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QUOTE (LDF @ Feb 26, 2016 -> 08:13 AM) $$ Bill passed away the rest of the family knew that investment and maybe several yrs of suckage, in order to get the right core, was necessary, regardless of the profit margin. $$ Bill was directly related to the suckage of the blackhawks. thankfully, he croaked right after the Hawks drafted Kane (and a year after Toews), so they were actually able to build around their young superstars. If he somehow were still alive today, there's no doubt that Kane and Toews would have been on other teams by now and the UC would be silent and home games wouldn't be on tv. It was the perfect storm.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 08:36 AM) Disappointing that General Soreness returned when Derrick Rose was coming back, but great efforts from Gasol, McDermott, Moore, Gibson, Dunleavy, Snell, Felicio, etc. Great win I believe General Soreness is the plan moving forward. It sounds like the Bulls will happily have Derrick sit out 1/5 games. If that's the plan to return him to 75% of what he once was, I'm fine with it. I'd take 65 games of that over 75+ of the human garbage we watched the first 3/5 of the season.

My favorite part of the Ladd deal is that there's a provision in it that if the Hawks win the Cup, the Jets get a 3rd rounder. Wish other teams in Chicago worked as well as the Hawks.

WOW. I went to bed early last night and stayed mostly off the grid. THIS IS A f***ING HUGE PICKUP! The Hawks are already great, now Ladd is back where he always belonged. He's such a perfect fit. f*** YES.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 24, 2016 -> 10:16 AM) Supposedly Bears will be meeting with Alshon this week. Might even be today. I don't know if they are meeting with Alshon or Alshon's agent or both. This is a whole lot of hilarious non-information. I love it.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 24, 2016 -> 07:15 AM) If you buy a lot of games, then Best Buy's Gamers Unlocked program is the way to go. New games are 20% off ($48) plus you get $10 in rewards certificates if you also pre-buy the game. I believe he buys every game.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 23, 2016 -> 12:14 PM) I'm slowly watching House of Cards (5 or 6 episodes into season 1). Fantastic. When you get to Season 3, just don't hit the play button. It was trash. 1&2 were a blast, though.

Might I recommend anyone with MLB 15 The Show go grab the latest OS rosters update. Not a whole hell of a lot will change with regards to the player universe, and this beats spending $65 for new rosters in a month. I am enjoying the Abreu / Frazier combo.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 22, 2016 -> 11:37 AM) http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playe...amp;position=SS Rollins last year and his projections for this year. Higher OBP than Alexei.

Clowns

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 17, 2016 -> 05:18 PM) Per Cowley: http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/7/71/13...alistic-returns Chicago Bulls have discussed a 3 way trade with the Boston Celtics and a mystery team that would send Pau Gasol out bringing back picks and a rotation big man. Bulls had interesting talks involving a trade with the Boston Celtics/3rd Team as of late Wednesday afternoon but talks have gone silent as the Bulls are asking for too much value in return for Gasol/Taj. The tides have turned! Maybe now it's the Bulls who won't trade Gasol unless they get Tyrus Thomas back in the deal!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 16, 2016 -> 12:07 PM) I think he's a spectacular coach but he can only work with certain people and he probably also has a lifespan with organizations. We kinda saw the same thing with Skiles when he was here - absolutely got the best out of his players, was a key part in taking an org that didn't have the leagues best talent and pushing them into the 2nd round, but eventually the personality clashes between him and the team got so bad that the Bulls basically collapsed for a year and were forced to remove him. The Bulls gave Thibs probably the best possible roster for him in 2011-2014. Center like Noah, hard workers like Deng and Butler, guys who would buy in but weren't such big names they dominated everything, guys who would put up with him always being on them, deep bench including "guys Thibs likes for defense", but unfortunately the engine that could make the offense go kept breaking down. Then eventually, players and the org started feeling he was overdoing it, especially when they brought in an all star from outside the org who hadn't had to put up with a coach like Thibs before. The only player who turned on Thibs was Jimmy Butler. He's also turning on Fred Hoiberg.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Feb 16, 2016 -> 08:17 AM) I wouldn't call it "bananas". If he can break 120, it's really special. Last year's 87 was the lowest in a complete season since the 60s. 110 is a typical number for the scoring championship since the Gretzky days. You cannot compare one season to another. All you can do is compare him against this year's competition. He's having the most statistically significant offensive season in 25 years. That's, by definition, bananas.

It's weird that one player can outrun the competition so much. Kane is on pace for 112 points, while the next closest is only 92 points. However, last year the leader was only 87 points, which shows what Kane is doing is just bananas. The 21% difference between Kane's projected outcome in points vs the 2nd best is the highest differential I can find since Gretzky's 24% besting Brett Hull (163-131) in the 1990-91. That's 25 years.

This is just absurd.

QUOTE (MEANS @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 10:01 AM) A little late but last week the Toronto Maple Leafs unveiled their new logo and I designed it. It was a very crazy and surreal week to say the least. Probably my biggest accomplishment as a designer although the two locker room graphics for the last 2 Blackhawks Stanley Cup wins come pretty close too. Wow. That's awesome.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Feb 15, 2016 -> 12:06 PM) There aren't any around us. SAMs?

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 15, 2016 -> 08:13 PM) There's twitter chatter about it but I have no idea what the source of it is either. Does it involve the Bulls acquiring a stud entering his prime? Yes. Ok it's not happening.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 15, 2016 -> 07:52 PM) Apparently there are still rumors that Bulls are going after DeMarcus Cousins He said without a link or a source.

Better Call Saulllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

I love that there are multiple posts about an ASG being unwatchable. No s***.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 12:27 PM) The Tidal stream worked horrible for me yesterday. I am expecting that he may make it exclusive to Tidal for a week or so (like Dre did with apple), going to be frustrating to wait but whatever. Hopefully he tours again cause Yeezus Tour was easily top 5, if not top 2 concerts Ive ever seen. He'll tour.

I love that we are in an era where Kanye can legitimately add new tracks to an album and release it later that day. He's got references on these tracks to real world things that happened as recently as last week. This is gonna be gooooooooooooood.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 04:54 PM) My first job on a major film set was secured today, I will be working with the Chicago team on Transformers 5. It seems like my hard work is beginning to pay off. Congrats!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 09:24 AM) let it be known that the Great Chipotle-Qdoba food war started here. I think that war ended when Qdoba closed most of its restaurants.