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  • Avatar photowv
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    No my friend liking the team is still supporting the owner. If you have no skin in the game then perhaps the mental charade seems clear cut?…

    Well, i suppose its a lot easier to support the team and not the owner
    if you live in West Virginia. I mean, i dont spend any money on the team,
    that would filter to the owner. Except maybe on NFL-Rewind.

    We can agree to disagree, i guess.

    But i still say…if you give up on the Rams,
    the TERRORISTS WIN !

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    in reply to: 10 Poverty Myths #21283
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    10. Handouts are bankrupting us. In 2012, total welfare funding was 0.47 percent of the federal budget.

    That’s the biggest welfare myth out there and it’s perpetuated by Mitt Romney and his ilk with their 47%’er bullshit. Unfortunately, the elite are good at making the middle class believe that the poor are responsible for their tax burden.

    Well thats the number that caught my eye.
    (a lot of the other points were confusing to me)

    But there’s all kinds of algebra out there,
    on this topic. Lots of numbers.
    This site says “welfare” is nine percent.
    http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/welfare_budget_2012_4.html

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    • This reply was modified 9 years, 12 months ago by Avatar photowv.
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    I understand but that is not me. When Bidwill flew the coop while bashing St. Louis fans I didn’t watch the NFL for 7 years and delighted in the news of his failure in Phoenix that lasted 20 years. I became a reluctant Rams fan as I really wanted an expansion team and believe to this day the Jags should have been the St. Louis Stallions and this crap wouldn’t be happening today. No doubt the NFL brass thinks so too.
    I find it obscene that a billionaire demands the public fund their stadium again after only 20 years then says he will privately finance a much more expensive stadium elsewhere? Busch II was 40 years old and the Arena was at least 70 years old. Such huge investments shouldn’t be treated as disposable. The publicly owned Packers still play fine in Lambeau Field.

    Ok, but i can tell you from personal experience,
    its quite possible to loathe an Owner
    and still like the ‘team.’
    I loathed Carroll Rosenbloom.
    And then I loathed Georgia F.
    And now i loathe Kroenke.

    Owners tend to be loathsome.

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    Honore de Balzac (1799-1850): “Behind every great fortune is a crime.”

    Avatar photowv
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    Kroenke isn’t a purist he’s a businessman. Artificial turf is cheap and cost effective. If he moves I hope his team is the same.

    You know you ‘could’ be a Nomad
    fan like a lot of us. I live in WV; I
    doubt if i ever see the Rams play live.
    I dont mind.

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    Avatar photowv
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    Artificial turf in Los Angeles.
    Count me out.

    Unbelievable.

    Sigh.

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    Avatar photowv
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    This is the ‘nice’ board. We’re nice

    What the hell are you blithering about NOW.

    I just dont think anyone on this board buys
    into the “QBs elevate the team” thing.

    I think there’s a consensus on this board
    that if the Rams build a good Defense, good special
    teams units, and finally manage to put a solid,
    healthy OLine together — they just need
    a second or even third tier QB. A Dalton, or
    an Alex Smith type would put them in the playoffs.

    Just seems like Foles can ‘at least’ be a Dalton/Smith
    level QB. If he turns out better than that, fine.

    Nothin will matter on this team if Snisher
    cant put a solid, healthy OLine on the field.
    Part of the ‘health’ thing is out of their hands
    but part of it isn’t. Drafting young and healthy OLinemen
    is a different approach than signing guys like Jake Long….

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    in reply to: History of Rams/Eagles QB trades #21183
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    Avatar photowv
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    This little board is always more of a ‘wait and see’ board.

    This is the ‘nice’ board. We’re nice. Except for Ag.

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    in reply to: Casey Phillips signed by Bucs #21180
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    You know, someone else left the Rams and took a similar position in Tampa. I forget the name. He was in marketing, I think, and was I thought the point man in charge of organizing all the community involvement stuff.

    It’s a brain drain. But a lateral move brain drain. When Wagoner left, he was called up by the majors.

    Either way…looks like they still take Demoff’s recommendations back at his old team in Tampa.

    The Tampa relationship goes all the way back to Georgia Frontiere.
    Her mentor was the own of the Bucs. Forget his name.

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    in reply to: Happy Spring! #21176
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    No snow here in Almost-Heaven-West-Virginia.

