Well, the wait is (almost) finally over. the new-look streamlined 49ers open camp on August 1st at 7:00 pm pacific time. In these days of truncated preseasons and quick turnaround times, we have out first exhibition game on August 15th in Houston. The home preseason opener is Aug 23rd vs those lovely Cowgirls.
Two weeks of practice and instant season. Is it enough time to assimilate everything? Gosh, Wally! Who knows? There’s been enough blogticulation to fill 666 King James bibles, so I’ll leave that part of the story out, other than to say there appears to be little middle ground on what the future portends. I will say that Harbaugh managed to pull it off back in 2011 with an even smaller window. No reason to think these guys can’t get shit rolling quickly. Unless you subscribe to the myth that St. Jim is otherworldly.
As far as the season goes, you have the chicken-littles and you have the guardedly optimistic. No one is predicting a Super Bowl berth with the amount of talent that left, but many (including me) expect a playoff run. The team still has a lot of talent, and they have an experienced coaching staff. Defensively anyway. Then you have the crowd that seems to caper around gleefully predicting the long and hard fall to abject shittiness and decrepitude. No middle ground, no thinking that there may be a bump in the road. It is a decade of downtime. Jed screws the team into the ground for 10 years for some sort of ego bath. Got it. It had nothing to do with the fact that the former head coach was a major league asshole who alienated everyone in the building and took a strong team to be the bridesmaid, but not the bride. A team that went 8-8. Despite St Jim and all those guys that left.
I get thinking the team could possibly have a rough patch, but to devote so much time and energy to spreading the bile endlessly over months and months and ridiculing every move the team makes and inventing reasons for why shit went bad 2 years ago is baffling. The overarching need to get in front of the ‘they suck’ train is a mystery to me.
Like the crazy crab promotions at the Stick years ago (“We don’t do mascots. Please boo the crab!”) , there are people hoping against hope that the team crashes and burns, so they can project their hatred of the owner. A guy who looks and acts just like his predecessor, Eddie.
Forty Niners Forever 
Am I the only guy that loved the Crazy Crab? As the Niners go it will probably take some time for the team to gel, however we should get a good line on what they are trying to do. i am expecting some good football myself. We’ve got lots to prove.
I’m excited for some football too!
Some of you yahoos should try getting drunk and blogging. It is more fun than it looks. I can just imagine the reaction from the cancer blog! It probably got their panties in a wad!
You think you’re blunt when drunk blogging, I could start a fight at a hari krishna revival!
I love it. I don’t always go bonkers, just when somebody is full of it. What I do drunk is what Bullit does sober. Difference is, I cuss and get quickly to the point. He does it over several weeks and spends days researching how he can dis your point of view. In my case we laugh about it in the morning. In his case he never stops. Thing is, I have to drink to be like Bullit.
12th- I think you just made the post of the week!
Bullitt is a monumental vagina.
Back in the 90s I used to drink some rum. I’d be talking on the phone with a girl and she’d ask what I’m doing. I’d tell her I’m drinking rum and that she should stay away because it makes me act like a pirate. They usually said, I’ll be right over! I need to try some of this white rum.
Can you read your credit card number to them when you are drunk?
I don’t hide my assholery behind a booze filter. So when I’m drunk or not it is harder to tell than you, Bergs. Although I did go off on Skeebers blog a while back. It ended up being why I got banned. But he’s a little wimp anyway. Can’t take the heat. Ergo the fuck filter. Funny guys like Bullit, V, Spitty and NoFear can spew their venom without any recourse. Disagree and get banned.
Boo hoo. His blog. If he wants to keep it among the sycophants, that’s his prerogative (and no I won’t play the Bobby Brown song).
That was a good line! But no, I wasn’t talking to the those girls. I’m still laughing!
NJ had it coming. He tries to play mediator. We don’t need a mediator, we need his opinions. NJ and I are friends. We can handle a little blow up here and there. NJ knew exactly what was going on when he engaged in the conversation. The man has some swag!
We’ll probably do it again some night down the road. You frail biddies can just read and gasp. I will say, it is more fun to grab a cocktail and engage if you are not one to have your feelings hurt. Some should stay away. Reading the comments the next day is funny! The word ass hole is taken with a grin and an aspirin!
Wasn’t that Spitblood’s exact excuse? Chuck was the asshole then for NOT interfering, IIRC. I suppose it’s always funny to the guy who’s drunk. And the appeasers think their back-slapping approval will keep them off the list of who’s next.
Sounds like you are one of the frail biddies. Nobody over here had an issue. You being the condescending Central Scrutinizer is what your known for. You fit in well at the other place.
Thanks for playing along, NoFear. I don’t know who did what to whom specifically (the gist was Spitty and Bergs, right?), but I do know who wrote racist comments. I know who was posting gratuitious sexual references over and over and over. I know who was posting 1,000,000 word screeds that clogged up the blog and drove people away.
