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QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 3, 2014 -> 10:40 PM) Randy Foye just hit an absurd 3 for Denver to beat the Clips. And Noah ejected because of a horrendous call by the refs. I haven't seen video of the actual "foul". What exactly did he do to get a foul called on him?

QUOTE (zenryan @ Feb 3, 2014 -> 10:49 PM) the Big Lead has 1000 texts between Incognito and Martin. Doesnt look good for Martin. Unless that transcript is fake (seems fairly real to me), then Martin's career is done. It appears they were really good friends and Martin just bailed and turned all of this on Incognito for no reason.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Feb 3, 2014 -> 05:58 PM) Pythagorean win expectancy. If you plug his numbers into this calculator you get 90 wins. I know that, but where is he getting the initial numbers to get to 71-91 from?

Sounds about right...but where is he getting these predictions from exactly...? How the hell do you just come up with a run figure off the top of your head?

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Feb 3, 2014 -> 01:25 PM) "They call him Ctrl-Alt-Delete, because on the football field, whatever windows are open, he'll close em up in a hurry" That was pretty good.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Feb 3, 2014 -> 03:35 PM) He also is having the worst year of his career on the glass and while he has basically maintained his efficiency with a small uptick in usage he really hasn't improved much on that end. He also is turning 29 soon and hasn't really showed any meaningful improvement in his game to this point in his NBA career so what you see is what you are going to get with Taj. And that's fine. He's a very good defender, decent rebounder, and average on offense. A lot of teams will pay good money for a guy like him.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Feb 3, 2014 -> 03:18 PM) Gibson really hasn't been much better this year than last. Boozer continues to regress and has been really bad on offense this year though. But he's had a better TS% (not much better though) despite playing 6 more minutes per game. A lot of guys like Taj regress with more playing time and responsibility on offense. He's actually improved. This is his best year in terms of TS% (.530) and FT% (72%).

Google just released the Chromecast SDK. Soon there will be a ton of apps that can stream to Chromecast.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 3, 2014 -> 08:01 AM) A lot of their players are so young, so they haven't built up legacys like some of the Ravens & Buccs have, so we will see where their careers end up. Just such a dangerous combination of speed and PEDs that makes them so good. And fitting for a baseball message board, having a good cost-controlled quarterback is such an advantage in building the rest of the roster. Meanwhile, the snow is coming down hard in New Jersey today, we were 12 hours away from a classic. Kam Chancellor's f***ing huge. That guy's literally a LB playing safety (kinda like Urlacher in college, but way faster).

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 08:59 PM) Ibaka > Harden Harden is the better player. But with KD/RW, he was a luxury. Ibaka was/is a necessity and they extended the right guy. Yup. It does them no good to have 3 guys who need the ball in their hands on the floor at the same time.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 02:38 AM) Added another $109 from work today to my PS4 fund. I now have $465 squirreled away just waiting to find out if The Show will have a PS4 bundle or not. Every day that passes without a release for that game is worrisome. Usually the show comes out in Late February, or early March. We are 4-5 weeks away from typical release, and yet there has been no release date or any fact sheet announced. I'm am fearing a mid-April release. Blaaaah. The Show is coming out late this year. April 1st.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 09:24 AM) Hmm...Microsoft Surface Pro is $500 today at Best Buy. That could possibly take the place of both laptop and tablet? Active digitizer is a must for me and it has that. Battery life is huge concern though. That's a pretty good deal.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 06:24 PM) David Schuster Congrats to Joakim Noah who makes his 2nd All Star game The East front court sucks. In all honesty, Noah and Millsap aren't all-stars, especially when Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Cousins didn't make the team in the West.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 09:38 PM) Totally different subject now and I'm looking for some insight into whether this is a brilliant idea or a terrible one. Right now, I have a new AIO desktop. I love it. I also dropped about $1400 on it. I have a mid-range ultrabook that I also love, I dropped about $500 on it. I also have a Galaxy Note 8.0 Android tablet, and (guess what) I love it. I paid $280 for it, which is quite a steal given its original $399 MSRP. However, I'm not getting enough mileage out of this stuff. I feel like I can eliminate at least one of these devices. Right now, I hardly use the laptop. It gets used when I go on vacation or the rare occasion that I need to do work and I am staying at my girlfriend's place. I use the desktop a lot - it has a 27" QHD monitor that is awesome for the multi-tasking I do. I can put up several documents to read, an open document to write in, and something else like a browser window or an early draft as well. I spend a lot of time on this, though I get sick of sitting at my desk here and there. Now I'm wondering if it would make more sense to sell both the desktop and the laptop, assuming I can get something like the value I paid for them (bear in mind I got good deals on both and therefore selling at these prices is potentially doable). I could then buy a better laptop that can handle a heavy graphics load and dock it at my desk along w/ external monitor when I need it while also having a great laptop I can use when I am away or just don't want to be at my desk. Is this docking-a-laptop solution something legitimate, that people do, seems possible without losing a bunch of money? Am I overlooking something? I would have to buy a good monitor and possibly a USB docking station. Would having my laptop sitting there and plugged in for extended periods toast its battery in short order? If your ultrabook is good enough, it'll be a decent solution.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 10:05 PM) A lot of people at my work have laptops with docking stations. It works well for them. I love the Thinkpad dock I have at work, wish I can get one to use at home too.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 10:07 PM) His choke signal was his horrendously poor decision to throw that ball. Yeah, that throw didn't make a ton of sense. They had time to run at least 4-5 more plays. They could have played it much more conservatively.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 02:12 PM) So Kapernick comes off as much more of an idiot than Sherman did. Much, much more. ?