    It’s all brown and muddy and everyone has the Flu.

    I’m going to a park today and steal some ferns, btw.
    Its a Spring ritual for me.

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    in reply to: Grand Budapest Hotel #21175
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    I am not a big fan of Wes Anderson but I was pleasantly surprised by this film.

    The highlight for me was Ralph Fiennes performance. The bond between him and the lobby boy(Tony Revolori) was the heart and soul of the film. It was a fun film with enjoyable performances. A very good film and by far my favorite Wes Anderson film.

    What dont you like about Wes Anderson’s movies?

    Darjeeling Express
    Moonrise Kingdom
    Royal Tannenbaums
    Rushmore
    The Life Aquatic
    Bottle Rocket

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    in reply to: Yep, James, I'd love to see it! #21168
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    This is all qvite easy to explain… when the athlete accomplishes a feat that invokes intensely positive emotions, he regresses back to an earlier mental state when he had equally intense positive emotions and acts out on these feelings. These bridges to past emotional states can go all the way back, as evidenced by the Seattle Wide Receiver during the Super Bowl who travelled all the way back to his first poop not in a diaper. Such a happy boy! If only more players can travel that far back, past their first erections or first orgasms, we won’t see as many provocative displays…

    Well, are women athletes gyrating too?
    I never see it, if they are.
    And if they are not, why
    is it just the men doing
    the sexualized-dancing?

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    in reply to: Why bother caring? #21157
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    I know it’s just business as usual. Sometimes my mood dictates I outburst in a sigh of utter disgust. And, I agree PA – it’s not one party or the other. It’s just business as usual.

    I applaud your sigh
    of utter disgust.

    Now, think about ‘why’
    American ‘citizens’ keep
    voting for Dems or Reps.
    They dont have to.
    Why do they continue
    to do it, as the Titanic
    sinks…

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    —————————
    “…In a society dominated by capitalist logics, people will generally see that
    their interests are served by the election of candidates who are able to provide a
    context in which business can be successful. They tend to vote this way because
    of capitalism’s central conundrum: getting a job from a capitalist is the most
    likely way one can get what is needed to survive in a society dominated by
    capitalist processes.
    Elections then serve the owning class in two powerful ways. They help
    stabilize the capitalist economic structure by putting people in power who will
    prioritize protecting the conditions for capital accumulation. And elections also
    help to legitimate the system by showing that the majority has freely chosen
    capitalist priorities. Only if anti-capitalist forces are able to transform society
    such that people’s well being is not dependent upon capitalists to provide them the resources they need to survive, will working class people ever vote to get rid
    of capitalism. Przeworski shows that we don’t need a functionalist theory of the state that posits an all powerful bourgeoisie which is able to always get its needs met by the state, or a complex theory of how the masses are tricked by a false
    consciousness set in place by bourgeois forces, to understand why European
    voters have not chosen to abolish capitalism. Instead the explanation for why
    people choose capitalism is quite simple: it is in their short-term self-interest.
    Przeworski’s analysis helps us to understand the real place that
    challenging capitalism is difficult. The problem is not simply that capitalism is
    protected by a “capitalist state.” His analysis shifts our attention from the state to
    the economic dependencies created by capitalism. This analysis leaves us with an understanding of the state as an important site of contestation, but not as the
    central fulcrum point for anti-capitalist action.….”
    Cynthia Kaufman

    in reply to: Yep, James, I'd love to see it! #21156
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    He’s more or less saying, “Yeah. Uh. Uh. Uh. I just f***ed you good” as a way of taunting/celebrating.
    Wanna know the underlying issue for the sexual connotation? Can’t help you there.

    Well, I’m getting old. I can’t keep up with
    the postmodern-world anymore.

    I mean, I’m watchin a football game,
    and its all full of football-stuff,
    and then…weird-sexual-stuff pops up.
    And no-one in the tv-world, or the stands,
    seems to even notice or think its the least bit odd.
    I mean…isn’t it odd to have sexual-gyrating
    going on by the football players during a football
    game? That did not always happen, right? I mean
    i dont remember Merlin gyrating sexually after
    a big hit on Joe Kapp.

    I’d research the history of this but i don’t
    even know what search terms to use.
    “History of Sexual gestures by players during sporting events” ?
    I’m not sure what would pop up if i put
    that in my search engine.

