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Quote from: Internet Apex on October 01, 2010, 10:30:34 AM

Quote from: KD on October 01, 2010, 04:01:12 AM

Quote from: Internet Apex on September 25, 2010, 04:40:40 PM

Quote from: JD on September 25, 2010, 10:28:38 AM
I bought it because I need something to read while I'm eating breakfast.  I think KD did pretty much the whole thing.  Awesome job, KD.  I highly recommend it.

Also, KD, if you're reading, why would Carmelo Anthony want to sign an extension with the Nets if they have to start Jordan Farmar and Kris Humphries beside him?  Yeah, Brook Lopez is good, but Billy King is the GM, also. 

Any hope for a lengthy strike or lockout this season?

It's going to be freakin' awesome seeing all those arena vendors and local businesses take that huge hit in a terrible economy. Anything to get more NFL in the top half-hour of SportsCenter amiritebrah? Something to hope for, hilarious guy.

No need to get all asshurt about it.

But some need to reply, to terrible attempt at message board rangolin', right? Unless you prefer to align yrself with those ... "types."

Quote from: JD on September 25, 2010, 10:28:38 AM
I bought it because I need something to read while I'm eating breakfast.  I think KD did pretty much the whole thing.  Awesome job, KD.  I highly recommend it.

Also, KD, if you're reading, why would Carmelo Anthony want to sign an extension with the Nets if they have to start Jordan Farmar and Kris Humphries beside him?  Yeah, Brook Lopez is good, but Billy King is the GM, also. 

To be fair, it'd be Troy Murphy for the first year, but it's a pointless deal for all involved. Likely a terrible deal.

But he wants a contract, before the new CBA hits. The reality is the bad joke, here. Melo wants to sign a contract under these current terms so bad that he'd sign it with the Nets, if he could.

Quote from: Internet Apex on September 25, 2010, 04:40:40 PM

Quote from: JD on September 25, 2010, 10:28:38 AM
I bought it because I need something to read while I'm eating breakfast.  I think KD did pretty much the whole thing.  Awesome job, KD.  I highly recommend it.

Also, KD, if you're reading, why would Carmelo Anthony want to sign an extension with the Nets if they have to start Jordan Farmar and Kris Humphries beside him?  Yeah, Brook Lopez is good, but Billy King is the GM, also. 

Any hope for a lengthy strike or lockout this season?

It's going to be freakin' awesome seeing all those arena vendors and local businesses take that huge hit in a terrible economy. Anything to get more NFL in the top half-hour of SportsCenter amiritebrah? Something to hope for, hilarious guy.

Quote from: Night Man on September 24, 2010, 09:28:49 PM
DPD.  I had the misfortune of traveling through a French-named Hoosier crapville with even crappier collegiate sports clubs, but I saw a Chick-fil-a so I stopped.  Had a huge sweet tea too.  Suck it, Pen.

What, Rensselaer?

That's kind of the joke, but, yea; thanks for making it more broad than it has to be. That's really what I'm after.

Quote from: R-V on February 26, 2010, 11:59:08 AM
More free agent statfaggotry. Ginobli and Tyrus better signings than Amare? Uh, whatever you say, nerd.

http://www.basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=945

Kevin Pelton probably predicts things more accurately than just about any scribe I can mention. Haven't read the piece, yet, but this is someone to trust. Hoops-wise. Not with your girl. Because he'll close that.

Actually shared a 30 Rock elevator with MGMT after getting to go backstage with the Vivino's et al after a Conan taping two years ago.

Fuck this fucking shit.

Quote from: Internet Apex on October 02, 2009, 10:31:48 AM

Quote from: KD on October 01, 2009, 04:17:16 PM
I've lived in Lafayette, IN on and off for years, I write about basketball, and I don't think I've watched a Purdue Boilermaker game all the way through.

To be fair, you write about the NBA. To say you write about basketball is like saying you're in the military, when you actually just hang out in the bushes in front of your parents house in your underwear and stare at passersby with a rifle scope, occasionally trapping and torturing a neighbor's cat for some sick sexual pleasure.

