Extended circlejerk over how much money Jerry Jones has. Captivating.

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"You'd never believe it, but sometimes you get a room full of really smart people -- lawyers, businessmen -- and it becomes a circlejerk."

No, Dan, I think I do!

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I cracked up at that. Dan's in disbelief that Very Smart People didn't make better decisions. He never ceases to amaze me.

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-- source

Dan is a bright, clever guy. He'd be so much more valuable as a counterpoint to the establishment than as their mouthpiece. Oh well, goalie pads don't buy themselves, I suppose.

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Not the worst point ever made.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

And that's also how he began his career and rose to prominence at the station in the first place. He didn't become a stenographer to power until CBS acquired the Score and the public airways fell under oligarchic rule.

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Ive only been a casual listener for a number of years, but the next clever thing he does/says will be the first


That article on a Panic Sale. Thats him being clever

I wish this current version of Dan could go back in time 3 months and call his own show. He would be shouted down as an idiot.

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Yes; at one time he wasn't a boorish (irony?) listen. The show was first and foremost about being entertaining in a sports-related way. It was come in, yammer, go home. Now it wouldn't be hard to imagine 20 minutes ceremonial pomp and circumstance from the moment he arrives on the premises until he's lowered by 4 interns to hold court at his private microphone to disseminate the day's points for the masses to accept with quiet admiration ... with the rare segment of dick jokes once every two weeks reminding the idiot few how things used to be. Whether the greater blame falls on the corporate absorption or the hosts' heads is mostly irrelevant ... they all crawled in bed together and this near-abortion on the air 5 hours a day is that which was begotten.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

They are making the same point about Tucker that I've tried to make: no well coached, professionally managed defense is going to perform as bad as the Bears did last year, even with the injuries and age. The ceiling for that kind of unit as constructed last year should be somewhere between 17-22 in total defense if they know what they're doing.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

seems like Dan really wants to defend Ferry.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

Yeah, I kind of picked up on that too. I don't understand why; of all the principals in this story, Ferry and his comparison of Luol Deng to an unscrupulous African merchant is easily the meanest (and strangest).

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Yea, where the hell does that comparison even come from? That's just weird.

Also puzzing was the line "he's got a little African in him." I don't think anyone's had more African in him since Dikembe Mutumbo.

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What's being attributed to Ferry is really something he read from a scouting report. Still raises a lot of questions, though.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

I guess he can't proofread what he is going to say? That was just strange and as CH said he is full African. It also doesn't fit Deng in the slightest.

The yahoo report raises questions on that detail. It suggests Ferry may be lying, but doesn't directly say that.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Look ... I'm sorry ... but ... I laughed a little.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I think the phrase "a little African" was being used colloquially and he was trying to say something along the lines of 'there's more to him than meets the eye' in an Italian gangster kind of way. Like, he seems nice and polite, but will cut your heart out. Still, an odd choice.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

Duke connection?

Unacceptable! I've been in numerous meetings where inappropriate things have been said, maliciously and incidentally, it doesn't mean that as an executive you repeat what someone else said as though it is your opinion. Ferry doesn't have a "little" but a lot of racist, idiot dumbass in him.

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DRINK BƎTTƎR. @theRIPH

Maybe Danny Ferry has shopped on Howard Street.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Understand. I'm just clarifying things here.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

Anyone else other than me find it odd how excited he gets about legalese and people getting fired and making quick determinations in things like the Goodell case? I wonder why he never became some sort of political reporter doing real stuff or a CNN guy.

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Elections have consequences.

Roll Tide!

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Roll tide

We had one caller wander in from the Paul Finebaum show and then the caller before him calling from a parallel universe where the guys were discussing Urban Meyer. The Score needs to repair the electric fence that keeps college football fans out.

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I want every caller to start doing random college chants. It makes Dan so mad.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

That was great. Dan and Terry were just confused, and dude got all pissed. But he didn't hang up and just put the phone down, so you heard background noise from whatever radio station he was tuned to.

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"Uh, hey, hi guys, love the show, I was just wondering if the Bears can improve their mesh point recognition without sacrificing what Matt Bowen called a triple-look deep swing setup. War Eagle."

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