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QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Oct 24, 2012 -> 11:55 PM) Ok, Peyton Manning at home vs. the Saints weak secondary or RGIII @ Pittsburgh? Really hard to sit RGIII but Peyton has a great matchup. It's really a win-win. But I'd say Peyton.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 24, 2012 -> 04:30 PM) Fair enough. In your guys' opinion who IS a good manager. I'm thinking there are no good managers out there under your guys' criteria. Look a couple hundred miles north of Miami. Joe Maddon is the best manager in baseball, by far. He gets dealt teams with $40 and $50 million payrolls and has won 84 games or more in every season since 2008. That's what you call doing more with less. It's also worth mentioning he led the Rays to two playoff appearances in the past 4 years, once to the World Series.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Oct 24, 2012 -> 02:50 PM) Bell has always been fat! How can the front office get an F for adding all that ? How can he love Bobby Jenks so much if he's b****ing that Bell reported in fat and out of shape? Jenks did that almost every year with the Sox.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 24, 2012 -> 02:21 PM) In looking back, would you rather have had the Marlins' roster or 3-4 of the other teams' in that division? Marlins are run by a moron in Loria and his yes men minions. Ozzie either is a moron for taking that job in the first place or a genius knowing he'd be fired and get all that money for doing nothing. Now we know why he wanted 4 years. The Marlins looked like a 85-88 win team on paper and a lot of projection systems had them around those win totals. I ran an aggregate of all projection systems and I remember the Marlins were projected to win 87 games and clinched the 2nd wild card. Just admit it, Ozzie was handed a pretty good team and shat all over it. Remember when they were awesome in May? That's what this team could have been. Instead, Ozzie lost control of the team in June and they crapped the bed badly. Same old s***, different toilet.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 24, 2012 -> 02:21 PM) In looking back, would you rather have had the Marlins' roster or 3-4 of the other teams' in that division? Marlins are run by a moron in Loria and his yes men minions. Ozzie either is a moron for taking that job in the first place or a genius knowing he'd be fired and get all that money for doing nothing. Now we know why he wanted 4 years. The Marlins looked like a 85-88 win team on paper and a lot of projection systems had them around those win totals. I ran an aggregate of all projection systems and I remember the Marlins were projected to win 87 games and clinched the 2nd wild card. Just admit it, Ozzie was handed a pretty good team and shat all over it. Remember when they were awesome in May? That's what this team could have been. Instead, Ozzie lost control of the team in June and they crapped the bed badly. Same old s***, different toilet.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 24, 2012 -> 02:17 PM) Will I admit he failed this season? Sure. He deserves a D. But his front office deserves an F. They brought in Bell. As far as the Sox ... yeah they were improved, but Robin also engineered an epic epic collapse down the stretch. It was sick and sad. I don't understand your guys' venom toward Ozzie. He is who he is. An entertaining, ego driven nut, which is kind of cool in this day and age of say-nothingness political correctness. Now that he's leaving the public eye, why not just like him as I do? They brought in Bell, Buehrle, and Reyes. Reyes and Buehrle had good seasons. Everybody knew the Bell signing was bad, but that doesn't even come close in explaining how the Marlins had the second worst offense in the NL.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 24, 2012 -> 08:47 AM) Cooper generally doesnt like people asking him questions about his methods, results, and guys. He is a grouch to Rongey too Even more reason for Greg to dislike him.

When did Gordon have a bad attitude? I don't remember that.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 06:30 PM) I don't know if I call that being a horrible consumer. To someone who has an iPad 3 or the original new iPad, it doesn't make sense to make the jump to the newer new iPad. Now if you're choosing between the iPad 3 and iPad 4 and you have neither, then you should buy the iPad 4 and that would make you a horrible consumer. And the Galaxy Note II > iPad Mini. I wasn't really referring to his point about the difference between iPads. Earlier in his post, he basically said that you should get what fits for you and not care about the specs. I feel like almost every consumer needs to be educated on what the hell they're buying, all the way down to the internals. Many won't understand and that's just too bad. We're talking about a pretty big investment whenever we buy a new tablet, phone, or PC. And you never know what you will run into with whatever piece of technology you own. How do I know I won't be doing video processing on my PC in 1 or 2 years? How do I know I won't be doing CAD or SolidWorks in the future? How do I know I won't be playing intense games in the future? I don't want to have to buy something new just for these things in the future. I'd rather invest in something better right now. Anyways, my initial post was about how bad the iPad Mini and Nexus 7 comparison was. Apple decided to say bigger screen = better, even though it had a lower resolution and both screens pretty much showed the same thing.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 05:44 PM) Would Robin bring him aboard? Haha hell no. As long as KW and Coop are in this organization, Ozzie ain't coming back.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 05:07 PM) Processors matter is a poor generalization. Of course they matter, but only so much, and only in specific instances. What are we talking about here? Let's take a timex watch for a quick illustration. It requires a 2mhz chip to operate every function on that specific device AT FULL SPEED. You dont need a quad core i7 in a timex. Simply saying "processors matter" with zero context is a meaningless statement. Tablets/phablets/phones only need so much horsepower to perform all the functions they can possibly perform. If we're talking about a workstation that has to render a 15 minute 1080P Pixar scene...ok, processors matter...and you have a point. If we're talking about a scaled down tablet designed for light web browsing, some reading and email...you don't. We're clearly talking about tablets and in tablets processors do matter. The difference between a 2 year old dual core and a Tegra 3 should be pretty noticeable.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 04:47 PM) ...and once again specs mean almost nothing, which is a point you seem to continue to miss. They're not "tricking" anybody with spec sheets, as the device will perform just fine/as advertised. Aside from the most rabid of tech aficionados, spec sheets mean NOTHING to the consumer, and even to those of us that actually understand them. The ONLY question you should have about a device is can it do what YOU need it to do? If the answer is yes, the specs are fine...it's that simple. You don't need a quad core ivy bridge, 8 gigs of ram and 3 terabytes of disk if all you're going to do is browse the web and read email. This same logic applies to consumer devices like iPads, Nexus Tablets, Samsung Tab's, etc. Take the iPad34 (just released today) for a perfect illustration of this. It's 2 times faster than the iPad3 "New iPad"...the only problem is, the new iPad wasn't slow, and NOTHING available for it runs slow. Software MIGHT begin to supersede it's ability in another 2 years...but right now, it doesn't matter that the A6X iPad3/New iPad exists...the spec bump is absolutely meaningless in terms of necessary horsepower for the foreseeable future. By the time software makes the iPad3 slow, the iPad6 will be out. As for my opinion on the mini iPad: Meh. Overpriced, low resolution garbage. It's targeted at a person that wants to browse the web, read email, and have Apples app store at their avail in a smaller form factor than the current line of iPad3's, etc. That's all it is. If it's not for you, don't buy it. So you're saying that you don't ever want to future-proof yourself and just buy whatever fits right now? That's called being a horrible consumer.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 03:16 PM) Oney Guillen ‏@Oneyguillen oh well I wonder who the Guillens will blame this time around.

