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QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 21, 2013 -> 11:43 PM) If you're going to make an awfully offensive joke, at least make it funny. Sheesh. I can kind of sympathize in a perverse way with a really callous joke if it is fathomably funny. This one's a s***ty joke either way. Was never worth the risk. This is the best assessment.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 22, 2013 -> 10:58 AM) Hot buttered rum. Find a recipe online, but it's basically taking brown sugar and butter and warming them up, then take dark rum and some water and mix it all together. On a cold day, it's awesome. My wife and I have been drinking these the last few weekends around the house. I replace the water with apple cider, but this recipe is good either way. Also add in a little cinnamon.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Dec 21, 2013 -> 07:22 PM) Let me first say that I don't watch a lot of college basketball, I think I've seen 3 Illini games and 2 Duke games, so I don't have a lot to go off of, but if Clarkson is a late round pick then this draft is gonna be effin sick. I'd bust a nut if the Bulls got a top 5 pick, a mid 1st pick (Bobcats), a late 1st(Deng trade), and somehow came away with Parker/Gordon/Clarkson with those picks. Welcome to this draft. He's a late first.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 21, 2013 -> 06:35 PM) K no Illini can complain about fouls. ...yup

QUOTE (fathom @ Dec 21, 2013 -> 06:33 PM) Why does Mizzou call a timeout when Illinois has none left? Cause Haith.

These games are always fun to watch.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Dec 21, 2013 -> 05:51 PM) 7 to 0 fouls 13 minutes left. Awesome. That needs to change. There ya go!

Well that wasn't smart.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Dec 21, 2013 -> 05:37 PM) Really like this Jordan Clarkson fellow. If the Bulls get the Bobcats pick in the 11-20 range I'd love to see him backing up Rose. He's got the size to play along side him as well. Clarkson should be available in the late first if they get a pick for Deng or something. He'd be a good backup.

Wow. Getting cheap players like Hahn is doing is becoming even more important in this crazy ass FA environment.

I got my dad a Chromecast and Veeck's autobiography, my brother a book on the White Sox and the Brick Bible, my sister-in-law some funny dog related books, and my mom a couple of Barnes & Noble classics that she likes. My dad kept asking what I wanted for Hanukkah and I said "I dunno" to see if he came up with something. So I made it that my mom conveniently overheard me talking to my best friend about how I was gonna try and save up for a PS4 after he got one for Christmas. They get to feel like they came up with the idea (which rarely happens) and I get a PS4. It's a win.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 06:51 PM) We got them in the Jason Frasor trade and gave up Holmberg along with Huddy. Even if you just look at the 1.5 years that Jackson was here, Huddy out produced him. Enter into the equation the amount of years Huddy was under contract(yes I know he's been hurt), the fact that Hudson had to have had a ton of value at that point and we gave up another good arm in the deal? Yuck. And Frasor was in the second Jackson deal.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 06:43 PM) I probably hated the BMac-Danks trade more than anyone when it happened but that ended up being lopsided in our favor. The Huddy-Jackson trade to this day still makes 0 sense to me. Yet we somehow won that one as well. Remember, got Webb and Jaye in that.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 11:37 AM) Yeah, I think this has some merit. Compare Jake Odorizzi and Erik Johnson, for instance. The main difference between the two has been their prospect ranking. Or Tallion, if we're just looking at stats.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 03:52 PM) The White Sox have already started talking to 6 potential kids for their #3 pick. http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/artic...rticle_66102476 For the lazy ones: Rodon, Hoffman, Kolek, Beede, Gatewood, Turner

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 03:49 PM) You and your greg hard-ons man. Lmao, J4L was Greg's biggest defender for a long time. I'll give you a hint, Kyyle alluded to him on the last page.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 03:08 PM) I don't know why you do this...you always undersell him. Every living being on the planet with legs or eyes will have one of these. Most famous clothing line in the Marianas Trench? C'mon, what do you think? Next stop, Mars and Jupiter. Hey now, I came up with Quetzalcoatl thing, so if anything I should demand royalties

