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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 08:21 PM) I'm honestly surprised that hasn't been a rumor given how hard we tried to sign him. The Knicks have been starting rumors with teams they want players from. There is pretty much no one from the Bulls worth mentioning in a trade rumor outside of Butler, and they don't match up anyway.

They absolutely blew that offsides call on the 2nd MN goal.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 05:48 PM) Watch the Bulls trade for Melo. That would be the most Bulls thing ever.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 04:45 PM) http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/44260382.pdf How are you going to prevent the insurance industry from being involved as well (creating more "too big to fail" scenarios), like AIG? Anyone who watches movies or t.v. shows can understand the conflicts between CIA, FBI, DEA, ATF, NSA, Homeland Security, local law enforcement...there's usually less communication and sharing due to everyone protecting their own turf/budgets. So if there's a completely non-partisan way to regulate the financial/monetary system which can be completely depoliticized. I would love to see it. Just not sure it's possible in the current environment. Someone jokingly said that Twitter should have a panel of one Democrat, one Republican and one true independent to vote on whether Trump's tweets should be released in order to prevent a possible nuclear war...but how can that supposed independent not lean one way or the other? A system where everyone is independent and fighting to keep their own budgets at the expense of everyone else is exactly how we got the system we have now. The best chance of it happening is to have it insulated outside of politically managed governmental organizations. Let me put it this way, how is the system we have now going to fix those problems? How are they preventing the next too big to fail? The answer is they can't. They are quite literally not able to because those agencies do not possess the powers to do anything about things like too big to fail. This system is only geared towards stopping the last bad thing, and not the next one, because that is how they get a budget.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 03:31 PM) Been contemplating between The Crown and The Leftovers as our next show to binge. Leftovers is different. I was much hotter on it after the first season versus the second season, but I am still not sure what to exactly think of it. I will be watching season 3, if that matters.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 02:21 PM) I try not to compare anything the Patriots do to what other teams are doing. They may have the best coach in the history of the game. Everything they do is unique to them. Which is exactly why the idea of trading for their back up QB scares the crap out of me.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 01:52 PM) If he did, that still gives the Bulls $58M or so under the cap and Jimmy Butler to sell the goods. Jimmy helped sell Wade on the Bulls. To be fair, if the Heat don't open with 1 year/$10 million, Wade never leaves Miami.

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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 01:30 PM) I don't think Wade will leave. No other team will match what the Bulls will pay him next season. He isn't giving up more money. At this stage of his career, I would bet winning and no BS would be higher on his list. He'll get paid, even if it isn't $23 million.

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 01:35 PM) Martin Havlat retires. Tallon gets a lot of credit for moving away from him, because he was never as valuable again as he was in 2009. I remember for about a minute where some fans actually debated if we should have brought him back instead of going big for Hossa.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 12:59 PM) I don't know. Jimmy sure is pushing for Wade to stick around and Jimmy / Wade seem to be very tight. I could see Wade going to the Clippers or Cavs or something to play with one of his buddies, but I don't see him going back to Miami. If even part of the stories of the Bulls are true (spying, and intentionally trying to screw Jimmy out of a contract) are true, it wouldn't surprise me if Jimmy eventually forces a trade.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 05:58 AM) I wish I could stop watching the Curse of Oak Island it's like an hour a week of watching Geraldo open up Al Capone's vault Yeah, I have no idea why I still record it. Bust after bust after bust.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 12:55 PM) Sure you can, so long as it passes strict scrutiny. Not all constitutional rights/rules are absolute. I don't even see this as being a shade of gray here. It is flat out a ban on Muslims according to the President.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 12:41 PM) I agree, but I wanted to take it 1 step further. That even if the intention was to ban immigration from a certain country, and it wasnt a thinly veiled attempt at a religious ban, I would not agree with it. To use Jenks example, if Iran- US went to war, I would not agree with banning all Iranians. I dont like to paint with that broad of a brush, and its ironic/sad that certain Republican's now feel that this okay. Arent they the ones who tell me that we shouldnt ban guns because not all gun owners are criminals? So why should we ban all Iranians/Germans/whatever, if not all of them are terrorists/criminals/etc? I think you could at least start to consider it if you had a constitutional action of declaring war against a nation or nations. But we have nothing of the sort here.

