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That really pissed me off to no end. I was waiting for the reveal that he was the brains behind the Claire/Knox/Haitian/Daphne team. No HRG = bullshit. Any guesses who the "big return" is next week? I wasn't sure if they just meant Adam, or if maybe Papa Petrelli is going to make an appearance.

Get in line, bud. I've missed most of this Phillies/Brewers game. Can someone explain to me the story of CC Sabathia pinch-hitting?

Isiah is banned from talking to the Knicks, the Sonics are moving and you still have to go to college. Enjoy. Updated FA list from ESPN. P - Player option R - Restricted T - Team option Atlanta: Jeremy Richardson ®, Salim Stoudamire, Mario West Boston: P.J. Brown, Sam Cassell, Scot Pollard Charlotte: Derek Anderson, Othella Harrington Chicago: Ben Gordon ® Cleveland: Dwayne Jones, Delonte West ® Dallas: Juwan Howard Denver: none Detroit: Alex Acker ®, Juan Dixon, Lindsey Hunter Golden State: none Houston: Carl Landry ®, Dikembe Mutombo Indiana: David Harrison LA Cippers: none LA Lakers: DJ Mbenga, Ira Newble Memphis: none Miami: Blake Ahearn, Alonzo Mourning, Kasib Powell ®, Chris Quinn ® Milwaukee: Ersan Ilyasova ®, Michael Ruffin, Awvee Storey, Jake Voskuhl Minnesota: Michael Doleac, Chris Richard ®, Kirk Snyder New Jersey: Darrell Armstrong New Orleans: Bonzi Wells New York: Fred Jones Oklahoma City: Ronald Dupree, Mickael Gelabale, Robert Swift ® Orlando: none Philadelphia: none Phoenix: Linton Johnson, Eric Piatkowski Portland: Von Wafer Sacramento: Lorenzen Wright San Antonio: Robert Horry, DerMarr Johnson, Damon Stoudamire Toronto: none Utah: none Washington: none Players with Limited Salary Protection Lance Allred, Cleveland (no protection) Billy Thomas, Cleveland (no protection) Brandon Bass, Dallas (no protection if waived on or before 10/1, full thereafter) C.J. Watson, Golden State ($100,000 protected) Mike Harris, Houston (no protection) Coby Karl, LA Lakers (no protection if waived prior to opening day, thereafter $100,000) Adrian Griffin, Milwaukee Keith Van Horn, New Jersey (no protection) D.J. Strawberry, Phoenix (no protection if waived on or before 10/26, thereafter $200,000) Transactions thus far: June 30 Washington re-signs Antawn Jamison to a four-year contract. July 2 Miami signs rookie free agents David Padgett and Jason Richards. July 3 Dallas signs Gerald Green to a one-year contract. July 8 Toronto signs Hassan Adams to a two-year contract. July 9 Dallas re-signs J.J. Barea to a three-year contract. Sacramento re-signs Beno Udrih to a five-year contract. Toronto re-signs Jose Calderon to a five-year contract. Dallas signs DeSagana Diop to a five-year contract. Memphis signs Marc Gasol to a three-year contract. Miami signs James Jones to a five-year contract. Philadelphia signs Elton Brand to a five-year contract. New York signs Chris Duhon to a two-year contract. Indiana trades Ike Diogu and the draft rights to Jerryd Bayless to Portland for Jarrett Jack and the draft rights to Brandon Rush. Indiana trades Jermaine O'Neal and the draft rights to Nathan Jawai to Toronto for T.J. Ford, Rasho Nesterovic, Maceo Baston and the draft rights to Roy Hibbert. Philadelphia trades Rodney Carney, Calvin Booth, a first-round pick and cash considerations to Minnesota for a conditional second-round pick. July 10 Denver re-signs Anthony Carter to a one-year contract. Houston signs Brent Barry to a two-year contract. LA Clippers sign Baron Davis to a five-year contract. Orlando signs Mickael Pietrus to a four-year contract. Golden State signs Corey Maggette to a five-year contract and Ronny Turiaf to a four-year offer sheet. Washington signs Dee Brown to a two-year offer sheet. July 11 Dallas re-signs Antoine Wright; signs Keith McLeod and James Singleton. San Antonio signs Roger Mason Jr. to a two-year contract. July 13 Washington re-signs Gilbert Arenas to a six-year contract. July 15 Orlando signs Anthony Johnson. Denver trades Marcus Camby to LA Clippers for the right to swap second-round picks in 2010. July 16 Cleveland re-signs Daniel Gibson to a five-year contract. Boston signs Patrick O'Bryant to a two-year contract. New Jersey signs Eduardo Najera and Jarvis Hayes. July 17 Minnesota re-signs Craig Smith. Milwaukee signs Tyronn Lue to a two-year contract; signs Malik Allen. LA Clippers sign Kelena Azubuike to a three-year offer sheet. LA Lakers decline to match Golden State's offer sheet for Ronny Turiaf. Utah declines to match Washington's offer sheet for Dee Brown. July 18 Oklahoma city signs C.J. Miles to a four-year