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Wow, just looked at Trumbo's stats. He really hasn't take that step forward at all. He's like a boring Adam Dunn. Might actually be a good buy low candidate.

I'm thinking Bourjos + Kendrick. My feeling is Q or Santiago is too much for just Bourjos. Not enough for Bourjos and just about anyone else.

So, would Howie Kendrick sweeten the pot enough for you? I then become sketpical that Santiago or Q is enough, though. Depends how much they care about losing Kendrick's salary.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 28, 2013 -> 12:22 PM) Goales are like relievers in baseball. Paying them big money is silly unless they are complete monsters and prove it over the course of multiple seasons. This is why I b****ed and moaned about signing Crawford to big money (for NHL salary cap reasons). He's just not elite. I feel like they are like starters in baseball. It is difficult to fathom a player that can be more singularly game-changing and worth the money, but they often regress for no obvious reason and it is difficult to see coming in advance. And while the best are very hard to come by, there is always some guy waiting around that can have a pretty damn good season out of nowhere and at a big discount; so when the regression hits, you have a very cost inefficient goalie situation.

That was the White Sox's fault

The department that houses my specialty at UT-A just got a $50 million gift, so I'll be looking there in a couple years when I'm deciding whether I want to finish my PhD elsewhere. Also, I wonder if Wendy Davis can make the state go blue a little sooner than it probably ought to. There are a lot of women in Texas, particularly in suburban areas, that usually vote R but whose political views match Wendy's more closely than that Republican loon that will be running.

Google Hangouts to start rolling out with SMS integration and other new features today QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 08:58 AM) This. Hell, I'm an Apple guy who uses gmail with cardav and caldav on my iPhone/Macs. I mean, why wouldn't you take the two seconds to set this up, import them and never have to worry about contacts again? No, I don't use iCloud...I have everything in iCloud disabled except for find my iphone. I read somewhere that Mavericks was going to make it more difficult to use non-iCloud services. Is that right?

Just remember that Jimmy Butler's playoff stats happened with Nate Robinson getting the vast majority of minutes and Luol Deng missing games down the stretch. That team was not in a position to win and they still did a little of it. It is far from implausible to think that Jimmy will become a more efficient scorer when you replace Nate Robinson with Derrick Rose and make the rest of the team healthy. With that said, with Hinrich and Dunleavy on the bench, I think Jimmy and Luol will see fewer minutes this year. If Snell is more advanced than other recent draft picks, that's even more minutes to go around. I don't really think Hinrich deserves a ton of minutes, but he'll get Derrick's backup minutes and I think he'll come in for Jimmy at times. I think Dunleavy will also take minutes at 2 and 3. The only way for all those guys to get the minutes I expect them to is if we habitually play small lineups with Deng at the 4. Also, something interesting pointed out to me today is how much of the Bulls team was drafted by the Bulls: PG - Rose (drafted) SG - Butler (drafted) SF - Deng (drafted) PF - Boozer (Cavs) C - Noah (drafted) Hinrich (drafted*) Teague (drafted) Snell (drafted) Gibson (drafted) Dunleavy (I don't remember who drafted him other than it being not-Bulls) Nazr (same as Dunleavy**) Erik Murphy (drafted) Mike James (not drafted) *brought back as FA **from Chicago! You're looking at pretty much all of your rotation players being draft picks, with the exceptions of Boozer and Dunleavy, who are arguably the least important parts of your rotation. That is pretty god damn impressive. Paxson put together a great team with limited use of FA that would be looking like a perennial champ if it weren't for three max contract players fitting onto one team via collusion, douchebaggery, etc. Even with those circumstances, many feel they have a legitimate shot to be NBA champs. Michael Jordan would sell the farm to get Paxson to run his team.

The Bulls have had Derrick Rose in the playoffs one time in the "big three era"

I find Marshall's past to be light in evidence and clearly complicated. We still know practically nothing about why his girlfriend stabbed him in the stomach (was that her only recourse?). There was the "false imprisonment" incident where he wouldn't let her leave the house. There was another incident that seemed very sketchy in that he had cuts on his hands and the responding officers reporting that she looked like she may have been hit; he was found not guilty in the case, but I'm unaware of the details. Brandon has totally owned up to his past and having borderline personality disorder is a very logical explanation. It seems his girlfriend has been willing to work with him as well, which is important to me. By all accounts, Brandon seems to have dedicated his life to atonement. I consider that situation highly complicated and not a cut and dry "he's a horrible person." Meriweather, on the other hand, gleefully and intentionally tries to maim people playing a game. He now seems tickled s***less to harm them in a different way. He's a complete asshole and is drawing false equivalencies. He hasn't (to my knowledge) done anything as horrible as hitting a woman, but his average daily douchebaggery far outweighs Marshall and I don't think he has a mental illness to fall back on to explain why he repeatedly and intentionally endangers other NFL players.

