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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 6, 2012 -> 08:57 PM) That's only on the Canadian version, sadly. Yeah...sadly. Did they change the color of the PS3 cases? The picture you had looks like the case is blue. WTF man, why do they have to make changes like this? It totally ruins the look of my game collection. I still don't know if I want the Vita version of the Show or the PS3 version. Vita version looks eh so far from impressions and the limited videos I've seen, but I'll only judge after I've seen it in person. Edit: I couldn't pass up this deal: got PS3 and Vita versions of MLB 12 for $70 off Amazon. This probably means I'll get the Vita and even if I don't, I can sell the Vita version for at least $30 on eBay. Mwahaha.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 6, 2012 -> 02:27 PM) Beats the hell out of looking at Adrian Gonzalez. I prefer the Jose Bautista cover.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 4, 2012 -> 07:06 PM) Ramirez was horrible with situational hitting last year, though. The other side of the coin is that putting him in the 2 slot, he is almost forced by a new manager to be more of a "team player" and less of a free swinger. But will that take away his aggressiveness, or make him start going back up the middle and to RF? Morel seemed to "shrink" his offensive game in that type of situation, and the power only came back later when he started to feel like he belonged. Alexei's a .287 hitter in the 2 hole. He hit .294 in that spot last year. His highest OPS in any spot in the lineup is the #2 spot at .760, higher than his career OPS by 15 points. He's also played 214 games in this spot, so it's not like there's a small sample size issue. I don't see how it's really made him do anything but hit better.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Mar 4, 2012 -> 02:32 PM) That is some confidence Robin putting Rios in the 3 hole. If Rios got his head out of his ass, he'd be a really good 3-hole hitter. Not sure I like A.J. in the second spot, it's putting two lefties together at the top of the order and A.J.'s slow and can't get on base. If you put Alexei there, you at least have L/R combo with pretty good speed.

QUOTE (Felix @ Mar 4, 2012 -> 05:18 PM) It's almost like his backup is the corpse of Baron Davis Well, it was Mike Bibby, which is pretty close to the corpse of Baron Davis.

Nice win for the Lakers. Looks like Miami needs Bosh pretty badly when they go up against other teams with some front court depth. The Heat have no depth up front after Haslem and Anthony.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Mar 4, 2012 -> 02:53 PM) I think we're overrating Rondo's defense here. Rondo always has one of the highest STL% and DRtg among all players, not just point guards. He has more defensive win shares than he does offensive ones in his career.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 4, 2012 -> 02:50 PM) The first game he went off was against deron. Of course Deron went off on him the 2nd time. Williams and Rondo aren't in the same tier defensively. I think Rondo is the first great defensive point guard Lin has played against.

Kobe is pissed off. 5-5 with 12 points. Lakers up 16-9.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 4, 2012 -> 02:45 PM) Lin against good teams is funny. I also like how Amare tries to one hand that putback dunk and blows it. Lin against good teams with actual point guards is funny. I don't think it's coincidental he went off against the Mavs and Lakers. Derek Fisher and Jason Kidd are far too old to keep up with him. But when you stick Rondo on him, different story.

Rondo with 20 assists. Hot damn.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 4, 2012 -> 02:41 PM) "Melo isolates on this side, everyone else clears out". Yeah, the Knicks aren't winning anything anytime soon.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 4, 2012 -> 11:05 AM) RT @JonHeymanCBS #Braves hitting coach greg walker on his team being 1-hit in spring opener: "the honeymoon is already over." Hahaha, it's not like this hasn't happened before.

Overtime it is.

I wonder who will get to take this last shot...Melo or Lin? Money's on Melo, but Boston may just deny him the ball.

Wow, this game is good. Pierce ties it up with a 3.

Melo's earning his paycheck now. Knicks up by 1.

Lin's pulling a Tebow. Horrible for first 4/5 of game, but during crunch time, he's brought the Knicks back to within 1.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 3, 2012 -> 08:39 PM) I actually really like this thread. It tends to go off topic quite a bit, but some of the topics are interesting (like the Jordan in today's era thing). I feel bad for posters like Felix and J4L because they voice their opinions pretty strongly and those opinions aren't popular around here. I think a problem with J4L is that he doesn't back up his opinions (some of which are already really hard to believe) with concrete evidence. Felix does a pretty good job with that usually. By the way, as someone who lurks for the most part (and have been doing so for many years), I think it was clear as day that posters are just joking around with J4L. I don't think SS2k5s post was malicious at all. Some people don't like J4L because he likes talking in absolutes and has an unpopular opinion. And Felix...well he just trolls for entertainment.

UNOFFICIAL b****ES.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Mar 1, 2012 -> 01:20 AM) You're a lil bit basketball-retarded. I shall now refer to you as deandrejordan4life. I'll take kornel david takin' the game-winner over ANYBODY...

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Feb 29, 2012 -> 03:35 PM) The Marlins (and their new manager) just got jinxed: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,6221885.story Marlinsanity? Really?

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Feb 29, 2012 -> 02:40 PM) Extremely false, no matter how many times you repeat it. I was just a young teenager when they were winning 13 games a season and still watched as many games as I could. I watched every single draft. s***, I watched all their summer league games. I didn't watch their summer league games, but I did actually watch the Bulls when they were god awful, quite frequently too. The thought of them having a slight chance to win was enough for me to watch. But then again, I was like 10 years old back then and I had nothing better to do.

QUOTE (Felix @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 12:42 PM) I don't think that's Derrick Rose. You just don't like admitting that DRose has mad skillz. Yeah that's probably not him.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 01:35 AM) I agree. Non-asians, especially whites, should dictate whether something is offensive towards asians or not... How do you know that I'm white?