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ZooeyModeratorQB1!
Looks like the walk of a man who will be Super Bowl champion this time next year.
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ZooeyModeratorOne of my friends was nervous because he was afraid of heights but we talked him into it.
I feel like it was worth the drive for that memory alone.
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ZooeyModeratorI was at that game.
In 99 they lost three games, and I was at two of them.
What the hell were you doing in Detroit. Who the hell goes to Detroit.
ZooeyModeratorLooks like a cakewalk to me.
I think this season will mark the first time in my life that I will have above average interest in a game against the Lions. Actually, the only game against the Lions I even remember is the one they lost to them in 99.
ZooeyModeratorI can’t help but notice that he completely skipped over the film Off Limits. It’s not surprising. I completely outclassed him in that movie, so much so, that in his jealousy and fury, he demanded that every scene I was in get chopped to the cutting room floor.
ZooeyModeratorWell, he comes in with more cred than that other project TE from the Martz era, that guy who was a tremendous athlete, but played basketball, and the Rams thought they would teach him to play football.
This guy at least knows what football is, but “project” as a descriptor never warms my heart. I’d rather have a guy without the size and speed, but a history of production. But if he can make any plays at all, I will forget Everett ever existed by the end of the year.
ZooeyModeratormaybe he’s got the same enzyme deficiency that goff has.
Somebody should ask him where the sun rises.
May 4, 2021 at 12:40 am in reply to: how do you “grade” this draft? or just…what do you make of this draft #129646
ZooeyModeratorthis just looks like a ST draft.
i understand the lower picks being used for special teams, but can the same be said for tutu?
what is his value in special teams? he really didn’t return kicks in college. so… what does that mean for the pros?
He’s part of the “explosive plays” solution. They traded for Stafford to improve QB play. Drafted Tutu to provide explosion. Brown replaces Brockers. Harris replaces Everett. Everyone else is ST, and if they develop, then cool. But their immediate purpose is ST.
ZooeyModeratorWillie Mays. I can’t even imagine why anyone would root against him. :>)
Well, as a Dodgers fan, I hated Marichal for the Roseboro thing that happened before I was old enough to know anything. And McCovey because he was on the Giants.
But…Mays. Willie Mays was different. He was Superman. I didn’t wish him well, exactly, but he was one of those guys on the enemy team that transcended the uniform. Nobody hated Willie Mays. Not possible, I don’t think. But I am haunted by a Willie Mays memory to this day. I remember when Willie Mays came back to play in Candlestick at the end of his career. He was with the Mets. I was at a Sunday afternoon game, and I remember Mays was a baserunner, and he rounded 3rd and just tripped and did a face plant. It was one of the least athletic things I ever saw a professional athlete do. The great Willie Mays just eating turf for no damn reason. It made me so sad. It kills me to watch great players hang on to play a couple years too long.
ZooeyModeratorSame here Zooey… on clear summer evenings we’d pick up KFI Los Angeles to hear Vinny in Santa Clara… .
KFI was great because that station is a flamethrower for distance. When the Dodgers moved to KABC, I had to wait until it was completely dark to pick up the signal, and even then, it could be spotty. I don’t know where the Dodgers broadcast now because…technology.
KFI used to have a couple of nitwits on the station who did a bit called “Groaners” or something, and they invited audience submissions for what was basically a pun contest. When I was about 9 or 10 years old, I made up some stupid joke about Roman Gabriel and Bernie Casey and they repeated it on air, and sent me some 8″ balloon man that was shaped like a bowling pin, and it came with a notched piece of cardboard cut to resemble clown feet that I could pinch the balloon with while holding it upright. I was elated.
I don’t remember the build-up, but the punchline was Roman Gabriel saying, “Hey Bernie. There’s your case…see?”
I got a balloon for that. And the older I get, the less I feel it deserved anything other than a quick descent into the wastebasket. But there ya go. Nobody in the entire Los Angeles basin could produce anything better that week, I guess.
ZooeyModeratorHey, look!
Here’s a picture of a QB the Detroit Lions dumped standing next to the greatest pitcher since Sandy Koufax.