    Btw, I’m not sayin its ‘bad’ (or ‘good’) — just odd.
    And it discombobulates me, sometimes.

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    in reply to: interview with Foles (transcript) #21155
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    I would have accepted, “I am Legion” as well.
    But he answered it just fine.

    Or.

    “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes.”
    — Walt Whitman

    in reply to: Yep, James, I'd love to see it! #21149
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    That’s fine, but I have one condition.
    I *don’t* want to see this anymore.

    I do not understand all this gyrating
    that goes on with these kids today.

    Is it a sexual thing, or not?
    I’m seriously naive about this.
    Someone explain it to me?

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    in reply to: interview with Foles (transcript) #21148
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    ====================
    VRENTAS: In 2013 you threw 27 touchdowns and two interceptions. Before you got hurt last season, you threw 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Which of those quarterbacks is the real Nick Foles?

    FOLES: Both of them. Those are all me. I don’t want to turn the ball over. I want to throw touchdowns, and I want to help our offense move the ball and get the ball in the end zone. Every single rep I have ever taken, that’s always been the guy who I want to be. I am not going to sit here and tell you that 2013 is exactly [who I am as a quarterback]. I’ve grown since both of those years. I’m a better player, a better person, a better athlete. I know everybody is going to analyze [the different stat lines] until the cows come home. But I’m not worried about that. I just want to work here and be successful here
    =====================

    Interesting answer.

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    Great answer to a set-up question.

    1. I’m the first guy (to which the media touts him as an egotist)
    2. I’m the second guy (to which the media touts him as a defeatist)

    Dude processes ramifications quickly, I’ll say that.

    He may be smarter than
    i originally suspected.

    That really was an unusual answer.
    “I am both.”

    Maybe i will like this guy.
    Maybe not.
    Maybe both.

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    “There are no others.”
    Ramana Maharshi.

    in reply to: Yep, James, I'd love to see it! #21135
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    Excellent.

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    in reply to: interview with Foles (transcript) #21114
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    ====================
    VRENTAS: In 2013 you threw 27 touchdowns and two interceptions. Before you got hurt last season, you threw 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Which of those quarterbacks is the real Nick Foles?

    FOLES: Both of them. Those are all me. I don’t want to turn the ball over. I want to throw touchdowns, and I want to help our offense move the ball and get the ball in the end zone. Every single rep I have ever taken, that’s always been the guy who I want to be. I am not going to sit here and tell you that 2013 is exactly [who I am as a quarterback]. I’ve grown since both of those years. I’m a better player, a better person, a better athlete. I know everybody is going to analyze [the different stat lines] until the cows come home. But I’m not worried about that. I just want to work here and be successful here
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    Interesting answer.

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    in reply to: The draft–prospects, scouting, mocks #21113
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    Man, the NYGiants would have
    O’dell Beckham AND Amari Cooper.

    The Jets would have Geno and Mariota.
    Two high picks that may not be able
    to play in the NFL 🙂

    I’d have a problem with that draft, myself.
    I like the Scherf pick, and the RB
    but I’d want another OLineman with the third
    pick, not a CB.

    CB is a need, but OLine is a
    Make-Or-Break-Need.

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    <span class=”d4pbbc-font-color” style=”color: blue”>Rams should move on. Go with somebody on the roster or draft a center. He is not a difference maker. He is not that much better than what we have. I would rather save the cap space. I see no real value there.</span>

    Sign him or dont sign him,
    but DRAFT, two or three
    young, healthy, giant, strong, stout HOGs.

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    in reply to: JT chat….3/18 #21052
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    On the Fisher lie. I wonder if Fisher thinks/feels
    that JT broke a confidence at some point
    or revealed something Fisher thot was gonna
    be off the record — somethin like that.

    Cause for the life of me, i cant see
    any other reason why Fisher would intentionally,
    blatantly lie like that. I mean he
    didnt have to. The only way it makes sense
    to me is if it was personal/emotional.

    Who knows though. Not a big deal,
    but definitely not classy
    on Fisher’s part.

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    in reply to: The Longest Joke in the World #21020
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    ==========
    Luna Moth….

