Thank you, Doc, for putting "WFCT" into the lexicon. Perfect way to frame the uneasy feeling of being clueless. Which, it seems, spans half of what I encounter each day. I simply must rewatch the movie.
How in the world are the mid majors going to come up with that kind of money and do we really want them to? Maybe time to go back to high school and Friars games. So disheartening 💔
I always though Chisholm Trail was a street in the Wyoming suburb. It was also the name of a little league field where we played our games when I was young. I bet the street is still there but the field is likely a housing subdivision now.
Speaking of overpaid managers, I recently read that the Cincinnati city manager received a large raise to over $300k and became the highest paid person in that position. Her previous highest level was as city administrator for North College Hill. Aftab replaced the previous city manager, who was highly respected and received a large severance. She quickly fired the highly respected fire chief, who also received a large severance and is suing the city. The new fire chief is now taking a personal leave for unstated reasons. This follows the firing of the recently hired school superintendent who also received a large severance. I would like to see how much the city has spent on severances, recruiting costs, signing bonuses, and relocation costs. Perhaps that money could have been used to pay for Chase's reworked contract.
She also filed for personal bankruptcy. Seems an odd background to get that job. But Aftab is open about his motives, so really it makes perfect sense.
Now he wants to raise the city income tax after promising no new taxes because of the railroad sale. I hope Cincinnati voters start noticing what their leaders are doing with taxpayer money.
I'm googling the opposing GM of every team Reds encounter, because I'm genuinely concerned that Reds may have the least qualified GM in the entire league. So far, I've yet to encounter a weaker resume than Nick Krall's two seasons interning in Oakland, where he was a bat boy, and 30+ years of miserable Reds baseball. Every other executive either comes from another professional baseball organization, or they've had proximity to incredible rosters during their tenure, meaning they had meaningful tutelage.
So Nick Krall may truly be the worst GM among 30, a fact that's impossible to shake whenever I hear him say anything. From this perspective, he's a giant kid cosplaying. And while thankfully he's avoided the whole coked-out stock broker vibe Joe Katuska's going for - oh that's the Reds' director of scouting, whose previous experience was blogging baseball - Krall's whole boring white guy with cool sneakers gimmick is equally triggering.
JFK, Hippies/Counterculture, Vietnam, Watergate, Lyme Disease, AIDS, War on drugs, WMDs/Iraq/Afghanistan, 9/11, Climate Change/Science, Clinton Foundation, Trump-Russian collusion (or hoax?), COVID, Biden-Burisma/Ukrainian Oil, Pills / Big Pharma, Russian/Ukrainian War, Gaza, Aliens, Trump Assassination attempt, emergence of Kamala Harris, who’s actually running the gov’t/been running the gov’t?...... I feel like I need to cue Billy Joel…
If you want to know why legacy media is dying, see all the above (and more). The legacy media lies to us ALL THE TIME and has for years. They give us a narrative, sprinkled with kernels of truth, but rarely the entire story. Legacy media have become effectively, an arm of our government, and our own government lies to us all the time. Again, don’t believe me? See above. If you look at any one of the issues above, not one person, of any political persuasion, can honestly say, “Yeah, we got to the bottom of that” or “There’s nothing more to that than what we already know.” This isn’t tinfoil hat stuff… These are real, big-time news stories where we have been lied to, been given incomplete information, been fed narratives that don’t add up, or just get ignored as if they didn’t happen or don’t exist. WFCT indeed…
So yeah, finding some independent reporter on X seems every bit as reasonable for someone to get their news as does watching some captured talking head on cable news with predetermined talking points. The explosion in the podcast world is no better proof of this. People are searching for truth because they’re simply not getting it from traditional media.
