Sammy Sofa
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He can't lord that second ring over big bro anymore. Man, I was hoping for either QB to be awesome and hoist their team to an exciting win. That...did not happen. Yeesh.
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Jones is a monster who likes to sign productive players who are also terrible human beings. Manziel is simply a terrible human being.
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And the random arguments about how the Cubs aren't that good because they don't have enough pitching to win a World Series. Though I did see an odd number of people saying things like "now the Cubs easily have the best rotation in baseball." Apparently the Cubs are all things to all people.
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Plus people flat out slamming Heyward for being so greedy compared to good ol' Jake. Of course, then there's scores of people who apparently think Arrieta is a single season fluke and that he can't be relied on because of how his season ended.
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I made a quick attempt to try to find it and nearly had a heart attack reading FB comments about baseball. I don't know why reading people's stupid thoughts and/or opinions raises my blood pressure so much. The sheer amount of people commenting on these articles who seemingly have no clue as to what salary arbitration is is...interesting.
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Some article about the deal that showed up on my FB feed. Maybe the ESPN one? I really can't tell now.
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Oh, right; "re-tarded" gets censored.
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Too bad @FacebookCubs is dead:
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Harry Caray Documentary on MLB Network 2/2 8PM CT
Sammy Sofa replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Sorry; 12-0.
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Nah, better to give up a 10-0 run instead.
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Nobody is saying Thibs isn't a good coach; many just disagree with just how great you think he is, that you think the players didn't get sick of him and instead were "turned" by the FO, and just how much of an impact he would have had this year. At their best he relied so much on Deng, Noah and Taj to anchor that defense, and now two of those guys are gone and one is an older, less effective version of himself. Again, Thibs is a better coach, but what would be so different this year? McDermott didn't play better under him (if he played at all). Rose was still maddeningly inconsistent. How would he have prevented Noah from inevitably falling apart? Or Dunleavy? About the only major difference that you could argue is maybe Mirotic wouldn't have stagnated since he seemed to improve throughout last season, so who knows if that would have continued under Thibs. The main problems are injuries, poor team construction and inconsistent players. I think those far outweigh the difference he'd bring over Hoiberg, and those are far more damning on the FO than firing a coach everyone was tired of playing for or working with.
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I don't necessarily disagree with you. I just think he's light years beyond what Hoiberg will ever be. Oh, most definitely he's a better coach than Hoiberg. But this team's current issues run much deeper than improving the coach, and Thibs being their coach this year was never going to happen. It's not like he was fired only because he was clashing with GarPax; seemingly EVERYONE was done with him. He's a damn good coach, but a touch person to play for and work with and they basically missed their window to succeed with him (mainly because Rose turned out to be a depressing one-man show of disappointment for multiple seasons).
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Ain't my money.
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Heartless as it is, I really wouldn't mind them using him the next two seasons basically like their intention is to destroy him at the end of them.
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Pretty much. There's little reason at this point to expect him to break out again.
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You don't think Thibs typically had Bulls teams better suited to his defensive strengths? What would he do this year, tie Noah to himself for some kind of human puppet trickery? Construct a decent SF out of clay and give it life with lightning? Again, everyone was done with him; I think the idea that a FO could turn players on a coach as opposed to the players simply being fed up with the coach is silly. Thibs very much looks like a more talented Scott Skiles to me; any team he gets better win it all because otherwise (or, maybe even despite that) he'll probably be gone after 4-5 years because his team is sick of him. There's tough coaches, and then there's the hardass freaks that don't have a long shelf life with a team.
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http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/rosede01.html#advanced::none He improved in January to a little above average. That seems as about a realistic expectation as anyone should have for him at this point. Yeah, you just listed almost all of it. It's a stank team. It likely wouldn't be much better with Thibs, if at all (especially since, again, the team hated him by the time he was fired).
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You're really ignoring how messed up the current team is. Noah's dead, no Duleavy, Rose is one of the worst players in basketball, Mirotic is just a guy; Thibs isn't a sorcerer who would have just magically fixed that.
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That's part of it, though as we've brought up multiple times, you've had key players regress or stagnate. Nobody was counting on Rose being anywhere near this bad if he could stay even remotely healthy, for McDermott to basically remain a non-entity and for Mirotic to not move forward at all from what he started to show last season. A healthy Rose and Mirotic seemed like good bets to keep this team chugging along with the other key parts they have, but now it's basically just Jimmy and a couple of decent older dudes and then a bunch of bodies most nights. Like I said, Hoiberg very well could be a bad hire, but right now he's coaching a Frankenstein's monster of a team that's not really consistently good at anything. And I don't think Thibs being here would make much of a difference in the overall picture. The defense would be better at times, but the offense would be even worse.
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Thibodeau is way too one-sided to be considered one of the very best coaches in the game. He has his obvious strengths and is a good coach, but come on.
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Believe whatever you want; they looked pretty done with him by the end of last season. Hoiberg very well could be all wrong for this team, but the Thibodeau era ran its course and was clearly burnt out by the time he was bounced. And Butler said nothing like, "I want the coach to be more like Thibs." He basically called Hoiberg out for being too laid back and called out the rest of the team for mostly playing like horsefeathers. There's a huge middle ground between being a pushover like Hoiberg and a freak like Thibodeau.
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Well, the players all hated Thibs by the end, too, so there's that.
