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I haven’t read anything but I imagine the word “comfortable” is used. If we can somehow get average linebacker play from these two, that would be huge.

What a kick in the nuts for this kid. That stupidity last year that put him behind, now this will do the same, or worse.

Good point. Mike used to be sensitive to some things, like I’m certain he read the paper. But he was adroit at conjuring up a certain self-serving interpretation of criticisms. Remember the statement that a particular narrative was just a “theme” the media was pushing? I think he convinced himself that some of what he read was just one person’s opinion. He also believed for a while that a local columnist had a vendetta against his family business. Today, there is no mistaking it. Criticisms are not just from a reporter who felt slighted, they are from thousands of fans, ie your customers. And they’re right there in your hand to be read anytime day or night.

I just binge-watched season 1 of The Wire. This after seeing various references to it as one of the best tv shows of all time. And it was very good. I know I’m like 25 years behind on tv shows! Bengals: I just read that Mike is not going to do his annual press conference/availability at today’s media lunch. This is his annual availability, so he’s basically going incommunicado. So there is no GM, and the owner is unavailable. By design, the buck stops nowhere.

Hill’s pretty old, and he plays a serious fat guy position. Maybe they’re just holding him out for a while, kind of give him a truncated training camp.

I wonder if Tampa Bay knows what they’re getting with Bodysuit. The PTSD I have from watching her boyfriend play football last year is conveniently offset by the endorphin tsunami I experience whenever I think of her in that orange onesie.

Classic. Sadly, it is true.

Any objective analysis would 100% tell Mike to sell the team. What capital do they really have embedded in that business? Compared to the price they’ll get for the business, almost none. They basically own a media production company that is very dependent on 31 other media production companies to help them put on 17 or 20 or 21 shows a year. Ultimately that’s all it is. i think they own the practice facility beside the stadium. They have a lease for the stadium, but that stadium is publicly owned. That lease can be broken. They own some equipment and a license to participate in the nfl. The ridiculous pile of money they could get for that company to then invest it across a broad spectrum of businesses through the stock market is mind-boggling. If you take Mike’s ego out of it, take the fun of owning an NFL franchise out of it, remove the cachet that it provides your extended family, owning an NFL franchise, good God just sell that thing. I can really think of one franchise in the NFL that sits there and is operated specifically to make money for the owner and his family. Ours. Every other team is a vanity project for a mega, wealthy person, a part of a larger sports team owning conglomerate, or a centerpiece for a marketing and manufacturing operation like the Dallas Cowboys for instance. The closest thing to our outfit are the Raiders and the Bears. But they are both in much larger markets, and have modernized operations well beyond just employing family members and their friends/associates.

AJ Green was the best at catching the ball. Dude just caught anything and everything thrown his way.

I’m at a gigantic 4th of July get together with my 4 sisters and their families. /Irish goodbye intensifies/

BW3 has my loyalty. 15 bone in wings m, Mango habanero, and fries.

I’m a dedicated Giant Eagle shopper. It has always kind of bugged me that they are based in Pittsburgh, that’s how much I hate the Steelers. So today’s news that megacorp Kroger is buying Giant Eagle, while probably not great news for consumers, has eased my mind a little. There are these two strange rubber glasses, like drinking glasses, on the shelf at my Giant Eagle. They have a pretty cool Bengals logo on them. They are $25 each. Comical, really. I check on them every time I shop, since they first appeared about a year ago. I complained to the manager at the service desk and he said well you know anything with an NFL team on it is expensive like that. Right.

I can see them signing a LB vet during or after camp. They say they’re set at LB but they can’t be that delusional.

This off season truly is dull. I went to visit my mother at her assisted-living facility yesterday. When I was leaving the same old guy, who is always there, was sitting at the nurses station. And as always, he mean, mugged me like he’s a menace to society or something. Dude’s probably in his 90s. He’s done it to me pretty much every time I’ve walked through there. He probably has dementia. He has sort of that vacant look and he never ever speaks to anyone. I’m 99% sure he has dementia. Nonetheless, I mean, don’t fuck with me. So when I was leaving, I just blatantly locked eyes with him. I walked the 7 or 8 steps right towards him and he finally averted his gaze when I was just a few feet away. Make of that what you will. I don’t know what it says about me, but yes, I backed down a 95-year-old dementia patient in my mother’s assisted living facility. I will answer the obvious question before anyone even asks it. No, he was not in a wheelchair. He does use a walker though.

There actually were potatoes in the hash I ordered (brunch menu).