I'd say it varies greatly by school and social activities. I'd say alcohol consumption and being laid are very well correlated, though - even if they aren't always happening simultaneously. Being drunk is the ultimate icebreaker

If you really could have also gotten an HTC One for $100 and also gotten credit for your trade in...then you goofed

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 27, 2013 -> 07:07 PM) No, what's hilarious, again, is that people keep citing "improvement" as some sort of reason to keep him around. The guy is maybe a genius, setting the bar so incredibly low for himself and the program that he may actually convince people to keep him around. We are not just losing games, we aren't being remotely competitive against a terrible Big Ten slate. It's really humorous just how bad they are, losing 3 conference games by an average of 28 games. Barring a bowl game appearance(lol), there's zero reason to go forward with who we all know is the wrong guy by now. It seems like there is little choice as a fan but to disengage. The team, the staff, and the program aren't worthy of close attention. I'll check the scores and I might turn the game on if there's absolutely nothing to do. I can't get worked up about Beckman because the program is s*** and I just can't care. No coach could bring us back in any decent span of time. I just don't care anymore. I hope they decide to do a thing and make it fun again. Get another Juice Williams into the program just so I can see how many receivers' fingers (referees and defenders are fine too) he can break or something. Groce walked into a better situation, but he took it and ran with it. Illinois basketball was such a bummer. While the season was up and down (most will be when you play in the B1G), I hadn't felt so proud to be U of I fan in a long time after that NCAA Tourney game. We played our asses off, maximized the talent on the floor, and arguably deserved a victory. The team was a real team and belonged there. The run in the B1G Tourney was very fun as well. Add the exciting recruitment and I can't wait for basketball to get going. Illinois football has made a habit of minimizing talent, losing its best recruits to discipline and academic issues, and just generally being a giant disappointment. I'm not f***ing with that anymore. I get enough of it with the Bears, who are much more fun.

I heard them call Wong's name as I was laying in bed, about to fall asleep. I started thinking about all the guys they have on the playoff roster that weren't on the MLB roster until late in the season (Wacha, Martinez). I thought, it's great to get all your talent on the roster for the stretch run, but not screwing up their development in the year. But then...I thought, is it bad to replace veterans with guys with such little experience? Then Wong got picked off. Adron Chambers was cackling in his house somewhere. Also, Jonny Gomes hit that home run and I couldn't help but think, "for a team to win a World Series, you need a guy like Jonny Gomes to have a great season for you." Gomes isn't amazing, but the best teams always have guys like that playing over their heads.

Zotero. Zotero. You will forget EasyBib as mere child's play.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 27, 2013 -> 07:57 PM) This post is full of irony. I assume this has something to do with taxes and how some people shouldn't have to pay so much when they don't get as much measurable benefit in return

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 27, 2013 -> 07:33 PM) The vast majority of people lose massive amounts of money on health care. They pay in way more than they take out. That is the entire idea. Most of us give away money. This is why many of us see healthcare as a service the government should provide. In a free market system, the government is the only entity that can/would logically make what would under other circumstances seem to be a bad investment. Nobody else has an interest in providing essential services like this unless the provider benefits more than the beneficiary. This is not the case with the government. Another case is research - research will be limited in the free market to the kinds of research that may ultimately make somebody money. The researcher needs to get a patent or something out of it, or the investor (who, in rare circumstances, is also the researcher) has to believe there can be tangible, financial benefits. I met with prominent European conservative Roger Scruton, and one of his ideas for how the government ought to be involved in "saving the planet" is in research. He reasons that the research needed to truly revolutionize our energy consumption will be lengthy and will be financially irresponsible for any private entity. Further, a planet-saving discovery ought not be privately owned since cheap and wide distribution will be absolutely necessary. Therefore, he says, governments should be granting massive amounts of money to universities to get these things done. To a large extent, that is the entire reasoning behind the public school. The government provides the school because it must be universally available and it is difficult to profit from if it must be universally available. Beyond that, schools (and universities in particular) will move away from their missions of education and enrichment of humanity if they must also turn a profit. There is practically no government support of public universities (and progressively less to primary and secondary schools), causing them to reprioritize budget over quality, but this is the general idea behind public education and why it thrived once upon a time. Services that enrich humanity, must be universally available, and are dubious propositions for profit need government involvement. The single payer system that so many of us advocate even theoretically allow for the best parts of free markets to remain: drug companies still exist and must try to innovate new drugs, most health providers remain private and must compete on their merits and prices (though I am dubious as to whether this is a public good), and consumers still have to act like consumers, yet without extreme burdens for serious illnesses and unnecessary burdens for preventative and maintenance care.

I'm the guy playing against the team with Calvin Johnson. Yuck

Wow, Stafford. What a ballsy play

Well, starting RG3 over Vick seems like a good move so far. Other than that, this has been a tough week in both of my leagues in terms of byes

I think St. Louis Cardinals are the ones who know the most pain. I mean, just listen to them

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 27, 2013 -> 09:43 AM) True. I no longer can track how many days I have worn a set of contact lenses on a calendar, it takes my phone and an app. oh! awesome idea!

Nobody is going to argue that there is bound to be some correlation between income and intelligence, but income is about as useful to measure intelligence as skin color is useful to predict criminality (not very useful)

There is not support for allowing hospitals to deny care - this is because we feel like we shouldn't have the ability to heal sick people and withhold it. Given that, we need to have a better system for distributing care than "poor people show up in emergency room" poor being used loosely here, since many healthcare is too expensive for many people that I would never consider poor

I think if he left his feet on the ground, it isn't called. Craig might have been safe, too, though.