Mackeyser wrote:

Funny. If there was a Republican President, they’d want Scalia replaced immediately.

Politics is so damned transparently without honor, code or even a shred of dignity or respect.

That’s why I say it’s pornography for polite society. Actually, I think watching penises enter various orifices is far less obscene that so much of what occurs in what we call the “Political Arena”.

Far. Less. Obscene.

You know, I might just be seeing what I want to see.

But as I am watching this election cycle, I think I am seeing that the under 30 set is more savvy than we give them credit for. I think they see the transparency. I think they see that the Republicans are calling for holding off on Scalia’s appointment for exactly what it is.

Maybe…just maybe…we are of an older school that has always been too polite about calling out hypocrisy. And the Twitter generation just isn’t.

I don’t know.

What I do know is that it is February. And calling for the country to wait a YEAR before replacing a justice on the basis of “wait and let the people have a say as to the direction of the country” is transparently ridiculous.

So the real question, it seems to me, is what is the end game? What happens if Obama nominates somebody in a couple of weeks, and the Republicans tie it up? If they can’t make a case against the nominee, and just fight on the principle that the country oughta wait…I think that’s disaster for Republicans.

I think the attacks on her character are far worse than the original act. The original act can be forgiven. It was maybe an impulse thing. Stupid. Offensive. Regrettable. Embarrassing. Appalling, really. But the character assassination is coldly meditated.

Tavon Austin.

Imagine the Rams offense without him.

I don’t think the fact that they have missed on some WRs means they can’t hit. Givens, Quick, Bailey, and Austin are the WR picked by Snisher. Gilyard, Pettis, and Salas were before Fisher.

So that isn’t really a large sample size, and nobody knows how much of that was Fisher and/or Snead, or how to rate his picks with the Titans. I will just say that “Fisher can’t draft WR” seems like a dubious claim to me.

Spend a first round pick on one.

They may just be flat-liners emotionally. Some people just don’t physically register emotions.

Though. You would think a slight smile, or a quick “hooyah” would be visible.

Eli and Cam. The weekends big losers.

zn wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

After watching Foles implode last season, who in their right mind would want him?

Well, just because it would be fun, I want the following to happen:

1. Rams sign Bradford

2. Eagles trade for Foles

This has been floating around in my mind, too.

I would take Bradford back.

There is no way. Finnegan is just doing the self-aggrandizing thing.

Ya think JT wouldn’t have caught wind of this? The St. Lou beat reporter never hears about this in spite of the fact that Fisher knows, and all the players know and anybody else in the locker room, but JT never finds out that it’s an open secret?

Yeah, I don’t think so.

snowman wrote:

wv wrote:

“..it left a stadium saddled with about $144 million in debt and maintenance costs. Taxpayers will now shoulder the remaining payments for the Edward Jones Dome with only the help of revenue from tractor pulls…”

As per usual, the corporate-wheeler-dealers
make the deals, and the People, have to pay
in the end.

In a just system, that there little game would
be Illegal.

w
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The state and local elected officials have to be either complicit in the poor deal making, or are blind to the real benefits and costs of stadium construction and maintenance. I don’t know the history of the Jones Dome deal other than what I have read here and in a few other articles, but it seems to me that the elected leadership in St. Louis who approved the deal did not do their homework and let the people down.

One explanation that really resonated with me was in an article which described the St. Louis representatives as being “star-struck” when they met up with all the NFL people. The glamour of the whole experience for them overwhelmed their reason, basically, like a 17-year old girl meeting a rock star.

They didn’t do their math. Or any of their other homework. And they agreed to the worst contract ever between a city and a team. That’s it.

I’ll bet they have also had internal discussions about how well Coldplay and Beyonce will mesh together in the halftime show.

There is a possibility, I suppose, that RGIII can get his shit together mentally. That he has been humbled, and now has the proper drive. It’s possible. I have no reason to think he HAS. I am just saying it’s possible. (Though even if he has, there is still the question of whether he can develop into an effective NFL QB)

Manziel is an irredeemable head case. Like Phillips. No cure.

In some measure, I feel pity for him the same way I did for Phillips. I mean, I don’t think head cases WANT to be head cases. They just are. And they are doomed to unhappiness. So, I’m sorry. But I don’t want him to bring his troubles to the Rams.

I think this is a No Brainer.

Of course the Rams fielded the Greatest Team of All-Time.

In what universe is that debatable?

InvaderRam wrote:

well like i said had the rams been staying in st louis i think the approach would have been the same. and there was no intention to lose. shoot. had quinn simply stayed healthy and foles merely been mediocre my guess is the rams would have made the playoffs and the rams still would have moved to los angeles.

Right. Exactly.

InvaderRam wrote:

i don’t buy gordon’s argument that the rams roster building strategy was based around a move to los angeles, but i definitely believe there was a conspiracy to move the rams to los angeles.

goodell knew as far back as when kroenke first bought the hollywood park land and then lied about not knowing kroenke’s intentions for that land. i also believe this knowledge went beyond just kroenke and goodell.

i believe a lot of what happened the past couple years was orchestrated to facilitate the move to los angeles. now does that mean i think it was a slam dunk guarantee? no. but i do believe that st louis, the chargers, and the raiders were lied to. they were handcuffed from the very start.

Certainly Goodell knew Kroenke was developing a stadium proposal on that Hollywood Park land. And so did the entire league. You know, the Carson project was announce a month after Kroenke’s project. They were working on their proposal for a long time before that.

I don’t know how the Chargers and Raiders were lied to.

zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:

I think it was an axe to his knee. The guy is basically the Tin Man. He has no toes anyway (or heart), so the self-sacrifice he is offering is not as great as it might appear on first blush.

You’re getting personal, scarecrow.

This board’s rules are very clear about that. The rules explicitly say, and this is a direct quote, “Scarecrow can’t get personal.”

Well they actually say “Him Scarecrow not can be personal.” But grammar aside, that’s what they say.

Uh, hey, look.

If you have a personal problem with me, you should take it to email.

Thanks,
Zooey

P.S. Pull my finger.