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an interesting back and forth on who bulls should try for at the deadline. I really can't decide but have to say it's nice to trust that the bulls front office is likely to make the right choice. https://heavy.com/sports/chicago-bulls/nba-trade-buzz-should-bulls-go-for-harrison-barnes-or-jerami-grant/ Obviously, there are other dream acquisitions like Siakam. Based off of that read, Grant could press the bulls ability to shut down the perimeter when caruso and ball are there. The bulls gave up a ton in the paint on Sunday, but it's worse when it's layups. I'm not sure the bulls care as much if they are just getting bullied by bigs. Caruso and Ball help shut down any easy penetration.

Wow. Got nervous this was from the Athletic which would have been cancel-worth as a subscriber. Manfred is such a coward.

so definitely an amazing experience. If this is something anyone has wanted to do, I'd definitely check out the A and B rows for the main 100 level sections on weeknight/less popular opponents because it was still incredible. There was a possession late in the fourth where zach crossed over, stepped back and drained a jumper that TV can't recreate. Fun stuff: - Uh, you get free drinks (alcohol and non) and a wait staff in these seats - At one point the ref T'd up Mo Bamba on the bench when the ref was halfway up the court. Nobody around us heard it, not even sure if the players heard it, but it was hilarious as players and fans alike were looking around asking each other what he said, while Mo Bamba just kept his head down, and then everyone just started cracking up at once. - Gary Harris was chatting up some Michigan State fans chanting for him to come home. To which he replied he's never going back to winter again. - It is crazy watching Wendell Carter bully "mismatches" like DJJ now and how he was aggressively running his offense. The Magic are bad, but I really like this Carter/Wagner duo and how they play off one another. They are skilled enough it may work with a talented wing and guard combo. - Ayo is freakin ripped, I wonder as he continues to gain strength what it will allow him to add to his game - Just an unbelievably bad shooting night. If Ball had a reasonable night from 3 this game wouldn't have been close, also if Demar juts hit his normal FT rate. - One of my favorite moments of being up close was when we were on bulls basket side, lonzo grabbed a rebound and you could see his eyes turn upcourt to a bulls player streaking by us. He opted against it, but it was so cool that you could see what he was thinking - Also fun to see the players direct each other on the court and talk to each other. Easy to see how there is stuff a color announcer like King can pick up on being close to the actoin vs. TV It's gonna be hard to go back to regular seats

Tampa receives an extra top 40 draft pick every year ($2M more to spend) and an additional million in the INTL free agency market. Oakland had that same deal for years, only ending in 2020, so we will see how it affects them.

This is 100% correct and it has huge issues. It's really hard for sox to maintain a top farm (it was hard for cubs to maintain top farm, it was hard for phillies to maintain top farm) with those constraints, but yes obviously the dodgers have been able to. But the Dodgers also have a massive front office and I imagine it's foreign operations run much hotter, so it runs back to point 1 Balta mentioned. I'd say there is ample Reinsdorf ammo there. Either you can point to point 1, or that as an owner he has tried hard to get owners in a united front against the players, and has not been as concerned with the constant gifts being given to smaller organizations because they "can't compete" despite the last decade of getting league wide spoils.

I have a feeling Lonzo is going to be launching outlet passes all night after being bored at home for a week.

If not, then why do they care about specifically getting a “fourth or fifth” starter, while free agency exists.

No I think it would be a big boost to Giants, Mariners, Angels.

The roster of teams that are willing to trade current, actual starting pitching for a starting second baseman isn't large. Sounds like a 3-way trade or the mets can receive salary relief to sign a 4/5 starter.

Because the sox have such specific needs, did not come close to filling them, I think you have to take on a guy with warts. I think our clubhouse is strong enough to handle stuff like that, and the mets clubhouse is specifically NOT. We don't even know if the shifts were placating some Lindor demand over actual defensive improvements, the mets are idiots.

No that's good, that makes sense over thing I vaguely remember on twitter (and don't even know if it was a nfl writer or rando)

yeah I won't hold my breath. Jerry has prioritized the players losing instead of fighting the competitive balance arguments. But for all the finger wagging at the sox for their drafts, and they deserve it, they are the only team in the ALC without competitive balance picks. We get less intl spending money than every other team. So yeah, their freakin "bigger budgets" better work in getting free agents because the other teams in the division get a whole lot of handouts when it comes to competing.

It's not money, it's giving the opportunity to spend more on the draft to teams that win.

Here's something I'd be open to which achieves something similar. In leagues with relegation, obviously big help of moving up a league is getting more money and budget and resources, as well as prestige, etc. What if you kept the slotting of draft picks by record, but gave draft pool bonuses and intl FA bonuses to teams that make playoffs or finish top 10 in their league. The team with the #1 overall draft pick still has the ability to get the rights for a year to an elite prospect, but wouldn't be able to hoard a huge draft draft class as well because the money is more equalized across the draft class. The reason this won't work is it will be complicated at hell for what happens to the overall draft pool for the first year (do you grow it for the bonus money, or reduce recommended slot?).

I cannot find it but I feel like I saw something in my twitter feed today that the schedule ramifications would actually be affected with a win.

Oh my god I found floor seats for tomorrow’s game for only $200 (normal weekday/non big time team like this would be like $550+). I’ve only been on 100 level once, this is gonna be amazing

Honestly it turns out I extremely enjoy Glennon eating shit so sorry for negging the game earlier

Like what I’m seeing from Bears last two weeks. I say we give Nagy another shot with a handpicked QB

Yeah same. Who is so glad we have 17 weeks of football though? Isn’t it grand?

I prefer the transition buckets players like Green/Caruso provide the ones, and bulls still struggle with bench scoring. We don’t have problems making a good starting lineup, but would be nice to rest DDR and Vuc more in second half because Coby improves playmaking with the 2s.

So Christian wood now unhappy in the hou shitshow after a coach called him out.

Well there you go

Absolutely bonkers run by DeRozan. All I could do was laugh seeing that.

Reading these replies makes it seem like the 2011-2016 white sox were like this golden child of baseball competitiveness and entertainment by their consistently signing 2nd contract vets to be competitive. I think it’s very likely that baseball could make no changes and have a much more competitive 2020s than (esp back half) 2010s. In the 2000s, the lower spend teams like the As and Rays modernized, but the higher revenue teams could just outspend them to out talent them. But then Theo to the Red Sox, and Friedman to the dodgers and etc etc soon the big market teams began deploying these same talent strategies and my take is that by 2016 SO many other teams in the league realized they were way behind and would not be able to compete with their strategies anymore and could also not compete with mere money advantages (they didn’t have any). So I don’t think it was just fetishizing tanking to win, it was a ton of teams throwing their seasons as they overhauled their orgs. Player development technology, further integrating track an, etc, there may have been a lot more start up costs into the org that weren’t going into players hands. But that’s over now. There is what, one? “Old school” organization (the rox), and I guess the Royals maybe. When Dick friggen Williams hired Driveline, you could tell there was no actual debate anymore on what was needed to compete (and I’m sure Boddy was expensive). But anyway, that’s over now, changes will occur but I’m not sure anything like what just happened the last 5 years will happen for quite a while. So with teams operating much more similarly, the margins of improvement will probably shift back to free agency for the edge. Long story short, I don’t think dramatic changes are necessary for parity or anti-tanking measures. It was just a kinda shitty competitive era. Wouldn’t be the first time in baseball, but it’s not everlasting.

Are you freakin kidding me oh my god I love DeRozan