UPDATED! Bernie and Gordo AND JOE STRAUSS ACK! Burwell TOO!

[Hungary Jack]

Rick Hummel, whom I think is Gordo's mentor and closeted lover, labeled Aaron Miles "a winning player" in his latest chat.

[GatewaySnayke]

Bernie lists Fleet Foxes' and Gaslight Anthem's albums as two of his favorite in 2008.

I dunno, I can't be the only one who finds it weird that Bernie has hipster music in his iPod.

[TheoSqua]

From his blog today, concerning some guy that works at Walgreens trying to add him on LinkedIn:

Does it mean that I can now open a bag of Doritos at Walgreen’s and eat them as I walk the aisles, not having to pay up until I reach the register?

For some reason Bernie writing that after all the jokes on this board made me chuckle.

[Hungary Jack]

Rams Get Coach Who Stands for Something

Good grief. Bernie's latest column is yet another fatuous indulgence of his pop-psychology blatherings about sport. He probably wrote the same tripe about Linehan, Mike Kitchen, and Richie Kotite.

[Secret Weapon]

Rams Get Coach Who Stands for Something

Good grief. Bernie's latest column is yet another fatuous indulgence of his pop-psychology blatherings about sport. He probably wrote the same tripe about Linehan, Mike Kitchen, and Richie Kotite.

Believe it: Linehan is at Martz's level
By Bernie Miklasz
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Wednesday, Jan. 18 2006

<snip>

By all accounts, Linehan has a brilliant mind for offense. He got tremendous
production from a splendidly talented crew in Minnesota, but he also squeezed
the most from a moderately talented offense in Miami.

Linehan is creative in the passing game, so much that Culpepper openly
acknowledged a drop-off in his QB performance when Linehan left the Vikings to
go to Miami. But Linehan is no one-dimensional pass master. He likes to rely on
the Joe Gibbs system of offense, which includes powering up with two tight ends
in a dedicated mission to run the football.

But a clever Linehan also likes to bedevil defenses by running the ball out of
passing formations. He spreads the field with wideouts, loosens the defensive
alignments, and then slams the ball inside. (It's easy to imagine Steven
Jackson doing a lot of damage in this style of offense.)

"You have got to be able to run the football to be successful at any level,"
Linehan said last year. "I love to throw, but if you can't run the football,
you're stuck."

Expanding beyond his fondness for offense, Linehan has a vision for the entire
team. This is no offensive coordinator wearing a head coach's headset and
disguise. Linehan made this clear in his first round of interviews with Shaw
and Rams director of football operations Jay Zygmunt. He showed up with
detailed opinions on what the Rams were doing wrong, what they needed to do
better.

Linehan stressed the need to revamp the defense, vowed emphatically that
defense and special teams would be a priority. Linehan expressed his intention
to hire an "A"-list defensive coordinator, and offered several names as
candidates. Linehan already had mapped out tentative plans for a coaching
staff. And this was in the first interview.

<snip>

Linehan has been an NFL coordinator for four seasons after spending 13 years as
a college assistant. Linehan has, to this point, succeeded at every opportunity
as he moved up the ladder. He has been building and planning for this moment.
Linehan seems completely prepared for this big chance, as he showed by scoring
a touchdown in the interview with Shaw. And as long as Linehan can assemble the
kind of defensive staff that will prevent touchdowns, the Rams should embark on
a promising new era.

[Hungary Jack]

Can someone please email that Linehan column to Bernie? I am in the mood to rub [expletive] in someone's face.

[lukethedrifter]

which one of you is [expletive] with Bernie?

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It got AXED by the man crush as this one will.........
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I didn't touch it.

So a couple of you owe me an apology -- unless you want to get banned, and I can arrange that.

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But at least now I know what your motivations were...

Not to pass along something interesting on Springsteen, but to try and tick me off.

Which you didn't do with the original thread.

But at least I am mildly irritated now, so I suppose I should pass along my congrats before I ban you!

Razz

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Anyone else?

Be happy to escort you to the door.

Anyone?

Thanks.

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[Hungary Jack]

Bernie offered this petulant riposte today:

I heard from a few, shall we say, intellectually challenged baseball fans / Chris Duncan haters who questioned why I could praise Reds GM Walt Jocketty for improving their defense while also praising Tony La Russa for sacrificing defense for offense by playing Duncan. Uh, let me simplify this for you: I praised Jocketty for improving the middle of the Cincinnati defense. The middle. Catcher, SS, 2B, CF. Duncan is a corner outfielder. Corner. Away from the middle. Thanks. Reds have been terrible defensively for years and had to make changes. They did. They catch the ball now. Thanks. If you wanted to criticize something and actually be on target, you would look at how the Cardinals weakened their middle-infield defense this season; it was a plus in 2008. That would be legit. Not Duncan. Thanks. Better luck next time.

[Freed Roger]

Today I thought I was looking at yesterday's sports column.

TITLE
Cardinals know it's too soon to panic over losing streaks

Bernie Stl P-d column 5/18/2009

TITLE
For St. Louis Cardinals, it's not time to push panic button, yet

Burwell Stl P-d Column 5/19/2009

why?

[Popeye_Card]

What happens when this mysterious Panic Button is pressed? I think it's a given that Mo is officially put On Notice. Do flying monkeys come in and sweep struggling players away? Does Chris Duncan and PujolJunkie's cat team up to dry hump the Musial statue? I need to know some facts before I want this Panic Button pressed or not.