Sammy Sofa

Pajamas, the bear face sucks, stirrups suck.

I want one of the throwback ones they busted out last season. Did they ever sell those?

The new uniforms sound dope as [expletive], but the greys are radical to the max, dude. I love the way the "Chicago" looks.

I'm tired of Barney as a starter, but it's not Theriot-bad since he doesn't appear to be a raging asshat...or he just hides it really well.

Sounds great, but the current road grey is also fantastic, so eat [expletive].

Meaning...what?

Would further limiting the college issue help? If players can't be drafted until after 3 or 4 years instead of what it is now (2 years, right?) might that help make the draft deeper in terms of talent? I don't really think so. You'll see a little bit of a dry spell for a while, then maybe one or two wild drafts from all the guys forced back, and then it would just even out. I think getting rid of the college rule altogether might be more helpful. Back before the rule, tanking and picking a high school player was so risky it wasn't even a good bet. Having that extra year of review against exponentially better opponents has made the scouting pool much less risky. Hmmm. Yeah, I was mulling it over in my head after my first post and the extra years really wasn't seeming like any kind of long term solution. It's just frustrating how the drafts end up having so few impact players or value picks. I do think that delay would end up producing a lot more quality players, as opposed to some of the guys that are drafted now. A lot of it, though, has to do with the way the NBA is structured. I think they should expand the draft and make the D League an actual farm system, where each franchise gets assigned a team. As it stands now, "raw" guys get drafted every year, and then they're basically discarded after a year because coaches are (rightfully) more focused on winning games and saving their jobs as opposed to helping some kid learn how to properly box out. That's a good point; unless a player breaks out right away they're basically done, and the only ones who really get a chance to break out are the ones they're expecting/hoping to break out in the first place. Unless a team gets hit by injuries you have a bunch of guys who just take up space, and nobody gives a damn about the D League. Sounds like some real areas of improvement.

Would further limiting the college issue help? If players can't be drafted until after 3 or 4 years instead of what it is now (2 years, right?) might that help make the draft deeper in terms of talent? I don't really think so. You'll see a little bit of a dry spell for a while, then maybe one or two wild drafts from all the guys forced back, and then it would just even out. I think getting rid of the college rule altogether might be more helpful. Back before the rule, tanking and picking a high school player was so risky it wasn't even a good bet. Having that extra year of review against exponentially better opponents has made the scouting pool much less risky. Hmmm. Yeah, I was mulling it over in my head after my first post and the extra years really wasn't seeming like any kind of long term solution. It's just frustrating how the drafts end up having so few impact players or value picks.

I take it basketball isn't one of your primary sports... College can be a "one and done". I don't follow college sports at all.

Would further limiting the college issue help? If players can't be drafted until after 3 or 4 years instead of what it is now (2 years, right?) might that help make the draft deeper in terms of talent?

Yeah, I got through without any problem.

Holy [expletive]; he's going to die.

A McCown interception is nowhere near as annoying as most of those other things unless someone just expected him to never throw one. Given who he is it's a miracle he hasn't thrown more than he has.

A common misconception. A moving target going up and away is actually easier to hit (and lead) in a prone or kneeling sniping position than one coming in and down (try it yourself; kneel down and pretend you're aiming a rifle aim slightly above your sightline and then move down and see how little distance/time/maneuverability. Then pretend to aim at a target that is starting below you and then moving up and away and look how much more time/options you have). You also have everyone much more likely to look up and see him if he's firing when the cars are coming towards him. A sniper is going to want to lessen the chance he is spotted before he is sure he has hit his target. Oswald was a trained military marksman who could hit targets at 200 yards away only using iron sights. JFK was never more than 90 yards away. And the shots were always able to be duplicated. The trickiest and earliest recreations (and what the conspiracy theorists glommed onto) were the ones that tried to fit the shots in in under 6 seconds. That's when people had the most trouble getting the shots off in time or being as accurate, but the reality is that the actual window of time was more like 9 seconds...more than enough to do the shooting. And the 3rd shot would have been the easiest; the car is completely clear of anything blocking the view, it was barely moving after actually slowing down and JFK was effectively immobilized by the second shot and his back brace. Understandable given the magnitude of the crime and the chaos of the day (though the doctors trying to treat him didn't really make any mistakes in their efforts to save him), plus the Kennedy's and their circle trying to control the autopsy as much as possible to hide JFK's medical issues. Kennedy had traveled to other "hostile" cities and nothing had happened; despite how it's painted Dallas was no more tumultuous than dozens of other major cities in the U.S. at the time, and the president simply couldn't ignore them in his bid for re-election. And there was nothing unusual about the Secret Service's plans for that day to that point; presidents routinely traveled in open cars on parade routes. Kennedy's assassination was the only one to occur under the Secret Service as we know it, and it the catalyst for a ton of change. Now a bunch of the agents were partying hardy the night before, but the was negligence, not something nefarious (and not the only time it happened, too). Oswald told lie after provable lie that weekend and basically did nothing to expound on his claims of being a "patsy." Remember, he didn't say that just before he was killed; it was nearly two days before he died and he essentially did nothing to try and back that up. You'd think someone who genuinely knew they were being set up would be screaming to the high heavens about it, yet he just drops that one line despite being paraded in front of the press several times. Even his own brother remarked about how Oswald seemed to be enjoying the attention and "toying" with the authorities. Occam's Razor. And hey, weird stuff happens around or related to big historical events. John Wilkes Booth's brother saved Abraham Lincoln's son from being run over by a train. John Hinckley's family was good friends with the Bush family. History is filled with interesting connections and odd coincidences.