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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 12:09 PM) Jenks, Non-citizens who are currently in the US have rights in the US. Non-citizens not currently in the US, without any sort of visa/greencard etc, would have no US rights. Is this a decision we want on the books? Absolutely. Or do you think it would be okay to deny every German from entering the US, even if they were a Jew, in WWII? Blanket restrictions are lazy and overreaching. This policy isn't even that smart. This is more like denying ALL Germans admission so that we can keep the Jews out. The explicit and stated target here IS Muslims. The administration has flat out stated this on many occasions, and this policy is consistent with their statements.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 11:37 AM) I guess because I don't even know who the Bears QB is and the Sox went what 90 years without a title between years, so I'm not exactly ready to annoit them because they started a rebuilding plan this year and thanks to trading off all those parts finally have a top 5 farm system? I know a lot of those guys will bust and there is just as much likelihood that you turn into the Pirates / Royals (and end up sucking for 30 years). People tend to overrate / overhype unknown players. More so now that the Cubs became this, what would appear to be dynasty, but it wasn't just because they "tanked", they also spent a ton of money internationally and on free agents and lucked into Jake Arrietta (I'll call it luck although I'm sure they picked him for a reason, but no one can ever tell me they expected him to be the pitcher he was the past couple of years...just like I don't think RH / KW ever imagined Q would turn into the player he is). Every top 50 prospect is going to be an all star...until they aren't. So I just have a more realistic view (in my opinion) as to what our prospects are worth and what they will amount to. If I viewed every one of our prospects that is top 100 being an all star, then yes, I could say the Sox have a great chance, but I think that is completely and utterly unrealistic. If a year from now Moncada is smashing 40 hr's and putting up a 1.000 OPS, Tim Anderson is hitting .330 and playing great defense, and Giolito / Lopez / Rodon are looking lights out, while Kopech / Collins are top prospects at their position (and we added more talent in the draft), then I can maybe make that statement...today I think it is utterly premature. I think the current path for any of the three franchises to win a championship in the next few years is very unlikely, but if I were to bet on the most plausible scenario, I'd probably say the Bulls (and the odds would still be very low and would probably involve them landing a free agent now and then somehow getting an Anthony Davis or someone of that ilk via trade / free agency another couple years down the road...so not an immediate fix and probably pretty unlikely). They also would clearly need to start hitting on some draft picks as the Bulls would look much different if they hadn't whiffed on their recent 1st round picks. The funny thing is that if Jesse Crain doesn't fail a physical, Jake Arietta is a White Sox.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 11:30 AM) Not true. If the Bears get the right QB, they have a chance. That's the way it goes. s***, even when the Sox were floundering the past few years they had a shot. If they could have snuck in the playoffs during 1 of those seasons, Sale and Q could pitch their way to a World Series. Both teams have a much better chance at championships in the near future than the Bulls do. I can't believe it's even a question in that sport. The entire NFL is a franchise QB away. I mean, that is literally day 1 stuff. Then factor in that despite where they finished, that guy doesn't exist in this years draft, this team is already years down the road without going anywhere.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 10:54 AM) Bears and White Sox have a path to a title. Draft, trades, free agent signings. The nature of the NBA puts the Bulls in an impossible situation. Barring like 5-6 teams getting in a plane crash, there really is no path to a title for the Bulls. Their paths are both prayers and hope at this point. Call it "I have a dream". Odds are that 10 years down the road, nothing has happened.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 10:42 AM) You know...despite all the Bulls struggles, they are still the professional sports team that currently provides me the most enjoyment (given that I'm not a huge hockey fan). Sox / Bears are awful. Even these past two years, I can still watch and vividly enjoy Bulls games. Not as much as I could during the Thibs era, but they are still a solid team who plays some good games. Yes, they do their share of frustrating things, but hey, if I'm comparing to my other franchises, the Bulls are by far had the most success (maybe a sad statement, but a true statement). I'm hoping the Bears change that soon...but Sox are a few years away from having what I'd call an entertaining product (in the sense that we can even be thinking about the playoffs). The Blackhawks are quite literally the only reason to watch professional sports in Chicago right now. The Bulls are a miserable product these days. I can't tell you the last time I watched an entire Bulls game.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 11:19 AM) There are a few lines of argument I've heard. 1. The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act prevents discrimination based on nationality. 2. The EO violates religious freedom because it targets Muslims. 3. The EO is such a poorly written cluster that it can't reasonably be followed (hence all the chaos that occurred) Our entire immigration system is illegal by that standard.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 05:18 AM) I'm assuming the FTC or SEC. The horror story could have easily been prevented had there been intelligent life at the Federal Reserve Board in the years when the housing bubble was growing to ever more dangerous proportions (2002-2006). But the Fed did nothing to curb the bubble. Arguably, it even acted to foster its growth with Greenspan cheering the development of exotic mortgages and completely ignoring its regulatory responsibilities. Most people who had this incredible infamy attached to their name would have the decency to find a large rock to hide behind; but not Alan Greenspan. He apparently believes that he has not punished us enough. Greenspan has a new book which he is now hawking on radio and television shows everywhere. The book, which I have not read, is ostensibly Greenspan's wisdom about the economy and economics. But he also tells us that his problem as Fed chair was that he just didn't know about the flood of junk mortgages that was fueling the unprecedented rise in house prices during the bubble years. He has used this ignorance to explain his lack of action – or even concern – about the risks posed by the bubble. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2...g-market-crisis Once again, how is someone so cozy with the financial press (such as his wife Andrea Mitchell and Maria Bartiromo) and the investment banks expected to objectively or fairly regulate them? You do know that the Federal Reserve bank doesn't regulate MBS's right? That falls to the SEC. The only responsibility the Fed would have is as it relates to how an MBS would affect the balance sheet of a member bank, and not for the regulatory worries of the MBS's themselves. Then you have the pseudo-governmental agencies who were buying the damned things without knowing what they were or understanding them in Fannie and Freddie, giving them governmental legitimacy and thus a false price discovery to hold the whole system up for an artificially long time. And without knowing it, you are hitting on my exact point of one agency not knowing or understanding what another agency is doing, even though all of these things are eventually tied together and interwoven throughout our financial system. EDIT, and the answer is very clear, the Fed Bank has zero ability to do anything about anti-trust issues from a legal standpoint.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 09:43 AM) I'm still not sure how a court can get around this clear law (if we assume the Plaintiffs have standing to begin with): 8 USC §1182 "Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate." I think this comes down to SHOULD Trump be able to do this, not CAN he. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 10:58 AM) Because a guy like Chapman may not be available in next year's free agent class. A guy like Q WON'T be available in next years free agent class because the guy has near zero financial obligation compared to the rest of the market.

QUOTE (Buehrlesque @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 10:54 AM) Then why did they sign a closer to an $86 million contract (with an opt out after three years, when they would theoretically be competitive)? I don't get that. I think the Yankees would be fine with trading Frazier + Rutherford for Quintana, but it won't happen until June/July. This is exactly what I can't make sense of, and why I keep thinking in the back of my mind that the Yankees are still a threat.