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It wouldn't have to be a current batting helmet either though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wait why is this monstrosity better than just a hard shell helmet that would look normal. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A one time emergency long snapper who hasn't played football in how many years? What Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Haha nice. Patrick Mannelly will definitely be missed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Where are the pinstripes? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice thing about a sign and trade in the case of Melo is that you don't necessarily have to part with equal value to get the return you seek. Even though it's NY and they throw around money, accepting Boozer back does likely mean luxury tax along with possible repeater tax concerns. So we have to give them something worthwhile probably. Best case scenario they like one of our two 2014 picks as a main part of the package. Thing is we won't be able to directly pick for them. The other possibility is maybe having to accept Felton or JR Smith to aleive some of that salary for them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And probably a draft pick. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I hope they just keep him and try to resign him. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Deng actually plays defense, but still.... Thibs needs just one lock down wing guy for his scheme. The question was also kind of posed with "if we got Love" to be completely fair. If we were thinking going D over O at one spot I think you'd actually have a better argument to chose Melo over Love and keep Taj for D reasons. But Melo/Love still wins. Melo/Love>Melo/Taj>Deng/Love. IMO Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Need to sell Dunleavy for cap space ASAP to give us decent leverage. That'd put us in the $14M range offer which may be enough to call NY bluff and then go the S&T route (and presumably then actually give him more like 17-18). Needs to be wrapped up by July 16 to do a S&T so Boozer can still be involved, otherwise we use the amnesty and go the cap space route. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Taking whatever similarities you want between Vogelbach and Schwarber, a lot of Vogelbachs skill set was based on projection and BP power whereas Schwarber has actual in game, college success and power. Quite a bit different track-record wise. Vogelbach had yet to live up to any power hype. Even when he was "shredding" leagues, I think the power results always lagged behind the power projection. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Man, that's a lot of typing and accurate spelling for a phone post. Well done. Practice. I almost never post from an actual computer anymore, either a phone or tablet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In this instance you are either above the cap or below the cap and to facilitate Love and Melo you pretty much have to operate above the cap. When you operate above the cap, only exceptions allow you to add a player. In this case the salary difference of Deng and Melo is almost guaranteed not to make a difference with the only possible factor being the apron. But the apron won't come I to play here. So I can work out a scenario where I retain just Rose, Butler, Noah, Snell, 2 2014 picks, and Greg Smith, and trade for Kevin Love and his 17Mish salary, that allows me to sign Melo to a deal starting around 17M also (in a S&T) and still have my Bi-Annual exception and Mid Level exception to use, allowing me to sign guys over the cap. (You could also swap Gibson in for Noah or drop one of your picks, etc but this is kind of bare bones salary wise- anything else basically helps with the apron room, but doesn't gain us any further exceptions). So on this scenario if I were to S&T for Deng (has to be S&T), I've opened up no other exceptions. And since I need to be sending out salary, probably lose many of the same pieces as a Melo S&T, so you don't retain anything extra. Now we can also look at the even less realistic scenario where we try to fit Love and Melo operate under the cap. It requires the Boozer amnesty obviously. And whether in the Love trade or salary dumps getting rid of almost everyone. Lining it up, you look like this. Over the cap- Rose, Love, Butler, Snell, pick 16, pick 19, Smith, MLE ($5M), BAE (~$2M), (Noah or Gibson), (Melo or Deng, either in S&T, with enough apron room to get either*) *Possibly you need to choose Gibson over Noah in a Love trade to be able to fit Melo (4.7M cap difference), but that's more realistic anyways. Under the cap Rose, Love, Butler, Snell, pick 16, pick 19, Smith, Room MLE ($2.7M), and $19M (presumably all for Melo or Deng and this other piece). Now of course we can get into semantics of what it will actually cost trade wise to get Melo and Love, but I think the over the cap scenario basically works around Taj or Noah and whatever picks we have for Love and Boozer and some other picks for Melo (hey it's unrealistic, just playing with the hypothetical). But the bottom line is to draw up dream scenarios where we get Melo and Love, to then substitute Deng for Melo doesn't give that cap saving. And in the scenario where you kind of do see that 1:1 cap room is the scenario where you have to operate as a under the cap team- a clearly less favorable option to operating as an above the cap team. Will line up the actual salary figures if I ever post from my computer and not my phone. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Because that would make a better team. You can save what, $3-5 million with Deng as opposed to Melo and use that on someone else. You don't understand how the NBA salary cap works. But even if it did work like that Melo is better than Deng and a $3M player. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good thing we held back all our resources for Tanaka instead of getting a decent OF bat. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He can't sustain that BABIP Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I liked that magical time when greenies were the dope of choice. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Who cares, it's the [expletive] radio, just tell the people Tony Campana is leading off and gets a triple every game. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As a coach? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Don't we want to at least see what a comparable or slightly worse level goalie gets in FA this summer, being this is when the extension kicks in. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He didn't have to reinvent his system just to use his best players well. I used sarcasm at first and stated the opposite. What's not to get? As far as Cutler having a good season he had one good one and one bad one basically with Martz. But unless my memory is failing me his good season with Martz was 2011 where he just went into hero mode and seemed to succeed despite the awful play calling. Or was that 2012 that he had to constantly go into hero mode to overcome Tice's play calling? I feel like it was 2011 because I don't recall Marshall being there as a release. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He absolutely did not have to change it completely. Exactly my point (sarcasm) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He definitely needed to change his scheme completely to use Greg Olsen or utilize Jay better. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes and no. He could have done more with some talent, but he was also pretty rigid in what he wanted, underutilizing a good TE and seeing him shipped off because of it. And he seems to prefer smaller/quicker WRs so I'm not sure I'd give him the benefit of the doubt if he had been given the talent that's here now. He needed something specific that he wasn't given and part of his failure is his inability to adapt. Granted a properly utilized Olsen wouldn't have brought back the Greatest Show on Turf type results, but it may have let him reach Turner level results. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk David's right on Martz, he wasn't the problem at all. The problem or a problem? I'd agree talent was the overall issue, but I have zero faith Martz would be using this group of talent that well either, or any group that didn't fit his mold. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk why would he want a group of talent that didn't fit his offense? I don't know but I guess that means his offense doesn't really have much of a place in today's NFL. Granted there's always going to be certain preferences, but if you want to compete on a regular basis you have to be adaptive to player strengths since talent trumps all. Figure out how to use the talent you have. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't care what Donaldson has become the Harden deal was still a great deal for the Cubs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk