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So, is the long term plan at Espn to have Ben Finfer work with C&J? He's sat in with them several times in the past few weeks. I think he's pretty good at talking sports. I don't know much about him personally, which is usually a good thing with sports talkers. They're generally not as interesting as they think they are.

The NBA would do well to make it an automatic technical for anyone other than a team captain or coach to question calls. As it is, the players look for a foul every time down the court. Its a terrible look for the league. The refs were awful. I think NBA refs are much more inconsistent than any other league. It might just be that Thibs is a classic A->B coach who will burn a team out quickly. (See Doug Collins). If he doesn't win within the first 3 years, the players will get sick of him. His inability to adjust is laughable.

Don't think I've seen the shuffle thread in quite some time. Here goes. Last 6 songs I listened to as I clean up around the house awaiting for the walking, whining and all around goodness of NBA playoff basketballs: A Day in the Life - The Beatles Welcome to Paradise - Green Day The River - Bruce Springsteen Lawyers, Guns and Money - Warren Zevon You're My Best Friend - Queen Drink in My Hand - Eric Church

Whenever I watch basketball, I can't get over the amot of traveling. Not just the Jordanesque extra half step on every drive. The shuffling of feet and changing the pivot foot is what gets me. That, and LeBron takin 2 steps between dribbles.

Hawks are so sloppy with the puck around their own net.

I've bet the triple crown races against my dad every year for 30+ years. It started as a $2/race bet, and it hasn't changed much. We usually each pick 2 horses for this race. If none win, we let it ride. I picked Dortmund and Upstart.

Highly recommend the documentary about Roger Ebert, "Life Itself." Came out last year, but I just saw it last weekend. It's a "warts and all" depiction of him. I was always a Sun-Times/Ebert guy. Pretty rough ending to his life. And I had no idea that Siskel was a stud.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2015 -> 06:34 PM) Dude, there's no "bench" filled with several dozen other guys at Mt. Rushmore. You get 4. 4 names. The granite to the side is literally too fractured to add any additional heads. You only get 4. You do not get super-subs. Carl Everett can stand alone like Crazy Horse down the road.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y20...16358-791823663 I just saw this. Top four players in franchise history will be revealed at the All Star Game.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 08:55 PM) Is there any history of GMs coming out and saying something like "of course we're sending his ass down for 12 days. It gets us another year of control." What happens PR-wise in that case? I don't think what Theo did was wrong. I don't Theo needs to come out and say why he did it. The non-Cubs media should be more skeptical, and they haven't been. They have accepted that Theo doesn't bring rookies up for opening day for developmental reasons.

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 03:02 PM) "MLB needs trumped all." Uh-huh, Len. If Theo says it, it must be true. Because Theo also said Bryant was sent to AAA, in the first place, for "baseball reasons." Yet here he is, just 2 weeks later, batting cleanup for the big league team in his FIRST GAME. Boy, those AAA coaches sure must be great. Kasper's a complete Theo/Jed fanboy hack. Boring. I can't get mad at cubs fans for being excited. Bryant's a rare talent, but the pass Theo gets for sending him down is ridiculous. I don't disagree with Theo's decision at all, but the idea that Theo doesn't bring rookies north for opening day (or hasn't historically) for developmental reasons is a joke. He did it to buy an extra year of control. Again, I don't think Theo should be criticized for sending Bryant down, but let's not act like it was for developmental reasons.

This is Albert and Bernard King, I know that. Who is Cheryl? I got it, but I wasn't 100% certain that I was correct.

Listening to a podcast of Carmen & Jurko from Monday - they had Jesse Rodgers on to do a Cubs report. His segment and the rest of the hour was sponsored by the Cubs. Now, I know the radio show is entertainment > hard hitting news, but thats kind of ridiculous from a journalistic standpoint.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 7, 2015 -> 10:50 PM) You leave me and my Benjamin Button out of this. Although, given my current cooking background, I can assume, after some time, a "handful" turns into a "spoonful," yes? http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=56397 Post #9 - Shoota knows the score.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 7, 2015 -> 09:53 PM) So just walk around with an erection every waking hour of the day? That seems...ok. Thanks, the support of knowing that others are out there really helps. There are a "handful" of ways to change your situation, but based on your profile pic, you might not be old enough for the discussion.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Apr 7, 2015 -> 09:13 AM) James Best. aka Roscoe P Coltrane from Dukes of Hazzard It's crazy that "The Dukes of Hazzard" debuted in 1979. I remember being super excited to watch it. I remember going to my best friend's house to watch it. I remember being in love with Catherine Bach. I was seven. Sometimes I think about just how much I remember from my childhood, and I think part of the reason is that having fewer options for entertainment created a more communal feel to things like TV, movies, and music because we were all consuming the same stuff. Anyway, RIP Rosco. Take a seat at the bar of the big Boar's Nest in the sky.

This kills my ability to see games with any regularity. I could usually count on seeing the Sox a few times a month. Now I have to rely on ESPN and mlb network, and they're virtually nonexistent on both channels. Actually, this probably does more damage to the Cubs since they have a larger national following that depended on Wgn games. Bad timing for Cubs fans out of market.

QUOTE (SnB @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 09:36 AM) I'm starting to lean toward ditching my driver and hitting something smaller and more controllable off the tee. I only play with my irons. I tee off with my 3 iron. Now, I'm a pretty bad player (never had a lesson), but I feel like using irons exclusively helps me avoid the big errors I make with the woods. I can hit the ball really far, but it never goes straight with my driver. By the way, I had a hole in one Sunday. In typical fashion, I followed it with a 7.

These early retirements will probably help the owners to fight lawsuits in the future. They'll be able to argue that the info was available about concussions/injuries, so players played at their own risk. That would put the burden on the union to negotiate long term health care into future contracts. Of course, that means giving up money in now in return for care later.

The Marvin Gaye and PWilliams/RThicke songs don't sound so much alike to me that I would have agreed that Williams & Thicke ripped Gaye off. I would think that an appeal is in order.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 28, 2015 -> 11:41 AM) Any details on the accident Tripped over Carlos Boozer's gym bag.

I thought Birdman was just ok. I liked the acting, but it was a little long. Dragged a little.

Just make it up. Every paper I ever wrote had quotes and "facts" that I made up in it. My own personal Easter eggs. Say this guy had a "cup of coffee" with the St. Louis Browns after the war. Which war? Who cares? Done and done. You're welcome.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jan 25, 2015 -> 09:26 PM) Switch over to the pro bowl to see Andy Dalton...Dafuc? Cutlers numbers were better pretty much across the board. Cutler has bad body language and doesn't look at the previous drive's plays on the bench. He just sits by himself and frowns. Didn't you hear?

QUOTE (Joe B. @ Jan 23, 2015 -> 03:43 PM) Cannot believe how crowded it is here today. It's a blessing for the fans, but a curse for those who are only interested in getting memorabilia signed. Great to see this much hype for the White Sox, haven't seen this in years. Registered in Nov2013 and just got around to posting? Slow typer or writer's block?