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Give Wickersham a Pulitzer. That bit about projecting DP footage on the walls of HQ for 10 minutes and not knowing how to stop it is the single best metaphor I've ever heard for Truckstop Jimmy's bungling ownership tenure! What the author failed to follow up with is the fact that being a fan during his tenure has felt like being on the unwilling receiving end of that DP. I can only (probably futilely) hope he's learned his lesson and lets everything run through Dorsey now, but while that might last for a little while, Trigger Jimmy just isn't wired like that. Sigh. Go Baker and Freddy!

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11 minutes ago, dawgdish said:

Give Wickersham a Pulitzer. That bit about projecting DP footage on the walls of HQ for 10 minutes and not knowing how to stop it is the single best metaphor I've ever heard for Truckstop Jimmy's bungling ownership tenure! What the author failed to follow up with is the fact that being a fan during his tenure has felt like being on the unwilling receiving end of that DP. I can only (probably futilely) hope he's learned his lesson and lets everything run through Dorsey now, but while that might last for a little while, Trigger Jimmy just isn't wired like that. Sigh. Go Baker and Freddy!

fwiw, fox refuted the 20 minutes of porn on 92.3 and said it was much shorter time

 

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Jimmy wouldn't be the first bumbling owner to turn it around.  Tom Benson was a train wreck until he got Sean Payton and Drew Brees.  Art Rooney was historically bad (we're talking decades) until he got Chuck Noll and Terry Bradshaw. Hell, even Paul Allen (a brilliant businessman) was bad until he got Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson.

He certainly doesn't get a pass for screwing up so much, but there is at least some precedence (and hope) for Jimmy having it right this time. 

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6 minutes ago, mistakey said:

fwiw, fox refuted the 20 minutes of porn on 92.3 and said it was much shorter time

Admittedly that part seemed weird to me. I mean, as soon as you realize what's happening, SOMEBODY is going for that kill switch. Primarily the idiot who thought that hashtag would bring in Browns content.

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3 hours ago, DaWg_LB. said:

I look at this article as click bait....Let us not forget, just because of the second half of the season and the promise moving forward (its starting to become Hispster Fashionable to be a Browns fan now)....but there are still people with Ax's to grind...and they are STILL alive and well and being listened too. Terrel Davis, Jason Locanfora, Mike Florio, Collin Coward, the Sports Junkies (VA/DC/MD very popular radio show)...I could keep going.

Couple of things.....Truck Stop Jimmy for President....first and foremost, and maybe its because of my background and upbringing....so I may see the world in a different way. I have never defended what he has done...cheating the small man is never OK....at the same time, I have never EVER heard of someone going from a job sweeping gas station toilets at his fathers couple of gas stations, to building it into one of (if not the largest) largest Commercial trucking Fuel business in the world.....treating everyone fairly, always making square deals and being a nice guy. And while those guys sleep great at night, and make GREAT neighbors, they do not take Organizations on the Bottom and put them on top......in the world I know, That does not happen. (Look at Al Lernern's son tenure as owner)

SURE the Haslems have made some mistakes along the way....but now they are highlighting things in an article that occured YEARS ago....hell lets have a this is your life about me and talk about the things I did as a teenager or when I was a Soph College Football playing Fraternity Cat......I got PICTURES of me making decisions LOL. So sure, if you want to highlight the miss steps he made while being a first time owner WHILE running a Multi-Billion Dollar business AND under Federal indictment....lets go back and take a look at the mistakes Bill Belicheck made when he was a first time Head Coach.....

Also this article reminds of Conversations with my Ex....she would include enough factual truth in the conversation to make it seem like the speculation she was making were also true. There is some truth in the article, but then contradictory parts also, for instance clearly stating in certain situations he knew what Ray Farmer was thinking...but then later in the article states that Ray Farmer would not comment for the article on his former boss??????? So now he's speculating on things there is NO way he could have accurate knowledge of......Was Haslem's company under investigation for Fraud...yes....these are facts. Exactly what was said, and how it was said in a room where only 3 men were, and NONE of them gave direct info to this article, then its IMPOSSIBLE for him to paint the picture of the direct quote and what really happened. 

At the end of the day, it looks like Jimmy has learned from his mistakes (like we all try to do), he's learned to surround himself with good people and empowering them to do their jobs. He has gotten rid of the distractions (selling a controlling interest in flying J, therefore taking away day to day operations AND the Fed Investigation). And seems to have our Beloved Browns FINALLY moving in the right direction....

But hell its the offseason...and the Browns are STILL under assault. When your down...folks want to keep you down....and this is a classic case of that, in my humble opinion.

 

Humbly Submitted

DaWg_Lb.

Fair assessment,  but I feel the article framed in a positive light how the team is operating now.

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6 minutes ago, ditchdigger said:

Fair assessment,  but I feel the article framed in a positive light how the team is operating now.

Oh absolutely my Brother......that's what I was thinking about....Jimmy sold the Truck Stops...hired some of the right people...and started meddling less in football decisions. Our beloved teams (yes OURS ;) my Brother) is FINALLY moving in the right direction....only took 20 years :D

(No Better Late than never jokes)

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