Dick Allen

QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 03:06 PM) 1.) I never said releasing through proper channels makes it non partisan. You should understand that just because something paints one side poorly doesn't necessarily mean it's partisan. 2.) The memo has not been released yet you know it's useless. Amazing foresight. 3.) If the evidence isn't damning, why are the democrats in a full court press to attack it's credibility. 4.) I don't have opponents. I check the state. If the FBI would like to respond after the released I wouldn't be in favor of stopping them. I'd read their retort. They're probably full of s***, given their track record, but I'll consider all the facts available. Do you care if Trump colluded with the Russians? If he did and this memo made it all go away, you wouldn't care?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 02:27 PM) the replies on Ken Rosenthals tweet about this are so stupid. PEOPLE SHOULDNT BE ON THEIR PHONES THEN THEY WOULD BE FINE. Come on now, little kids have been hit by foul balls and bats, and it has had nothing to do with a phone. The phones definitely are a problem, but you are right, there are other issues. Little kids being exhibit A. FWIW, a little kid in front of me last season made a nice catch of a Buster Posey bat.

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What about being the Braves. Make the playoffs 15 years in a row and win it all once. That's crazy,especially with what they could put on the mound.

Logan Morrison is a guy KW wanted as compensation for Ozzie. But I think BMags is right. Agent driven falsehood most likely.

Verlander was pitching well when the Astros acquired him, so maybe they were lucky about that, but there is always luck involved when winning the WS. Think of the White Sox in 2005. What if a ball doesn't roll through Tony Graffinino's legs? What if El Duque doesn't get out of a bases loaded nobody out jam? The odds were overwhelming neither of those things would happen, and if they didn't, the wrong color Sox probably win that series. The Cubs were lucky the Astros liked Appel. The Royals got lucky vs. Houston when they won the WS, and had an improbable comeback vs. Oakland in the WC round the year before, which ultimately got them to the WS and a lot more money to spend. The list goes on and on. You have to be good, and you have to be lucky.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 01:25 PM) Think part of the reason NO made the trade is that it seems really inconceivable that they miss the playoffs. Yes. The tank is on for a lot of teams.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 01:18 PM) At least 2nds in the NBA arent that valuable. If the Bulls want they can easily pick one up from another team for garbage. Once in a while they work out, especially if it is some guy stashed in Europe for a few years, like Niko. But generally, I agree, blah. And if there is someone they really like, they are easy to acquire on draft night. The problem with this trade is it helps NO get better not just with Niko but Monroe too. Looking at the West, it looks like they are just about a lock at a low playoff seed, even without Boogie. It's probably 50/50 at best the draft pick turns out to be a better player than Niko, but it helps the tank which really is probably the biggest asset the Bulls acquire.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 01:00 PM) Niko balked at the deal (he has a no trade) because it didn't guarantee him the 2nd year and he would have lost his Bird rights. And once the second year was picked up, he lost his ability to block the trade.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 12:47 PM) Has StrangeSox? Have you? Republicans say it's bad for Democrats. Democrats are saying it's inaccurate. How it is it disingenuous? The day the story broke no one around here mentioned it (can't imagine why) and I brought it up. I didn't make any personal claims. I didn't say anything partisan. StrangeSox is shooting down every aspect of the memo when it hasn't even been released yet. I don't know what the gossip column at Salon is pumping into his head but I am going to wait until it's released to make any judgement. It would seem like you would need the actual document to judge it but sometimes the partisan stuff gets in the way for people. Can't imagine why back at you.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 12:43 PM) Sounds like NO Gets Niko (with 2019 option picked up) 2nd round pick Bulls got for Pondexter Rights to swap 2nd rounders in 2/3 years Chi gets 1st round pick Jameer Nelson (to be waived) Tony Allen (to be waived) Omer Asik Apparently for cap purposes, the Bulls were below the floor prior to this trade. Maybe it gets them in compliance, so the additional money would have had to have been spent one way or another.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 12:11 PM) So Asik + first for Mirotic + a second?? I think the Bulls will also get another stiff or two to make some room to sign Monroe.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 11:20 AM) It's a bit disingenuous for Rabbit to be asking everybody to pump the brakes on the memo when he posted this on January 19 about the very same memo... "The House Intelligence Committee, the group that had their Twitter suspended yesterday, is said to be possessing the memo that would expose corruption that would lead to the end of careers for lifer politicians." LMAO.

