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I'm taking the under.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 12:13 PM) Yeah, that's true, although if he can set screens and hit open 18 footers he still has a lot of value. One issue I've been thinking about is the Bulls are pretty much the anti-small ball team. Their three bigs - Noah, Gasol and Taj - are pretty terrible against a run and gun team. I remember watching the Warriors game last year thinking they'd have no shot in a 7 game series. They'd be spent after 2 games. The thing is, the bulls in the regular season tended to play a lot better against teams with faster pace. It's a copycat league, bigs are probably undervalued now, if bulls get good guard play and then win with 4 bigs, league will be like "how will the small ball teams compete!"

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 12:01 PM) It's fine to change your mind when you're not bound to your decision, but it's also pretty childish and not professional to ignore and actively evade the Mavs/Cuban. Have a grown up conversation about it. Okay, I can see that part of it for sure. But the idea that a player can cancel a verbal committment prior to the ink being able to be put to paper seems like a no brainer.

Call me crazy but I don't see anything wrong with what Jordan did.

I will say seeing it live I was shocked that Reyes had his foot on bag in 7th. Live it seemed like he caught it way off, and he was very out.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 11:00 AM) but did he have the long time at that position to really get comfortable??? He's a utility player, if he can't do that...then he should be DFA'd.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 11:06 AM) The umpires wouldn't even look at it. Good. He had already challenged the previous inning.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 10:30 AM) What was most annoying was that he tried to get Robin to come out and challenge it. I want people to remember that the next time they say Robin should have just "trusted his veteran" on that Alexei debacle in Detroit. Players are often wrong. Robin should have challenged that because he should be aware of what is happening in a baseball game. Doesn't mean he should have challenged this one. Surprisingly, two things can be similar (player asks to challenge) but be different (completely different scenarios and plays). On the same token, every day I wake up and go to bed, but much of the time the day is different!

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 10:25 AM) He was trying to get in scoring position. Not the brightest move, but again, it was wet, it isn't like the Sox were playing for a divison title...if he was safe, just like the time Eaton came home when he should have been out a mile, people would have praised his aggressiveness. And there is always a possibility he learned something. Yes, stupid plays are often less stupid when they work. But this isn't rickey henderson, he keeps failing at this on a team that isn't good offensively. We should stop praising his aggressiveness when he just keeps eliminating himself from the basepaths and creating outs.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 10:52 AM) I think if the Bulls offered him the same contract, he still goes to Charlotte. More PT, assuming DRose can stay healthy. I'd be surprised. Bulls backup PG spot has been a prime piece, and Lin would seem to be a big draw in high asian population cities (NY, HOU, LA...charlotte.

Pretty close to safe in baseball means an out. This wasn't running home, the ball wasn't hit that deep, nor too much in the gap. There was no reason to turn and waste an out like that. He has done this continuously...has it ever paid off?

Don't mean to be a downer, last night was fun, but Avi's turn for second was so awful. Everyone in the stadium knew he had no shot. How many hits has he inexplicably run into outs? What stat shows that story?

Very upset seeing Lin sign elsewhere on that contract.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Jul 8, 2015 -> 05:33 PM) So why can't we just put Coor's at the top and AT&T at the bottom permanently and not change them unless the dimensions of the park are changed? This is what I'm wondering. Wouldn't you then throw this year away from park adjustment factors? I feel like this makes it like a "TOP 30 BEST UNIVERSITIES" when they change every year with no real justification. The dimension sat the cell have not changed...who cares if they are bad this year?

I'm going to tonight's game. Worth pointing out I don't want to go. We can say "oh you can't make weather an excuse", but all of these people not going are real people, and I have gone to 12 games this year, and only 2 have been nice. It really has been awful weather this year, and it's july 7th and I have to worry that I didn't bring a coat.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 23, 2015 -> 08:56 AM) Give him time. I was wrong.

The bulls the last decade have been in the playoffs almost every year. The white sox...have not.

I don't understand this thread. Isn't it bad enough to watch a team whom you have no control over its success or failures? Why add on to that the anxiety about how many people will enjoy that same product? Do I have to feel doubley bad when we lose 2-1 and only 17k show up? Should I pass out flyers? What is the point of this.

Ah, love walking on Lake. Lovely walk.

QUOTE (oneofthemikes @ Jul 8, 2015 -> 02:23 PM) Because they base them on the amount of offense produced in a given park in a given season. It's The Cell dropping is 100% a function of the offense being awful and pitching being pretty good. Right, but isn't this supposed to measure how much the settings of the park affect the hitter/pitcher, not the team within?

Why would these change year to year?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 8, 2015 -> 12:36 PM) You know what drives attendance more then anything...winning and exciting baseball and the Sox provide none of it. I have a hard time freaking watching the games and I am as diehard as it gets. They are terrible and play terrible baseball. With some of the consistent mental and just poor fundamental mistakes these guys make, it is just hard to watch. I can purely sit and watch Sale and be mesmerized and then the team hits or fields and I just get annoyed and irritated as can be. I've watched a lot of bad Sox teams and been able to enjoy watching the game, I have a hard time enjoying much anything with Sox baseball right now and if that is how I feel, I can't imagine how Joe fan feels and why they would go, other then the, we haven't caught a game this year, lets go. Yes this is true. I bought a large game ticket package and i have hated every game except for last friday. But last Friday was so much fun I thought maybe baseball was enjoyable again. But it is just so effing annoying remembering there is a game, looking up the score and it's once again the 6th inning and it's 1 run scored for white sox. How have they not even had a hot week yet of hitting? It is unreal.

yeah, you know, I frankly feel like pitching matchups are NOT a driver for attendance because they are very hard to plan for. You can plan to see a hitter coming to town, but we knew it was going to be sale v. buerhle when...the monday before?

DGAF about anon.

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