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Add a zero-contact call to make a three-point play for LBJ

Well there has been one foul called on Kawhi guarding LeBron that was complete BS and one non-call on a LeBron foul on Duncan

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 11:01 AM) So here is my rant. Do people not realize that in a free society bad things are going to happen? That the whole entire point of freedom is giving people the choice to make good or bad decisions. That is what being part of a free country is. So even if I think I am right, that I have the best answers, everyone else in America is free to disagree. I hate f***ing defeatists and their mindless followers. You're fixated on what political theorists call "negative liberties." Negative liberties are the types of things where we seek to be free of outside interference. Freedom of speech is considered a negative liberty because it is a natural right to not be prevented from speech. Some feel the same way about property rights, too, for instance (some think property rights are the only natural right and that all others derive from it). Positive liberties are ones that you lack if you lack the societal structures or personal agency to carry them out. For instance, in 1900, women had the negative liberty to free speech. However, they had no real liberty to speech because they were structurally discriminated against and lacked the agency to make their voices heard publicly. In most discussions of women's rights at the time, people would stress those negative rights; hey, they have the right! Their husbands take their opinion into account when they vote! You can never promise all of the rights, positive or negative. But we do have to consider both. At some point we have to ask, "at what does our right to own guns infringe upon our other rights too much?" You can just say "we have the right to own guns and we have the right to do this, that, and the other thing" but at some point, the 300 million guns around this country might start to interfere with our ability to do this, that, and the other thing. When you know that the lived experience of some of our rights are going to be different from our expectation, compromises must be made. How dear do we hold gun ownership in comparison to other things, like safety? You can see how much we sacrifice other rights, like privacy, in cities ransacked by gun violence. Surveillance cameras on every corner? Photographing every license plate that comes into town? Stop and frisk? These aren't necessary measures if the guns aren't there. But we chose guns.

Sox lineup: Eaton 8 Beckham 4 Abreu 3 Viciedo 7 Ramirez 6 Konerko DH Sierra 9 Flowers 2 Garcia 5 No KC lineup on twitter just yet. Screw them anyway. Get a win today, boys!

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 14, 2014 -> 11:23 AM) I do this now, on my desktops I've always liked windowing everything, I only like full screen on smaller devices where space is a premium. When I do go 4k, it will be that much nicer (next computer upgrade), which is every 3-4 years or so. I had to sell my desktop with QHD when I moved and I'm currently using a mid-range laptop with 1376 x 768 resolution. It was a rough transition.

Why in the hell did the Marlins call up a guy with 38 BB in 25 IP in AAA?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 14, 2014 -> 07:52 AM) As a previous poster said, they give you more screen real estate (which instantly gives them a real world use case), and the sharpness will be there if you look at a close enough range, but studies have shown that an unaided human eye cannot see above 300dpi unless they're holding the screen closer than it was designed to be held. At normal use distance, MOST people wouldn't be able to differentiate anything above 300dpi, that being said, there are people with better vision than others, but for the average person, the dpi's modern devices use are already higher than we can distinguish. My eyes are no longer good enough to see a difference without having to TRY to see it (ie, holding it closer than I would if using it, etc.) I wouldn't mind a desktop with 4k though, because then I can have a billion windows open in their own space on my screen all at once. Yes. I love having a billion windows open

So the Cubs got a reliever who walks 4.2/9, Mike Olt, and an A-baller with a bad shoulder and they "won" the trade? I'd say they need more time to declare that

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 13, 2014 -> 01:31 PM) Cell phones have been like this for a while now -- we also can't see the 400+dpi range they use now on 1080p screens, but people don't seem to care. Any screen below 50" that's 1080p is a waste. I will say that for a while I used a computer monitor that was 27", QHD and it was totally worth it. It increases your usable screen real estate, basically. You can have more properly rendered "stuff" on the same screen. Doesn't really apply to cell phones though

The Spurs aren't necessarily the more talented team but I'd say their overall talent level is generally underrated. MIA has the two best players though and you don't often see teams with two players better than all the other team's players lose.

