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QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 10, 2016 -> 03:26 PM) Everyone seems to forget that Derrick used to play through everything. Then he got hurt. He got mind-f***ed by those injuries. In one of the promos he did for Adidas after his first injury, he famously said he'll die on the court for basketball. That's D Rose in his previous life.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 06:45 PM) The problem is none of the guys getting hurt are anything new. They have all been missing games the last few years. Even Butler. It was a nice theory all the injuries were on Thibs, but this is and has been and injury prone roster, how the people getting paid to make the roster haven't been able to see that is beyond puzzling. Rose missing a game with overall soreness with Butler out and the team reeling shows what an anti leader he is. Oh, he will be good to go on Wednesday bi put can't play at all on Monday when the team needs him. They need to do what they can do to see he is on another team as soon as possible. Injury or no injury, this team is far from "s***". I don't deny that this is an injury prone roster, but I doubt many gm's in the league would be able to do much about it with NBA's salary floor and ceiling limits. If Rose and Noah had an injury history before they signed their extension, then it's a fireable offense to sign them to their current deals. But the fact that they became injury prone after their extension makes it unfair to blame it on the GM entirely. Could Garpax have made some minor moves to improve the depth of the team in case of injuries? Sure, they could have. But could they have swung blockbuster deals to move Noah and Rose? I don't think so, no one would take a flier on those guys at that money.

QUOTE (ozzfest @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 05:12 PM) This roster is sh** even when healthy. We know you're critical of Garpax, but this team is still the second most talent roster in the East when healthy. The have have been inconsistent, they have underperformed, and all the injuries did not help.

Not that it's likely in this scenario, but have coaches who've been fired by a team end up being hired by the team again?

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 8, 2016 -> 11:00 PM) No. The Flair retirement segment was loads more memorable. Odd seeing hhh and Vince come out. The two guys who didn't want to elevate DB and kept making him wrestle Sheamus who I'm sure contributed to the head injuries. Don't think it's fair to point fingers at WWE on this. Vince and HHH could have cleared DB to return at RR, but chose not to until he's cleared by the WWE doctors, which is a move that prevents putting the company at jeopardy for future lawsuits but also looks out for the long term health of DB. As DB mentioned last night, he has been dealing with concussions ever since he started wrestling, on a relatively frequent basis. If anything wrestling for WWE probably saved his life because other promotions would have cleared him to return a long time ago.

Missed the DB segment, but don't think it's a work. Went on WWE.COM and saw that they did a bunch of videos of superstars reacting to DB's retirement, and many of them seem like heartfelt messages.

1. KAT vs The Brow will be a debate for the next 10 years. Towns is just as insanely talented, and his motor is something else. 2. Game is over in Oakland.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 6, 2016 -> 03:23 PM) Bulls starting lineup: Rose Moore Snell Gibson Bairstow Lord help us. MDJ should be back. Let the countdown to end of T Snell as a starter begin.

Tyler Saladino, if he could stick around for the next 5-10 years. He has the right qualities - smart player, attention to details, works hard, has a passion for the game - if he sticks around long enough, I think he'd be a good candidate. The fact that he won't make tens of millions as a player gives him some incentive to stick around baseball as well.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Feb 1, 2016 -> 10:53 AM) To me, Plan A is sign a full-time replacement for Avisail Garcia. This means Dexter Fowler or Austin Jackson. This is the shortest path to the largest improvement on the roster. Avisail Garcia can fight LaRoche and Cabrera for playing time -- if he's still got some upside in the tank, he'll still have an opportunity to show it. Plan B is Matt Joyce/Shane Victorino/Will Venable as a strong-side platoon partner for Avi. To me, Ian Desmond is outside of this discussion. I believe Ian Desmond becomes a player we should acquire if his price falls far enough, but I don't see it as an "instead of an OF" option. Garcia has been a sub-replacement level player and projects as a replacement-level player. The need to upgrade there remains whether or not you upgrade at SS first. The SS position is weak, but not nearly AS weak as RF, so it's a lower priority and one with fewer options, and one with options that come with high variance. Also, assuming Saladino could handle SS with solid defense, which is very likely, he'd have a much higher floor than Avi.

