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QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 09:58 PM) 2013 Week 17 against the Packers. He had them up 28-20 in the 4th Quarter. Then it was 28-27, 4th and 8 with around 45 seconds to go, and the defense blew the game by letting Rodgers scramble (Peppers' fault) and hit a wide open Cobb for a TD (dbacks miscommunication).. He gets hit pretty hard for every failure of his, and I don't recall him pointing too many fingers at others who did the same. He underperformed, and I think he'd admit it, but he has handled himself with far more class than a lot of his teammates. It's time for him to go, but I don't think it will be as easy to replace him as some think. f***ing Chris Conte.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 12:08 AM) Would it be better to roster Adrian Peterson (I just won the claim on him), or add Alfred Morris as a handcuff to Ezekiel Elliot? I know on Matthew Berry's fantasy show they have been saying you need to handcuff Elliot with Morris, but I'm not experienced enough with fantasy to understand why, other than the *potential* for injury I guess? In which case, wouldn't that have been the idea all season? Or is it because all the byes are done, your bench should be differently? Anyway, they even explicitly said in the video that handcuffing Elliot with Morris is a better idea than rostering Peterson, but I just see that as trading a potential weapon for safety net. Of course, I could just drop Crowell who has been god awful recently, or drop Jared Cook in hopes that Gronk will play Sunday. You shouldn't even roster Jared Cook. He's had one good game all year.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Nov 25, 2016 -> 11:40 PM) iPhone 8 rumors already swirling. My contract is up but I'm gonna wait out for the 8 rather than get the 7. They're going to do 7S before 8. This happens every year lol.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 29, 2016 -> 10:23 AM) Oh and Trump decided to declare today that flag burning, which is protected 1st amendment speech, should be punishable by revocation of citizenship. What is he trying to distract from this time? I think I've come to the conclusion that Trump doesn't just say this s*** for the sake of it most of the time. There's almost always an ulterior motive.

Made the playoffs in my main league, looking to score a bye by winning this week. Fighting for the last spot in my work league. Hopelessly out of contention in my money league though.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Nov 29, 2016 -> 07:59 AM) I played until 1220 last night lol. So, if they re generated the names again I'm returning the game. You can return games? Did you buy it used or something?

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Nov 27, 2016 -> 11:44 AM) Bulls.com/CyberMonday Only on Monday, November 28, you have the opportunity to purchase BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE tickets on select seats.* NO CONVENIENCE FEES for all games. only on select seats (though there's a mix of 300 & 100 level seats available) The offer goes live at midnight tonight (CST) and runs all day on Monday. I got some 300s. Pretty good deal.

QUOTE (Brian @ Nov 28, 2016 -> 10:27 AM) Alex Smith is the luckiest QB in NFL history. So average but gets on teams with top defenses. He and Andy Reid are a great match. Reid's offense allows a QB like Smith to succeed.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 28, 2016 -> 12:31 AM) So if you are Kubiak do you try a 62 yard field goal, knowing if he misses it KC will very likely win the game? I think if he doesn't try the field goal he gets reamed on talk radio and social media and fans rip him a new one. However ... a 62-yard field goal?? I guess he was able to go for it and not take any heat because of the altitude in Denver and fact the kicker has a realistic shot at making it if he properly boots the ball. I know why he tried the game-winning field goal, but in second-guessing retrospect, it cost him the game. Should be interesting to see how his team bounces back after a disappointing loss like that. Their play calling sucked after they got into KC territory. 5 more yards and that field goal is a lot more makeable. Instead they threw it twice and gave KC time to drive down the field.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Nov 26, 2016 -> 08:01 AM) Really getting fed up with FIFA 17. This is the 2nd time that this has happened to me. Middle of my career mode and all the players have changed to random names. Not even real names. So, I'm trying to find players via transfer and none of them show up. Just awful. Erik Lamela is now Erivalo Luca....... Ha they just all re-gen'd for no reason.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Nov 27, 2016 -> 10:50 PM) Anyone watching this Denver - Kansas City game? Probably the best game I've seen all year. Fitting end to the game too haha.

QUOTE (Tony @ Nov 27, 2016 -> 03:08 PM) He's still doing this....as President Elect. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/...972944532209664 Hahahaha This guy...

I think Springer's a good player, but he's a free agent in 2021. I'd much rather get Bregman, who has 2 more years of control. Springer's a 4-5 win player, but he's about to reach his peak next year at 27. Bregman is just 22. The surplus value on Bregman will be much higher than Springer.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 05:20 PM) https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/tila-tequil...-192654817.html Tila Tequila suspended from Twitter for Nazi salute...but will they do that to other members? She's an easy target. Tilq Tequila is just...WTF. Is she doin' this crap just for attention? She's doing all this crap with white nationalists and she's not even white!

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 01:34 PM) MLS is absolutely critical to the future of the national team. Ideally, you have both guys taking the Euro route and developing, and guys developing through the MLS academy system or the draft. The washout rate for Americans in Europe - particularly those who go through the academy system in Europe - is extremely high. The best players of the last generation of US Soccer - Dempsey and Donovan - don't reach those heights without MLS (my opinion on Donovan, a fact re: Dempsey). Over the next 16-20 years, the quality of the talent pool in the US, and therefore the quality of MLS, needs to rise to the level where as a soccer nation, we aren't dependent on European development to succeed at the national team level. MLS is the long-game and Jurgen didn't want to play it. I mean he got fired after 5 years. So for him as a manager looking short-term, the MLS wasn't going to help him. That might seem selfish of him, but it is what it is.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 11:27 AM) I thought Alex Jones was more just bats*** conspiracy theorist in general than alt-right? Those 2 have started to merge. Mostly because a huge part of conspiracy theorists' spiel is that all of the world's wealth is owned by the Jewish Rothschild family. That alone would make neo nazis giddy.

