Posted by scudmissle on 6/27/2014 10:04:00 AM (view original):
haha... you're better than the comics... thanks for the laugh. i will now go out and have a drink, a smoke and ride my motorcycle under a warm sky (if eleibo ever makes his pick) and bless my life and the sweet freedom i have. life is very good here. keep believing in the swill you hear about china. the 1.3 million laowai's (americans here) will drink to your good health, my friend

In China, well at least East China, if you want to smoke just walk outside.  SMOG

Posted by felonius on 6/27/2014 12:36:00 PM (view original):
ok now, so about that trade....

tarheel - Joakim Noah, Mookie Blaylock, Andre Drummond, Carmelo Anthony

what do we think?

I think tar is who I will be facing in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Hey Scud switch Jkaye and my first round picks..

Posted by eleibowitz on 6/27/2014 1:55:00 PM (view original):
Hey Scud switch Jkaye and my first round picks..

yeah I thought that a weird team composition jkay had going on

Yeah- I'd take that 4 over Rodman/Malone every day.  Oh yeah- let's not forget tar has two picks in round 4 also.

Totally. I'm pretty sure all of our 12 man teams are going to beat those 2 players. Dang JH, did you really think you would be able to get by with a total of 7000 minutes in this league?! Should make for some intresting box scores though. Just curious, are you going to play them at the same time and not have anyone out there during the 4th quarter or are going to have Rodman back up Malone and play 1-on-5 for long stretches of the game?

WAKE-UP CALL - WWIII is a ***'n class war, global civil war. Richie ***** & his whore Government's borders mean nothing. BTW - the revolution will be totally televised on FOX NEWS... 

Posted by scudmissle on 6/27/2014 9:43:00 AM (view original):
last point... once you start researching you will soon discover the great suppression of silver and gold prices by the LBMA, COMEX, the central bankers, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and the other too big to fail banks... this was by design so china could accumulate massive tons of gold while cleaning out american and european vaults due to derivatives and bond purchasing (china lending money to america... 1.3 trillion) money that america cannot pay back.

now, the brics (brazil, russia, india, china and s. africa) are in position now to pull the rug out from beneath america... and saudi arabia will no longer be demanding petro-dollars from countries to purchase their oil... they will be dealing with a basket of currencies. this will cause the collapse of the u.s. system 

There is ZERO incentive for these countries to want to "pull the rug out from beneath America." 

1)  If someone owed you a LOT of money, would you want to destroy them financially, thus losing any chance of them ever even POTENTIALLY paying you back?

2)  The economic collapse of the U.S. government would have a HUGE impact on the global economy.  Stock markets world-wide saw a small drop after Dubai's stock market collapse last week (this week?), and they're not even a big player on the global market.  Just imagine what would happen to the world economy if a major dealer like the U.S. fell apart.  It would be disastrous!  Think The Depression.

Posted by postage on 6/27/2014 5:39:00 PM (view original):

Posted by scudmissle on 6/27/2014 9:43:00 AM (view original):
last point... once you start researching you will soon discover the great suppression of silver and gold prices by the LBMA, COMEX, the central bankers, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and the other too big to fail banks... this was by design so china could accumulate massive tons of gold while cleaning out american and european vaults due to derivatives and bond purchasing (china lending money to america... 1.3 trillion) money that america cannot pay back.

now, the brics (brazil, russia, india, china and s. africa) are in position now to pull the rug out from beneath america... and saudi arabia will no longer be demanding petro-dollars from countries to purchase their oil... they will be dealing with a basket of currencies. this will cause the collapse of the u.s. system 

There is ZERO incentive for these countries to want to "pull the rug out from beneath America." 

1)  If someone owed you a LOT of money, would you want to destroy them financially, thus losing any chance of them ever even POTENTIALLY paying you back?

2)  The economic collapse of the U.S. government would have a HUGE impact on the global economy.  Stock markets world-wide saw a small drop after Dubai's stock market collapse last week (this week?), and they're not even a big player on the global market.  Just imagine what would happen to the world economy if a major dealer like the U.S. fell apart.  It would be disastrous!  Think The Depression.

