Fire Ryan Poles | Fire Ben Johnson

Scott Boras

and, the guy who intentionally throws at Pirates players (whah whah)…ha ha ha ha ha ha

In a previous thread — https://firejerryangelo.org/2016/05/05/the-return-of-the-toothpick-chomping-idiot/#comments — our good friend Erniesarmy  had this to say:

Hey Genre, get a post up about this insanity Arrieta is trying to pull. 34+ mill. for seven years? Are you kiddin me? No! Absolutely not! Tell Boras to shove it, Theo. Give him five years at 16 mill with an opt out after 3. That’s fair market value for a pitcher of 32 with one solid year behind him. No more Sorianos! Look at the Yankees! Those long term huge contracts are killing them. And Greinke is going to bankrupt Arizona. Keep that money in the farm system and for signing our good young hitters.

Arrieta has been great, but Ernie is making sense. I hope the Cubs take some time and don’t rush any decisions.

Your thoughts?

From Wikipedia:

Ted Phillips is an American businessman and the President and CEO of the National Football League’s Chicago Bears and has been a part of the organization since 1984 (1983 according to the bottom of the page). He is only the fourth president of the 90-year-old organization, the others being Michael McCaskey, George Halas Jr., and “Papa Bear” George Halas. Phillips is one of only two individuals in the NFL to serve on both the NFL Working Club Executive committee and the NFL Senior Club Executive committee, whose mission is to analyze both the financial and football operations aspects of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Wow. This asshole has been working for this franchise for 33 years? The last 17 has been as the president. I fucking hate this dis-organization.

Happy Friday.

That’s my assessment, based on his and his staff’s handling of Kerry Wood and Mark Prior. Not to mention his utter lack of leadership in the 2003 NLCS.

Your thoughts are welcomed, my frendts.

Your thoughts on the Bears’ draft picks are welcome. And if someone can tell me why the Bears cut Matt Slauson, feel free. In a time where the Bears need as many lineman as possible, they get rid of someone who can still play another year or two.

List of draft picks:

Leonard Floyd – Linebacker (Georgia)

Cody Whitehair (by cracky) – Offensive lineman (Kansas State)

Jonathan Bullard – Defensive end (Florida)

Nick Kwiatkowski – Linebacker (West Virginia)

Deon Bush (by cracky) – Safety (Miami)

Deiondre Hall – Cornerback/Safety (Northern Iowa)

Jordan Howard – Running back (Indiana)

DeAndre Houston-Carson – Safety (William & Mary)

Daniel Braverman – Wide receiver (Western Michigan)

…..is Hector Rondon the guy?

I am a bit late to the party, but I just had to chime in with the news that the Timberwolves decided that they wanted to be the next franchise that ThomASS will end up ruining.

I am not sure if other franchises see what goes on in Chicago with our sports teams, because once teams here fire someone, another team is just waiting in line to give them a job. We’ve seen it with the likes of Lovie Smith and Marc Trestman. Does anybody else learn? If it doesn’t work here, it probably won’t work somewhere else.

I can just see it happening right now. It’s not a matter of if, but when, injuries will pile up for the Timberwolves. I don’t know many people are fans of that team, but I feel bad for them. The Timberwolves have three up and coming starts in Zach Levine, Andrew Wiggins and Karl Anthony-Towns. I believe Anthony-Towns would have been a top-ten player in the NBA but now, not likely. ThomASS will drive all three of those guys and others into the ground.

We’ve seen it here. I have never really been a Joakim Noah fan, but his career was toast before ThomASS came into the fold. Now, he’s more than finished. And do we really have to go in-depth with Derrick Rose? The guy was an idiot before all of the injuries but now, he’s damaged goods. He will be forever known as Grant Hill, minus the brain.

Minnesota, Tom Thibodeau is all yours. Enjoy being like the Bulls for the next decade: Irrelevant.

Since the Blackhawks are now done, we need to quickly shift gears to football. The Bears are on the clock this Thursday with the 11th pick. This year, the Bears have nine draft picks, which is quite a bit. With those many picks, there are zero excuses to not find someone who can help right away. I know it’s the NFL and there are hit and misses, the Bears need to hit big this year.

I have a poll set up below for what you feel the Bears need to do first. Feel free to add your thoughts in the comments’ section.

A loss…and a win.

Kudos to the Artist on a life well done, and congrats to Arrieta on his 2nd no-hitter.

The Blackhawks are once again, facing elimination. I knew this was going to be a tough series but the way the Blackhawks are losing these games is just amazing. The first game, it’s a deflection off of Trevor vanRiemsdyk. The third game, more deflections that result in goals. This last game, it’s the Blackhawks committing penalties and resulting in goals.

Nobody expected this to be easy. I’ve said this many times over these last few years that the hardest thing to do in sports is winning the Stanley Cup. Doing it again the following year seems to be above and beyond that. It’s frustrating to see how the Blackhawks have been playing. And their frustrations are showing on the ice with guys like Corey Crawford and Andrew Shaw trying to fire up the team and fans by fighting. It obviously didn’t work in Game 4.

So, here we are with the Blackhawks down 3-1. They’ve came back before. We’ve all seen it. All of the other teams I cheer for in sports, once they are down, it’s over. Not the Blackhawks. They’ve proved over and over again that nothing is for sure. It’s too late to complain about what has went wrong with this team all season and in this series.

I am just sitting here praying to God that the Blackhawks win three in a row and advance to the second round.

On Wednesday, the Blackhawks will start the playoffs against the Blues in St. Louis. No team has repeated as Stanley Cup Champions in 18 years (1998 Wings). This year, the road will seem to be tougher with injuries and less help on defense for the Blackhawks. Corey Crawford was out the last three weeks until playing in the season-finale on Saturday. I think a goal or two in that game wasn’t really on him, but at least he had some type of tune-up.

The Blackhawks have played really well at times and not much at other times. Like in past years where they won the Cup, there was a stretch in the last few months of the season where they didn’t play their best. They had a 12-game winning streak that began in December and stretched into January. They moved up the standings and into first place for a bit. They still had a chance to win the division or get into second place to host the first round, but lost the last two games in overtime.

Duncan Keith is still suspended and will be ready to play come Game 2 of the series. The depth on defense is slim. But if anyone can get the most out of his players, it’s Joel Quennville. He has seemed to be a magician in these situations. There are injuries, as mentioned with Crawford, that are lingering with some players. But Qunneville is the guy who has the ability to right the ship. He will have his team ready to go.