Jake

I'm actually okay with guys going for the money. That means it's a league that I can understand. The Big 3 pre-planning to take less cash to go to MIA just blew everyone's mind

I don't blame him for checking things out. If you've never had the ability to look into other teams, how do you know if your team is the right choice?

If The Decision 2010 is any indication, the choice is always what nobody expects LBJ and Melo to LA!

On the bright side, I still like the Bulls in a Heat-less East

All that non-leaking and he blows his own announcement within hours of it happening by telling some guy who ran to the NYDN?

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 4m Several days ago -- and maybe it's changed since but... -- 'Melo hadn't even been able to reach LeBron James, sources tell Yahoo.

Sign a max guaranteed contract with NY now, get traded later? What kind of plan is that?

There's no use in believing any rumors now

If legit, it won't be hard for Melo to know exactly who that friend is

Marc Stein is full of f***ing s***. Bulls might be out of it, might have always been out of it, but he never knew

The ESPN reporter says a neighbor sent him the pics, but presumably are legit. However, as he said, he might move his cars around every summer

That doesn't look like a super nice neighborhood. Interesting that the ESPN reporter seems to be backing it

Johnson doesn't have to be hurt to get some time off. Does anyone know if there's any chance they're doing some short-term loss/long-term gain kind of stuff, having him focus on some mechanical thing or working on a particular pitch? Has anyone commented on the pitching style he's used in AAA?

If they don't think they can get T-Flow to bat better than the .095 he's been rocking for the past 5-6 weeks, and they don't like Phegley (not much, if any, better offense and awful D), and they think AJ can offer good handling of the pitching staff...I can see it.

Well, if you really want a guy who can outhit Flowers, I think AJ can still do that.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 9, 2014 -> 12:38 PM) let's just take a quick moment to laugh at this: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2013/07/10/k...e-for-bargnani/ The whole deal seems plausible until you realize that the Knicks sent picks along, too. When it was in reality a salary dump for TOR, the Knicks sent extra assets as if they had been convinced they were the ones dumping salary and were lucky to get a player like Bargnani in return. That's good stuff. Did anyone think that was a good deal when it was made?

If Melo is really waiting on LBJ, which I'm a little doubtful about but the timing seems to be syncing, the most plausible explanation IMO is that Melo is going to a non-NY team if LBJ goes to CLE, NY if MIA on short deal, non-NY team if MIA on long deal. I can imagine the Knicks selling him on LBJ's availability once they get cap room

That dude's face and neck keep getting bigger and bigger. I thought he was Mark Salas the other day

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 9, 2014 -> 08:37 AM) lol, i just was gonna let it sit there until it clicked with him It was never going to click

We might also have to deal with the possibility that the city of Chicago isn't appealing to these guys. It may or may not be the case, but you sure never hear about people being interested in the Bulls just because of the city like you hear with NY/LA/MIA

It sounds a whole hell of a lot like CLE at least believes they are in it for LBJ. They're going to feel pretty down if it doesn't work out again

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 05:30 PM) The last part would seriously depend on where you go...there are places I wouldn't want to be -- ever -- and places I love to visit, but I always love coming home. That said, my absolute favorite place to travel is right here, the US of A. This entire study, if it can be called that, is a complete matter of perspective (or lack thereof), not to mention opinion. See, that's the thing. You don't even have to come to the conclusion that everywhere or anywhere else is better, you just benefit immensely from the perspective gained

The best part of the FA frenzy is the hilarious contract given to McBob and the collective BJ he's getting as a supposedly good player. Let's all remember that last year was his best year ever and he scored 8.5 points, 4.8 boards, and 4.3 assists (woo!) on 43% shooting (36% 3PT). Only in the NBA does a guy who has peaked with those numbers, has unexceptional size and athleticism, and has already played for 5 teams get a 4yr/$23M contract

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 9, 2014 -> 07:46 AM) I haven't had any issue with Google Drive on my mac, and they just released a brand new desktop client. It's only shortcoming is that sharing images are not done in-line, so I couldn't link a picture here on this forum from Google Drive like I can from Dropbox. You can share an image from Drive, but not in-line, such as displaying it ON this forum rather than posting a link to the picture. At least, I don't know of a way to do this on Drive, otherwise I wouldn't even need dropbox anymore. I also have little use for Office these days, Google Docs/Sheets and Apple's iWork offering do practically everything Office does, only leaner (IMO, Office is bloated fatware at this point). I've rarely seen anything on an Office Doc that Gdocs or iWork cannot handle these days, and both are free, while Office still thinks this is 1998 and they can charge for it. I'm in a position where my compatibility needs are such that even if I didn't like Office, I'd have to use it. I'm really pleased with Office 2013, though, so I'm okay with it. '11 for Mac is s***e though, hopefully their upcoming update is better as I think about switching to OS X. I also use the browser-based version of Word a lot when I'm using Linux Mint

I'd slowly work in more starts for Nieto. Maybe pick another pitcher whose repertoire he has to master, if that's one of the issues. Get him the right matchups.