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someone else asked me about this game the night before (he wanted NO -4 and i tried to talk him out of it)-- i think he said he bet on bodog/boveda so that line was certainly available somewhere.

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01-15-2012 , 03:12 PM

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Francis_MH

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Yeh, Friday night SF was +4 on Bovada because I threw them in a teaser then at that number.

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01-15-2012 , 05:10 PM

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True North

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Well, at least now we can move on to other unimportant things.

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01-15-2012 , 05:13 PM

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Yeti

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i knew me jumping on balt would screw simmons up

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01-15-2012 , 05:19 PM

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wetleg

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I just sent him a tweet to "stop his ****ing whining". You can't win them all.

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01-15-2012 , 05:20 PM

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Francis_MH

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Eh, if he goes 10-1 with this being his only loss that is still extremely impressive.

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01-15-2012 , 05:24 PM

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Phildo

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lol sample size

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01-15-2012 , 08:42 PM

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Pray No More

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Originally Posted by TimM846

lol Simmons logic is so bad, Barnwell owning him.

Simmons's blackjack analogies are so awful.

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01-27-2012 , 06:39 PM

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Francis M.H.

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Very interesting story on a freed slave boxing the English champ in 1810

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...-tom-molineaux

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01-30-2012 , 06:49 PM

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Man, he is relentless with this idea

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To make up the revenue from those lost games, we launch my Entertaining as Hell Tournament — the top seven seeds in each conference make the playoffs, then the other 16 teams play a single-elimination tournament to "win" the no. 8 seeds. This would discourage tanking for lottery picks, reward late-bloomer teams and generate extra interest because, again, this tournament would be entertaining as hell. All 14 games would be televised — eight in Round 1, four in Round 2, then a doubleheader final at Madison Square Garden to decide the no. 8 seeds — over a week as the other 14 playoff teams regrouped and rested up.

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01-30-2012 , 06:55 PM

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nath

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I always love when Simmons asks rhetorically "How come no one else has thought of this?!" and always concludes it's because the establishment is afraid of his ideas, not because nobody else likes them.

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01-30-2012 , 06:58 PM

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Chilltown

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Haven't listened to Simmons in two months and always come here to lol at his bad ideas.

http://www.joerogan.net/

Join the revolution people.

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01-30-2012 , 06:59 PM

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I like the #8 seed tournament, because the best NBA teams are susceptible in a 7-game series to losing to inferior teams that had to play extra games before the playoffs even start.

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01-30-2012 , 10:01 PM

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Your logic is backwards, or I just got leveled. Prolly the latter

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01-31-2012 , 12:27 AM

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i love the entertaining as hell tournament idea...also 1 on 1 and horse for all start weekend

but really came to post that the old english boxer and the bernard hopkins articles were really good I thought

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01-31-2012 , 02:59 AM

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Simmons is right about some things here. The Xmas launch was awesome. When the NBA normally launches nobody pays attention because it's the prime NFL stretch. By the time you get to this time of the year the season's old and not worth trying to catch up with unless your team is really good or something.

Playing so many nights is great too. It's like baseball now. You tune in expecting the game to be on. As opposed to a normal season where I miss a lot of game cuz I didn't know they were playing.

But his stupid tourney will never happen. How good are the ratings for the NCAA play-in game?

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01-31-2012 , 03:29 AM

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Man, he is relentless with this idea

I really wish Grantland allowed comments just to see the epic trolling after he mentions this idea for the 72nd time in the last 3 months.

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01-31-2012 , 09:39 AM

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None of this makes up for the fact the quality of basketball has plummeted and everyone is getting hurt.

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01-31-2012 , 06:59 PM

#1919

T-God

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I don't hate this Souperbowl business.

Corn Chowder all day

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02-03-2012 , 06:06 PM

#1920

wizardplow

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Lol @ simmons coetus pronunciation

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02-06-2012 , 01:32 PM

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i know people here seem to like barnwell, i haven't read much, he does seem way better than Simmons obviously, but these two things tilted me

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If Welker went on to score a touchdown, the Pats would have led by 10 points with four minutes (and one Giants timeout) to go. Only the Cowboys can blow that kind of lead to the Giants. Even if Welker were tackled and the Patriots stopped, they would have been able to kick a field goal and go up six points with about two minutes to go.

Umm, Pats were up 2, not 3.

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From there, the Giants could have chosen to kneel three times, force the Patriots to use their final timeout, and then attempt a game-winning field goal with seconds on the clock without ever giving the ball back to the Patriots.

That's not true, I know it would have been under 20 seconds, but the Pats would have gotten the ball back. In b4, barnwell is better than 99% of sportswriters, stop being a nit. But one of the editors should have at least realized the score thing was wrong

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02-06-2012 , 01:35 PM

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Dudd

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Haha, Grantland and editors in the same sentence. Good joke.

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02-06-2012 , 01:47 PM

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Pats would have gone for 2 though.

Last edited by Pudge714; 02-06-2012 at 01:47 PM. Reason: jk lol grantland

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02-06-2012 , 03:40 PM

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From the SB commercial article. Lisanti discusses the Chevy Silverado commercial that takes place during the apocalypse and frogs rain from the sky at the end.

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The dig at Ford is cute, and though the Twinkies gag is borrowed from Zombieland and the frogs from Magnolia

lol