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This Maddux speech will be easy to top.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 27, 2014 -> 06:06 PM) I think they film that well before the game lol Ha yeah it's decently full now.

Um, are there only 8 people there?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 26, 2014 -> 08:17 PM) Anybody who skewered Jim Thome is an idiot and needs to find a sport other than baseball to follow. He wasn't clutch!!!!!

I tweeted at Jose to hit a homer for my birthday. High stakes for this one dudes.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Jul 26, 2014 -> 03:12 AM) Nice win. Correia had nothing and the lineup made sure the box score reflected that. I regret not being around at the time to get this on the record, but I didn't like Robin sending Danks out for the seventh. He had given up a couple loud outs in the sixth and we had the big lead so it seemed like a good night to just yank him early. That homer by Arcia was not a cheapie. Eh...we don't have a good bullpen. Rest em up.

Why in God's hell do NBA teams continue to hire retread failures like Byron Scott?

It's really fun watching history repeat itself and being told that history is not repeating itself.

I do kind of love this board being wary of Love because of his defense but is somehow intrigued by trading taj gibson for dion waiters and kevin martin.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 04:34 PM) RUMOR Bulls receive: Kevin Martin, Tristan Thompson, Dion Waiters Cavs receive: Kevin Love, Mike Dunleavey Jr, Gorgui Dieng Timberwolves receive: Andrew Wiggins, John Lucas III, Erik Murphy, Taj Gibson, Tony Snell That is an absolutely horrendous deal. Bulls get worse and help out a conference rival.

Kyle Fuller with 2 picks already. Hype Machine starteth.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

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QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 03:01 AM) Given the timing of everything, it would make sense for the Cavs to hold out until closer to the season when it comes to offering Wiggins. It also makes sense for MIN to leak that Wiggins has been offered to pressure better offers from others I disagree. I think the only team who benefits from holding out is wolves. For cavs/bulls/warriors, at some point you want to know what your team is. A bulls/cavs/warriors team with love is radically different than without.

Wow what a play !

QUOTE (1dog @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 03:25 AM) Maybe it's because we're playing well, or childhood nostalgia, or cause I haven't listened to him announce in a while, but is Wimpy a joy to listen to or what? Came to post same thing. I love how much FUN he has.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 09:56 PM) I heard that so and so is in the best shape of his life. The other guy is going to be a break out this year. You joke but I really can't wait.

I can't wait for the 10 camp fluff stories a day.

Everything takes so damn long this offseason.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 07:04 PM) I like Taj but he definitely has the back up quarterback syndrome going for him. Everyone hated Boozer so damn much that Gibson became extremely popular among Bulls fans. I'm more sympathetic to Taj. I think people do not know how to rate defense in the NBA until a player gets a reputation like Ben Wallace (coincidentally, centers seem to get appropriately valued even if defense only). Taj is clearly one of the best defensive PFs in the game. He is more than Thabo Sefalosha though. You don't build a team around him, but he is one of those players that account for an inordinate amount of the teams success.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 06:46 PM) McD becomes the best shooter in the NBA Well, we traded Kyle Korver for an unused trade exception, so at least we'd get something back in this case.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 06:43 PM) If you believe the previous reports that's simply not true, I don't remember what the offer was but they supposedly did indeed have an offer in to the TWolves before the draft. Gibson + Snell + Picks.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 06:36 PM) Well, this is the same front office that sat on their hands many a time before preaching team and playing it safe. This is the same front office that didn't go after Kevin Love until after Andrew Wiggins was already on the table (despite the fact that, for the right offer, he was highly available while they were trying to pry a player away from his hometown and the biggest city in the country and offering $50 million less to do so). There's plenty of blame for the front office, here. Also, the Kyle Korver for literally nothing trade happens because of things like the 2014 plan. They got rid of Korver, tried to fill him with Belli and now MDJ. I'd much rather have Korver on the contract he now has than MDJ. You can't just look at things in isolation and say "wellp, they did the best they could" when they fielded a purposefully worse team in order to hit a home run this offseason. I'm excited about this team for what it is. But am still very worried that come playoff defense time, the same standing around and inability to penetrate will happen.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 04:59 PM) Nope. Denver won the Melo trade over New York. And especially nope when you're talking about prospects who haven't played a single NBA game yet. That's not a good analogy. The Nuggets are the Twolves in this scenario. You would be comparing the knicks offer to other teams and I honestly don't remember what other rumored offers were at the time. And honestly, even if they won, I'm pretty sure most NBA teams still would have rather been NYK in that scenario. You don't want to be a team that a star is begging to leave.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 02:15 PM) I don't understand how he is getting unl...OH YOU MEAN WINS AND LOSSES. Wins and losses are silly. Either way, Quintana was the Sox #1 starter out of the break in the second half, and those matchups rarely hold true what with off days and the like anyways. blah blah blah, it's annoying to have a great pitcher that your team never wins when he pitches for some bizarre and sustained reason. It be nice to be like "oh, Q's pitching, automatic win". Instead it's "oh, Q's pitching, we'll lose 2-1".