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Elizabeth Warrens oldest brother died of coronavirus.

gotta be cool to be the kids of these GMs suddenly getting to listen in to all your dads calls.

lol sorry if not clear I'm watching the ABC feed of the draft which is basically the college gameday crew. Despite some awkward skype lags causing talk overs it's pretty damn slick.

I'm watching ABC but I think they are doing an awesome job.

highly encourage reading this thread from Pritzker. SIP extended through may, but state parks opened up, retail stores allowed curbside service. Few more things, targeted reopening.

1800 new cases in illinois, 9000 tests. We really did improve our testing capacity, still under goal. But yeah, we aren't going under 1k by end of april like I hoped on Monday.

Forgot to mention it was deleted, Cowley did say he heard he was in mix but that they were still interviewing

So hopefully a "jump the gun" report and not just outright false. But @Y2Jimmy0 had a tweet retweeting a report that bulls were closing in on Austin Brown for GM. Admittedly, had never heard of him because a lot of this GM stuff you need to be super inside basketball on. But he's a co-head of CAA, one of the biggest agencies in basketball. Arturas clearly sees himself as the one that will set-up the drafting / ops stuff, and it appears he's looking at a GM for pro personnel and relationships. This would be a super interesting hire on that front. Very exciting.

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.