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Yeah, they are really "about people" lately ?

But yet the two teams that everybody suggested would be all in on these players BOTH wouldn't hit that amount and it sounds like they had the chance to at least match it. I could be wrong but what do I know.

I am definitely sickened by missing out on Machado but it's interesting to imagine that maybe his interviews didn't go over that great, whether it be the hustle comment or the "dirty plays" over his career and it caused multiple teams to not want to go to $300M and try to get him for a "discount". Phillies wouldn't go $300M? Padres outbid everyone...crazy.

And if Jerry told him he won't approve $300M guaranteed for Machado, then what? Nobody knows what actually happened behind closed doors.

This is what nobody knows and what nobody will ever find out unless maybe when Hahn and KW are no longer in the organization and want to talk. The owner makes the decisions, anybody that has had to report any type of sale or deal to the owner of a private company they worked for knows how difficult these processes can be to accomplish.

Not ideal but I'll take some. The last thing we want is to get any more irrelevant than they already are.

They have been receiving backlash all day, they (hopefully) aren't going to come out and say that Harper is an option just to "fail" for a second time.

Regarding the two prized possessions, the only thing we can hope for is the White Sox fully expected (like everybody) that Harper would sign after Machado. They gave it the old college try to get Machado at a discount and are (hopefully) fully prepared to pony up for Harper.

I really hope so. It's super surprising to me that they would openly go after these FA's, act like legit players in the game and look like absolute fools to nationwide media.

I don't want to call ourselves fools because it's shocking to imagine a FO publicly suggesting we can sign one of them when they had no intention to give them what the market initially suggested, they look like fools more than we do. Either way, Damnit.

Yeah, I should have done some more research before posting that. This sucks.

I really hope that the Bulls can reel in a reputable coaching candidate to start to turn this thing around. This FA class is stacked and while I don't expect them to get one of the big fish, there are so many good ones that it seemingly makes the Bulls have somewhat of a chance to get somebody. Ideally, I'd like to see the Bulls somehow grab Klay Thompson, and a pass first PG like Rubio. Our defense would be stacked with Klay, Porter, WCJ, Dunn and tell Lavine that he could be 6th man of the year for the next half decade. We need somebody that will help progress Lauri, him and Klay together could be a great tandem in the East. Likely to happen? No, but we can dream. They are such a joke.

Being a fan of the Bulls is sickening. We have no shot at any of these big free agents because of how big of a joke they have become. Instead, we get to watch Markannen get worse (although he's been rebounding like crazy of late) when he should be our focal point and potential savior helping to bring this franchise back to relevance.

Porzingis is obviously talented but he's a 7'3 player that has shot under 44% for his career. I'm not sure how he alone makes sense for Anthony Davis but those three players, Ball you just stated was compared to Jason Kidd, Ingram who has been called a raw Durant and Kuzma who has been amazingly solid since the day he stepped foot in the NBA, do not. They all have weaknesses and they are all young enough to fix them. Give me three potential studs over one potential stud anyday. This is a good get for the Mavs and has the potential to be huge but so could the other three getting away from Lebron. Ball and Ingram are two years younger and have plenty of room for growth.

Ayjay Polik would have been a nice signing at that amount.

Not sure what Minneapolis you guys have been to but it's an awesome city. The food and drink scene is on absolute fire right now, close to "nature", and is really only second to Chicago in the region. And I'm not even a liberal.

Brees is probably my favorite QB of all time. Overall, his year was great but his play fell off quite a bit starting in November. They averaged like 19ppg over the last 1.5-2 months of this year. They have one pick in the first 4 rounds of the draft (2nd rounder), Ingram is a FA, a pretty difficult road schedule (Bears, Rams, Seahawks), Brees is another year older. Of course they will be pretty good but It's going to be tough sledding for them to get as far as they did with the play they showed the past 2 months.

Let's all be honest and say if it was your team, none of you would be "moving on". This is a big time missed call and is the reason the Saints and Brees probably never see a Super Bowl again/for a long time.

because you love the guy and want him to be happy to be a part of the family.

He could just be trolling knowing it’s happening.

I mean, if my team were as bad as current Raiders, I wouldn't want that contract either. That's really the only argument.

And my comment has nothing to do with potential...Trubisky has just as much, if not more potential. Watson played horrible over the weekend but he has been one of the better QB's in football from day 1.

Watson right now is better than Trubisky, those numbers came with the worst offensive line in the league and off of a major injury.

Found it! Yeah, that seems like a ridiculously high number, it's about half way down. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/even-most-multimillionaires-cant-afford-to-own-a-private-jet-2018-04-03

I just used an estimate from Honeywell that was found online on costs. I'm also going off of a friend who has a jet, he spends quite a bit per year on his (bought used and a few years old) but he also doesn't have the bankroll that the Kid has. I also saw an article at some point recently that stated the average private jet owner is worth $1.5B, I think it was on marketwatch. I'm sure there are plenty of options for planes/ownerships and options.