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QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 16, 2016 -> 08:53 PM) Is there any question the Spurs are the best team this year Umm, yes.

QUOTE (ozzfest @ Jan 16, 2016 -> 05:10 PM) John Paxson and Gar Forman have been running this team for over 13 seasons now. They have not gotten it done. They should be fired. I simply cannot recall this type of blind support and protection (from the Chicago media) when it came to Jerry Angelo, Phil Emery, Jim Hendry, or any other executive in Chicago sports. (At least Kenny won a World Series) The fact is--Continuously, GarPax has failed to provide talented, championship caliber rosters. They lost their young max deal league mvp to devastating injuries year after year after year, all at a time when the best player in the world teamed up with other allstars/superstars. You cant expect them to be annual title contenders when that happens. They did an excellent job finding replacements for Rose and they've drafted really well. The way they handled Thibs departure is my only complaint with them. Not landing major FA's isn't really fair game when they can't offer more money than other teams and they have to deal with Chicago weather.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 15, 2016 -> 11:13 AM) My list: 1. LeBron 2. Durant 3. Curry 4. Leonard 5. Davis 6. George 7. Westbrook 8. Davis 11. Butler 12. Harden 13. Paul 14. Cousins 15. Griffin Anthony Davis doesn't belong on this list until he starts winning games. Talk about overrated...

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 15, 2016 -> 11:11 AM) Anyone that doesn't take steph curry with their first pick is a horrible GM. Are you Vlade Divac? Totally agree.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 15, 2016 -> 10:46 AM) Maybe Jimmy would get the ball more if he tried to play within the offense. Jimmy Butler and Pau Gasol are basically the same player. Pretty good passers that only like to play getting Isos and transition plays. I'll still take Westbrook over Jimmy. He's great, he's smart, I love him as a Bull. But Westbrook can make any play anywhere on the court. Jimmy can make sure he gets a smaller guard and post them up, and do that a lot in a game. It's very effective, but if he were forced to up his usage rate, I don't think the Bulls would be a better team. I dunno man, Jimmy moves without the ball. The backdoor layups/alleyoops he gets aren't from being an ISO player. I think Westbrook is overrated. And I'd bet his body is going to breakdown sooner rather than later.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 15, 2016 -> 09:44 AM) Al Gore also never actually claimed to have invented the internet, guess what sometimes people make jokes based on distorted quotes. The spin wasn't that he was/is a bumbling moron though, it was that he seemed to be boasting and taking credit for something as large and innovative as the internet (which was the meaning of his misquoted statement), like in the Snickers commercial....which for some reason I still remember.

You know what, f*** it, i will get into it: What proves my point here is that the Russia statement wasn't even said by Palin, she said something more akin to Russia is our next door neighbor. And she said it shortly after being picked as VP. And then DAYS later, not weeks or months, but DAYS later, it was on SNL. And from that point forward she was the bumbling moron. Yes, she obviously proved that she wasn't the greatest and often made stupid comments over the course of the entire campaign, but FROM THE GET GO that was the narrative. Again, because of circle jerk Democrats that just wanted to laugh and point and claim all Republicans are dumb and she was the proof. Her intelligence one way or the other wasn't even established at that point. Edit: Look at some of this stuff Biden has said: http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/joebide...iden-quotes.htm I'm not at all suggesting that this somehow diminishes his career or makes him some moron, but holy crap, read some of those things! It's great Obama is the first articulate black man! Can you even imagine if a Republican said that? Even someone with a fairly innocuous record. They'd get CRUSHED. With Biden it's like, oh yeah, silly old coot Biden!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 15, 2016 -> 09:24 AM) No, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden do not have the same long history. One has a history of being an elected representative for a few decades who sometimes puts his foot in his mouth. The other was obviously and painfully dumb and has only reinforced the initial impression from day 1. Please tell me you're not actually trying to go to bat for Sarah Palin in the year 2016. What does her being in a national debate have to do with whether or not she's qualified to be there? McCain's selection process for her was probably the worst thing about his campaign. What has Sarah Palin done since 2008 that tells you she's anything but not particularly bright/coherent? I'm not even going to get into it. It's not worth my time. You're the most close minded person on this board so it's pointless. You think she's the dumbest person ever, so fine, think that way. I don't care. All i'm saying is she's not a complete dunce. Her making a silly comment about Russia (that wasn't nearly as dumb as SNL made it sound) just fueled the fire for circle jerk Democrats that think all Republicans are stupid. Me saying that doesn't mean i'm calling Palin the greatest and smartest political candidate in the history of the world. Or even that she was necessarily qualified. Or even that she was a good choice by McCain.

Sorry, you don't get to her position and do the things she did (national debates on television with millions watching) being a complete dumbass. Was she the smartest person ever? Hell no, but so what? That's not a standard that politicians/candidates have or should have. It's just a continuing trend of our awful political discourse. Democrats have perfected the "every Republican is just an unintelligent bigot" and Republicans have perfected the "every Democrat is an anti-patriotic socialist." Neither are even remotely true yet that's the general attacks. And it's old and played out.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 15, 2016 -> 06:12 AM) There are 4-5k foot mountains on that coast of Iran, maybe they could be seen on an especially clear day if you were also in tall building? Palin got made fun of because it was just another thing in a long line of examples of her being not very bright back when conservatives were insisting that she was this huge new threat to Democrats and represented the wave of the future. Right, because Joe Biden doesn't have the same long history and wasn't touted by Democrats as being this fabulous VP and even Presidential candidate. GMAFB. It was all because democrats in the mold of Jon Stewart like to make fun of Republicans for inane crap because they know their audience eats it up.

37? Jesus. He's only 4 years older than me.

