thundercleetz

Sure if that's what you want to believe that's fine.

You're completely missing the point here, but you're actually making mine. How do you know his injury could be career threatening if he came back? Unless you have an inside source you're reading the same speculation everyone else is. No one on this board has seen Pitta's medical records nor could explain the science behind his injury. Bottom line, this is a call made heavily influenced by the doctors. Ozzie would not have given Pitta the designation to return unless the doctors said there was a safe, realistic chance to return.

Gentrification 101: a lot of current city residents will not see any benefit from this development. In fact these same residents will probably be forced out in years to come due to higher costs of living within the city due to big business development. Like I said Reagan Republicans posing as liberal democrats. It's like the gas tax in MD. Regressive tax to pay for large-scale infrastructure projects. In the short-term lower income residents will pay more for transportation costs, long-term the large scale projects will spur big business development eventually forcing out current residents. With all that said, for Baltimore to develop and keep up with other cities economical this is probably a deal that needs to be made.

Not denying that Ozzie hasn't messed up. Have you seen Pitta's medical records? We can try to be Google doctors but in reality no two injuries are the same. Ozzie wouldn't have given him the designation if the doctors said there was no chance of Pitta coming back. This call was no doubt influenced by the doctors. Bisciotti isn't paying them the big bucks to be ignored.

I agree with you but there is a lot of information we do not know here. We waited until Pitta was a month into his rehab before using the designation. My only point here: in Ozzie we trust (and our team doctors). Ozzie wouldn't have made this move unless the doctors agreed.

I'm not going to doubt modern medicine. The Ravens have one of the best medical staffs in the league. If Ozzie gave Pitta the designation to return I am positive he got favorable reports from his doctors. That designation is too important to take a chance with.

Since we are on the topic of energy and non-renewable resources, I have always been a big fan of TDI vehicles. I think there is a lot of potential there for relatively easy widespread implementation at a low cost to consumers (prices are higher now but would drop in the future). Europe has adopted TDI in a lot of their cars. We certainly have the resources for large scale implementation of clean burning diesel fuel. However the question then becomes food production versus fuel production (TDI is essentially refined vegetable oil). We have already seen BMW and Audi (VW included) adopt TDI in the US. With all the fast food we have in this country I'm sure we could set up incentives for a vegetable oil recycling program.

I think the project is a great idea. But then again I am not a very compassionate person so my opinion might not be best in this situation haha.

We're a rebuilding team, I expect there to be some rough patches. At least we are in a good cap situation. A lot of these young players will get better as the season goes on. If I am really concerned about one thing, it is the offensive line. There was an article out the other week that implied the zone schemes installed by Juan Castillo might not be best for the player personnel we have.

We're a rebuilding team, I expect there to be some rough patches. At least we are in a good cap situation. A lot of these young players will get better as the season goes on.

Exactly right. A lot of city residents today will not be a part of the potential prosperity of the city in a couple of decades. Gentrification has occured in nearly every prosperous city in the US. Is it morally right? Probably not. But that's just how development works in society. These liberal city mayors are really nothing more than Reagan Republicans. It's all two-sides of the same coin.

I am a fan of SRB. I believe she is honestly doing what she thinks is best for the city. She essentially has a no-win job as Baltimore City mayor. Tough choices and short-term sacrifices must be made for long-term prosperity. She is willing to make those decisions.

Max I'm impressed by your post and admire your compassion for the planet. However I just don't share your optimism for your our economy and the prospect of the world cooperating to tackle this enormous problem. Our budget is maxed out and our government is facing an imminent shutdown. Where will we come up with these resources to develop and employ such a large scale implementation? Print more money? If our politicians are pushing off the problem of social security to the next generation, you really think they will tackle a world wide problem with the environment? As far as the rest of the world, the EU has its own monetary problems. We are really in no position to tell China to stop their coal and high emissions manufacturing as they go through their Industrial Age that we went through in the early 1900s. Not that China would listen anyways. Any regulations placed on energy companies is going to have a direct windfall effect on is consumers. The question becomes: how much are you willing to personally sacrifice for this cause? You make a great point about World War II. The reason US and Europe emerged strong from WWII was we were placed in a situation where action was required for survival. There's a reason why that generation is referred to as the greatest ever, they stepped up big time. With relation to the environment, one of two things will happen: 1. Technology will be developed where the cost of a large scale implementation will be significantly less expensive, and maybe even profitable. 2. The environment will be eroded so terribly that the world will be put into a situation where action is required for survival. World leaders seem to be banking on a technological break through, or as with social security, have no problem dumping the problem on the next generation to deal with.

