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The autograph is first ballot stuff. Elementary school teaching nuns would be proud of it. In fact, I bet the handwriting posters in elementary schools are based off of Kaline’s signature.

Time to geographically realign the league.

Anyone remember this: Pistons Considered Potential Suitor For Marvin Bagley III I kind of wonder is it has any legs to it still. We're past the mentioned date of December 15th, but I would have to imagine all of the COVID crap could have thrown a wrench into deal making. But now that the Bol Bol deal came and went, I wonder if Bagley might still be an option, or if the interest just dissipated (from either side), or if the rumbling was just a bunch of hullaballoo. I guess a couple of things to note in the article would be his refusal to enter a game under Walton's watch and the fact that Diallo has gotten splinters out of his shorts since the original article was posted.

I don't know if this is entirely accurate, or if last night's game in particular is just in the forefront of this thought. Diallo does a pretty good job of finding holes in the defense around the basket when not being a primary piece in a play. Its not necessarily always there to get to the basket and await a pass for a layup, but there were several times last night that went to the basket and made himself available. Bey suddenly appears to be a different player than earlier this season. There was a game or two a few weeks ago where it seemed like there was a concerted effort to get him some layups early in the game. Probably a play to get his confidence up and hope that it translated to out beyond the arc? I'm still hopefully that Hayes & Cunningham can become a cohesive backcourt. I know Hayes has not exactly lived up to the hype and the early returns suggest a whiff on picking him rather than Tyrese Halliburton. Hayes won't be someone to build around, but can he still become a good complimentary piece of the puzzle? Last season was rough between his play, the roster, his injury, etc. This season there was the COVID break. I know this is going to sound like an excuse, but that's quite a set of obstacles to deal with as a young player. Like I said, it ain't been pretty so far, but hopefully there's more consistency going forward so that he can develop into something.

Funny how that works out, isn't it?

I dream of trading Funhouser while he’s come off of a decent season.

But the good thing is that the school systems that benefit from these revenues are swimming in plenty of funds.

In my mind, the ref called that foul on ill advised intent rather than an actual physical foul. It didn't appear like there was enough of a "touch" for a foul, but the ref saw what Lyles was doing and thought, "wow, that's pathetic play, pathetic enough that I'm calling a foul on the pathetic attempt itself".

Toronto Raptors (20-18) vs Detroit Pistons (9-31)

Why does this clown get any media attention?

You should have learned better grammar.

I don’t know about Toppin. But your logic on the pick becoming better is reasonable.

Kind of explains why we keep coming back here.

Is he related to NoVax Djokovic?

He left.

I would have voted for most of you fools on here rather than vote for Trump. Trump is straight putrid trash, the kind of decrepit human being that the good book decries, but somehow or another has a following amount the “Christian” right.

The pitch clock has been experimented for, what, 4 or 5 seasons now? They ain’t implementing it. They’ll change the color of the stitching on the ball or some other asinine thing that won’t amount to diddly pooh.

There's too much nonaction in a baseball game, and I would argue that too many home runs are a part of it. I think there are other more significant contributors to the nonaction, but the proliferation of the 3 true outcomes (I think that's what all the cool kids call it these days) has sucked a lot of action out of the game.

It'll be gone by Easter.

It starts with me. I half assed the game thread, I was tired from the back-to-back game threads, I had to flip home & road, and then I sloppily put a picture of players looking squarely at the Bulls' logo. I put this one on me. I need to come out stronger on Friday.

Exactly my point.

They tried pitch clocks in the minors a few seasons ago. What kind of impact has that had on the majors?

Exactly what are they actively doing to try to speed it up? Runner on 2nd to start extra innings? This affects only a fraction of games, and its already taken 3 1/2 hours of step offs, step outs, and scratching to get to that point. 7 inning doubleheaders? Again, only a handful of games, and that experiment is done anyway. They aren't actively doing anything.

I concur.