Yes, from ticks. Scientists claim the bacteria is 60k years old, but somehow nobody ever really got it until 1975 or so, and now there's 300k new cases/year. The chatter is that the disease "just so happens" to radiate out from Lyme, CT area, which is right next to the old Plum Island bio weapons lab, where it was known that ticks and bugs were experimentally injected with various things in the 1960s. It sounds very tinfoily as I type this, but there's not much I just categorically dismiss anymore, and the fact remains that Lyme Disease is something we really still don't understand that well. I honestly don't know what to think or believe.
What I know is that during growing season, I keep my dog out of grass or brush that borders woods or overgrown areas. She does her business in grass between paved areas. I'm not neurotic about anything other than ticks! Tom Seaver had lyme disease, which he picked up in CT.
There are only three major news networks that work under FCC licenses: ABC, NBC, and CBS. The fourth major network chose not to have an over-the-air news organization for obvious reasons. Everything on cable, conservative or liberal, is considered a private entity as they are essentially subscription based (though we usually don't get to choose the ones we want). It has become popular since Mr. Trump started this "fake news" business to attack those entities that have served this country pretty darn well since before WWII. Still, no one is doing a better, more consistent, and accurate job of fact-based reporting than the big three.
I guess I just don't hold the big three in such high esteem, particularly from the 1960s onward. It's not really political, and it pre-dates Trump or even the existence of cable "news". Anyone can find countless examples where even the big three "toed the company line" or were just outright knowingly misleading us on major news stories from Vietnam to WMDs to Covid, among so so many others. Good or bad, gone are the days where a young person simply believes something carte blanche just because he/she heard it on NBC News.
JL Hooker’s soulful voice will live on into the future. He must have intrinsically known that. Great piece!! I have 22 albums by Van, hadn’t ever heard that one before. Thanks!!
That’s Jane Chisholm money right EVERYWHERE now, Doc! Something’s gotta break!
To me it seems when speaking about ANYTHING MONEY - RELATED in sports these days it would be wise to remember we’re Mickey Rourke and the money is Jane Chisholm. I’m certain that’s how Mike Brown feels as he ponders the odyssey of money today in the NFL and the prospect of GUARANTEEING Ja’Marr Chase $100 million. Mike is 89 years old now, so he’s seen about 80 years of changes in football, but none more so than in contract negotiations. Thankfully, he is participating impressively during The Burrow Era because if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, and I want Mike to win the Bowl (not to mention Bengals fans) before he departs. This is a man who once had my banner “Change is Good” removed from Paul Brown Stadium’s facade shortly before a kickoff. The shocking thing is I’m starting to relate to him. Or at least in sports I want a lot less change. I no longer care for baseball and I hope it never happens to me and football. By the way, Doc, I just got done reading the sports section in the paper. You can still get the Enquirer delivered to your driveway if, like me, you want to hold on to the feeling as long as possible. You know. Before EVERYTHING becomes Jane Chisholm!
WHODEY ANYWAY! (another banner, but that one stayed up!) - 🐅🧒🏻
I wonder, too, Gary. But I’m proud of Mike for what he’s done in the Burrow Era. Mike has always been about redemption. He’s still in position to win the Bowl before he departs (even after that completely unexpected and unacceptable debacle Sunday!) and there’s nothing I’d rather see! WHODEY, Gary! Thanks for your take! - 🐅🧒🏻
I sure am glad that it's your job to absorb the latest chapters of our existential national satire and not mine. It's hard enough just reading the Cliff notes.
What Krall said about Bell had a distinct ring of " You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie" to it. As non answers go, I would have preferred, " We'll evaluate his performance after the season is over".
yeah..... I've had a lot of"WFCT Chisholm Trail moments in my life . A quote attributed to Satchel Paige "don't look back something could be gaining on you"
I am a Van Morrison fan I had never seen him smile before this video, great song
If you are looking for options other than the MSM narrative which is controlled by the big corporations and only give us the info that THEY want us to hear:
On a recent golf outing in the north Georgia woods, I was told the QB of last year’s 7A champs (Milton Eagles) makes twice the NFl minimum. Subsequent conversations confirmed this, so there’s that…
I’ve heard many stories. A projected first round draft pick and two time Natty Champ mailed in his senior year of HS so he didn’t get hurt, right when NIL started.
