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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 03:07 PM) I seriously don't know what the hold up is. What is there to think about? Tens of millions of dollars and the future of your career?

BREAKING NEWS: Teams awaiting announcements from James, Melo

FWIW the pope has advocated that all death sentences be commuted to life in prison.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 10:17 AM) San Antonio Spurs and Stephen A Smith. British Special Air Service

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jul 9, 2014 -> 07:53 PM) This is one of several things that annoys the s*** out of me about the NBA salary cap. Why should you be forced to spend nearly $60 million on your roster if you suck and you're rebuilding? It's basically forcing teams to flush money down the toilet. Lower the floor a little and maybe you can relax the crazy luxury tax rules that really only slow down smaller market contenders like OKC and Memphis. it guarantees a certain percentage of the revenue going towards the players. That's why it's there. If you want to lower that floor, the players will need to get something else in return for giving up some guaranteed revenue sharing.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 9, 2014 -> 11:01 AM) ESPN BREAKING: teams believe melo on hold until Lebron makes decision. WHAT A STORY GUYS congrats! Definitive info.

Welcome QUOTE (shysocks @ Jul 9, 2014 -> 08:45 AM) Hi everyone. I'm another nomad from the whitesox.com boards that were recently mutilated by an update. I've got another triple slash: .121/.194/.136, 40.2 K%. That's lefties against Chris Sale this season. They compare favorably to Flowers. That is simultaneously hilarious and sad.

amazing

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 11:31 PM) You don't agree that things have worsened considerably in all aspects (economy including gas prices, society, environment) during the Obama era? It's truly depressing. Were you born some time in 2010 or 2011?

Salary cap sure does create a lot of headaches when trying to build a decent roster.

Ah, right, the idea being he takes his own profits out of the Bulls and dumps it into the Sox.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 08:17 AM) The Bulls and White Sox are 2 separtate businesses, and although many of the names are the same, the ownership groups are different. There is nothing to prevent JR or any of his other partners from taking their Bulls payouts and throwing it at the White Sox, but that would be kind of silly. They both are turning a decent profit over the years. JR's statement that when he goes the family should keep the Bulls and sell the Sox is pretty sound, because the Bulls are pretty much idiot proof now. The Sox, not so much. I'm not a lawyer or a financial guy, but I'm pretty sure his legal fiduciary duty to the shareholders of the Bulls would prevent him from taking revenues and profits from that business and funneling them towards a different one.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 10:54 PM) is that a corgi you have a your pict???? Wow. Such Doge.

I don't think he legally could even do that. It'd be explicitly against the financial interests of the other Bulls shareholders.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 09:03 PM) I'm all for firing them as long as that isn't all that's done. Fire the unethical people, certainly, but if that's all you do you're just getting a symbolic gesture while continuing to f*** veterans to whom we've promised more care. We will have to spend money on it, for certain. That's the gist of what I was getting at. Getting angry and indignant and firing a bunch of people, many of whom probably deserve it, looks like you're doing something but it won't actually fix anything.

You guys are misreading that as a defense of the administrators or an argument that they shouldn't be fired. My argument was that firing them won't fix the problem because it's not as simple as administrative corruption.

DiGiornos isn't particularly good, but "better than national chains" is a low hurdle to clear.

I'll never understand why (non-drunk) people at national chain pizza places. I'd rather have a DiGiornos pizza than Pizza Hut, Papa Johns etc.

Hell of a play

Will this thread get to 200 pages before free agency is over?

yeah. yeah!!

nvm, who cares.

"children should be a privilege only the wealthy can enjoy!" is one of my favorite jenks arguments.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 3, 2014 -> 12:45 PM) Yes, this chart is basically the same thing as blaming the economic numbers in the first 2-3 years of the Obama presidency on Bush...just like some will blame them on Reagan. Nevertheless, interest rates were beginning to escalate the last two years under Carter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip_inflation_now Remember that? It started under Ford, so it was already a growing problem even BEFORE Carter. As far as Reagan being ranked highly, it's just like Truman. Democrats will rate Truman/Kennedy/Clinton/LBJ very highly, Republicans Reagan and Eisenhower. Love him or hate him, and he was intensely polarizing...from the pure perspective of "things accomplished" he and Thatcher had a huge impact that has lasted until today in terms of reversing the government tide and stacking the deck in favor of the rich/elites through fiscal and monetary policies, Supply Side Economics, etc. The Republicans/Greenspan are credited with bringing that inflation number WAY down in the second four years of his presidency...as well as being credited for winning the Cold War and bankrupting the USSR. Paul Volcker intentionally spiked the interest rates to stamp out inflation.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jul 3, 2014 -> 11:41 AM) The inauguration freeing of the captives in Iraq did that and Ronny sailed on from there. Weren't interest rates in the 20% range under Reagan or was that the after affect of Carter. I also heard from older folks that Nixon was a great president but was in the shadow of Kennedy and was paranoid as hell which lead to watergate. The high interest rates were what Paul Volcker, head of the Federal Reserve at the time, did to break the stagflation of the late 70's. https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/re/articles/?id=375