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You just illustrated my point. You assumed "the other guy" was the one who needed to do the yielding. No, you werent wrong, per se..but you were not driving defensively. And not for nothing...a bike moving at 20MPH on tires with a half inch contact patch doesnt exactly stop on a dime. You lock up a road bike's rear wheel and you might as well be on roller skates. Again...you werent "wrong"....you just assumed that the other nimrod knew what he was doing. First rule of driving, right? Dont assume the other !@#$ isnt an !@#$.

What you did wrong was assume he was going to stop. You did have the ROW, but since you both got to the intersection at the same exact time, you, as well as the cyclist, assumed "the other guy" was going to yield.

Cycling and traffic laws are a weird dynamic. Cyclists do have to obey the rules, but UNLIKE when driving a car, to the extend you obey them is MUCH more dependenent on conditions and time of day. To use Tone's example, if youre riding through a nice quiet neigborhood on your way home, a cyclist is NOT going to come to a full stop for every stop sign. That would be pointless. A good cyclist will come to an intersection like this, look both ways, determine that the road is clear and keep going. If there is a car there, s/he may slow down and yield or keep going, depending on the action of the car. Its actually the same with red lights. Youll come to a light, slow down, look both ways and if traffic permits, go through it and if traffic doesnt permit, stop. To illustrate this...I go down a VERY busy road on my morning rides. At 530AM on my way out when the road is very very quiet, I wont stop for lights or stopsigns...just as I approach, make sure traffic is clear and keep right on going. But on the way back at 830AM in the middle of rush hour, its a whole different ballgame and Im MUCH more in tune with the cars and stop lights and Im very careful to "follow the traffic signal rules" and what not. I cant speak for the fools who ride on sidewalks, against traffic or just blow through lights without looking. Obviously, there is no place for that. But cyclist's rode rules are governed MUCH more by traffic conditions at the time and not as much by the rules automobiles are governed by. One thing thats a peeve of mine...this notion by cars that I have to get to the shoulder. No....share the road. I dont see you driving your car in the shoulder, dodging roadkill, tree blowdown, dirt and garbage. Dont expect me ride my bike in that crap.

Happy Birfday Ralph. SELL THE TEAM NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rot inb hell you redneck POS, Coleman....DIE.

How about this..... JUST GIVE IT TO THEM

Give me a fugging breaki...thats a damned catch

Im a forgiving Christian man and all, but if Walt Coleman was ass raped by a bull and then run over by a steamroller...I wouldnt shed a single !@#$ing tear.

Wow...they missed it...what a shock

I think the ONE saving grace in this whole mess is the fact that although the team stinks to high hell and has for a while, it STILL sells so many tickets each week. This blows the whole "WNY cant support a team" line of reasoning right out of the water.

What she said. But Im much more in the "heroic" camp. My only fear is that this will be one of those lynchpins/examples that will be used as "proof" that the team needs to be moved.

Oh stop.

Youre doing the same thing! Holy sh-.

Hate to break it to all the libs, but you might as well give up on being fans of the NFL RIGHT NOW, becuase as a whole, the NFL's ownership structure is DOMINATED by rich, white "old money" males and therefore, by extension, most likely Conservative/Republican. Thats right, the ownership of the league RIGHT NOW is made up of a bunch of Limbaughs, but without the microphones and painkillers. Well...maybe without the microphones. So buh-bye, libs....go have fun watching the "knitting and navel gazing" extravaganza on MSNBC next week, which youre more suited to anyway.

Care to pull out the line in ANY one of these health care bills being floated that says "Any and all claims submitted will be honored without dispute"?

I dont buy this premise at all. Edwards isnt getting killed back there and the running game has been faily effective. Wilson gave the "line play" excuse the other day too. It doesnt wash, not this year.

Im sorry. Youre right. Its only been a decade of futility. We should be more patient.

Ralph is pissed. Whoopee. Whats he going to do? Fire Brandon and hire the Concession mananger to run the club?

Cut the crap...politics talk begins and ends at the dinner table. Then we break bread, open the wine and enjoy each others company. Wish I could be there.

Dont sweat it, Tom. We tossed batteries at Kevin McReynolds back in the day at Shea. OK, I didnt...but some people did.

Big body of work to judge Lynch on so far this year.

Almost drove off a bridge when I heard this news. Wow.

The Iraq and Al Queda issues didnt pre-date Bush's Presidency? And youre calling Tom the moron?

The list begins and ends with him: