January 15, 2010 by admin.

Since I now live in your district, I can’t wait until you are termed out of office. I will throw the biggest party in the SOMA to celebrate that monumental day in San Francisco history. All you have managed to do in your disastrous career is hamper development with your insane fees. In closing and to use the language that you love to use at every City meeting…Go fuck yourself Chris Daly you piece of shit asshole.

JM

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January 3, 2009 by Das.

Disclaimer: Feel free to completely disregard this blog post if you are anti-[american]football. 49ers fans go ahead and sip that ginger ale and/or Pepto Bismol.

Today, I got my first rss feed text update on the new device and it featured the story about 49ers new head coach, Mike Singletary, and how he fired Offensive Coordinator, Mike Martz. Now according to everyone i’ve talked to or spoken about this headline, as well as everyone i’ve read, or listened to, I am the only one who feels like this is a grave mistake. I was at the final game vs. the Washington Redskins, and I must say that the win we earned left me with a really good taste in my mouth. The cherry on top being the extension of Coach Singletary’s contract as Head Coach. But for the sake of getting it off my chest, I need to express the reasons I think we are now further away from making the playoffs in the near future, and why losing Martz will have an adverse affect.

1) Losing Martz means we will have to hire a 5th offensive coordinator in as many years.

2) *Passing Offense: 2008 - 13rd (Martz), 2007 - 32nd, 2006 - 25th (Turner), 2005 - 32nd. We were finally able to sustain long drives, instead of going 3 and out. He was under contract for 2 yrs. A 2nd year under Martz’ system would have benefited every quarterback, Total Offensive Rank, and every player on the offense.

3) Coach Singletary’s explanation was that the team wanted to head in a different direction offensively. Which direction is that? Because we went from 32nd to 13th in passing, and 32nd to 23rd in Total Offense. Are we aiming to go from 13th back to 32nd? Because that’s what happened to the last teams Martz coached. For ex. Rams went from Rank#2,3,5,4,6 under Martz, to 24th without. Detroit Lions went from 23rd & 26th w/out Martz, to 7th & 9th w/ Martz, then back to 24th w/out Martz.

4) The only offensive coordinator who has the potential to even hang with Martz is Al Saunders. He’s the only option I believe in, but I don’t think he’ll even be interviewed for the job. Holmgren is not gonna take an assistant coach job after previously holding a GM & Head Coach position. If seducing Mike Shanahan by singing this Player tune, then i’d grow a mullet and grab a mic in a second. However, it’s just not gonna happen. He is an elite head coach.

5) Shaun Hill is not the answer. I said this last year, but believing Shaun is the long-term answer, or has the potential to be an elite QB, and savior of the franchise, you’ve truly lost your mind. If you seriously think about it, who is better, Mark Grieb or Shaun Hill? Hill’s wins came against imploding opponents who were missing several key weapons. Here are two videos for your comparative enjoyment:

Mark Grieb - QB San Jose Sabercats vs. Shaun Hill - QB SF 49ers

The sad thing here is that you can fit all of Shaun Hill’s highlights by splitting half the 2:00 video with Alex Smith highlights. I will admit, I am a tad bitter for the reason that I started Shaun Hill in two fantasy football championship games this year. (Of course, I lost BOTH of them. He was playing the Rams for pete’s sake, and I had Favre as my other QB. My #1 QB got hurt.)

I seriously hope they have a plan that is well thought out. We demand success. After all, Al Davis doesn’t make our decisions. We aren’t the weak @ss Raiders.

2009 Wishes:
Wash our hands of Vernon Davis for Adrian Wilson from the Cardinals and/or Anquan Boldin?
Pick Michael Johnson - 6′7″ Georgia Tech DE (imagine a faster muscular Mario Williams)
Pick Taylor Mays - USC FS (imagine a bigger Ronnie Lott w/ 4.3 40yd dash speed, or imagine Ed Reed with size) in next April’s draft

2010 Wishes:
WR Julio Jones (He will be a top-3 draft selection, and we will likely have a top-3 pick.)
WR Malcom Williams

-Frantic 49er

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October 18, 2008 by admin.

