Jake

Love you Wimperoo!

I would have s*** my pants if I ran into Frank Thomas on the train

Bunch of old farts in here. That said, I'll probably be missing much of this one too. Getting surgery in Oak Park at 7 AM tomorrow.

QUOTE (SI1020 @ May 16, 2013 -> 06:28 PM) I could not possibly disagree with you more. You just can't look at as Lee the fearsome hitter vs Podsednik the weak armed slap hitting outfielder. 2005 was the only year in recent and not so recent history that the Sox didn't have an all or nothing approach to offense. Yeah they hit a ton of homers but they got off to that great start with Pods and Iguchi leading the way. Didn't they take the lead in the first 37 games that year? Podsednik totally changed the dynamic and it's no coincidence that they struggled when he started having his injury problems. Like Caufield mentioned the Podsednik trade opened up the other possibilities and fortunately Kenny was at the top of his game. Scott Podsednik is a big reason why I refuse to become a stat slave to WAR. Kenny doesn't make that trade and we're looking at 95 years and counting. And again, Pods out-WAR'ed Lee that year anyway. It got us a ring.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 16, 2013 -> 04:19 PM) Honestly, I am not sure we are much better against the Heat in particular, with Derrick playing. Not saying he doesn't make us better, but there were a lot of times during that '11 series when I questioned whether he was a big improvement considering the way LeBron shuts him down. I know what you mean and I think it is the way we run offense. We tried to do the things NBA teams like to do, run an iso for your scorer in the fourth quarter, and it just wasn't working. Unfortunately, we didn't try anything else either.

This was a good season for the Bulls. A lot of fun to watch, too. This team has more heart without Derrick. Having Derrick Rose on your team is great, but I hope we can take the lessons learned and continue playing a team game. Too often, offensively, it was just everyone watching Derrick dribble. Run an offense and take advantage of everybody's talents.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 16, 2013 -> 08:57 AM) I mean jesus, the entire post I quit life

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ May 15, 2013 -> 11:34 PM) Good to know because he did look good out of the gate but at the same it was only 6 games. First game I went to this year he went 4-4 spraying the ball over the field. I recall some conversation about him gripping the bat too tightly in the past

Grizz continue to be underappreciated....that could change soon

They messed with his hands in ST

Money in my pocket

GAME

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 15, 2013 -> 09:36 PM) Definitely thought that was a goal in real time. Me too.

QUOTE (TRU @ May 15, 2013 -> 09:27 PM) WAR, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. lulz

What a job by Seabrook

BOOOOOM

Time for #GrizzNation #GritnGrind #WhoopThatTrick

FWIW, Pods had a higher WAR than Carlos Lee in 2005

The officiating when you have three "superstars" on one team and none on the other can easily swing things the other way of course

They'd be stupid to amnesty Boozer before next season

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 15, 2013 -> 08:46 PM) Except the bench needs replaced...again. And that's if they pay the tax and keep Boozer. Between our FO and our coach, I'm not too worried about the bench at this point

Seeing this series, I wouldn't say the Heat would have an easy time with the Grizzlies. They are more physical than us

This will be a great series next year. Add Rose, Deng, Hinrich and this thing is a lot more fun.

Noah is tonight's LVP

The funny thing is Butler's look was pretty clean there.