Comments on: emptywheel’s Famous Football Trash Talk Thread – Wildcard Weekend Edition

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:06:33 +0000

OfT, but an interesting read from “CAN’T STOP THE BLEEDING” “Did ~~Holy~~ Tony Dungy & Jeff Fisher Conspire To Fuck Over The Browns?”

No more so than Cleveland fucked themselves by making Charlie Frye their starting QB in Week One. However, the following item from the scandal-riffic Pro Football Talk is worthy of consideration, if only to suggest the Hooded Casanova might not be the only head coach playing fast and loose with the spirit of fair competition.[…]

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:23:28 +0000

No soup for you! Where were the guts and glory on the sixth pick? Heh heh. Seriously, outstanding prognostication; we don’t have a prize, but you would win it.

By: CTuttle

CTuttle — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:15:25 +0000

CTuttle January 4th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
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Seahawks, Jags, Bolts, Giants… and LSU… My predictions…

By: CTuttle

CTuttle — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:12:41 +0000

Would it be fitting of me to close this thread at 5-0, as I had started this thread… *g*

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:15:39 +0000

As to Clemens personally, that is about how I feel. But as a legal matter, I find it pretty intriguing. You have a federal investigator from the IRS that has been allowed to ramble uncontrolled way out of his element for literally years working with very ethically questionable AUSAs, primarily out of NDCA, a US Attorney’s office that was miserably mismanaged by one of the USAs fired in the purge, Kevin Ryan. The Feds have been directly partnering with Major League Baseball (who effectively supported the use of steroids when they needed their game to regain popularity) in an “independent” investigation being run by an owner of the Boston Red Sox, Mitchell. The big “independent report” springing from said owner of the Red Sox was curiously fairly silent on Red Sox folks, but was literally dripping with current and former Yankees, including their star pitcher, who by the way is enemy number one to the Red Sox. Oh, and by the way, it is my understanding that the orders for the DOJ to partner up with MLB, and in some instances, through Novitsky and crew, basically serve as private investigators and goon squad for the Mitchell investigation, came from literally the top of our government. And I also know a bit about Clemens’ lawyer, Rusty Hardin. He is a legend in some of the circles I used to run in; and if he gets cranked up, is worth the price of admission all by himself. As a lawyer doing the kind of work that I did for a long time, you just love this kind of stuff. Its almost kind of irrelevant what the real story with Clemens is, I just don’t care for the process as it has played out and I am excited at the thought of Rusty ripping it wide open. Seems like we always get lame lawyering on the big public cases these days; that will not be the case here win, lose or draw. To me, thats kind of fun.

By: randiego

randiego — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:29:24 +0000

Can I just throw in here that I don’t give a damn about Clemens? I mean seriously who cares?

By: radiofreewill

radiofreewill — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:48:06 +0000

Well, the verdict on the Vest is…thumbs down!

Not as good as the Bear’s hat.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:18:40 +0000

If Katie Jensen is around, I think Pellini is going to do a good job for Nebraska and is the right guy for you. Sure has LSU defense coached up.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:12:41 +0000

Just saw a post by watertiger at FDL that made me wonder: Why are the major media organizations calling the presidential nominees for 2008 before we have even finished the 2007 college football season? That just seems wrong.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:43:15 +0000

Klynn – Wherever you are, you may have bit the bullet by getting me signed up to cheer for OSU. But dammit, i have been doing my best. Pretty poor results so far from my effort….