offer sheet. July 21 Orlando trades Keyon Dooling to New Jersey for cash considerations. July 22 San Antonio re-signs Kurt Thomas to a two-year contract. Phoenix signs Matt Barnes to a one-year contract. New Jersey trades Marcus Williams to Golden State for a conditional first-round pick. July 23 Boston re-signs Tony Allen and Eddie House to two-year contracts. Minnesota re-signs Sebastian Telfair to a three-year contract. New Orleans signs James Posey to a four-year contract. San Antonio signs rookie free agent Anthony Tolliver. LA Clippers trade Brevin Knight to Utah for Jason Hart. July 24 Golden State re-signs Monta Ellis to a six-year contract and matches LA Clippers' offer sheet for Kelena Azubuike. Denver signs Chris Anderson to a one-year contract. New York signs Anthony Roberson. July 25 Charlotte re-signs Ryan Hollins. Utah matches Oklahoma City's offer sheet for C.J. Miles. Golden State signs rookie free agent Anthony Morrow. Sacramento signs rookie free agent Bobby Brown to a two-year contract. July 28 Golden State re-signs Andris Biedrins to a six-year contract. LA Lakers re-sign Sasha Vujacic to a three-year contract. Minnesota re-signs Ryan Gomes to a five-year contract. LA Clippers sign Ricky Davis. Philadelphia signs Royal Ivey. Toronto signs Will Solomon. New York trades Renaldo Balkman to Denver for Taurean Green, Bobby Jones, and a 2010 second-round pick. July 29 Atlanta signs Maurice Evans to a three-year contract. Philadelphia signs Kareem Rush to a one-year contract. July 30 Atlanta signs Randolph Morris to a two-year contract. Denver signs Dahntay Jones. Detroit signs Will Bynum. July 31 Charlotte re-signs Emeka Okafor to a six-year contract. Chicago re-signs Luol Deng to a six-year contract. LA Clippers sign Brian Skinner. August 1 LA Lakers sign rookie free agent Dwayne Mitchell. August 2 Orlando re-signs Adonal Foyle to a one-year contract. August 3 Philadelphia re-signs Louis Williams to a five-year contract. Cleveland signs Tarence Kinsey. Detroit signs Kwame Brown to a two-year contract. August 5 Miami claims Bobby Jones off waivers. August 6 Charlotte signs Shannon Brown. Houston trades Steve Novak to LA Clippers for the right to swap second-round picks in 2011. August 7 LA Clippers sign Jason Williams. Miami signs Yakhouba Diawara. August 8 Memphis signs Josh Smith to a five-year offer sheet. Atlanta matches Memphis's five-year offer sheet for Josh Smith. August 11 Detroit re-signs Walter Herrmann to a one-year contract. New Orleans re-signs Ryan Bowen to a one-year contract. Atlanta signs rookie free agents Thomas Gardner and Othello Hunter. Charlotte trades Kyle Weaver to Oklahoma City for a 2009 second-round pick. August 13 Atlanta signs Ronald Murray. In a three-way trade, Milwaukee trades Mo Williams to Cleveland and acquires Damon Jones from Cleveland and Adrian Griffin and Luke Ridnour from Oklahoma City; Oklahoma City acquires Desmond Mason from Milwaukee and Joe Smith from Cleveland. August 14 LA Lakers sign Josh Powell. Milwaukee signs Francisco Elson. Phoenix signs Louis Amundson. Sacramento trades Ron Artest and the draft rights to Sean Singletary and Patrick Ewing Jr. to Houston for Bobby Jackson, the draft rights to Donte Greene and a 2009 first-round pick. August 18 LA Clippers re-sign Paul Davis. Philadelphia re-signs Andre Igoudala to a six-year contract. August 20 Philadelphia signs Theo Ratliff to a one-year contract. August 21 Miami re-signs Dorell Wright to a two-year contract. August 22 Denver re-signs J.R. Smith to a three-year contract. San Antonio re-signs Michael Finley to a two-year contract. Boston signs Darius Miles. New Orleans signs Devin Brown. August 25 Dallas re-signs Devean George to a two-year contract. Phoenix trades D.J. Strawberry to Houston for the draft rights to Sean Singletary. August 27 Portland signs Luke Jackson and rookie free agents Steven Hill and Jamaal Tatum. August 28 Memphis signs rookie free agent Hamed Haddadi. New Orleans signs Sean Marks. August 29 Houston trades the draft rights to Patrick Ewing Jr. to New York for the draft rights to Frederic Weis. September 2 Miami signs Jamaal Magloire. Philadelphia signs Donyell Marshall. September 5 Cleveland signs Lorenzen Wright. Going overseas Juan Carlos Navarro (Spain) Anthony Parker (Greece) Bostjan Nachbar (Russia) Carlos Delfino (Russia) Primoz Brezec (Italy) Josh Childress (Greece) Jorge Garbajosa (Russia) Nenad Krstic (Russia) Carlos Arroyo (Israel) Earl Boykins (Italy) Dan Dickau (Italy) Jannero Pargo (Russia) Gordan Giricek (Turkey) Earl Barron (Italy) Andre Owens (Serbia)

