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QUOTE (bmags @ May 28, 2015 -> 11:25 AM) There have been very few changes from successful coach that ended up in elite coach. Collins to Phil, Jackson (if you could call him that) to Kerr. I don't trust Gar to do anything except look up names in an iowa phone book. Lakers did that when they moved to Phil as well. Del Harris had been a very successful coach (massing a .659 winning %)

Nike is going to be in deep trouble.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ May 27, 2015 -> 10:42 AM) Has anybody watched The Last Ship? I caught about 10 minutes of a random episode, it intrigued me. Watched last season and enjoyed it quite a bit. Looking forward to this season (whenever it starts).

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 26, 2015 -> 10:23 AM) My wife and I used to have a DVD player we strapped to the back of our car headrests for our kids to watch movies while we are on long drives. It died about a year ago and we never replaced it. I'd like to get something a little more "modern" than a DVD player. Ideally, I'd like either a monitor I can plug a SD card into with 20+ movies already stored on it. Or, dumb monitors I can plug an iPod touch or Android tablet into. I do not want the monitors built into the headrests. Any suggestions? I havent found anything that I like yet. Do you have an ipad or something along those lines or even just a cheap tablet? Why not just use that and then just have a contraption that works with the seats (I presume they probably exist).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 26, 2015 -> 12:32 PM) If Rose gets hurt again this team as constructed should still make the playoffs and probably be a first round exit in the East. If the front office doesn't get the Bulls a solid back-up, ball distributing point guard who could start in a pinch, then this off-season would be a failure. In fact, I would expect a healthy Rose to get plenty of minutes next to someone who can ease his load and be a primary point guard at times. It is a huge need. There is a time and a place for guys like Aaron Brooks but their is also a time and a place for a real point guard and with Rose's health issues we need that. If we had a decent, league average distributing PG (or even slightly below league average), then I still think this team is a 2nd round playoff team without Rose.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 26, 2015 -> 11:18 AM) The Ray Rice video changed everything for wife beaters. I just saw a neighbor of mine taken away in handcuffs after choking his girlfriend a couple of weeks ago. I would hope that pre ray rice that same neighbor would have still been taken away in handcuffs and presume he would have been. I just think now the tolerance given to NFL players has grown smaller, to the point where people probably looked the other way more when it came to NFL players then normal humans but now the line has shifted to where these issues get more focus then would be from a regular "Joe or Jane".

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 26, 2015 -> 11:13 AM) Because they got burned. If you really think George McCaskey will approve a similar case in the future, I totally disagree, and good for him. I think teams can still win wife beater-free. Depends...does he look at what happened w/Bmarsh and consider that a success or not. Marshall seemed to by and large be a good community citizen with the Bears. Sure he had his issues in the clubhouse but his laundry list of problems went away or seemed to.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 26, 2015 -> 11:11 AM) Predicting it is also a part of it. There is a reason the 49ers cut him. If they didn't think he would be any more trouble, he probably still is with them. I think their is a thing to be said about moving to a new organization. Niners were in a position where they had to act, just like the Bears are in this situation now. The chargers could all turn out to be nothing but poor allegations (again I have no idea) but just as the Niners had to at some point move on, the Bears had to now and no organization is going to touch him now unless he's proven innocent in all situations and even then it is a stretch.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 26, 2015 -> 11:09 AM) I agree the PR is a huge part of this. And everyone seems to be ignoring that yes there are bad guys in every locker room, and some day, when the Bears actually have a shot of winning something, one of these guys will be available to help them, and the answer from George McCaskey will be undoubtedly be no. Happens with big organizations too, everyone remembers things that blow up or don't go well, especially when you make an exception. Whether it is a company that made an exception for someone to work at home and an employee took advantage of it or anything else. People remember mistakes more than successes.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 26, 2015 -> 10:52 AM) It's kinda someone's job to make sure you can predict those things. I'm sorry man, but no one predicts successes 100% of the time. Should every GM be fired for a bad draft choice? If you play with guys who had character issues, you are going to get burned...no doubt about it. If you want to beat up the Bears, beat them up for taking the chance and instead of a stance that they shouldn't take a chance. Don't beat them up because you want them to take a chance but they need to be right 100% of the time they do take that chance. It is an impossible bogie. From an internal perspective, you should do your diligence up to that extent if you are going to take a chance, but you should also know that no matter what, if they had past issues, future problems are a possibility and probably a probability.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ May 26, 2015 -> 10:18 AM) I guess I should have included facility specifications along with scheduling as reasons that the top seed doesn't play at home. Still, my point is that the NCAA does not arbitrarily award regionals to teams other than the top seed. I've been to games too where Fullerton has benefited (a lot of the schools on the west coast struggled to meet those requirements and Fullerton has benefited from this in the past). However, RPI outside of the top 20 and to get the top seed was fantastic for Titans. Nice late season push. They were looking much more like a 2 or even more likely a 3 seed about a month ago.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ May 26, 2015 -> 09:54 AM) Unless you have a scheduling conflict with your home stadium, those two things are a package deal. The top seeds all get to host. Actually the top seeds don't always host. There are certain requirements necessary to host and sometimes the top seed doesn't meet those requirements. It isn't just scheduling. For example, look at where the Santa Barbara regional is being played (Lake Elsinore, Ca, which is nowhere close to Santa Barbara). IIRC, the discrepancies tend to happen more with super regionals then with regionals.

