There's so little to get to where do I begin. Should I borrow from Peter King and tell you about my roto baseball team lineup? Nope. That's just cruel. Wait, that gives me an idea:
AL DAVIS
Our owner may be terrible but on the crazy scale Al Davis outweighs everyone. We learn from Peter King that Al has all his employees selling tickets during the lockout. Peter thinks that is just terrific. In other news, Peter King is terrible at thinking. Get a load of this fucking quote:
I love the Raiders asking their employees (including coaches) to sell tickets in an attempt to make sure their salaries aren't cut.
Fact: you are a dick if you think that's a good idea. The owners are voluntarily choosing to lock everyone out which screws their own employees. How do you love that they then ask their employees to double as salespeople to make sure their salaries don't get cut? That is some brazen shit right there. Mike Brown has not cut, or I believe even threatened to cut, salaries in his own front office (of course, it's all his family and friends anyway). This is the ONLY thing to do if you are an owner. Front office employees are collateral damage in a voluntary war owners started, so they owe it to their front office to keep paying them. I'll let KSK take Peter King from here because if I keep dwelling on what assholes the owners are I will lose it.
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Todd Portune wants to tax Bengals tickets to help pay for the giant sinkhole that is Paul Brown Stadium (and GABP to be fair - though less so). Obviously, I think this is a great idea. All you who still buy tickets to games (stop that!) might moan as you think this will increase the cost of your tickets. Not necessarily. It is all about who bears the incidence of the tax burden. See an old post that discusses tax incidence here. Bottom line: if the Bengals feel like they can't raise ticket prices because of weak demand, then the tax will fall (at least mostly) on them and not fans. This scenario is not unrealistic given weak demand in 2010 and a sad offseason.
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Since Carson would rather pay $50 million (or whatever amount) to play with his kids in retirement than play for the Bengals, the offense really will be in flux for some time unless Dalton becomes an advanced Chad Pennington immediately.
