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QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 12:04 PM) You telling me your twitter is back up and running? Ha! This.

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DKnobler‏@DKnobler White Sox still seem completely focused on trying to get Greinke. https://twitter.com/DKnobler/status/228585999918313472

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 11:54 AM) Six Women Rape Man To Death Thank God for living in America.

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal One player #Marlins reluctant to trade: Bonifacio. Replacement for Infante at 2B. Speed guy, suits Ozzie’s style. Oh, Ozzie's "style". I don't miss that! Bonifacio has a .699 OPS this season, by the way.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 12:28 PM) Is there other ways to acquire a number 2 option besides free agency? What's comical is through trade is the way to get over the cap, but RZZZA is simply focused on the players that have to choose to come here, which I'm not focusing on since apparently the trio of balding white men that are doing our recruiting can't get it done.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 12:23 PM) but we're only stuck in limbo temporarily, and I'm ignoring last year because it wasn't a true representation of what our team can do. Derrick Rose ACL tear, am I supposed to bash Jerry for that? This team is built around Derrick Rose, go ahead and criticize that concept, I think you'd be justified. But to blame Jerry? I don't see it. When our second best player has been Luol Deng for 5 seasons, I'm going to criticize the front office and the true drive of the team to acquire talent.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 12:18 PM) Do people here just hold the Bulls to some impossible standard or what? We stayed under the tax and still managed to get to round 3. But somehow that shows how horrible we are and how we aren't committed to winning. Meanwhile, the Lakers spend 90 million and go out in 2 rounds, and somehow that shows how dedicated they are to winning and how we should emulate them. Why do you continue to ignore last season? Why does the Eastern Conference Championship loss mean more than the debacle last year and the plans moving foward for this team that seems to be stuck in limbo. You really aren't reading what people are typing. If you want to just select teams' best seasons, how is out in 5 in round 3 better than back to back titles in 2009 and 2010?

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 12:10 PM) 90 million and out in 2 rounds vs 70 million and out in 3. I'll take the latter every time. The latter should be 66 million and out in 1. You are making things up now, while also ignoring my entire point that the Lakers' salary is currently bloated because they expanded it to compete during Kobe's real prime - when they won titles in 2009 and 2010. You are simply ignoring everything in posts and typing the same thing about regular season titles over and over.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 11:59 AM) Wow, they made it to the 2nd round? We made it to the 3rd round the year before last. But when we do it, its meaningless to you. When the Lakers do it, it's justification for spending like a drunken sailor. Wow. You don't even read. You said the Bulls got further than the Lakers did and I simply pointed out they didn't. The Lakers are always willing to spend to compete. You clearly can't see that. Congrats.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 11:51 AM) Lakers have done nothing yet, we can only judge them by what they've done in the past. And in the recent past, they sucked, they were out of the playoffs faster than we were. What? They made it to the 2nd round last year (Bulls 1st). Also, they spend to win. Clearly, there's no convincing you, but I've made more than enough argument that the Bulls FO doesn't give a s*** if improvements involve spending over $70 million - which is perfectly legal.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 11:26 AM) LOL @ Lakers spending 93 million on a team that's worse than ours. You are looking at everything in a vacuum. Their salary is bloated for their performance last year, but that's because they had the balls to make themselves contenders. Do you think I'd care so much if the Bulls went out in the 1st round if they'd just won titles in 2010 and 2009 (with a completely rebuilt supporting cast for Kobe after winning in 2000, 2001, and 2002)? Of course not. The Lakers have that payroll, because they built a team that could content and actually win titles. Yet they still aren't satisfied and upgraded their weakest position with Steve Nash. If you think the following roster isn't going to make waves YET AGAIN, you are also mistaken. PG Nash SG Bryant SF Artest PF Gasol C Bynum But no, let's look at everything over the course of the last two seasons when the Bulls won the mystical "Regular Season Championship".

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 11:32 AM) Was that in response to my post? I'm agreeing with you. The Bulls have put themselves in a s***ty position going forward. In response to B-Mags and Jake.

Yup. Keep towing the company line. Nothing could be done! Poor Derrick Rose and his zero help - we were set! Teams go out and make things happen all the time, those teams just aren't the Chicago Bulls. It's a f***ing joke, but you continue to eat it up.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 09:03 PM) If there was no salary cap in basketball, I'd have to imagine the Knicks and Lakers would be spending like the Yankees and Red Sox. 2011-2012 Salaries per team. Bulls "Going for it" - $66,746,162 ZOMG LUXURY TAX - $70,000,000 Lakers - $93,945,748 Heat - $77,133,080 Celtics - $80,768,561 Mavericks - $70,077,245 Spurs - $73,699,420 Magic - $77,506,707 Some people live in reality where they see a team like the Lakers spending $25 million more than the Bulls without fear of the luxury tax so they can compete. Or a f***ing s*** city like Miami outspending the Bulls who have the longest sellout streak in the NBA. All of you fall in line and think the Bulls are great and doing what they can, while in reality they continually spit in the face of the League's best fan-base (proven) while teams like the Philadelphia 76er's out-spend them ($68,932,083). Sure, there's something to be said for smart spending, but there's also something to be said for willing to take on stars with big contracts that JUST MIGHT push you over the dreaded luxury tax threshold. It's a joke, but the fans continue to tow the team line and act like JR truly wants a championship.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 08:58 PM) Exactly. Financially they are run the same way. They spend as much as their revenues and the league will allow them to. Oh bulls***. The Bulls sell out every game and do fine with merchandising. There's zero reason they shouldn't party in the luxury tax the same as the other big boys of the league.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 04:38 PM) The 6 championships the Bulls won in the 90's don't count?

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QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 01:10 PM) Damn, you beat me to it. This scares me. I hope Kenny doesn't throw a flurry of prospects at the Brewers for a rental. I want Grienke, but the cost scares me. F*ck it. Throw them at him.

Also, when he yelled JOEEEEEEEEE CREEEEEEDEEEEEE

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 10:13 AM) "ALEXEEEEEEEI. YES. YES. YES. YES" This.

Beckham sucks.

Christopher Nolan wrote a farewell letter to the Batman trilogy.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 06:19 AM) No, the owner was from Chicago and I think the issue was the Bulls not going along with his plan to make Chicago a 2 NBA town. I'll take SPORTS MYTHS for $800, Alex.

QUOTE (MAX @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 09:11 AM) I wouldnt trade him for strasburg, who I expect will be injured very soon again. Drugs. They are bad.