WATERCOOLER CHAT: BYNUM PICK CAVALIERS, TEAGUE TO HAWKS, ROCKER SAYS BASEBALL BETTER WITH STEROIDS

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Andrew Bynum has picked a new squad:  The Cleveland Cavaliers.  The Cavs gave Bynum a 2-year deal, and now, on paper, the Cavs have a pretty loaded squad in Kyrie Irving, Andrew Bynum, and #1 draft pick Anthony Bennett. If all goes well, the Cavs could be competing for one of the top seeds in the Eastern Conference.  Great off-season for the Cavs.  However, Bynum could also still be injury prone and sit on the bench the whole year.

Elsewhere in free agency news, it looks like emerging star point guard Jeff Teague is moving on from the Atlanta Hawks.  Wednesday, he signed the Milwaukee Bucks offer sheet.  This raises questions, given that many thought the Bucks were going to stick with their star point guard and team leader Brandon Jennings.  But clearly they didn’t want to pay him a ton of money, so they brought in Teague, who is arguably just as good.  It will be interesting to see where Jennings ends up.  Many teams could use a point guard like him.

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For the past 10 years or so there has been a war on Performance Enhancing Drugs.  Baseball purists love the game, and there is no word more evil than steroids.  Steroids and PEDs led to what many thought should be asterisks in the record books.  Some players were suspended for full seasons for using borderline PEDs.  Basically, everyone wanted them out of the game.  Now, former Braves relief pitcher John Rocker, one of the faces of the steroids era, said that baseball was a better product during that era.  It was a controversial statement, obviously,  but  many do claim that the  home run battle between Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa in 1998 was some of the best entertainment the sport had ever provided.

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