ZooeyModeratorCBS:
Los Angeles Rams: B-
Best pick: Fourth-round pick Bobby Brown III, a defensive tackle from Texas A&M, is a big, strong player who will look nice next to Aaron Donald.Worst pick: I didn’t like the pick of Tutu Atwell in the second round. He’s tiny. Yes, he can run, but he’s little and that will be a problem.
The skinny: By trading their first-round pick to get Matthew Stafford, they had to wait to get into the action. But without using first-round picks the last four years, it puts more pressure to find good players. They really need Brown and fourth-round corner Robert Rochell to become starters in a year or two.
***** I don’t know how they get B- out of this draft. ******
ZooeyModeratorI wonder how many times in his career Vin Scully mentioned Farmer Johns.
I can still hear it spoken with that old Vinny lilt.
I used to take my dad’s transistor radio into the backyard in the evenings to listen to games (I could only pick up the LA station at night, and in the deep summer, I’d always miss the first 2 or 3 innings because of that). We didn’t have Farmer John hot dogs in Chico when I was a kid. I didn’t ever eat one until I went to a game in Dodgers stadium.
ZooeyModeratorplease help me understand…….difficult to play in front of cardboard fans on the road in a sterile environment????????? I guess that’s why Kershaw didn’t have his annual Choke-tober… …….it took a quiet sterile environment with no humans in the stands for him and the Dodgers to finally deliver in the playoffs…..
My cardboard fans on my Elec Tudor Football game are louder than what we heard last year in the baseball playoffs.
Wow. There is more garbage in this thread than the Wall*E movie. I like it.
Let us note, however, in the interest of historical accuracy, the Astros and Red Sox both cheated, arguably the most egregious cheating in the history of the league. I cannot even quantify how much of an advantage it is to literally know what kind of pitch is coming in advance for every single pitch of a World Series. It was a colossal advantage, and the Astros barely squeaked it out in 7 games even with that advantage.
ZooeyModeratorI think it’s more likely Desean Jackson only has one season with them.
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Yeah. Agree.
May 3, 2021 at 10:42 am in reply to: how do you “grade” this draft? or just…what do you make of this draft #129593
ZooeyModeratorI’ve been really busy, so I haven’t completed my homework. I sort of tracked the draft and gathered some of the immediate quick hits, and skimmed a couple of profiles here and there. So what your getting from me right now is basically the same immediate impressions from the moment. I haven’t even finished the meal, let alone had time to digest it.
So…all I got at this point is that I hated the Tutu pick because you don’t pick a gadget player until the Day Three of the draft. And given this guy’s size, I don’t see how he is ever anything but a gadget player. Seems to me his high side value is that he runs a jet for 10 or 12 yards once a game, and is used as a decoy to stretch the defense horizontally, opening holes for the “real” football players on the team. And maybe that has value, but I hate it at #57.
My other thought…zn got here two days before I did to say it…this just looks like a ST draft. Looks to me like the Rams looked at last year and concluded that they could have won it all if 1) they had better QB play, 2) they had a deep threat, and 3) special teams stopped sucking out loud.
And I think they are right about that, actually.
And everything they have done since the season ended has been to address those three weaknesses. This isn’t a draft building for the future. This is a draft to win the goddamn thing right now, this year, now.
That’s not the way I would have done it, but it looks to me like that’s what they did. And if they are right…and they win it all…then…yay!
ZooeyModeratorSo the term “gadget” is not one that warms my heart in the second round. He better offer more than that. Gadget guys work, like, four times in their short careers.
ZooeyModeratorIn McSnead We Trust.
ZooeyModeratorjust curious……if the almighty struck the 89 Series with an earthquake, which is not uncommon in the great state of California, who struck the 2020 series with a deadly global pandemic to award a 43 win team a bogus *****championship*******?
Oh, P’shaw.
That’s Fake News. Clearly you are getting fed a bunch of nonsense by rags like the SF Chronicle and the SJ Mercury News, and that conspiracy-riddled radio station KNBR.
As all patriots know, the pandemic took hold before the baseball season even started, and was thus not a response to the Dodgers presence in the World Series, but some kind of Satanic attempt to prevent the Best Team in Baseball from inevitably winning the World Series.