    …I’d read the facts—the one week lifespan,
    The way, because they do not eat,

    The adults have no need of a mouth – by the time
    I found the third, late last night,

    High on the wall of my kitchen.
    I’d had too much to drink. I spoke to it

    As if it were my own Buddhist teacher
    Here to teach me nonattachment,

    The illusions of hunger, sex, rampant need.
    I sat with it until the sun rose, toasting

    Its quick beauty, then the restfulness I found
    In its body and then those bright-eyed,

    Translucent green wings that seemed
    To breathe more and more slowly before going

    Motionless. When I lifted it in my hand
    I knew just how little the space was

    Between myself and nothingness.

    Robert Cording
    ==============

    14th-Daili-Mothy-Ram

    in reply to: If the draft were in fifteen minutes… #21017
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    I take BPA at #10 regardless of position. Even if he’s DL.

    Crazy talk. Thats just Richard-Parker
    level madness.

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    in reply to: Garrett Reynolds signs with Rams #21003
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    Nice depth.

    Still need a coupla Solid, Massive, Starters.

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    You appear to be unfamiliar with our pun approach to building O-lines.

    You are probably right.
    The Rams need to stick
    with what they do best.
    Building a good Oline
    would only confuse the RBs,
    QBs, and WRs.
    Not to mention the playcaller.

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    in reply to: Garrett Reynolds signs with Rams #21001
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    Nice depth.

    Still need a coupla Solid, Massive, Starters.

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    in reply to: Garrett Reynolds signs with Rams #21000
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    St. Louis Rams Sign OL Garrett Reynolds
    by Patrick Karraker

    [archauthority.com]
    http://archauthority.com/2015/03/18/st-louis-rams-sign-ol-garrett-reynolds/

    The St. Louis Rams finally made some sort of move to address their offensive line, which has been stripped bare by free agency and cap-conserving cuts, signing veteran offensive lineman Garrett Reynolds to a two-year contract worth $2.2 million. The 27-year-old Reynolds will become the seventh lineman who the Rams officially have in the fold for the 2015 season.

    On a team that does not have many experienced depth options at the moment, Reynolds is a nice, versatile player to have around. After playing primarily right tackle during his college career at North Carolina, Reynolds played exclusively guard for the Atlanta Falcons from 2009 to 2013, starting in 23 games while appearing in 42 overall. After being released by the Falcons in February of last year, Reynolds signed with the Detroit Lions as training camp opened. He went on to start four games for them at right tackle while appearing in two more on a rotational basis.

    Reynolds fits the profile of a typical long and lean Jeff Fisher offensive tackle, as he’s listed at 6-foot-7 but at times has been listed as tall as 6-foot-8, and he most recently weighed in at a svelte 310 pounds. In an ideal scenario, Reynolds probably serves as an experienced swing backup for starting tackles Greg Robinson and Joe Barksdale (who is still on the free agent market at the moment). The Rams didn’t have that type of player last year, as Robinson and Rodger Saffold, the team’s starting guards, were the primary backup tackles, with inexperienced Mike Person serving as the emergency option. (In addition, the Rams obviously made a misstep in allowing practice squad tackle Mike Remmers to escape to the Carolina Panthers midway through the season; Remmers went on to start the last five games of the regular season plus two playoff contests for Carolina.)

    The reality is that Reynolds may also end up competing for the Rams’ other vacant guard position if no more established free agent options are brought into the fold. The team is expected to address the guard position in the middle rounds of the draft, but with an unproven rookie experiencing the grind of the NFL for the first time, guys like Reynolds and long-term project Brandon Washington will likely end up pushing for a starting spot.

    in reply to: The Longest Joke in the World #20992
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    You suck, wv. Attention span of a moth.
    The shame you must feel…

    “Be a Moth, Enter the Flame!”
    Rumi

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    I like this.

    I’m an extremely flawed human being with lots of battle scars. And no matter how often I try to be someone else, I always end up despising that guy. He sucks and he’s boring.

    Yay for Sarcastic Zooey.

    I think its a big mistake
    for Zooey to be himself.

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    “Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”
    — James Thurber

    in reply to: How good (or bad) will the Defense be? #20874
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    <span class=”d4pbbc-font-color” style=”color: blue”>I agree with what you say. Aeneas said that he just needs to be smarter about when to be aggressive.</span>

    Would he get his pick-6’s if he was
    playing even with the WR
    from the start, though?

    I dunno, about JJ. I dunno.

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