The notion of a 4K screen on a cell phone pisses me off and I perceive it to be a virtual slap to my face. WE CAN'T SEE THE DIFFERENCE. We will feel the difference in battery life, though. What a waste.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 09:54 PM) Classy Heat fans booing It's okay, they'll all be saying they are Spurs fans soon

God damn it Steve can you please learn the pronunciation of Dayan

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 09:53 PM) It reminds me of Nestor Molina, where his stats were so incredibly bad compared to past performance that you hoped there was some simple explanation for it other than that they forgot how to play the game. In Nestor's defense, he's spent a fair amount of time on the DL and apparently saw an instant degradation in quality of stuff. He also had less of a track record of success than these guys since he'd only been a starting pitcher for one season.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 09:49 PM) Avi seems to be one of their 4 core players going forward with Sale, Q and Abreu. They'll give him every chance to become a solid major leaguer. I'd actually prefer they make him a LF. If this year was any indication, he'll have to be a LF. I don't know how such a solid athlete could look so incredibly awkward trying to catch a fly ball.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 09:47 PM) Good call on Eaton being great on defense...which he has been. However, I still believe if he's your best hitting outfielder, then that's a very bad hitting outfield. As for Davidson, his AAA numbers this year are extremely scary. Not sure what happened to him, but he's basically been one of the worst hitters in the IL since the second series of the season. Eaton needs to hit better. But I also think that the Eaton we eventually get is a player that we wouldn't mind being the best hitter in the OF. Anyway, Dayan is our best hitting OF as of today. I don't know how there's much disputing that. Hopefully De Aza keeps rolling and can make that conversation a little more interesting, not to mention what a more developed version of Eaton ought to do at the plate. Davidson has been troubling, but it's a deal where it's so bad that I find it hard to perceive it to be a legitimate part of his development. If it was more of a .230/.310/.400 kind of line I'd be thinking that maybe he lucked into more production than he deserved last year. With the way it looks, it screams "external factors."

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 09:45 PM) +1 I said this yesterday, but LF, C and a SP slot seem to be the places where there's no one locked in for the future. I wouldn't narrow it down to LF. I think the non-Eaton places in the OF, and it's looking more like it would be hard to displace Eaton as CF, are fair game and we'll actively pursue new options there. If next year is "the" year, I'm not just handing that position to Avisail. He looked inferior defensively to Dayan and he has a lot left to prove at the plate. I want him to get his shot, but I wouldn't move heaven and earth to do it.

Eaton is fabulous out there. I really didn't know he'd be this good in CF

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 09:31 PM) PCL numbers mean nothing to me....ie- Matt Davidson You act like the rest of the league doesn't bat in the PCL either. .381/.456/.539 163 wRC+ (a league-adjusted stat!!) in AAA last season .302/.409/.429 133 wRC+ in AA .332/.455/.492 152 wRC+ in A+ .381/.496/.571 182 wRC+ in R He's dominated every single level he's been at up to this point. His "bad" in MLB looks like 80 wRC+ with a big added value on D that leaves him at least as a solid regular. He struggled coming off the second DL trip of his career and I'm really not that worried about whether he'll kick ass like he has done everywhere else. As far as Davidson goes, you need to realize that him playing bad right now has nothing to do with the legitimacy or even lack thereof of his PCL numbers. His "worst" league-adjusted professional season to date involved him hitting 20 HR and driving in 107 RBI. His struggles in Charlotte are not some poor translation of PCL stats. It's something extraneous. Maybe he's got something personal going on, maybe the coaching staff has him working on something asinine, maybe he's hurt, maybe he's mentally weak. We've already seen the kid hit well in MLB last year and he even capped it off with a great ST this year. I'm guessing he was hit with tremendous disappointment at his demotion and it has gotten him into a funk that he needs help getting out of. Release yourself from the "worst case scenario is the reality" mindset.

The Heat are just such a badly coached team and Pop knows how to use his abundant talent to dissect such a poorly schemed team

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 09:28 PM) Cause he's a mediocre hitter at this stage of his career. The "batted .350/.450 in the minors and is just starting out in the majors" stage? Sure. Luckily, he's a fantastic defender, which I didn't expect when we got him.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 09:27 PM) Why not walk Miggy I do not understand RV? I'd honestly rather face Miggy than Victor right now. I wouldn't walk either to get to the other.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 12, 2014 -> 09:25 PM) It's not good when Eaton's your best outfielder Why?

You're a f***ing idiot Gordon

I take it back. Holy hell is that a miniscule streaming library: http://geeksided.com/2014/06/12/amazon-lau...ify-competitor/ (I wrote this)