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I dunno - love how the guys on the third line play together, though that could get re-shuffled when Bolland gets back.

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They had several near-goals in the second and controlled the puck most of the period. Yeah, the third was dull, but I don't think it was that boring. They were up two and forcing a bad offensive team to find good shots in a playoff game.

They have to keep taking the hits - it's only going to get worse if Harding doesn't come back.

Need a bit more aggressive trying to carry it in.

Um, that's a trip in any League. Wild fans cheer every time they get the puck past the blue line, boo even when the penalties are blatant. Thinking Harding pulled his groin.

Impressive [expletive]. Forman understands how to build to a bench with role players at value. Its actually quite similar to the approach Krause and Phil took in the 90's: add veterans / younger players who do one or two things well; play them in a way that maximizes their skill sets. The abberation of course is Robinson - the Jordan Era teams never had anyone like this. To me he most resembles Vinnie "The Microwave" Johnson. For those of you too young to remember him: http:// http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/johnsvi01.html http://www.google.com/imgres?sa=X&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGHP_enUS490&biw=1249&bih=474&tbm=isch&tbnid=F2-zIFnmat6WdM:&imgrefurl=http://www.ultimatenba.com/galerias/fotos/jugadores/nba/VinnieJohnson-572.html&docid=yIM05_KhF8oYDM&imgurl=http://www.ultimatenba.com/galerias/VinnieJohnson/VinnieJohnson005.jpg&w=394&h=500&ei=ke2IUefjAsT_ygHE_oH4Ag&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=2&vpy=119&dur=2734&hovh=253&hovw=199&tx=77&ty=276&page=1&tbnh=145&tbnw=119&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:0,i:191

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this guy here is dead :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

He figures it should have been him rather than Bosh.

But thats exactly why hes valuable. Nobody really is dying for an overpaid Boozer or a nicked up Deng. But paired with Butler and a pick? Suddenly they're much more tempting. Gonna have to give up value if we want Love. You are correct, except that their value lies in their contracts, both of which create a ton of cap room to pursue FA's after the 2014 season. Boozer is a net negative in any trade Even with amnesty?

But thats exactly why hes valuable. Nobody really is dying for an overpaid Boozer or a nicked up Deng. But paired with Butler and a pick? Suddenly they're much more tempting. Gonna have to give up value if we want Love. You are correct, except that their value lies in their contracts, both of which create a ton of cap room to pursue FA's after the 2014 season.

Deng, Boozer, and the Charlotte pick are all in play this offseason. I wouldn't trade Butler. For the money he is a valuable contributor.

Butler has been quite the revelation this season. He'll make a nice chip for Minni in the upcoming Love deal. Oh please for the love of the almighty Where's my green pencil?

Butler has been quite the revelation this season. He'll make a nice chip for Minni in the upcoming Love deal.

I'm not sure how you can peeved at Thibs here. In no particular order, they were down Rose, Deng, and Hinrich in this game, and played signifigant time (in terms of value) without Gibson and Boozer. Their best scorer is Nate Robinson and their best perimiter defender is Jimmy Butler. In other words, the fact they were still in position to win with less than a minute to play (and arguably got jobbed by refs who allowed Wallace to bear-hug Belinelli) is IMO - at least in part - due to Thibs coaching.

That's why I have been arguing it is viable, if not likely. It is certainly plausible enough that it worried the idiot owners of rooftops who think they are going to intimidate Ricketts by threatening a breach of contract lawsuit. In reality, these guys have almost no leverage. Even if they won a lawsuit they'd spend millions to get there, and by then Ricketts will have banked millions more via a sweetheart deal with Rosemont. I am very happy that the Cubs will stay in Wrigleyville. I love it there and have dozens of happy memories that run back to when I was 4 and saw Cliff Johnson homer to beat the Dodgers. That said, I don't balme Ricketts one iota for getting pissed enough to make the threats he did yesterday. These rooftop people should offer to felate him for all the money they derive from the product he produces.

Where in the NW burbs do you live, McHenry Cnty?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-suburbs-cubs-20130502,0,7367666.story There's no shortage of interested suitors. If it came down to it, there is absolutely no way they'd move to Schaumburg (the site is near only the Elign-O'Hare, which is routinely backed-up all the way to 290/53, which is also routinely backed-up. Plus there is literally nothing around there except crappy townhouses and a shitty / trashy bunch of strip malls on Lake St) or Naperville (way too far / Sox country).

That's a short bus or shuttle ride on roads that are far better equipped to handle traffic than the area around Wrigley. Plus parking would be easier and likely much cheaper. Moreover, until he last couple of years, walk-up traffic wasn't much of an issue because all of the games were sold-out or nearly sold-out in advance. With more night-games coming, the suburban dwelling business-person who works in the Loop becomes an even more likely customer, and he/she will be very happy to take the blue line (park in the Kiss n Ride lot) or their car to Rosemont rather than be cornered in Wrigleyville. EDIT: This also applies to folks work and live in the 'burbs, many of whom stay away rather than fight the horrendous reverse commute to get to Wrigley for a 7:05 start. These two demos have tons of purchasing power, particularly relative to the Millenials who live in the apartments immedaitely around Wrigley. The likelihood of the Cubs moving is slim in my estimation, but that doesn't mean it isn't plausible or viable. So the plan is to shuttle thousands of people down Mannheim or a lesser trafficked road? That's expensive, time consuming, and impractical. As I mentioned when this first came about, because of the volume of people converging on the stadium, the only people who actually have a shorter transit time to Rosemont are those immediately west and southwest of O'Hare. Everyone in the city, the northern, northwest, and southern suburbs would all be looking at similar or longer times to get to the park. Have you been to Wrigley lately (last ten years)? They are already shuttling people from remote parking lots that are more than a mile away, and doing it on Irving Park, Addison and Belmont. That's teh very definition of impractical and expensive. Next, you are dead-wrong if you truly believe it takes approx the same time to get to Rosemont from the North and NW burbs as it does to get to Wrigley from the same places. Its simply not true - the distance and time-spent are far shorter to Rosemont. Finally, if by "south" you mean folks (like me) who live due-West of the city (most everyone farther south than the western burbs are Sox fans, and even the western burbs themselves tend to be split pretty evenly in that regard), headed up 294 to get to O'Hare/Rosemont is almost always an easy drive, regardless of the time of the day. Your arguments simply don't hold water here.

That's a short bus or shuttle ride on roads that are far better equipped to handle traffic than the area around Wrigley. Plus parking would be easier and likely much cheaper. Moreover, until he last couple of years, walk-up traffic wasn't much of an issue because all of the games were sold-out or nearly sold-out in advance. With more night-games coming, the suburban dwelling business-person who works in the Loop becomes an even more likely customer, and he/she will be very happy to take the blue line (park in the Kiss n Ride lot) or their car to Rosemont rather than be cornered in Wrigleyville. EDIT: This also applies to folks work and live in the 'burbs, many of whom stay away rather than fight the horrendous reverse commute to get to Wrigley for a 7:05 start. These two demos have tons of purchasing power, particularly relative to the Millenials who live in the apartments immedaitely around Wrigley. The likelihood of the Cubs moving is slim in my estimation, but that doesn't mean it isn't plausible or viable.

I don't think anyone has forgotten this. Some people appear to think it is the neighborhood that makes the park, not the other way around.