Understood, BW…this whopper has survived a fairly substantial ongoing credibility check…football has taken on an outsized role in our beautiful America and I’m trying not to be clueless…
I’m not surprised. There are plenty of college QB’s making well over 1m a year. Hell, U.C.’s Desmond Ridder was paid handsomely to come back for one more year and the rumored 250k he received was money well spent. He ended his last season with 30 passing TD’s, 6 running TD’s, just 8 interceptions, and a spot in the College Football Playoff.
Imagine what Ohio State is offering some of the best players in the country. That “payroll” has to be north of 20 million and possibly a lot more.
Solid work today, Doc. Really. The Chisholm Trail is exactly what college football is today. Imagine Ryan Day and his cadre of coaches trying to stage coach committed players from Texas through the vast badlands of the internet and social media and then have them arrive safely to the wild, wild Midwest of Ohio State. A few will be picked off along the way. A few will require Wells Fargo to wagon wheel emergency inducements. And some will be turned around halfway because their services were supplanted by a recent Buckeye robbery of their own.
WFCT? I don’t care. Yesterday I looked at the schedules of the Big10 and SEC and this season could be the most entertaining and competitive season in the history of college football.
I just now got a chance to read this, missed it yesterday. Awesome, awesome post!
Thank you, Doc, for putting "WFCT" into the lexicon. Perfect way to frame the uneasy feeling of being clueless. Which, it seems, spans half of what I encounter each day. I simply must rewatch the movie.
Here’s another sign that the apocalypse is upon us….
🤦🏼♂️😂
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40929681/oklahoma-state-wear-qr-codes-linked-nil-fund-helmets
How in the world are the mid majors going to come up with that kind of money and do we really want them to? Maybe time to go back to high school and Friars games. So disheartening 💔
I always though Chisholm Trail was a street in the Wyoming suburb. It was also the name of a little league field where we played our games when I was young. I bet the street is still there but the field is likely a housing subdivision now.
Speaking of overpaid managers, I recently read that the Cincinnati city manager received a large raise to over $300k and became the highest paid person in that position. Her previous highest level was as city administrator for North College Hill. Aftab replaced the previous city manager, who was highly respected and received a large severance. She quickly fired the highly respected fire chief, who also received a large severance and is suing the city. The new fire chief is now taking a personal leave for unstated reasons. This follows the firing of the recently hired school superintendent who also received a large severance. I would like to see how much the city has spent on severances, recruiting costs, signing bonuses, and relocation costs. Perhaps that money could have been used to pay for Chase's reworked contract.
She also filed for personal bankruptcy. Seems an odd background to get that job. But Aftab is open about his motives, so really it makes perfect sense.
Now he wants to raise the city income tax after promising no new taxes because of the railroad sale. I hope Cincinnati voters start noticing what their leaders are doing with taxpayer money.
I'm googling the opposing GM of every team Reds encounter, because I'm genuinely concerned that Reds may have the least qualified GM in the entire league. So far, I've yet to encounter a weaker resume than Nick Krall's two seasons interning in Oakland, where he was a bat boy, and 30+ years of miserable Reds baseball. Every other executive either comes from another professional baseball organization, or they've had proximity to incredible rosters during their tenure, meaning they had meaningful tutelage.
So Nick Krall may truly be the worst GM among 30, a fact that's impossible to shake whenever I hear him say anything. From this perspective, he's a giant kid cosplaying. And while thankfully he's avoided the whole coked-out stock broker vibe Joe Katuska's going for - oh that's the Reds' director of scouting, whose previous experience was blogging baseball - Krall's whole boring white guy with cool sneakers gimmick is equally triggering.
Haha. It’s very Cincinnati, hire people you know, keep the status quo. David Bell comes to mind.
