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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jan 30, 2022, 5:52:18 PM1/30/22
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How much wood could a woodchuck ignore if a woodchuck could ignore wood?
Glad you asked.
The question on many fans’ minds — I count for at least two of them, given
my psychological state of late — immediately after Rams superstar
defensive lineman Aaron Donald was flagged for trying to choke a Cardinals
opponent during their playoff game two Monday nights ago, was simple but
significant:
Would Donald be suspended from Sunday’s game against the Buccaneers?
After all, he’d been fined $10,300 for trying to strangle Packers
offensive lineman Lucas Patrick in Week 12. (Consider the QB who tries to
call an audible without a trachea.) And he’d had more than a few prior
penalized episodes of not playing nicely with others.
For an added element, Donald wears a Roger Goodell-issued “Stop Hate”
message on the back of his helmet. That certainly would have added some
show to the tell.
So it was just a matter of when the NFL — even with pandering, gutless,
selectively blind Goodell at the wheel — would announce its sanctions
against Donald.
But the week passed without a word. Surely, Sunday, in its 1-hour-long,
10-contributors Rams-Bucs pregame, NBC would address this, provide us the
latest.
But not a word. We heard, near the top, that Donald will be a major factor
due to his greatness. Then, in a pandering, banal “interview” with Mike
Tirico, Donald was told that he’s a very special player. Even if he just
might be a dirty one. His conspicuous “Post-Play Strangler” instincts
never came up.
Yet, there was time to include — surprise! surprise! — a lighthearted chat
with TV’s latest in a series of wrongly presumed favorites, Odell Beckham
Jr.
Then on with the game. And more, “Gee, that Aaron Donald is great” stuff,
this time from Cris Collinsworth.
Only late Saturday afternoon, the day before Donald would play versus the
Bucs, did NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport tweet that Donald had been fined a
mere $500 more — $10,800 — for his second assault of a live esophagus.
That mostly closeted news arrived five days after Donald’s latest oxygen-
obstructing episode, as if the NFL didn’t want anyone to know.
Thus, what would have and should have been near the top of NBC’s pregame
show “To Do” list in service to viewers, went totally ignored. Suspension?
Goodell’s NFL and TV partner NBC apparently preferred that you forgot the
whole thing.
Oh, and Stop Hate.
Fox team on fire in Tundra thriller
Fox’s 49ers-Packers on Saturday was loaded with strong info, overture to
final curtain.
Before the first play from scrimmage, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman plainly
said that this game would be determined by special teams — and that
presaged trouble for Green Bay.
Gin! A blocked field goal and a blocked punt later, the Niners were upset
winners.
As for the final play — a winning Robbie Gould field goal — Buck and
Aikman were quick to note that in arctic conditions, holder Mitch
Wishnowsky pulled down a high snap and touched it down perfectly. Good
catch by all three.
Pardon the Interpretation: Still can’t decide if the weekend’s games made
for great, exciting, comeback football — as we were told — or bad football
made exciting by “prevent defenses” among other strategic coaching
failures.
Apparently all NFL players must meet with the approval of NBC’s Cris
Collinsworth, as in, “I really like” this guy, and “I’m really impressed”
by that guy. Does he ever listen to himself?
You want to vote Barry Bonds into the Hall of Fame? Knock yourself out.
Just explain three things:
1) How was he able to hit 317 home runs between ages 35 and 42?
2) Why did his head swell to the size of a beach ball then recede to
normal size after he retired?
3) How many clean players were deprived of MLB careers by drug cheats?
Reader Steve Arendash succinctly captures the Bud Selig/Donald Fehr drug
era with this: Sammy Sosa is the only player with three 60-home run
seasons. Yet, he never led the league in any of those seasons.
Voting for PED cheats, and those logically suspected of being cheats,
seems a highly rationalized decision to reduce the Hall of Fame to
irrelevance, if not infamy.
And I wouldn’t trust David Ortiz as far as I could throw him.
CBS’ James Lofton is the Jim Spanarkel of football analysts. Or is
Spanarkel the …? Anyway, both are underutilized and unappreciated by shot-
callers for speaking applicable common sense.
Working Niners-Packers for Westwood One Radio, Lofton said that every time
a player performs one of these post-play, self-aggrandizing
demonstrations, he eats into the play clock before the next play, placing
his team in needless risk.
Was he allowed to say that?
Every time the Buccaneers played on TV here this season, we were told that
their defensive coordinator, Todd Bowles, is highly qualified to be a head
coach.
Yet we saw him as the head coach of the Jets for four seasons, and he
often seemed lost and bewildered, especially at crunch time with clock
management.
Dan Fouts, with CBS at the time, said Bowles’ decisions and indecisions
left him “flabbergasted.”
