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  • in reply to: Rams tweets etc. … 6/22 – 6/23 #164593
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    Tnat Chris Long / Stafford interview is good, btw.

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    in reply to: Rams tweets etc. … 6/22 – 6/23 #164592
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    Stafford with Chris Long

    in reply to: Alaric arrested again #164585
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    Hav is worried.

    in reply to: Alaric arrested again #164579
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    I thot I would flame the board today.

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    in reply to: Our condolences to Keith, aka Nittany Ram #164514
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    Life seems to have a whole lot to do with Loss.
    So sorry, Keith.
    Sigh

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    in reply to: around the NFC West …. starting in early June #164505
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    in reply to: Other sports #164503
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    I wrote an article on yellow school buses for Parenting Magazine when I worked there 37 years ago. The only thing I remember is that the colors were chosen for high visibility, even in the fog.

    I also wrote an article on the daycare center at CIA headquarters in Langley which pissed off the editor-in-chief so much that my contract was not renewed. It was loaded with jokes about “security blankets” and Big Brother, and he completely revised it to remove all of them. I also pissed off his secretary by dismissing “The Sun Also Rises,” saying it was a story about a bunch of Americans travelling all over Europe, unable to find quite enough alcohol to drink, and then going home. I said it should have been named “Tequila Sunrises Also.” The secretary’s name was Brett, and her parents named her after the character in that novel.

    I was not well-loved at Parenting Magazine.

    I dunno about this Hemingway guy.

    “She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht.”
    Ernest Hemingway, Tequila Sunrise Also.

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    in reply to: Rams tweets etc. … 6/15 #164501
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    On television, during the World CUp, they have been calling it Los Angeles Stadium, not SoFi.

    Yeah, somewhere around here there’s a vid saying the World Cup powers-that-be required the corporate names to be eliminated on all the U.S. stadiums.

    Its fantastic.

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    in reply to: Garrett–news, analysis, & bits from OTAs & after #164500
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    Defensive ‘havoc.’ I like it. Not sure how accurate the stats are though, since the Texans are only eighth best. I watched em. They were the havoc-ist defense i saw all year.

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    in reply to: Other sports #164487
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    Iran 2
    New Zealand 2

    Iranian team has become political pawn at this World Cup |
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    “…Iran was banished to Tijuana, Mexico, at the eleventh hour, barred from having its base camp in Arizona as it planned. That resulted in a longer-than-expected trip to Los Angeles, where it plays its first World Cup game, against New Zealand, on Monday, June 15…”

    in reply to: Rams tweets etc. … 6/15 #164486
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    Rams Wire@TheRamsWire
    Albert Breer says he’s heard that if only the Rams called SoFi Stadium home, the field could be grass instead of turf.

    WTF do they call it, if not home?

    I interpreted as more of the usual bullshit. Its not about the chargers, its about all the other activities that take place there. The plastic grass makes it easier to make money on all the other stuff. At least thats what they usually say.

    The players of course, have the power to organize, dismantle capitalism, and get themselves concussions on natural grass, but they have been distracted by….all that money they make.

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    in reply to: Other sports #164477
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    i’m not sure if the Knicks had a strong “Clutch Gene” or if the Spurs had a bigger “Choke Gene”

    Spurs gift wrapped it in game 2, game 4, and game 5. … Spurs average age = 23… 2nd youngest team to play in NBA finals and it showed with the lack of routine execution in the final moments of each game…they blew it big time.

    at the onset of the NBA playoffs, I wanted to see the Knicks win it all,……outside of the Yankees, I’ve always been infatuated with New York……, but as this final series evolved, I found myself pulling for the Spurs to extend the series.

    Well, ‘choking’ and ‘clutching’ are interesting concepts aren’t they. Think of Sam Darnold, for example. Apparently one can go from one to the other, maybe.

    I heard a lot of ‘choker’ talk from the media, but if the Spurs were chokers, why didnt they choke in game 7, on the road in Oklahoma against the champs?

    My own view is Wemby just wore down as the playoffs went on, and each game went on. Plus, he is just not a ‘big man’. He’s a tall skinny man. He reminds me more of a Ralph Sampson than a powerful center. I dont know if he’s going to have the great future so many people think he is. I can picture a lot of injuries in his future.

    At any rate 8 straight new champions in the NBA, now.

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    in reply to: Other sports #164469
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    I followed the Knicks back in the 70’s. Everyone in WV was a Laker fan (Jerry West) so I had to be perverse, so i rooted for the Knicks. I stopped following them long ago, but i kinda got interested in them a little bit the last couple years.

    There’s something off-putting about NBA basketball to me, but i cant quite put my finger on it. There’s all this pushing and shoving and elbowing on every single play. And the players double-dribble and travel constantly and its never called. I dunno.

    And yet, obviously there’s some amazing passing and when a team starts ‘flowing’ its pretty cool. My favorite part of the sport is the passing.

    A role player, with 19 dogs. I thought he would be the key to knicks chances this year.

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    Though having said that, there’s this (a real comment).

    The Knicks demonstrated that the “clutch gene” is real.

    Yeah, Jalen Brunson has a lot of whatever Tom Brady had. ‘And’ he took less money to enable the team to get more good players. Like Brady.

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    in reply to: Other sports #164462
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    Top of my list are Portugal, Vietnam, and Thailand. The Patagonia region has appeal. I would take a look at eastern Europe, too. But, yeah. I don’t really like it here, even though it’s “home.” I’ll come back, but I’m gonna spend the next year downsizing, and then I’m leaving until I get a craving for buffalo wings or something.

