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[Ryan Dietzenbach]

Who wrote this garbage?  Giving good players more breaks than crappy players
happens EVERYWHERE.  The attacks on the Bears are just plain silly.  They
are no worse than other teams.

RD

2008/5/4 Tom Shannon <tshanno at gmail.com>:

>
> http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/rosenblog/2008/05/bears-will-cut.html
>
> Bears will cut, run and posture
>
> The Bears like what they see of running back Matt Forte. Then again,
> they'd like any running back who (insert predictable, vicious, but accurate
> Cedric Benson joke), and man, am I going to hate it when the Bears cut
> Benson after the June 1 deadline.
>
> No, wait, they might cut Benson today after the plodding goof was arrested
> over the weekend<http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/cs-080504-cedric-benson-arrested-chicago-bears,1,5934907.story>for boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest.
>
> *Police pepper-sprayed Benson*, a move that seems a little over the top.
> Police apparently didn't know that the quickest way to get Benson to the
> ground is simply first contact.
>
> *Oh, and if you think I'm kidding* about the Bears cutting Benson right
> now, then you've missed how inconsistent, hypocritical and transparent these
> Bears wonks are when it comes to the character issue. I mean, they just drafted
> a guy with recent drug charges<http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/cs-080503-marcus-harrison-chicago-bears-haugh,1,6576501.column>,
> so character only matters if you can't take on a double-team, or average 4
> yards a carry. The Idiot Benson is supposed to be rehabbing an injury, and
> I'm just going to take a wild shot here that boozing it up on the Colorado
> River isn't part of the therapy. That's all you need to know right there.
> You can already hear the phony-baloney Bears describing their utter
> disappointment in Benson, and the only question is not whether they launch
> the big dope but whether general manager Jerry Angelo tears a hamstring
> racing for the high moral ground in announcing it.
>
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>   - Edith Wharton
>
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