Bobson Dugnutt

This speaks volumes about the absolute dumpster fire that is the modern NBA. The worst American professional sports league and it isn't even close. lmao what the horsefeathers kind of take is this Yeah I don’t know how anyone can look at Rob Manfred’s MLB* and the NHL and come to this conclusion. *I love baseball but the NBA runs circles around the MLB in so many ways.

Yeah I mean personal preferences and all that but I can’t imagine from what point of view the NBA can be considered a dumpster fire. As a league, after hitting a bit of a lull in the early 2000s, they’ve had a pretty great almost two-decade run in terms of player talent, global interest level, marketing decisions, access to their product, etc.

Brett’s article on BN indicates there were no deferrals included in the offer.

Bring the guy

That was fun

Illinois should be very fun to watch next year. So much length and athleticism on the roster. The size difference between next year’s roster and last year’s is night and day.

Yeah. We were playing 4 on 5 all night with him out there. He’s always been hot and cold, but not like this.

Illinois beating themselves.

Suzuki looks like a good solid ML player, but I think we ought to hold off on the Mike Trout comparisons for 2-3 years. Word thanks, totally didn’t even think about that and don’t know what came over me

I hope you’re right, but this feels more like stockpiling trade deadline fodder to me.

His 87 mph fastball would fit right into this rotation.

With Scherzer at the deadline and now Suzuki, that’s two reported “done deals” that have fallen through for the Padres in the last few months. I’d be incredibly frustrated as a Padres fan. Obviously two very different caliber players, but yeah.

Just trade the poor guy. He deserves better than this

The only thing I wasn’t sold on was his three point shooting, which I thought would be passable but has exceeded my expectations. The rest was there—defense, midrange, driving ability, vision, IQ. How he fell to 38 astounded me at the time and even more so now.

Yeah that’s about as “good” a Big Ten loss you can have on your home court, all things considered. Curbelo looked great. I wish they got a little more of a two-man game going with him and Kofi to get Kofi some better looks because Edey was just sealing him up when they’d feed him in the post. Bosmans-Verdonk came up big and played with a lot of confidence after Kofi fouled out. Purdue is very impressive. They have so many weapons on offense and their defense looked stronger than advertised. I’ve not been able to watch as much Illini basketball this year as the past few seasons. Did Hawkins fall out of the rotation? Whenever I do watch it seems he barely sees the fooor.

Lol, that aged well. I wonder if they have checked in on Zambrano and Colon. I think it’s more like they’re wondering whether Rick Reuschel or Rueben Quevado still have it..... Ruben Quevedo does not still have it.

Illinois digging themselves into early holes is getting really old.

lmao

yeah. i'm not much of a merchandise collector at all. i used to own a sammy sosa bobblehead until its head bobbled right off, and that's about the extent of my bobblehead collecting history. the rizz/kb one was sweet, and it would have been cool to have, but i was more just baffled how poorly the whole thing was run. and they were immediately--like right after we found our seats in the bleachers--showing up on ebay for several hundred dollars.

I was in the bleachers last July for the makeup game against the Brewers when they were giving away the Rizzo/KB bobblehead. It was hot as hell and I waited in line for several hours before the bleachers opened, was easily one of the first 3,000-4,000 or so people in the park, and they "ran out" of the bobbleheads before I got to the front of the line. Apparently, they only set a certain amount aside for the bleachers or something? Really dumb. They said they ran out at the gate I entered on Baez Day and were yelling at people to keep moving and getting us past the barricades to keep it from becoming truly dangerous, even though there were boxes in the corner against the wall and barricades with a bunch of Roasts standing in front of them like they were successfully hiding them. I got ushered past the barricades, and then they started passing out and opening those other boxes within 2 minutes, and they wouldn't let anyone they had told to go through because they had supposedly run out of bobbleheads get one. Given how obscenely expensive their tickets are, and with all of the construction/expansion they've done, to act like they can handle 10k max of any giveaway is horsefeathers as hell. Yuuup. The guy that sat behind us got in well after us and wound up with a bobblehead, I think because he was a season ticket holder. So, from what I gathered, they set aside a certain portion for the grandstands, another pile is set aside for season ticket holders, and then the dummies that line up early for the bleachers are horsefeathers outta luck. So, not really first 10,000. But, yeah, the things cost like $3 to make. Maybe carve out a little bit more room in the budget to avoid riots.

I was in the bleachers last July for the makeup game against the Brewers when they were giving away the Rizzo/KB bobblehead. It was hot as hell and I waited in line for several hours before the bleachers opened, was easily one of the first 3,000-4,000 or so people in the park, and they "ran out" of the bobbleheads before I got to the front of the line. Apparently, they only set a certain amount aside for the bleachers or something? Really dumb. I went to that game too, in large part to get the bobblehead, and had no luck either. I suspect they handed out a bunch of them before the original game got rained out and probably didn't have many left for the make-up. As far as I remember, they never even opened the doors for the originally scheduled game.

I was in the bleachers last July for the makeup game against the Brewers when they were giving away the Rizzo/KB bobblehead. It was hot as hell and I waited in line for several hours before the bleachers opened, was easily one of the first 3,000-4,000 or so people in the park, and they "ran out" of the bobbleheads before I got to the front of the line. Apparently, they only set a certain amount aside for the bleachers or something? Really dumb.

whoa did Chatwood pitch the 9th for the Brewers

Never sit bote