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I'm very disappointed with the design of the Apple Watch. When you put it next to a Moto 360, it just doesn't compare. Hell, put it next to an LG G Watch and I'd probably like the look of the G Watch better. The dial on the side, the cheap looking finish, they just don't do it for me. Putting a nicer band on it might alleviate some of that, but the watch-face alone looks cheap and uninspired. Battery life is also likely to be poor, which is surprising for an Apple product. My friend mentioned this earlier today: Apple is great at iterating on its products, but their very first products (albeit flashy) aren't great.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 12:31 PM) Part of the reason I'm attracted to the iPhone 6 is that it looks like my HTC One, particularly from the back. There are still some big problems with iOS 8 for me, though, so I don't know if I can pull the trigger. It looks nice, no doubt. But yeah, software is always an issue for me when it comes to any Apple products. The thing with iOS is that it works well out of the box for anyone. I don't know how many people I see with Android phones with crap running in the background (T-Mobile's stupid monitoring app, weather apps, etc.) that drains battery with wake-locks. In other words, people don't know how to properly optimize their phone (they shouldn't need to honestly) and developers don't care when they wake-lock the crap out of your phone and drain your battery in 6 hours. You don't get that issue with iOS because developers simply don't have that freedom. So basically, it's either you know your way around Android and try to control wake locks (not many people do or want to bother) or you end up with a phone that lasts a lot shorter than it should and has shoddy performance. Google is finally trying to control wake-lock usage in Android L, which is very much needed. Now it just depends on how many developers update their apps to use those APIs.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 12:24 PM) Hah...I have no interest in that iPhone 6 Plus or whatever...how much bigger is the 4.7 than the current iPhone? I need the damn thing to fit into my pants pocket, and I wear tailored slim-fit pants. I can't have any other large objects in there; there is just only so much room... The phones are both very thin. The 4.7 inch one is about the same size as most 5 inch Android phones (Galaxy S4, Nexus 5), so there's some reference. Also:

That iPhone 6 Plus is very big. I suspect it's taller than the Note 3, but probably thinner. Smaller iPhone 6 is 720P, 5.5 inch is 1080P.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 11:08 AM) Fair enough, saw the time of post as this morning and figured it was up-to-date. Come on Fangraphs, get with the program. Side note - Flowers' WPA last night was an even 1.0 Gotta be close to tops for a single game this season. Anybody know if the WPA for every game by every player is on a leaderboard somewhere? It was up to date. They update it in real-time actually.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 10:18 AM) I traded: Leveon Bell MJD Blount Dwayne Bowe For Victor Cruz Alston Jeffries Toby Gerhart Thoughts? RBs are now lynch, morris with gerhart, west, ivory and greene. Wrs are cruz, Vincent jackson, jeffery, welker.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 10:06 AM) FWIW, I managed to get two different phones, one personal, and one through work, and wanted to offer some thoughts. First off, Verizons network just destroys Sprints. I have had many spots where I know I have no sprint service, where Verizon comes through. I have yet to find the opposite. Next, the phones themselves. I got the Galaxy S5 and the HTC One (M8) Galaxy wins on -The camera is excellent. It is the first cell camera that I actually liked a lot. -Removable battery -hand position of buttons HTC wins on -Speakers being on the front of the phone, and FAR superior quality -battery life is awesome, especially in standby mode Yeah, the M8 is the far superior phone. It wins in pretty much every major category except for camera.

Apple will include NFC in the new iPhone, which means mobile payments might finally take off (take off as in registers will actually have NFC sensors in them now and they'll all work).

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 09:50 AM) Seriously. I don't care if someone has a Galaxy and likes it. I am comfortable with my iPhone and excited to get the 6. Leave me alone. It's just funny that Apple fans continuously jabbed Android users for how big their phones were for years and now that Apple is doing the same, I'm sure a lot of people will stop doing that. I'm curious to see if they'll release a new 4 inch version. I think there's a subset of Apple users who actually prefer the smaller screen.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 09:48 AM) iPhone 6 reveal today, apple fans rejoice, droid fans mock. Lol When they reveal the 4.7 and 5.5 inch iPhones today, people who said they'd never use anything close to that big (looking at you shack...) will probably eat their words. The 4.7 inch phone is about the size of a Nexus 5, haven't seen the 5.5 inch one yet, but I think it might actually be bigger than the current Note 3.

