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October 1, 2007 at 9:55 PM #86682October 1, 2007 at 11:09 PM #86685
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ParticipantWell FLU somehow I think you will survive. I would assume you are in for the long run.
You seem to be a cut above the rest and your moves on the market seemed to do you pretty well…
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October 2, 2007 at 4:46 AM #86690eyePod
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Great post!!!!! This hits the nail on the head. It’s beyond me but makes sense when you think about human nature. Who knows, maybe they are right (but I don’t think so). Look how much you have been rewarded over the last two years by waiting.October 2, 2007 at 9:19 AM #86704Participantpod it has not been unlike wwII… to much ken burns for me lately… I may be winning the war but suffering many casualties..
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October 2, 2007 at 9:47 AM #86707Allan from Fallbrook
ParticipantSD Realtor: I might be drifting a little too much here, but your reference to WWII reminded me of a pair of pictures my uncle had on his credenza at work.
He was a Marine fighter pilot in the Pacific War and was invalided out in early 1945 with 20mm cannon fragments in his back and shoulder from a dogfight he was in.
He had two pictures of Pearl Harbor. The first was from December 8th, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack, when the navy base was in literal ruins. The second was from late 1945, when the various fleets had returned after war’s end and all you could see were carriers, battleships, etc from one end of the base to the other. Truly an awesome display of American power.
He said he kept the two photos close by to remind him of how things change, and the importance of perserverance, even when things look bleakest. That message has stuck with me to this day.
As for the Chargers: I would offer words of hope, but I honestly don’t think there are any. My only fear as a Raiders fan is that Cowher is really waiting in the wings.
October 2, 2007 at 10:24 AM #86711taz
ParticipantI’ve lived in SD for 14 years now…never even tempted to become a Chargers fan…but that might change if Bill Cowher (former coach of my beloved Steelers) takes over the reins…
October 2, 2007 at 11:08 AM #86722ParticipantBeen a rough few days for San Diego sports fans…
tg are you out there?
It was really wierd but after watching the Padres pen mow down the Rocks lineup with hard stuff for 6 innings, I had this REALLY ominous feeling when Trevor came in and promptly went 2-0 to Matsui… I just felt like he was gonna get rocked…. Anyways looking back I think Buddy played the whole last game scenario poorly. Saving Peavy for the rocks seemed sound on the surface, however looking at the statistics, the Rockies hit Peavy better then ANY other opponent Peavy has faced. It just seemed to make more sense to me to have Peavy throw his darts at the Brew crew on Sunday but what do I know. Trevor has served the Pads well but I really do hope he chooses to retire gracefully.
I have bad news…repeat after me… Cowher will NEVER EVER be a Chargers coach. No way is this an AJ guy. Believe me I would love him to be our coach but I just don’t see it… It would represent a fundamental shift in the AJ way or the highway… I have been wrong on alot of things so hopefully this is another one…
Alan I had Sunday nights KB on Tivo and it was Market Garden and Pelilu… WOW… that is all I have to say…Agreed on all of your points… Also it has not been mentioned but I like Kiffin… One of the best things he did was to make peace with Porter who seems to want to play football again. Him and Curry are a formidable set of wrs…Didn’t check to see if your RB is hurt bad or not…I am not as much a Raider hater as most Charger fans… in some perverse way I like to see them either do really good or really bad.
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October 2, 2007 at 11:23 AM #86725ParticipantSDR: We studied Operation Market Garden (Holland, 1944) when I was in War College in my Army days. What an absolute disaster. Terrible plan, and all because Montgomery wanted in to Germany before Patton. The movie “A Bridge Too Far” chronicles this. Watch it if you have a chance, if for no other reason than it has pretty much every Hollywood star from the late ’70s in it.
As a Raider fan, I really don’t have anything against the Chargers. I reserve my hatred for the Chiefs and the Broncos. Some of my best football experiences were watching Chargers – Raiders games in the 70s with my dad at Oakland Coliseum. These were passing duels between Fouts and Stabler, and whoever got the ball last generally won. What the Spanos family and AJ Smith have done to this franchise is criminal. Of course, what Al Davis has done to the Raiders over the last decade is just as bad.
As far as the Padres go, look on the bright side: You could be a Giants fan (which I am). Boy, where is Dusty Baker when you need him most?
