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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 03:26 PM) I care about this stupid Del Negro/Paxson story as much as the Oney Guillen story during spring training. No wonder the Chicago sports media is AWFUL. The problem comes if this makes potential free agents think twice about coming to the Bulls because our GM is nuts.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 10:29 AM) Paul Konerko Change that to Andruw Jones with PK sitting.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 04:02 PM) Talking about not firing people is no fun Can we hire and re-fire Oney? Or how about we fire the guy in the Southpaw costume? He's really bringing this team down. I think we should hire the Pale Hoes as advanced scouts.

QUOTE (SteveB23 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 02:28 PM) Which is my point about Joey Cora being the heir apparent. Jerry Reinsdorf rarely, if ever hires coaches and/or managers who've had prior experience coaching/managing on the pro level. (See LaRussa, Bevington, Torborg, Fregosi, Manuel, Lamont, Guillen, Phil Jackson, Tim Floyd, DelNegro, Boylan, Cartwright, etc.). He doesn't believe in throwing big $ at coaches and/or managers. Gaston didn't get hired cuz JR didn't wanna pay him, don't kid yourself into believing anything else. Its been pretty well stated that he wanted player personnel decisions. We all know Kenny isn't giving that up.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 02:40 PM) In a strange way thats SS2K showing me that he likes me. I am a hater... aw I can't fake it anymore

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 02:39 PM) So in other words, we need more stringent regulations about what mergers are allowed. I can live with that. And correct me if I'm wrong...but aren't all the brokerages now considered "Bank holding companies" so that they can take advantage of the bailouts? I'm pretty sure calling them banks is now actually accurate. Not even close. I am saying that it is easier for the government to make up more rules so that it doesn't look like this happened on their watch, when not only were they complicit, they practically were responsible for it from beginning to end. NSS handled the last part.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 02:42 PM) http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nba/news/story?id=5086856 Story changing, now they are saying Del Negro was the aggressor, not Paxson. Once KC Johnson writes this story I will know what to believe. Apparently he was right there when it happened, and promised to wait until the season was over to write the story, and the Yahoo writer got the story from someone else His version is in the Trib today.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 01:24 PM) When's the last time any of those were used for anything? Breaking up AT&T in the 80s? Yeah, that worked great. Thank God we broke that up into multiple companies, I'd hate for AT&T to have reassembled into a behemoth that provides godawful service on everything but is the only company that provides home phone service in my area. Anyway...There's an easy objection to that. Would you have considered Lehman Brothers or Bear Stearns to be a trust before they went down? Or AIG? In every market, they all had competition, there were multiple other firms doing the same thing. The problem wasn't that they were monopolistically inhibiting interstate commerce (although I'm starting to think that GS is coming close now), the problem was that they were so interconnected that when they failed it put everyone else on the verge of failing with them. Basically, you can be TBTF without coming anywhere close to the anti-trust rules. Even if you want to ignore more laws, there were all of those great government regulators approving all of these mergers that made these companies. By the way, you are now talking about brokerages and not banks, which have a whole different set of rules in many of their products.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 01:40 PM) There is an episode that implies that since Smokey took Locke's body he is now trapped. Secondly, alternative Desmond is quickly becoming the equivalent of Jacob in that universe. Everyone Desmond "touches" is being changed. I have a feeling that as a result of Desmond's accident... I actually said that I expected it to happen after he met him on the plane.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 12:38 PM) You mean to tell me that I should not die today?.... Cause their record reflects that I should. You should, but that has nothing to do with the team record...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 10:57 AM) There's no rules on the book about how big banks can be? The anti-trust laws?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 11:50 AM) You gotta wonder what they teach you in Venezuela. Not much when you drop out in 6th grade.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 10:53 AM) If there are consequences for anything the banks do, they'll just take the economy and go home. And just like any of this stuff, there are rules on the book against it, once again it is another way the government has completely failed. If banks are too big, it is because the regulators and the federal government looked the other way while it happened.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 10:35 AM) So how do you fell about Huckabees statement? Would you vote for him? Not a chance. His view of religion is completely contradictory to how I see the bible.

Paul Konerko

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 09:55 AM) last-ditch lobbying push from big Wall Street firms: Simon Johnson: Latest GOP Proposals Are 'Downright Scary' He's right in one way, if the government isn't subsidizing risky behavior, it is a lot less likely to happen. Of course we as a country won't stand for their being consequences for anything.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 07:04 AM) It is with conservatives. QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 10:09 AM) I never said ALL conservatives and republicans feel that way. I said that this would gain him support with some conservatives and republicans. You never said "some". You never made any indication of differentiation until you were called out on it.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 10:24 AM) It wouldn't be news if the team was undefeated. It also wouldn't have been said if they were undefeated...

QUOTE (The Baconator @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 09:51 AM) Let's string together some hit, wake up those bats. Let's do it for America! America f*** yeah!

QUOTE (beckham15 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 09:44 AM) no people are tired of ozzie talking out of his a** He is the face of the organization and kids look up to what he says, whether people say it isn't that bad and that he isnt encouraging beating people up kids younger may take it that way. If he felt this way he could have kept his comment between him and rios and not have to go out in the media and say that. Again, what does these comments have to do with the way the team is playing? It does exactly what you just did... You are wasting your time on it instead of on how the team is performing.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 09:15 AM) All this excitement over the Bulls really pisses me off, to the point that I'm disgusted in Chicago Bulls fans. Why is everyone getting excited that the Bulls are fighting with a Chris Boshless Toronto Raptors team for the 8th seed in the Eastern Conference? The Bulls suck, and have gone nowhere in the last 5 years. They've made every wrong decision sans Derrick Rose who was giftwrapped for them. Now, fans think it's some big deal that the Bulls are going out and beating old injured Celtics teams or Cavs teams sans Lebron to pass the Raptors who don't have Chris Bosh. I hope the Bulls get crushed tonight, per the usual, and I hope the Knicks lay down against the Raptors. The Bulls took a huge stride forward, despite everything that happened to them. Before Rose, Noah, and Deng went out with injuries they were fifth in the East, and were moving up the ranks at the time. Those three injuries killed this team this year. I am amazed that they even are where they are right now.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 09:18 AM) There are better ways to get the focus off of your players than by encouraging violence. If he wants to get his attention he should blast about how ownership should fire him or something ridiculous like that which has no impact on the young kids that follow and look up to him. And lets face it, Ozzie is the face of the franchise so to many people he is the spokesman of this franchise and as far as I'm concerned these comments are a slap in the face to a shareholder (i.e. fan). I never said it was right. This is Ozzie. This is what he does. The sad thing is that it works.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 09:16 AM) So because fans calling up to the Score are talking about Ozzie being a jackass you think our offense feels at ease with little pressure on them? DO you feel better at your job with your bosses in your face, or off talking about something else?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 09:13 AM) There are smarter ways of doing that. It would seem like it, but this works. I'll bet if you listen to talk radio, very little is said about the hitting last night, and they spend a ton of time on Ozzie's statments.

The team won't do anything until people start canceling season tickets because of what Ozzie said.