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First, a desperately needed respite from the daily Rose talk. Since early March, shortly after writing a blog giving reasons why Rose didn't need to come back this season, the daily talk has been dominated by why Rose should come back to play.
Neither side has handled this "much ado about nothing" well, allowing a molehill sentiment to become a mountain of blather to fill the sports talk airwaves. The Bulls should have issued a firm statement instead of the daily drip, drip, drip of "he might play." Rose's camp could have been far more definitive at several junctures by making declarative statements better than "only god knows" when he will return. A simple "I'm not ready yet but I'm working hard" would have been a repeatable mantra that would have kept this a non-story.
Secondly, with the end of the season will come the end of the lazy radio that has been foisted upon the listeners. Not unlike the idiots with the massive bass sound systems in their cars who drive around making noise as a pretext to listening to their "music." These two have banged the Rose drum daily not to further a discussion but to make noise to suit their agenda. Bernstein writes a blog in February that many can embrace, and then two weeks later they flip the show 180 just to go against the conventional thought.
It has been lazy radio because despite hammering Rose they have yet to bring on one single knowledgeable, objective voice to support their contention. They haven't had a single exptert (M.D.) who has come on as a guest to support their claims on Rose. They haven't had a single working local media person who has both observed Rose in practice and agreed with their position on Rose. Sure, there have been a few who have flirted with their position by writing a column, but invariably they have all backtracked or backed down from the position these two have been hammering. How about another player or former player to agree with what they've been saying?
They have had two months to produce one knowledgeable or learned source to agree with what they've said, and they have failed. National media, they get snippets of information that when pressed further they either temper their remarks or state that they don't know first hand (Steve Kerr). One or two others have made claims but they seem to either get a bit of information wrong or embellish what they are told (Gregg Doyel), and thus undermine their credibility. I can undertand why they haven't spoken to the original source to the information plant, Melissa Isaacson, because she works for the big-boy network. But Isaacson hasn't been quoted any further on this story either, why is that.?
It is no secret that the Sun-Times Ricks have taken a few potshots at them over the past few weeks, as though to point out that the truth isn't being told on 670 in the afternoons. The response by Bernstein has been his admonition to "pick up the phone and talk to someone." Ok, fair enough but why is it that in two months they haven't had one person who is willing to talk?
And it wouldn't be so bad except that having converted a significant portion of their audience to buying in to what they've been promoting, they don't like taking callers who agree with their position. Buy into what they've been saying and call in, and they can't contain their contempt towads your obvious ignorance by having been duped by them.
With this anticipated loss we can be spared the disingenous bullshit that the Bulls organization is perfectly orchestrating their public message. We can stop hearing how despite the impassioned post-game responses of players regarding the Rose situation, that they are just staying on point with the organization's message. Clearly, someone is lying. Someone with the Bulls must be lying. Because how can they have a perfect message and yet only Bernstein can get a message that is counter to the organization?
At the least, a loss tonight will allow the discussion to hopefully transition away from Rose and towards their belief that there are now three teams from the western conference that are blocking the Bulls' chanpionship aspirations. How despite their great admiration for Coach Thibs, the front office, and the organization, the Bulls still don't stand a chance of winning a chamnpionship any time soon. We can move on to how nothing impresses Boers enough to want to watch, but how he's watched everything and he's certain of what the Bulls can't achieve.
Lose tonight and tomorrow there will hopefully be something, anything, new to talk about.
_________________ DRINK BƎTTƎR. @theRIPH
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