Dearest WDR readers - though we can catalog the failures of the Bengals endlessly there is a high risk of redundancy and boredom. I remember it took Doc about 10 years before he could not take it anymore. Well, it has taken me about 6 months and I've reached my wits end. So it is time to give you some control over the content here. Also, asking Baghdad Hob questions is pointless since he cannot answer truthfully. Please send us any questions, comments, requests, rants, or whatever to whodeyrevolution@gmail.com and we'll try to post some feedback here on the site.
For example, in the comments section someone proposed that WDR take out a full page ad in the Enquirer to "bring WDR to the masses." Well, we looked up the cost and guess what we found out it costs for a full pager:
Hmmm...fascinating and expensive. See, when you email, we all learn something.
Anybody check out www.bengals.com today?
http://www.bengals.com/news/news.asp?story_id=7334
Aside from the usual nonsense, and the fact that the article itself is titled "Brown praises Lewis", Baghdad Hob actually mentions the WDR billboards! And what a terrible answer straight from MBB himself: "The answer to the general manager problem is the same answer that we have to have for all these criticisms. We have to win. When we manage to do that, we won't hear so much about that kind of talk." What kind of backward logic is that? "If we just wait for our problems to go away, then we won't have to worry about fixing them!" The more I read that statement, the less sense it makes. Now that I think about it, I can't believe I thought there was any logic at all, backward or forward.
-- Another random thought as I type this: Why is WDR advertising Bengals gear on the side bar from Shopzilla, and at the same time calling for boycott?! I move for a new advertising deal, advertising items that can somehow help WDR's causes, rather than undermine them...
Posted by: Matt | December 01, 2008 at 05:54 PM
I don't know that WDR has editorial 'rights' to what is advertised in an online advertising package.
As to MBB's idiotic statement... ...the problem is that Brown doesn't know what comes first -- the cart or the horse and a person not knowing that to begin with, shouldn't be making any kind of management decisions but rather flipping burgers at McDonald's.
THere is a fault in your comparison in that he isn't asking for his problems to go away, justa solution that is opposite of what's happening now. Your point is well-taken though. The MBB quote still shows his lack of presiding properly over a professional football team with a goal of trying to win. As I've said before... ...he isn't trying to preside over such a thing... ...he is trying to make a profit and because of the current and foreseeable conditions, he can do it with no problem in 'paying' for his mistakes.
The NFL can't 'punish' him for his ineptness. They can't make him give back money. They can't kick him out of the league... ...MBB can do whatever he wants with impunity. Any threat by the other owners to implement something that'll 'fix' MBB will be met with a collusion lawsuit and a call to Congress asking them to 'investigate' the NFL's exclusion to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act -- this is SO MUCH NOT WANTED BY THE NFL that they would NEVER do anything to even bring such a thing to the public light for fear that it might gain traction and you'd see the NFL finally get it's 'ticket' punched by Congress (which would be pure stupidity on the part of Congress -- but then again, consider who runs Congress and you can see that that isn't too far of a stretch!). In short, we had our chance in 1995-1996 when MBB threatened to leave Cincinnati, to go to the NFL and pull a 'Cleveland' stunt and say: "MBB can leave, we just want a guarantee that we will get another team when the next one (providing it isn't MBB) becomes available." -- then Tell MBB to make sure that the "door doesn't hit his ass on the way out!"
Again, it was because a certain block of idiotic voters thought with their passion and hearts rather than with their brains and wallet. We have no one to blame but ourselves (Hint, I am clean in this because I actually petitioned against the stadium! I feel so superior now... jk).
Posted by: WC | December 01, 2008 at 11:49 PM
Carson,
Your anonymous donation is much appreciated. $21,000 will do. We are simple people. A black and white ad during the week will suffice.
Posted by: Rich | December 02, 2008 at 11:08 AM