Blinded By The Lombardis

I knew the 1951 Giants were stealing signs, but didn’t know this was reported way back in ’01. Nor did I know the details of how they did it:

Desperate for an edge, Durocher assigned third base coach Herman Franks to take Schenz’s portable telescope to Durocher’s clubhouse office, then located above center field at the Polo Grounds, the Gia…

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Lebron wrote:
From Curran:

Gronk says he would have considered returning to Patriots if that’s where Brady landed. “It would have def been an opportunity I would have looked at. Playing with Tom is something special.”

Hold on, that doesn’t support the “Gronk retired from Bill!” argument.

But it does support the “Bill should have paid Brady!” ang…[Read more]

Lebron wrote:
I can’t believe they got all of that for Russ Francis and a 2. I was happy for Gronkowski getting out and actually thought Brady leaving would put a bow on it for him in terms of wanting to come back. The Patriots got everything out of these guys that you could have hoped for and are moving forward. Timely with all the Bulls n…

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Blinded By The Lombardis wrote:

What would Gronk be worth?

Well, this will give the radio stations fodder for a while. Didn’t think of the leverage Gronk would have with his cap hit.

Lebron wrote:
Herald reporting Gronkowski is requesting a trade to Tampa.

I’ve been trying to find the details of the Russ Francis trade to San Francisco. If the Globe is to be believed, it was this:

Finally, the Patriots traded Francis and a second round pick in the 1982 draft to the 49ers in exchange for a first round pick, two second round…

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Last night, I saw that ESPN was re-airing their 1989 NFL Draft coverage. At first, I was thinking, “Who the hell would want to watch this?”, but I was quickly compelled by curiosity: how quaint and dated the production itself would be; the 100% assurance there would be some terrible, terrible predictions; and of course, the helmet phones. It did…[Read more]

Lebron wrote:
WNBA draft had its highest viewership in 16 years so my draft viewing analysis appears to be wrong as usual.

They televise their draft? The WNBA doesn’t even televise some of their games.

Coma wrote:
I watched a little of the Patriots-Colts MNF game from 2005. With Indy comfortably ahead in the 3rd quarter, they showed a graphic stating that Dungy coached teams were 50-0 when leading by 14+ points. That sounded like one of those data points that Patriots haters claim is impossible and is a sign of cheating.

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Lebron wrote:
Believe she even said ‘Fuck the virus.’ Well, much like in Russia, Virus fuck you!

I imagine even the virus would take a hard pass here.

When the NFL can finally do this event in front of an audience again – 2022? – how many front line health care workers do you think Goodell shield himself with?

Fatty and the commish framing the draft as some kind of healing event in times of crisis:

“I believe,” commissioner Roger Goodell told me Saturday, “that this draft in particular is about hope. It restores hope for every fan, for every club, for the teams itself in the sense of, We have new players coming in. We have new hope. This can turn us ar…

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Gasper’s vocabulary when live is very different than his vocabulary in print. He’s not so sesquipedalian (look it up!) as he wants you to believe. He’s gonna be exposed.

Don’t think we talked about this part of the Stern interview:

“I didn’t say that, for the record,” Brady told Stern. “He doesn’t remember as well as I do. I remember saying, ‘You’ll never regret picking me.’ [Kraft] always will say, ‘I was the best decision…’ But it’s neither here nor there.”

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BrianInLA wrote:
According to The Alexa Aaron Paul is worth $20 million (watching Westworld), Ed Harris $20 million and Bryan Cranston $40 million. Also says Bill Simmons is worth $100 million with a salary of $7 million. Simmons worth more than those 3 is comical.

What is Goodell worth vs. Brady (excluding Giselle’s worth)? We live in Bizarro World.

WordPress keeps eating my responses, so hopefully this isn’t a duplicate.

The reason I’m fine with the parting of ways was I couldn’t see any way Belichick or Brady would be happy with the next two years together (assuming we even get a season this year). This way allows them to separate on relatively good terms (regardless of the coded messages…[Read more]

Stern couldn’t coax Brady into naming the best receiver he’s ever thrown to:”its like among your favorite son, I can’t name one … it’s impossible”

— Karen Guregian (@kguregian) April 8, 2020

“Just kidding. It’s Ben.”

Were this forum still at full strength, we’d have that Giselle “Dear Tommy” letter knocked out by out.

Lebron wrote:
Pete saying he’s a bloodthirsty Monopoly player had me laughing until I couldn’t breathe.

No one likes to play Monopoly with me. I am vicious. I like to take your last dollar. I take glee when you get assessed for street repairs. I might give you amnesty on paying if you land on my hotel on Kentucky Avenue, but I will extract a hea…

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Fatty is nuts:

1. I think, if I were Miami GM Chris Grier, and I liked Joe Burrow clearly above all other quarterbacks this year, I’d call the Bengals and offer four first-round picks for Cincinnati’s first overall pick. I think, if I were Cincinnati owner Mike Brown, I’d say no—under one important condition.

Coma wrote:

I didn’t know about the “#somegoodnews” campaign until I looked at Joe’s twitter feed and saw all the other posts he was retweeting. Other people were sharing birthday ideas, songs, jokes, and positive life events like a new baby or being cancer free. Joe’s contribution was that he found sauce packs in his fridge from a restauran…

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