Hairyducked Idiot
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I believe he'd be a better basketball player, which is what matters.
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brb buying Heat gear, joining fan forum
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I think that leaves them with enough for another max. and there's only one max out there.
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If it's the Knicks and he has any desire to win, it'll hurt him too. The Knicks aren't as good as the Bulls, but they have the means to be better than Cleveland.
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From what I understand, Bosh wanted his S&T max and Toronto didn't want anything the Bulls would offer, so there wasn't much they could do.
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Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks Thread!!!!!!
Hairyducked Idiot replied to chuckywang's topic in Other Sports
Can you guys believe this happened? About once a day I look over at my wife and say "Holy crap, the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup! They are Stanley Cup Champions!" -
Bulls fans not taking this *that* hard. The lack of angst at RealGM is disappointing :(
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Who is slinking? Basketball sucks and I'm only watching if the Bulls are a superteam.
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I'm not really a Bulls fan, so I don't think I'm being a downer. That's just the reality of the NBA: You need multiple elite players to win a championship, with very rare exceptions.
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Not really. It just means it take a little bit longer. Land either Boozer or Lee and you fill a hole right now. In 6 months, you might be able to acquire a nice SG, to fill another hole. Landing Bosh/James/Wade would make the job easier, but there is are more then one way to build a contender. That's a nice, balanced contender that gets slapped around in the playoffs by whatever superteam is active in any given year.
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If you enjoy second-round knockouts and drafting No. 20 or so for years, then that's not a shutout. But otherwise it is.
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I think the Bulls are getting shut out of this, too.
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Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
Niemi files for arbitration. He's no longer an RFA now, if I understand the rules correctly. The Hawks can either take him at the arbiter's salary for one year (or two, but I can't recall anyone ever doing two years), re-sign him to a longer-term deal, or renounce his rights. The hearing will be within a month or so. It's like baseball arbitration in that he gets compared to goalies with similar amounts of NHL experience, so I can't imagine he'd get all that much. Way less than some of the offer sheet fears. -
When a team and organization is as bad as the Cubs are, it's easy to get the two confused.
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The difference in the NBA between playoffs and regular season isn't pressure, it's matchups and effort.
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Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
Right now, the Blackhawks have $3.6 million in cap space plus the $5.9 million offseason buffer to work with. That should be plenty of room to match any offer sheet if they want to. Sure, it might make it nearly impossible to ice a team in the regular season, but their philosophy has always been to keep key players and figure out the cap implications later. So unless a team goes absolutely nuts of Hjalmarsson, I think they match. If it's me, I match maybe even up to $4 million, I like him that much. Niemi, on the other hand, I'd let walk for any 1st and 3rd offer sheet. But I don't know if Hawks brass feels the same way. -
Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
I can't see it. They could probably find a one-year veteran replacement at D, even though they wouldn't be happy about it. But trading Bolland or Sharp just makes the forward lines fall apart. -
Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
Hjalmarsson, a little worried. Seabrook, not at all. He already makes $3.5 million, and the Blackhawks have at least the $4.15 million in dead cap space coming off the books next season, so there's plenty of room to re-sign him for whatever it takes. Unless someone wants to get into four-draft pick territory, they'll match happily. -
My favorite part of this is following it on RealGM. First, there's "Whatever reporter tells us what we want to hear most recently is the only good one. The rest are hacks." Also, there's the incredible dissonance between what the different team boards believe. I mean, I know in baseball, the Cubs and Brewers fans each thought their team was better a few years ago and there's situations like that. But it's amazing how wide the gap is over there.
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Am I the only one amused that the pivotal moments of the NBA free agency are dragging on much longer than they seemed like they should, just like the last few minutes of any close basketball game?
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with the team he has. i said lebron needs more. I know this is going to turn into an argument but.. The Cavs have more than the Bulls do in talent right now. But since there are no NBA games being played in the next few days, that's pretty irrelevant. There's nothing worse for your championship future in the NBA than having a lot of mediocre guys on your roster.
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As they say, for every hot girl you see, there's some guy who tired of f@#ing her. Who says that? First time I ever heard it was Mike North several years ago, coincidentally talking about Tiger Woods and his hot wife.
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Point conceded, my mistake. In case I'm coming off as argumentative (who, me?), I can totally respect if someone feels like the situation is so rare that a rule change isn't needed, or that there's something special about soccer requiring a ball to always go in the net for the goal, or that the player's quick-thinking should be rewarded in this case. I'm just tired of seeing people say "You'd never see X sport give points for a penalty" when they pretty much all do.
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Again, distinction without difference. The relevant portion isn't *why* the act is illegal. It's the fact that an illegal act stopped a score that was about to happen. And no, it doesn't have the opportunity to happen all the time in soccer. Can you give *one* other example of a flagrant handball by the last defender stopping a goal? And as I said, rugby has the same punishment system and still awards penalty tries.