Bulls’ New Tune: All You Need Is Love

July 24, 2014 @ admin → No Comments

Thursday thoughts (or reasonable facsimiles thereof): A report Wednesday floating around had the Chicago Bulls willing to part with Taj Gibson, Doug McDermott and Nikola Mirotic to obtain Kevin Love from the Minnesota Timberwolves. It’s unclear whether the Bulls actually would part with the aforementioned players or whether their names being out there is intended to increase Minnesota’s asking price in dealing with the Cleveland Cavaliers (featuring LeBron James).

Video of Hungarian model Cosmo below if you’re interested (even if you aren’t).

* It’s unclear how the names of the Bulls players got thrown out there, but if the proposed deal fails to go through, the team is going have to deal with Gibson’s hurt feelings. First the Bulls sign Pau Gasol (which would seem to keep Gibson on the bench rather than become a starter) and now this. Oh, my! If there’s no deal, coach Tom Thibodeau will find a way to deal with it.

* Neither Jose Abreu of the White Sox or Anthony Rizzo of the Cubs hit a home run, and their teams lost. Someone must have played well for a Sox and a Cubs minor league team (possibly more than one someone for more than one team), but some of us are so tired as today’s post is being ~~crafted~~ typed, we really don’t care as much about that as we do finishing and going to sleep.

* For what it’s worth, the fine folks at Bovada, (www.Bovada.lv, Twitter: @BovadaLV) have some baseball-related odds that they sent over last week. Meaning the numbers might have changed slightly (if you’re so inclined to use these numbers to make a friendly wager with someone — purely for entertainment purposes, of course):

Playboy’s Carly Lauren. Just for fun.

Odds to win the 2014 World Series

Oakland Athletics 5/1
Detroit Tigers 6/1
Los Angeles Dodgers 6/1
Los Angeles Angels 9/1
St. Louis Cardinals 10/1
Washington Nationals 10/1
San Francisco Giants 12/1
Atlanta Braves 14/1
Baltimore Orioles 14/1
Milwaukee Brewers 16/1
Toronto Blue Jays 18/1
New York Yankees 22/1
Seattle Mariners 25/1
Cincinnati Reds 28/1
Pittsburgh Pirates 33/1
Kansas City Royals 40/1
Boston Red Sox 50/1
Cleveland Indians 66/1
Tampa Bay Rays 66/1
New York Mets 200/1
Miami Marlins 250/1
Chicago White Sox 300/1
Minnesota Twins 300/1
Philadelphia Phillies 300/1
Chicago Cubs 500/1
Colorado Rockies 750/1
Texas Rangers 750/1
Arizona Diamondbacks 1000/1
Houston Astros 1000/1
San Diego Padres 1000/1

Odds to win the 2014 AL Pennant
Oakland Athletics 13/5
Detroit Tigers 3/1
Los Angeles Angels 9/2
Baltimore Orioles 7/1
Toronto Blue Jays 9/1
New York Yankees 11/1
Seattle Mariners 12/1
Kansas City Royals 18/1
Boston Red Sox 25/1
Cleveland Indians 33/1
Tampa Bay Rays 33/1
Chicago White Sox 1501
Minnesota Twins 150/1
Texas Rangers 400/1
Houston Astros 500

More Cosmo, anyone? Something needs to fill up some space.

Odds to win the 2014 NL Pennant
Los Angeles Dodgers 13/5
St. Louis Cardinals 4/1
Washington Nationals 4/1
San Francisco Giants 11/2
Atlanta Braves 7/1
Milwaukee Brewers 7/1
Cincinnati Reds 14/1
Pittsburgh Pirates 16/1
Miami Marlins 100/1
New York Mets 100/1
Philadelphia Phillies 150/1
Chicago Cubs 250/1
Colorado Rockies 400/1
San Diego Padres 400/1
Arizona Diamondbacks 500/1

Odds to win the 2014 AL EAST
Baltimore Orioles 6/5
Toronto Blue Jays 9/4
New York Yankees 11/4
Boston Red Sox 14/1
Tampa Bay Rays 14/1