Yep.  The devaluation of the dollar will hurt some areas but will help as well.  For example our debt the weaker the dollar the faster we can pay the debt.  I assure you Europe is a lot worse off than the US.  US may have more debt but % of debt to assets Europe is much higher

Posted by eleibowitz on 6/27/2014 5:46:00 PM (view original):

Posted by postage on 6/27/2014 5:39:00 PM (view original):

Posted by scudmissle on 6/27/2014 9:43:00 AM (view original):
last point... once you start researching you will soon discover the great suppression of silver and gold prices by the LBMA, COMEX, the central bankers, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and the other too big to fail banks... this was by design so china could accumulate massive tons of gold while cleaning out american and european vaults due to derivatives and bond purchasing (china lending money to america... 1.3 trillion) money that america cannot pay back.

now, the brics (brazil, russia, india, china and s. africa) are in position now to pull the rug out from beneath america... and saudi arabia will no longer be demanding petro-dollars from countries to purchase their oil... they will be dealing with a basket of currencies. this will cause the collapse of the u.s. system 

There is ZERO incentive for these countries to want to "pull the rug out from beneath America." 

1)  If someone owed you a LOT of money, would you want to destroy them financially, thus losing any chance of them ever even POTENTIALLY paying you back?

2)  The economic collapse of the U.S. government would have a HUGE impact on the global economy.  Stock markets world-wide saw a small drop after Dubai's stock market collapse last week (this week?), and they're not even a big player on the global market.  Just imagine what would happen to the world economy if a major dealer like the U.S. fell apart.  It would be disastrous!  Think The Depression.

Yep.  The devaluation of the dollar will hurt some areas but will help as well.  For example our debt the weaker the dollar the faster we can pay the debt.  I assure you Europe is a lot worse off than the US.  US may have more debt but % of debt to assets Europe is much higher

For that reason, you can even say China has a vested interest in keeping the dollar strong.

Posted by slymonium on 6/27/2014 2:32:00 PM (view original):
Yeah- I'd take that 4 over Rodman/Malone every day.  Oh yeah- let's not forget tar has two picks in round 4 also.

I'm actually thrilled with the trade. I wanted kemp or T-Mac, but would have drafted alonzo and someone, who as of the start of the 4th round, is still undrafted.

I love Malone and Rodman together using certain seasons. But I am not in this league right now and don't think the same way that most owners here do. In my mind in the this league due to the $47 Million cap I play Malone at Center and then draft the 7 Million version of Rodman for about 38 mpg at the PF position. But there's no way I take the 9 Million version of Rodman at SF for 41 mpg. If you do that there isn't much room to draft good enough players to finish the team. Hopefully, I can get back into this league next season.

there's still that 14-26 o/drb 90 d vers of Rodman 100% effective at SF, 2700+ minutes worth for a pretty reasonable salary but unless you're at the back end of the draft taking someone like Kidd or Russell do you really want to be thinking of thrift shop buys with your first (early) pick?

Felon if the right two guys fall I'll be using the 72-73 "bailout" SF season of Lucas. It certainly isn't 2nd round worthy but for $4.3mill you get 2000 minutes of a clean low usage SF (99%) who is adequate at D (56), can backup the 4 or the 5 if you hit foul trouble, has above average boards at the 3 (6.5oreb%; 17.2dreb%), above average with an efg% of 53.9%; and most importantly gives you another 60-70% of a PG with an ast% of 17.2%.

May still stick with beast version Lucas and use OKC Harden but it all depends on what happens here between now and my next two picks.

Nothing quite like burning a 2nd or a 3rd on a role player, but last time I took Wilt I only had my two high usage players over 26mpg, which of course is the nature of the beast when you spend about 26% of your cap on one individual player and you still need at least another 15,500 minutes with under $35m left.

Nothing quite like burning a 2nd or a 3rd on a role player
 

story of  my Dh52 team this time around plus the typo on the trade had me giving over more than I intended