Klinsmann probably had more talent on this team than any USMNT manager before him. You gotta give him credit for that. He's responsible for getting Fabian Johnson and John Brooks on this team. The fact that we have a decent amount of players getting regular playing time in the Bundesliga is in part due to Klinsmann. He did a decent job with development. Only problem is that he was a horrible manager tactically. I wish he could have stayed in a non-managerial position, but that definitely wasn't going to happen. Arena will put a higher emphasis on the MLS, which Klinsmann ignored for the most part. But as we've seen with the development of Pulisic and Wood, we need players to develop in Europe.

Nice win in Utah. Game was ugly at times when both teams couldn't make any field goals.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 04:37 PM) 99.99% of the country didn't know who the guy was until the media told them he was racist. The guy runs a pretty popular website and was Trump's campaign CEO. If you pay attention to the news, you knew who Steve Bannon was long before this week.

I thought this was interesting. I've seen this first-hand. Hell I get a bunch of fake stories on Facebook under suggestions based on what my friends post all the time. I actively make sure that those sources get blocked and I never see them again.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 10:40 AM) This thought is dangerous. It is what Hillary Clinton leveraged and it didn't work. If people believe that is why they got elected, then they are missing the reality of the situation. The election happened because of a combination of things, the bulk of which people wanted serious change. They wanted a change candidate and Trump was who represented the people most in want of change (and even then he got less votes than McCain and Romney). Trump also talked to more people in the rest belt area who have had things get worse over the last 8 years and who wanted a change. Now did those people ignore certain things Donald said / did, absolutely, but to lump in and just assume that everyone who cast there vote for Trump feels the way that you seem to think is just ridiculous and does not solve anything. You saw what good those type of statements did Hillary (calling half of the voting population deplorables doesn't help things). The fact of the matter is everyone lost in this election, but we really lost if the actual politicians don't recognize that the people are fed up and do want change. They want people in the government to work together to come up with things that in general the people want, that will make there lives better. Case closed that a lot of people didn't feel that happened. Bill Clinton himself has been highlighted talking about a lot of these very same things. Absolutely. Does it suck that a large number of voters ignored blatant racism and elected a president with racist ties? Yes. Does that mean that they are racist and will always vote for a racist candidate? No. The Democrats have to go back and analyze their mistakes. Losing states that have been solid blue for almost 30 years is a failure by the party and the Clinton campaign. Guilt tripping people and making them feel bad about their political choices doesn't work because nobody else is around to see who you voted for in the voting booth.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Nov 16, 2016 -> 07:11 PM) He's not a good hitter. He's a throw in like a Swithart on the RedSox side. He ended the year on a hot streak, but he was hitting terribly around the all-star break (which is why you might think he can't hit). Turned it on after the break and had a pretty good year overall. His defense keeps his value afloat no matter what though.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 16, 2016 -> 06:35 PM) Kate Upton tweeted "Hey MLB, I thought I was the only one allowed to f*** Justin Verlander" Two writers from Tampa didn't even have him on their ballot. That's pretty good.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 16, 2016 -> 03:42 PM) Steve Bannon sees 20% of silicon valley ceo's being asian, mentally freaks out and interprets this as 75%, winds up saying that having large numbers of asians in those roles is bad for civic society. Remember folks, it's not just the muslims, brown people, blacks, and jews. They'll get down the list to hating you personally eventually. The reason why we no longer have so many manufacturing jobs is that we're now a technology-led economy. It might not be long before the racists figure that out and start blaming Asians and Indians for their problems instead of Mexicans, black people, and Muslims.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 16, 2016 -> 04:30 PM) http://www.newsweek.com/michael-rubin-trum...-521622?ref=yfp Trump transition team with second ethics scandal...the other is $950,000+ being paid to Breitbart by a super PAC https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KVdiOKI7xd8 Apparently it's now hilarious to drive your car super-fast close to a crowd of anti-Trump protestors on the highway and hit one of them It's amazing the level of commitment Chinese students have in math, physics and chemistry, not to mention nearly all of them studying economics as well. Probably spend 3x as much time studying those areas as US students, and many go to school halftime starting at age 2-3, at least some type of educational enrichment program. Then the ms and hs students almost all go to English or SAT IELTS TOEFL training centers at night or on the weekends. Average math SAT score is 740-760. Anyone below 700 is an idiot to be made fun of, to them. Creativity and innovation and critical thinking...not so strong. They really struggle with the higher levels of computer science as well, but it's also hard to find good foreign (white/native English speaker) teachers in those areas. There's no secrets. Hard working, rote memorization, tons of practice and drilling, go over every past exam and memorize multiple choice possibilities for AS/A2 level, AP, IB, etc. This is why we're losing in the STEM areas. Not IQ or ability. Simply not enough dedication, commitment and family pressure to work harder. Yeah pretty much. The heavy competition in China also forces students to do even more. I have relatives who pretty much go to school all year around and even then, they'll be lucky to get into a decent college. Almost any sort of work ethic here in the states pretty much guarantees entrance into a half-way decent university. You'd be lucky to end up in a 2 year vocational school in China if you just try hard...