Jake

Yeah, I'm not that worried. This team is really good. Whether it is going to be a top 2 kind of team is up to Derrick

To me, locking down Chicago means that the vast majority of players in Chicago will have Illinois near the top of their list and they will regularly get them...the best of them. The null hypothesis will be that a top recruit in Chicago will "probably" go to Illinois

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Nov 7, 2013 -> 01:43 PM) They are a player the team will not want to pay who are still under team control but not contractually obligated to their remaining salary. Dan Hudson won't be non-tendered. He's far too valuable a commodity for the DBacks. Flowers could be, but there's not a lot of harm in bringing him back considering he's going to make close to the league minimum and is one of 2 "major league" catchers the White Sox have. The most likely candidate is probably Beckham, but in this day and age, there's not a lot of use in non-tendering players because someone will almost always give something for a player like that. Perhaps a marginal player in arbitration years who no long has an option that had a serious injury would be non-tendered to save money (Gavin Floyd if he qualified would fit this criteria). Other candidates are guys that really have no future in the organization that the team will no longer want to pay. This pertains very well to Brent Morel, but there are others as well. Hudson is in the exact same, albeit worse position that Gavin Floyd. He just had a second TJ surgery, later than Floyd did, and has been a decent pitcher for only a season and a half. I don't think that he will be non-tendered, but it would be no surprise because there doesn't seem to be a whole lot to be gained there.

Not a fan of term limits.

I knew I might miss out on the 19 points when I benched Danny Green tonight. I didn't expect to miss out on 4 blocks

We won't be right until Derrick starts acting like a point guard. He needs to make his teammates better. He doesn't do that. Hopefully this is just a side effect of him being so focused on finding his stroke. Getting our post players involved in the offense as they were last year will be a big help as well, but that requires Derrick to do his part as well.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 6, 2013 -> 08:36 PM) White quotient. Yes, it must be his grittiness we need

Why does Kirk Hinrich exist? How does it make sense that he's playing right now?

Not having Butler in the game and not coaching the offense is unconscionable.

Rose still not acting like a point guard, Pacers making everything. Not a good way to win

A foul against the Pacers? Must be a mistake

Gotta love stupid fouls likely ending the game

Dear Derrick Rose and company, Carlos Boozer isn't on the floor to play defense. Maybe he should touch the ball. Sincerely, Concerned fan

Way too much Hinrich on the court right now as we need to score

Derrick, what the f***? Why take it down court, pass to nobody, and take a contested leaner at the free throw line before your post guys get to the post to rebound?

Big Shot Butler

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Nov 6, 2013 -> 08:16 PM) Bulls need to make a trade. There's just not enough offensive talent here. There's more of it there than when they went 62-20 and 50-16 in back to back seasons

Jesus guys, run an offense. It's like we have Lovie Smith for a coach

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Nov 6, 2013 -> 06:31 PM) Those guys definitely had issues. I was blinded by Beasley's dominance in college, but the other two I didn't really like. You can throw in a bunch of 6'9" "athletes" that people take for potential too like Tyrus Thomas or Stromile Swift. It's tricky though because guys with legit SF talent frequently play PF in college (Durant, Melo, Granger, Deng are a few off the top of my head). It just doesn't seem like they are many elite wing players right now, most of the top shot-creators end up at the point right now. Every team would rather have a Lebron/Durant/Harden/George (and probably Melo, though he doesn't always play smart), but if you don't have one of them you probably want a 3-and-D type that blends in. The Knicks could have cap space depending on how things shake out over the next two years. Chandler and Amare both expire after 14/15 (Amare's is technically a player option, but he's not turning down $23 million) and they only have $13 mil committed outside of a potential Melo extension. Who knows what they'll do between now and then though. Someone will definitely pay Bledsoe a ton. On the other hand, the college 4 is quite often really just 3b. So many teams go out there with 3 guards, a small forward type, plus a PF/C (not really many true C's in college, or anywhere)

As opposed to offering insurance

Someone should explain to Marshall about how important it is that black folks took ownership of that word. It's a big part of overcoming oppression. I think it is best if it dies out eventually, but it is a significant piece of taking back your own identity.

I became a highly sought after umpire in my Little League because I was willing to eject the coaches. Sad.

If Martin has indeed tried to kill himself before, it is unreasonable to expect him to start being a tough guy and self-advocating against one of the biggest douchebags in the world. Martin may not have the best psyche in the world to handle the rigor of the NFL, but nobody should have to deal with what he was getting and I'd imagine he would have been fine without antagonists like Incognito and whoever else was involved.

The article I posted in SLaM can provide some insight. There is a lot of good nature ribbing that goes on and reflect genuine affection between teammates. Unfortunately, the line isn't always clear and the "out" player will continue to lower his standard of what is acceptable abuse just to try to impress his teammates. The system puts immense pressures on guys to get along, which can obviously result in great comaraderie, but can also push a guy to take this kind of abuse and empower a huge dickhead to dole it out, unchecked

I wish people who are mentally ill would just get over that s***!