I'm sure that'll get the same coverage as Palin.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 14, 2016 -> 09:03 AM) I'm still unclear what we are actually litigating in this podcast. I think whether he deserves any further punishment than the 5 years in captivity.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jan 14, 2016 -> 07:45 AM) Further proof that the NCAA is a complete joke. The problem with the NCAA is that sitting around a board room table coming up with rules in a vacuum, they make sense. You don't want coaches directing athletes to random donors for housing. That just invites problems. However, in reality, when you can prove that it was literally "hey go talk to this guy" and there's proof they paid the same rate as everyone else, there should be an exception in the rule to be excused. I don't understand why the NCAA can't look at a situation and evaluate on a case by case basis whether a benefit was provided. I guess the fear is that they can then be bought or swayed and won't apply the rules consistently. OH WAIT.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 11:10 AM) Noah is reportedly unhappy with coming off the bench When the dude can make a layup or a free throw, he'll have basis to complain. Until then, shut up and play when you can. Taj is 100000 times better than Noah at this point, passing ability notwithstanding.

This team is infuriating to watch.

Yeah I just don't get why people get so weirded out by a female nipple.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 12, 2016 -> 02:32 PM) New Hampshire Republican state representative's tweet regarding a law that could make public breastfeeding illegal It says right there in the article that breastfeeding is exempted under the law.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 12, 2016 -> 01:37 PM) I'm pretty sure the exact same people pushing to ban class action suits and enforce mandatory arbitration also push for deregulation or at least keeping regulatory fines hilariously and ineffectively low. Fair, but I don't view private law firms bringing these claims as some great sword of justice either. We have attorney general's for a reason. They should be litigating these cases anyway IMO.

I'll read into it, but based on what you quoted it doesn't really sound that terrible. 1) banning suits from people that have not yet been harmed is the way litigation works. You can't recover for damages you haven't sustained. I don't see an issue there. 2) Making sure that class action participants are involved in the subject lawsuit seems pretty fundamental. If AT&T illegally overcharges some customers on their bills, not every single customer of AT&T is automatically involved. Maybe those charges were limited to certain subscribers. Why should everyone else recover something? I agree it shouldn't have to be a full on trial for each and every class member, but proving that the class member is actually harmed in the same manner as the named plaintiff is pretty basic. Keep in mind the people that are complaining there. Lawyers. People who work in that area of the law for a living.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 12, 2016 -> 01:30 PM) Step 1. Get rid of class action lawsuits. Step 2. Figure out a better way to deal with cases where large numbers of people are screwed. I'm sure step 2 will happen once step 1 is done, right? In most class action suits the individual damages are usually pretty low. It's actually made worse when the defendant eventually settles and has to fork over 1/3rd to attorneys plus costs. So that little sum becomes even less. How about law enforcement/the government just enforce the laws? And hand down bigger fines/penalties? That provides the same deterrent effect, if there is one to begin with.

And who's paying the fine?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 12, 2016 -> 10:12 AM) Trump is popular because of the terrible things he's saying. They aren't incidental to why people support him. We don't celebrate FDR for the Japanese American internment camps, we don't celebrate Washington for owning slaves. What are the redeeming qualities of Trump's campaign so far, and how are they the source of his popularity rather than the racism/sexism/xenophobia/pseudo-fascism? Ok but that's sort of the point. People are supporting Trump because he's a s***bag bully picking on pretty much every conceivable minority group (racial, religious, gender, physical impairment) out there who's 'not afraid to tell it like it is.' I think the rest of the Republican field is full of terrible policies, but I wouldn't say that people who support Rubio/Cruz/Bush etc. are terrible people. I think Trump clearly and deliberately crossed that line a long time ago, though, and his support hasn't waned. I think he's popular because he's the anti-establishment candidate and he's not PC. He's something completely new and different in the election cycles recently (or ever). I think if you start parsing out the specifics of what he says, people wouldn't agree with it, but it's the general ideas that people get behind. Aside from some dumb, unprofessional statements (all mexicans are criminals, Fiorina's looks, etc) what other crazy things has he said that he alone is advocating? Building a wall? That's a decades long conversation. He's not the first. And I think MOST people understand that's not realistic to do. But they like that he's wanting to take that on and that he wants Mexico to play a role. No Muslims in the country? Again, he's not the only one. And while it's discriminatory and unconstitutional and everything else, it's the idea that we need to be more secure to prevent a Paris-like attack that people are attracted to. I mean to me it's the reverse of Sanders. Sanders is advocating for a socialist society where everyone is taken care of by the nanny state no matter what. It's a pipe dream. He's selling it and the young people who don't know better are buying it. Trump is the exact same. He's selling this bombastic vision of America and of policies that he thinks the fringe Republican base wants. He know it's not realistic. He knows it'll never happen. But the more he exaggerates, the more press he gets, the more the press stops paying attention to other candidates and the higher his ratings go.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 11, 2016 -> 06:19 PM) Saying a bunch of racist, misogynistic, bigoted things is not a nice thing to do, and supporting someone who's said what Trump has is pretty terrible. Where is the line between "misguided" and "actively a bad person" for you? I think anyone supports Trump crossed that line months ago. This is crap. I hate Trump and would never in a million years vote for him, but if people "like" him or "support" him in a competition between a douche and a turd sandwich, so be it. That doesn't make them terrible people. Do you "like" Bill Clinton? FDR? Teddy? Any of the founding fathers? They've all done (and said) deplorable/immoral/disgusting things in their lives, yet they have SOME redeeming qualities that we all "like" and even celebrate. edit: and i'm not saying I find Trump to have any redeeming qualities, just that others may beyond the outlandish crap he says.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jan 11, 2016 -> 09:40 PM) Spun out across 3 lanes of traffic on the eway only to stop perfectly parallel in the service lane. Fun stuff. That'll get your attention.