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Ladies and gents, let me tell you what the Ongoing Investigation reminds me of, just the gut speaking, that random mass of associations one tends to accumulate:
When a political figure or panel censures you and smacks you with penalties -- especially when someone is whining that the pentalties are a "slap on the wrist," -- it seems like this is often the next step: The Faultfinding Mission.
But cheer up. The Faultfinding Mission is a favorite when the politico is proclaimed too lenient by some lameasss somewhere. It means that you say from a podium somewhere "I'm super super serial," and you ask for a lot of documents, and you look really stern.
Then you look over all of it, and, in recognition that the guy you're investigating is, in fact, your business partner (as is the case with Kraft and the Pats,) you say something like...
"While the Patriots have embraced a number of borderline practices over the years, none of them can be conclusively tied to game outcomes, especially in post-season play. It's the conclusion of the league that it can not be proven that outcomes were altered in the post-season, and that those practices the Patriots did employ were well within the standards of stuff teams do in the post-season. So, while I really think the Patriots are satanic, and super super bad, I can not definitively put any asterisks in any books, nor can we in good conscience condone asterisk talk as relates to this team's legacy. This concludes this investigation but I'm super super serial, I'll do it again in a heartbeat."
The reasoning here is that the league knows the Patriots legacy is by now part of its product. This may well be theater: a way to establish that first of all, no players knew anything about this at any time, and that secondly, all of the damage started after the 3-of-4 super bowl run.
This is not based on fact, observation, or weighing the words of Hines Ward or Donovan McNabb. This is based on what is good for the league, and what smell all this leaves in the air.
Of course, I've been wrong before, just less than the rest of you guys.
PFnV
When a political figure or panel censures you and smacks you with penalties -- especially when someone is whining that the pentalties are a "slap on the wrist," -- it seems like this is often the next step: The Faultfinding Mission.
But cheer up. The Faultfinding Mission is a favorite when the politico is proclaimed too lenient by some lameasss somewhere. It means that you say from a podium somewhere "I'm super super serial," and you ask for a lot of documents, and you look really stern.
Then you look over all of it, and, in recognition that the guy you're investigating is, in fact, your business partner (as is the case with Kraft and the Pats,) you say something like...
"While the Patriots have embraced a number of borderline practices over the years, none of them can be conclusively tied to game outcomes, especially in post-season play. It's the conclusion of the league that it can not be proven that outcomes were altered in the post-season, and that those practices the Patriots did employ were well within the standards of stuff teams do in the post-season. So, while I really think the Patriots are satanic, and super super bad, I can not definitively put any asterisks in any books, nor can we in good conscience condone asterisk talk as relates to this team's legacy. This concludes this investigation but I'm super super serial, I'll do it again in a heartbeat."
The reasoning here is that the league knows the Patriots legacy is by now part of its product. This may well be theater: a way to establish that first of all, no players knew anything about this at any time, and that secondly, all of the damage started after the 3-of-4 super bowl run.
This is not based on fact, observation, or weighing the words of Hines Ward or Donovan McNabb. This is based on what is good for the league, and what smell all this leaves in the air.
Of course, I've been wrong before, just less than the rest of you guys.
PFnV