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  1. UMFan83
    It's insane that all 3 are on this roster and for the most part all playing regularly. It's like they are in a contest to see who can hurt the team more. Villar is terrible offensively and defensively. Heyward is terrible offensively and now below replacement level defensively. Simmons actually provides solid defense but his offensive numbers are inconceivably bad even compared to the other 2.
  2. UMFan83
    I don't think he has to leave for it to work. They can still sign him and in fact would probably have to for Durant to come here without causing a fuss. Ball LaVine Durant Caruso? Gobert Ayo Green Marko MLE LLE Ring chaser 1 Ring chaser 2 For MLE, maybe something like Batum who is older but coming off a solid season and is a guy who can play well without needing to score. He can start at the 3 or 4 and move AC to the bench. Not sure who the ring chasers would be though. Again, really thin team that would have some holes, particularly a higher volume 3 point shooter and size off the bench. But even with those holes the Bulls would be an inner circle championship contender.
  3. UMFan83
    Bulls get: Durant, Gobert Jazz get: Vucevic, DeRozan Nets get: Williams, White, 2022 1st, 2023 POR 1st, Rudy Gay (to make salaries work) The Nets say no because they can probably do better than the young chips the Bulls have and 2 non-lottery 1sts, the Jazz might say no (though it does change their dynamic while keeping talent level at roughly the same spot to keep Mitchell happy), Jerry Reinsdorf says no. But that's the closest deal I can put together where the Bulls end up with both guys haha. Bulls would still have biannual MLE (i think) and LLE but it would clearly be a very thin team unless we grabbed some ring chasers on minimum salary
  4. UMFan83
    Extra innings suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
  5. UMFan83
    wait its tied? lol
  6. UMFan83
    I know, FIFA rankings are whatever, but its an interesting visualization. Every other WC group has two teams that are lower ranked than the worst team in our group
  7. UMFan83
    Should be an interesting night for the Bulls
  8. UMFan83
    Pirates are up 1-0 in the 3rd. Steele has struck out 4 of the 7 batters he's faced but the one base runner was a home run. Discuss. Or don't discuss, it doesn't really matter
  9. UMFan83
    Smart move by Robertson to strike out. If he took a walk he would never have an official AB.
  10. UMFan83
    Keegan Thompson has pitched at least 2.2 IP in 15 of his 16 appearances this year. He has allowed 1 ER or less in 12 of those 15 appearances. Also while it makes no sense to just throw out his 2 worst starts, it does seem like he had a velo drop and some weird stuff going on and has bounced back. So if you did remove those 2 bad starts, his ERA in the other 56.1 IP this year is 1.73
  11. UMFan83
    I love how they have to pitch Givens and Robertson in a 10-1 game simply so their arms can stay fresh
  12. UMFan83
    Figures that after all the 2016 heroes were cast aside, Heyward is the one Cubs management stays loyal to until the very end.
  13. UMFan83
    To add to the above, the Blue Jays manager got thrown out before the game started this afternoon presumably for complaining about the calls last night:
  14. UMFan83
    This is some of the worst umpiring I've ever seen
  15. UMFan83
    Tanking is a much more prevalent and obvious thing now. Jed wants to lose games. Heyward makes that more likely. He’s fine with it. This doesn't make any sense. It's not the NBA. Playing Velazquez over Heyward isn't going to improve the Cubs record, and if by some miracle Velazquez put up 3 WAR or something then the value of that would massively outweigh the difference between the 6th and 7th pick. I miss thinking that the Cubs had competent management. We're back to the days where I feel like the manager and GM have no idea what they are doing
  16. UMFan83
    10-63 with 0 XBH and 1 walk. Amazingly inept
  17. UMFan83
    This Shwarma dude sucks
  18. UMFan83
    that's basically what ross said yesterday. Velazquez is taking the role that Frazier had when he was on the team, which is basically occasional starts against LHP and pinch hitting. I don't see the logic behind this at all and would rather him play every day at Iowa, but Heyward has to play full time for....reasons. The logic gets worse the more time I spend thinking about it so I'm not.
  19. UMFan83
    How are they so bad at this year after year?
  20. UMFan83
    I know the Cubs want to keep him in the rotation while our top 3 starters are hurt but he’s making it difficult on them
  21. UMFan83
    What a ridiculous inning so far. -Walk -Walk after a dropped ball on a foul ball -Grounder directly to 2B that’s bobbled for no outs -2 run single
  22. UMFan83
    What exactly does Villar do around here?
  23. UMFan83
    Did Ortega just got a bad jump on that play in the 1st? Since I don’t expect anyone to have been watching, 2 outs with Ortega on 1st. Happ hits one to dead CF and it bounces off the wall. 3B coach sends Ortega and he’s thrown out by 20 feet. Assuming he would have taken off on contact with 2 outs, seems like he should have scored easily
  24. UMFan83
    2 pieces of rumors
  25. UMFan83
    Im rather skeptical that Cincinnati will ever make it back to the SB with their current build. Even with massive upgrades to the OL and skill players on offense, talent wise they would only start to be online with the together AFC leaders like Buffalo or KC. They were a fluke, and LA showed the world that in end such a weird comment. they maybe did go on a bit of a fortunate run but they have a ton of great skill players and won at KC in the playoffs. You make it seem like the Rams exposed the Bengals and crushed them in the Super Bowl when the Bengals were leading the game the entire second half and didn't lose the lead until 90 seconds were left in the game, but even still were within 8-9 yards of a FG to send it to OT. Burrow got sacked 7 times so it did expose their OLine issues...no one is disputing that this was a glaring weakness for them, but it doesn't make them a fluke
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