doclinkin wrote:cwb3 wrote:long suffrin' boulez fan wrote:Do I reveal myself as a self-loathing turncoat if I admit that I kind of like this particular incarnation of the Bulls? I like Tippytoes, I love the way they fight and play defense. I even kind of like Kirby's goggles and, well you know, who doesn't luv them sum luv a bulls, right?
Ok, LSBF, snap out of it...
Think Boozer. Dook. Coach Kay. Lil' Bobby Hurley. Christian Laettner. Wojo and worst of all, that stinking no call on Gminski when he fouled Buck Williams at the buzzer, costing UMD an ACC championship.
Ok, ok, I'm getting there.
Help me out fellow posters. Help me get into a lather in time for 7pm Sunday.
Sadly I have to agree with you, they are actually my 2nd favorite team after the Wizards. Sorta bummed to see them against each other in the first round, but I guess happy that at least one of them will advance.
Yes I know. . .I'm doing this thread ALL WRONG!!! 
Laying aside whether or not I agree with the premise (I do, I really do, and JoNo is one of my favorite non-wizards, yes) --- yes YOU ARE BOTH DOING IT ALL WRONG!!!
With my powers as the People's Moderator I will ban you! BAN YOU! BAN YOU!!! if you sully this thread again with that sort of nonsense.
To atone you better find somebody to insult up in this piece.
Thanks Doc... I needed that.
OK then. In 2008, Chicago was deemed the most segregated city in America. A legacy of more than a century of overt and more subtle forms of institutional racism (like redlining, steering and the construction of segregating freeways), the situation in Chicago is truly a tale of haves and have nots, largely based on race.
Using sports as an example, one of Chicago's most prominent citizens of the latter part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century was baseball and sporting good magnate Albert Spalding. Spalding was largely responsible for establishing the color line in baseball and promoting the sport as the national pastime, a professional pursuit for whites only. In fact, many believe him to be the inventor of the bleachers, a place apart where black and poor people could be segregated away from the remainder of the crowd -- while still lining the pockets of white owners.
Compare that to Abe Pollin, who used his own money during an era of rampant owner blackmail and corporate welfare to build an arena in a struggling section of town in order to create economic opportunity for people of the district.
