I used certain strong descriptive words for you because they're a perfect fit.
I consider asking a woman for her opinion on anything a strength, not a weakness. As for your implication that makes me less a man, all I can say is that's ridiculous. Clearly you haven't heard that the times of seeing women as inferior and nothing more than a man's property are long gone.
Doc, your point on Zac losing to the Dolphins to get Burrow is a good one but also important to his Culture build was that he didn't lay down in that game. Down big in the 4th (and everyone watching and expecting them to fold for Burrow), they gritted back to a tie for OT (fortunately the Dolphins obliged with a victory). But not laying down certainly said something to the players on the roster and more importantly those that would ultimately join the roster over the next 2 years. As Marvin would say, "laying the bricks"...
I think Taylor has done a great job with culture. He proved that when he started handing out playoff win game balls to local bars. How cool is that?
I agree on the economy. Stock market is at an all time high, inflation is pretty normal, unemployment is low, wages are growing, and despite Trump's drill, drill, drill, I have news for him. We are now producing the most oil we ever have. He'd also be shocked to know that over the past 10 years, the single month lowest gas prices occurred under Obama, February 2016. But the Republicans want you to think the economy sucks.
As for the parlay, that's gambling for ya! That's why I don't do it. I hate lose more than I enjoy winning. The feeling of losing lasts much longer. Ask Cris Collinsworth.
Marvin deserves a lot of credit for turning this franchise around. I think they kept him around a little too long. He also gave too many questionable people too many chances like Pac Man and Burfict .
We no longer call these events, 100 year storms...it's more like weekly. I've been on this earth a lot longer than you, I'm betting, but not telling. I didn't just fall off the truck. I believe in scientific facts. Al Gore was pretty right on, actually. Read the facts.
In an effort to be true to what I criticize about Doc, I will give Biden some credit that is near and dear to my heart and what I despised about the GOP in the 80’s and 90’s: domestic jobs.
The Inflation Reduction Act, while full of pork, requires that vehicles, batteries, microchips, and solar panels to be manufactured domestically in order to qualify for tax credits. And they need subsidies to attain cost parity.
My hometown was decimated by outsourcing to China and Mexico and is a shell of itself now. I hated that about the capitalists.
Ironically (because of lower costs to operate) many red states are getting new investment in all of these manufacturing facilities even though EVs are a low adoption buy for most of their citizens. Charging infrastructure will help that along.
The guy who owns three dwellings, vacations wherever he wants, buys custom golf clubs, and works at a golf course, not for money to buy groceries but to play free golf, says the economy is great. You don’t see that disconnect? From your perch, and most of the squawking perches here today, the economy is fine. Plenty of people are living check to check and plenty more people are drowning in debt. Housing prices will cave. People will lose their homes. People who enjoyed a great economy will buy those homes at a 30% discount and rent them back to people that lost their homes.
I KNOW!!!! My point exactly!!!! (I don't like your left wing leanings either. But I don't care. To each his own. I am not gonna like you less, or quit reading. Keep up the good work!!)
Zac first. Totally agree. Everything flows from the top. Now, if he'd stop having non QB's trying to be QB's I'd be even more enthusiastic about him, but I'm all in, regardless.
Boy, mention anything even slightly negative against the (so-called) republican party and they come out of the woodwork with sharpened knives. (The fact that Hunter Biden is the focus is ridiculous). Doesn't matter who the president is, he's not the only factor, by a long shot. Ignoring outside factors, as in ALL of them, is naive. It's a small world and growing smaller. So many of the points made here are slanted to fit the commenter's perspective only. Closed minds to the other side.
I'm a registered Democrat, but only so I can vote in the democratic primary. I'm lukewarm at best. If the Red team could ever come up with an actual republican, I'd very well vote for them. I have on occasion. The problem is, they chase them off as soon as they appear. The only thing I know is that if the current Red favorite is gerrymandered and voter-restricted back in, all heck will break loose. Again.
From this brilliant economic analysis, and using the measures stated here, one can only conclude Doc surely must've loved the Trump era. Every single measure was better then. There were way more restaurants open, and they were even fuller! Unemployment was even lower, especially in the minority ranks. Inflation was even lower. Wow, what a great President!
Dec 19, 2023·edited Dec 19, 2023Liked by Paul Daugherty
Anytime a big change is instituted by government, there is pain felt by society. The old ways are comfortable and hard to let go of. The new ways feel odd and out of sorts. There are bugs and growing pains, especially at first.
