So he’s appealing to the pro wrestling fans?

I can see that. It’s a natural constituency for him. I know some wrestling fans and they acknowledge it’s fake–but they still watch–they still enjoy the “soap opera” of it all.

They still buy the special events to watch.

I can see some of that with Trump supporters. They don’t dig very deep on why they like him or what he will accomplish or actually how he will accomplish it.

Mexico will build the wall? Okay–good enough.

They LIKE him–they like his colorful personality–his willingness to act like a jerk to the other candidates–to not play the establishment game.

They don’t care about details. The voters he’s attracting don’t care about long policy speeches or charts or anything like that. They’re angry people who want to lash out at something–who will support someone who speaks for THEM–who screams at these other politicians or who may express somewhat openly, any racist feelings they have.

It’s a “feel good” vote for them.

Don’t bother them with details or the consequences of putting such a man in office.

It is fueled by emotion.

Trying to figure out something like that, to label it or to find some sort of logic behind it will inevitably fail. Emotion is distant from logic.

The establishment can’t figure out Bernie or Trump.

But more than anything else both candidates give certain segments of the population a voice–and that’s very appealing. Most of the time the establishment doesn’t listen to those voices(in the case of Trump–I find that a good thing) but there are real people behind the voices who have been screaming into the woods for years.

The establishment didn’t hear them.

Now they do.

Fisher has the built-in excuse this year with the move so this year probably wasn’t going to be used to evaluate him anyway. They extend and evaluate over that time. As long as no other “excuses” pop up–he’ll have to do well.

Joe Namath, Bert Jones, Dan Pastorini…Peyton Manning.

I see him–at best–a mentor for Mannion. If that’s the plan it’s going to cost too much for a mentor.

Manning probably sees a great defense–thinks he can repeat the Denver thing and get a lot of money.

The Rams may see the same thing.

I’m not so sure.

Yeah the whole thing is keeping blockers off of him. If that happens I think he’ll be fine.

If not–they have problems.

They obviously love Barron so someone had to move.

I really think this may have been one of my least favorite Coen films.

I found it long and dull. I think I laughed a couple of times(the film editor scene and the dancing sailors). The scenes with Clooney just never took off for me. The characters had no real connections to each other. Nothing felt like one plot thread. It felt more like different “skits” and it didn’t work for me. The twin gossip reporters–felt like an inside joke I just didn’t get. In fact, much of it felt like inside jokes.

The acting was fine but the story itself and the lagging direction just fell apart for me.

It just seems like a complicated set-up. Should we also bring in a 2nd down specialist? A first down specialist? A 4th down specialist?

Is this what the NFL has become?

Remember the days when you had one OC and he was in charge of everything?

Just seems weird to me–with a lot of moving parts to get jammed up.

I hope it works.

It really feels like Fisher’s only choice is “in-house” hirings for this position.

Did they talk to Shurmer? Did he turn them down? It feels like the last time when they went with Cignetti. I mean–if he really loved Boras why not just come out from the start and say: “We have out guy–we’re happy with Rob.” Why a drawn out search with names being tossed about only to go back to square one anyway?

I just think either these guys don’t want to be under Fisher’s thumb or they don’t like the way he handles assistants(they take the fall)or they don’t like the situation but for whatever reason–he doesn’t seem able to bring a guy in.

So just embrace the guy you have and know are going to be stuck with and move on.

It’s probably better for his confidence.

Well–it’s here–and they weren’t lying.

Let the dog out today and she bravely(with a tap on the butt)went out into the snow and promptly turned around and looked at me and said with her dog face: “Are you fucking nuts?”

And came back inside.

I must shovel her a path.

SNOWPOCALYPSE!!!!!

They keep upping our totals. We currently are anywhere from a foot to 2 feet. I drove home tonight from work and it was sticking pretty good.

Apparently the NAM model is giving us over 3 feet. The local guy said they were “Nervously ignoring that one”. The damn NAM!

I’m hoping to wake up to find this thing fizzled out.

I offer my sincere condolences, Ozone.

It’s a horrible disease and I feel for anyone who has been touched by it.

I also feel for anyone taken in my these quack cures. People are in a vulnerable state and reaching out for anything and these con artists take advantage of that. There are some truly miserable human beings out there.

Happy Birthday, RM!

wv wrote:

I guess this is the LA radio station
where we can listen to ram stuff.
(i hate the fact it has Jim Rome in the heading.
Gawd, is that piece-of-shit still on the air)

http://thebeast980.com/

Are there others?

w
v

I can’t stand Jim Rome–at all. I don’t get his popularity. He’s like a “Bros” host. He’s annoying. I used to get ESPN radio locally but then they switched to CBS radio and they broadcast Rome. A complete waste of airspace. And he THINKS he’s the best there is. I don’t understand why people listen to him–what they hear that they like.

Speaking of CBS radio and the waste that it is–another guy I throw in there with Rome is Scott Farrell. He may be harder to listen to than Rome.