Two bad plays in a row for Doss. A poor decision to return a punt and a dropped pass or fumble.

Man our run game is terrible, the offensive line is doing a terrible job picking up the blitz (Buffalo is blitzing the hell out of us), and Joe is completely out of sync with his receivers.

More MD problems: http://touch.baltimoresun.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-77551696/

With how much they paid for that bad boy that toll is not going down anytime soon. I agree with max though, the ICC is great! When I have to commute to central Montgomery County it saves a lot of time.

Until those same people realize that gas prices jump to $10 a gallon, they are forced to buy a $40k electric car, or hundreds of thousands coal miners in the Midwest are out of jobs crippling small economies. I completely agree with max, changes need to happen now before it's too late. However is the everyday working man ready to make that individual sacrifice? I don't think the average person could afford to do so. If these changes were feasible, they would have been done by now. There are too many outside variables involved, including large interest groups that have both parties by the balls. IMO more investment should have been made in public infrastructure and transportation years ago when constructions costs were low. Now building rail systems from dense suburbs to even more dense cities is way too expensive. Imagine how different Baltimore would be if they built a metro system similar to DC back in the 70s? Metro lines expanding out to Columbia or Towson similar to DC going out to Laurel or Silver Spring. Most US cities squandered such opportunities. One thing Obama has done that I am a fan of is his transportation infrastructure match program providing incentive for start up infrastructure projects.

As long as we get the win I don't care how we win. The difference between a fluttering offense this season compared to previous seasons is this year Flacco has complete control of the offense. There are no more stupid passes by Flacco, he's been very accurate for the most part, and he has the offense set up at the LoS with plenty of time left on the play clock. Flacco put on a clinic with the snap count last week, he sounded like a 10-year vet. We never got that with Cameron as OC. The offense is completely Joe's and once the WR's and TE's come around with the chemistry, we'll be ready to roll.

I'm thinking we agree. I value those same things, which is why I don't have a problem with the gas tax. I have a problem with how our state politicians sell these policies to the public, but that's another matter. Anyways, that is exactly the point I was making: good public services aren't cheap so living in this area of the country will he expensive. As a result people shouldn't be surprised when taxes like the road toll comes up. But you hit the head on the nail... This one isn't very efficient.

I don't know why people are surprised. Crabs, football and taxes are what Maryland does. IMO it is what it is, it's expensive to live in this corridor of the country. DC as for the HOV lanes, growing up in the DC area they don't work very well. 495 traffic is 10x worse than 695. As far as why the 95 EZ Pass lanes aren't HOT tolls like the ICC, simply not enough room. That works for the ICC because all lanes are toll lanes so cameras can catch everything. 95 is already cramped, to set up HOT tolls you would have to create a complete separate section of the highway like the new HOT toll lanes on the VA side of 495. In fact VA got rid of the HOV lanes to install the HOT toll lanes. The VA side of the beltway is also twelve lanes wide. I mean I guess there is probably technology available to make it happen, but I'm sure the cost is enormous like anything else nowadays.

How do you beat the pistol? Oh wait we already did...

Good move. Doss is a decent body who can play ST. We have to carry more active receivers, so guys that can play ST are a premium. Throw in he already knows the offense and these reasons are why we brought back Doss and not a vet. Doss didn't play terrible in the preseason, just had some mental lapses. As our five receiver, he's a good option if someone goes down like on Thursday.

He was. Shows how serious Bisctiotti is with all that dead guaranteed money he put up to get rid of Billick. If this was Paul Brown they would have made Billick coach that entire thing out.

I think we are just fine with Torrey, Brown, Stokley, Mellette and Doss/Thompson as the fifth guy. It's tight-end I'm worried about.