2-2, but lost big in the leagues I actually care about. Ugh.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 08:57 AM) Prophetic. That's a mischaracterization - it looks like you're including any catchers with any plate appearances at all, in which case he is 30th out of 97. And there are guys ahead of him with 15, 20, 40 games played. The league wRC+ for catchers is 94. Flowers now sits at 96. That doesn't hit me as substantially below average. He was at 89 yesterday, the two homer game brought him up a bit. I Think Eminor3rd was using yesterday's numbers.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 01:42 AM) Well to be fair, Lester and Samardzija have pitched really well in Oakland. It's not like they have been duds, so I don't think those trades were failures, it's just that their offense suddenly fell off a cliff. One of those trades gave away one of their best hitters for a pitcher they didn't really need. They were already stacked with pitching. That's what would make the Lester trade look bad. A lot of people had the exact same train of thought when the trade was made.

Flowers has a higher wRC+ than Brian McCann and only 0.1 less WAR (due to playing time).

If the A's somehow choke, it would make that Lester trade look absolutely awful. The Samardzjia and Hammel trade wouldn't look good either considering the prospects they gave up for a rental and 2 years of a decent, but not great pitcher. Part of the reason they've been so bad is because they haven't hit at all recently. Although Cespedes wasn't a world beater, he did provide some value in the middle of that lineup that they really miss right now. Plus, after Cespedes left guys who hit behind him like Moss kind of fell off a cliff.

I actually prefer second half Abreu. He's been hitting like Miguel Cabrera. Sure I'd like to see a few more homers, but you can't complain about a .438 OBP and .534 SLG.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 03:32 PM) Not sure, since you know, he's from Sudan. I mean I know he's originally from Africa, but what's the point of even bringing something like that up? Especially if you're a GM in the NBA. So stupid. I feel like it's way worse than what the Hawks owner said.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 12:38 PM) Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine 4h ESPN sources say that the player referred to in the initial Hawks' background report that triggered the ensuing investigation was Luol Deng He's got some African in him? What's that even supposed to mean?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 01:29 PM) Wow, what an overreaction. But I don't feel bad for the guy. They have to pay out the remainder of his contract right? It's only an overreaction because they did it 4 months after the initial incident and after the video came out. I'd say he deserved to get cut to begin with.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 01:29 PM) Wow, what an overreaction. But I don't feel bad for the guy. They have to pay out the remainder of his contract right? Only what's guaranteed I think.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 01:22 PM) Rice got cut Wow. I guess that's an appropriate response. But if they truly cared about this issue so much, this should have been the case months ago. People knew he hit his wife and knocked her out. Getting the visual is much different than just hearing about it, but I think most people knew the gist.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 01:04 PM) Listen, I get the point, but it's a moronic one. He (and others) are saying that while typing on computers/phones that are manufactured by poor children. Wetzel et al. clearly hate all children. Child labor isn't really an issue in the tech industry, it's more of putting workers in horrible conditions and over-working the hell out of them.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 10:13 AM) Well if the bulls are said to be interested, that sounds like a pretty good signal he'll sign elsewhere. Ray Allen would probably start on the Bulls and get 25-30 minutes a game. I'm not sure he'd get anywhere close to that in Cleveland. Maybe he wants that, maybe he doesn't. I don't know. All I know is that I'd love to have Ray Allen on the Bulls.

I got screwed by Charles and Stacy yesterday. 11 points combined... I would have won if they had given me the 30 that were projected. Also got Julius'd in my money league yesterday, but I was probably going to lose anyhow.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 08:15 AM) Kansas City could not have had a worse start. They looked awful, they refused to give Jamaal Charles the ball (7 carries, 4 targets) and played completely flat and uninspired. Oh, and they also lost their pro bowl MLB to a ruptured achilles in the 2nd quarter and then their starting NT to the same injury about 10 snaps later. This is gonna be a long season. Hopefully they suck enough to draft high enough to take Winston or Mariotta in the 2015 draft. Seriously, screw Andy Reid for ignoring Jamaal. They deserved to lose the way they did. Instead of giving to to a guy who ran for 1500 yards last year, they let their game-manager QB throw 3 picks.