Tough to figure if the Knicks have a talent deficiency or a team
deficiency. There doesn’t see to be a plan, a strategy. Every game looks
like the spin of a wheel, a collection of drifters, alone together, lots
of 3-point shots thrown in.
Odell is up-front about ‘Me U.’
Naturally, Odell Beckham Jr. had to exploit his starting lineups
face/voice time to try to steal the spotlight by acting like a jerk. He
identified his college as “Him University.” Though he might’ve went with
“Me U.”
He wasn’t going to say LSU, as his college excommunicated him for
conspicuously handing out cash to players after a national championship
game — the same game after which he crashed the locker-room celebration,
stealing the scene from those who played by acting like an attention-
addicted jerk.
NBC, naturally, gave him a look-away pass. Its pregame had already
determined for us that we all love him.
Tennis fans are upset with ESPN. Again. The network has virtually ignored
the superb and surprising singles and doubles play of American Danielle
Collins at the Australian Open.
Reader Peter Wunsch: “Was ESPN even aware that it had an American player
they could show to an American audience? Or are they clueless?”
ESPN showed some overnight matches on tape delay, but ignored Collins’.
But that’s standard ESPN. It doesn’t care about good stories, the wants
and needs of the specific audiences it beckons, or the sports it
purchases. It cares about big names, and only big names — for good or bad
reasons. Was Alex Rodriguez hired to be ESPN’s voice and face of MLB for
anything better?
Suckers Alert: Add Shaq O’Neal to the cast of celebs and athletes paid to
hustle the public to lose their money gambling on sports. O’Neal’s another
who otherwise would starve.
Clark Gillies was easy to root for — on and off the ice. The mark of the
man. As a player, he visited a disabled young man in a Long Island rehab
center, then stayed in touch. A mensch.
*Every time the USOC or IOC issues a warning to competitors on how to keep
clear of government “operatives” who will be in their midsts — seen and
unseen — I ask why and how China was issued the approval to host these
Winter Olympics. Nike and LeBron James have anything to do with it?
Reader Mark Dantonio on the unintended overuse and misuse of replay rules:
“For decades, now, ‘Getting it right’ means no longer getting to enjoy
it.”
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
dirty-behavior/
How much wood could a woodchuck ignore if a woodchuck could ignore wood?
Glad you asked.
The question on many fans’ minds — I count for at least two of them, given
my psychological state of late — immediately after Rams superstar
defensive lineman Aaron Donald was flagged for trying to choke a Cardinals
opponent during their playoff game two Monday nights ago, was simple but
significant:
Would Donald be suspended from Sunday’s game against the Buccaneers?
After all, he’d been fined $10,300 for trying to strangle Packers
offensive lineman Lucas Patrick in Week 12. (Consider the QB who tries to
call an audible without a trachea.) And he’d had more than a few prior
penalized episodes of not playing nicely with others.
For an added element, Donald wears a Roger Goodell-issued “Stop Hate”
message on the back of his helmet. That certainly would have added some
show to the tell.
So it was just a matter of when the NFL — even with pandering, gutless,
selectively blind Goodell at the wheel — would announce its sanctions
against Donald.
But the week passed without a word. Surely, Sunday, in its 1-hour-long,
10-contributors Rams-Bucs pregame, NBC would address this, provide us the
latest.
But not a word. We heard, near the top, that Donald will be a major factor
due to his greatness. Then, in a pandering, banal “interview” with Mike
Tirico, Donald was told that he’s a very special player. Even if he just
might be a dirty one. His conspicuous “Post-Play Strangler” instincts
never came up.
Yet, there was time to include — surprise! surprise! — a lighthearted chat
with TV’s latest in a series of wrongly presumed favorites, Odell Beckham
Jr.
Then on with the game. And more, “Gee, that Aaron Donald is great” stuff,
this time from Cris Collinsworth.
Only late Saturday afternoon, the day before Donald would play versus the
Bucs, did NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport tweet that Donald had been fined a
mere $500 more — $10,800 — for his second assault of a live esophagus.
That mostly closeted news arrived five days after Donald’s latest oxygen-
obstructing episode, as if the NFL didn’t want anyone to know.
Thus, what would have and should have been near the top of NBC’s pregame
show “To Do” list in service to viewers, went totally ignored. Suspension?
Goodell’s NFL and TV partner NBC apparently preferred that you forgot the
whole thing.
Oh, and Stop Hate.
Fox team on fire in Tundra thriller
Fox’s 49ers-Packers on Saturday was loaded with strong info, overture to
final curtain.
Before the first play from scrimmage, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman plainly
said that this game would be determined by special teams — and that
presaged trouble for Green Bay.
Gin! A blocked field goal and a blocked punt later, the Niners were upset
winners.
As for the final play — a winning Robbie Gould field goal — Buck and
Aikman were quick to note that in arctic conditions, holder Mitch
Wishnowsky pulled down a high snap and touched it down perfectly. Good
catch by all three.
