1) Have the Cubs or Sox sign Gerrit Cole and a right fielder of your choice on the free agent market (the Ricketts or Reinsdorfs are providing the cash, no need to get rid of existing players)…
2) The Bears to make the playoffs this year, with no guarantees for once they got there or for the years after…
3) The Bulls to fire Boylen and the entire front office, right now…
4) The Hawks to reverse the firing of Joel Quenneville and reverse the Artemi Panarin trade…
Give me the Cubs signing Cole and the right fielder. The Cubs are a disaster right now. Starting pitching is in shambles, bullpen is stinky ass, no one can seem to ever get a timely hit, oh and this 3 billion dollar franchise is apparently broke! It's honestly impressive how badly the front office has manged to fuck this team. Each report that has come out on the Cubs the last couple of weeks has caused me to die a little bit more inside. Theo and Jed are chumps and now that Rickets has got his world series ring, his number 1 priority is squeezing every last dime out of the fans and wrigleyville. $10 hot dog, $100+ for the ticket, $15 beer (multiply that by 9 lmaoo) and all for what? It's only okay getting ripped off when you know your money is going to a good cause- Signing big impact free agents. So yea, signing Cole would at least allow for me to hold off on blowing my brains out until the end of next year when the cubs pull their annual September Collapse!
It's funny -- you said to me recently that we don't have to worry about the Cubs stinking anymore because we have the owners now to pay people every year. It actually made me feel really good. Then two weeks later apparently we don't have enough money to sign anyone. My frustrations are more towards the Ricketts than Theo and Jed. If they don't have the ability to sign anyone, what are they going to do? Good thing we're going to pay extra to watch them collapse in September too. Maybe they'll even do videos of Ryan Dempster and David Ross joking around on Marquee. That should be really funny. Not.
My opinion on the rickets has changed a lot since then lol. With some money coming off the books after this year, i did not see the rickets hitting us with the “we are out of money” narrative again. Their priorities are clearly out of whack right now. More focused on the venue rather than the actual baseball team. Dam shame.
Also, the venue upgrade has reached diminishing returns. I don't need anymore brand new brick buildings in Wrigleyville or another club where non-Cubs fans can go to sip on margaritas. The scoreboards and stadium renovations... fine. Everything else could've gotten us Rendon. And how sick would that have been.
This might be a recency bias, but give me the Bears in the playoffs. I'd love Gerrit Cole and a right fielder that could swing the lumber a bit, but I need the thrill of a Bears playoff run. Getting excited for a football game is like nothing else, I imagine it's comparable to storming the beaches of Normandy. I do feel that way about the Cubs playoff games as well, but like I said there is a lot of recency bias going into these thoughts.
I forgot what it's like to give a damn about the Bulls so I can't even compare that to these other two at the moment. I will admit, getting excited for a primetime Bulls game on a week night is incredible, but I'll take the excitement of a week long build up for the Bears.
That is so true about football though. The big game feel hits different. If the Bears made the playoffs this year it'd probably be one of the best sport seasons of my life, even if they lost in the first round. That would mean we beat the Packers, Chiefs, and Vikings in Minnesota. What an insane high that would be.
Needed a night to sleep on this one. I was initially going to say the Bears make the playoffs due to recency biased, but the Bears are oddly the team I'm least concerned about going forward(?). Felt weird even typing that out.
Give me a new Bulls front office and a competent head coach. In a recent conversation, I told someone that I would go Vegan for 2 months for David Fizdale to be our coach. David Fizdale! The guy who just went 4-18 vs the Knicks (one of those wins being against the Bulls when Lavine tried to put the team on his back and Bobby Portis torched us in the fourth.) Thats how brutal Boylen (and Garpax) are.
The 2011 Bulls team was my favorite sports team of all time I think. 2016 Cubs and 2005 Bears are definitely up there. Regardless, this front office has sucked all the joy out of being a Bulls fan, and has drained the life out of the United Center.