Russia, good. FBI, CIA, bad. 'Merica.

QUOTE (2005thxfrthmmrs @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 05:09 PM) Sitting him only shows they are extra motivated to move him, moreso than before, reducing leverage they have. They don't want him getting hurt and killing a trade. It helps the tank. 3 on the road without Dunn, Laurie, and Niko are most likely losses. It isn't like these games will raise his worth in the market. It can only go down, so he sits.

QUOTE (Jack Parkman @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 01:17 PM) Then you have the Sox from 2008-2012. Not good enough to make the playoffs, just good enough to come in 2nd or 3rd. Except the Sox did make the playoffs in 2008, which was actually the year Detroit got Cabrera and KW said that just made them more competitive with the White Sox.

Pretty soon the only immigrants allowed will be those willing to work for minimum wage at Trump properties, or help Jared pay down some of his debt on his genius building purchase in NYC. Apparently the tax cuts haven't spurred Donny to increase wages.

Sad. He hit a lot of homers, hardly ever struck out, and had awesome hair.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 09:16 AM) CDC director Brenda Fitzgerald resigns after it is revealed she has bought a lot of stock in tobacco companies since taking over. Captain Picard facepalm meme in perpetuity He only hires the best.

Greg, Every day in office for 8 years, Obama was disrespected by republicans, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh...all of the places you go for a few minutes to see what's up. Did you miss it? He's out of office now, but they still give him crap. Maybe not every day anymore. Trump has blatantly lied more than any other president. Why is it bad to call him out on it? Why do they still give Obama crap for saying "if you like your plan, you can keep your plan". Why is that OK, and Trump's big beautiful wall will only cost $8 billion because that is what he does, and oh by the way, Mexico is going to pay for the wall, and now he needs $25 billion for said wall, which he now admits wouldn't be nearly as long or bold as it was when it was $8 billion, since he went on an expedition and discovered there are places on the border a wall could not be built?

I wonder if Niko refused. I didn't like the deal anyway. The Bulls are under the salary floor. I am not sure what happens if they stay under it. I think they might have to disperse the difference to their roster.

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QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jan 26, 2018 -> 03:21 PM) I think Rock nailed it: the dude seems like a huge asshole. His tantrums are ridiculous. Some coaches get ripped for not having tantrums. He's a bit intense, but he's a good guy. Not only that but he's like, really smart. He went to Wharton you know.

Feder reporting Bulls most likely to the Score, Sox most likely to WGN or ESPN 1000.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Jan 30, 2018 -> 12:10 AM) Lol - complete and utter nonsense! What the devil are you talking about now! Rooney never said any such thing of the sort. Rooney began his career with the Sox in 1988 (on the television side, succeeding Don Drysdale before giving way to Gary Thorne on the TV side in 1989), and he only presided over Redus’ final 77 games with the Sox before Redus was traded to the Pirates that year for...the mighty Mike Diaz! Remember Diaz’? No? There’s a reason for that - he was terrible! Diaz’ career didn’t last past the ‘88 season, for crying out loud. Look at Diaz’ career stats. Does he look like a guy for whom a player better than Rickey Henderson IN HIS PRIME would be traded for? Of course not! Which is why the amazingly astute John Rooney would have never said such an absurd thing as asserted by Our Very Own Dick Allen here. It never happened! Rooney may have favorably compared Redus’ skill set to that of Henderson, but he never came close to suggesting Redus was better than Henderson. Dick, unless you have video/audio to prove otherwise, strongly suggest you back off of this obvious misstatement of yours that the great John Rooney made any suggestion EVER that Gary Redus was better than one of the greatest players of all time in Rickey Henderson. Very much a disservice to Rooney’s great career on the South Side. you can strongly suggest anything you want. I heard it with my own two ears. He said it.