The point being I warned Spitty 10 times. I warned Dennis 10 times. V, well, he’s a special case. That they kept up is their fault. I wanted to make this (and the last) blog freewheeling, not a platform for racist, or sexist, or repetitive bullshit. You and V both come back to this point as if I’m some sort of bastion of free speech. It’s a fucking football blog. I don’t mind things going off-point, but I also don’t want this to be some sort of platform for yahoos to spout their idiotic bullshit either. This isn’t a freedom of speech issue.
The thing about Skeebie is I never got much of a warning. Doesn’t chap my hide too much that he banned me, it’s just that you and Skeebs, and Bullt and V and Spitty ( YOUR fucking appeasers) all seem to enjoy talking shit about me while free from any response.
At least you post over here. I”ll give you that. I’ll never see your politics, and that shouldn’t even play into it when discussing football, but you seem very adept at making it very black and white regarding how people should think about the team.
Nobody chased me off here. Where did that come from? I think that is the gist of what you are saying? Spitty and I had an issue over on Skeebs blog. You can talk trash all you want. He was threatening to show up at my door and rape my wife. That is not trash talking, that is going psychotic. He also likes to talk about killing animals. He does that sober. I wouldn’t go there drunk. I’d rather let him blog with the fine people over at skeebers blog. He’s fits that site well. They are OK with anybody who hates Jed.
I talk 49ers for fun. I didn’t like the posting at some point and went away from here, just like I did at skeebers site. I will repeat, I talk 49ers for fun. When it gets too negative I go away. Simple as that.
OK, I just went over to skeebs and read some comments. I’m amused that they had an issue and nobody here did. Posters here like good banter and am good laugh. the people here knew NJ was a big boy and holding his own. Like I predicted, some would have their panties in a wad and, of course, it was the anti-Jed cult club. Maybe they were just jealous they couldn’t play along! LOL!
As always, The Central Scrutinizer got his facts wrong but told everybody what they should think. Nothing changes. You gotta love it. We all need a good drunk, sans Bullit.
I just read a few more comments over there. Winder is going good. Give ’em hell Wnder! The good thing about reading some comments over there is it reminds me of why I don’t read many comments over there. Like I told them when I left, until something changes I won’t be back. I don’t talk 49ers to be depressed. It is really depressing over there.
Bitching about a coach, a player or a game plan is one thing. Those people are rooting for us to fail. No thanks. I’ll stay away.
In reality, my only problem with you NoFear was dissing my war hero friend. We don’t agree much on 49er issues but at least you speak your mind, when I can understand what you are saying. When you disagree with somebody you speak some language which I’ll just call innuendic. It’s mostly innuendos with not much, if anything actually said.
Innuendick – innuendo with dickishness thrown in . . .
NoFear- You used to play along when some of us got drunk. Did you lose your swag! Maybe it’s just the Harbaugh thing you can’t seem to get over. Harbaugh and I are tied for Super Bowl wins, we both have zero. That makes you tied with both of us. Imagine that!
Added the 2015 schedule for your enjoyment and reference.
I already printed it. Thanks.
Berger, I don’t have any issue with your friend. I don’t know him. My issue was with you making shit up. I have an issue with stolen valor. I asked for particulars, you couldn’t supply them. I asked you for his name, you didn’t know it. You were the typical “too vague” so I called bullshit.
“Innuendic” equals over your head.
And then there’s Chuck, never attacking anybody:
“Innuendick – innuendo with dickishness thrown in . . .”
The incident I was referring to earlier happened on Chuck’s blog and you said Chuck was less than a man and hardly human for not putting a stop to Spitblood’s drunken verbal attack on you. Could be those damaged brain cells are missed more than you think. The point is the guy at the other end of those attacks isn’t often as amused as the drunk delivering them.
I played along when you directed your attacks at me. I always thought you sounded smarter and made more sense when you were drunk. It’s not swag to stand by and watch you unleash on a guy who won’t retaliate.
No stolen valor. You get no info. You aren’t smart enough to do anything with it. Sounds like you are the fraud. You supplied the same list I checked. Don’t ask again.
Spitty’s attacks were from fall out at skeebs. He could make fun of me and my wife but when he threatened to show up at my door I drew the line. I would not allow any blogger to threaten another with bodily harm if I ran a blog. I stand by what I told Chuck. I even bought a hand gun expecting him to show. I don’t think Spitty was drunk, another “fact” you are making up. Trash talking and being psychotic are two different things. I know you don’t have much of a concept of that. Spitty did not chase me away, he was just part of the overall negativity. In the end, I scooted out because the negativity was too depressing over here. Spitty, you, V and others were all part of that. That pall is now over at skeebs. Guess who is part of it again, you. You are just a negative person.
I thought NJ fired back and held his own just fine.
Still full of shit.
That’s the nicest thing you ever said about me. I feel better already!
You might be right, for once.
I posted this above. It is worth repeating.
“I love it. I don’t always go bonkers, just when somebody is full of it. What I do drunk is what Bullit does sober. Difference is, I cuss and get quickly to the point. He does it over several weeks and spends days researching how he can dis your point of view. In my case we laugh about it in the morning. In his case he never stops. Thing is, I have to drink to be like Bullit.”
I didn’t direct that post at anyone, NoFear.Just providing a definition. You just assumed.