JFK, Hippies/Counterculture, Vietnam, Watergate, Lyme Disease, AIDS, War on drugs, WMDs/Iraq/Afghanistan, 9/11, Climate Change/Science, Clinton Foundation, Trump-Russian collusion (or hoax?), COVID, Biden-Burisma/Ukrainian Oil, Pills / Big Pharma, Russian/Ukrainian War, Gaza, Aliens, Trump Assassination attempt, emergence of Kamala Harris, who’s actually running the gov’t/been running the gov’t?...... I feel like I need to cue Billy Joel…
If you want to know why legacy media is dying, see all the above (and more). The legacy media lies to us ALL THE TIME and has for years. They give us a narrative, sprinkled with kernels of truth, but rarely the entire story. Legacy media have become effectively, an arm of our government, and our own government lies to us all the time. Again, don’t believe me? See above. If you look at any one of the issues above, not one person, of any political persuasion, can honestly say, “Yeah, we got to the bottom of that” or “There’s nothing more to that than what we already know.” This isn’t tinfoil hat stuff… These are real, big-time news stories where we have been lied to, been given incomplete information, been fed narratives that don’t add up, or just get ignored as if they didn’t happen or don’t exist. WFCT indeed…
So yeah, finding some independent reporter on X seems every bit as reasonable for someone to get their news as does watching some captured talking head on cable news with predetermined talking points. The explosion in the podcast world is no better proof of this. People are searching for truth because they’re simply not getting it from traditional media.
Lyme Disease? Not from ticks?
Yes, from ticks. Scientists claim the bacteria is 60k years old, but somehow nobody ever really got it until 1975 or so, and now there's 300k new cases/year. The chatter is that the disease "just so happens" to radiate out from Lyme, CT area, which is right next to the old Plum Island bio weapons lab, where it was known that ticks and bugs were experimentally injected with various things in the 1960s. It sounds very tinfoily as I type this, but there's not much I just categorically dismiss anymore, and the fact remains that Lyme Disease is something we really still don't understand that well. I honestly don't know what to think or believe.
What I know is that during growing season, I keep my dog out of grass or brush that borders woods or overgrown areas. She does her business in grass between paved areas. I'm not neurotic about anything other than ticks! Tom Seaver had lyme disease, which he picked up in CT.
There are only three major news networks that work under FCC licenses: ABC, NBC, and CBS. The fourth major network chose not to have an over-the-air news organization for obvious reasons. Everything on cable, conservative or liberal, is considered a private entity as they are essentially subscription based (though we usually don't get to choose the ones we want). It has become popular since Mr. Trump started this "fake news" business to attack those entities that have served this country pretty darn well since before WWII. Still, no one is doing a better, more consistent, and accurate job of fact-based reporting than the big three.
Yep, real accurate was the “Big 3’s” fact-based reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story from 4 years ago.
They buried that story and got every liberal…talk show host, social media influencer and blowhard celebrity, to parrot their “truth.”
Should we even bring up the “fine people on both sides” type coverage?
I’d trust a Mad Magazine like source before any of the Big 3s definition of the truth.
I guess I just don't hold the big three in such high esteem, particularly from the 1960s onward. It's not really political, and it pre-dates Trump or even the existence of cable "news". Anyone can find countless examples where even the big three "toed the company line" or were just outright knowingly misleading us on major news stories from Vietnam to WMDs to Covid, among so so many others. Good or bad, gone are the days where a young person simply believes something carte blanche just because he/she heard it on NBC News.
JL Hooker’s soulful voice will live on into the future. He must have intrinsically known that. Great piece!! I have 22 albums by Van, hadn’t ever heard that one before. Thanks!!
That’s Jane Chisholm money right EVERYWHERE now, Doc! Something’s gotta break!
