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I agree, I like the way Westbrook/Harden mesh with Durant better than Rubio/Westbrook. I was in love with him at ASU watching the Thursday night Pac-10 games. Until he sabotaged my bracket by not showing up against Syracuse. At the risk of sounding like Bill Simmons, I really wish I could like the Zombie Sonics. Wow Rubio falls right into the T'Wolves' lap.

So is there no Simmons vs. Ford mock this year?

His younger brother was going to be a senior next year. Apparently he's a pretty good player so it wouldn't have been a playing time/scholarship dispute. Some rumors that the kid wanted to be an assistant coach and Thomas turned him down but there may not be any truth to that. Not sure how liability works in a situation like this, but the shooter was arrested after the vandalism incident and led police on a chase last weekend near Cedar Falls. He was sent for psych evaluation and Cedar Falls police were to be notified if/when he was released so they could process him. They were not, he went free and shoots Thomas a few days later.

It was only a matter of time before he finally did sign with the Vikings. I still don't see how his signing is beneficial to the Vikings at all. In the short term I have doubts if Favre will be much better than either of the other three quarterbacks on the Vikings' roster. Also given Favre's performance the last few years I would be concerned that he will choke yet again, whether it's at the end of the season or in the playoffs potentially. Long term this does nothing but create more confusion for the Vikings' quarterback situation. Not only does this take away valuable time from Tavaris Jackson, but then there will be the circus that will occur next offseason when Favre won't be able to make a decision about retirement. If they don't get to the playoffs this year (maybe even if they lose in Wildcard round), Childress is probably gone and you'll have the same situation he had with the Jets. Then you probably have Sage as the starter in 2010 until the new guy gets his QB. That's one way it could be cleared up. Otherwise you're right. The move is about trying to win big(ger) this year. If healthy, I think in this offense Favre gives them the best chance to do that. I only hope if he gets hurt it's severe enough that he has to sit rather than being able to play through it and stink like last year. If he's out, Sage can be a reliable backup.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4282279 For what's available at 5 and 6 in this year's draft I don't see that as a very good deal for the Wolves. That Roy/Foye deal keeps looking better and better.

Or per Len Kasper like 5 times during the game yesterday.

Getting his hands in and turning on that pitch today was a thing of beauty. And something we rarely, if ever saw from him the last year plus.

Tell me more. Yeah I've got today off also. Was supposed to golf this morning but got rained out. At least I have the Open, Cubs/Indians and CWS all day.

I know the Favre debate has been dead but with it starting to look like a near certainty, here are some projections of how the Vikings compare with or without Favre. AccuScore simulations of the Vikings and NFC North in general: http://myespn.go.com/blogs/nfcnorth/0-12-64/Projecting-Favre-s-impact.html Also had this Football Outsiders projection passed on to me: Football Outsiders' 2009 projections* Player COMP ATT PCT YDS TD INT Brett Favre 337 509 66.2 3,558 27 18 Tarvaris Jackson 274 482 56.8 3,180 21 14 Sage Rosenfels 303 469 64.6 2,968 19 12 * Based on Football Outsiders' regression analysis.

Oh my God how are you guys still arguing the shrewd/marketable/luck angle? It's not going anywhere.

Likewise. I did not anticipate that.

Without a doubt.

Off the top of my head I would say it's Lee. Kevin Love was pretty solid for a rookie post-Christmas and would be in that next group.

Chizik is looking like a total snake oil salesman. He was seriously underwhelming at ISU.

So what? He still should have given the foul rather than letting Dwight dunk on 3 straight possessions. It's not like he was needed offensively or he was able to play Howard with 5 fouls any better than the other options.

Please. At least LeBron's reaction was natural. I'd much rather see that than Kobe doing his creepy MJ imitation that you know he practiced 5,000 times.

So am I. But like Hollinger and Pelton have said we should have seen this coming. Orlando clearly presents matchup problems that Cleveland can't answer or exploit on their own. Defensively they're looking clueless at times which I definitely did not expect.

Vick signing with Oakland in 3....2....1... Or with Minnesota if the Favre thing dies? Childress and Spielman (GM) have publicly said multiple times that they have zero interest in Vick.

Seriously? Here's what I have at this point: 2008 Cubs= fun to watch 2009 Cubs= not fun to watch You also have the benefit of remembering the '08 team as a 97 win team that rolled to a comfortable division title. At this point last year we were in the midst of a 4-9 stretch. We were 6-0 against the Pirates, 13-15 against everyone else. We lost 2/3 to Washington, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Cincinnati consecutively. Looking back and remembering some of those frustrating series, I don't know that we were that much more fun to watch up to this point. As far as runs scored, there was some boom or bust early on. We scored in double digits 5 times at this point last year for 67 total runs. This year we've scored in double digits 4 times for 43 runs. A couple 13 run games and a 19 run game helped earn that high ranking but consistency was still an issue more early on. Then from May 9 to June 4 we went 19-6.

I went through and got all of the difficult ones out of the way first but then forgot 4 relatively easy ones with LSU, Maryland, Georgetown and Marquette.

I suspect you may see some of the same in the Denver/LA series if it's tight. Stern will not be denied his Kobe/LeBron Finals.

No you should still be angry about it. Or at least hate him even more.

Lou, come on now. I try to defend you but there was absolutely no reason to leave Demp in there after 112 pitches through 6. And I'm really trying to be patient with Geo but it's hard when he looks so bad. It's one thing if the results just aren't there but he's looking awful right now. And Braun you're such an effing punk. You didn't even get hit so don't get pissed and [expletive] off about it.

If Favre already has X-Rays of the shoulder then why not just share what his own doctor has already diagnosed? Surely the Vikings aren't the first people to be seeing these. Doesn't make much sense to me... Because an issue like that isn't black and white. It seems they all feel he may need at least some kind of procedure. Team doctors need to see the actual x-rays/MRI's like they're treating a current player. It's very possible that either the Vikings doctors or his doctor would recommend a major surgery in order to play while the other wouldn't. It's really no different than the Cubs signing Milton Bradley and wanting to put him through a physical with their own doctors rather than taking his own doctor's word for it.

When there was no confirmation of anything today outside of that Yahoo! report, I figured this was a decent possibility. Like I said at this point I think Favre can provide more upside in the playoffs than Sage IF he's healthy. In the regular season we're maybe talking 1-2 wins. I just don't want this bit to drag out for a month.