Can It Get Any Worse in Detroit?

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4 responses to “Can It Get Any Worse in Detroit?”

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   Dreamweapon

   January 3, 2009

   Haha, I already posted this glorious nugget yesterday in a message board response to a moronic article by Slate’s Rob Weintraub suggesting the Lions go could go from 0-16 to the playoffs in a current season. It’s already been confirmed by other witnesses who saw the conference firsthand. Then some joker posted that the Lions also got an easy schedule next year in that they were awarded games against the last-place teams in the other NFC divisions, Washington, New Orleans and St. Louis. I responded that if we could agree to an escrow, I would bet him any amount of money he wanted that Detroit would not beat the Skins or Saints. He declined to reply.

   This is a team with one playoff victory since Eisenhower was President. Think of all that has happened in the world since the last time Detroit managed to consistently field a quality team. Global superpowers have collapsed. Entire ideologies, together with their replacements, have been discredited and discarded by whole civilizations. We went to the moon, fought wars on four separate continents, invented the internet, even made it out of group play in a World Cup. Hahaha.

   C’mon, these are the Fords, baby. The same people that gave Matt Millen a five-year contract extension long before his initial contract was even up. Awarded, presumably, for his incredible feats of incompetence and in the absence of a complete disinterest in his services by any competitors. Even after at least _three years_ of organized fan protests, Ford’s own boy had to pop off to the media before they finally let the guy go. And to think, their company is the best off of the Big Three. God I would love to see what GM could do with the Bengals, or Chrysler with the Cards.

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   RotoScoop

   January 3, 2009

   Dreamweapon – I’d love to read this post. Also, I like how people assume this year’s last place teams will be equally as bad next year, in such a reshuffle league.

   Only the organizations with the truly inept people running the show can be counted on to suck continually. I.E. the Lions.

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   randy

   January 5, 2009

   hi any thoughts yet on sleepers and busts for 2009 baseball, some thoughts i have is johnny cueto is a big sleeper and joba chamberlain i think will end up in setup role and wont be worth near as much, manny para is another one which could move up big, so what do you think of these and what are your thoughts——-thanks

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   RotoScoop

   January 5, 2009

   Randy – I do plan on writing more baseball stuff now that football is winding down. I like Cueto as a sleeper – his price tag should be way down too. His stuff is legit.

   Love Joba – but he’s both an injury risk, and as you mention, a risk to be moved into a setup role. He could be huge tho if things break right. I wouldn’t label him a “bust.”

   I like Parra as well. He needs to curtail the walks, but he def. could bust out.

   Max Scherzer and Elijah Dukes are two guys I’d target as sleepers.