I continue to applaud Biden's push to move us from oil into a new era of renewable energy sources, even as he knew he would bear the brunt of tremendous criticism and resistance. It's a change that is necessary and unavoidable, despite many, many doubters, and it's taken both courage and guts on his part to push it and push it hard. Witness how the ignorant media treated a previous president who pushed this same agenda. He was vilified for being a visionary by a short sighted, self interested congress, much like today's GOP side of the aisle. He ended up becoming known as the most decent, kind, and generous ex-president in modern times, because at heart he was a smart and good man who dared to challenge the nastiest, most vicious corporate powers in America-The Big Three- in the 70s. His name was Jimmy Carter, and we would probably not have had to fight our horrible oil wars in the Middle East if we had followed his energy policies then instead of laughing at him and continuing to burn oil like drunks downing Wild Turkey for the last 45 years. Much money and many lives would have been saved. Visionaries are often the last people to get their due, and sadly, it is often post-humous.
Yes, we are feeling the pain of the transition. It takes time to get all the needed new technology in place. When cars getting 25mpg were mandated along with unleaded gas in the 70s, that took time and growing pains, too. Wind energy equipment is rapidly being developed on a smaller, more efficient scale for urban landscapes. Charging stations for electric cars are springing up as quickly as they can be built. People screaming the sky is falling because not everything is perfect during a transition are wasting other's time. Again, it took courage and guts on Biden's part to push us away from oil, and we will bear the costs on the front end, but on the back end we will have a stronger, more independent country, and the value of that is immeasurable.
Didn't know Matt Patricia was with the Eagles 'til I saw him on my teevee last night, at which point I should have downloaded DraftKings and put dinner money on the 'Hawks
Holy Cow!!!! Zac;s Culture Club to a royal right wing vs left wing argument/banter. OG will choose not to dive in. C'mon folks. Can't we all get along? Please Doc, stick to sports. If only for one day tomorrow. Thanks in advance. It's Christmas season people. for cripes sake. Put down the swords!!
Well this column aged well. How can a guy, who made his living covering sports, have been so wrong?
Nice work, SchlepDoc!
I used certain strong descriptive words for you because they're a perfect fit.
I consider asking a woman for her opinion on anything a strength, not a weakness. As for your implication that makes me less a man, all I can say is that's ridiculous. Clearly you haven't heard that the times of seeing women as inferior and nothing more than a man's property are long gone.
Doc, your point on Zac losing to the Dolphins to get Burrow is a good one but also important to his Culture build was that he didn't lay down in that game. Down big in the 4th (and everyone watching and expecting them to fold for Burrow), they gritted back to a tie for OT (fortunately the Dolphins obliged with a victory). But not laying down certainly said something to the players on the roster and more importantly those that would ultimately join the roster over the next 2 years. As Marvin would say, "laying the bricks"...
I think Taylor has done a great job with culture. He proved that when he started handing out playoff win game balls to local bars. How cool is that?
I agree on the economy. Stock market is at an all time high, inflation is pretty normal, unemployment is low, wages are growing, and despite Trump's drill, drill, drill, I have news for him. We are now producing the most oil we ever have. He'd also be shocked to know that over the past 10 years, the single month lowest gas prices occurred under Obama, February 2016. But the Republicans want you to think the economy sucks.
As for the parlay, that's gambling for ya! That's why I don't do it. I hate lose more than I enjoy winning. The feeling of losing lasts much longer. Ask Cris Collinsworth.
Marvin deserves a lot of credit for turning this franchise around. I think they kept him around a little too long. He also gave too many questionable people too many chances like Pac Man and Burfict .
We no longer call these events, 100 year storms...it's more like weekly. I've been on this earth a lot longer than you, I'm betting, but not telling. I didn't just fall off the truck. I believe in scientific facts. Al Gore was pretty right on, actually. Read the facts.
In an effort to be true to what I criticize about Doc, I will give Biden some credit that is near and dear to my heart and what I despised about the GOP in the 80’s and 90’s: domestic jobs.
The Inflation Reduction Act, while full of pork, requires that vehicles, batteries, microchips, and solar panels to be manufactured domestically in order to qualify for tax credits. And they need subsidies to attain cost parity.
My hometown was decimated by outsourcing to China and Mexico and is a shell of itself now. I hated that about the capitalists.
Ironically (because of lower costs to operate) many red states are getting new investment in all of these manufacturing facilities even though EVs are a low adoption buy for most of their citizens. Charging infrastructure will help that along.
