69 thoughts on “November 30, 2013: The Calm”

  1. I specifically took Leighton Baines out of my lineup, but here he is today. I think I got used to Yahoo! auto-save after the drag-and-drop, and forgot to hit "Save" on the EPL site.

  4. since the Cup is fairly empty today, lets make this a de facto Wolves gamethread

    although I gotta be honest, I would rather be doing my original plan for tonight which was going to Mankato and meeting a bunch of ladies.

  5. Love with the mid slide, Rubio fakes and Pek slip down the middle of the key, Rubio to Pek for the layup. Beautiful basketball

  7. the Wild are losing again. Can someone who has paid more attention to them than me tell me what is wrong?

    1. Parise is hurt, isn't he? Not that I know anything about hockey, but he's on my fantasy team and I think it may have contaminated him.

  9. we usually see this sloppy play when the second stringers are on the court, not the starters

  12. I was talking to my brother who just finished up basic training for the Air Force where he took a job playing music. He's in San Antonio and said he will likely play a good amount of Spurs home games, the lucky son of a gun.

  13. No Robbie Hummel tonight? Does Adelman just despise the idea of a deep bench, or is it something else?

      1. I am not as good a coach as Adleman, but it'd be nice if he spent 5-10 minutes a game not worrying about match-ups.

        2. Dalls was running a lineup of a bunch of tall people. in the second quarter, the lineup was Barea, K Martin, Cunningham, Mbah Moute, Gorgui, and it made sense

          1. oh, thats what it was. Adelman's rotation this game was to leave a starter/scorer in the second string. First quarter it was Pek!, second it was Martin, third it was Love then Martin.

            1. I suppose looking at the box score that those starter's minutes don't look too crazy. Probably helps when you can get 25 minutes out of Dante.

        1. It's a difficult pass, so i thought maybe it was just off a little, but the more i see it, the more I'm convinced Rubio put it a little too love's left to move him away from the defender coming back contest the shot.

            1. Yeah, that's the angle I saw last night that made me decide he put it both exactly where he wanted it and exactly where it needed to be.

    1. Iwas thinking, put Gorgui on Dirk. He is long arms and probably has a chance of altering that shots

      also, I want Gorgui on the floor for 48 minutes

      1. Is there some reason why he isn't getting more minutes? It sounds like he's doing ok out there in his limited time, why not give him 10-12 minutes a game?

    2. Goofy-foot hop and I think half the time he lands before he releases the ball. Could be called for a travel on those, but of course that doesn't happen in the NBA.

      1. Eh, I could live with travels like those not getting called. I can't imagine that would give him much of an advantage. Mostly, though, I just love that his shooting arm goes straight up in the air making it look impossible that he could get any forward momentum on the ball.

        1. It throws off timing for shot blockers, since the ball is supposed to come out before that foot comes down, but his release is so damn high and there's so much other goofy crap going on in his movements that it's not going to get blocked anyhow.

            1. It's not like he's the only guy in the NBA getting away with traveling, so I'm okay with it not being called, either.

    1. Ok, sorry guys. I nearly jinxed it. I figured a 10 point lead with 40 seconds to go was pretty safe.

  18. TERRY RYAN SPENDING MONEY

    Phil Miller ‏@MillerStrib
    Philip Hughes has agreed to 3-year, $24 million contract with the Twins, @LaVelleNeal reports

      1. Maybe this is like that situation where he has all this money that he hasn't spent this year and he just has to get rid of it or he won't get any more next year.

    2. I'm trying to not get excited about this season, but I'm getting closer to expecting a halfway decent team.

    3. The Twins might still try to re-sign righthander Mike Pelfrey as well. Pelfrey, 5-13 with a 5.19 ERA in his first season back from Tommy John elbow ligament replacement surgery, wants to return to the Twins, who recently offered a two-year deal for around $10 million. It’s not known if that deal remains on the table.

      And, if that wasn’t enough, the Twins are making progress in their attempts to bring back free-agent catcher A.J. Pierzynski, the person with knowledge of the Hughes negotiations said. The Twins want to bring in players with winning backgrounds, and Pierzynski, who won a World Series in 2005 with the White Sox and played in 14 postseason games with the Twins, brings that as well as an edge in the clubhouse that the club believes is missing.

      1. The telescope has a disc that covers the sun so that we can see what's happening around the sun. The black line is the apparatus holding the disc in place.

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