    I guess you just won’t be stopped.

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    “If I had a mind to rent pigs, I’d be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won’t be stopped.”
    ― Larry McMurtry , Lonesome Dove

    “The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters”
    ― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

    in reply to: Other sports #164458
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    I don’t think I will ever get another pet. I want to get a one way plane ticket and see what happens, and pets are responsibilities.

    Are you really serious about leaving this blessed nation?

    Which godless country would you go to?

    I’m not as bold as you, so i will stick it out here. I would be up for going to a different galaxy though. That might be far enough from, ya know, Amerikans.

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    in reply to: Other sports #164457
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    They installed real grass in Sofi for the World Cup Soccer matches

    They’re going reinstall artificial turf after the soccer matches just in time for NFL season…

    I wonder how OBJ feels about that?

    URL = World Cup grass fields have NFL players asking why they still play on turf

    Geez, I either forgot, or didnt know SoFi used artificial turf.

    Man. I dont ever wanna hear what great owner Kronky is, if he makes them play on that garbage.

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    in reply to: around the NFC West …. starting in early June #164456
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    Trickle-down Authenticity

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    Though learning Rams offense is a ‘drinking from a fire hydrant’ experience, Ty Simpson grateful for supportive and resourceful teammates and coaches

    Ha. I know everyone has seen this…

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    “…Stetson Bennett, who is entering his fourth year in the system, has likewise taken Simpson in and been a resource…”

    Stetson is in a tricky position aint he.

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    in reply to: Other sports #164451
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    The mega-corporate-capitalist-death-cult-sports-media is really pushing the World Cup now, i see.

    Fox must aim to make a lot of money off of it.

    Apparently, there are 48 teams in the tournament this year. (There used-ta-be 32)
    https://www.ritfitsports.com/blogs/article/2026-fifa-world-cup-qualified-teams?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23093233641&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3K7RBhDJARIsAKRtP5R68JJAoQ2eFD3wTs1G2Db4d-rY8Bcuw25i_idMug__SJ7d-EQvEUUaAgrjEALw_wcB

    I decided i would root for teams that have been bombed or threatened with bombing by Trump and his fascist forces. But Venezuela is not in the tournament. Nor is Cuba. Nor is North Korea. Nor Palestine. Ah well.

    Iran is in it, though. Also, Iraq.

    I shall root for Iran and Iraq.

    Feel free to pick a team.

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    in reply to: Other sports #164450
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    The Rams need a team dog.

    Do you have a dog currently?

    No, I haven’t had one for years. I only like to live with Giant dogs, and i figured i was too old to carry one if it got hurt, so I learned to live dogless. I have many crows, though.

    You have any animals?

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    in reply to: Other sports #164443
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    The Rams need a team dog.

    in reply to: Other sports #164441
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    “A field.”

    in reply to: OTAs #164440
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    I don’t understand not having one of those guys on the roster already. This is a super bowl year. You get your #2 on the roster before camp starts. Stetson Bennett is expendable. By the time Simpson takes over, Bennett is probably gone anyway.

    Yeah, its a problem. I assume the Rams thought they could get JimmyG but they couldnt and then whatever planB they had fell apart.

    There’s always Philip Rivers 🙂

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    in reply to: Garrett–news, analysis, & bits from OTAs & after #164432
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    in reply to: around the NFC West …. starting in early June #164431
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    How can we be us.

    in reply to: Garrett–news, analysis, & bits from OTAs & after #164430
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    Andrew Berry, the Browns Harvard-educated GM sounds like a bright guy.

    But then…

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    Cleveland Browns (second stint)

    On January 27, 2020, Berry returned to the Cleveland Browns and was hired to be their general manager and executive vice president of football operations.[4] The move made him the youngest GM in NFL history at the time at age 32.[5]

    The largest move of Berry’s tenure as Browns GM came after the 2021 season, during which starting quarterback Baker Mayfield suffered a torn labrum. Berry and the Browns traded for Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, despite Watson’s ongoing legal issues involving repeated sexual assault allegations. The Browns received Watson and a sixth-round pick, while the Texans received three first-round picks and three fourth-round picks. Watson was then made the highest paid quarterback in league history. The trade is considered by many commentators to be the worst trade in NFL history.[6][7][8][9][10] Berry noted that the rest of the front office was onboard with the decision to make the trade.[11]

    On June 5, 2024, the Browns signed Berry to a contract extension.[12] The Browns finished the 2024 season tied for the worst record in the league at 3–14.[13]

    After another disappointing 5-12 season in 2025, Andrew Berry worked with the owner of the Cleveland Browns, Jimmy Haslam, to move on from Kevin Stefanski and hire a new head coach in Todd Monken. The hire was made official January 28, 2026, marking a significant change in the direction of the Cleveland Browns organization

    in reply to: Other sports #164424
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    There are humans who play sports, who read books.

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    Well, if Stafford gets hurt, I would guess the first call the Rams make is to JimmyG. The second to Russell Wilson, maybe.

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    in reply to: Alaric arrested again #164417
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    “…a person who willfully inflicts corporal injury” against a spouse.

    …reported that “Jackson thought the woman was recording him with her phone and allegedly tried to take the phone out of her hand….”
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    Obviously i have no idea what happened….but my public-defender eye-brow is raised a bit. I’m wondering if he was over-charged. Just sounds like more of a misdemeanor situation than a felony.

    Puka and Aleric. Sigh.

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