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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 02:49 PM) Yay a free run! Now come on Jake! They'd rather face Juan Pierre.

Wild pitch while Jake's hittin'. #grinder

fauxjohnmadden Faux John Madden NBA announces it will lockout. It's the first work stoppage the NBA has seen since LeBron James took the floor in the 4th quarter.

oof

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:12 PM) Great article on grantland by Bill Simmons about Ryan Reynolds. It's ok. I actually used to be a huge Ryan Reynolds fan when he just stuck to comedies. Van Wilder, Waiting, Just Friends... he's hilarious in those. He's even money in romcoms... I can't take him seriously as an actor, though, and certainly not as Hal Jordan or the bad dad in Amityville Horror. I will say this, though, the content on Grantland isn't as top-notch as I'm used to with Simmons. He's clearly trying to churn out too much of it to get the site going.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 11:01 AM) a chipotle tortilla is almost 300 calories alone. No s***. Burrito Bowl, son!

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 11:06 AM) For the record, I might rather have Parise. Of course course Stamkos is the better player and he's younger. But, Stamkos, rumors have it, is looking for about $8.5m per year, while Parise would probably only get $6.5-7.5 per. FWIW, there is always risk in getting a guy coming off the type of injury Parise had... though a torn meniscus shouldn't be career-altering by any means, but in the end I'd rather be out the 2 or 1 mill per year in cap space and get the much more talented player anyway.

I remember the NBA. It's too bad we might lose an entire year of D-Rose development on the court in actual game situations.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 09:46 AM) @ESPNChiHawks Jesse Rogers bowman confirmed they went after montador at deadline..right handed d man was important..coming into his own says stan...maybe signed by fri Take it easy Stan, the dude's 31, he's not going to get a whole hell of a lot better. However, he's exactly what we need. He's dependable, and has been a + since 2005 and has been really solid the last 3 seasons. Hopefully he's affordable, though.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 09:06 AM) Steve Montador would be nice. 138 blocked shots in 73 games for Montador last year. Yes, now onto reality, since this is likely to happen. He's exactly what we've missed since jettisoning Brent Sopel, but Montador is actually a better player.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 08:14 AM) Hell I'm fine with 3 first. You don't find franchise talents like him very often. This isn't Phil Kessel. 10 firsts and unlimited BJs.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 07:49 AM) It would take a month to get the stain out of my pants if we got Stamkos. And this.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 03:09 AM) Ha, yes, this is what I was going for with my post.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:00 AM) Take this with a gigantic, humungous grain of salt, but Ekland said: "Then I was told Chicago...who has been very quiet after freeing up money with the Campbell trade, was suddenly part of not only the Parise rumor, but possibly was putting an offer sheet together for Stamkos." Either of these would be absolutely insane. If we got Steve Stamkos my hands would reside in my pants until October.

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I don't care how weird that play was, Lilli got caught flat-footed. There's no excuse for a player to score from 1st on a bloop hit to center field. This team is pathetic. It's not like if he charges it it's going to fly past him, it would have bounced feebly on the turf and worst-case the guy scores from first which is exactly what happened. There's just some bad juju going around with this ballclub. Oh, and f***ing great, Pierre got a hit and dove for a ball to left that he didn't need to dive for, so he just bought himself the rest of the season.

QUOTE (Felix @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 07:39 PM) aka hypocritical You are an uptight dude. Rose = MVP so f*** it all.

QUOTE (Felix @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 07:28 PM) I never once said that JR Smith was a better player than Jason Richardson. I've only said that it is simply preposterous to claim JR Smith is a chucker who only scores because he shoots while Richardson is the opposite. I'll also point out that there is nothing at all in your post that talks about efficiency, which was your initial point in the first place. I also continue to find your new dedication to advanced stats to be nothing short of hypocritical. Keep at it though, as long as you're consistent about it from here one out. You mean aside from the PER stats, right? Like I said, they're almost identical. The only time I'll hate on advanced stats is when I'm looking through Rose-colored glasses.

I hate to burst your bubble, because I know you are just having a great time right now, I mean, like, the most fun you've ever had, but there's a big difference between the usage of JR Smith and Jason Richardson. Really, arguing that JR Smith is a better player than Jason Richardson just shows that anyone can cherry-pick stats. Over the last four seasons, Jason Richardson (313 games played) has been the more effective player across the board than JR Smith (308 games played), despite being a much more focal point of his team's offense. Richardson and Smith are nearly identical in PER over the past 4 seasons (16.74 to 16.675, slight edge to J-Rich). However, Richardson has the advantage over Smith in FG%, 3P%, FT% (and obviously and inherently points, boards, etc as he carries more of a workload). JR Smith, despite playing 9.5 fewer MPG over that span of 300+ games, turns the ball over more than Richardson. In the end, you've got two solid, but not ideal options for the Bulls come FA whenever that becomes feasible. To just check-mate this as Smith being the better player, or better shooter, or better scorer, well, that just ignores facts. The man can shoot the ball and would be an obvious upgrade for the Bulls, and I imagine he'd also be cheaper and age better throughout the contract. I guess the reputation that comes with JR Smith scares me away, but I think that reputation is more perceived than factual as I go through the Google logs. Depending on the CBA, I'd rather Richardson in the short term, but JR would be a solid consolation prize. So you've opened my eyes a tad to JR Smith, though I don't see why you are getting so worked up, c'est la vie.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 02:16 PM) If only I just had a chipped tooth from a candy apple that made me whistle with every "s".

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 12:30 PM) Russell Martin is down to .230 on the year? Wow, that went down quick. Predictably.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 01:34 PM) Comparing Dunn's .624 OPS to anything Soriano's ever done is an injustice to Soriano. I dunno, his 2009 was epic on the bad scale.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 12:58 PM) I am 21 years old and I may have gone through every single f***ing dental procedure. Today was the icing on the cake, I went to a periodontist (spelling?) to get some gum removed so that they could put a crown on a tooth that had an extensive root canal done on it. But, the damage was to severe so they decided to pull it, which makes it my 5th tooth pulled. I hate how this pretty much all started because of what turned out to be a s***ty orthodontist I had in Michigan. That blows.