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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 6, 2014 -> 11:43 AM) I'm waiting for the anti-American blog post (from an American) for our unwillingness to see how spoiled we are by complaining about all of the Sochi problems. I caught a small reference to it with the toilet paper in the basket picture (that's common in most of the non-Western part of the world apparently) on Gawker. Same with packed-like-sardines hotel rooms. This is an international event. If you can't accommodate people correctly (it doesn't matter what country they come from), then why the hell did you bid for it in the first place? At least China tried to make a good impression on people when they hosted in 2008 (and that's what you kind of have to do if you're a developing country hosting the games). It doesn't seem like Russia's trying at all.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 5, 2014 -> 08:52 AM) Goran Dragic has been a freak and quite possibly the best healthy point guard standing in the NBA. Kinda amazing how far he's come since being dunked on by Rose. He's drastically improved this year and has been improving for the past 3.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 4, 2014 -> 01:42 PM) Holy f*** the Dodgers have a PECOTA projection of 98 wins. That is typically a very conservative system. Yeah 98 is very liberal for PECOTA.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 4, 2014 -> 01:17 PM) I have done sober taste tests of Coors and Keystone. You can't tell the difference. It's all a placebo effect. I haven't had Keystone in like two years, so maybe I don't remember the taste anymore.

Are all Russian bathrooms like this?

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Feb 4, 2014 -> 12:51 PM) Do you drink Coors Light? Because it's the same thing but a lot cheaper It's not the same thing. Same beer family, but not the same. If internet rumors can be believed, then Keystone is made from leftover Coors. But at the same time, you'll also find people talking about how Coors and Keystone are the same thing, just different cans since Keystone cans are dented. Either way, from my experience, Keystone tastes like water and Coors tastes a little less like water and more like beer.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 4, 2014 -> 12:40 PM) Guys, can we just keep making fun of yellow water and semen in this thread and not go all filibuster on it!? I'd rather drink dat yellow water than Keystone Light.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 4, 2014 -> 12:29 PM) I was using North Korea as a reference point... it's the lowest on the scale. Russia is only 20 points higher. Ah Ok. Yeah, I definitely wasn't aware that Russia was that corrupt. It seems pretty hard to have such a high level of corruption when you're a country with open elections.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 4, 2014 -> 12:30 PM) China isn't corrupt, it's just lacking in human rights. It's easy to get stuff done when the government can do what it wants, when it wants. No, it is very corrupt. People bribe officials with gifts and money all the time. Of course it's looked down upon, but it doesn't mean it isn't done. People who work as officials in the Chinese government don't make a lot of money, but most of them live a lavish life style with numerous houses and cars. How do you think it got that way?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 4, 2014 -> 12:26 PM) Brazil is ranked 72nd with a score of 42. By comparison... Rank - City (score) 1- Denmark (91) 14 -United Kingdom (76) 19 - United States (73) 127 - Russia (28) 175 - North Korea (8) Pyeongchang is in S. Korea. The thought of having any sort of major sporting event in N. Korea makes me cringe.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 4, 2014 -> 11:09 AM) You forgot the green. I'm serious. I didn't remember anything like this during the Chinese Olympics and I'd think Russia is a little less corrupt than China and could actually get something done. Edit: NVM, I was wrong. The PRC is somehow less corrupt than Russia. http://www.transparency.org/cpi2013/results

I had no idea Russia was this incompetent.

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.