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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.

Right, I get uncomfortable when defending journalism and people lump in CNN/msnbc/etc. We are 4 years away from their hyperventilating coverage of that one plane disappearing. Watching 24 hour news networks for 4 hours a day will not make you smarter. You will get looped each hour and listen to people with provocative, baseless arguments. However, I'll admit when there is actually breaking global news they suddenly find their journalism pants and you see correspondents you didn't know existed with excellent stuff. But reading a full newspaper, especially with rich local sections, will absolutely make you smarter. And you don't have to read the editorials! There isn't a single editorialist at the chicago trib I like, and their editorial board has an almost comical ability to be on the wrong side of everything even while trying to avoid the appearance of opinion, but the paper does great job all in all, with some terrible articles here and there. It's coverage of covid in illinois is incredible, including repurposing the dept. of health daily stats with a data viz center.

https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/2020/04/10/its-not-about-debt-or-stock-buybacks-or-whatever-its-about-the-virus/ Let's not fight over who gets what as if we are in a position of scarcity. Just push for faster and more. More and faster.