QUOTE (Waygodai @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 02:38 PM) Hooole up, playa just cuz I refuse to partake in the ongoing Tanker orgy & happen to like Deng as a 3rd option at 10-12 mill or whatever he’s currently making. doesn’t mean I would mind one bit Bulls let him go or traded Deng for a big-upside prospect -- and this is where, again, it’s important for Bulls scouts & coaches to have credibility, because if Bulls are in the lottery in this pathetic East, it will have meant the organization is fundamentally F’d because those responsible for talent-evaluation & development, are utterly incompetent. Double-yay for 5 percent chance at Wiggins or Jabari, though! No worries broham, I wouldn’t give too much credence to these reports, anyway. I have a feeling they are just saying this to keep several parties calm with the status-quo, or perhaps to send message to prospective trade partners that the price for Deng wouldn’t be as low as they would hope, that he is a valued part of Bulls future plans. While telling the casual $$$-paying Bulls fans that they are not tanking the season, afterall. Who knows what the exact motivation is. So much can change between now and next summer, as Bulls unfortunately experienced in last 2 years. Deng may want too much $$$. Deng’s Achilles may scare Reinsdorf off; Butler and Snell with increased playing time, may take that next step up and make Deng expendable. Or Luol may revert back to his old tunnel-vision self and start ball-handling & chucking too much, thereby pissing off Thibs and the FO, which, in turn, would start a media war with Deng’s camp…. cue ugly divorce. And if everyone keeps going down with injuries, and Bulls top draft pick next year despite Thibs best efforts to win..... that'd be OK, too. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to Deng is making $14M and likely wants a raise to around $15-16M if they really are $5-6M apart. Which would be an idiotic amount to pay Luol Deng. Last time he was overpaid, sucked at the beginning of the contract, turned it around, and now in his contract year is having his best season because he wants to get overpaid again. It's not just Wiggins and Parker either, it's Wiggins, Parker, Embiid, Randle, Exum, and Smart followed by LaVine, Gordon, Vonleh, Harris, and Hood. This draft is simultaneously top heavy AND deep. Those first six all have the ability to be franchise players, the next ones could be All-Stars. Then you have a bunch of guys who could be good role players. I think my dream scenario is getting ahead of Utah in the top 3 and taking Parker. Then packaging the Bobcats pick and a pick received from trading Deng to move up and take LaVine. Take a backup center with our 2nd rounder. Rose/Augustin Snell/LaVine Parker/Butler Mirotic/Taj Noah/2nd Rounder Have LaVine in the 6th man sparkplug role while Jimmy and Taj make the bench mob formidable defensively.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 12:48 PM) If it is even close on draft grades, I hope the Sox take the pitcher. I have complete faith their ability to develop them, and the opposite in their record for position players. And as this offseason has shown, you can flip excess pitching for MLB ready hitters.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 02:26 PM) Just ordered an Ouya, curious to see what this thing will be able to do. Don't get excited. This buzzkill brought to you by Quin.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 09:05 AM) Or even half would do the trick... Hell, a quarter would. Let's say 15 teams place bids on Tanaka at $20M. That's $75M.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 02:03 PM) Quintana should just have a drawing of Quetzalcoatl on his back. Best selling jersey in the history of the MLB.

Kenny Williams trades definitively won: Borchard for Thornton Freddy Garcia trade Peavy trade Youkilis trade Contreras trade Danks - McCarthy trade Kenny Williams trades arguably won: Edwin Jackson - Daniel Hudson trade Javy Vazquez trade Thome trade Ken Griffey Jr. trade Kenny Williams trades neither win nor lost: Mark Teahen trade (Fields and Getz are hot garbage, so it was lateral) Mike Sirotka trade Liriano trade Jon Garland trade Trades Williams lost: Nick Swisher trades 1 & 2 I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple, but feel free to debate about how Kenny gave up too much other than the awful Swisher deals.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 01:22 PM) His badness escalated quickly Chris Cotillo ‏@ChrisCotillo 4m Kevin Youkilis will sign with the Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan, according to reports. Ah, hopefully he sells Tanaka on the White Sox. "Don't go to Boston. They'll think you're Dice-K."

QUOTE (RegionSox @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 12:40 PM) I always wondered why baseball makes the manager and coaches wear the uniforms. You don't have that in any other sport. Other sports would look really damn funny.