Pardon the Interpretation: Still can’t decide if the weekend’s games made
for great, exciting, comeback football — as we were told — or bad football
made exciting by “prevent defenses” among other strategic coaching
failures.
Apparently all NFL players must meet with the approval of NBC’s Cris
Collinsworth, as in, “I really like” this guy, and “I’m really impressed”
by that guy. Does he ever listen to himself?
You want to vote Barry Bonds into the Hall of Fame? Knock yourself out.
Just explain three things:
1) How was he able to hit 317 home runs between ages 35 and 42?
2) Why did his head swell to the size of a beach ball then recede to
normal size after he retired?
3) How many clean players were deprived of MLB careers by drug cheats?
Reader Steve Arendash succinctly captures the Bud Selig/Donald Fehr drug
era with this: Sammy Sosa is the only player with three 60-home run
seasons. Yet, he never led the league in any of those seasons.
Voting for PED cheats, and those logically suspected of being cheats,
seems a highly rationalized decision to reduce the Hall of Fame to
irrelevance, if not infamy.
And I wouldn’t trust David Ortiz as far as I could throw him.
CBS’ James Lofton is the Jim Spanarkel of football analysts. Or is
Spanarkel the …? Anyway, both are underutilized and unappreciated by shot-
callers for speaking applicable common sense.
Working Niners-Packers for Westwood One Radio, Lofton said that every time
a player performs one of these post-play, self-aggrandizing
demonstrations, he eats into the play clock before the next play, placing
his team in needless risk.
Was he allowed to say that?
Every time the Buccaneers played on TV here this season, we were told that
their defensive coordinator, Todd Bowles, is highly qualified to be a head
coach.
Yet we saw him as the head coach of the Jets for four seasons, and he
often seemed lost and bewildered, especially at crunch time with clock
management.
Dan Fouts, with CBS at the time, said Bowles’ decisions and indecisions
left him “flabbergasted.”
Tough to figure if the Knicks have a talent deficiency or a team
deficiency. There doesn’t see to be a plan, a strategy. Every game looks
like the spin of a wheel, a collection of drifters, alone together, lots
of 3-point shots thrown in.
Odell is up-front about ‘Me U.’
Naturally, Odell Beckham Jr. had to exploit his starting lineups
face/voice time to try to steal the spotlight by acting like a jerk. He
identified his college as “Him University.” Though he might’ve went with
“Me U.”
He wasn’t going to say LSU, as his college excommunicated him for
conspicuously handing out cash to players after a national championship
game — the same game after which he crashed the locker-room celebration,
stealing the scene from those who played by acting like an attention-
addicted jerk.
NBC, naturally, gave him a look-away pass. Its pregame had already
determined for us that we all love him.
Tennis fans are upset with ESPN. Again. The network has virtually ignored
the superb and surprising singles and doubles play of American Danielle
Collins at the Australian Open.
Reader Peter Wunsch: “Was ESPN even aware that it had an American player
they could show to an American audience? Or are they clueless?”
ESPN showed some overnight matches on tape delay, but ignored Collins’.
But that’s standard ESPN. It doesn’t care about good stories, the wants
and needs of the specific audiences it beckons, or the sports it
purchases. It cares about big names, and only big names — for good or bad
reasons. Was Alex Rodriguez hired to be ESPN’s voice and face of MLB for
anything better?
Suckers Alert: Add Shaq O’Neal to the cast of celebs and athletes paid to
hustle the public to lose their money gambling on sports. O’Neal’s another
who otherwise would starve.
Clark Gillies was easy to root for — on and off the ice. The mark of the
man. As a player, he visited a disabled young man in a Long Island rehab
center, then stayed in touch. A mensch.
*Every time the USOC or IOC issues a warning to competitors on how to keep
clear of government “operatives” who will be in their midsts — seen and
unseen — I ask why and how China was issued the approval to host these
Winter Olympics. Nike and LeBron James have anything to do with it?
Reader Mark Dantonio on the unintended overuse and misuse of replay rules:
“For decades, now, ‘Getting it right’ means no longer getting to enjoy
it.”
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
Bolloy Benders Family
Jan 30, 2022, 5:55:35 PM1/30/22
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Leroy N. Soetoro wrote on 30 Jan 2022 in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh:
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> The question on many fans' minds - I count for at least two of them,
> given my psychological state of late - immediately after Rams
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> The question on many fans' minds - I count for at least two of them,
> given my psychological state of late - immediately after Rams
> superstar defensive lineman Aaron Donald was flagged for trying to
> choke a Cardinals opponent during their playoff game two Monday nights
> ago, was simple but significant:
>
Who cares? They are football players! Not nuns!
> choke a Cardinals opponent during their playoff game two Monday nights
> ago, was simple but significant:
>
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