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Australia may lose the bronze medal on a horrendous call by FIBA refs.

QUOTE (Dizzy Sox @ Aug 19, 2016 -> 11:03 PM) I'd like to think we didn't trade Shields during his run of halfway decent starts because, despite of no lack of trying, no one else was stupid enough to take him on. That would at least imply the Sox understood what a mistake they had made by bringing him to the organization and were trying to rectify it. I have zero confidence that's how it played out. Yeah, his run of halfway decent starts was also based entirely around him getting lucky so there aren't many organizations that would have bought into that and the ones that would (like the Diamondbacks) aren't in the postseason chase. With that said, I'm skeptical the Sox were smart enough to realize they should try to move him.

I don't understand how the USA is always so terrible at passing the baton. At least they didn't drop it this year but they cost themselves a bunch of time with their passes. It obviously almost certainly doesn't matter with Jamaica having Bolt at the end but they could have made it close.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 19, 2016 -> 01:43 PM) He had a great tournament though at least. I have no idea how a team like USA has a second starting outside as bad as Taylor Sander and he never comes off the court. They definitely have better than him in their system (like the legend on the bench) so I'm still confused why he plays or is even on the team. Can't be too mad though. USA has been going with what is basically a rebuild roster going back the last couple years and they've been crushing expectations. The women on the other hand flat out choked where they refused to even swing and would miss serves badly at the end. Yeah, that was a little unfair to Russell since you are right he did play very well during the Olympics but he was remarkably bad in the 5th set. Both teams choked badly. The men had complete control of the 4th set and gave it away and then couldn't handle easy serves or get a serve into play during the 5th set.

What an atrocious loss

Russell f***ing sucks

Russell losing the 5th set for USA shanking two straight return of serves on simple serves. Horrible by him.

Is there a single sport where Italians don't act like a bunch of b****es on every single call against them?

Justin Gatlin is a dumbass.

USA men's volleyball into the semifinals.

Demarcus Cousins continues to look absolutely horrendous during the Olympics. Can't defend at all and his offense has been awful.

The Warriors players sucking balls for the USA>

Never ceases to amaze me how terrible FIBA refs are. They make college refs look amazing which is saying something.

What a f***ing choke job by Press. You can't miss the net on a penalty kick there. Just can't happen.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 11, 2016 -> 06:24 PM) That would be awful. He's way too good for SLU Zero doubt that recruitment is dirty. I don't think he even should have really chosen Illinois with Groce as our coach but a kid who claims academics matter that had offers from NW, Illinois, and Texas (and then from a basketball perspective an MSU offer amongst others) chooses to go to SLU to play for Travis Ford?

I'm hyped. That was a great trailer.

Phelps is just absolutely unreal. There just aren't any more superlatives that can be said about that guy

It is crazy how far Missy Franklin has fallen. She should have taken the endorsement money when she had the chance in 2012.

Lol at Chad Le Clos. Maybe don't talk s*** to the GOAT

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Aug 2, 2016 -> 07:46 PM) Not great D but s*** eventually happens when you're not striking anyone out And you are allowing a bunch of hard hit balls.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 1, 2016 -> 12:17 PM) Or they trade for him while his value is low, he has a bounce back and they trade him for a huge profit. Yeah, if you aren't giving up a lot of young talent to get him Puig actually makes a ton of sense for the Sox to bet on if they are rebuilding. Worst case is you pay him $20 million the next couple of year to play out the string on some bad teams. In the best case he regains his 2013 and 2014 form and you can trade him for a bunch more young talent (or try to resign him).

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 29, 2016 -> 07:22 PM) Hope Q doesn't have a bad start tonight to hurt any possible value Eh, teams have 5 years of data on Quintana. One start isn't going to move the needle one way or the other unless he were to god forbid get injured.

It's remarkable how many strikes Navarro costs this pitching staff. Zero attempt at ever framing anything.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 05:20 PM) That would be more than fair, but the Astros aren't letting Springer go. And I wouldn't either. Altuve-Springer-Correa is the best young trio of hitters in the AL. I don't know if the Astros have enough after Bregman. McCullers doesn't really profile top of the rotation. Reed is hyped. I haven't checked their farm, but at least last year they probably had 10-15 B+ prospects in their org. That's not what you want as a center for Sale, but they would buy other players. How does McCullers not project as a top of the rotation starter?

That is a huge get. I wonder if they are shooting for a 6 man class comprised of the current 3 commits plus a PG (Frazier or Scruggs), a big man (no idea) and then Goodwin.