October 2, 2007 at 5:09 PM #86758temeculaguy
ParticipantSd I’m here but I fresh out of zoloft and the last 48 hours in sports has me feeling so low I have to look up to see down. I have drifted from disbelief, to anger to blame to numb, all in two days.
I know all too well that Cowher won’t come work for A.J., not only is Cowher too strong a coach for A.J., he was a protege of Marty’s and they are still close friends. My only hope is that Spanos contacts Cowher and Cowher agrees if A.J. is fired, then in a Lakers sort of way, people are sent packing to keep the stars happy, the tail wags the dog, the Chargers talent is saved, Marty is vindicated and Cowher can take the reigns with marty’s blessing and grattitude for offing his old nemesis. Marty may even take the front office or be a special advisor in a Bill Walsh kinda way. It’s all so perfect, I miss Cowher (he is one of may favorite all time coaches, plus he spits inadvertantly and gets into the game more than I do) and the Chargers need a coach. Plus Bill has three good looking daughters all in college, if you were a young, attractive rich girl, where would you want to spend your summer back from Princeton? Pittsburg, North Carolina or San Diego, these girls were made to be La Jolla girls.
On the Padres, they were trending downward and the Rockies have been getting hotter, it’s almost for the best that the Rockies move on, at least they have a chance. I hope Trevor stays with it, he was just too good to think he doesn’t have a Favre comeback season still in him.
October 2, 2007 at 5:24 PM #86761ParticipantGood to hear back from you tg….
About 15 years ago my buddy and I did a Waynes world type of cable show on public access (time warner cable)…it was awesome… we bs’d about sports for 1/2 hour and got to watch ourselves on tv… life was good…
I cannot even begin to answer the question about where would I spend my off time from Princeton if I was a young attractive girl… that answer is to loaded… You know how we all think there is this little room somewhere in Manhattan where 7 people sit around and basically manipulate the entire stock market? Well there is another area in the ether where attractive girls hang out at and pretty much run the world… (Remember the Seinfeld episode with the secret club that George found?)
Luckily I started this thread so I believe I have sufficiently destroyed it…
tg you missed yet another very well populated day at dog beach this past sunday. I was there early in the day and then worked with some clients the rest of the day and watched the tivo of the chargers in solace late that night…afterwards I actually woke up my wife to tell her how disgusted I was with them…
that didn’t go over to well…
October 2, 2007 at 10:59 PM #86800bob007
ParticipantNorv Turner is a great offensive co-ordinator. He was responsible for Cowboys success in the early 1990s. He did a decent job getting output of Alex Smith, Frank Gore at San Francisco. He should have stayed at SF for couple of more years.
October 2, 2007 at 11:07 PM #86803ParticipantBob I grudgingly agree… I am not so sure that it is not more of being at the right place at the right time though… seriously, I think you could stick a blind guy who was deaf in at coordinator for that Dallas squad and he couldn’t lose many games. That offensive line, Emmit, the coke fiend, oops I mean the play maker, novacek, moose…holy smokes that team was scary good… Yeah Norv was a part of it but wowsers… not a bad squad to work with… specially that line… He did improve Alex Smith’s numbers but I think Frank Gore had more to do with it then Norv did… Anyways the numbers bear your argument but I am not convinced…
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October 3, 2007 at 3:03 AM #86809ParticipantSD R, not to worry. Haven’t we all agreed that real estate is a slow multi-year cycle? Isn’t that all you’re observing? Its going to be a real interesting winter/spring with the mortgage industry issues.
October 3, 2007 at 9:29 AM #86824Participanttemecula guy –
glad to hear it’s not just me who loves Bill Cowher’s jutting chin and (inadvertent?) spitting!
October 3, 2007 at 10:02 AM #86829ParticipantYou pegged it eyepod….
One thing about the mortgage issues. (HLS/Pasadena Broker can comment better then I can) It appears to me that the secondary market has loosened up from the lockjaw that it went through in August. I think we will see a choppier secondary market. One that will be much more reactionary. When we see alot of announcements about hedge funds drying up or encountering problems, the secondary market will get tight… then when we go through periods of no bad news it will slack up a bit… Seeing as we have not any bad news for many weeks it seems things have indeed eased up somewhat. Similarly political end runs and loosening up FHA limits for new loans may also help grease the market. This is not what I want to happen but may indeed happen and continue to prolong the slide rather then to promote a healther and faster depreciation cycle.
Just my guess and it has no factual basis.
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