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Meaning: Be prepared and save your resources until they are needed.
Origin: The allusion is to gunpowder which soldiers had to keep dry in order to be ready to fight when required.
OK, it has been reported by the NFL Network that the 49ers may offer a position to Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice
One high-ranking 49ers official said last week, “If she’s interested in talking to us, I’m interested in talking to her.” Rice has told friends as recently as last week she would love to become president of an NFL team.
Should this rumor develop into an actual possibility, you'd best believe that we'll unleash a fusillade of withering criticism at the current all-measurable-results-are-failure York family 49er ownership for offering a job to an all-measurable-results-are-failure war criminal. For the Yorks to make such an insane business move... the thought almost defeats all irony. This simply can't be.
Or, perhaps it'd be a perfect match: at best, Ms. Rice is inept, allowing herself to be blinded by her own preconceptions, and in following her preconceptions, she has horribly injured the United States Of America. At worst, she's a liar, who ineptly attempted to craft reality to her own preconceptions and failed, horribly injuring the United States Of America.
Either way -- her record of stubbornness in the face of facts, obfuscation, avoidance of consensus, lack of care for the people she was tasked to represent, and overall results of abject failure make her a perfect candidate for these York-owned 49ers based on all of the post-Mooch decisions that Dr. York has made.
Pathetic.
Not to mention the fact that she's a Broncos fan!
Let this only be a rumor. Please.
The 49ers should be retiring Jerry Rice's jersey, not offering the specific personage of failure that is Condoleezza Rice any sort of of job in any capacity ever. Ever.
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Sadly, this sounds like a totally plausible move from the Yorks.
@cv
That's the worst part. Or at least part of the worst part -- the plausibility of it.
We know she likes football and wants to come back to the Bay Area...
Agreed. It has the whiff of truth.
Evidently the phrase "It could be worse..." no longer applies.
Amen.
They've probably just confused Condi & Jerry.
Yes, but how do you REALLY feel?
@ DJ TN
> Evidently the phrase "It could be worse..." no longer applies.
Heck, we're already in such a cartoonish place... best that could be said is that they didn't consider Matt Millen. And that we're not Lions fans. Those guys have it tough.
Well, how COULD things get worse? Anyone got any ideas? Post 'em.
@ antfaber
> They've probably just confused Condi & Jerry.
Uhm... wait, what?
@ scopa
> Yes, but how do you REALLY feel?
Despairing. Upset. Scared. Hold me.
Well, how COULD things get worse? Anyone got any ideas? Post 'em.
Well, the Niners could keep Alex Smith. If they start winning, they might screw themselves out of a good position in the NFL draft. And next home game, two MUNI buses can crash instead of one.
The Queen of the Chicken Hawks running the York's 49ers? Sadly, that sound just about right.
Hey, I got it! The Yorks could fire the Forty-Niner mascot and hire Crazy Crab!
Who cares? The 49ers is a privately-owned big-money company, a cash cow for some rich ass you already don't like and who would not give you the time of day. It's the sports equivalent of a local Wal-Mart, with revenues multiplied by several hundred.
It would be different if somebody threatened to give her control of City Lights or Taqueria El Farolito or something real.
@ cv
Alas for Alex, there's no way the Niners'll keep him after the latest injury. It feels like that point in their relationship where both parties know that they've gotta move on. Maybe a change of scenery will do him well, if he can heal up his shoulder. Otherwise he'll end his career on that injury, like Tim Couch or Cade McNown. Odds are, if he can get better, he might get a job under Norv in SD.
As for the draft, the Niners have a couple other teams that're out-doing them in terms of Fail: no wins yet for the Bengals or Lions. Will they start winning a few and move down in the draft? Mmmm, I'd say no. Maybe 3 or 4 wins the rest of the way tops.
As for MUNI, I can't even make a joke about that... what can be worse than suffering through a game like that, THEN being in a bus accident. Extra-tough to be those fans.
@ cv again
Dr. York prob'ly doesn't even know who Crazy Crab is. After all, he doesn't live here.
The Yorks wouldn't directly hire Crazy Crab. It would be Scot (or Condi) or maybe some high-priced "staffing consultant".
And see, this illustrates how the Yorks function (dysfunction?). They practically have no knowledge of the sport, the team's tradition, etc. They would look at the unemployed and unpopular Crazy Crab (fired after one season) the same way they've practically looked at everyone else on their payroll. With poor judgment.
@ montrealnow
It would be different if somebody threatened to give her control of City Lights or Taqueria El Farolito or something real.
Yeah, the 49ers are bread-and-circuses -- they are bread-and-circuses that I enjoy.
The criticism that sportsfans basically cheer for laundry certainly applies these days.
(City Lights isn't going anywhere; it's a landmark. And if anything threatened Farolito, that'd be a Watchmen-level event for all the various appreciable gangs in that area and the threat would be summarily dismissed.)
Pro sports teams are beholden to no one 'cept their owners. Look at the BS perpetrated on Seattle by the Sonics/Thunder owners. Ideally, teams contribute-to, entertain, and enrich the community that they're in.
The Yorks might not give me the time of day, but then again I haven't asked.
@everyone.
Tried to see if I could find any other articles confirming or denying this rumor...actually found a movie trailer called "courting condi" about a white man who is in love with her. haha. it was actually pretty funny.
Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwErHTP6ekk