MLB has burried the video for this. So good. I was going nuts watching this.

It felt good.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 11:14 AM) It depends what game mode you play. Playing Vs on 13 is quite fun. I pretty exclusively play 6 on 6 online and there are a lot of flaws in the game that the 6 vs 6 community has gripes about. Things like how easy it is to play goalie, all goalies have to do to dominate online is sit in the middle of the crease in butterfly and make their player 6'9" and its nearly impossible to score. Also, if you spam the Y button (triangle on ps3) while skating behind someone with the puck you can "ghost poke" it away from them, its just a very glitchy game online. A large part of the community has stopped playing NHL 13 because of the goalie issue. If youre bored here is a video of someone playing goalie like that in the league I play in, its Minnesotas goalie on the bottom of the screen. Its become an epidemic in the game. That's quite a gripe. It doesn't apply to me since I'm just a "franchise" guy. I'm in the middle of a season with the champs roster and then I'll have a fun offseason.

Time to play GM and win a title. Kevin Durant a member of the Bulls in 2016/2017 - here's how. KD's contract is up at the end of 2015/2016, and I’m guessing he will be ready to leave OKC when they fail to win the title over the next three years while he watches his former teammate whom they gave away advance farther than his team. The Thudner are pretty much financially strapped with both Westbrook and Ibaka signed through 2016 - so unless they can get lucky and find a stud in the draft to propel the team forward, or they can make the right trades, I don’t see them winning a title. So... the Bulls currently only have Rose and Gibson under contract through 2016. Here is what they need to do between now and 2016. 1. Deal Deng. They need to trade him for younger players/picks and not give him another $12M plus deal that puts us in a bad spot and means adding no legit FAs. 2. Trade Taj & whoever else at some point for something of value we need. Clearing his $8.95M off the books for 2016 will be huge and we need to do that before people lose interest in him as a player. 3. Trade Boozer next summer as an expiring deal and take on an even worse contract that goes through 2015/2016 as long as they give you a high or unprotected pick in the deal. Boozer serves as a serviceable expiring deal (does a Joe Johnson contract $25M deal makes sense? Yes.). Not sure if they have their pick for 2015 or 2016 still (since they just gave away all their picks to Boston) but if not maybe we can get another team involved. We could ship them Boozer and Deng for that monster Joe Johnson contract and several picks (assuming they get a 3rd team involved). We pay the tax but reap the benefit in 2016. 4. Sign Butler to a reasonable long-term deal at the end of 2014/2015 assuming he continues to prove he is worthy of being a core piece. 5. Bring Mirotic over in 2014 on a 3-year deal or a long-term deal at a reasonable salary (something around $5M) 6. Draft a great player courtesy of the Bobcats in either 2014/2015/or 2016 (depending on which pick we get) 7. Draft other bench glue guys with the picks we get by dealing Deng/Taj/Boozer. Summer of 2016: 1. Sign Kevin Durant 2. Re-sign Noah 3. Add another quality 2nd-tier FA Best Case Scenario: $21M Rose/$7M Butler/$21M Durant/$5M Mirotic/$10M Noah = $64M = Over the cap but worth it for the rings. Rose/Butler/Durant/Mirotic/Noah + Charlotte 1st rd pick + our 3 1st rd picks + Deng/Taj/Boozer picks Worst Case Scenario: $21M Rose/$7M Butler/$5M Mirotic/$10M Noah + a bunch of picks and enough cap space to land a different top free agent (such as LeBron, Batum, Love assuming that Wade & Lebron exercise both years of their options) or give a qualifying offer to one of the many players currently going to be looking for money. Why this won’t happen? B/C we are the Bulls and our management is too cheap to even pay for an assistant coach. Another interesting thing to note is the Knicks and Lakers have nobody under contract in 2016 so they will be looking to add two big boys (possibly Durant & Lebron) (Please tell me that is not going to happen). It is possible that we will see another Big-3 with Durant/Lebron/Wade heading to a new location. (even though at that point Wade will be a cripple, he'd be part of the package.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 11:32 PM) Im trying to love Derrick Rose again and I know I will once the season starts but I hate hearing about him say that he's 100 percent now. I'm already full-on back to masturbatory mode when it comes to DR1. Bring on the next season. 26/5/8 is happening.

How is this guy not headed to the Yankees at the deadline. He has an OPS of like .960 over the last two months and is on pace for 44 homers. What's left on his contract? 21 million? That's nothing to the Yankees since they're going to get back like $30 million from A-Roid's impending suspension and they have such massive dicks. Stay hot, Donkey. I need the Sox to be rid of you. /rant

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 08:30 AM) Yeah I agree that's more important than a softball game, just didn't like how she said I didn't need to be there after the rehearsal was going on. And I realize there needs to be sacrifices made. Let me just say that you seem to not have your priorities straight. You child's grandfather was getting remarried. Your evening belongs to that. Discuss things with her. It's not like she's pissy because you're working out - it's because you're in the basement for an hour in the evening when you have a 6 month old child at home and maybe she wants some time with you while baby is in bed. She just had a child. She can obviously feel the relationship is a bit rocky, too. Think about her needs and then adjust from there. Watching a Sox game on a DVR and managing a softball team should be the least of your worries. I'm old-fashioned, maybe. I've been married almost 7 years and absolutely adore my wife and do everything within reason to show her and make sure she knows it. Skipping one softball game, when clearly she's lost every Friday night to softball since you were in high school, isn't a huge loss.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 03:11 PM) MWP to the Knicks. 2/3.2 That's a gift for the Knicks. The Bulls are incapable of convincing productive vets to play for them for free.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 02:23 PM) That's what the season is for. He'll be 110% come playoff time, if not 112%. But he won't actually play in a game until he's 110%.

Robin let Chris Sale throw 8,000 pitches in one game.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 12:11 PM) I forget what it was called, but I used to play an NHL game on my Nintendo 64 that was f***ing awesome. Mike Modano was a god in that game. Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey 98?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 11:06 AM) Something is off about this...mobile phones draw between ~4-5 volts. That's less than sticking your tongue on a 9 volt. DIRECTLY TO YOUR F*CKING BRAIN There's no defending this. The iPhone 5 is the Aaron Hernandez of smartphones.

iPhone 5 kills a woman. http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/apple-in...eath-6C10636004

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 10:53 AM) You should read this thread ON WEED

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 10:09 AM) The Pouncey brothers making a fashion statement http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/15/3500...r-maurkice.html Yes. Free murderers. Brilliant.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Jul 14, 2013 -> 09:20 PM) I like the looks of NHL 14. NHL 13 is the worst of the franchise since I started playing in NHL 10. Theyve actually more or less have gotten progressively worse. I just dont think they can do worse than 13 though. NHL 13 is incredible. The variance of goals and the way you score is top notch. It actually plays like a real game and not like an arcade game. I guess that's why I like it, though. It's realistic.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 09:35 AM) Has there been a worse group of girls on BB than Aaryn, kaitlin and GM? CBS has NEVER had to put a disclaimer before an episode like that. They are awful.