I wouldn't say it was as simple as "he loved JFK so much;" tons of people were horrified by what happened to the president regardless of their political persuasion. Ruby wasn't much a JFK fan as he was offended at the idea that someone like Oswald would kill "his president." The guy definitely had anger issues; he was notorious with the Dallas cops because they would routinely have to come out to his clubs because he'd be in a fight. He was also always trying to ingratiate himself with the cops; he welcomed them into his clubs and plied them with free booze and the like and in turn he hung around the police station a lot, hence why he was in there several times over the weekend after Oswald was captured. Ruby was known around town as a guy who liked to try and always be around whatever was going down; he hung around the police and reporters a lot seemingly always trying to build himself up as something bigger than he was. A lot of people point to this as things that on the surface make him ideal to be in a position to silence Oswald, but if anything it just shows how horrible a choice a hitman he would have been; Jack Ruby could not shut the [expletive] up. He wanted to be liked and to impress people around him and he's the last person you'd entrust to not say anything about a massive plot to kill the president. And yeah, him killing Oswald really was a spur of the moment thing. He likely knew Oswald was supposed to have been transferred earlier in the day, so odds are he made his way over just to see what was going on when he saw the people and the armored car milling around outside; that's the kind of thing Jack Ruby did. He walked down the ramp, got there literally only seconds before Oswald came out (again, why would a planned hit be left so close to failing if he is only momentarily delayed yet again?) and then snapped. He said himself that it was the look on Oswald's face in that moment that made him finally do it, and that was definitely a running theme with Oswald that weekend; multiple people who encountered him remarked about how smug he came across even just in the looks he gave and how people just wanted to clock him, or worse. Basically the whole thing just came down to chance. The only reason Ruby was able to walk down the ramp was because the guard there stepped aside for a moment to help move the armored car out of the way. Add that to the myriad list of things that had to happen just right for him to end up at that moment and he's either the luckiest damn hitman ever or this was the most amazingly powerful conspiracy of all time.

I think I was fooled by McCown, who made his line look better than they were. To compare, Andrew Luck had a similarly [expletive] line protecting him two weeks ago and he played his worst game of the season. Both Cutler and McCown have made the line look a LOT better than it actually has been. I heard it mentioned the other day that the Bears' o-line has allowed their QB's to be the most hurried or however the hell you put it. So they're not getting sacked as much, but the Bears' QB's are still under way too much pressure.

He's so damn dreamy.

But how will they accomplish this with Reinsdorf using Tom as a human footrest?

Pretty much any coach would be against tanking.

And if you're going with the simultaneous thing, where the [expletive] is Oswald's third bullet? He definitely fired three, and if JFK was hit by TWO bullets his head would have straight up just been gone. Oswald's first shot missed only because it likely glanced off of a branch or a street light; how did his third shot completely miss the car? And no, that doesn't explain the Magic Bullet (which doesn't need to be explained away, but that's a whole other tangent), because this theory actually argues in favor of one of Oswald's shots hitting both Kennedy and Connally. It's bonkers.

Urge...to kill...fading...fading....

I'd have to imagine that moving Deng is the top priority right now.

The Bulls won't do that, and in any case, the NBA already rigged one lottery for them, they're not going to do it again. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cdsy14MT_PU/UX2Us2XfUkI/AAAAAAAALfQ/7WgpwA-vMLs/s1600/ill-kill-you.gif

This season: http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/misc/ronrunfall.jpg

Chicago needs another fire.