#DFG: Canceling the Noise

[AB in DC]

“@BobMcGovernJr: Judge Berman has issued at least eight orders in non-#Deflategate cases today. Say what you will, but the man is working.”

 
Those two new clerks must be working overtime.

 

[Myt1]

Is this the thread where I get credit for knowing McGovern?

 

[dcmissle]

 
Those two new clerks must be working overtime.

They take the 8:15 in to the city

 

[P'tucket rhymes with...]

I'm glad that he specified that the Russian Spy case is unrelated.

Wasting his time on a Russian Spy when the real threat to The American Way is right under his nose.

 

[Leather]

 
Those two new clerks must be working overtime.

Not if all the orders say: "Sorry, maybe next week!"

 

[Saints Rest]

 
I'm guessing that Treason merits 2 games like wife-beating.
 
PSI is in another league.

To this day, I can't understand why this whole hullaballoo wasn't called PSI-gate.

 

[djbayko]

Do we know if either of Berman's clerks are Russian?

 

[OnWisc]

Any word on what the spy thinks Brady's prospects are?

 

[Section15Box113]

To this day, I can't understand why this whole hullaballoo wasn't called PSI-gate.

Or PSI: Foxboro.

 

[AB in DC]

To this day, I can't understand why this whole hullaballoo wasn't called PSI-gate.

 
I was really hoping Deflatermess would catch on.

 

[tims4wins]

Or Remedial Science-gate

 

[PedroKsBambino]

no Wifi on the plane?

 
TV, maybe?  If it has to make an emergency landing won't the passengers have to watch it on TV?   OMG....

 

[Leather]

Bloviate-gate.
 

 
TV, maybe?  If it has to make an emergency landing won't the passengers have to watch it on TV?   OMG....

 
That happened once on a Jet Blue flight.

 

[pappymojo]

In Soviet Russia, the commissioner who determined the penalty arbitrates on the fairness of the ruling.

 

[PedroKsBambino]

 
That happened once on a Jet Blue flight.
 

 
...which was chronicled in a P&G thread with some similarities to this one  

 

[nighthob]

They take the 8:15 in to the city

 
You ain't seen nothin' yet, reading this thread I stayed awake all night.

 

[allstonite]

It was rainy on the night of the AFC Championship Game and the wetness may have caused some of the PSI drop. Maybe it should be called Watergate?

 

[CaptainLaddie]

I can't believe we're going to keep going with this.

 

[Leather]

 
...which was chronicled in a P&G thread with some similarities to this one  

 
Ah, gotcha.

 

[catomatic]

Who's on board with calling the next phase Defamegate?

 

[cornwalls@6]

Friday should be interesting: golf club, cold beer and constantly hitting refresh on my phone. My very limited dexterity and hand eye coordination will stretched to its limit.

 

[Harry Hooper]

 
Still better than trying to land at the Akron-Canton Airport

 
 
So, let's not put him in Canton just yet?

 

[Rovin Romine]

Friday should be interesting: golf club, cold beer and constantly hitting refresh on my phone. My very limited dexterity and hand eye coordination will stretched to its limit.

 
In case of a golfing mishap resulting in injury, I believe you should sue the judge.  This seems like a species of entrapment.  Or attractive nuisance.

 

[cornwalls@6]

In case of a golfing mishap resulting in injury, I believe you should sue the judge.  This seems like a species of entrapment.  Or attractive nuisance.

And if there's anyway defamation can be added to those..............

 

[TheoShmeo]

A friend of mine has a friend who was defamationed.  I'll ask him.

 

[Rovin Romine]

And if there's anyway defamation can be added to those..............

A stretch.  How about negligent infliction of emotional distress?   How strongly is your sense of personal identity rooted in the public perception of either Brady or the NFL?  Depending on what's written about them, are tears possible?

 

[OCST]

A stretch.  How about negligent infliction of emotional distress?   How strongly is your sense of personal identity rooted in the public perception of either Brady or the NFL?  Depending on what's written about them, are tears possible?

 
I remember learning, in Torts, of one case in which a court found for the plaintiff in a negligent infliction of emotional distress case.  It was at least 100 years ago in Georgia, IIRC.  The plaintiff was a "proper white woman" who sat in the front row at a circus.  A horse backed up to her and shat all over her.

 

[OCST]

I found it:
 

 
Christy Bros. Circus v. Turnage, 38 Ga. App. 581, 144 S.E. 680(1928):
 
