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It's a job for him. If any of us get tired of our job, we may decide to step away no matter if it's good timing for the company or not. Emotions get the best of people but that is a bad look. There are rumors that he told the Colts earlier this year of his intentions but they didn't want to lose out on so ticket sales for this upcoming season so they kept it under wraps. This could line up and make sense seeing as they were supposedly turning down offers for Jacoby Brissett left and right back in April, their GM said he had to be "bowled over" to make a deal.

You know you can “be sober” and then go back to not being sober when you’re an addict, right?

Mets got Stroman for a fairly cheap price. He’s not an Ace but he’s had some solid numbers in that brutal division over the years.

Signed ticket (framed) by Mark after his first no-hitter that we attended...my Wife surprised me by getting it to Mark via a Batboy she was friends with.

They had an opportunity to get elite talent at a solid price to add to Moncada, Anderson, McCann, Abreu and Eloy who have all produced this year. Imagine that 1-6 with Machado, That offense had the opportunity to be elite over the next handful of years. Then, A couple of pitching signings to add to our rotation for 2020 and we are looking at a team that would have made serious noise. 2019 was the year to get one of the big hitters, 2020 is a year to get a big pitcher.

At this point, we need to hope the Bulls go the way of the Nets. Create a winning culture building from ground up (GarPax is bad but they've done it before) and then space is created when Porter's contract is done. The Bulls have plenty of talent, they need to show they could make some noise the next two years, the 2021 class could also be very solid.

This would be devastating after their title run and how the last couple of days shaped up.

I know what you are trying to say but what I am saying is Lavine played out of position when they weren’t playing well. He’s not a pass first guy, they just need some time together I’m not saying that this tandem can’t be better but Look at February, the Bulls best month and their third month playing together. They were playing very well together and were .500 for the month, Lauri had a higher usage. They point out that if you’re calling Lavine selfish at this point, it’s just a lazy take. He’s a score first SG who played PG. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.blogabull.com/platform/amp/2019/2/28/18244315/the-bulls-keep-winning-because-markkanen-and-lavine-are-balling-and-thats-good

Lavine shot almost 47% from the field not far removed from a torn acl. JR Smith has never even sniffed a year like Lavine just had and he’s only getting better. Russell is one of a handful or so players that had a higher usage rate than Lavine. So if you think Lavine is hurting Lauri...

I like Russel but I don’t think he’s the type of player you want to max out to average 22PPG and get bounced round 1 every year, that’s why the Wolves look to be the top suitors right now. Bulls can already do that with the talent they have once they all get some time together. Lavine is getting better every year but he was forced to play the point a lot , not an ideal situation. Coby is going to be able to get out and fly and Lavine will look much better in the offense.

Exactly, look at the Knicks. They have been bottom feeders for years.

The Bulls have gathered a lot of pretty solid to good assets that could be moved for one. They also have a couple of guys that could be perennial all stars as is.

Real tough, guy.

Lots of “I” in your post. Still don’t understand the comments directed at me, nobody is on a high horse nor do I need to get over myself for making a simple comment on a message board. Nobody was saying anything to you Makes me wonder about the times when I was called out for some stupid things from Admin’s and here we are with some even more ludicrous comments...

I don't need a lesson on house music and every genre reaches a point where it gets annoying or too mainstream (see EDM now). it still does not take away the fact that it was seen as an outlet and a way to show their identity for blacks, hispanics and homosexuals in a time where it was tough to do so.

Um, OK? Do you feel better after getting that out on the internet? Whether you agree with it or not, house music came from disco music on the South Side of Chicago, where the Sox play and where the Sox have a lot of fans. I'm not black or hispanic and I'm not even liberal but if you can't see why this would be hurtful to many Sox fans than your bolded internet tough guy comment says it all. The Chosen Few guys even had the Sox pretty close to cancelling the event all together, this week. Personally, I don't care as much about it as you may think but just because you or Steve Dahl says it wasn't racist, doesn't mean it doesn't appear that way to others that feel disco and it's extensions was and is still a big part of their community.

Sox are sending mixed signals by celebrating this tonight and then having a Chosen Few DJ night coming up. Disco and House go hand in hand.

Yeah, I thought I read somewhere online that it was video, too but I am only getting audio.

Another implosion. Their pitching is brutal.

If it's true, it makes sense, IMO. If JR will really do whatever KW wants and his comments do align with the shared story, perhaps Jerry is far removed with KW calling the shots and telling Hahn what to go in and hold firm at. My boss gets a bonus based on budget each year and if she makes a decision that I don't like or agree with, I'm definitely going to her boss or the owner of the company because I'm not getting what I want. Hahn could have known his hands were tied and used that Harvard Law degree to talk KW into signing subpar players to entice Machado. This is a business and every business has useless employees on the payroll, every company also has people that care about the budget even though they aren't the owner. This could all be BS but just sharing what he was told. Obviously, this all doesn't matter in the end because if we didn't sign a $300M free agent, we aren't going to sign a bigger one with this regime.

Thought I'd share an interesting story that is not Trout but related to these big deals, my brother has been doing some work at a White Sox employee's house. FWIW, He asked him about the Machado non-signing once he found out he was in the organization. As has been discussed, $300M was the number from day one and Manny badly wanted to come to Chicago as opposed to anybody else "at the table". We've also heard directly from Kenny that he didn't want to go to $300M, this is true but what isn't public is that "supposedly" JR does whatever Kenny tells him to do and was prepared to go to that number from day 1. Hahn is uber-pissed at KW along with many internally and KW is apparently 100% of the problem when it comes to signing and offering big money to free agents. If you look, the Sox really haven't made a significantly big contract signing since Albert Belle in 1996, KW took over just a few short years after that and we have not seen the money spent on a premier FA since that time.

Kuechel isn’t bringing any fan support back right now, it’s up to the young guys at this point.

But we are a major market, yes we have drafted pretty well but our front office has not done a good job of showing they can go for it in several years. I don’t have a fuzzy feeling that we are going to continually draft good players and find a way to trade them for someone elite because it has yet to happen. They’ve played well lately but overall they are a dumpster fire.

Lol, that’s basically what I said in different words...

I think we are seeing why some people out there picked them to compete a little and even finish 8th in the playoff race (I think Barkley did). There is talent there especially adding Porter but they will still be in NBA hell until they get a legitimate superstar or Lauri becomes Dirk.