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QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 02:05 PM) One of the Braves top prospect is a 2B in AAA who was hitting ~.300 last I checked. Tommy La Stella is the name. La Stella was called up a few weeks ago and is playing 2b everyday for Atlanta.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 01:24 AM) Shocked by today's result. Heat got schooled. Very surprised LeBron stunk in home game tonight. My guess is now the Heat barely wins the next game to tie it at 2. Then it's up for grabs. Chalmers is killing Miami as dumb as that sounds cause Cole isn't the answer.

People seem surprised that in the opening match, the hosts were favored by the officials in front of their loud passionate crowd. There was zero chance Brazil could lose that game.

They should change the name from The Filibuster to the The gregbuster. He owns this forum.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 11:30 AM) Hard Knocks will feature the Falcons. Oh well. Kinda wanted it to be Bears for selfish reasons. They seem like a boring bunch

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 11:46 AM) .220/.291/.328 So the Sox have two left handed bats in the middle of the order producing more than Grady Sizemore. Humph, go figure.

Anybody else more concerned with Ghana than Portugal? Especially playing Portugal up in the hot rain forest, I think they the US can outlast them.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 08:26 AM) I love Magary, but he and Greg and others like them need to gain some historical perspective. The US has been in worse shape in the past. MUCH worse. It's Magary, of course he's being over the top. Did not read the other 31 countries' descriptions? That was the entire point of the article.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 08:03 AM) USA: You realize we're a lost cause, right? Not just our soccer team. They're gonna lie down like Obi Wan this month. I'm talking about the whole country. I'm talking about the IDEA of America. It's hopeless. That whole thing about being a shining beacon of freedom to the rest of the world? GONE. Never coming back. You don't live in a free country. You live in a paranoid surveillance state oligarchy where people gun each other down in broad daylight completely at random. And you know something? It's never going to get better. Ever. The violence will escalate. Income inequality will widen. Twenty years from now, there will be one trillionaire (Donald Sterling) and 350 million people working as his personal wage slaves. Local infrastructure will deteriorate. People will forsake work and the duties of citizenship in favor of fighting unwinnable flame wars—digital arguments that increasingly have NOTHING TO DO with how people actually deal with one another in real life. Good ideas will be discarded because they're too expensive or because some dips*** company already has a vague patent on it and will do nothing with it but sue forever. Your house will be swept away in a Category 12 Nor'Eastercane. It's OK to admit that it's over. Go ahead. Say it to yourself: America is no longer worth the effort. Feels good, doesn't it? Feels freeing. Finally, we can stop HOPING. We can be adults about this and accept the fact that AMERICA WILL DIE. And the worst part is that your cable bill will, like, double when it happens. http://screamer.deadspin.com/the-hater-s-g...-cup-1588867715 Never thought I'd see Drew Magary quoted in the Filibuster

QUOTE (zenryan @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 11:01 PM) only a bad bet b/c it lost. I took the wager just after the 3rd started. LA owned the play and put up 15 shots, just couldnt find a goal. The third played out exactly how I thought it would. On Friday the LA team total will be at 2.5 and elimination game or not, I would take the Kings to score 3 to clinch. Well of course, that's how gambling works!

Can we just make a shooting catch-all thread?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 12:45 AM) 18,803 and 18,424 so far this week. It has to be 25,000+ for Sale/Scherzer tomorrow night and the White Sox with a chance to cut the lead down to 1 1/2 games...doesn't it??? Pretty piss poor performance by the Tigers fans, usually they provide a jump in attendance.

QUOTE (Señor Ding-Dong @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 11:02 PM) 2.5 games back. Let's keep it rollin'. And only a game out of last place. AL Central is a major suck fest again

QUOTE (zenryan @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 10:09 PM) lost my Kings in-game team total over 1.5 and in-game over 4.5 because of that snow on the goal line. sickening Bad bet, in his his last 12 elimination games, Lundqvist has given up more than one goal just 3 times. Plus, Rangers were due for some puck luck.

Drew Magary's Hater's Guide to the 2014 World Cup. Hilarious. http://screamer.deadspin.com/the-hater-s-g...-cup-1588867715

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 09:33 PM) Probably got it last night for Kate's birthday. You're not supposed to do that before the game... That's a big no-no with some World Cup coaches

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 09:37 PM) I'm still not used to Leyland not being over there. Didn't think it was possible to be a worst in-game manger than Leyland, but Ausmus trying to prove me wrong

Conor hitting a lefty!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 09:19 PM) Verlander is thinking about Kate's bewbs. So is all of Soxtalk

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 09:18 PM) Ausmus must absolutely abhor his bullpen. Or he just doesn't have any huevos, as Pedro Cerrano would say.

Does Eaton sprint to first base after every walk? Gross.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 04:26 PM) Theo talked last offseason about not paying for what people have done in the past, but what they project to do in the future. Masterson losing his velocity seems like someone he would want to avoid. Then he's not gonna sign any big free agents, because that's how free agency works with the top players.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 10:05 AM) Apparently the White Sox are signing/have signed, a Speed Skating Olympic medalist? NBC 6 Sports @NBC6Sports · Jun 9 Per his parents, U.S. Olympic speed skater & silver medalist @eddyalvarez90 is expected to sign with the @whitesox tomorrow Video of the contract signing. http://instagram.com/p/pEempGqM8v/# I remember watching that race, interesting.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 07:33 AM) Actually, sorry to correct you, but this is a daily occurrence that occurs multiple times per day. And once again, the country is STILL less violent today than it was 5, 10, 20, and 25 years ago, so whether you like it or not, progress has been made. You've now shown, MULTIPLE times in these threads that you subscribe to the, "If a tree falls in a forest and I didn't see it, hear it or read about it, it didn't fall" mentality. The country is much less violent than 10-20 years ago. Much of that is due to the explosion in violence in inner cities in the 80s & 90s due to the crack epidemic. NYC hit nearly 2,000 murders a year, now they are around 500. Even Chicago had nearly twice as many murders in the 90s than they do now. If you simply compared the 10 most populous cities in America, I'm sure that makes up the bulk of your murder rate decrease. While the large cities are becoming much, much safer, these random mass shootings in low crime areas might be becoming more commonplace. To be honest I don't have data to know if these shootings happened as much in the 90s and they just weren't talked about as much, but I wonder.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 08:14 AM) A friend of mine used to be able to buy beer without getting carded as a freshman in high school. That was convenient. As for Kolek, I hope he turns into a freak and throws 105 MPH or more. It would be awesome to see. I just have a bad feeling. Andrews had a list of reasons for all the TJ surgeries and Kolek could have put a check next to each one of them. As a HS junior my buddy would walk into Binny's and buy kegs with no issue. He was there so much, then they offered him a job and he so needed the money, but wasn't sure what the reaction would be if they found out he was 16, or if they would still hire him.