There.
Browning said today that the Vikings game was a revenge game for him. Jake, make Pittsburg a revenge game this week too, okay?
I hope the Men go into Pitt with a chip on their shoulder and with attitude. I hope they win by 70!! One game at a time... one play at a time!!
I lost my bet too doc, by 2yrds. Ugh
The guy who owns three dwellings, vacations wherever he wants, buys custom golf clubs, and works at a golf course, not for money to buy groceries but to play free golf, says the economy is great. You don’t see that disconnect? From your perch, and most of the squawking perches here today, the economy is fine. Plenty of people are living check to check and plenty more people are drowning in debt. Housing prices will cave. People will lose their homes. People who enjoyed a great economy will buy those homes at a 30% discount and rent them back to people that lost their homes.
Rising tides, right? Wrong. So wrong.
I KNOW!!!! My point exactly!!!! (I don't like your left wing leanings either. But I don't care. To each his own. I am not gonna like you less, or quit reading. Keep up the good work!!)
Zac first. Totally agree. Everything flows from the top. Now, if he'd stop having non QB's trying to be QB's I'd be even more enthusiastic about him, but I'm all in, regardless.
Boy, mention anything even slightly negative against the (so-called) republican party and they come out of the woodwork with sharpened knives. (The fact that Hunter Biden is the focus is ridiculous). Doesn't matter who the president is, he's not the only factor, by a long shot. Ignoring outside factors, as in ALL of them, is naive. It's a small world and growing smaller. So many of the points made here are slanted to fit the commenter's perspective only. Closed minds to the other side.
I'm a registered Democrat, but only so I can vote in the democratic primary. I'm lukewarm at best. If the Red team could ever come up with an actual republican, I'd very well vote for them. I have on occasion. The problem is, they chase them off as soon as they appear. The only thing I know is that if the current Red favorite is gerrymandered and voter-restricted back in, all heck will break loose. Again.
From this brilliant economic analysis, and using the measures stated here, one can only conclude Doc surely must've loved the Trump era. Every single measure was better then. There were way more restaurants open, and they were even fuller! Unemployment was even lower, especially in the minority ranks. Inflation was even lower. Wow, what a great President!
Anytime a big change is instituted by government, there is pain felt by society. The old ways are comfortable and hard to let go of. The new ways feel odd and out of sorts. There are bugs and growing pains, especially at first.
I continue to applaud Biden's push to move us from oil into a new era of renewable energy sources, even as he knew he would bear the brunt of tremendous criticism and resistance. It's a change that is necessary and unavoidable, despite many, many doubters, and it's taken both courage and guts on his part to push it and push it hard. Witness how the ignorant media treated a previous president who pushed this same agenda. He was vilified for being a visionary by a short sighted, self interested congress, much like today's GOP side of the aisle. He ended up becoming known as the most decent, kind, and generous ex-president in modern times, because at heart he was a smart and good man who dared to challenge the nastiest, most vicious corporate powers in America-The Big Three- in the 70s. His name was Jimmy Carter, and we would probably not have had to fight our horrible oil wars in the Middle East if we had followed his energy policies then instead of laughing at him and continuing to burn oil like drunks downing Wild Turkey for the last 45 years. Much money and many lives would have been saved. Visionaries are often the last people to get their due, and sadly, it is often post-humous.
Yes, we are feeling the pain of the transition. It takes time to get all the needed new technology in place. When cars getting 25mpg were mandated along with unleaded gas in the 70s, that took time and growing pains, too. Wind energy equipment is rapidly being developed on a smaller, more efficient scale for urban landscapes. Charging stations for electric cars are springing up as quickly as they can be built. People screaming the sky is falling because not everything is perfect during a transition are wasting other's time. Again, it took courage and guts on Biden's part to push us away from oil, and we will bear the costs on the front end, but on the back end we will have a stronger, more independent country, and the value of that is immeasurable.
Didn't know Matt Patricia was with the Eagles 'til I saw him on my teevee last night, at which point I should have downloaded DraftKings and put dinner money on the 'Hawks
Holy Cow!!!! Zac;s Culture Club to a royal right wing vs left wing argument/banter. OG will choose not to dive in. C'mon folks. Can't we all get along? Please Doc, stick to sports. If only for one day tomorrow. Thanks in advance. It's Christmas season people. for cripes sake. Put down the swords!!
"Captain & the Kid"...interesting tune. Never heard it before, unless it was when I was at Margaritaville when I was on my third Margarita...