Dane Cook lies.

Edit: Here comes the Manny/Bay talk. Ugh.

The playoffs just don't seem the same without TSM's usual cock waving fest between Yankee fans and Red Sox fans. I do love me a pitcher's duel though.

If there is a silver lining in the Josh Beckett injury, it's that Matsuzaka can pitch on the road, where he's been better this season. If the Sox get knocked out, I will happily get behind the Rays and my hometown hero Carlos Pena.

HRG again proves badass. Not looking forward to domesticated Sylar though.

Josh Beckett has an oblique injury. Bad news bears.

24 movie set for Nov. 23.

Mohinder is just terribly unlikable. His only appeal was that he was a regular guy caught up in this mess with dozens of people much stronger than him. HRG does a great job of coming off as a badass in the same situation. Mohinder is just a goddamn pushover.

They do focus on Angela when Andy is flipping out trying to figure out who is gaining weight. That could've been from her earlier declaration that her doctor wanted her to gain weight, but the pregnancy angle isn't out of the question, either.

I once went 28 years without having sex. Then I went another 7. So there. Great episode.

I've supported the Os for about four hours now and I already want to kill myself. I don't know how Marvin does it.

A friend of mine told me the PI storyline was brought in to plug a new Fox show with Weston. Any truth to that?

Fox doesn't stream the episodes until a week later. Don't know about anywhere else.

Still looks great.

The Sopranos.

That really has been the silver lining of Brady's injury. I think Richard Seymour may trump Rodney Harrison this year.

This.

The difference is that McCain is desperate to gain women's votes. Obama isn't. McCain's chief competition also wasn't a woman. It's a pandering move b/c it's reaching out to a part of the constituency that was largely ignored; women were not ignored in the Democratic race. VP nominations are designed to be pandering, political moves. This makes sense. Yes, but even by that standard, this one is remarkable. Welcome to a world where blacks and women are viable contenders. While having equal opportunity for candidates is obviously a step in the right direction, we're seeing the unfortunate side effects.

VP nominations are designed to be pandering, political moves. This makes sense.

Kotsay to the Red Sox finalized. Also a welcome addition:

Hear hear.