The Frankish Reich

I am just stunned that: 1. I read most of this, at least from page 60 on 2. I learned more gossip about Josh's and Stef's sex lives in a couple hours than I have any right to know. I will never look at them the same way again. The sex maniac and the two girls in different hotel rooms at the same time player.

Well, Josh is 27, so if I remember correctly (it's all a blur!) I think I may have done some of these things at that age ... Diggs is 29, and I think I remember that age pretty well, so I guess 28 was when I got my act together and started trying to create a sustainable work and home life.

OK, I watched this one. Season 1, Episode 3 I guess we'll call it. And we can see what Tucker does here. It's his formula. - Begins with some valid points: we over-classify documents in the federal government. Cabinet members serve at the pleasure of the President, and are expected to advance the President's agenda (unspoken assumption: provided that agenda is lawful/constitutional) - Moves into a specific villain. Here, Mike Pompeo. Criticizes him for being all obsequious and fawning in person to Trump, but being something of a deep state manipulator behind the scenes. Suggests Pompeo didn't deliver on the Loyalty test. (Doesn't mention that he too privately harbored the same contempt for Trump as he suggests Pompeo did) - Then makes a completely unwarranted leap: because we classify too much, most classified violations involve stuff that really isn't that important and probably shouldn't have been classified at all since there really is no risk to national security. Suggests--without evidence of what the particular classified involved in Trump's case--that this is the kind of "could embarrass someone but doesn't really impact national security" stuff. - Then comes the conspiracy theory. In fact, the reason too much government information is classified isn't because people are overly cautious or panic-prone ("OMG, I can't be the Intel officer responsible for letting out a report that went viral and damaged relationships with our allies or even outed a confidential informant!"), but rather because it is a mechanism to hide ordinary workings of the government from "the people," who, if they knew what was really going on, would openly rebel against their government. So there it is. A good point or two (we overclassify! some of our high government appointees seem more interested in pumping up their own resumes than in serving their president!!), an unwarranted assumption flowing from those points (the stuff Trump kept therefore is statistically likely to be a nothingburger, as if Trump selectively said "take the hundred most innocuous classified documents to Mar-a-Lago, and while you're at it get me a Diet Coke"), and then a big conspiracy theory to Explain What It Really Means and Why Our Country Has Gone to Hell in a Handbasket.

Yep. Bigger still! Just because the NYC market is about 50 times bigger than ours.

I guess I should've said "Adam Thielen in his prime was better than Diggs has been in his prime." That would be a more controversial opinion in these parts?

True. Something like this happens on the Jets or Giants, it blows up waaaay beyond what we'll see here.

This isn't the NBA where those big expiring contracts (not that these are expiring) have trade value.

This part - where Josh was and how late he was out the night before the game - should be easy to find out. Does anyone know the verifiable facts on that point? These are young good looking guys with tons and tons of money. They are a lot closer in age and maturity to those 16 year old girls than they are to many (most?) of us here.

Can TBD survive the internal turmoil?

If Pegula and Co. play this as well as they played the Eichel situation, Josh will be winning a Super Bowl for the Raiders in Feb 2025.

Well it wasn't "immediate." But close enough! Unfortunately "Sabresey" just doesn't work.

Not having read all 100+ pages, I was wondering the same thing. I mean, not to what extent these things have been proven true, but to what extent these are real "theories" rather than just pure humor ... it's getting really hard to differentiate the two

You might think sitting in a dark room for a weekend is basically free, but I hear it costs upwards of $10,000.

True. We got Aaron Rodgers without the psychedlics and dark therapy. Maybe someone should send him to Oaxaca next offseason.

Seriously, that would make more sense as an explanation for Diggs' behavior than what we have so far.

Isn't that what an out-of-control sex maniac QB always says?

I am eagerly awaiting the latest "Benford vs. Elam CB2 Reps Thread" Over/Under: 120 pages.

LOL is way overused. But LOL!

Just not the same without the zeroes ...

Yeah, i thought that was some kind of attempt to bypass the bad word filter, but now it's just funny

Bingo! Real Boyfriends of Buffalo is the best show going at this moment.

You'll see that here, or anywhere on the internet. Everything is meta - people don't post "news," they repost someone's politically charged hot take on the news. There are still some very good deeply reported stories out there, but the number of news outlets that have the capacity to do really good, long investigation journalism is minimal now.

Pretty damn fast! It's interesting because there's no apparent reason for Diggs to be upset about anything. I mean, if it was a contract thing we'd know. If it was bringing in a Hopkins and Diggs feels slighted, like he's not a true #1, that'd be obvious. He's just pissed off about something and nobody's saying. I enjoy the speculation. I kind of like the "I know a guy who knows a guy" stuff. Football is a diversion, and right now I'm happily diverted.

Unless it's the Bills fan from Dunkirk. Off topic: has the value of the land I bought near Darien Lake quadrupled in value yet?

Would you have 3 women in 3 different hotel suites in the same hotel, all at the same time?