waterfield wrote:

We have relatives in the Bay area. The ONLY thing the recall showed was that even progressive voters can have enough of being afraid to walk their favorite streets downtown. The “City” is a place where people walk to places and it used to be fun and enjoyable. Now-not so much. Whether the D.A. was partly responsible is an open debate but people -progressives included-wanted a change.

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Its been a while, W.   How you doin?

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I dont like hearing that cash-rich football owners have an advantage.   Even if its a slight advantage.    Shouldnt be that way.

I hope the NFL doesnt drift towards the travesty that MLB became.

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Its an interesting topic.  Ive thought about it a lot, but other than winning Super Bowls, I cant think of too many similarities.   They just seem really different to me.

For starters the DV the Rams got was old-and-wise.  As well as old-and-out-of-touch at the beginning.   He’d been away from the NFL for a long time.

McVay was the youngest kid-coach in the NFL.  He was more like that early Eagle-version of DV.

I guess my broad takeaway is a championship coach can come in many flavors,

and they can build a championship team in different ways.

As an aside, I remember well, how the fine defense DV built, utterly fell apart due to age and injuries the year after the Super Bowl win.   I dont remember any of us predicting that would happen.  I mean, they were atrocious.

(remember they gave up 54 to the Chiefs mid-season

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_St._Louis_Rams_season#:~:text=The%202000%20season%20was%20the%20St.%20Louis%20Rams%27,first%20team%20in%20NFL%20history%20to%20score%20

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It will be interesting to see how McVay does post super bowl.   It will take a helluva coaching job to get them back to the final 4.

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Interesting news out of Columbia, fwiw:

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I tell ya, some of these memes, theze days, are so god-dam-good

they wanna make me cry/laugh on a deep level.    Such good work out there on the internets.

…btw, I have reached the point where i no longer even check in on the mass shootings.   They are so common now, I just nod, and go on with my day.

I’m not saying my reaction is good (or bad), just noting it — Another shooting.  Ok.  Its a late-stage-capitalist hellscape.  Of course there are shootings.   And the response will be – the people will buy more guns, the gun manufacturers will make more money, the ‘security companies’ will make more money, the rich will build more gates and separate themselves even more, and the government will spend more on capitalist-police.

And so it goes.

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pic.twitter.com/fZNMbiBMtX

— pictures of the end (@neighbours_wifi) May 18, 2022

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Elijah Garcia, Rice, IDL
BAUMGARDNER

“…he’s not boring.”

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Ok, this is my guy, then.   Thats what I’m lookin for

in an IDL.

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Does it seem like there isnt as much UDFA ‘buzz’ this year?

Seems like in past years, ram-fans were in love with this or that UDFA,

but I’m not sensing much of that this year.

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Zooey wrote:

Yeah. They are better than that, even if they go with Trey Lance, and he isn’t any good.

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Well, they still have Jimmy G, and who knows, they might keep him as insurance.

At any rate, the Trey Lance thing is interesting.   The media have practically all decided he is a bust.   Based on a few hints here and there about him ‘not being ready.’    I dunno.   What if he ‘is’ an upgrade over Jimmy G?   Imagine that beastly 49er team we saw last year, with a slight upgrade at QB.

The 49ers are a kind of wild-card.   All depends on Trey.

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The Whitworth thing made me smile; I am convinced he would pull a Weddle

if they need him come playoff-time.

I dont think he’d come back for a bunch of regular season games…but playoffs?

If they were desperate?    And he was in shape…..he’d ride in.

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49ers are ranked 24?

WTF are they smoking?

Some of these exciting, high-flying offenses might not look so good

against the 24th ranked 49ers.

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Billy_T wrote:

… Zooming out, moving away from the particular kids in question, the issue is that there is no organized left in America. Individual leftists exist, obviously.

We just have

no organization.

No money.

No mainstream media,

and very little media overall, period.

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Yes.

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I can see the postgame storyline already:

“The Bengals played that preseason game like it was the Super Bowl”

Its Kafka-esque.  Ungodly.

I dont know that I’ve ever seen anything like that.

Its so horrible its funny.   Is there a word for that?  When something is so horrible it becomes funny?

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