as usual he was a dick about it, but totally with MJ about not giving Cartwright the ball. Man he was painful to watch.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
Doubt anyone reading this thread other than me couldn't watch the original broadcasts, but all episodes can now be watched for free via the ESPN app.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
This is about as nostalgic as nostalgic gets, for me. Other than friends/family/community, there's nothing else that was so prevalent throughout my entire childhood than MJ and the Bulls (aged 6 his rookie year, 20 for last title).
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
how many home foundations have been torn asunder from ppl with good home theaters having Pippen's voice bellow thru their subwoofers
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
haha, his voice is amazing
― Spottie, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
1st time I was ever allowed to be on my own in Chicago was going to 2nd Championship celebration in Grant Park. Took the train in, just me and my friend. By the time we got there was already an enormous swarm of people. Never seen that many people in person before or since. Had to climb up on base of lightpost just to get a glimpse of them on the stage wayyyy in the distance. Crazy how parsimonious Reinsdorf was (is!!) when you think about Bulls going from getting outdrawn at Chicago Stadium by the friggin indoor soccer team to being the most popular sports club in the world in less than a decade. If eventually the Bulls and White Sox have different owners, I wonder if Sox would be able to make it w/o Bulls subsidizing them (btw if you ever want to get an authentic Chicago experience, go to a Sox game instead of Cubs. The accents you'll hear are alone worth the price of admission).
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
lmao at this Magic Johnson article about "who could've made it in Jordan's era", it's just the 5 best current NBA players. that's so on brand.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
has any 90s dude said something along the lines of "like with all athletic endeavors, basketball skills, training regimens, diets, knowledge/strategy have evolved since I played. Just like we took what we saw watching NBA guys growing up and took it to a new level, current players are playing at a base level well beyond ours. The avg player now would be a superstar if he time-traveled back 30 years"?? Or is Ego just too much of a beast for that to happen, at least for those who were stars in their era?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
there was a baseball player who said something like "Babe Ruth would never make it out of the minors if he played today" and it got some backlash but he was definitely right
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
he’d probably make a pretty good DH for somebody
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
dunno about that
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
https://theaceofspaeder.com/2019/01/24/walter-johnson-probably-threw-88-mph/
The avg player now would be a superstar if he time-traveled back 30 years"
Javale McGee, Superstar.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
my next door neighbor runs the maintenance crew at the white sox spring trainng facility nearby. we've become friends and he gets us into games and such. Gave fam and me an in depth tour of the whole facility last year and he showed us reinsd0rfs office. we sat on the couches in there for 10 minutes or so and talked. my kids were messing around at at his desk and my youngest (3) grabbed his half smoked cigar that was leaning on an ash tray. had to scramble to pry it out of his hands and place the mangled cigar back. i wonder what his reaction was to seeing it. that's my story.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
lol nice. The head groundskeeper at Sox Park in Chicago, Roger Bossard, is famous. Well, as famous as a groundskeeper can get.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
aka The Sodfather
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
haha had no idea
― Spottie, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
The accuracy of how #TheLastDance was edited 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/0ZkzJKAbtP— Harmonica Lewinskyღ (@_harmonyxo) May 19, 2020
― Spottie, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
The guy with the best reflexes in the world in 1930 would have very good reflexes today
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
but you cant play with your pockets full of hot dogs now
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
is it possible to calculate pitch velocity based on old footage?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
handing ruth one of those skinny handle bats they got now instead of a maple log would be interesting to see
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
I think people are underestimating the leap in talent the league had in the 90s. Rony Seikaly and Nikola Vucevic are basically the same guy and are having the same careers.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
In the 80s seikaly probably is considered a superstar for a while but in the 90s people thought he was just a stat padder
these conversations are crazy-making, obviouslyy if you zapped Babe Ruth c. 1927 into today's game he'd be toast, but "if he were alive today" he'd be up to speed on the modern game, conditioned differently etc., and he would dominate.
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
The league has a lot of stars. The best player on the 11th best team is generally considered a star player. In my world, a superstar is more like a consensus top 5 player in the league over at least five consecutive seasons, the type of player kids everywhere idolize and pretend to be, whose jersey still gets worn by fans a decade after they retire. You know, a superstar. Not Rony Seikaly.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 21 May 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
yay literally my least favorite sports discussion topic
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 May 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
yeah i can't really get worked up about it
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 21 May 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
babe ruth had no jumper
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 May 2020 01:10 (three years ago) link
otm
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 May 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
The league has a lot of stars. The best player on the 11th best team is generally considered a star player. In my world, a superstar is more like a consensus top 5 player in the league over at least five consecutive seasons, the type of player kids /everywhere/ idolize and pretend to be, whose jersey still gets worn by fans a decade after they retire. You know, a /super/star. Not Rony Seikaly.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 21 May 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
hello and welcome to barstool sports
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
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― Clay, Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
For you to sit there, Max Kellerman, and look me in the eye and say that Babe Ruth, a dear dear friend of mine, could not play into today's game is blasphemous....preposterous...things of that nature
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 May 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
hello caller you are on the air
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 May 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
To me, Luka Doncic has the potential to be a superstar. He's certainly a star player. We could move this to the understandably moribund Regular Degular part II thread.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 21 May 2020 03:12 (three years ago) link
he was one of the best offensive players in the nba this year so he may have reached superstar status
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 21 May 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
if there was no baseball strike back then, MJ would've threepeated the world series
― maffew12, Thursday, 21 May 2020 03:46 (three years ago) link
luka got enough votes to start in the all-star game and also he rules and is a superstar fin
― Clay, Thursday, 21 May 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
Arguing that Luka is not a superstar? That is special.
― some vast airy pantaloon is required (PBKR), Thursday, 21 May 2020 12:30 (three years ago) link
Is Joe Flacco elite?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 May 2020 12:40 (three years ago) link
Finished this morning--haven't caught up with all the posting.
-- Jordan's kids showed up in the final episode; I don't think his wife was ever in it.
-- I know Karl Malone was famously quiet, but I'm surprised with all the time that had passed there was no interview
-- I loved that one thing Phil Jackson said when Rodman disappeared again during the '98 Finals; "It's not a distraction for us, it's a distraction for you"
-- god, the NBA was low-scoring in the late '90s; I know the 3-point shot hadn't taken off yet, but what happened?
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 May 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
Idk anything about basketball but Phil Jackson and basically every Bull who's not MJ come across like total mensches in this
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
totally
did krause do an actual interview for the doc? can't remember anything
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
he died in 2017
― Spottie, Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
ahh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
which was very convenient for reinsdorf
― Spottie, Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
Not endorsing this, but here's a long thing Joe Posnanski (primarily a baseball writer) posted yesterday that some of you might find interesting. It's behind a paywall so I put it on a Google doc, which he says is okay now and again.
http://docs.google.com/document/d/1fqfAFj1Oji9g2TJvOzYHSq5grtRn4G_cOmMrhZ1ROdc/edit?usp=sharing
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
The short version is that it's a rebuke to that Magic Johnson quote above about the game being so much better when we played (common to all sports).
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link