But I get it, you think Big 10 basketball is hella boring.

I think all sports are boring, actually, but they get me laaaaaiiid, bro. Laid.

I've lived in Lafayette, IN on and off for years, I write about basketball, and I don't think I've watched a Purdue Boilermaker game all the way through.

That was one of the best pilots I've seen in a while. Big fan of Dan Harmon, here's hoping it sustains.

Quote from: flannj on August 30, 2009, 05:44:55 AM

Quote from: KD on August 29, 2009, 02:30:26 PM

Quote from: flannj on August 26, 2009, 09:26:44 PM

Quote from: BH on August 26, 2009, 09:14:29 PM
Black Crowes.

Keller Williams, Oct. 17th. Park West.

Like it's a habit, or something. I bartended a show of hers, about the same time of year, same place, back in 2001.

I guess the Steely Dan shows next are still considered "late summer." Because everybody loves Steely Dan.

I know I'm drunk. Are you?

I wish. Just stuck on Getty Images' website for way too long.

Google'd "her," and I remember this "act." What limp wrist was I confusing it with? Either way, the fact remains, and I made no money.

Quote from: flannj on August 26, 2009, 09:26:44 PM

Quote from: BH on August 26, 2009, 09:14:29 PM
Black Crowes.

Keller Williams, Oct. 17th. Park West.

Like it's a habit, or something. I bartended a show of hers, about the same time of year, same place, back in 2001.

I guess the Steely Dan shows next are still considered "late summer." Because everybody loves Steely Dan.

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on August 28, 2009, 02:25:52 PM

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Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on August 26, 2009, 10:29:29 AM

Quote from: Fork on August 26, 2009, 10:06:26 AM
So owners that want to spend money can, and those who don't want to, don't. Again, what's the point in having a cap?

To give an out for those that don't when it comes to contract negotiations.  "I know you want a raise, but I'm up against that darn cap.  Lucky for me, notsomuch for you."

Salary caps are socialist.  Piss on leagues for having them.  Shit on the players for agreeing to them.

No, they're not.  They suck, artificially keeping more of the revenue in managements' hands, but unless the next CBA mandates that every player must be paid within a certain percentage of everyone else (or the same), they're not socialist.  In fact, because it suppresses the earning capability of the working class of the NBA, one could argue that in spirit it is the opposite of socialism.

However, the rest of your point is right on.

Just sayin'.

Under socialism, the government controls prices so that the entire social group, the society, can benefit.  Under capitalism, the market sets the price.  Each spends according to his means and according to his desires.

In a sports league analogy, how is a cap not socialist?

Because the market has set the price, every time.

Every CBA that has been negotiated has been ruled by something called Basketball Related Income (BRI). That is to say, "all the money we done get."

And the representatives from both sides determine, based on market conditions, which side should get a bit more, or a bit less, in order to keep this ship going. Which percentage of the BRI will help a particular side in a particular economy. Because, silly them, markets and eras change, and smart people like to think on their feet and not limit discourse to black/white labeling.

How you could possibly compare a PRIVATE business' practices with an open, free-market economy is beyond me. It's like calling some traveling fertilizer salesman's food per diem "socialist" because it's been determined that 100 bucks a day works for both sides.

And, as been pointed out before, there is no rule limiting the New York Knicks from having a $500 million dollar payroll, even if the cap is (as it is this year) $53 million. They just, as it is with any business in a capitalist system, have to endure the costs and lost money incurred after FREELY spending beyond their means.

Stewart with Jeff Beck Group is righteous. Absolutely brilliant. Two tremendous albums, but "Truth" is just that. Fantastic piece of noise.

Love the Crowes' second album.

Don't get what Humble Pie has to do with the Stones. They don't sound anything like them. Seems like a name people just toss out because it seems like it's supposed to go after "Stones-y, Faces-like, sort of Humble Pie-ish ..." in a description.

Just don't get the link between Humble Pie and the Faces, despite the Marriott/Lane/Mac/Jones thing. Stones either. And this is coming from someone who has just about every Humble Pie album (even post-Frampton), Faces album, and Stones album.