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They deserve everything they've gotten from that ridiculous trade/contract. 

Quote from: MightyGiants on Today at 12:30:52 PMWhen you are drafting, you should be focusing on not just this year's needs but also next year's.  Considering that Wilson is on a one-year deal, I think it's reasonable to say that there is still a need to draft a QB (it's just less than it was before signing Wilson and Winston)

Yes...but...it's a lot different passing on Hunter or Carter in order to take Sanders if you only have Winston or Wilson in the room already.  If you have both, you'd have to be pretty damn sure Sanders is a super star in the making to pass on guys who it would be considered shocking if they were NOT super stars in short order. 

Everything they've done to this point indicates they're not too worried about the future right now.  So I fully expect the pick to be either Carter or Hunter.  They will probably draft a QB later in the draft perhaps the late 3rd rounder or 4th rounder.  But the first 3 picks I would guess are players that they believe at least MIGHT start from day 1. 

I must really be old, because some of those things I've used in the last year or so - the the car keys. I remember like it was yesterday when I had a separate key for the ignition and one for the trunk - no electronic automatic anything

Quick question: Is Vick's Vapor Rub no longer sold? That surprised me

As a kid, we had very few toys compared to kids of today. Nothing electronic of course. We used to do battle with the neighbor kids on empty 50 gallon barrels (walk backwards to go forward, spin, whatever it took to knock the other kid off their barrel). I also had stilts made from a split two-by-four as did my brother and we'd do battle on those things to knocck the other off his stilts. And my favorite toy as a little kid was a Tonka truck that was made out of steel. Mine was a Jeep pickup and I tied baler twine to it and dragged it all over the farm. We didn't have much money



I'm so old, I can still remember the smell of the interior of my Dad's '52 Nash Ambassador - not a good smell

Here's a few more

I used to love going to the Green Stamp Store and browsing. It's where I got my baseball glove and a few other things



And every car I owned for 30 years had these on the floor


And this one has been talked to death on this board


When I was 18, I had a '68 Road Runner and a stack of 8-track tapes for the unit under the dash

Quote from: Ed Vette on Today at 11:51:12 AMMy thoughts on this. Picking a QB at three gives the player status, and it commands at least a certain amount of respect and priority compared to a QB drafted in the second round and especially later. It's just the reality of human nature. Not that it's a reason to draft a QB in the first round, but if the Giants did draft a QB at 34 when they had the opportunity to move up at least into the late, late (30-32) first round, it shows weakness in the player, and I have to wonder if it plays on the confidence level of the player coming in. 

Another way of looking at it is that if the guy isn't cutting it it is easier for the team to move on from a guy drafted at #34 than one drafted at #6.

Quote from: SlotCorner on Today at 02:02:10 PMWhich also means they go Sanders at 2, hopefully, leaving us Hunter.

Many pundits believe the Browns will trade for Cousins

I'm glad they are not ignoring special teams - overdue!

Playing or not he injects energy and the potential for fun along the way. Fun of any kind has been in short supply with us. The locker room needs a lift and injection of belief. He can play a part in that. I am happy we have him.

Quote from: LennG on Today at 02:23:47 PMI 'liked' your post only because I know you and your desires.

That said, as I have said so many times, I also grew up a 'Brooklyn Bum. ' There wasn't another 11-year-old who knew more about my Dodgers than myself. It literally broke my heart when that bastard Walter O'Malley (make I piss on his grave one day), took my beloved 'Bums' and relocated them to who really cares. I have since met many Yankee fans who told me that the Dodgers and Giants left, so they became a Yankee fan. I still tell them that they were NEVER truly Dodger fans if they could EVER root for the Yankees. it was ingrained in your soul to hate the Yankees, as I do to this day.

I read in the NY rags, that they wanted to have a parade and thousands took to the street for an all day celebration when the news came down that O'Malley had died, with the most common line was, "may he rot in hell". I'm quite aware of the ill feelings from New Yorkers who lost the Dodgers. I have always appreciated other teams (except the Red Sox their fans are a..h.les) and I can enjoy a game between just about any two teams, as I enjoy watching players play the game at an extraordinary level of play. Personally, I thought I would one day reach the majors, but never got past playing college ball (rotated between SS and 2nd)...not to mention, I got married and that threw a monkey wrench into any plans I had for myself

I do not root against the Mets and every year, hope they do great. I'm glad they got a world-class stadium and an owner who isn't afraid to spend what it takes to have an elite team (which as a Yankee fan, know that is easier said than done). If it comes down to a subway series though, I have no choice but to root for the Yanks. It's in my blood and I can't get rid of it...nor do I want to, lol

Even my best friend "Bob", who is an avid (sometimes "rabid") Mets fan and will call me at 1:00 in the morning to tell me the Yankees got beat in some west coast game. Yet, he admires Aaron Judge and can't take his eyes off the TV whenever Judge steps into the batter's box. Bob watched a life story on Judge and found out he was incredibly humble, kind, never gets angry, loves his country, and a really decent person all around - a class act. He was adopted by parents who he loves and now takes care of them (not exactly the Colin Kaepernick type, who hates the parents who adopted him, raised him, and cheered him on every step of the way through his sports career). Nor is Judge anything like Ty Cobb who went into the audience to beat up a handicapped fan...lol. As a Yankee fan, I am well aware of how lucky we are that the team drafted Judge and stuck with him instead of trading him for an old washed up pitcher or something else...as Gettleman (I think it was him) who said he was offered a hot dog and a warm beer for one of our prized Giants