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I don’t think I would be suffering with Stan Musial (.331 BA, .417 OBP, .559 SA, 159 OPS+, more than 1,900 runs and 1,900 RBIs) as my left fielder. My clubhouse would be a lot calmer place.

Of course if I could have any left fielder who ever played I’d take Rickey over either of them, because Rickey could do a s**t load more things than Barry Bonds to beat you, plus he was not a turd, he was just a space cadet.

I’d have jumped at that deal if those numbers are correct and I were in her shoes.

I haven’t seen this from CBS mentioned:

Alabama is adding to its defensive staff, hiring Trent Simpson from Oklahoma as an assistant defensive line coach.

Simpson spent the last four seasons at Oklahoma, including three as a defensive analyst.

He will work under defensive line coach Freddie Roach and defensive coordinator Kane Wommack, helping develop Alabama’s defensive front during spring practice.

Under normal circumstances I would agree with you 10,000% but because of who this person is, the credibility she would have with the university and where she has won those games, I would not raise a fuss if she got an interview. And honestly I’m not sure she would say yes to an offer.

Yes, had a brain aneurysm or something. She was an absolutely fantastic recruiter.

I covered Bama women’s basketball fairly regularly during the Moody days when we were contenders for the big trophy. That went away once Dottie Kelso’s recruits cycled through the program. That’s why Moody won. He couldn’t maintain that level of roster without her.

I go back deeper than the guys you mentioned, I have a huge collection of old radio news broadcasts that date back to the 1930s including the entire 24 hours of D-Day on CBS and NBC and the entire broadcast day on ABC, CBS and NBC on the day JFK was shot.

The reporting on those broadcasts is incredible and would stand up today because it was straight reporting, telling people what happened and no more. A broadcast from a pool reporter who was embedded with our troops before D-Day, actually was in the room when the men were told “It’s going down” and then went on a flight that actually dropped paratroopers on D-Day may be the single greatest news report of any type I have encountered in my life.

But nobody does that kind of actual reporting anymore, not in newspapers where I spent nearly 50 years in the trade (it’s not a profession), not on TV and certainly not on terrestrial radio which IMO is dying.

This is what it is …

Two pounds? He trying to channel Peter Tosh or something?

I’m not going to downvote you. I think he’s got to be done for this year but you’ve certainly got to give him a chance to learn from this and come back even though this wasn’t a guy with a few baggies of s**t. He had a pound. This is not much ado about nothing. He doesn’t learn from this and doesn’t take advantage of the chance? Then you cut him loose.

Again, I will be right there waving the banner with you to legalize it and tax it, but right now, on March 16, 2026, it isn’t legal although most cops don’t waste time with it anymore. But if you have a pound of it, you’ve got a problem.