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I would like to know this, some stat that's the equivelant to "tests performed/tests ordered". Because of early rationing, it's possible that the higher pos rate is in fact just the reality of fewer people with parallel sickness (seasonal flu, colds) as seasons change/hand washing takes over, so the only people with symptoms are getting tested are more likely to be covid positive. However, I'm thinking this would be a good sign to see if our testing and tracking pushes past its initial limitations. They have been passive, but for Illinois to get to 10k a day, you'd be testing people that came into contact with positive results.

If you are an aspiring GM though that has to seem like a pretty big advertisement for the job!

I don't know, Gar getting slapped down is pretty good. I don't know if you read Cowley last week. Was the typical bulls airing of the laundry, but I guess when the bulls honored Luol Deng last nov a bunch of former bulls were at the game and Forman was "aloof" toward them, angering the players. Word got back to reinsdorf and apparently that was the moment big reinsdorf removed Gar's protection.

I kinda forgot this happened!

still at 5k tests/day (had a weird 8k jump yesterday).

Illinois has now seen new cases drop 2 days in a row.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/projecting-the-cactus-grapefruit-league-standings/ This has the sox actually benefitting from the switch.

The bulls are graduating from being a mom and pop shop to an organization. There are a lot of advantages there, and I do think their limited bandwidth hurt them in trade market. Now let's hope it's a well run organization, but I'm feeling very positive. It is as close to a clean house as you can get considering the multiple asst. gms coming in.

It has been an unreal week for a bulls fan.

Puhleeeaaaassse pretty please!

Do they need to make a “big” difference?

Illinois new cases have definitely plateaued but not yet fallen. Fairly low death announcement today at 40.

Valentine was pretty good off the bench. anyway... In support of AK I bought a 1992 Lithuania official bball shirt.

New cases declined in Illinois today, but still only at 5k tests per day. The good news is a positive rate closer to 24% which is also down from yesterday, though last week that was more like 17-20%. The plateau of testing just makes this all very cloudy.

This is probably wrong but I’m of the opinion that playing in a tough division raises the competitiveness of your team if they are on edge and crushes them when they are far off. Sometimes just expecting to cruise in a bad division makes you worse.

It makes me happy to seriously discuss baseball division implications.

I missed all this are they official?

Good, I’m excited. Coaching is a lot about team fit, but the job that Toronto did this year under nurse was incredible.

Oh...boy

It seems Illinois' plateau was pretty similar nationwide. Can't seem to get past the 5-6k a day hump. A lot of the new tech that was supposed to help ended up not working well, so they are basically where they were, and all of the abbott tests they hoped for were taken by feds to be distributed.

My comment was a response to Atkinson "losing the team" in year 4.

Eh, the ripped the soul out of the nets and replaced it with Kyrie Irving which normally still is a positive trade except he had no shoulder and missed half the year.

I would really be into getting Adrian Griffin back and the michael finley stuff. That's a mix of great orgs (I know some will debate dallas) but also one I think really has a good background for three orgs that have built a global talent scouting system.

You are way too focused on the editorial sections which are quite often boring and only seem important when you follow twitter and the occasional one gains traction. And while the trib has quite a few liberal columnists, it's editorial board as a whole is quite conservative.

And to second nss, while the Wall Street Journal's editorial sections are not even worth wiping your behind with...it's an incredible paper. The feature on what happened to GE the last 30 years that ran last year was some of the best stuff I've ever read.