Maybe they are confident that this training staff could keep him relatively healthy, make 25 starts, and throw 150 innings. If any team could do it, it'd be the Sox.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 04:21 PM) Shaq has said a lot of people are soft. Remember the Andrew Bynum versus Dwight Howard fiasco? That was downright embarrassing for Shaq. Ha yea I don't agree with everything Shaq says. He a fun guy but strikes me as bitter sometimes. But as physically intimidating as Blake is, he never struck me as a tough guy. Guys like Zach Randolph, Nick Collison, Perkins, and Psycho T aren't the physical specimen that Blake is, but I would consider them to be a lot tougher than Blake.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 11:03 AM) So apparently Blake Griffin got in a fight with an equipment staffer and broke his right hand as a result. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/14651663...equipment-staff I remember when Shaq said Blake Griffin is soft. Well, that's one way to punch someone in the face and still get called... soft.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 12:21 PM) Rose and Noah regaining form seemed likely? Do you own a medical marijuana card? I never said they would regain full form, but they were likely to be better than last year. Seriously, who would have predicted Rose to be worse that he was last year WHEN HEALTHY? Jo went from offensive liability to complete trash on offense before he got hurt this year. Their decline is the reason why we are falling apart. I think everyone predicted them to regain their form somewhat, including the front office. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 12:21 PM) And if If Hoiberg was the perfect fit for this roster, A. Why do we have posts defending the Gar/Pax hire saying the roster isn't filled with Hoiberg type players, and B. Why isn't the roster performing like an elite team? Show me one post before this season that says this roster does not have Hoiberg type player. We thought he'd be an offense mastermind, no one said we didn't have the right players. If Hoiberg felt like he needed a certain type of player to succeed, then he should have said something to the FO (we don't actually know if he did or not). This is as much on him as it is on GarPax. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 12:21 PM) Nikola has gone backwards. Makes you really wonder if Thibs was bad for him. Perhaps he was better for him than the Mayor. Everything people critize coaches and managers for, Gar/Pax is just as guilty. Everyone knew Thibs was a good coach in developing young players. If you feel like GarPax firing of Thibs led to Mirotic's decline, then sure, part of the blame could fall on them. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 12:21 PM) They have done some good things, but if the goal is the championship, they have been far too reluctant to take chances rather than play it conservately and ride the top 3 or 4 team in the East for as long as they can. This next offseason will be huge for the Bulls. Noah and Pau probably gone, and Rose a year away. The NBA is different than baseball. The money is locked in. What you can offer is hope for a title. Not many players seemingly have felt GarPax put together a roster where they were the one player from a title run. I agree, I would like to see some changes as well. I will just say that GarPax is the reason why we aren't the best team in the NBA, but they are certainly not the main reason why we are worse than last year.

QUOTE (ozzfest @ Jan 24, 2016 -> 04:02 PM) So why did GarPax tell us this was a championship roster? And if they have no shot at winning...why aren't they rebuilding? That's why you play the games. On paper, they WERE a championship contender. Many people, including this board, thought Hoiberg was the coach they needed to solve their biggest problem, offense. Hoiberg was one of the most promising coaches in college basketball, he certainly was an ideal fit for this team. Furthermore, if Rose continued his development post injury, Nikola took the next step of being rising star in this league, and Noah could come anywhere near his DPOY form only TWO years ago, yea we would be on top of the East right now. Those "ifs" all looked pretty likely at the start of the season, and the fact that they didn't happen were out of GarPax's control. And for the record, many experts picked the Bulls to finish with the best record in the East during preseason. It's certainly easy for the butthurt fans to point blame on others when hindsight is 20/20. QUOTE (ozzfest @ Jan 25, 2016 -> 10:41 PM) Skipped around the video a bit, and stopped listening after 4:47, this guy couldn't even get his facts right.

Also, love me some AJ. But not sure if WWE would ever push a former TNA guy into the title picture if TNA stays in business.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 25, 2016 -> 09:14 PM) Rock has more charisma in his finger nail than the entire roster. Well new day isn't bad. If you got the whole arena to chant llama penis with you, you are pretty incredible.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 24, 2016 -> 10:10 PM) Amazing how much Reigns got booed considering the reaction he had been getting the last month There were only 3 guys the fans wanted to win. AJ, Brock, and a guy who was cleared to return to ring but denied by WWE.

QUOTE (TheCut87 @ Jan 24, 2016 -> 10:05 PM) My money is on Rollins if he is healthy in time. Perfect timing to baby face him No way he returns into for WM. I wouldn't be surprised that he doesn't come back till the summer.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 24, 2016 -> 10:04 PM) We all saw this coming so not going to complain about it but...WWE had 2 chances, 2 chances to do something interesting and out of the box. With this Rumble and the tourney at Survivor Series and they took the safe easy route. Stale. Why didn't Brock run back in and F5 Bray Wyatt and get him eliminated if you're setting them up for Mania? The Rumble had good moments. The result was bad but thought the match was solid. Jericho was just brutal and botched a bunch of moves at the end. I am not a fan of Triple H winning, but at least he was surprisingly good in the ring. He was a lot more nimble around the ropes than I expected.

Come on Dean, your time is now.

WOW DID NOT SEE THAT COMING AT ALL!!! TRIPLE H IS BACK!

Waiting for HHH to come out at 30, looks like the internet is dead on.

Here we go.

Brock needs to come in and clean house against Wyatts.