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Maybe a fourth at the very best. I would keep him or let him go based on his value as determined by competition in camp with whatever group of WR's we have post-draft. The idea that his trade value is much above "whatever" is kinda silly. Other teams would see him as a JAG. He's quite a limited...

It is hard to think of an historian - I might say philosopher - who takes more to heart the importance of cultivating morality and culture than Will (and Ariel) Durant. It would be unfortunate if this story, which I recall, were to be mistaken as implying otherwise. He is the furthest thing from...

Here's a passage from Durant (the Durants) I used to use in my philosophy course. It always made for a snappy, not to say instructively acrimonius discussion. This was back in the day, of course, when actual discussion. was still possible, and legal: History is a fragment of biology: the life...

It is as you say a little complicated. We want to see competitive games, certainly, but too often when you meddle with free competition - in any context - what you get is assured mediocrity across the board. In sports, as frankly in all things, "equality" must be enforced - inequality being the...

I favor withdrawal of the exemption, always have. Anti-trust laws, because they help to sustain competition when properly applied, are one of the few sort of market regulations upon which I look with unreserved favor. Regulation in my view ought, like government, to be as minimal as feasible. My...

Over the past couple of years, I have read a lot of history re how leftist insurrections undermine and destroy democracies. I have studied, in the interest of balance, I suppose, the remarkably similar manner in which Hitler undermined the Weimar Republic and how Pol Pot subverted the previous...

Hence the need for free competition. Competition, including the prospect of failure for vendors, drives quality. If a consumer chooses to continue to buy an inferior product or service, that's on the consumer. To whine about one's "plight" in that circumstance is to whine about one's own...

Memes, eh? Condolences on the aphasia.

LOL. We are all sinners (especially on-line, eh?).

Customers get the service they insist upon getting. In this as in other areas of commerce, we seemingly prefer whining about how ill-treated we are, rather than doing the adult work of seeking out alternatives. If you are willing to overpay for "convenience - in this as in so many other things -...

Once upon a time, I owned a Dodge Dakota pickup. It was a complete piece of crap, but if you respected its limitations, it served its purpose, to a degree. I kept it until I was able to get something better. I towed it to the local junkyard with my new truck (a Toyota). Caeden is that truck...

You are absolutely right, of course, but, speaking as one who has made his living writing and teaching writing for a few decades, you - like yours truly - could use the services of an editor from time to time. Again, though, I agree with you. I feel your pain, as the kids say.

The loss to the nation might not be nearly as great as we might wish.

Most people I know find these salaries obscene, decadent, ugly. They have a point, demonstrating as such compensation does that we value the ability of some freakish knuckledragging mesomorph to collide with other mesomorphs over any number of other far more actually worthwhile skill sets and...

"They"? He's a Chow/Chihuahua/Eskimo Dog mix. I wasn't aware there are enough if them to have a reputation for anything. He's actually not yappy at all, but our terrier and our full-on chihuahua certainly are. Our other three dogs are generally quiet. The loudest animal I ever had was a...

I was sort of weird until I started coming here, but I'm fine now. I probably have never adequately thanked PatsFans for its role in my redemption. The help really began in earnest when Kontradiction indicated he hoped my dog would die.

Perhaps you could post something more coherent, or, if your passion cannot, as seems to be the case, be contained within the bounds of coherent reason, you could demonstrate your solidarity with the handwringers, journalistic and otherwise, by joining them in ****ing themselves.

I have offered no gossip; I have offered criticism, condemnation. Condemnation, of course, can be either worthy or not depending on whether that condemnation is justified or unjustified. The sort of performative blither and sanctimonious blather in this thread is rightly to be condemned in my...

A lot of talk here and all over to the effect that Vrabel "has to talk to the media." I agree: he should tell them to go **** themselves. This is the response the press has earned, pontificating clickbait whores that they are.

Asinine gossip in the manner of middle school girls. You all should be ashamed of yourselves for being so sunken in masturbatory glee, but then if you had sound enough character to realize you should be ashamed, you wouldn't indulge in this sort of embarrassing stuff in the first place.