wv wrote:

I love the fact the Rams didnt extend Nacua’s contract. And i love the fact that he Appears to get why. I was very skeptical of Nacua ever changing. But i’m cautiously optimistic about him now.

I love the fact that he eliminated some people from his life. To me that’s a very good sign.

You know, he’s a kid. He came into the league in the 5th round and quickly became a celebrity, a star, a prominent face, not only of the franchise, but of the league. He had a wake-up call. “Hey. Be an adult. If you want this, step up. Be a leader. Be a man.”

And it’s far too early to pronounce any judgement. The jury will be out for most, if not all of the season.

But so far, so good.

Meanwhile, just remember, “No. 9 finds a way to create holes that aren’t really there.”

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

Jamie Martin. Steve Dils. Pete Beathard.(omg), Gus Frerotte, Steve Bono, Mark Rypien, Dan Pastorini, Jeff Rutledge, Carson Wentz, Nick Foles, Sean Mannion, Brock Berlin, SCott Covington, Brett Rypien (who?), Jimmy Garoppolo, Baker Mayfield, Bryce Perkins, John Wolford….

I am not sure…but i think Brock Berlin may have been the worst of all of em.

w
v

They forgot Case Keenum, Austin Davis, and Kellen Clemens.

Bert Jones?

Maddy wrote:

A couple at the bar said their son is doing an internship with the Rams. He’s a college coach somewhere. For what it’s worth, which isn’t much, the dad told me that his son, the intern, said that the team, or staff, or whatever, all think Donald is coming back. So there’s some flimsy second-hand hearsay for ya.

I’m thinking that if he wasn’t going to, he would already know that. He’s a workout freak, and he’s been to the facility. What the hell is he going to find out that he doesn’t already know?

Contract details, I’m guessing.

wv wrote:

Obviously the electro-magnetic fields from the 49ers-substation are growing more powerful.

Like

wv wrote:

When did training camp become something that is ‘presented by’ a corporate entity?

I had the same damn reaction.

I expect we will soon see sponsored camp hydration breaks.

zn wrote:

Using the 1st pic above,

I like the primary blue the best (middle/3rd from left)

That one ranks the highest. The next 2 are okay, 2nd tier, I have no objection.

I like the whites 2nd best (1st on left)

I like the white jersey/yellow pants 3rd (4th from left)

The next 2 have problems.

I like the yellow jersey/white pants the least of all of them. It just looks wrong.

The black looks okay, it’s just that black feels wrong.

…

That’s about how I have it, too. I would probably rate the Fearsome White highest if it weren’t for the borders/shading that makes it look too Carolina-ish. Apparently, we won’t be seeing that uniform until the Wed. night game against the Packers in late November.

I don’t like the Classic Sol, either, but it does have the saving grace that it is in honor of the 75th anniversary of the 1951 championship team, and I think we are only going to see it twice (though that could change): Week Two (MNF) against the Giants, and Week 13 against the Chiefs.

The black one is scheduled only once: Week 14 against in SF in one of those Nike Bowl scams.

The other two (middle and 4th from left) are the default Home/Away uniforms, so we will be seeing mostly those.

And I am happy the Bone uniforms are gone. I like this setup better than any other in years.

I expect we will know by the 25th.

zn wrote:

103 – 49ers vs. Dodgers (’48)

That was when the Dodgers had that Japanese guy who played WR and CB and scored 3 TDs on offense, and had 2 pick-sixes. IIRC.

Of course, that was back before the salary cap.

wv wrote:

Ease him in slowly, or maybe dont even play him until November.

The thing is that Donald doesn’t want to come back unless he can be the guy he was when he left. He doesn’t want the courtesy treatment. He wants to play. He wants to come back with everything, of not at all.

I think his return depends upon his willingness to make compromises.

wv wrote:

Hunter is right about all of that. And the corporate-dem-party will pay attention to actual results. And IF they think in certain instances they need to ‘move left’ — they will promote candidates who are good at faking ‘moving left’.

For the most part though, they wont even bother with that. They will simply keep counting on big money winning elections.

‘Insurgent’ progressives will win from time to time, as they have in NY.
Many of ‘those’ will sell-out eventually as AOC and Bernie have basically done.

Blah blah, just my opinion.

I do not believe capitalism can be reformed at this late stage. I think we will see a lot of fake-reform in the future, and I think we will see monsters, soon.
(i know how i sound)

w
v

I saw a quote lifted from Twitter the other day which said something like, “The middle class was just a temporary concession from the oligarchy who lived in fear of rising communism. Once they were safe from that, they went back to squeezing everybody back towards peasantry.” And I’ve thought about that a lot.

It was interesting to see the reaction to the DSA primary victories. They won 3 or 4 primaries in districts that were heavily blue anyway, and my feed has since been flooded with hand-wringing and cries of alarm from both Republicans and Democrats about the far left, and how it’s the biggest threat to the US today. So the DSA now will have about 1% of the House? And they won’t get any committee assignments where they can impede the destruction of the planet. And as we know, DSA is a fair distance from “far left” anyway, but the point is that alarms are sounding in all quarters about some pretty insignificant gains. It’s hard to believe anybody is really all that worried about it, but the significant thing is that the Dem party is very loudly and clearly telling everybody who they are. And since they are junior partners in the corporate oligarchy, and hold all the cards, there is no reason to expect anything but the usual absorption of some of them, and the political destruction of anyone who holds out on them. We will not vote our way out of this mess.

Bash on, regardless.

What’s real anymore?

wv wrote:

Zooey wrote:

I woulda got Francis St. Paul, Milton Wynn, and Stedman Bailey, though.

You would not have gotten Dwight Scales, either.

w
v

Yeah, because he never played for the Rams, mister. He played for the Chargers or Falcons, or one of those other teams in Arkansas.

wv wrote:

zn wrote:

He’s a ghost. It’s a new trend in ghost stories, where we see the world from the ghost’s perspective, and in the process ghosts become an entirely different kind of metaphor.

I know he’s a ghost. I did not want to give it away.

w
v

Oh, great. I was going to read it, but what’s the point now? It’s obviously just a work of fiction.

Key and Peele did some quality work, and that is some of it