Podcastin' with Hardwood Paroxysm

because Skype’s still weak on cellphone connections. That’s on me, but we’ll try to improve it next time.

so, no I don’t see myself paying for one in the future. I coud’ve gone on skype I suppose.

it’s in Tyger’s new sig. Bobcats, Warriors, Clippers, Bulls.

and more of just shock that there’s such overwhelming negativity. But as I pointed out, Matt really enlightened me on why there’s such rampant frustration. And again, a lot of it is because I watch so many worse teams, and I genuinely want this team to do well. But after the last three games, even I’ve hit the point where I’m like, yeah, they’ve hit bottom.

I still read your columns/blogs I just have been too upset lately over the state of our Bulls to write. I’m sure you get tons of emails every day and probably don’t remember who sends what; but on the off chance that you do you’ll probably remember that I’ve been pretty critical of Bulls ownership in the past year or so. In case you’re wondering… I’m still pretty upset.

My question is this: do you think Jerry Reinsdorf would be able to give me one good reason why his basketball team deserves my support? I understand it’s not your place to tell the owner how he should spend his money and how much of it he should spend… but doesn’t it send the wrong message to Bulls fans that we sell out every game and yet he refuses to even spend as much on the Bulls as the White Sox (who rarely sell out)?

I mean, over the past 10 years we are professional basketball’s number one most profitable franchise (got a link for that too: http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/32/321267.html); yet, we are one of only 4 teams that has refused to pay the luxury tax even once in that time period (the others being the Clippers, Bobcats and Warriors). Are we really on par with those other franchises? They make a ridiculously smaller amount of money than us. Why does Reinsdorf refuse to reward Bulls fans when he constantly overspends on has-beens for the Sox?

When I first heard what he said about trading all six Bulls championships for one with the White Sox I thought it was just him speaking in the moment (that doesn’t mean it’s excusable, though); it turns out he really doesn’t care about the Bulls so long as our overly loyal, often-blissfully-ignorant Chicago basketball fans are willing to pay for tickets and merchandise.

Again, not sure that you’re able to really give me an answer on this… but what do you think JR’s reason for deserving my support would be if I asked him?

Looks like a young Bill Gates.