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I am excited for new Santigold album. She dropped a single today. Have not heard.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 12:32 PM) Anyone see Teddy Greenstein's piece in the trib? Anyone want to bet that Gar or someone close pushed this piece for the Trib to try and stop the bleeding from the media (who is all up in arms with where the Bulls are) . http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baske...212-column.html Some of Teddy's points are valid and clearly the roster with Taj out was awful, but still. Lets not forget that the 2014 team, had Noah (who was playing studly, but by this point on one knee and getting ready to have a pretty serious off-season surgery) with Hinrich and DJ Augustin getting the bulk of the minutes at the starting spot. That Wizards team was athletic and on the climb and there were some tight games in between. I'd argue the Bulls lost to the better team and I was so amazed that the 2014 team was able to get seeded where it was (given the talent it had or rather, didn't have). To me, it is more evidence that coaching can help a ton with seeding in the regular season, but in best of 7 series, coaching, while still key (due to in-game adjustments) can't out-battle talent differentials like the one between the Wizards and Bulls. Reality was, Bulls couldn't really elevate there game any more and they ultimately had zero scorers on that team at all (I suppose Boozer was the closet thing to a scorer on that squad and he clearly was on his last legs as evidenced by fact he played one more year with Lakers before dissapearing). Did Boozer retire or just decide he didn't want to be a role player (as I'd still think he could easily come off of plenty of teams benches, including, at this point, the Bulls bench). Also remember that Noah entered that series on basically one leg that led to that surgery.

Yes, it was specifically not Hoiberg. I don't know how anyone makes that mistake.

Yeah, that's crazy talk.

It will certainly be interesting but not many players arrive at age 19 as super stars and allow you to get 5-6 years of their prime.

Is your first sentence a question? I couldn't tell with only one punctuation mark. Always use multiple.

Bears have invested quite a bit in finding a serviceable RB. Don't we still have rodgers another year? Langford had position switches in college, I think he'll be fine blocking. The main thing I think you lose with Forte is he was remarkable at the RB position for being able to catch over the shoulder balls. Passes you wouldn't try with our other RBs Jay would throw to forte to take on a LB on a deep streak.

Got it. Thought they just take your word for it. Occupation - "celebrity anti-state rancher"

Hard to remember how dominating Howard used to be. 2009-2011 was a long time ago now.

That's odd, didn't know you needed to prove that.

honestly feels like hahn telling one reporter one scoop and another a contradictory one because its fun.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 07:58 PM) Bob Nightengale ‏@BNightengale 1m1 minute ago The #WhiteSox have been publicly linked to free agent SS Ian Desmond, but one White Sox official said Thursday: "That ship has sailed.'' LMAO this **** is ridiculous. I'm not mad we're not getting desmond but I am mad that I paid attention.

This wasn't really the late night excitement I was expecting.

Well, either way. I have to work late tonight so this is perfect

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 05:52 PM) Wow. Well, he may not have been able to hit those if he didn't have a starting gig.

QUOTE (Tony @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 05:45 PM) Dan Hayes just confirmed. https://twitter.com/CSNHayes/status/697928034154782721 The Sox want this out there. What that means, you can make your own interpretation. Correct. Though, it is just after soxfest. They may have decided to throw Danny some bones this year. Reinsdorf does own part of CSN.

I bet Dan is just confirming that Heyman tweeted.

Do they really though? All of Hahn's recent moves we've known pretty well in advance they had interest. Samardjiza days in advance. Frazier interest for months. Lawrie was telegraphed like a glove. Latos was only "surprise" Peavy to Boston, etc etc

If we didn't use WAR would we know just how useless Avi was?

I'm fine with lower OBP, as he is improving our power considerably (as a whole, we are much improved). Looking at a likely 100+ home runs from our infield with Desmond. We had low obp + low power last year. At least have solved one half of that equation in this signing.

My main problem with qdoba is rice. Their rice is always dry and grody.

Well, I guess the wire is right. The question isn't if they'll make a dumb move, it's when. Kudos to the patience of the law enforcement officials here.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 02:43 PM) I would love a Desmond signing. Infield would have serious power and then you could try trading for an OF piece to platoon with Avi. Couple of random thoughts if this were to happen: 1.) Do you sign him for 2-3 years or offer him a 1 year prove it deal where you recoup the comp pick after next season? 2.) If Saladino is moved to utility, that pretty much makes Carlos Sanchez expendable, right? I think Saladino can cover anywhere in the infield better than Sanchez Depth has been sorely lacking on this team. Having two players with elite defense and speed on the bench isn't something we should just trade for...trades sake.

Falling out of love with this. Maybe 2 year deal with latter being a team option.

QUOTE (2005thxfrthmmrs @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 02:04 PM) Nerlens Noel is the guy I wanted all along. I don't think Noel is a good fit next to Okafor, and if Embiid comes back next year, they'd have a logjam of poor spacing. I wonder if Noel could be had for Niko + first rounder. Noel would be a good fit next to Gasol and Portis. Why would Philly rely on Embiid coming back?