To me it seems when speaking about ANYTHING MONEY - RELATED in sports these days it would be wise to remember we’re Mickey Rourke and the money is Jane Chisholm. I’m certain that’s how Mike Brown feels as he ponders the odyssey of money today in the NFL and the prospect of GUARANTEEING Ja’Marr Chase $100 million. Mike is 89 years old now, so he’s seen about 80 years of changes in football, but none more so than in contract negotiations. Thankfully, he is participating impressively during The Burrow Era because if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, and I want Mike to win the Bowl (not to mention Bengals fans) before he departs. This is a man who once had my banner “Change is Good” removed from Paul Brown Stadium’s facade shortly before a kickoff. The shocking thing is I’m starting to relate to him. Or at least in sports I want a lot less change. I no longer care for baseball and I hope it never happens to me and football. By the way, Doc, I just got done reading the sports section in the paper. You can still get the Enquirer delivered to your driveway if, like me, you want to hold on to the feeling as long as possible. You know. Before EVERYTHING becomes Jane Chisholm!
WHODEY ANYWAY! (another banner, but that one stayed up!) - 🐅🧒🏻
I like your optimism about MB, Jeff, but I’m always wondering about what his father would say about what’s happened…WHODEY indeed!…
I wonder, too, Gary. But I’m proud of Mike for what he’s done in the Burrow Era. Mike has always been about redemption. He’s still in position to win the Bowl before he departs (even after that completely unexpected and unacceptable debacle Sunday!) and there’s nothing I’d rather see! WHODEY, Gary! Thanks for your take! - 🐅🧒🏻
I sure am glad that it's your job to absorb the latest chapters of our existential national satire and not mine. It's hard enough just reading the Cliff notes.
What Krall said about Bell had a distinct ring of " You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie" to it. As non answers go, I would have preferred, " We'll evaluate his performance after the season is over".
yeah..... I've had a lot of"WFCT Chisholm Trail moments in my life . A quote attributed to Satchel Paige "don't look back something could be gaining on you"
I am a Van Morrison fan I had never seen him smile before this video, great song
Now you and I know that but I’ll wager that most of the viewers of Fox don’t …
If you are looking for options other than the MSM narrative which is controlled by the big corporations and only give us the info that THEY want us to hear:
Substack
The Free Press
LIberal Patriot
Axios
1440
Michael Schellenberger
Peter Bogosian
Oren Cass
Keith Olberman podcast LOL!
On a recent golf outing in the north Georgia woods, I was told the QB of last year’s 7A champs (Milton Eagles) makes twice the NFl minimum. Subsequent conversations confirmed this, so there’s that…
I’ve heard many stories. A projected first round draft pick and two time Natty Champ mailed in his senior year of HS so he didn’t get hurt, right when NIL started.
Understood, BW…this whopper has survived a fairly substantial ongoing credibility check…football has taken on an outsized role in our beautiful America and I’m trying not to be clueless…
I’m not surprised. There are plenty of college QB’s making well over 1m a year. Hell, U.C.’s Desmond Ridder was paid handsomely to come back for one more year and the rumored 250k he received was money well spent. He ended his last season with 30 passing TD’s, 6 running TD’s, just 8 interceptions, and a spot in the College Football Playoff.
Imagine what Ohio State is offering some of the best players in the country. That “payroll” has to be north of 20 million and possibly a lot more.
Don't look back, something might be gaining on you ... satchel paige
Solid work today, Doc. Really. The Chisholm Trail is exactly what college football is today. Imagine Ryan Day and his cadre of coaches trying to stage coach committed players from Texas through the vast badlands of the internet and social media and then have them arrive safely to the wild, wild Midwest of Ohio State. A few will be picked off along the way. A few will require Wells Fargo to wagon wheel emergency inducements. And some will be turned around halfway because their services were supplanted by a recent Buckeye robbery of their own.
WFCT? I don’t care. Yesterday I looked at the schedules of the Big10 and SEC and this season could be the most entertaining and competitive season in the history of college football.