Well, this is down time. Unless you enjoyed A) the Giants getting their World Series Championship rings, raise the chamipnship banner, and see Buster get his hardware (NL MVP and Silver Sluggger awards (yay!)), and then B) watching St Louis crush them 14-3 on their way to taking 2 of 3 in the Giants home-opening series (ha ha, StL still blew the NLCS. Giants are the defending champs!).
Anyhow, most of the free agants have ben unfreed, moves have been moved, the player shuffles have been shuffled, and new coaching staffs have conveniently installed their scapegoats for the upcoming season. The draft is the next big event on the horizon. As usual, the consensus is that there’s no consensus regarding the 49ers. People have the Niners trading up for a bona fide safety lock in Brenda Vaccaro, trading up for a stud DT in say, Sheldon Richardson or Sylvester Williams; trading out of the 1st round (not sure why unless we get players); or merely waiting to see who’s left as the draft progresses, and still pick up guys like DT Margus Hunt and S Jonathan Cyprien. Dark horses like WR Keenan Allen from Cal get bandied about, as well as TEs like Zach Ertz and Tyler Eifert. The Niners ertainly have flexibility with these 2 picks so close to eachother, and teams despeate for someone could easily give the Niners an additional pick close to their spot anyway, and get their guy plus a pick. Curiouser and curiouser.
Frankly, I have no clue. I’ve been fairly good at figuring out needs at least, but I sure didn’t pick the last 2 first rounders in Aldon Smith and AJ Jenkins. 2010 was easy as the Niners NEEDED O line help at all costs, and drafted 2 guys (almost) back to back in Anthony Davis and Mike Iupati. I think trading back is out (5% chance), trading up is about a 20% chance, and standing pat to wait and see what is available is likely (75%) their strategy. Who they get at 31 and 34 is a mystery as well, but those 2 I mention above are likely. If not those guys, then guys that are in those positions. The farther down we go, the harder it gets to even guess as to what they do.
That all being said, I think the Niners go:
31 – S (Cyprien) – Big guy, hybrid like Baalke digs
34 – DL (Magnus Von Magnus) – Big, fast, physical, 26 tho
63 – CB (Blidi Wreh-Wilson) – Tall tough corner. Fast.
74 – WR (Da’Rick Rogers) – Big, strong, hard to tackle
93 – DE (Cornelius Washington) – Long lanky under-the-radar guy. Sound familiar?
128 – C (Brian Schwenke) – Schwing! Cal guy. Center.
131 – S (Honey Badger) – If he’s here, he’s worth the risk.
157 – RB (Lattimore) – Why not? Much like Frank Gore, a health risk that paid off greatly. He can wait on the bench a season.
Forty Niners Forever 
This is an old Tiger joke, but since today is the opening round of The Masters and with the recent happenings in the Vatican, I thought I’d share it…
The Pope and Tiger Woods died on the same day and because of an administrative mix up the Pope went to hell and Tiger Woods went to heaven. The Pope explains the situation to the administrative clerk in hell, and after checking the paperwork admits that there is an error.
“However”, the clerk explains, “it would be 24 hours before it can be rectified”. The next day the Pope is called and Hell’s staff bids him farewell. On the way up, the Pope meets Tiger Woods coming down from heaven and they stop to have a chat.
“Sorry about the mix up”, apologizes the Pope.
“No problem” replied Tiger Woods.
Pope: “I am really anxious to get to heaven.”
Tiger: “Why is that?”
Pope: “All my life I have wanted to meet the Virgin Mary.”
Tiger: “You’re a day late.”
LOL that sounds about right. Tiger’s rounding into form just in time fer the Masters. He should be good for a couple, maybe three, birdies right?
Maybe even have a good golf game…
Golf sucks!
How is Tiger different than Santa Claus?
Santa stops at three ho’s.
Golf sucks and Tiger blows…
Hey Phil, if you can get through the ancient writing style, Thucydides’ younger fellow soldier and Greek historian, Xenophon’s Anabasis is pretty good, too.
What? Who?
Yep I got old Xeno on tape too (too lazy to read anymore). It will take until next off season to wade through. Someone needs to make a new translation please. I’;ll pay closer attention tho
I put 4 GB on a flash drive of these two, RL Stevenson, Raphael Sabatini’s Captain Blood, Jack London, Alexander the Great (Jacob Abbott’s), Julius Caesar, Hannibal, Art of War, Lao Tzu, Marcus Aurelius, Lewis and Clark for the son to beef up his Classical education. And mine while awaiting the coming seasonal clashes of our own gladiators.
Librivox.com a goldmine of free audios for the book weary.
Thx for the link, Phil (had to go to .org). Gonna give a couple of those a look, er a listen and figure out how to do three or four things at once.
“Frankly I have no clue” …..thank you Chuck for such honesty! BRAVO!
New thread is up up and away.