QUOTE (ron883 @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 03:17 PM) I'm not surprised. Players love playing for Oz. How could you not? Hanley Ramirez didn't.

I haven't been interested in Assassin's Creed since the first one. But AC3 looks really f***ing good. I'm thinking about buying it.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 03:07 PM) Ricky Nolasco is not happy: Oh wow, is he friends with Greg?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 03:12 PM) Brick killed a guy Lay low for a few days.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 02:10 PM) So I bought a Kindle FireHD, pretty impressed by it. It's a nice little toy to have especially because I like to listen to music/watch a show in bed before I actually fall asleep so it's better than my laptop/phone to do that, and the screen is really gorgeous (not to mention the built in speakers blow away an other built ins I've heard). Not too shabby for $200. I'm planning on buying one of these for my little brother. He's only 10 and my parents don't want him killing his vision or doing nothing but playing games or god forbid, find out what porn is. They have a parental control function on the new Fire OS, which makes kid accounts with given time limtations, etc. So that's definitely a reason why I want to get him one of these. He loves playing on my iPad a lot, so I figure it's time he gets his own tablet.

Apple's Nexus 7 and iPad mini comparison was awful. Different price range ($200 vs. $320), different screen size. But Apple conveniently forgets to mention that you know...the Nexus 7 has a higher resolution on a smaller screen (50 more PPI), a quad core processor, and once again, is $130 cheaper. You can trick the average consumer, but you can't trick the people who know the specs.

For a second, I thought Ozzie was staying put since they traded Bell. Guess not! What happened to all those championships Ozzie was supposed to win with the Marlins?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 11:49 AM) I have to call bulls*** on this - you have no idea what Suh was thinking. If/when Peppers gets to the QB, I'd hope he took him down just like Suh did. The hit was perfectly legal, maybe now Jay will wear a flak jacket. Past history tells a lot. It's not like Suh has owned up to his mistakes in the past. He's still the same player he was in the last few years and he has a history with Cutler and a history of trying to rip people's heads off. I would not condone any other football player do what he does to anyone. At the least, it's borderline illegal. Correy Williams drove Cutler into the turf last year and got a 15 yard penalty for it. Suh's hit was much much worse considering a lot of the force was on the helmet.

If the Giants plan on winning this series, they need to win before their elimination games... Because when you run into Justin Verlander, bad things will happen.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 11:01 AM) On Suh's hit, I agree with the posts after mine. I have no problem saying that there are no problems with the tackle in a vacuum. In context of Suh's past, it seems like just another emotional, intent-to-harm play. I don't have much of a doubt that Suh did try to hurt Cutler. He ripped Cutler's helmet off last year. He also elbowed him in the head two years ago in Detroit. Suh's not stupid. He seems like a pretty intelligible person when you hear him talk. Which is probably why he didn't go after Cutler when he had a shot at him early in the second half. That probably would have resulted in a fine or suspension. But IMO, one of the worst parts of that sack was after the play, when Suh went over to check out Cutler on the ground. Suh didn't give two s***s about Cutler's well-being. He was trying to act like he didn't try to hurt Cutler on that play.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 22, 2012 -> 10:14 PM) Interviewing in this country is a God-damned joke. Thanks for the feedback, robots. Damn HR.

Big game next week. After next week, the Bears play the Texans, Niners, and Vikings. Gotta get to 6 wins fast and hope they can pull out 5 in the last 9.