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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    They are constantly saying that LeBron doesn't want to be known as the guy who cherrypicked his titles, so he has to come there and get in on the ground floor with them.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Winnning 5 is always better than winning 3. This is the same logic that makes Knicks fans think it's good that their team is awful.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    At the end of that report, he apparently said, "I think I'm right. At least I hope I am." That sure sounds real convincing.. It sort of makes sense to me, at least, unlikely some of the other rumors.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Imagine if Jordan had ever been a free agent like this?
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    There will be so many awesome reaction threads. I can't wait.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bosh at -500 makes me less excited, because that just doesn't seem like it could possibly be right. Miami at +400 looks like a steal.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Saw it on RealGM.com first, but betting odds on LeBron have shifted dramatically in the last 24 hours, and the Bulls are now -500 to get him. That's got to be inside information, there's no way money shifted toward Chicago that quickly.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    I can just picture the front office celebrating and acting relieved now. We have found it. We've found our scapegoat. Everything is back to normal.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I've been following this so closely for a few weeks now that I want to follow them no matter what. But I say that every offseason and then I realize in the fall that I have to actually watch basketball games to be a Bulls fan.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Throw absolves Howard of a lot, imo.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ladd is all that's left, I think. Hendry is eligible for one but not expected to receive one.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hjalmarsson has been qualified, the Hawks retain his RFA rights.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Honestly, that's a very par result given the quality of the U.S. team and who we faced. It's not good or bad, it's just who we are. Based on who we should have beat, should have lost to and could have gone either way, we should have gone 2-1-1 with wins over Slovenia and Algeria, loss to England and draw with Ghana....but since we played Ghana in the knockout round, we should have beaten them so 3-1-0 The U.S. isn't good enough to say we "should" get three wins in four games against WC-quality international teams. Yes, individually, a win had the plurality of the odds in each of those three games. But that's like saying the best team in every sport "should" go undefeated, because they "should" win every game. Two wins out of the four is par, and since we really did beat Slovenia, I'd say we were who we are. It's exciting to see the U.S. show that they can score goals consistently at this level. Past U.S. teams were the Nashville Predators, this team looked more like the playoff Flyers.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Honestly, that's a very par result given the quality of the U.S. team and who we faced. It's not good or bad, it's just who we are.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    1 Do you call that a perfect shot or hate him for almost missing? :)
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    If you go to hfboards.com, they have a trade rumors and transactions forum, and there's a sticky there for the Blackhawks cap situation, the last few pages are talking about this possibility. Apparently it was discussed on Chicago sports radio today. I e-mailed the Herald beat writer asking him to see if he'd ask about this and address it. Drives me nuts that the stuff the hardcore fans are talking about never gets reported.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes. Even under that scenario, we'd have to lose Huet.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Bowman statement about being fine for the cap didn't make sense this morning, until I went over to hfboards.com. There's a guy over there saying the rumor is that the Blackhawks get to retroactively apply the cap exemptions from long-term injuries to the bonus cushion hit. So basically you can remove a guy with a long-term injury from your cap calculation for the duration that he's hurt, and the Blackhawks had about $4 million in cap hits last season fall under the long-term injury exception, and they can now use that to cover almost all of the amount they were over for Toews and Kane's bonus. If all that is true, then the capocalypse is officially cancelled and we lose just Byfuglien, Ladd, Sopel and some fourth liners. Fantastic.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm starting to fall behind on this stuff, it's hard to keep up. But apparently, the NHL CBA was extended and this means the bonus cushion is back for next year. Teams can get a little free cap room for players on ELCs who have bonuses that must count against the cap even if they aren't likely to be reached. That means Kyle Beach's cap hit next year is effectively $325,000 lower. I think that's the only guy on an ELC likely to make the team, but there's a couple defensemen that would have a chance and would now have effective cap hits a few hundred thousand lower. The cap crunch is starting to show a little bit of easing, things looking better and better for next year. The worst-case scenarios definitely are not materializing. Niemi has been qualified, meaning the Hawks retain his RFA rights. Ladd apparently has not yet, and no word on Hjalmarsson, but the deadline isn't until Monday. And who would ever screw up the deadline on players they intended to qualify? No one would be that dumb...
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    what did you say? I just said "yeah." No point.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    This is why I hate when people try to talk sports with me at work. Woman at front desk: "My son was a huge Michael Jordan fan, you never heard of him out womanizing."
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Being decent in the NBA sucks. I want to be a true championship contender or have the most lottery balls if I'm an NBA GM. Nothing in between.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Here's from their latest organizational rankings: I don't think we'll be want to move up in the draft. From what I understand, after the first 8-12 picks, there's pretty much a flat pool of players until late in the second round. We aren't getting into the top tier, and there's no point moving further up in the second tier.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    hockeysfuture.com does a good job keeping track of that. The Blackhawks have promoted a lot of top-end talent in recent years, so they're now more middle of the pack. They have a ton of depth of prospects, but not really any impact players. Which is fine, because they don't need them.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's pretty awful writing to put those in quotation marks and not have them be real quotes. That's just sloppy ethics.
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