Eddielives

MARK MY WORDS!! Killian Hayes will not slip past 6th at the very latest! This Hampton talk is not aligning with anything other than fringe projections.

AHF? He's mediocre on his best day. I've always thought he never reached his true potential but few do. He's sort of the Shareef Abdur Raheem of Hawksquawk.....has had some moments but he's no hall of famer.

Hayes is going WAY before 8th. If Hawks pick 8th and he’s still there, it’s a no brainer. I think he goes top 5 easily.

It's hard enough to watch meaningless games when your team has been eliminated from the playoffs. The only thing I would want to see if the Hawks did play any more games pertaining to this season would be to see the rooks getting more playing time. But I absolutely do not want to see Trae, Collins, Huerter, or Capela go out there for nothing and possibly get hurt for no reason. Bring on the lottery and draft!!!

As much as it sucks, I’m glad teams with nothing to play for aren’t going out there as a meaningless charade. Can we just hurry up to the lottery and draft please!!!

While Edwards may wind up being the #1 pick in this draft, it's FAR from certain that he will. Fact is this draft is lacking that clear #1. So I wouldn't rule anyone out from this poll for it to be more reflective of how the sports world is seeing this draft class.

I don't see Anthony Edwards as an option.

This seems pretty on par with Trump. I'm honestly not surprised at all. And I won't be surprised when his sycophants are too scared to stand up to this lunacy like they would if it were, say, a Democrat president recommending it.

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I'm an AEMT full time so that obviously hasn't changed a bit throughout all this. My side jobs however, one being a maintenance technician for 2 Gold's Gyms are opening Friday but they're at least taking the social distancing very seriously....the front desk won't be open and signs are being put on cardio equipment to keep people spaced out. I don't agree with the owner re-opening but it's a franchise so it's his call. My other part time, chic-fil-a, has went to A and B staffs where you work only M, W, F or T, Thurs., Sat, to keep people apart and of course the inside is closed to carryout....drive thru only. My overall opinion is this is not in agreement with experts in the healthcare field and potentially going to backfire but these business owners are freaking out and willing to take the risk by following our governor's misguided leadership.

Well our state is beginning to reopen......probably a bit too soon but we'll see.

I would caution against the "normalcy" statement. I think it's imperative that people understand that when/if schools reopen in Fall and the vast majority of restrictions on social/physical distancing are removed, we will still, as a society, need to use critical judgment to identify, isolate, and prevent a recurrence from happening. This isn't going away and there's still a lot of time before we will have effective treatments and a vaccine. Best case scenario, our bodies adapt to this virus and it becomes, along with vaccines and treatments, more of a nuisance than the deadly force it is now.

We’re going to have to wipe the slate clean after that statement.

I'm not the most out-going guy, kind of a homebody really, and I limit my activity in social media. I know of nobody that has tested positive yet. However, last week, a fair number of our patients that we transport to dialysis and other doctor's appointments, were in the hospital. No idea if it is covid-19 related but these are high risk people so it wouldn't surprise me.

Results The benefits of acupuncture are sometimes difficult to measure, but many people find it helpful as a means to control a variety of painful conditions. Several studies, however, indicate that some types of simulated acupuncture appear to work just as well as real acupuncture. There's also evidence that acupuncture works best in people who expect it to work. Acupuncture has few side effects, so it may be worth a try if you're having trouble controlling pain with more-conventional methods. This is from the above linked article. A lot of people that go to psychics are really convinced that they were helped by a person with special supernatural abilities. There is no real scientific data that demonstrates the efficacy of how acupuncture works other than a placebo effect(which sometimes is great if it enhances your mood and mental well-being). Some people saying it helped them though is not evidence...at least not good evidence. It is pseudoscience until studies done by real scientists demonstrate the mechanism by which this pre-biology philosophic practice results in real healing.

"Traditional oriental treatments" = pseudo-scientific quackery....and we have plenty of that here too in the west.