How about a little Bubble Cam action before we get into the news…

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I read an interesting article from Tim Kawakami, the Warriors beat writer from the San Jose Mercury. It’s about the back office tension that’s brewing between Warriors G.M. Chris Mullin and Warriors President Robert Rowell. I mean first Baron leaves, then Thunder and now maybe Mullin’s time here is limited. This might be the worst off-season the Dubs have had in years. That would be unfortunate because alot of the rookies on the roster look very promising. Chris Cohan needs to grow some balls and show Rowell the door. I know he may feel some sort of allegiance to him since it was Rowell who got Bay Area butts into the arena to watch some of the worst Warrior teams ever assembled over the past 10 years. But now the fan base is strong and the team has won back, at least for now, some credibility. Now is the time to let Rowell go and do his magic with a team who can use him like the Grizzlies, Hawks or Bobcats. Cohan needs to find his gonads, support Mullin and make the Dubs a place where a FREE AGENT ALL-STAR would want to come to. I mean come on…is it that bad here that Arenas and Brand turned down contract offers from the Warriors that were worth millions more than what they ended up settling for.

BATTLE LINES DRAWN IN WARRIORS FRONT OFFICE
By Tim Kawakami

Chris Mullin vs. Robert Rowell doesn’t seem like a fair wrestling match, I know.

Mullin: Popular and credible to large swaths of the Warriors fan base. Rowell: None of that, in any way, shape or frown.

But Mullin vs. Rowell is developing into a Rowell landslide because the team president isn’t merely Mullin’s opponent in this intensifying front-office showdown.

As it stands now in the Warriors’ hierarchy, Rowell is the boss, negotiator, banker, judge, jury, arbitrator and Supreme Court majority.

So, pending something large occurring while the Warriors hang out in China this week (two executives leave for China”… only”… one”… comes back!), Rowell is king of the Warriors.

Unless Rowell is dethroned or Chris Cohan de-owned, it’s likely that Mullin will either leave after his contract expires in June or that he will be forced to sign a new Warriors deal on Rowell’s terms.

Knowing Mullin, that last part seems exceedingly unlikely.

Knowing Mullin, he probably has another plan: Force public pressure on Rowell and Cohan and maybe gin up interest from the 20 percent minority owners, either to try to buy out Cohan or talk some sense into him.

If Rowell shoves Mullin aside, he’d better have a plausible alternative ready to go (Don Nelson probably would do the job, but I don’t think he wants it) and he’d better have Cohan completely behind him.

If Mullin gets his bluff called, he’d better have another job option.

OK, before we get any further, let’s try to figure out how these two got to this point”…

The Mullin part is easy: He’s a franchise all-time great who was brought in and groomed by Rowell and Cohan to save the Warriors from the Garry St. Jean/Dave Twardzik years, and that’s what Mullin has done — to mixed results — since 2004.

Mullin isn’t the most feared G.M. in the league, but he’s certainly respected.

Rowell is a money guy who attracted Cohan’s attention when Rowell was an assistant athletic director at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. That is not Cohan’s alma mater, but it’s where he has family roots and where he donated $2.1 million for a performing arts building thoughtfully named Christopher Cohan Center.

After a few flow-chart stops, Rowell was named team president and voice of the owner in 2003, a year before Mullin moved to the executive vice president slot.

Have they been buddies the whole time? No. They both have their personality quirks and their own set of office allies.

But they worked well together until about two summers ago. That’s when, as best as I can understand it, Rowell began to chafe at Mullin receiving the lion’s share of credit for the franchise-altering 2007 playoff run.

Did Rowell have a right to be bothered? Only he and Mullin know for sure. I think Rowell was a smart voice in Mullin’s ear during the dumping of Mike Dunleavy, Troy Murphy, Derek Fisher and Adonal Foyle. The rest of the stuff, I don’t know.

But, well-founded or not, Rowell’s anger was communicated to Mullin, and the tension built. Rowell acted on his feelings by assuming more and more authority on the basketball operations, including some direct negotiations with players.

And now, Mullin’s contract is coming up, and Rowell is playing hardball, as Rowell almost always does. Like he did with Mikael Pietrus, Matt Barnes and even this summer and fall with Baron Davis and Monta Ellis.

Remember, Mullin is a player at heart, and he hated when moneymen made his teammates squirm and beg for the last dollar.

I think Mullin fears that the Warriors could turn back into an unfriendly place for players — back to the days when no free agents ever wanted to come to the East Bay.

Last June, Mullin had a tentative three-year, $39 million extension set up with Davis, until Rowell vetoed it and off Davis went to the Clippers.

More recently, Mullin stressed to Cohan and Rowell that Ellis’ scooter accident was just an accident and should be forgiven. But Rowell fined Ellis $3 million and said there might be more punishment later.

And in doing so, Rowell went out of his way to note that Mullin argued for leniency and that his position was disregarded.

No hugs are forthcoming. It’s all brass-knuckle negotiations and political theater now, which is precisely where Rowell thrives.

Rowell might end up with a G.M. who can’t do the job, or Rowell might fail at the job himself; but at this moment, in this struggle, Rowell is beating Mullin. But will it be worth it?