Furthermore, far from being a bogus championship, the road to World Series Victory was a more difficult challenge than ever before in the history of the game. Playoffs were expanded to include Four rounds and 16 teams, including a best-of-three series to start it off. And all True Baseball fans knows that even the worst team in baseball is capable of beating the best team in baseball in a two-out-of-three series. That kind of thing happens several times a year. Then…every game after that was played ON THE ROAD, so there was never any homefield advantage for the Best Team in Baseball. Nor were there any days off during each round. Granted that applies to all teams, but it makes the road more difficult.
So, basically, all right-minded fans know that the Dodgers won the most difficult World Series ever played.
ZooeyModeratorI don’t know. Always seems to me like Round 1 is boring.
The draft never really seems to get interesting until Round 2. Maybe that’s just me, but I can’t even watch Round 1 these days.
ZooeyModeratorMy bad. What I meant is THE Satan loves the Red Sox; A Satan (probably one of the intern Satan’s or maybe just a Wood Nymph) loves the Giants. Humans fall for the lesser demons all the time, so no shame on you. It is a well known fact that THE Satan only watches AL East baseball, unless the Blue Jays are doing OK, then he channel surfs, but just between the game and reruns of “Hogan’s Heroes”.
I don’t recall the Almighty striking New England during a Yankees/Red Sox series. His divine wrath was CLEARLY evident when the Giants and A’s played in the World Series in 89. Devastating earthquake hits the SF bay area. It’s really pretty clear.
So maybe Satan roots for the Red Sox. But God truly hates the Giants and A’s. And bleeds Dodgers’ blue, as everybody knows.
ZooeyModeratorI read somewhere that the Seahawks have the LEAST cumulative draft capital.
I’m sure that will disappoint a lot of you guys who aren’t True Rams Fans (TM).
ZooeyModeratorI’m going for my 2nd Pfizer shot today. My wife had her 2nd Moderna last week, and she had bad upper body pains, a headache and a fever for 2 days.
By the way Zooey, you’re wrong on who Satan’s team is. If Satan wore socks, what color would they be? Red, or course. I rest my case.
You’re not disputing my relationship with Satan, are you? Believe me, I know his mind on sports issues.
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ZooeyModeratorThere is still time for you to find redemption in the Dodgers’ red, white, and blue.
LAD 14-4, very impressive…. we’re only in April and they’re at 32% of their 43 win total from last year
43 fucking wins for Kershaw to finally get his ring….what a joke. That’s a high school season.
Let’s just hope that Kershaw’s childhood buddy doesn’t also need a reduced season to win a championship, because like Kershaw he was a big choker in Detroit in meaningful games.
2020 WS ASTERISK*************
If it’s so easy to win a reduced season, how come the Giants didn’t win it?
ZooeyModerator“I get the idea. I get the idea.”
ZooeyModeratorWhen I saw the title of your post, I thought you were talking about Corona beer. LOL.
Anecdotally, it seems to me that Moderna 2nd dose is the one that knocks people over.
I got Pfizer and… shoulder/neck muscle aches on the 2nd shot.
Sorry about that, but the Giants are Satan’s team. You can tell by their colors.
There is still time for you to find redemption in the Dodgers’ red, white, and blue.
Hey JM thanks for the update and story. Sorry you suffered from shot 2.
My wife got Pfizer and was nauseous for 2 days after shot 2.
I got Moderna and basically had no side effects after shot 2. I think there was a little bit of feeling worn down but nothing bad or even inconvenient.
So a lot of this is personal to our own biologies I guess.
Hey JM, notice that zn (The Contrarian) did not dispute my claim that the Giants are Satan’s team.
ZooeyModeratorWhen I saw the title of your post, I thought you were talking about Corona beer. LOL.
Anecdotally, it seems to me that Moderna 2nd dose is the one that knocks people over.
I got Pfizer and… shoulder/neck muscle aches on the 2nd shot.
Sorry about that, but the Giants are Satan’s team. You can tell by their colors.
There is still time for you to find redemption in the Dodgers’ red, white, and blue.
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