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ugh. Really been a hard week. over 2000 new cases in illinois. The somewhat good news...we had over 9k test. And that is good news, that means it's essentially the same positive rate. And obviously in reality we knew we weren't capturing it all. But this is hard.

That's true, but that was also in 97 when he said that, and then they came back on 1 year deals. Smith said reinsdorf offered that jordan could do that every year if he wanted with everyone getting raises. (Rodman likely would have come back, pippen not so much). I think a modern FO that enabled jordan/phil could have spurred a lasting rebuild/pass the torch moment. But it's also probably true that for the longest michael window, trading pippen after 97 was likely the best move. They would have ended up with mcgrady.

I mean it was an hour long podcast, but I'm responding to the documentary's much more provocative thesis that krause pushed jordan and jackson out because he wanted to rebuild. But smith was criticizing the idea that removing krause and hiring jackson would have worked.

I do think the bulls with a less antagonistic FO could have gotten it done for a rebuild after 97 with jordan. That said, Sam Smith was on Howard Beck's pod yesterday and he was throwing some ice water on the idea that it was just krauses fault. His recall was more how I remember the time (perhaps because I was reading Smith at the time), but he was adamant that phil and mj were just done at the time. I remember that common sentiment too, mainly around that hard fought pacers series in 98. A lot of the contemperary reporters thought MJ was exhausted/done after that, and when you are at that level of fatigue, it does sound hard to then say "hey deal with a rebuild for us". But you also see the huge benefit the lakers get to letting kobe get the exit he wanted despite the results. Clearly the antagonistic ending killed the bulls reputation.

most of the bears mocks I've seen have two round 2 trade backs. Big must for me tomorrow. Take advantage of depth in CB/WR and get more picks to tackle line/edge/safety/te

that was the case two years ago https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/10/03/report-stephen-miller-pushed-ending-chinese-student-visas

That's good to hear, still an incredibly exhausting/painful process.

That’s terrible

Add to that, the owners leaking that they'd rather not play if they can't get concessions from players will be floated, oh, 600 more times as a threat to even fairly benign sticking points both sides know they will work through.

So yeah when I saw highlights of Lightfoot slowplaying opening back up again I figured today would not be ...good news. 1500 new cases. 6600 tests. So...yeah we're not bending the curve. It's flat. There is basically hoping remsidivir dramatically reduces deaths...and that's it. edit: originally said that today was a new high but we had an 1800 last week.

better yet, how many of them two weeks ago were saying that the feds strategy for the coronavirus was federalism and that's a good thing.

Pretty much. Testing has been so slow and even now isn't hitting the targets set on 3/31. And though we've stopped growing , we haven't really bent the curve at all. It's a long way from 1,000 cases per day to under 100, which is what I expected before opening.

That sounds about right.

Yeah idiotic especially if the nba comes back. It's going to be weird. Jerry really is one of the only owners around who remembers a time when MLB actually had to worry about league health. That experience has clearly influenced him since the main "threat" then was rising labor costs. It seems almost certain that will be the lens here.

Was somewhat excited, confirmed cases drops again today. testing drops to 5k...so confirmed % increases. Confirmed cases was 1,151, down from 1,197. Obviously a few days removed from Thursday. On Apr 5th we had 899 cases reported. Today would be the 4th lowest day since then. So would love to see us fall below 1100 tomorrow and soon below 1k.

If they can't find places to store it, eventually a bunch of wells will be shut down. For now they are still producing it at a loss, who knows how long they make that decision.

I mean I'm not sure it matters. Fox news is going to play it up, soon it will be 55/45 for and against, and more will die/lose money than if these people didn't do it. OTOH it will piss off liberals.

Worse than free, paying you to store it.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bulls/ct-chicago-bulls-last-dance-ratings-20200420-daazrtd3cbhjzp5f4h6ftuynya-story.html Too pessimistic of an article but Last Dance does a 12.9 last night in chicago.

He was doing radio for the team then. Maybe first-hand is too strong for 97-98 season but...it doesn't look like this was happening behind the curtains.

So in Texas they could max receive is $561/week + $600 per week, so it's the equivalent of 55k a year. Bonuses are tricky but commission is typically calculated into the earnings, so hopefully they are mistaken on that. I'm not saying this isn't difficult and they shouldn't stress, they should and going from even 80k to 55k is hard. But hopefully it will be relatively short-term, and I just think acting like people who are advocating staying at home are doing so out of privilege and are trying to keep people who don't have a paycheck from getting work is just not an accurate framing. The more people stay at home, the sooner they can get to work. If they open it up and cases surge... well people were already staying at home before. Bigger companies will let their folks wfh. All the restaurants and employment around that will be hit, and so on and so on.

I would have preferred stronger resources to prevent the layoffs from happening but you keep saying these people don’t have a paycheck. The CARES act supplemented state unemployment with an additional $600/week which for many puts them very close to 100% of their paycheck the next 4 months if not greater than 100%. there has been delays in receiving this, but I very much do not want or expect anyone out of work to be completely out of income for this time.

I’d imagine will be harder to trade back into third then small moves back in 2’d to get fourths.

I think it's only a bigger problem though because it's truly an issue of those at the end of the line risk not getting money. If it was just a matter of timing it's not as big of a deal. Basically if they had passed bill with automatic triggers to renew it's fine. But there is scarcity now which makes it ridiculous to see those with much easier access to capital getting it over those that cannot.

https://theathletic.com/1743003/2020/04/14/should-the-bears-trade-back-in-the-draft-lets-project-some-potential-deals/?source=shared-article I agree with this. If I'm pace I try to trade down from both 2nd rounders and add at least 2 fourth rounders.