No respect for the dead

I applaud Scott's sense of honesty. I question his sense of timing. I'm pretty certain he'll get a call from the Commissioner's office.

In the final analysis, I'd personally rather see something like that which Scott wrote than the ridiculous white-washing of scumbaggery that usually takes place place upon the death of a powerful person.

 

Hitler was pretty bad, but he was no Bob Jelenic.

 

Ace, I have to tell you, many of your posts make me laugh out loud. Just thought you should know.

 

Asking where can the commish get hooked up with a new suit now that Pohlad has yacked?

 

They recommended you to work at the Plain-Dealer. So you take it out on them.

 

From my first editor.

"You know what you get when a prick dies?
"A dead prick."
Words to live by.

 

Or die by, in some cases.

 

I think we might have worked for the same guy, FB.

 

That's the impression he leaves us with, true, but technically he rips Pohlad for being a manipulative and cold businessman. The lone insight into what he was like as a human being is that people who worked for him say they were treated well.

He foreclosed on people. What banker doesn't? He threatened to move his team. How many team owners don't? Was it Pohlad's decision to run the TV spot of the dead kid, or did someone down the food chain come up with that?

The tone seemed a bit shrill considering the actual content. No insights into what made the guy tick, and if you're gonna rip a dead guy in print, I'd consider that to be an essential.

 

My main beef with knocking dead people is that they don't have a chance to defend themselves. It's a chickenshit thing to do. If Pohlad was bad, he didn't just start being bad after he was dead.

 

I'm surprised that he didn't mention the rumors, or maybe it is written somewhere, where earlier this decade Pohlad was upset that the Twins won in the divisional round because it would cost him more money.

 

I thought it lacked class because Scotty-boy doesn't have any personal experiences or any he shared anyway about Pohlad.

Maybe Scotty-boy should bring a family Pohlad foreclosed on to the funeral. Now that would be a good column.