No Faith in the Moral Standards of the Players as a Group

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

This is just plain stupid. The league's disciplinary and appeals process is a joke. You think the fact that he wants to overturn the decision based on that process means he wants to vindicate Brady? What are you smoking?

No, I was trying to ask you how you explain what Berman did? Earlier, you said that the fact that he ruled for Brady on the law doesn't mean that he saw it Brady's way on the facts. But then you suggested that he didn't really care about the legal analysis -- that he was otherwise looking for a reason to rule for Brady. But if it wasn't the facts and it wasn't the law, what was it?

In your world conjecture magically turns into "a close reading." Fuck outta here.

I read the decision close enough to see the scarequotes. I still can't tell what, if anything, you read.

You cherry picked part of the decision on that point. Burger and I were discussing the other sections, dumbass. If you don't want to discuss the other sections, then kick rocks.

You have all these neat rhetorical tricks to avoid ever saying anything about what Berman actually said. Berman was just looking for a way to rule for Brady. The legal points are technicalities. I'm biased. I'm cherry-picking. It's like watching an lesson in how to get through a law school class without having done the homework. If it works for you, go with it. But Burger and I were discussing the same portion of the decision. (Go back to where I quoted, "First offenses will result in fines." The next sentence has the $5,512 number Burger has mentioned a couple of times.)