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  1. Sammy Sofa
    That's a pretty weird analogy, but I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with you. It's a coach who went from one team to another under what was perceived by many as controversial circumstances and ultimately it didn't turn out to be much of a story despite getting a decent amount of attention while it went down and shortly afterwards. Why would Thibs getting fired and being hired by Minnesota be so much more scandalous or so much more of a story? The point is that it's ultimately not that big a deal, and odds are, outside of the local press for the teams and fans involved, it's not going to mean much of anything to everyone else.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Look at it this way: how often has the controversy of Maddon going from the Rays to the Cubs followed them throughout the season? Nobody cared about that after about, what, a week?
  3. Sammy Sofa
    There's nothing to sweep under the rug. People seem to be drastically overestimating how much attention people outside of Chicago pay to the Bulls; the Rose stuff got play because he was expected become such a superstar (and was, for a brief time). Everything else is mostly only cared about by spiteful monsters like ssr. KAT will become a top 5 player as soon as next season, minny will win way more games than anyone expected, and we will all have to collectively reacknowledge the greatness of tom thibodeau I have little doubt that Thibs and Minnesota will do really well for a few years. That Thibs had been the coach of the Bulls probably isn't going to be a big focus of that story nationally.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Nah, him opting to sit out and missing more time than expected was actually big news when it happened. Rose has had a rep as a bust long before his time as a Bull came to an end, sadly. There's few people out there thinking the Bulls gave Rose a raw deal or treated him bad. Just to be clear, I wasn't implying that Rose was mistreated or anything. I was just making a side comment about the local vs national media aspect. It's just been my personal experience from talking to a few fans from other cities that people didn't seem to realize that there were lots of issues besides the actual injuries. If that's not true, then... oh well. Oh, you're definitely right about how most of this stuff doesn't hit nationally; Rose was an exception. Just to bring it back to DC again, the Wizards had a horrendous year where they drastically underperformed, and the talk here would have you thinking it was an absurd soap opera that was so humiliating, yet it wasn't barely ever a blip on the national radar.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Nah, the Baez pic carried over into the bad times. I think Castro really is a good luck totem. As much as I will miss ogling Jake's majestic ass, it's time for drastic measures.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    There's nothing to sweep under the rug. People seem to be drastically overestimating how much attention people outside of Chicago pay to the Bulls; the Rose stuff got play because he was expected become such a superstar (and was, for a brief time). Everything else is mostly only cared about by spiteful monsters like ssr.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Nah, him opting to sit out and missing more time than expected was actually big news when it happened. Rose has had a rep as a bust long before his time as a Bull came to an end, sadly. There's few people out there thinking the Bulls gave Rose a raw deal or treated him bad.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Well, just to boil it down further to my own proximity bias, I work outside of DC and it's a very transient area in terms of people living here from all over the place. We have ESPN on in my office all day, and you're lucky to have more than two fans of the same team in there at any given time. When Rose to the Knicks came up, the general things people said to me had to do with how he was seen as a bust due to his injuries and that going to the Knicks was basically like being banished to Siberia. I don't think anyone really sees Rose as much beyond a longshot on a crappy team at this point. Thibs never even came up. Outside of showing up on the panel shows for a couple days, that was it. Nobody really cared, mainly because the Bulls were a nothing team at that point. Basically it was little more than, "the FO and the coach haven't gotten along for a while; now they're firing him after a disappointing season." In short, something you see every year in the NBA.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    That's ESPN's magazine.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    So it's Joe's fault then. Quit slacking, old man.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    But that's hardly exceptional; most team/coach relationships end pretty badly short of the guy being a beloved figure who retires on top or before he can be fired. If anything, the relationship with Vinnie is far more glaring as being unusual and potentially something that'd have to make up for, but fortunately VDN did them the favor of continuing to be terrible post-Bulls, so nobody likely really cares. I think the Thibs thing was a much bigger deal than usual. That seems more like a proximity bias than anything else.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    But that's hardly exceptional; most team/coach relationships end pretty badly short of the guy being a beloved figure who retires on top or before he can be fired. If anything, the relationship with Vinnie is far more glaring as being unusual and potentially something that'd have to make up for, but fortunately VDN did them the favor of continuing to be terrible post-Bulls, so nobody likely really cares.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Given how gossip-y and porous the NBA is when it comes to these kind of things, yeah, it seems pretty unfounded. It seems people are conflating the tumultuous relationship the FO has had with their coaches with how they get along with their players. Point is, initially it was sounding like you were saying signing Wade was an opportunity for them to really go out of their way and make a show of going above and beyond in making a player feel welcome instead of just, y'know, acting like normal, professional human beings and managing to get along fine with him like FO's and players typically do.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Great, then when you're hoping for is SOP, which we have no reason to assume they wouldn't be doing anyway. Glad to see that's settled.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    We need to not do what Pat Riley just did, for one. OK? The Bulls DON'T have a legitimate history of being at odds with their players. Noah's departure was probably the "worst" thing along those lines, and that was simply making a break from a player whose contract was up.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    I agree that actually landing a name for once looks good, but the bold part seems like nonsense. Whet the hell are they supposed to do to accomplish this? I like how you're asking me how to be nice to a person, as if you don't even know where to start. No, I'm not; I'm asking how a professional sports organization is supposed to do something as ridiculous as "pamper" a player so everyone notices without looking like a bunch of pathetic, overcompensating goons. As others have pointed out, the narratives of the Bulls mistreating their players seems pretty overblown, so I'm confident they can simply act like normal human beings and have a pretty standard professional and personal relationship with Wade.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    They finally get some days off mixed in again, too.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Well, you had a little stretch where the offense was struggling a bit, and a longer stretch where most of the pitchers have been pitching poorly.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    I'm a little stunned anyone at this point finds the idea of Junior Lake: terrible baseball player to be a debatable conclusion.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    The Pirates did not. I'm referring to how Jake looked in both Cardinals and Mets series http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/oh_i_get_it_fight_club.gif
  21. Sammy Sofa
    He looks like the dude worried about getting someone fired at Burger King.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    What was his last kooky gimmick, the short shorts trip?
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Someone add the Cubs to this:
  24. Sammy Sofa
    I haven't consigned Soler to oblivion like many here have. That said, The offense isn't the problem, and the rotation will probably right itself. The bullpen is a different story. Soler's injury has also forced guys like Szczur, Coghlan, etc to play way more and be exposed. As opposed to Soler playing more and being exposed?
  25. Sammy Sofa
    I don't tell me more
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