Haywood and Mike Miller to Portland

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  1. andalusian

    andalusian Season - Restarted

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    There is a $1 store, but there is no $99 store. Just sayin'
     
    andalusian, Jul 27, 2015
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    It's more like this.... it one person has $10 and no more room in their wallet, but they could just throw the $10 away or give it to someone other than me, instead they offer me $12 so they have room to add $10 back to their wallet, and I can choose to throw the $10 away and keep the $2 for doing them a favor. I still have $2 than I had yesterday.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    If you put $1 on a train going westbound that is traveling at 25 mph, and on Tuesday someone puts $99 on an eastbound train that travels at 35 mph, and as the trains go past each other, the eastbound train derails, causing the $99 to be thrown out of the train, how much of that money blows in the open windows of the still-moving westbound train?

    barfo
     
    barfo, Jul 27, 2015
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    That's the sad part. Some folks put a lot of effort into writing thoughtful, fair minded and educational posts. But as soon as their opinions are posted they are savagely and irrationally attacked by a packs of extremist idiots (of all stripes) whose only goal is to insult and demean. But then, that sounds like our current congress......thankfully all the smart, refined people hang out here!
     
    UncleCliffy'sDaddy, Jul 27, 2015
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    14 sailors are traveling around the country on a tour bus owned by an alien that has unlimited access to government funds. 2 sailors are given new orders to join the 14 sailors. Since the tour bus only holds 15, one of new sailors is made to walk the plank without pay.

    The other new sailor is paid out of a secret black slush fund that has already been taken off of the phony audit books.

    To keep the alien quit, he can pick two extra sailors in the future to replace any sailors that get too old or too injured to push-start the bus.

    The question is, does the alien make the second sailor that has been paid from the slush fund also walk the plank?
     
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    oldfisherman, Jul 27, 2015
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  6. BlazerWookee

    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    You can't be serious.
     
    BlazerWookee, Jul 27, 2015
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    Draco Well-Known Member

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    Its a normal reaction; call it a spurned lover if you want but its pretty normal.
     
    Draco, Jul 27, 2015
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  8. Draco

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    If Cavs found 99 dollars and we got 1 who lost the 100?
     
    Draco, Jul 27, 2015
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  9. magnifier661

    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    Absolutely! Aldridge fucked us in the asshole. LBJ is just your pimp. See the difference?
     
    magnifier661, Jul 27, 2015
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  10. magnifier661

    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    Obama
     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I think it's more like someone who has some Euros that they haven't been able to exchange yet. So they give you 50 in Euros + 10 bucks US to put the 50 Euros on a pre-paid card.

    They can use the pre-paid card later, you gained 10 bucks and there you go, you have 2 draft picks in 5 years.
     
    julius, Jul 27, 2015
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    I was moderately happy for Clyde when he got his ring. (Not thrilled but....rooted for him) He gave us 11 1/2 years. Only 2 1/2 years more than LMA, but it feels different. I guess because Clyde was no longer in his prime, our window had closed, and even though he did force his way out of town, it was only after they fired Petrie, which led to RA quitting.

    LMA chose to leave in his prime. I don't hate him, but I will not root for him to get his ring. I will be indifferent if they play the Cav's
     
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    They are both 30+ years old. WTF.
     
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    Doesn't matter if they were 57 years old neither will be on the roster.
     
    Draco, Jul 27, 2015
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    Speaking from experience? Next time, don't carry around the $99.
     
    Denny Crane, Jul 27, 2015
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    Damn straight! He was killed because the robber knew he was a wannabe hipster baller and made them waste their time.
     
    magnifier661, Jul 27, 2015
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    He's posting so he must have gotten out of the dumpster.
     
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    So PA paid 75k for two draft picks. Pretty good...
     
    OSUBlazerfan, Jul 27, 2015
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    You guys just don't recognize how motivated the seller was. The Cavs owner was very, very desperate to save tens of millions of dollars. Olshey bailed him out for only 2 2nd round picks.

    Whether we can trade the picks for something better is irrelevant. The Cavs were willing to pay a lot, lot, lot more if Olshey had held their feet to the furnace. Instead, he settled with them only about 3 days after they publicly put up a "For Sale" sign across the sports media.

    They probably knew that he's in a hurry to go on his South Seas island vacation that he mentioned at one of the July press conferences. It pays for the opposition to study each GM's comments for such details.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    I'm back in the middle of the thread, and there are dozens of comments like these, each with about 5 likes. You just don't understand the concept of not getting full value in a transaction. Do any of you own something you got from your parents for free? Will you sell it to me for a penny? No?


    How anyone can complain about adding assets for free is beyond me.


    Your error is that you think that since the asset we owned had cost us nothing, that we should therefore give it away for much less than we could get.


    We took on a second player the Cavs wanted to get rid of? We paid cash? We only got 2 no. 2s? Just for saving them from their Haywood blunder only, the Cavs were willing to give us a very late no. 1 without the Mitchell & cash bullshit. They announced that in a media campaign, begging for one of 3 teams to bail them out. The other 2 GMs knew the asset was worth far, far more. Olshey may be a talent evaluator, but he's no asset evaluator.
     
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