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QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 12:03 PM) To be fair, while we have swung and missed at big-name players in the past (FWIW, Melo openly said he wishes he came to the Bulls last year), there was no way we could have signed Aldridge this year. Noah-Gasol-Gibson-Miroric-Portis is already a logjam. Say we get rid of Gibson to make room for him, we'd have an even bigger problem, as Gasol-Aldridge is the best duo, but Noah probably wants to start and Niko will develop best with starter minutes. I'm not saying we could have this year, nor are we set-up to add another PF and have it be a good move. But since 2010, we've had all of these plans to get these star players. It would be one thing if they never switched teams, but they have, and we didn't get them. And we aren't going to get Durant. But also, and this isn't specifically at you, but the Bulls are responsible for the makeup of their team beyond one year. That they were not able to add a star player because they didn't have the pieces or the money, that is their fault. Other teams, playoff teams, were able to successfully add FA/Trades for stars. The bulls haven't because frankly they don't want to.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 10:50 AM) I didn't realize that happened this offseason. This year we didn't shoot for anything big, but the LeMarcus Aldridge bulls rumors have been around for years. The Kevin Love rumors had always been around. Melo rumors. Lebron. Wade going home. Etc etc. All those players have switched teams now except Wade...and none ended up on Bulls.

Do people view TVR as an actual piece on defense or just replaceable depth.

Yeah I guess I'm not excited about this year at all. I'm intrigued by Hoiberg, but it's still so maddening to me that the Bulls keep having these elaborate offseason plays to get another star player, and then the other top teams just run circles around them in doing so. Spurs are loaded. Cavs are loaded. Not sure what our purpose is as a team.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 10:02 AM) I still don't dislike Emery. Did he make a bad coaching hire? Yes. But otherwise, I honestly liked what he was doing. The defense aging and declining so quickly was something any GM would have struggled with. I don't have anything against Pace thus far, but Emery just went down with a bad coaching hire. He drafted 3 (one a punter) good starters in 3 years when we desparately needed to infuse younger talent. That was supposedly his strength.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 09:55 AM) There was some pretty awful QB play this weekend. I know a lot of it was because of injury, but it was hard to watch. Honestly, I think it's the crap offensive line play league wide. Peyton is now behind garbage, wilson behind garbage, Newton behind garbage, etc etc. Then Brandon Weeden looks good behind the leagues best o line.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 09:38 AM) \I can't wait to hear that Derrick Rose is in the best shape of his life and feeling better than he has since pre-surgery! I would be really happy to hear this about Noah, though.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 09:12 AM) Eh, maybe. They've been fairly competitive when Jay has been out there. Lost to the Pack by 8 and trailed at the half by 8 to AZ. Those are 2 damn good teams. Yeah but the whole cutting tim jennings, leaving 7 million of cap space available with players like evan mathis around, just seems like they were not too concerned on this year.

Maty Mauk has been 2014 Jeff Driskel territory and lost like 10 players last game. Sigh, reload year. Nice thing is this ridiculous freshman defensive line. But I don't get how our offensive line regressed.

I honestly think the bears are tanking. I think they took over, realized they could do nothing about Jay and all of their major talent was 4-3 pieces too expensive to get rid of and are going to take it on the chin next year and then enter next year with cap space galore and a high draft pick.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 26, 2015 -> 06:42 PM) Some might recall during one of the budget fights when Joe Biden got together with Lindsey Graham and some other top Republicans to hammer out a workable deal. And they did. That's because those guys have been in the game for a long time and know how to talk to each other in these situations, how to swallow their pride, and to the extent possible manage more unruly peers. You won't see someone like Carly Fiorina ever come close to grasping that kind of working knowledge of governance. See this is where when people think of a CEO as president they would actually be better. Of all of trumps nonsense, his talk about how deals are made, he's not saying you just go into a negotiation and bulldoze them and you magically get what you want. He's said he doesn't go into a negotiation with expectations, but you enter talks and see what you can get. Versus how much of the other Republicans have negotiated which is to start by saying they won't accept anything unless they get all of their sides ideological goals and... Dealmaking is not a unique skill to politics.

I was really hoping the pope's visit would resolve this too.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 02:06 PM) The bar for WC contention, every year, is simply a timely six-week stretch of hot baseball. The scorched-Earth rebuild is a relic of the past, friends, at least as long as the current playoff structure/CBA holds. Then why are we seeing the teams we are in the playoffs?

This isn't a dem topic but i lol'd at this survey at the end of the article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/...e-people-anger/

Because he has 35+ home run power and there is nothing in our entire system that is projecting that except the lottery ticket that Hawkins figures it out.

Honestly I'd probably take Schwarber over Rodon.

I totally recognize that this means nothing, but it was disappointing to me how all of the prospect writers were going crazy this year with the amount of call-ups of big talent, and how completely ignored Rodon was in that. It means nothing, but on the other hand, I like those writers, and I wish the sox gave them more to write about for me.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 12:19 PM) Gotta love Twitter. Start a rumor and watch it spread. Get enough people tweeting it and then you get peoe like Cowherd mentioning it. It really is ridiculous. The EDSBS reader comment about how Kiffin tried to hit on their friend under the psuedonym Joey Freshwater was worth it, though.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 01:13 PM) Could she have gotten that DNA there by hanging out with him in the bar or in the limo? We don't know that was sexual. I actually, have no idea. I still claim the right to call any night club in buffalo area scuzzy.

If it comes out that the DNA on her shoulders nad fingernails did not actually exist, or whatever, then fine. I would withdraw my judgment.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 12:50 PM) I'm guessing the Seahawks will win 45 to 7, with the Bears only touchdown coming in garbage time in the 4th quarter. This game will be ugly. See I think it will be ugly but I don't think Seattle will run roughshod over them. I think their offense will continue to look terrible, but they may still beat us 28-7/28-3 based off of our terrible offense.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 12:08 PM) His actions in general or his actions that night? If you just mean in general then I agree he should absolutely try to put himself in better situations in general, but Im also not going to judge him for liking to party in his early to mid 20s. As far as the night in question goes Im not going to say he should have had to do anything differently because I dont know exactly what he did but it doesnt appear to have been anything illegal. You still tried to justify criticizing him for this because of his past and if anyone would have done that in any other context you and some others would have been all over it crying victim shaming. No. The key difference is there is nothing wrong with a woman having sex in her life. There clearly has been something wrong with Kane's alcohol abuse. And this time it led to him, at the least, publicly cheating on his fiance.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 11:59 AM) ? I didn't follow anything up. The defective rape kit s*** was just unquestionably awful reporting. I apologize, I completely misread what you wrote.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 11:54 AM) You literally are using the "well what kind of clothes was she wearing" argument here. So because Kane has gotten in trouble in the past or because he drinks its ok to accuse him of rape? Sounds like victim blaming. Hopefully Kane sues the s*** out of this family. No, it is not okay to accuse him of rape. It is okay to criticize him for his actions.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 11:44 AM) Using 1 anonymous source with a break that would change the case completely and posting it to twitter with no follow-up or explanation is indeed embarrassing and terrible reporting. And you followed that up with a random tweet about how the accuser was "active" since 16 (which is wholly irrelevant and the single most awful case of sex shaming in this thread) and that the DNA could have been from 5 years ago (so what? unless it's Kanes, and in that case he slept with a 16 year old when he was 21. Congrats Kane! You did nothing legally wrong in New York, and since that isn't criminal you are morally fantastic.)