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  1. Sammy Sofa
    http://i.imgur.com/SoZ7Fhs.gif
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    Come on, Seal Boy.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    BAEZ, I WANT TO BELIEVE.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Baez is gonna be our hero, baby.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    A Heyward hit! It would be nice to not waste something so rare.
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    What?
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    Hammel is totally infuriating. Ah well. Even when he does something like get out of the last inning, it was ultimately a completely unnecessary tightrope walk he shouldn't be in in the first place. He's such an odd pitcher.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Willson, nooooooo!
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Man, so much of the Braves' lineup is such a construct of misfit toys; it looks like something I would have put together in The Show 5 years ago. Don't lose to these humps.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    I kept getting pulled away, but what I saw of the first inning it seemed like Hammel was leaving a ton of pitches up in the zone in the 1st.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    [Hardcore]Turn it off, TURN IT OFF!!![/Hardcore]
  12. Sammy Sofa
    RIPD Derwood.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    I remember going back and forth with Rasin http://stream1.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/518441_s.gif Fantastic.
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    Do you realize that this is fortunately a sport where players aren't locked into performing like they did the last game? Yes, I'm sure he'll be just fine now, thanks so much for the info. You're a very, very odd person who seems to be trying to not enjoy this as much as possible.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Outside of him just being a Cub and all Cubs must kick ass, I want him to do well because he seems like such a cool dude.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    It's not that they just need to copy everyone else, but to put together a team that flies so much in the face of what is typically working, and after hiring a coach they seemingly wanted to steer the team in the direction of the latter makes it seem a bit like flailing. To me, Hoiberg is big part of the glaring issue. Again, if Mirotic and McDermott actually step up and improve like we hope and need them to, things will be very different, but as it stands, adding Rondo AND Wade to go with Butler just seems like a really odd approach with a coach like this. It's not that it can't work, but it seems like the FO is sort of wildly oscillating around with what they want to do.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Did you see Hammel's last start? Do you realize that this is fortunately a sport where players aren't locked into performing like they did the last game?
  18. Sammy Sofa
    wade has a lot of pull around the league and can be a significant factor in giving us more than a puncher's chance at one of the big FA in 2017, along with having jimmy butler to play alongside. there's not much more you can do than that and hope you get one of the big dudes to sign on the dotted line. Agreed, but Wade isn't here for the long haul and having this weird, nebulous approach to what type of team they are that's seemingly completely contrary to the type of coach they're invested in doesn't seem like a good recipe to appeal to the type of big FA we do want them to sign to stick around for a while.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    I wasn't comparing basketball to baseball like they're the same sport; it was comparing organizational attitudes and lack of direction. This isn't a criticism hinged on how they sign FA, nor is it ignoring that the Bulls have been better at things like drafting and player development. It's a comparison based mostly out of a seeming lack of any kind of real focus or direction in terms of how they want to build a team for any kind of sustain success. Hell, you can compare it to the Bears until recently (including in how they are, yes, all but ignoring clear trends in how teams have the best shot of succeeding right now); all of this makes the Hoiberg signing even more inexplicable, so he's likely a dead man walking and you'll be switching him out sooner rather than later for a new approach. And yeah, it's nice that Wade and Rondo aren't anchors, but it's also seemingly done with the idea that they're suddenly going to be dominating FA thanks to the cap expansion. Why? Everyone will have the money, and it's not like it hasn't been an uphill battle to get impact players to sign here and that's unlikely to change, especially since they've likely just set themselves up to be hugely in flux again in the short term.
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    It's not, but people keep talking like it's just a Band-Aid to a period of huge opportunity, as if the Bulls are going to be THE ones with the salary cap advantage as opposed to EVERYONE being the ones with that advantage. I don't think it's a stretch at all to want a smarter FO; I think that sentiment is pretty unanimous here. Just because you or I can't think off the top of our heads right at this moment how we could construct a better team doesn't mean it's not do-able. I mean, I'm not a fan of Hoiberg, but this is setting up a situation where you're really setting him up to fail and forcing yourself to have to replace your coach yet again, which just reflects back on how poor a choice it was in the first place, and then makes this current path of team-building all the more inexplicable. This seems like a very Hendry-like, reactionary, flailing approach to team-building.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    this is just let's see how good and entertaining we can be throwing some good players together while we wait for free agents and cap flexibility. it's as good an approach as any. That's the main thinking I disagree with; this feels more like just chucking horsefeathers at the wall and see what sticks. You gotta at least make an effort to try and construct a team/coach situation that has a real chance of gelling or works as a reaction to how the game is played today. This seems to be flying completely in the face of both of that.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, but the goal shouldn't have been to just technically get younger and more athletic seemingly to without thought to the type of team you're actually ending up with. Getting younger and more athletic while constructing a Frankenstein's monster of a team that pretty much runs as an antithesis to every other team in the league and general ideas of of the type of team you need in 2016 AND specifically in the face of the team you seemingly want to construct based on the coach you hired seems like a pretty counter-intuitive approach to building a team. Basically it seems like Mirotic and McDermott improving feels like the real key to this team doing anything; Rondo and Wade are basically just window dressing to keep people interested.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    It feels like it would be this weird miracle if he somehow started hitting at this point; he just seems so oddly "naturally" shitty at the plate that I'm kinda baffled he's had seasons of success when he's so easily pitched to.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    i seriously love how you like to give everyone crap but get so rankled and defensive when you get made fun of. I gotta give you credit for some pretty primo trolling here.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    http://img.pandawhale.com/92226-god-help-us-gif-Top-Gun-Imgur-CEz7.gif Fix it, butters.
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