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Wow this is some bill simmons stuff here!

Even though I was 99% sure it was happening it was still nervewrecking.

You don't get credit for winning the equivelant of 90 games in a sixty game season, especially when they were gassed at the end (fired their manager because of it!) and got bounced in the first round to a team they should have beat. It may be impressive to say the sox have made playoffs two years in a row, but 2 playoff years in a 9 year span isn't even impressive to Rockies fans. He has not had a restrictive payroll, the Guardians have a restrictive payroll. They have made the playoffs 5 times in that span and never finished lower than 3rd. The Twins have a restrictive payroll, they have also made the playoffs more than Hahn and look likely/possible to make playoffs this year (on pace for 88 wins). The white sox purposely traded away all assets, lost purposely for 3 years straight and were rewarded with two playoff births. They have a maxed out payroll now. They have the 30th ranked farm. Their core players are underperforming. Yeah I think Hahn is perfect for this, definitely showed to be shrewder than maybe 1 other GM in baseball.

well the real shame is they should have been able to use their bi-annual exception on Tristan Thompson, when that could have easily been used here. TT was cool though because he added nothing and was garbage.

yeah, I guess my thing is that sometimes bad seasons happen even to good teams. The problem is hahn doesn't get benefit of the doubt that he can right the ship.

To me Drummond is a guy you get on vet min. As seen by: last 2 years. That doesn’t mean he’s unproductive, just that you don’t want him being immovable. Using MLE should get you a legit add to the team, not incentives to get vet min guys you couldn’t recruit. Did not expect this team to be maxed out after last year, but they really are tapped

Woof

Meet the new boss….same as the old boss

Luis Mieses on some heater right now. Also a Ramos homer

Not an ideal start

I would be surprised if he didn't, his doing interviews is news in general and it plays as a clip every time he does his media availability. This definitely more newsworthy in that it brought back older stories and the TLR thing i guess.

Hahn didn't realize when he did an interview with a Score producer that the score would talk about it? Hahn is trying his hahnwashing tour, where he gets to try and separate himself and act like his hands were tied from doing what the fans want.

K this is worse than what bulls did

If I'm the Nets I'd want Derozan but you are correct that with Vuc you have an expiring.

Yes correct that’d be a need

The answer to this is if Kevin Durant wants to go to Chicago it will happen, because the brooklyn nets will want a super star in the future and they will not want to be the first team that prevents him. But yeah. Salary wise it works. The Bulls then are severely limited in draft picks, and essentially would be able to trade the portland pick (not very valuable) and then would need to send off picks in 2027, 2029, etc.

PAT WILLIAMS + DEMARR + UN PROTECTED FIRSTS THRUOGH 3031 sigh

logistically, these seems insane. I wonder if divisions grow so large and we just see every big market state school become Big 10 or SEC, but there are 3-4 divisions each, and those conference championships may as well be the playoffs.

So not sure we truly know what bulls will do. I do like Tucker

That said I remember going in thinking we'd be in on ball, but I don't really remember thinking bulls would go after derozan or even caruso until it happened. They had more options last year though, but they are mostly trades. And it still seems like bulls gossip comes from everywhere else aside from the bulls.

Hartenstein is the obvious best option. Sad to see Bulls avoiding tax...they committed to tax with lavine imo. Gallinari is fine as a second unit player, would be a good pickup.

Colson added a double and a big night for Luis Mieses who had 3 hits and a homer in W-S. Not a great Mena start however,

Colson Montgomery. Homer.

Bulls need shooting, as every team does, but have so little resources to do it.

Still can’t stop saying Thucker Thoman in my head