Odds to win the 2014 AL CENTRAL
Detroit Tigers 1/7
Kansas City Royals 5/1
Cleveland Indians 10/1
Chicago White Sox 50/1
Minnesota Twins 50/1

Odds to win the 2014 AL WEST
Oakland Athletics 5/11
Los Angeles Angels 9/5
Seattle Mariners 12/1

Odds to win the 2014 NL EAST
Washington Nationals 1/2
Atlanta Braves 3/2
New York Mets 25/1
Miami Marlins 33/1
Philadelphia Phillies 50/1

Odds to win the 2014 NL CENTRAL
St. Louis Cardinals 6/5
Milwaukee Brewers 9/4
Cincinnati Reds 3/1
Pittsburgh Pirates 6/1

Odds to win the 2014 NL WEST
Los Angeles Dodgers 2/5
San Francisco Giants 7/4
Arizona Diamondbacks 250/1
San Diego Padres 250/1
Colorado Rockies 250/1

Odds to Win the 2014 AL Cy Young
Felix Hernandez (SEA) 3/2
Chris Sale (CWS) 5/1
Masahiro Tanaka (NYY) 15/2
Scott Kazmir (OAK) 15/2
Yu Darvish (TEX) 15/2
Sonny Gray (OAK) 12/1
Max Scherzer (DET) 12/1
David Price (TB) 14/1
Garrett Richards (LAA) 14/1
Mark Buehrle (TOR) 33/1
Jon Lester (BOS) 33/1
Corey Kluber (CLE) 33/1
Rick Porcello (DET) 33/1

Odds to Win the 2014 NL Cy Young
Clayton Kershaw (LAD) 5/7
Adam Wainwright (STL) 8/5
Johnny Cueto (CIN) 10/1
Zack Greinke (LAD) 12/1
Stephen Strasburg (WAS) 25/1
Madison Bumgarner (SF) 25/1
Alfredo Simon (CIN) 33/1

Odds to Win the 2014 AL MVP
Mike Trout (LAA) 2/3
Miguel Cabrera (DET) 9/2
Josh Donaldson (OAK) 9/1
Robinson Cano (SEA) 12/1
Nelson Cruz (BAL) 12/1
Victor Martinez (DET) 12/1
Jose Bautista (TOR) 15/1
Jose Abreu (CHW) 20/1
Jose Altuve (HOU) 20/1
Michael Brantley (CLE) 20/1

Odds to Win the 2014 NL MVP
Andrew McCutchen (PIT) 2/1
Troy Tulowitzki (COL) 9/4
Giancarlo Stanton (MIA) 4/1
Yasiel Puig (LAD) 6/1
Paul Goldschmidt (ARI) 15/2
Carlos Gomez (MIL) 14/1
Clayton Kershaw (LAD) 15/1
Adam Wainwright (STL) 40/1

Who will hit the most home runs in the 2014 Regular Season?
Jose Abreu (CHW) 4/5
Nelson Cruz (BAL) 3/2
Edwin Encarnacion (TOR) 7/1
Giancarlo Stanton (MIA) 12/1
Mike Trout (LAA) 25/1
Troy Tulowitzki (COL) 33/1
Chris Carter (HOU) 33/1
Victor Martinez (DET) 40/1
Brandon Moss (OAK) 40/1
David Ortiz (BOS) 50/1
Albert Pujols (LAA) 50/1
Josh Donaldson (OAK) 50/1
Anthony Rizzo (CHC) 50/1
Todd Frazier (CIN) 50/1
Jose Bautista (TOR) 50/1

* If it’s Thursday (and the chances seem fairly good — provided that today is July 24, 2014, or a subsequent Thursday), then it is time for another edition of “Sports & Torts” with co-hosts David Spada and Elliott Harris at noon Central time on Talkzone.com. This week’s show features Ken “Hawk” Harrelson, the former big-league baseball player and pro golfer and currently the television play-by-play voice of the Chicago White Sox. The show also will become available on podcast later Thursday at Talkzone.com.

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