I am stunned the Titans ended up hosting their regional and getting the top seed in their regional. Had a strong finish (similar to last year). Hopefully unlike last year, they can keep riding their hot streak to a title!!!

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ May 26, 2015 -> 07:38 AM) Thompson does not have a long term home in the organization right now, with no path to the majors. I think keeping him in AAA where he can be a force ups his trade value when the Sox need to make a move to address other areas of the ML roster. Thompson plays defense, so he should at least have some pathway to the majors because almost no one in our outfield does it very well (except for Eaton, presuming he gets back to playing D like he can).

I am 100% on board for taking Aiken.

I wonder if the Bulls bring in someone like Doug Collins to help groom Hoiberg and I wonder if Collins would have any desire. If he ever did, I have to presume the Bulls and Reinsdorf would be the one franchise he'd be willing to do it for.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 21, 2015 -> 03:08 PM) I went there hopeful, but Danks' Fangraphs page offers nothing exciting or encouraging. His velocity is the exact same it's been post injury, almost two full MPH lower on his heater, down to 88.4, his peripherals are slightly better than last year, but as he was bottom 5 in qualified starters last year in both xFIP and FIP, simply moving up to bottom 1/3 isn't very exciting. If anything he's now pitching like a decent 5th starter instead of an awful one. He is what he is. I don't think any of the quotes above were about him throwing harder, rather he feels he has better command and is able to get some more of his pitches to the right spot. He also seems to indicate that he might have some different deception based upon the changes (so guys aren't picking up stuff as well). I am not saying whether that is actually true or not, just stating that looking at velocity from fangraphs won't be able to validate what JD is crediting for his improvement.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 21, 2015 -> 12:11 PM) I did the independent contractor thing on a summer job in HS, no taxes were taken out initially but my employment was still IRS reported by the owner and I still had to pay them at the end of the year if income got high enough, so that's my version of it. Yeah, the employer has to 1099 you for anything you make in (as long as you make at least X amount...what that amount is I don't remember anymore). Unless of course they are doing it all under the table (which would be illegal) but that doesn't sound like the case. Their are also specific definitions as what defines a contractor, etc, but I'm not going to get into that either.

I'm sorry...that was on the ump. Harper shouldn't have been tossed. The ump and Williams couldn't finish their argument and then the ump got short with Harper, who had already gotten back in the box and then stepped out because of the continued back and forth between the ump and williams.

QUOTE (shipps @ May 21, 2015 -> 08:15 AM) Wow what a market out there for him. If the Bulls had any real intention of keeping him, I could assure you they would get a 1st round pick. Problem is, everyone knows that he's gone, so Bulls lost all their leverage in this public battle.

Fantastic outing for Johnson.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 19, 2015 -> 12:44 PM) Yes. I was going to say he'll need to have a career to make enough money to support the family. Must be a hard decision. If he's close to making the bigs, he could make a lot of money in a short period of time. If he's not going to make it, better to get going on a real job. But Party City won't cut it $$ wise. Baseball teams should cut out the "clubhouse fees." Embarrassing a billion dollar industry makes the minor leaguers pay for peanut butter sandwiches. The NBA is quite different, NFL too. No minor league. Just join the big leagues out of "college" and rake in the money. He switched from party city to another job, but point is, when you are playing baseball professionally, you aren't going to have an easy time finding a high paying part time position (when you will be gone most of the year). If you read the peace, he switched from party city to a different, more high paying job, and I presume now that he is retiring he will get into a profession that he sees fit. Best of luck Mike!!!

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 19, 2015 -> 01:11 PM) It is funny that these articles are coming out saying the Bulls would be so much better off when Thibs goes, and his offense is so horrible, yet Pau had his best offensive season in years, Butler developed like a #1 pick not #30, they have free agent minimum point guards every year do something. Be careful what you wish for. The Mayor may be a good coach, but he's replacing a good coach. If Thibs stayed, I'm sure, assuming he stayed healthy, McDermott would improve. Mirotic didn't suffer in Thibs offense. They make is sound like the Bulls struggled to get to 70 points. I agree with you. I think the biggest thing is they need to get in a room and both sides need to realize their aren't a better fit and they both need to adjust a bit. I just don't know how realistic that will be given how things ended. It would have been much easier if we made a deeper run. Both sides are at fault in this.

Kendall Gill's take. Interesting comment on Thibs and whether he would command the "respect" of the players. By all accounts, Hoiberg is supposed to have an infectious personality and be a fantastic people person, so you think he would be able to command the respect of the current NBA players.

Stacey King speaks out. Interesting comments and hard to disagree with anything said. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baske...0519-story.html