What do you think?

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Track Ethel’s journey to D.C.

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ASTV

With Ethel going away on business again until sometime in December, I’ll have the LIVE cam up in various locations so she can visit the site and see whats going on at home.

Watch live video from Family Cam on Justin.tv

jm
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October 14, 2008 by admin.

The Worry Warrior

The first Warriors home game since April 16 was last Friday and ironically, it was against the same players but they were wearing different uniforms and playing for a different city. The Seattle Supersonics moved to Oklahoma City over the summer and now call themselves the “Thunder”. And because of that, the Warriors front office wants to get rid of our beloved team mascot, Thunder. Over the past few years, the Warriors have been downscaling the gametime entertainment experience. The team has felt recently that since the Warriors have been more competetive amongst the ranks of the NBA, that they didn’t need to use the gimmicks to lure families into the arena. Now, it seems, since the arena is usually full, they are trying to focus on game play and attract the basketall purists (aka the snobs). It’s the basketball snobs who hate the give-aways, and pointless entertainment efforts at the arena. And it’s these same snobs who can’t stand Thunder for some reason. Unfortunately, even though these so-called purists are in them minority when it comes to their hatred of Thunder, they have a deep and powerful voice within the organization who long to bring the mystique for the game back much like the Lakers and Celtics have done recently. And it is because of these people that Thunder must go. But wait…there must be something we could do (more on that later).

At the game, the Warriors looked pretty good. They lead the entire game and ended up winning by 20 points (Warriors 122 - Thunder 102). But, the Warriors are missing something, they’re missing that presence, that swagger, that only a few players in the league can bring. Baron had those qualities, and if you could rank all of the players who possess those traits, he would probably be ranked last. So that means in order for the Warriors to get that “I don’t give a F about you” mentality back they would have to grab someone even better! Does Mully have another move in him by the mid-season deadline, or has Cohan and Rowell lost all faith in him now and are ready to veto any proposal he comes up with.

Absent from the game was Thunder. The crowd seemed kinda dead, but it’s hard to gauge what the impact will really be once the regular season officially starts on October 29. If the Warriors get off to a slow start they’re gonna need to find a way to bring Thunder back to get some kind of enthusiasm back into the arena. Until then, please write or email the Warriors to save Thunder…
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Killer Wave

I’ve been telling you guys that snorkeling can be dangerous! Here’s a story off the wire from AP.

By HERBERT A. SAMPLE – 15 hours ago

HONOLULU (AP) — Two sisters-in-law were struck by large waves on the Kauai shore and were pulled out to sea, and a snorkeler also died over the weekend as high surf hit Hawaii.

The women were strolling along Queen’s Bath in Princeville on Sunday when a large wave knocked one woman down and a second wave swept both women into the water, according to Clayton Arinaga, assistant Kauai police chief for patrol services.

One woman’s husband tried to swim to them but had to turn back because of strong currents. Lifeguards weren’t able to resuscitate the women, Arinaga said.

The National Weather Service had advised of high surf Sunday morning for north-facing beaches in Hawaii, including Kauai. The advisory lasts through Tuesday evening, and lifeguards have been warning people away from the water. The waves were expected to reach as high as 18 feet on Kauai.

“This weekend, we had large surf hitting the north side of the island,” Arinaga said. “If you’re not familiar with wave action at all, this would be a problem.”

The women were identified as Heather Westphal, 33, of Washington, D.C., and Tonya Cataldo, 38, of Parker, Colo.

Earlier Sunday, a body surfer at a beach in Kapaa found the body of a snorkeler in the water. Arinaga said the man was 74-year-old Hiroaki Kinjo of Saitama Ken, Japan.

Drowning appeared to have caused all three deaths, but autopsies were scheduled Tuesday.

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Meet Barack
Sarah Palin keeps asking, “Who is Barack Obama?” Well Sarah check out the below video and find out. Change is coming, like it or not.

BarackObama.com
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ASTV

With Ethel going away on business again until sometime in December, I’ll have the LIVE cam up in various locations so she can visit the site and see whats going on at home.

Watch live video from Family Cam on Justin.tv

jm
The Editor

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October 10, 2008 by admin.

Here’s Saturday Night Live’s Election 2008 Special that was aired last Thursday night…in cas you missed it…

jm
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October 8, 2008 by admin.

Good riddance W!!!

Sorry fans…new post coming this weekend…I promise.
jm
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September 28, 2008 by admin.

Sarah Palin, aka Tina Fey, made another appearance on SNL again last night. Check out what the entire nation is talking about this morning…

jm
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