Action by Velna Turnage against the Christy Bros. Circus. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Affirmed.
STEPHENS, J. There may be a recovery of damages for mental suffering, humiliation or embarrassment resulting from a physical injury of which they are inseparable components.
Any unlawful touching of a person’s body, although no actual physical hurt may ensue therefrom, yet, since it violates a personal right, constitutes a physical injury to that person. The unlawful touching need not be direct, but may be indirect, as by the precipitation upon the body of a person of any material substance.
Since the right to recover for a mental condition induced by the tortious act of another is dependent upon the existence of a physical injury, a person suffering a mental condition dependent upon an injury to the person may, in suing to recover damages for the injury, limit the damages to the mental suffering alone, and it is not essential to his right to the recovery of damages for mental suffering that the physical injury out of which the mental suffering arose, was productive of any actual physical hurt or damage, or that he should seek a recovery for such physical hurt or damage.
Where a petition alleged that the plaintiff was an unmarried white lady, and that while in attendance as a guest of the defendant at a circus performance given by the defendant, and while seated in one of the seats provided by the defendant for the defendant’s guests at the circus, a horse, which was going through a dancing routine immediately in front of where plaintiff was sitting, was by the defendant’s servant, who was riding upon the horse, caused to back towards the plaintiff, and while in this situation the horse evacuated his bowels into her lap, that this occurred in full view of many people, some of whom were the defendant’s employees, and all of whom laughed at the occurrence, that as a result thereof the plaintiff was caused much embarrassment, mortification, and mental pain and suffering, to her damage in a certain amount, that the damage alleged was due entirely to the defendant’s negligence and without any fault on the part of the plaintiff, the petition set out a cause of action and was good as against a general demurrer.
The evidence authorized the inference that the plaintiff was damaged, by reason of humiliation and embarrassment, in the sum of $500, and the verdict found for her in that amount was authorized.
 

 
Note: This is an outlier, to put it mildly.

 

[Rovin Romine]

 
I remember learning, in Torts, of one case in which a court found for the plaintiff in a negligent infliction of emotional distress case.  It was at least 100 years ago in Georgia, IIRC.  The plaintiff was a "proper white woman" who sat in the front row at a circus.  A horse backed up to her and shat all over her.

Did she cry?  (I bet she cried.)  

 

[Marciano490]

I found it:
 
 
Note: This is an outlier, to put it mildly.

 
Check your cite, there should be a space before the date in parens.

 

[wilked]

$7000 in today's dollars. She should have asked for more

 

[Rovin Romine]

 
Check your cite, there should be a space before the date in parens.

At least he didn't italicize the comma.  

 

[Marciano490]

At least he didn't italicize the comma.  

 
I'm no hypocrite, I do that all the time.

 

[Rovin Romine]

I'm no hypocrite, I do that all the time.

 
Well, obviously, now I can't be seen to be conversing with either of you.  

 

[Reverend]

So... the lawyers in the deflategate thread have been reduced to making jokes about proper commas formatting in a case about an elephant shitting upon a proper white woman.

I hope Goodell is happy with himself.

 

[BernieRicoBoomer]

This thread is like the last day of senior year...even the smart kids are goofing off.

 

[ipol]

Shouldn't the elephant shit be in the legal thread?

 

[Eddie Jurak]

So... the lawyers in the deflategate thread have been reduced to making jokes about proper commas formatting in a case about an elephant shitting upon a proper white woman.

I hope Goodell is happy with himself.

Goodell won't be happy with himself for forgetting to make "shat on by an elephant" a part of Brady's penalty.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Shouldn't the elephant shit be in the legal thread?

 
That's for the bull shit

 

[joe dokes]

In Soviet Russia, the commissioner who determined the penalty arbitrates on the fairness of the ruling.
 

 
In Russia, balls deflate you.

 

[dcmissle]

So... the lawyers in the deflategate thread have been reduced to making jokes about proper commas formatting in a case about an elephant shitting upon a proper white woman.

I hope Goodell is happy with himself.

I'm reduced to hoping that writing a decision confirming the award is just not this hard

 

[In Vino Vinatieri]

 

So... the lawyers in the deflategate thread have been reduced to making jokes about proper commas formatting in a case about an elephant shitting upon a proper white woman.

I hope Goodell is happy with himself.

Lawyers will argue over proper spacing and italicization of commas, but ignore the elephant actually being a horse? These jokes could be written by a comedy clerk with only 1 month on the job.
 

Any updates on RedOctober's flight? He's going to Toledo. On a plane.

 

here's to hoping he goes full nuclear when he lands and holds a press conference demanding an apology from Roger Goodell

 

[theapportioner]

I think the most revelatory thing these past few days is that OCST is a coprophiliac.

 

[MuppetAsteriskTalk]

I'm hoping it's just taking Judge Berman a long time to write in exacting detail what a ridiculous railroading and subsequent miscarriage of justice the NFL pulled off here. Basically, the 1% longshot dream ruling.

 

[JimBoSox9]

I'm reduced to hoping that writing a decision confirming the award is just not this hard

At this point, in terms of chemical and physiological reactions in our brains and stuff, a favorable Berman ruling would be indistinguishable from another SB championship. An unfavorable one...

 

[ipol]

So now coprophiliac is forever in my Google search history.

 

[Reverend]

I'm reduced to hoping that writing a decision confirming the award is just not this hard

My hope is that he is, as he has been, playing this exactly by the book and holding back the decision even though he knows there is no chance of settlement.

That would square with what we have seen and still allow for him to be exactly the guy we currently want to believe he is, yes?

 

[speedracer]

I still can't quite wrap my head around the fact that we got here because Exponent said "hey, let's build a statistical model for measuring weathered footballs in varying conditions and set parameters for it using the Colts footballs" and then said "oh look, the Patriots footballs don't fit our model but the Colts footballs do, ergo something happened to the Patriots footballs."

 

[OCST]

So... the lawyers in the deflategate thread have been reduced to making jokes about proper commas formatting in a case about an elephant shitting upon a proper white woman.

I hope Goodell is happy with himself.

Not elephant. Horse.

Horse.

 

[j44thor]

This thread is now making me thirsty.
 

 
Any stout fans in the NC area know what I'm talking about.