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so, goin to bed, but gotta say i'm lookin forward to some nice substance-free posts all day tomorrow while i slack off at work again. I especially want some nice hypotheticals from Bucher such as : "Lebron done deal to chicago" then "I meant if Chicago was his hometown and he was drafted by them already, and still had noah and rose it would be a done deal, if i was him."

I'm just saying, it's 2010. There is more efficient ways of doing basketball operations.

God, watching this team, i just don't get it (well, i do, the pitching) but i love it. lillibridge playing like ...a real player, vizquel kicking ass. Beckham sucking the world up. I would never have guessed this was the lineups that would turn it around.

i don't think they meant to throw rios a straight fastball down the middle.

if i was the bulls i'd have asked lebron to masturbate into a cup during their interview, steal an egg from candace parker, and find a nice surrogate to make a nice play for the 2035 free agency season with us having the major advantage in having conceived chairman craig - king of thieves, best basketball player in the worlds.

what? robots are awesome, especially if they have feelings. I think oz really wants to win this one. nice k jj rhyme time

maybe vinny learned how to use a timeout this offseason.

Kotsay with an uncharacteristic grounder to 2b.

f*** THAT SHOULDA BEEN A 2 RUN HOMER!

RIOS!

after the past 6 years I have to say I'm not used to a pitcher that has injuries throughout the season

I mean, is ESPN making it an hour special or is lebron clearing an hour for his special. If dude declares at 950 pm i'll be pissed, but if it's just ESPN...dudes make 3 hours a day for skip bayless, this has way more substance than normal. That said...i'm resigned to our fate of boozer. As for someone saying what is the bulls problem in wooing free agents...I mean, it's just hard. In 2000, who the hell would have come here to play on that team? I mean, is there even a current NBA team as bad as that 2000 team? It's easier to keep a superstar than it is to recruit. Gasol-KG-Allen etc, these are the results of trades of a team blowing up and starting over. I don't know, I just don't think this has anything to do with the bulls, just circumstance. Rose is a great player and we were really lucky to get that #1 pick, but we'd be even more lucky if we didn't make that Jalen Rose trade and decided to really suck until 2003 so we could've gotten melo wade or bron. But instead we've just been pretty solid for the past 6 years, in the east. It's a terrible limbo that probably won't end soon unless we take advantage of a team managing poorly and needing to dump a star.

so when garnett and allen joined pierce in boston they didn't know they'd play for a championship? They must have been pissed.

that just sounds like bucher saying "I'm talking!"

I hope Leo Burnett double-dog dares Lebron, then there will be no turning back.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Jul 6, 2010 -> 08:37 PM) I think we dont have ANY IDEA if its an 80-90 pct of him not coming here. LOL We dont know or have any idea because no one knows but Lebron. That might be the figure in your own mind from reading tweets but thats not logical IMO. i just feel a lot like i did around saturday when we were trying to sign damon. It was a ton of favorable news at first and it seemed very likely, but the longer it goes on the less likely i see it as happening.

kind of like with every free agent chase/big trade, i feel like the longer it goes on, the less likely it is to happen. If Wade/Bron declared saturday it was going to be Chicago, that was the time. The longer it waits, the less it feels like anything good will come out of this. And I second the thoughts that after so many teams were structuring their teams deals specifically for this '10 offseason, it's a huge blow to have nothing shakeup and just have another year of celts-lakers.

hey nowwwww

that just totally seems to twist "rose wanted joe johnson because they were friends" to "rose doesn't seem to want lebron". It's a total a + b = 9

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 6, 2010 -> 04:12 AM) @PDcavsinsider - Based on several people who have talked to LeBron in last 72 hours, he is giving impression he's undecided after last week's meetings. He really likes Rose & Noah. But there's lack if shooters on roster. Also it doesn't sound like he's exactly being welcomed by Rose. Also, can confirm several reports of a rift between Wes Wesley & James camp. Wes was indeed pushing Chicago, I'm told. At this point, LeBron has tightly closed ranks, only seriously talking about decision with a couple people. Which is why so little info. that's not 140 characters.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 5, 2010 -> 06:33 PM) Turns out the no privileges thing about LeBron's friends isn't true. I figured, i'm sure it was a single restriction or something that got blown out of proportion in the link. I have to feel for a competitive guy like lebron prolly is, there has to be something compelling to one team telling you how you're going to win with a great team and the other telling you that we'll let you do whatever you want. It's like the girl playing hard to get vs. the girl right there for the taking.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 5, 2010 -> 07:31 PM) The team had some big leads. Outside of game 5, he really had no hard decisions to make in regards to the starters. eh, while we were successful in 2005, you'd have to watch the games to see that for some reason they were the best managed games ozzie's ever had. That suicide squeeze v. boston, for instance.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Jul 4, 2010 -> 04:38 AM) Ric Bucher's tweets tonight were absolutely awful, he seemed to be talking out of his ass for attention and taking a shot in the dark in the case he's right. If he is he looks brilliant, if not he chalks it up to this all being so unpredictable. Not letting anything he said get me down about this, doesn't mean much in my mind. Listen, I laugh when in a forum people act like sport reporters have ethics. they aren't covering a war, self promotion is all it ever will be.

ahh, classic soxtalk, state something that is clearly true and the research to act like they are right by bringing info that is false. Yes, wikipedia is great. Congratulations. I wasn't born in 1970. Since I've been born it's been a merry-go-round of the same teams. I'd rather a non-western europe final happen. INSANE.

my entire life has been spain-germany-france-italy or brazil.