As a Cubs fan, I'm glad to know the worst my owner ever did was fwd some Alex Jones emails.

2005 forgave a lot.

This is bringing up all those old feelings again.

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Uncle Jerry did NOTHING wrong until the final season.

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Telling Pippeen "too bad so sad" was a typical (((tribe))) move.

Questionable.

He could've stopped the infighting and stepped in much sooner.

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That's Pippen's fault. Even Michael knew Jerry don't renegotiate.

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He told the country bumpkin that the deal was too long and Scottie didn't listen. He shouldn't have given him a mulligan. Scottie was looking for security and he got it.

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They won the last one because he stepped in. Phil being a manipulating diva and Krause brought the team down. Uncle Jerry can't be expected to control all of those personalities.

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And we why wonder superstars don't sign here. He fucking jewed him.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

He told him it was a bad contract and he still signed the deal.

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Cause he needed the money! There wasn't even a cap back then.. He could have re-did the deal. Stop defending him

There has been a salary cap since the mid-80s.

If Scottie had blown out his knee and reduced to a bench role, should he have offered to tear up the contract and get paid less?

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

It is almost like Jerry needs the drama in his organizations.

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Uncle Jerry gave Krause and Ozzie a chance when no one thought he should. Chicago has 7 championships because of his genius.

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I know you are trolling but they have six of those because Portland already had Clyde Drexler. Then caught lightening in a bottle for one post season in baseball.

It will be interesting to see if the Sox thing pans out how many disgruntled guys they will have in about 4 years due to the Pippen type contracts they took.

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He inherited Jordan, but he managed to put 2 teams around him that led to multiple 3Peats. Has there been a more successful owner in the past 30 years? I think Uncle Jerry gets a lot of unfair criticism and no one wants to give him credit for anything.

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Baseball hasn't been relevant for over a decade and the Bulls up until this month were blaming the Rose injury for their current shitty situation. This documentary coming out may have been what finally pushed him to make changes with the Bulls.

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It's been less than a decade technically. Like I said, everyone wants to blame him for everything, but no one gives him credit for anything. You don't luck into 7 championships. The Bears and Cubs are what it looks like when incompetent management pisses away championship teams.

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The folks who shoulder the most blame for the Pippen thing are Pippen and his agent. It's the agent who is supposed to look out for the player's best interests, not the employer. Later on the Bulls could have shown more flexibility but the reason for Pippen's predicament was on him and his agent.

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Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Pippen knew what he was signing and he knows the reasons that he signed it. Back then it was reported that he signed the deal because it provided long term security for him. At the time Pippen had already suffered a serious back injury. There was a question as to whether he'd even have a long term career. He signed the deal with that as a consideration. Reinsdorf advised against but he did it anyway.

That was on him.

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You can see how much the media helped stoke Scottie's resentment. All those stories pointing out that he was the 122nd highest paid player. But when he was calmly sitting down, he says right out he needed to take care of his family and he didn't want to risk getting hurt. It was a trade-off. If an injury had ended his career in the first season, he sure wasn't going to give Jerry the $18 million back.

And did we forget the fat sign-and-trade the Bulls arranged for him and the giant payment they gave him when they brought him back as a busted down 38 year old? Scottie has zero beef with Jerry Reinsdorf whether he knows that or not.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Was that the same agent that stole millions from him later on?

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MJ was so obviously great that the team was sold after he was drafted.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I don't know. It's still not management's problem. Again, they could have been flexible down the road. But Pippen locked himself into that deal. I remember this may have been discussed in Sam Smith's The Jordan Rules but I can't be sure. What I do remember reading is that plenty of people told Pippen it was unwise to do this but he was paranoid about suffering a debilitating injury.

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Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

If I remember correctly, Bulls ownership pre-Reinsdorf was a rickety consortium of the Wirtzes, Lamar Hunt, George Steinbrenner, and a handful of other dudes who were getting sued for some kind of screwing with the Milwaukee Bucks. The Wirtzes owned the Stadium in full and probably wanted to collect rent on Bulls games that no one went to instead of actually operating them. I'm guessing the wheels had been in motion to sell the team for a while.

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Yeah, I think Jonathan Kovler was the managing partner of that group.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I think the world is going to come around to my opinion on Reinsdorf after watching this documentary. Sure Reinsy will try to throw Krause under the bus, but Reinsy is responsible for Krause.

If Reinsdorf drops dead of Covid tomorrow, I'm popping champagne

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Pippen sought out the contract because he was coming off significant back surgery and his career outlook was uncertain.

He obviously overcame his back problem but it still flared up throughout his career.

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I think he knows that Reinsdorf took care of him now.

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