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Meh, wasn’t expecting much. It was reported that the Bulls didn’t want to take on any contracts, so even accepting Duarte surprises me. Cash Considerations is back though!

Hendricks put everything he had left into making it to 10/5 rights

England have played very meh this whole tournament and here they are in the semis with probably the easier SF draw

So obnoxious that they go straight to PKs after regulation at Copa. Last night and tonight kept getting excited for an extra 30 minutes only to realize it’s time for PKs

Hell yeah Steele. Shota was pretty much locked into the Cubs all star spot for awhile but looks like Steele, 1 win and all, has stolen the spot

Thought I read somewhere that it was like 50/50 to even put him on the IL vs letting him pitch through it so I suppose it doesn’t surprise me the stay might be minimum. note: I could be mixing this with one of the other 500 pitching injuries we have

Believe it was the first week of the season edit: April 16, a game we lost 12-11 against the Diamondbacks after Alzolay blew it with 2 outs in the 9th. the only other time they scored double digits was a 12-2 win over Colorado in their 2nd home game of the season

My stat about them only scoring 8+ runs in 2 of their last 61 games lit a fire under them.

Cubs now 6 games out of a playoff and in last place by 2.5 games. Good times. 22-39 since April 27th, playing at a 58-104 pace for 38% of the season. 15-31 since May 13th, playing at a 53-109 pace for 29% of the season. The Cubs have scored 8+ runs in 2 of their last 61 games

Have the Cubs considered maybe not losing every game?

It’s fun to track all the streaks within the streaks. This loss would be 8 of their last 10

Is it possible that the Cubs actually don’t win the World Series this year?

Yet another Chicago team has failed to do the bare minimum of letting their fans feel some small amount of joy. The Bulls gave me 0 enjoyment, the Hawks gave me 0 enjoyment once the initial excitement of getting Bedard wore off and we realized they were terrible, the entire Bears season was a referendum on Fields and Eberflus after it became clear 3 weeks into the season that they weren’t gonna be good. Now the Cubs battle the Rockies and Marlins (both of whom have more recent NLDS appearances than the Cubs, having both beaten the Cubs to get there) for worst team in the NL. And not that we care but the white Sox are the worst team in baseball. Yikes

Regardless of pay to play and all that crap, one thing that struck me last night was they showed a graphic showing our respective country populations. USA - 340m, Uruguay - 3.4m. We literally have 100x more people in the US and cant put together a team on the same level. Not sure how much this adds to the discussion, but it was jarring to me.

The US scored as many goals in this tournament as Panama and Uruguay both did against Bolivia alone (actually Uruguay had more). ] First time the US has hosted a tournament and failed to make it to the knockouts. First Copa host ever to not advance to knockouts. Great stuff.

This is embarrassing. There is absolutely no excuse for not advancing from this particular group. Sadly it’s not the most embarrassing thing to happen to America today but that’s a different conversation.

I am completely dumbfounded about the refereeing. If anyone isn’t watching the game and trying to visualize what we mean by bad refereeing, trust me it’s worse than whatever you are visualizing.

Can't believe they missed on that breakaway at the end. Waited a fraction too long to get the shot off. Pretty damn exciting game though all around.

Yes, 1-0 while Panama beats Bolivia 3-0.

Ronaldo really showing his age out there. And just missed a PK in ET.

fWAR for Cubs position players who have been on the team from 2022-2024: Nico Hoerner - 10.3 Ian Happ - 8.3 Seiya Suzuki - 5.9 Christopher Morel - 3.3 Patrick Wisdom - 1.6 Yan Gomes - 0.9 Nick Madrigal - 0.7 Not saying we shouldn't trade Nico but he's worth 4.2 and 4.5 wins the last 2 seasons, a bit of a dip but still on pace for 3.4ish wins if he plays 150 games. Not a superstar but hope they would value him accordingly in a trade.

I hope its a sort of 1-2 year retool with designs to bounce back up quickly rather than suck for an extended period. For one, with the draft lottery odds changing there's really not a great reason to tank for an extended period of time. But also the fact that the Bulls have not been relevant for almost literally an entire decade outside of 2 months in 2021....I can't take much more of this. They havent won a home playoff game since DRose's buzzer beater against the Cavs 9 years ago... only 3 total playoff wins since that game (3-11 in playoff games). So almost a decade of irrelevance and where are we as a team? Starting over again with 0 star players, very few tradeable assets, owe the Spurs a 1st round pick and no second round picks until 2028. How the horsefeathers is that possible? It pisses me off that Reinsdorf basically pissed away 2 seasons forcing a core that clearly was not good enough to stick together (if you believe reports) when we could have been retooling or doing literally anything else besides obsessing over continuity. I'm certain AKME aren't blameless but it really feels like Reinsdorf is really the driving force behind the push for mediocrity. I hate that I'm so emotionally detached from the team and only watch fragments of games each year and I hate that it feels so hopeless that only an extreme amount of luck (drafting a superstar) will give the Bulls any chance to legitimately compete. And the owner doesn't give a horsefeathers because the UC is packed every game despite sky high ticket prices and ****** teams. /rant

Feels like they are pretty much midway between dumpster fire and last spot in the playoffs. These moves desperately help improve the team but still think they're lacking critical depth and while Bertuzzi and Teuvo are really solid offensive options, probably still lacking a true right hand man/second option for Bedard. I could be off though, I wouldn't call my hockey knowledge extremely limited but I'm sure there's others here that have a better handle on things.

Acquiring guys who were benched in their team's most recent playoff runs is certainly a interesting trend for the Bulls.

Would not have expected Canada and Panama to be the 2 CONCACAF teams to advance to the knockouts lol. Hopefully I’m wrong about Panama but I feel like the US chances of advancing are 10% at best. Anyways, misery loves company so happy Mexico is out