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V-Day 2012

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Dear A. J. Smith

You suck!

Vincent Jackson went to Tampa Bay for something like $26 million guaranteed over two years.  Really?  Really.

That's 2 mil under the $15 million one-year contract you'd have to have given him as a franchise player.  Now he's going to turn around that team and, guess what?  Well, this is what, A. J. Smith -- Vincent Jackson is 1000 times more likely to win a Superbowl now.  That's what.

How many Superbowl rings are worn by the players you traded away, A. J. Smith?  Too many.  Actually I'm glad I don't know because I'd be crazy pissed off even more (crazypissedoff) than I am now.

And I am crazy pissed off!

Enough to become a Saints fan.  That's where you traded Drew Brees.  Or the Falcons so I can cheer for Michael (The Burner) Turner, whom you traded.  Or... shit, A. J. I can't remember how many Chargers you traded to (or let get away to) the Patriots.

After the great Rodney Harrison went there, I sort of died a little inside and started building a Voodoo doll that is overweight, wears a Hawaiian Aloha shirt, smokes a cigar, kisses Dean Spanos' ass and has a smirk on his face that looks like it's eaten more shit than all the Chargers fans have eaten losses in the last five years.

All I need is some hair or toenails and then I start hitting it with the intelligence stick.

Grow a brain, A. J. Smith!  Quit trading away our best players.  Or, really, this is what I guess I'm really saying, trade your own sorry drafting ass to Oakland!

Voir dire

 

From Wikipedia:  "Voir Dire is the process by which attorneys select, or perhaps more appropriately reject, certain jurors to hear a case."^[3] As noted above, in the United States (especially in practice under the Federal Rules of Evidence), voir dire can also refer to examination of the background of a witness to assess their qualification or fitness to give testimony on a given subject.^[4]

I was not chosen for a jury and the lawyers had a very well-worded phrase: "We would like to thank and excuse (in this case, me).  I felt great.  Not only did I not have to sit on a jury but I was thanked and asked, very politely, to leave.

This, I think, is a good practice in the real world too.  I have done this numerous times with people in my life with people who weren't cutting it as friends.  I didn't thank and excuse them to their face because it just seemed like it would have been needlessly cruel bit I wonder what our society would be like if it were an accepted norm.

"How's life?"

"OK, I guess.  Kevin thanked and excused me."

"Hey, I've been Voir dired before, it's probably for the best."

I don't know if this will catch on but there are things and people and even whole organizations I'd like to voir dire, to thank and excuse.  You're really doing no favors to anybody by allowing them not to measure up to your standards. I think we need to know what those standards are, and enforce them.

Mine are simple: be kind and considerate; hear what I have to say; don't bring alcohol to my house; respect me, my property and my friends.

If you can't do that, I'd like to thank and excuse you.