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First of all, anybody can spend 30 seconds on Google and find out the name of Gavin's wife and where they live. Secondly, if the actual player being traded is this guy's ultimate source, I don't buy for a second that he knows all of the details of the trade, such as the names of the minor leaguers involved and whether or not there is cash involved. That's how a team source might spell out a trade to somebody like Heyman or Rosenthal (or k0na), but I doubt that's how KW spells it out when he calls the actual player. Now, there may very well be a Floyd to Toronto trade in the works, but I don't buy this Purdue guy's story one bit.

Played in a very interesting drunken NYE game. Our format is usually the same: $30-40 NL tournament followed by a cash game. The cash game is dealer's choice among NLHE, NL Crazy Pineapple, PLO, and PLO/8, with $0.25/0.50 blinds. We have a standard group of about 25 players, with about half showing up to any one event. I ran pretty bad in the tournament and busted out early. I made up for it in the cash game big time. I was into the game for just under $200 and had just over $120 in front of me during a PLO/8 hand. Flop was Q-8-7 with two diamonds. I had a set of 8s with a marginal low draw. Flop betting ends up with six people all in, and I have everybody covered, but a couple just barely. One other person has a set of 7s, one person has a flush draw with a decent low draw, one a straight draw with the nut low draw, one on a pure flush draw and one on just the nut low draw. Turn and river are both Ks and I scooped a $632 pot with 8s full. PLO/8 is a very sick game with high variance, but if you can get yourself at a table with people who don't play it well and/or are drunk, and you have enough bullets to cover the swings, it can be a very profitable game.

Just heard about this. Officials should be fined/suspended. Western's coach should be fired on the spot. How do you not notice your opponent has six on the floor for 20 seconds?

Twitter handle of this guy is http://twitter.com/brboiler2013 Basically, he claims that his cousin is Gavin's wife, and his sister lives next door to them in Florida, and that's how he knows this is going down. Only thing that makes me question it is whether the player being traded would be told something as specific as "you and cash were traded to Toronto for Drabek and McGuire." Does a player always get told those kinds of details???

I'm sorry, I thought that quote was so obviously over the top that I didn't need to make it green.

In the past 8 seasons, the Bears have won 55% of their games, three division titles, and one conference title, all while having a terrible GM and subpar coaches. They did it all with players who were overvalued in the draft, yet magically taught themselves to become outstanding players.

My official and almost certain to be wrong playoff picks: CIN over HOU NO over DET NYG over ATL PIT over DEN NO over SF NE over CIN PIT over BAL NYG over GB NO over NYG PIT over NE NO over PIT

That's one year. I'll wait to see if that is a trend or an anomaly.

Considering how rarely he walks, his average better be a lot higher than .255.

Just wondering if anybody else noticed that Angelo's firing seemed to come out of nowhere the day after Bill Polian's firing came out of nowhere, as if the decision to fire Angelo wasn't made until Polian was available.

I agree with this. What this guy did was wrong and he should not be allowed to hold office, but I don't agree with the party being punished. Of course, you could argue that the party should have seen this coming and should have forced him off the ballot before the election. I thought it was pretty obvious that this is how it was going to end up.

Keeping Peyton is a win-now move, so players help you a lot more than draft picks, and there are plenty of creative ways to make the salary cap work. It can be done.

How the Colts handle the #1 pick (assuming they don't beat JAX, which isn't a given at this point) is very simple: Pre-draft you tell teams the cost of the #1 pick is their best OT, their best DT, their #1 pick for 2012, and either their #2 pick for 2012 or #1 pick for 2013. See if there might be an idiot owner who would pay that price to upgrade to Luck over, say, Rex Grossman. If not, draft Luck and sit him for a year and see how 2012 goes before deciding how to proceed in the future.

Keith Law liked a move by Billy Beane. In other news, the earth is round and the sky is blue.

Not tweeted by k0na, therefore I don't buy it.

On the off-chance that Mr. Dunn is reading this, I am very glad that your son is better. No parent should have to lose a 5 yr old, and no amount of money overcomes that loss.

That needs to be the slogan for 2012.

Too late in the year to hope for a hurricane.

I have a friend who loves to make bets where he is getting odds. He offered to give me my pick of 4 teams to win the championship this year and he gets the field at 2:1 odds. 1) Is this a good bet for me? 2) If so, do I take the Heat, Bulls, Mavs, and Thunder or is there a team I'm missing?

1/28/74, the shared birthday of Jermaine Dye and Magglio Ordonez, will always be the cutoff in my book. Anybody younger than them, even if just by a week, well never be considered "old".

Garland for OCab was trading pitching away, not acquiring it, but that doesn't necessarily blow up your theory.

There was a rule that if a player with 6+ years of service time was traded with 2+ years left on a contract, the player had a right to demand a trade to another team after a year. It's how the Sox ended up with Javy Vazquez. IF that rule is still in the new CBA, it pretty much guarantees that no team is going to be trading for Danks because there's too much risk that he forces his way out in a year.

The ones I remember are the Cabrera/Garland trade, the first Peavy trade that Peavy rejected, and the Jackson/Frasor trade. He mentioned each on Twitter and/or whitesox.com message board several hours before anybody else even had a whiff of those deals.

In case you're wanting to guess when we'll get confirmation on this, when k0na posted about the Edwin Jackson trade on Twitter, it was about 10 hours later that the mainstream sources started getting it.

Without factoring in the trade return for Danks, I'd rather have Danks at 5/65 than Buehrle at 4/58. Now, if you tell me that Danks could have gotten a Top 25 prospect in return, then maybe I'd rather have Buehrle.