The stat lines didn't indicate that KD outplayed LeBron last night, but holy s*** did his highlights look good. I only watched ESPN's highlights, so take that for what it's worth, but it looked like Durant was shooting (and making) 3s at will. Just taking it up the court and shooting it in LeBron's face.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 08:52 AM) A lot of those managers were replaced by high ranking Google execs and managers -- who they lost in this sale. Those former Google employees are now Lenovo's. Google laid off THOUSANDS of Motorola employees as part of their house cleaning to get their own people in there. They laid off about 75% of Motorola's workforce (22,000 down to around 5,000 now). Motorola's easily been the most innovative Android OEM for the last year and Google had a lot to do with that. Hell, before Google bought Motorola, most of their phones were junk and never got any updates that were promised. Now, all of Motorola's phones released in the past year are on the latest version of Android (even the Verizon Droid phones).

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 07:27 PM) I think that a lot of it has to do with Nexus pricing also. It seemed like plenty of people were expecting similar pricing and were hugely turned off when it was that much more, particularly for lesser specs. Now that people know that it performs well, there seems to be better interest, especially at the nexus-like price point. If it gets to $300 including the wood backs, I'd get one even though I have a nexus 5. I got a coupon code that gets it down to $300 and I seriously thought about buying it (I also have a Nexus 5). The Nexus 5 is easily the best phone I've owned, but I would love to have Touchless Control and Moto Assist that are on the Moto X. Motorola's approach to software works. Add features that are useful, but don't fill the phone with bloat, change the entire look of the Android UI, and throw in a bunch of redundant services Google already provides (*cough* Samsung). The thing with the Moto X is that it wasn't really a $500 phone to begin with. The specs aren't great, but it performs well enough to the point where you barely notice and it has cool and useful features that other phones don't have. But Samsung and Apple have the market right now, so it's hard for anyone to break-in and have their phone sell like hotcakes, even with a $500 million ad campaign pushing it. If the Moto X was selling like it was supposed to, there'd be no reason for Motorola to offer it for $200 less than it's initial MSRP just 4 months after its release.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 07:06 PM) I'm really surprised about them selling it like that. On one hand, I'm not surprised that Google didn't really want to have a fully-fledged hardware company. That's not really their deal. Margins are not high enough. But why take what looks like a loss, even with them keeping some patents and selling the set-top box separately? Most analysts saw Motorola as a company that was really on the rise and I agree. Moto X is a good phone that had a really right-headed development philosophy, focusing on end user-oriented software improvements over benchmarking. The Moto G has to be a contender to completely dominate the low end market. Why sell now? The Moto X wasn't doing great on sales (why do you think the phone's been discounted to $329 after initially selling at $500?) and Moto's margins are probably pretty bad ATM. Moto does have great potential though. Hopefully Lenovo leaves it alone and lets it develop like it has been for the past year.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 04:05 PM) Although it's hard to figure out how the tax setups work outside of the company, the list price on buying Motorola was $12.5 billion. Yeah, but that included the set top box portion of Motorola, which Google sold for $2.35 billion. Still, it looks like Google's going to take a big loss with the Motorola acquisition. They did make Motorola somewhat respectable again with the phones they've released in the past year. It's a shame.

Google's going to sell Motorola to Lenovo for $2-3 billion. Unfortunately, this probably means Moto will stop producing affordable and functional devices like the Moto X and Moto G.

I'm pretty sure Thome's clean. If Frank got in, he should get in. There's no reason 600+ home runs and a 147 wRC+ doesn't get into the HOF.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 03:27 PM) My bad didn't realize I-5 was shut down. Also didn't check your award winning blog pathethic-loser-truckdriver.tumbler.com to know that Oregon and California are not on your next route.