Ok. So you work in the field, as do I, and dismiss herd immunity through vaccinations as moronic? Herd immunity can be achieved both ways, but the exposure way is rough and will overload, as it is starting to in places, healthcare systems. I hope you feel better and realize your response was in terms of insulting me, was misguided and just plain rude as hell.

Herd immunity is usually achieved with vaccines ideally where you get the virus in a weakened state with, usually, minimum to no symptoms. Just letting everybody get it would beoverwhelming to our healthcare system and be way worse than the measures being taken now. There needs to be a flattening of the curve to give research time for treatments, medical supplies to be produced, and ultimately a vaccine. Plus, this virus could mutate a strain that gets widely spread and may be worse and need a new vaccine. So as much as it sucks, the social distancing and proper hygiene is really the best we can do for now.

https://samharris.org/podcasts/191-early-thoughts-pandemic/ If you are confused, scared, curious, etc., give this a listen.

So not to be a Debbie Downer here but will I can't help but wonder how Capela feels about coming here. Hopefully, he's a pro about it but we're a HUGE downgrade from Houston. How will this turn out if he becomes a malcontent with our rebuilding and very young core?

So first of all, I know this cheating scandal shouldn't cause me to throw the baby out with the bathwater. But the sport has lost so much fandom and the ratings show it. It's truly sad and honestly pathetic. Yet, I remember with extreme fondness loving my Braves, and baseball, as early as Dale Murphy. My fandom reached it's zenith with the run in the 90's. But that love began it's fade as the disappoinment from the strike, corked bats, hgh, ridiculous contracts(money and length), too long a season, too many teams, lack of promotion of star players, get off my lawn old fogey game commentators, Atlanta's own Joe Simpson for example, and the continued wetting of the bed by those good Braves teams and the team now that couldn't get more than 1 championship. So for a sport that can't seem to get out it's own way, we have the latest. Not to be undersold by anyone thinking they have demonstrated that they are the best at ruining a good thing, MLB says hold my beer. We have proof that cheating on an epic scale happened with reason to suspect other World Series teams may have as well. Boston, I'm talking to you. Not the good ole' fashioned stealing signs from having your guy on second base. We know that's been happening since the beginning. But I just have to laugh and cry a little bit with the latest because what once was such a great sport is a shadow of itself. If they don't strip the Astros of the World Championship, they have very likely lost me and even more fans that they can't afford to lose for good. I was hanging by a string anyway even with the Braves being relevant again.

The Necromancer and Fountain of Lamneth. 2 of Rush's songs that are likely not known by the casual fan but might be, imo, their 2 greatest.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-peart-rush-obituary-936221/ Heavy heart today. What an incredible person and talented musician/lyricist.

Aaaaand he got punked by Marcin Gortat in the playoffs and was justly ridiculed for it. A lot of good those stats did us when it mattered most. Also, didn't we beat a Howard led Magic team with Jason Collins holding his own against Dwight as a huge reason? That's right. I believe that happened too. He was soft as Charmin. Now, I'm not saying the same would happen with Drummond(I like him a bit more than Dwight especially the fact he's not a douchey soft punkass) but they fit similar profiles to me and don't fit in the modern NBA as integral parts of a championship team. It's all about the context. Being good enough to qualify for the Hall of Fame and being part of winning a championship are two different standards. Howard will probably be a Hall of Famer and deservedly so because it's about stats to a large degree.

Stats need context. It's Adams's defensive presence that doesn't always show up as a clearly distinct number or stat. This is the Dwight Howard fallacy. He rebounds and puts up 15ppg so he must be amazing and help his team be a championship contender. Not really. Russell Westbrook averages has averaged a triple double and his team got punked out of the playoffs routinely. Even the mighty Harden hasn't made it to the finals since Oklahoma City where he had Durant(great team player) with lesser "stats." Horford wasn't necessarily a stat guy but the Hawks were much better with him....because he was smart and a good team player with attributes that couldn't necessarily be quantified.