Marciano490 said:
Honestly, you're going to have a better chance counting cards in blackjack at a casino that shuffles 8 decks electronically than parsing a judge's questions for potential clues as to his final decision.
If the tweets are comprehensive, not pushing Kessler or even asking him a single question, about how he can prevail given the arbitration standards is impossible to see as anything but a good thing.
Does it mean Brady will win? Of course not. But you've now got multiple piece of information to help with an understanding of where this judge is -- he has given no indication whatsoever that he's going to give undue deference to the NFL or to arbitration standards. Maybe that's because at this point, those arguments don't fit his settlement agenda, but when you're the party going in to court trying to say, "you have no discretion but to rubber stamp," this is not welcome news.
If you're trying to read tea leaves to understand whether this judge is going to rule for Brady or the NFL, I agree entirely that we don't know based on today's questions. If you're trying to read what the judge has done and said to date to know whether Brady is going to get a fair shake before a neutral, I think we have our answer, or at least are pretty close to having that answer. He may be a dipshit, or not understand the facts, or botch something, or simply have a different judgment from what the rest of us might have, but after 7 months of a completely wired non-neutral process, and concern that getting this case to SDNY would mean more of the same, it's at least good news that we finally have someone who -- whatever his skills or strengths or weaknesses -- seems to get that his job is as a neutral. That's a relief to me.
