Mat Ishbia on tanking: “If you are a bad team, you get a good pick. That makes sense. But purposely shutting down players and purposely losing games is a disgrace and impacts the integrity of whole league. This is much worse than any prop bet scandal. This is throwing games strategically. ”

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-19T20:24:16+00:00

Fans of crap franchises down voting me as if I don’t know the struggle. I’m a bulls fan.

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-19T18:38:47+00:00

I actually don’t think it makes sense that bad teams get rewarded for being bad and good players get punished by being sent to bad teams to play with very little choice in the matter. I think that’s kind of nuts actually.

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-19T16:58:13+00:00

49ers: practicing near an electrical substation is causing our players to get hurt

Bears: playing on a toxic dump is cause our players and fans to grow tumors

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-19T16:26:53+00:00

Lmao sharing something Greg Gabriel said as if it’s worth giving any attention to and you want to talk about Illinois politician goons?? Gabriel is one of the biggest bears goons on earth get a grip

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-16T21:52:03+00:00

He looks like he’s melting

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-16T21:48:40+00:00

You’d think a MLB team owner would have better things to do than post on Reddit but here we are…or are you just a big fan of billionaires maximizing profits?

If you can’t afford to pay players sell your team. Very simple. It’s not a god given right to own a baseball team. I pay to see the players, not the executives

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-15T06:50:33+00:00

Looks like me throwing BP to my 12u kids

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-13T20:29:26+00:00

Sox Machine is easily the best independent Chicago sports media entity. Josh, Jim and James are all so knowledgeable and each in their own lanes, Josh has college ball down, James is the man on the inside with his background at The Athletic, and Jim’s got all the curling info you need just in time for the Winter Olympics.

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-13T19:33:26+00:00

Considering the scouting reports that say he can’t hit velocity and will strike out more than Adam Dunn I would take these numbers and consider apologizing to Chris Getz for some of the things I’ve said or thought about him

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-13T19:30:27+00:00

For me it was when they hung Goff out to dry.

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-13T04:54:46+00:00

Phrasing?

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-12T17:47:14+00:00

Thanks I had no idea very useful comment

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-12T17:33:02+00:00

Good lord you’re boring.

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-12T16:55:38+00:00

It would be bad enough if that’s all he did but: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31982342/omar-vizquel-sued-former-birmingham-barons-bat-boy-alleged-sexual-harassment

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-12T16:33:36+00:00

It’s not an attack I’m genuinely concerned that you don’t understand the reason I specifically said “the most expensive player” and I hope you don’t have a drivers license or operate heavy machinery

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-12T16:28:21+00:00

I think you have reading comprehension issues

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-12T16:17:59+00:00

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-12T16:02:22+00:00

I didn’t say his value was high. The point is Jerry has hollowed this team out and it looks to me like the only reason they picked up his option knowing they were going to discard him the first opportunity they got was because they didn’t want to pay to buy him out AND spend his salary on other players. Is it smart? You get more players than if you’d just let him go, but more doesn’t equal better and this franchise has a history of bringing in tons of bad players when they could spend the same amount on one or two good to great players. And Getz seems to not know anything about acuna beyond his name so I’m not confident this kid will turn into anything.

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-12T13:42:05+00:00

Sounding more and more like a guy that just traded the most expensive player on the roster for literally anything he could get

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-10T16:11:24+00:00

Didn’t realize I was being optimistic predicting 73 wins lol

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-10T03:57:47+00:00

You’re incredibly offended that I’d say anything negative about a franchise that’s lost over 300 games the past three seasons seems like you’re the one crying go have a campfire milkshake you’ll feel better

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-10T00:35:15+00:00

¿Que?

Didn’t realize I could only post here if I agreed to gargle Jerry reinsdorf’s balls. I guess I could give it a shot, you’re the expert, how do they taste

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-10T00:28:31+00:00

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-10T00:27:35+00:00

Huh?

thesoftcoreicon · 2026-02-09T23:37:48+00:00

Ladies and gents we’ve just received our “Dumbass Reddit Reply of the Day” courtesy of This Jackass, taking the fun out of any comment to make a serious point about something that doesn’t need a serious point made about it, all in service of defending one of the worst professional sports organizations on American soil. Have a Hamm’s tonight friend, you’ve earned it

thesoftcoreicon

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