3rd hardest schedule this year on top of playing in the NFC West its easy to pick doom and gloom. My question is, at this particular point in time before even training camp, why in the world would Forty Niner fans shit from a great height on the team they support? Because you don’t agree with the decision makers? So what, you have no input.
I choose to do what I have always done, fair weather or foul I support my team, and if that is not reason enough then what kind of lame ass fan are you?
Is being proven “right” more important than supporting the team? I expect to do better than last year.
If you are a real Niner fan you can find me in Pheonix stadium, section 133, row 30, seat 4. Tap me on the shoulder and I will buy you a beer.
Going to the Green Bay game too, how about you?
Have t seen a real game at the new digs. Might try to go w/my son. He’ll be at csumb so we can meet in the middle. It’ll probably take a couple years to weed out the weenies.
Winder is like the Ambassador to the “other” blog.
Lol. i don’t think I’m very ambASSador like to be honest.. i know most of the bloggers over there are 49er fans and like 12th said it’s difficult to understand (even through all the crap that’s happened) how fans can be so down at this time of year, and harp over things that none of us really know about. I’m not buying the media circus.
I doubt anyone else sees it like that. I don’t. I still like those guys and like 12th I just don’t get the continued bummer attitude. It’s a new season of 49er football and no one really knows what’s gonna happen. All we need is a spark and some continuity and we just might be pretty good this year.
This years season ticket holders will get to watch some real good teams. I would love to go to the packer game, what could be better than that?
I think Seahawks on 10/22 will be the game to attend if you only get 1.
1st matchup between Tomsula and Pete.
Barometer Game?
Yeah, that will be a good one too. Brutal no doubt.
That’s about the point of the season I’m expecting to see what we’re made of Winder.
I can’t predict a thing at this point.
New everything in SF.
Hoping for the best.
More Javier Vargas to get things going –
Can’t understand why this guy isn’t better known here in the States?
This guy kicks A$$
He’s somewhere between SRV and Santana.
Chuck here’s one for you – Roy’s Blues, Vargas style –
The schedule is a bit brutal. It is what it is. Going to need to be better than we were under Harbaugh last year to even be above .500. I think we will surprise a few observers.
It’s not even the threat of disappointment tbat is prevalent. It’s the 80 threada in a row of doom and failure and woe. Based on their hope the team fails. And, don’t kid yourself, they ARE hoping for failure Otherwise, why ao much pessimism everyday all the time?
The team was 8-8 WITH those geneouaes.
A paragraph from Jed the meddler:
Hah! Yeah, that’s putting lipstick ion the proverbial pig, but who knows? A stretch? Sure, but we won’t know till we do. As I’ve said a million times, all the need to do is improve the offense to the point of respectability and they’ll be fine.
Tomsula is a well-respected coach, but that’s about as far as it goes. My point has always been most of this shit that went down goes down with Harbaugh as well. This isn’t any kind of abandonment by guys who otherwise wouldn’t have left.
When you make a change like this you never know what to expect. I was telling anybody who would listen that the Warriors needed to make a change. With Jackson they were always going to win but never win it all. He was a Chuck Knox or Marty Schottenheimer of basketball. The offensive philosophy was too stoppable by good defenses. There was no spacing. Just like the Harbaugh offense.
The Warriors took a big chance. It could have backfired. I remember the players not happy about letting Jackson go. Ann Killion and Cohn were lambasting Lacob. Lacob was actually getting booed at home games when he traded Ellis. Lacob was not deterred. He knew he had to make a bold move and hope it worked out. At least it was a calculated move. He didn’t do it blindly. But still, it was quite a risk.
I’ve been comparing the Warriors and 49ers all off season. Both coaches won but alienated the front office. I’ve seen that comparison disregarded by some. That’s OK. It is to be expected. Like I’ve said before many times, when an employee and the owner have a fall out, the owner always wins. He has to for the sake of the business. Harbaugh will need to learn this at some point. He’s a good coach but a bad manager.
Let’s just hope the 49ers move turns out as well as the Warriors move.
The biggest chance the Warriors took was the possibility of not landing Kerr. The Knicks wanted him bad. Anyone with half a brain knew Kerr was going to do a great job. Killion and co notwithstanding. Kerr has proven over the years to be a smart guy, a strong competitor, and someone the players had instant respect for.
Harbaugh likes to run things his way, and he likes to create turmoil. He enjoys fucking with people in pressers, and being obtuse and weird to his higher-ups. The brass at Stanford was never too enamored with him as well. Don’t know about USD, but that was his launching pad.
Remind you of anyone?
Shit, Vince McMahon looks like he’s 12. This must be late 70s!
Gobble gobble jive turkey indeed.
ithink early 80″s. Anyway that was just for laughs.
Ok, just to even the playing field. Does this remind you of anyone?
Hyuk!!!
I’m thinking more like this:
Yeah, that is more true to the point. i was just having some fun and figured a military theme kinda worked.
Hey he can drop trou, prance naked in the locker room, eat funny mushrooms, or scream “who’s got it better than us?” as long as he wins us some games.