If I don't choose the Bears, what has this whole operation been for? Were in the heart of the Bears playoff push and I couldn't be more in on them going 10-6. If we squeak into the playoffs, I guarantee the bears will not bow out early and will be primed for a deep run. I know what Johnny boy McAllister would choose...nothing gets that guy going more than the coverage of the winter meetings on MLB network.
I think I have to go with The Bulls to fire Boylen and entire front office. As much as i would love for the Sox to sign top free agents, I think they will still be fine without Cole and one of the average RF free agents out there. I love the Bulls and want to get back into watching them and them cleaning house might be the only way.
Now a few comments on the Sox: If you watched that Hahn video he wasn't saying that the window was pushed back, he just isn't overly committing and saying we will do something and not deliver like last year; fans got way too frustrated at a snippet from the video. They actually did offer the better deal for Wheeler this time around, unlike when they said it about Machado. They also did everything they could to get him, any more money offered would have been an overpay. Wheeler is a solid pitcher but he wanted to stay on the East Coast, who knows how much more it would have taken to snag him....probably not worth it IMO. As for the Mazara trade...Steele Walker couldn't hit lefties in High A and is only a year younger than Mazara. It is a fine trade and Mazara is at least a good fielder, unlike the free agents out there. I wish we traded for Joc or someone better but this trade wasn't bad.
The trade in a vacuum isn't bad... it's only bad if they don't do anything else. And Hahn insists that that won't be the case. My only thing with Wheeler and the better deal is like... okay that's fine he wanted to be on the East Coast, but eventually you have to put your balls on the table. I hate front offices that constantly act like they're doing something when they've really done nothing.
I also think that the answer is obviously the Bulls. To have the Bulls be good again would change the entire dynamic of Chicago sports.
I don't think enough people realize what it would do for Chicago sports if the Bulls were one of the top teams in the league again, which they should be. Most people are so used to them being terrible that it's an after thought. I want the Bears to make the playoffs more than anything, but that would make my life better for a month. Getting rid of Gar/Pax would legitimately change my life. Sounds kind of sad saying it, but it's true.
Give me the Cubs signing Cole and the right fielder. The Cubs are a disaster right now. Starting pitching is in shambles, bullpen is stinky ass, no one can seem to ever get a timely hit, oh and this 3 billion dollar franchise is apparently broke! It's honestly impressive how badly the front office has manged to fuck this team. Each report that has come out on the Cubs the last couple of weeks has caused me to die a little bit more inside. Theo and Jed are chumps and now that Rickets has got his world series ring, his number 1 priority is squeezing every last dime out of the fans and wrigleyville. $10 hot dog, $100+ for the ticket, $15 beer (multiply that by 9 lmaoo) and all for what? It's only okay getting ripped off when you know your money is going to a good cause- Signing big impact free agents. So yea, signing Cole would at least allow for me to hold off on blowing my brains out until the end of next year when the cubs pull their annual September Collapse!
It's funny -- you said to me recently that we don't have to worry about the Cubs stinking anymore because we have the owners now to pay people every year. It actually made me feel really good. Then two weeks later apparently we don't have enough money to sign anyone. My frustrations are more towards the Ricketts than Theo and Jed. If they don't have the ability to sign anyone, what are they going to do? Good thing we're going to pay extra to watch them collapse in September too. Maybe they'll even do videos of Ryan Dempster and David Ross joking around on Marquee. That should be really funny. Not.
My opinion on the rickets has changed a lot since then lol. With some money coming off the books after this year, i did not see the rickets hitting us with the “we are out of money” narrative again. Their priorities are clearly out of whack right now. More focused on the venue rather than the actual baseball team. Dam shame.
Also, the venue upgrade has reached diminishing returns. I don't need anymore brand new brick buildings in Wrigleyville or another club where non-Cubs fans can go to sip on margaritas. The scoreboards and stadium renovations... fine. Everything else could've gotten us Rendon. And how sick would that have been.
