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Can Denard Span just go away?

It's gonna be ex-Twins on the mound today huh?

At least Liriano won't get the loss.

Cuban connection!

I don't understand how we're not hitting Blackburn.

Come on Paulie, make up for your mistake on D.

Gonzales just tweeted that Danks will have surgery Monday. He's done for the year.

This is a big game. If we can't beat Blackburn, then blah.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 03:41 PM) Well, off the top of my head, I think my line up in 2013 is..... Gerardo Parra Micheal Young Joe Mauer Adam Dunn Paul Konerko Dayan Viciedo Alexei Ramirez Nate Sheirholtz Gordon Beckham Chris Sale John Danks R.A. Dickey ????? Nestor Molina I can't remember who my 4th starter is. I only play with Sale, Dickey, and Molina. Pitching with Danks and the 4th starter bore me, and I want to try and get through multiple seasons, so i only play AWAY games as well. You would trade for Gerardo Parra.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 03:33 PM) Good deal for the Cubs. Say what you want, but Theo is doin' things. Still a long ways to go. But it's hard not to like what he's assembled so far: Rizzo, Solar, Vizcaino + Texas deal. When did Theo acquire the Sun?

The news doesn't stop rolling in at 3 bro. Wait at least 30 more minutes before declaring nothing happened.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 02:28 PM) Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal Source: #Reds get Broxton. Good insurance for Chapman.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 02:05 PM) How does Denard Span have veto power? That can't be true. That makes no sense...he doesn't have 10-5 rights. Maybe he has a no-trade clause?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 01:17 PM) Speaking of Joakim Noah - this is simply hilarious. http://deadspin.com/5930499/joakim-noah-te...ane-hilariously Noah interviewed on ESPN Chicago. His top 3 Chicago athletes are - 1. AJ Pierzynski 2. Patrick Kane 3. Patrick Kane LOL Kaner's only on there twice because Joakim couldn't think of anyone else. xD

QUOTE (southside hitman @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 01:15 PM) Smoke is Garza to AZ for Corbin and others. No Upton of course, don't know who came up with that. The great Buster Olney.

Please, I've had enough of Spam.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 11:33 AM) No, I never said Android was so slow it was barely useable...but to say you can't see a difference in smoothness between iOS and Android is just insane. Not only have you already admitted that you could (you said you didn't like how smooth it was), only to say a few posts later that you couldn't tell the difference between the two. THAT is what leads me to the conclusion that you're in denial...in one post you say you can see it, in another you suddenly can't. It's also just incorrect...everyone could always see such a difference...let's not pretend it wasn't there. lol when did I say that? I never said I didn't like it (why would I not like something that is a little bit smoother?). My point was that it wasn't a big enough difference for me to care. As in, the smoothness wasn't a huge issue before and the improvement isn't something that made me go "wow". All I'm saying is that the idea that iOS is far smoother than Android is overblown. There might be a difference, but it's not to the point where you think one is far superior to the other or that it totally changes your user experience.

Oleny thinks Garza for Upton makes sense. Is he crazy?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 03:59 PM) I read it correctly. The issue is that you were in denial. Because it was slow. It was slow enough, as a matter of fact, that Google actually did something about it in 4.1. If it wasn't slow, and the entire world -- other than you -- was imagining this, then Google wouldn't have needed to create and highlight "project butter" in 4.1. This is nothing more than "Fandroid" denial. This is a common thing I see with people who seem to love their devices...and that sure as hell goes for Apple fanboi's who are in denial that the Apple iOS UI is "great", when it has obvious deficiencies. The only reason you never noticed it, is because you went out of your way to use it in a way in which it wouldn't stutter...as you highlight below when you say people need to "learn to use their phones". It would have been slow if you used it in an obvious way that made it slow...you simply "learned" ways to prevent it by artificially changing your usage habits. This shouldn't be necessary. Bloatware is part of the problem, but it's not nearly the entire problem. You shouldn't have to know how to "use your phone properly" for it to not stutter on overpowered hardware, this is just a nonsense statement, and an excuse at best. The phone should work just fine considering the hardware beneath it is about 2x faster than necessary for anything it will do. The actual reason is because Android wasn't optimized from the ground up...and when it was compiled, it was done so poorly. Android is based on Java, but it runs non-native java code through it's kernel. Cyanogen is more than a simple recompile of Android base without bloatware. It's optimized. Highly optimized. That's why it was upwards of twice as fast as the updated code on a Galaxy Nexus, which contains no bloat. Look up information on something called "Linaro". Here is some information: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/06/09/li...g-added-to-cm9/ Somewhat highlights what I'm talking about. In a real world test/example, their compile of ICS is 2 times faster than the base code Google releases. On the same hardware. How am I in denial? I use iOS everyday. I use Android every day (pre 4.1). I don't notice any real difference in the smoothness at all. You act like Android was slow to the point where it was barely usable. That's total crap. I'm flipping around on Sense 3.6 right now on a test phone at work (with Android 4.0.3) and I don't see anything that deters the user experience. Pages flip perfectly fine, no lag and this is with 7 pages and a few widgets. I'm far from delusional when I use the products we're discussing everyday and I don't notice anything that makes me think something doesn't seem right. As for Linaro, its superiority to the stock kernel does not mean the stock Android kernel was compiled incorrectly. That makes it sound like Android was broken, which it clearly wasn't. Un-optimized? Sure, but it doesn't mean it will forever go un-optimized. Linaro is an organization that is sponsored by OEM manufactures like Samsung to make improvements upon mobile kernels. I've never attempted to run any Linaro builds, as there were some bugs with it in the early stages (Wifi specifically), but I've heard good things, especially in terms of benchmarks.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 10:41 AM) Marlins begging people to take Carlos Lee of their hands, what a joke of an organization. Wow, what a joke.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 09:47 PM) Haha it's the Rangers acquiring Geovany Soto. He sucks. I just don't see the point. Torrealba and Napoli are both way better.

Dunn's not walking or striking out as much. This is bad. He's trying to just put the ball in play and it's not working out too well.

Hey look, it's Casey Fien. The guy we killed in Chicago.

lol Willingham, you ass hole. He just stood in the baseline and tried to get in Alexei's throwing lane.

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 09:00 PM) Q just has no answers against Willingham Hey should just hit him in his next PA. Strike some fear.