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There's never been a legit Rose/Westbrook debate. Derrick was always obviously better than Westbrook, then Rose quit playing, now that Rose is back Westbrook has gotten so good that he's obviously better.

Bear in mind, if running CyanogenMod is part of the draw for you, One+ is likely to push their own non-CM OS to their devices soon due to their squabble w/ CM

We know news reporters will occasionally report inaccurate info, and sometimes it will be because of the judgment calls they make, but we don't expect them to make up stories about themselves. It's kind of like the question of politicians doing iffy things in their personal lives - we only get so much of a chance to know you...and if you're willing to do this, what else are you doing that we can't see?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 03:05 PM) towed? Told?

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 05:49 PM) When you say "no contract", do you mean unlocked? Because on BestBuy's website, I don't see that phone under their "no contract" section. They are all cheap go-phones. They're not unlocked - you have to use them on ATT unless you know how to unlock yourself. You don't have to sign a contract to use them.

Best Buy just started selling no-contract ATT HTC One M7's for $150

I think it was nearly $300 in my Illinois HS about 10 years ago or so

Well that's a rotten contract they gave him

It still wouldn't blow my mind if he carves out a productive career, but he'd had enough chances on the Sox. With that said, he actually makes more sense than Gordon does IMO.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 4, 2015 -> 11:34 AM) Study: You Can't Change an Anti-Vaxxer's Mind Persuasion research is hard to do - at least, if you hope to ever find that someone changed their mind. So, I will say that 1. research will usually underestimate the effectiveness of a persuasive message. But, 2. Research does show pretty convincingly that people with strong opinions about something rarely change their mind, if ever. The goal of someone wishing to persuade is to reach people with unformed or weakly held opinions on a given subject. If you back off of those with strong convictions, you hope that they eventually fall into the weakly held opinion group over the years since they haven't had to defend their stupid ideas in so long.

McDermott has played all of 200 minutes, spread out over 19 games, all with a knee in need of surgical repair. We don't know a thing about him yet

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 3, 2015 -> 05:35 PM) That's my dad. Without fail there is something wrong with his meal and he's 65 with no filter so he complains in the most rude way possible (without realizing he's being rude). I cringe. I've told him before to wait until my food comes to complain. My mom will give really vague criticisms like "I didn't really like it" or "it didn't taste right" that leave the waiter unsure whether the restaurant did something wrong

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 3, 2015 -> 06:36 AM) Not really. He was getting about 10 mins a game on average. It's obvious Thibbs makes rookies pay their dues for a season or so, even if they are a lottery pick. I take those 10 minutes as a huge vote of confidence considering the extent to which we did not need him to play at all at that point in time

In fairness to Thibs, he was giving Dougie some minutes before his injury with the team at full strength. It's probably more about McDermott not being back into midseason form yet than Thibs's definitive judgment on his talent

As a person who hangs out with a few British ex-pats, The Daily Mail has such poor repute in the UK that I can't adequately compare it to an American publication. Something like The Blaze meets the Enquirer

I bought a pack while on vacation this summer when I saw Abreu on the cover of the pack. I tried to explain to my girlfriend the excitement that goes into opening a pack of baseball cards. Sifting through each one, wondering who will be next...

I have a friend who works in a national park in the northwest and she was irate about the Budweiser dog commercial. Apparently wolves are on the brink of extinction because of the false belief that they prey on humans and their pets when they rarely do anything of the sort. She figures portrayals like that will only harm the effort to gain support and stop wolf hunting. Supposedly the near-elimination of wolves in many areas has led to huge deforestation because their main prey (deer) have their populations go relatively unchecked and they just eat all the plant life. QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 2, 2015 -> 01:21 PM) The Budweiser dog one was good, but their commercial making fun of beer "snobs" (people tasting and smelling beer) and basically declaring that "We only want people who like to drink beer to drink our beer!" (or something) was a total turn off. It's OK if people like drinking craft style beers because that is good. People don't need to force piss-swill down their throat to be a TRUE BEER DRINKER. You can tell they're afraid of craft beer, which makes up about 10% of the overall beer market. I think it's smart marketing though. They want to stop the converts by saying that's not better beer, that's beer for fussy assholes. Of course, their policy is a bit confused because they're buying up every craft brewer who will agree. What is crazy, though, is how many craft brewers refuse lucrative buyouts because that's just not why they're in the game. This is an industry where Sam Adams (the biggest craft brewer by far) sold their reserves of hops to small brewers when a drought caused a national shortage of hops that could have put many out of business. My opinion is that the average craft beer drinker's taste is what will put a cap on the industry. Well over a quarter of all craft beer sold are IPAs, and it just isn't a universally appealing beer style. A huge portion of people trying a craft beer for the first time are likely to make it their last if they get a big IPA on that first try.

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After a Friday forecast of 8 inches, we got less than an inch in Columbus. Stayed too warm.

My opinion is that Brady is actually a big dork and that's why I kinda like him

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Jan 31, 2015 -> 09:31 PM) I don't think you will see him playing more athletic than he does now, and we can agree that he's not the athlete he once was. 80-85% perhaps. And at 85%, is he good enough to help this team win? We got plenty of great athletes in the league nowadays, especially at his position. For a player who used to get by with athleticism, having his athleticism reduced to closer to the par of the league is the reason why he struggles to score at times. At the end of the day, he needs to learn to play smarter, not harder. If he still relies on his athleticism to get by, he will hurt this team as much as he help this team. He's always one of those players that you wonder how his game will transform as he ages and loses a step. That point has come for him earlier than he or we would like, now we will see how he cope with his game. I don't really see any deficit in athleticism. It's just a matter of putting it all together, being a basketball player.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 03:29 PM) Eh, I don't buy it. 1) He's done taped segments before (e.g., Kenny Mayne). He wasn't to obligated to do that. 2) his media stunts draw more attention to him. If you really have a disorder you're doing everything in your power to lessen the attention. I don't know 100% if it's true, but it is definitely plausible. For a person with social phobia, standing in front of a ton of reporters with no advance notice of their questions and knowing they may even be broadcasting live is very different than doing a sit-down interview with somebody. Social phobia tends to manifest in situations where the person doesn't know how the social interaction is going to go. He has also stated previously that he worried about how the things he says to the media would make his teammates feel - he said something to the effect that it is hard to take questions from the media without coming off like you're taking the credit for success. In HS and college, he always had teammates step in and take postgame questions from the media on his behalf.

Ug. I don't feel comfortable committing a lot of years to this guy

We have all the tools to inform people, but those same tools can misinform. While some people used to be underinformed, now they have all the information and then some - and choose wrongly. I research communication and science/risk communication is one of the field's biggest growing areas.

Having the basketball IQ to understand what's going on out there while you're hurt is a lot different than doing the right things at game speed. I'm okay with how Rose is doing. There is undeniably a dropoff, but he's playable and we often see flashes of that raw talent that made him special. He still does some stuff getting to and finishing around the hoop that keeps me hopeful that we'll be seeing the awesome version of him at some point in the future.