Jake

The only way the Parsons thing can work is if he agrees to not sign the offer sheet until after Bosh signs. That would constitute a shameful loophole that I find irritating the Mavericks will allow to be exploited

You can't sign Bosh if there is a 15 million cap hold on Parsons. They have no cap space if there is a 15 million cap hold.

I see absolutely no way for the Rockets to get both Parsons and Bosh. They'd be way too far over the cap and the offer sheet makes his cap hold enormous

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 11, 2014 -> 01:23 PM) Stein has thrown s*** at the wall all off-season. I don't buy the report at all. If you listen to it closely, he knows he's just repeating the speculation of execs that are out of the loop

In basketball terms (not personal or financial), Wade would fit well

Stein worded it in such a way that it sounds like other GMs think that the Bulls might want to make a move for Wade and Melo

I don't know if the absurdity of the LBJ situation has clouded my judgment, but my gut is telling me Melo to Chi-town for the first time in this process. It's not a Colbert-esque gut feeling, but there's a tingle alright

Don't forget that all this "home town" stuff could pull Melo to NY too

You should read some of the stuff Dwyane was accused of by his ex-wife

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 11, 2014 -> 12:01 PM) Love that people are praising Lebron for doing the "right" thing, despite the fact that he allowed his "friends" to opt out of a s***load of guaranteed money. Bosh is still going to get his, but Wade and Haslem just got royally f***ed. I'm betting that those two get much larger paydays than anticipated now.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 11, 2014 -> 11:56 AM) Broussard just said that one player said LeBron told Melo to come play in Cleveland with him and Melo Said, "I don't even leave the hotel when I'm in Cleveland." Proof he needs to come play with Joakim

I'm still not a big LBJ fan or a fan of the Cavs (especially Kyrie - puke), middle America needs some wins

It's unbelievable how quickly Gordon's season went from on pace to his best ever to on pace to his worst ever. I think he's going to end up where he always does, which is at the very low end of regular starters that didn't play so bad that they absolutely have to be replaced. Maybe he'll get better with a change of scenery, but I hope we can all agree that he's not going to get better with the Sox. He's like any baseball player where he gets hot sometimes and slumps other times, but we know how it will end each year.

It's easy to get into the tent, fork over $5 when it's raining

Player has to be on your team 3 years to get the Bird Rights. If you could lower your salary commitments after 1 year deal, you could go ahead and give him the same max everyone else can, but we won't be able to do that nor will most teams going after such a player

I think the idea isn't that you have to be 100% sure an anonymous source is correct, but that you don't transparently act as a mouthpiece for their opinions

I'm just not following. I could buy an argument that politics generally have gotten too invested in "personal vitriol," but I see no argument for that being something particular to liberal politics. I might say that conservative politics in the USA tends to want to have the appearance of issue-based criticism when it is in fact a veil for personal distaste/disgust/prejudice/vitriol/ideology/etc. Liberals certainly have no problem saying, "that guy right there is nuts"

When you're over the cap, there just isn't anything you can do.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 09:34 PM) Yep. I tell people parenting is 70% awful, 30% amazing. But the 30% outweighs the 70% easily. I think that means you're bad at math

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 01:26 PM) But if Boras had done ANY negotiating on his behalf, going back to college wouldn't be an option, would it? Signing an agent ends your college status, i thought. That would leave what, Independent league? Joliet Slammers? NCAA lightened up on the baseball kids when it became apparent how anti-player their definition of amateurism was. Asking the kids to negotiate multi-million dollar contracts with industry experts with only the help of their parents is just a recipe for disaster. They could hardly access the regulations that governed their interactions with an agent without an agent to tell them what the rules were

Jesus f***ing Christ. What a bunch of lowlifes making so much money. It's a shame that clowns like that earn so much while so many real journalists don't sniff six figures

Please tell I'm not reading that correctly that Dan MacNeil makes 300K a year

Jeter might have hurt his wrist. Yankees are a s***show

Delaying an announcement to avoid people "hating" you for apparently wasting everyone's time after announcing immediately...okay. Complete radio silence even once the moratorium period ends...you're begging for hate no matter what you do

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 04:13 PM) This story right here is what is wrong with American politics in general and liberal politics specifically. This guy should be ashamed of himself. Especially if he has a daughter. But instead, he probably is proud of himself for being a good little liberal warrior. These politics of personal destruction are going to kill us all. You don't have to agree with someone's beliefs, actions, etc., but this constant trying to get people fired or worse is just wrong. Imagine if a Democrat had said this? OMG!!! WAR ON WOMEN!!!! MYSIGNO-WHATEVER-IST!!!! HE SHOULD RESIGN AND LOSE HIS PENSION!!!! Yes, I think this guy probably should resign, but I am not going to start a petition or twitter war about it. If he has no problem trying to get porn about a 17 year old, who knows what he can do. At the very least, I hope his next opponents bring this up at every stop and he never makes it into office. http://freebeacon.com/politics/left-wing-l...ollege-student/ In what way is some weirdo trying to get someone to illegally distribute nude pictures/videos of a woman emblematic of liberal politics? Because he calls himself "left-wing?"