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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 17, 2011 -> 07:29 AM) The Hawk was selling the same point yesterday during the game. I'm buying it. The difference between Teahen at third and Omar at third defensively was a chasm. It makes a huge difference.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 09:42 PM) Any 23-26 year old pitcher who can throw it in the lower to mid 90s with some semblance of control would be worth Mark Teahen plus $2.5 mill next offseason (as of this moment). If you want an example, I would absolutely take a Philip Humber or Shane Lindsay for Mark Teahen so long as they don't have to take up a spot on the 40-man roster in 2012. I can't see Mark Teahen getting dealt for less than half of his contract, unless the Sox get a bad contract back. If it were possible to deal him without that, they would have done it already.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 08:18 PM) Wait, is the ESPN one a $10 entry too? Because I joined the ESPN Soxtalk one.... The ESPN one is the free one.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 07:54 PM) Bruce Pearl will be fired as UT's head coach after the tournament. I've been thinking this would happen, but now it's looking more and more likely. I'm fine with it. I hate our style of play and always have. Pearl has done a lot of good things for this campus and community, but he lied and must suffer the consequences. Is there an actual report or just speculation?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 07:46 PM) Kind of assumed that the 50 or so people still working at the plant are basically sacrificing themselves. I heard an interview where one of them acknowledged as much.

QUOTE (Charlie Haeger's Knuckles @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 10:31 PM) I would like to change my already awesome screen name to something even more awesome. Currently Awesome: Charlie Haeger's Knuckles Even More Awesome: Anderson Cooper's Quivering Lip Is there a PDF form somewhere I need to complete, sign, notarize and return? Nope, just send me the check. Your sign on is still the same FYI

Don't tell me you don't watch the ultimate in new nerd shows?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 12:59 PM) Actually, when it comes to HOF induction, only Baseball has a character clause. And they are pretty tough about it. Ask Pete Rose.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 06:16 PM) As long as you got health care/life insurance after you were done to pay for treatment of your decaying damaged brain. Oh come on, someone has to take the bait, right?

Wow. That is a special quality of individual right there. I guess that means we can start the Blake Griffin Free Agency watch on the bright side.

QUOTE (Felix @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 01:22 PM) Are you intentionally or accidentally ignoring the point where he doesn't get plays from him? I mean, he's getting used less than Carlos Boozer, and he's got one of the league's best point guards next to him. A streak only takes one bad game to end. Having someone steal as little as one rebound could have ended it.

QUOTE (Felix @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 12:53 PM) For the record, Love didn't set a record and wasn't even close. No one is ever going to break Wilt's 227 game streak. That was the other part of "The Streak" that bothered me. ESPN essentially took an arbitrary date in time, and used that as the basis point to make this a headline story. By picking a date in the 70's they made this look as good as possible, instead of showing it at its true point in history.

QUOTE (Felix @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 12:45 PM) And I'd give this theory more merit if his usage rate was through the roof. If he were getting ridiculously inflated numbers because of the team he's on, then it would make sense that he'd be getting used a lot and having a lot of opportunities. Instead, he ranks 64th in the league in USG (22.69), way behind teammate Michael Beasley (28.08). In fact, if you consider this it makes his accomplishments even more impressive. He doesn't get plays drawn up for him. He'll get an occasional entry pass into the post and a mid-range hook, and sometimes he'll run a pick and roll or pick and pop with whoever the PG is at the time, but that's far from a regular occurrence. Love gets his points because he picks his spots and takes advantage of the opportunities he gets. He gets to the free throw line at a very high rate and converts them efficiently. These aren't things that would change if he were on a better team. Even if you ignore all of that and think that he's only getting stats because his team sucks, where do you think his numbers would be instead? 18 and 13? For one of the league's most efficient offensive players, that's still pretty goddamn good. Basically, if it were Michael Beasley putting up 28 and 10, I'd buy this argument and agree wholeheartedly. But Kevin Love? Watch him play, he's far from dominating the ball. Do you really think if he doesn't put up his streak, that he would be getting the slobber that he has gotten? Remember all it would have taken was one game somewhere that a teammate got hot from either the field or on the boards to deny him one of the stats needed to get that streak. That becomes way more likely with good players on your team. For example on a night where he has 11 boards, if a Joakim Noah takes two boards from him, the streak doesn't exist. The reason he is able to make this streak happen is precisely because Beasley isn't averaging 28 and 10. He sucks, and that helps out Love's numbers.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 12:36 PM) I don't think that matters in this case. Love has done his part and then some. That's a bad cast of characters around him. I don't see why his individual dominance is compromised because of that. Love has been one of the most statistically, standard and advanced, dominant players in the league. Why pigeonhole everything he does because his team sucks? Because he wouldn't be doing it if he was on a better team. He wouldn't be as individually dominant or as statistically dominant if he was on just about any other team in the NBA.

zero chance of my ever buying that!

QUOTE (Felix @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 09:11 AM) That's more of a testament to how bad the team is, and yes, it is pretty amazing how bad the team is this year. Love averaged 22 and 16 during the streak, and the fact that the team didn't win games is amazing, but shouldn't take away from the quality of his performance. I think the feeling is his numbers wouldn't be nearly as impressive if he played on a team that has other players. For example, if he had a Noah or Boozer playing next to him, Love's numbers would come down a decent amount.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 10:07 AM) Don't you dare take away our collective bargaining rights. f***ing disgusting. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archiv...epresent/72468/ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/nyregion...;pagewanted=all Sounds exactly like what the catholic church was doing. I guess this means we should take away their non-profit status as a union?

QUOTE (YASNY @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 07:55 AM) Somebody (Paulie?) needs to remind Milledge the he hasn't even made the team yet and any showboating is garbage. It's all about the name on the front of the jersey Lastings, not the one on the back. Supposedly Pierre has taken the kid under his wing. We'll see how that works out.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 11:12 PM) They are play-in games.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 06:52 PM) Hahahaha even if you want to go down Marxist road of "wage slavery," multi-millionaire athletes do not qualify. Yeah I am having a hard time with at the very, very minimum $20k per week being slavery.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 12:02 AM) But can you still beat Boston or Orlando in the playoffs? Seems to me they'll both just feed it down low all game and terrorize the Bulls. Maybe Asik can do that some day, but surely not in the next two years. This is exactly where it breaks down to me. You are in first seed right now, so you are thinking of what can get you to the NBA finals.

Buehrle scheduled to start-

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QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 06:10 PM) How about a quick one to give me a better idea of what kind of stories we're talking about here? One of the stories was about someone before the Wright Brothers who probably flew 7 years before they did. another was about the guy who really inspired the American Revolution...

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 07:58 PM) 320 on hd Perfect. Thanks!