Czech please!

If you give away free puppies, you don't keep half the puppy. Teams should be able to negotiate trades where one picks up some of the cash if that's what it takes to get a deal done, but if a player is claimed off waivers, the waiving team should have no contractual obligations left once the player is claimed. That's common sense. It's not a "great way" to do anything.

¡No mas! The Bible shouldn't have anything to do with this anymore. They're citizens; let 'em marry. If the Catholic Church won't host it, have it somewhere else.

I figured Duke had a good graduation rate. Man, too bad alkeiper can't reverse the outcomes of the games I got wrong today.

The hell? We don't ban or suspend posters for not explaining sports allegiances. Maybe he was distracted and needed time to think of what he wanted to say!

Cowboy Numbers has an hour to draft his explanation!

Cowboy Numbers, you stop dodging the question or I shut your posting privileges off. I'm done watching this.

Oh my God, this "Heart-Shaped Box" video is fucking terrible. There's a crow that lip-synchs. Or beak-synchs. The band is rawkin' out in front of a blue screen where there's an old guy on a crucifix. This is basically a hair metal video.

I didn't even see what was wrong with that. The southern rap stuff, I get, but "Under the Bridge" sucking is perfectly defensible, even if I sorta like it.

Kenneth seeing the world as Muppets was worth a belly laugh. "In English, German, and Polish" was good too. The subplot with Dennis was terrible, but I never liked that character much anyway. Funnier than The Office this week, again.

So I suppose they'd have to play in Lawrence or Columbia, then?

I can't really tell what the hell this team is thinking anymore. He's on a two-year deal, and Reinsdorf is a cheap son of a bitch, so there's probably about a 75% chance we're stuck with this dipshit retarding Derrick Rose's development for another year. Every day he coaches Derrick Rose is a lost day. We'll have watched him fail at important coaching decisions for 82 games. I don't see how another four will change anything one way or the other. What does this even mean? Smart Bulls fans realize losing in the playoffs will do absolutely nothing to make this team a championship contender. The players know they're no damn good too. What did Brad Miller say, "we're just a bunch of guys running basic plays"? Anything about "the race for the 7 seed" is an intelligence-insulting marketing push. You guys are just gonna have to trust me on this one. Please.

This is what really scares me: Vinny Del Negro's work being miscontrued as good. Do you follow this team? He's a joke. Players on the Bulls and other teams have noted his inability to run anything but the most basic NBA offense, and virtually no defense to speak of. He's a straight-up awful coach, and this is not the place to employ a coach with no experience anywhere. It's a testament to Derrick Rose and Ben Gordon--and the fact that there are so many teams that are even worse--that they're not completely terrible. They're just kinda terrible. I want a real coach developing our franchise player, not some dope who was judged so incompetent at coaching fundamentals that the Phoenix Suns wouldn't hire him. Make no mistake: the Bulls are shit. If they make the playoffs, they'll prove it beyond all doubt, and it will do the team no good whatsoever. I'd rather see them in the lottery, where someone who is not John Paxson is very likely to be doing the drafting from now on, and with any luck, a professional coach for 2010. John Salmons is very good, yes, but the problem is that he does everything Luol Deng does and more for a fraction of the cost, and there's no way we can move that huge bloated worthless Deng contract. There's no "decent core" for the Bulls. There's Rose and Salmons. Gordon wants to leave. Deng is soft. Tyrus and Noah are bad. Hinrich is a bench player anywhere else in the NBA, and evidently now he is here, too. No more talk about "the core." That's over.

What good comes from that team making the playoffs? They can't fucking guard anybody.

Helloooooooo traveling Cubs and Cardinals fans.

The Bulls are shitty and have given no prior indication that they can contain Wade. It's not a big game at all.

Montell Jordan- "This Is How We Do It": Legit cool song. Snoop Dogg is a cartoon character for white guys. Warren G. (ft. Nate Dogg)- "Regulate": Legit cool song. Fiona Apple is hot, though. Smashing Pumpkins- "1979": "Heart-Shaped Box" was still in this thing? How? Weird. Onward Pumpkins. R.E.M.- "Losing My Religion": Best use of the mandolin since "The Battle of Evermore." Skee-Lo- "I Wish": I've never seen white trash try to win a Skee-Lo poster at a carnival. Red Hot Chili Peppers- "Under the Bridge": I actually listened this song for the first time since the tournament started. I like it! New Radicals- "You Get What You Give": Finals. I can feel it. (Not like Live.) This is gonna be awesome. Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories- "Stay": Very much a '90s song.

Here we can write justifications for songs that aren't in the tournament, or further discuss ones that are, so that we don't make it harder for Kinetic to tabulate votes by having to read through diversions. Dance music kinda got a raw deal, if you ask me. I'll admit that as memorable as a lot of songs were, there were still a few songs I forgot over the years. I had forgotten fall fabout Fun Factory, for fexample, so when I looked them up on youtube to see which songs they did, and I clicked on this one, my face lit up like a Christmas tree:

Huckleberry Finn is the opposite of awful. Read it again outside the auspices of a high school English class.

Is it "its media arm where she works"?

He pretty much salted the earth as owner of the Expos. Here, read this: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/118868-...-exposnationals

Yeah, what the hell is that? Why should you be responsible for 50%? If you claim a contract, you should get the contract. He doesn't play half his games for someone else, after all. Then you have re-entry waivers, possibly the most ass-backward concept in player transactions ever.

This isn't the '90s thread, you know.

Actually, upon searching, Black Lushus coined the term "serial pillist," not Yuna. Interesting. Actually funnier.

This is the second reference to "Take the Skinheads Bowling" this month, after I sort of alluded to it when Vinny Del Negro cancelled practice to take the Bulls on a field trip to a bowling alley. We should try to make numerous threads with Camper Van Beethoven song titles until it gets obvious and irritating.

Goldengreek, now that it came out (as it were) that "hot young wang" was a scam. Roho's harmless. I bet we could have a fun conversation about sports and music. Without accidentally declaring himself to be gay, he offers nothing.