This might be a recency bias, but give me the Bears in the playoffs. I'd love Gerrit Cole and a right fielder that could swing the lumber a bit, but I need the thrill of a Bears playoff run. Getting excited for a football game is like nothing else, I imagine it's comparable to storming the beaches of Normandy. I do feel that way about the Cubs playoff games as well, but like I said there is a lot of recency bias going into these thoughts.
I forgot what it's like to give a damn about the Bulls so I can't even compare that to these other two at the moment. I will admit, getting excited for a primetime Bulls game on a week night is incredible, but I'll take the excitement of a week long build up for the Bears.
That is so true about football though. The big game feel hits different. If the Bears made the playoffs this year it'd probably be one of the best sport seasons of my life, even if they lost in the first round. That would mean we beat the Packers, Chiefs, and Vikings in Minnesota. What an insane high that would be.
Is this a trick?!?! BULLS FIRE BOYLEN AND ENTIRE FRONT OFFICE! No Question, Hands Down!
We're in agreement here.
Needed a night to sleep on this one. I was initially going to say the Bears make the playoffs due to recency biased, but the Bears are oddly the team I'm least concerned about going forward(?). Felt weird even typing that out.
Give me a new Bulls front office and a competent head coach. In a recent conversation, I told someone that I would go Vegan for 2 months for David Fizdale to be our coach. David Fizdale! The guy who just went 4-18 vs the Knicks (one of those wins being against the Bulls when Lavine tried to put the team on his back and Bobby Portis torched us in the fourth.) Thats how brutal Boylen (and Garpax) are.
The 2011 Bulls team was my favorite sports team of all time I think. 2016 Cubs and 2005 Bears are definitely up there. Regardless, this front office has sucked all the joy out of being a Bulls fan, and has drained the life out of the United Center.
Go Cowboys and Chargers this week. Bear tf down.
STRAIGHT FACTUALS
If I don't choose the Bears, what has this whole operation been for? Were in the heart of the Bears playoff push and I couldn't be more in on them going 10-6. If we squeak into the playoffs, I guarantee the bears will not bow out early and will be primed for a deep run. I know what Johnny boy McAllister would choose...nothing gets that guy going more than the coverage of the winter meetings on MLB network.
If only he read the newsletter...
Is this the "Bears will go 4-12" Jacob Werner?
Im going to have to eat my hat on that one.
I think I have to go with The Bulls to fire Boylen and entire front office. As much as i would love for the Sox to sign top free agents, I think they will still be fine without Cole and one of the average RF free agents out there. I love the Bulls and want to get back into watching them and them cleaning house might be the only way.
Now a few comments on the Sox: If you watched that Hahn video he wasn't saying that the window was pushed back, he just isn't overly committing and saying we will do something and not deliver like last year; fans got way too frustrated at a snippet from the video. They actually did offer the better deal for Wheeler this time around, unlike when they said it about Machado. They also did everything they could to get him, any more money offered would have been an overpay. Wheeler is a solid pitcher but he wanted to stay on the East Coast, who knows how much more it would have taken to snag him....probably not worth it IMO. As for the Mazara trade...Steele Walker couldn't hit lefties in High A and is only a year younger than Mazara. It is a fine trade and Mazara is at least a good fielder, unlike the free agents out there. I wish we traded for Joc or someone better but this trade wasn't bad.
The trade in a vacuum isn't bad... it's only bad if they don't do anything else. And Hahn insists that that won't be the case. My only thing with Wheeler and the better deal is like... okay that's fine he wanted to be on the East Coast, but eventually you have to put your balls on the table. I hate front offices that constantly act like they're doing something when they've really done nothing.
I also think that the answer is obviously the Bulls. To have the Bulls be good again would change the entire dynamic of Chicago sports.
I don't think enough people realize what it would do for Chicago sports if the Bulls were one of the top teams in the league again, which they should be. Most people are so used to them being terrible that it's an after thought. I want the Bears to make the playoffs more than anything, but that would make my life better for a month. Getting rid of Gar/Pax would legitimately change my life. Sounds kind of sad saying it, but it's true.