Dr. Who

JW is not a reliable voice of optimism for everything that happens at OBD. He's been critical over the years. The suggestion that he isn't making a judgment based on a number of sources and his own critical evaluative powers is unconvincing to me. In my view, JW is a solid journalist who works to avoid either optimistic or pessimistic bias. That he happens to have a positive take just now is rubbing folks with a dark template wrong. That's fine, but I don't think it rightly impugns JW who is one of the few writers in his field I trust for objective analysis.

I'm not an expert by any means, but I like Boldy and Caufield among those with a good chance to be there at 7OA.

Civility on this site is still considerably better than other message boards I have frequented over the years. The old BBMB was capricious and often filled with rancorous exchanges. JW seems to me to be a straight shooter. I don't believe he is influenced by Beane. It may just be that the current regime is largely competent, though they make mistakes like everyone else. Personally, I value his insight and believe he brings information we would not otherwise have. Badolbilz is also often insightful, though almost always negative and astringent. Since I tend to be optimistic, I appreciate the counterbalance. It makes me scrutinize my own positions, though I don't often change them

Add in mental and psychological makeup as well. Confident, yet humble. Smart, takes responsibility, good sense of humor, natural leader.

Personally, I think Occam's nominalism the beginning of western decline into reductionist metaphysics and rationalist modes of thought both superficial and arrogant. Why should Occam's razor be true, for that matter, when reality may require nuance, sensitivity to complexity, ambiguity, for all sorts of things that defy capture by the "clear and concise" idea? Yet for all that, vatic descent into polyglot repudiation of the demos that routinely inhabits sports' message boards appears a somewhat dramatic, though perhaps effective counter-movement.

Mueller is a partisan inquisitor. He wanted to emphasize that Trump could very well be guilty of obstruction, but that he was legally unable to do anything about it. Public statement was a clear soft pitch to the Democrats in the House which was the reason he treated obstruction the way he did in the report in the first place. It's enough to keep the propagandists on the left in business through the 2020 election. Culpable morons like Nadler and Schiff will crow and CNN and MSNBC will continue to peddle the equivalent of fan fiction political porn to zealous and stupid addicts. They certainly don't want the focus to shift towards the actual shenannigans of the Obama administration spying on candidate Trump or using deep state assets to attempt to entrap marginal figures of Trump's campaign, let alone Clinton operatives actual use foreign influence to affect an election, just as they ignore Clinton's obstruction of justice regarding her destruction of evidence on a personal server or dirty money laundered through the Clinton foundation. Poor Dick Nixon will forever be a crook, while Obama remains a saint, if not the messiah. The whole thing is a ridiculous charade, but it sells to half the country that dutifully parrots the ideology inculcated at various levels from pre-K through the Ivys, promoted by Hollywood, a press that is a western version of Pravda, and silicon valley billionaires who live in gated communities and chastise folks who want a wall and rational immigration policies and who are unhappy about the inherent abuses of sanctuary cities. Ah, but such deplorable lunatic bigots are not worthy of the consideration one ought to bestow on misunderstood members of MS 13 . . .

Yeah, it might not work, but I see a lot of reasons why it should work. Maybe some folks think this is just a standard puff piece. I don't think so. And you see similar emphasis on character, work ethic, and creative intelligence throughout the roster. Josh Allen is the perfect qb for McDermott.

I think you are emphasizing the unfinished too much here. Schedule may be harder than it looks, but right now I'm disappointed with less than nine wins and I think ten or eleven is possible if we stay relatively healthy at key positions. (Thread title is a bit of an oxymoron, no?)

Pegulas should get something simple right just for starters: royal blue.

Shaw, what you're describing is really the intrinsic meaning of tradition which is a creative "passing on," innovation that grows out of continuity. Philosophically, it's the sort of thing Alasdair MacIntyre talked about in his little book, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry.

Are you the Neo that posts over on the Sabres' forum? I just lurk there, but if you're that fella, I like reading your posts. Starr was a gentleman and a star qb. Think our guy can be that kind of qb.

Really happy about this hire.

I have no idea what really went on regarding ROR. It's done. Let's look forward.

The hypothetical is a second and a fourth plus 50 million guaranteed, no? Don't think anyone is proposing trading next year's first.

I hope the irony was intended.

Disappointing. Beane really ought to give the Vikes a call at this point.

That's the key and I think your assessment is correct.

Badolbilz is one of those sharp darksiders I value, though I resist the notion that objectivity is fundamentally the domain of the pessimists.

Thanks for all the work transcribing that. You've done this a couple times, no? Really nice contribution. One stat, however, is slightly concerning. It makes me wonder how the fella got a big contract, actually. Namely, 403 plays last year as a Redskin, gave up 403 sacks. That's got to be some kind of record

Some kinds of thinking lead to an inability to hear.

Don't worry. ScottLaw still isn't going to hear you.

Only team left I can tolerate. Best of luck.

You're rapidly using up your quota of exclamation points for thread titles.

Already he is brewing a batch of new and especially bitter venom and contempt. JBots was on the golf course deciding to hire a soccer coach.