i remember november 27, 2007 like it was yesterday..... news breaks at 2am west coast, im at a college party, across the wire goes SEAN TAYLOR SHOT, IN CRITICAL CONDITION, I drop my glass and immediatley dial my brother and get a busy signal(he was trying to call me) and for the next 12 hours redskins nations in shock.  When i saw how young and stupid those kids that did it were; it made even harder to deal with; they were younger than i was.  It was a night and week that neither I nor any Redskins fan will ever forget ....  cut to the other night.  I was with my roomate, who is a cincy die hard, at a college party, when across the wire goes the CHRIS HENRY CRITICAL CONDITION and he drops his glass dials his brother and gets a busy signal, eerie... i had a feeling how it would play out and of course it did and bengals fans everywere now mourn... well every redskins fan mourns with you and your team....

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what're the actual odds that rudy gay gets dealt this season? and if it does happen what would chris wallace really expect in return considering his history

as a fan of a team that has been on the wrong side of a few miserable chris wallace trades (VIN F"%*g BAKER comes to mind) i feel your pain on the ridiculous kwame brown for pau gasol fleecing, especially since it helped the hated lakers... but if your not going to keep gay then im assuming it won't take all that much to pry him loose too... oh and as a side bar can he play well off the bench? as a 4? 

as i said an interested party very much interested in aquiring a legit small forward to play 25 min. a night to help ours guard the lebrons and rashard lewis' of the world

just had a moment of realization--- it seems to me that since for this whole decade playing down to the competition has been the theme and losing to rookies and first time starters seems to happen an inordinate amount for us (ie stafford, gradkowski, fitzpatrick)...... As a diehard Boston Celtics fan when we won the title 2 years ago i noticed that we got everyones best effort every night, the fans were more up to beat us, we got 100 percent effort from the other team every night out--- because we were the champs and acted like idiots people "got up" to play us..... Tying this into the redskins it definatley seems that we get everyone's best effort every game,  i wonder if that's because since we always play down to the competition bad teams have a different level of confidence playing us.  Its the reverse championship belts theory. It even seems that teams will activley try and start first timers against us and i wonder if that has something to do with the confindence playing us seems to give teams.  We even manage to play teams right as their getting healthy too (ie rams and steven jackson last year, and seahawks and hasselbeck last year) 

if anyone on here is a redskins fan living in the las vegas area or planning on visting sin city during the season the old skins bar jacksons is now a packer bar... but that place kind of sucked anyway so NEW REDSKINS BAR IN LAS VEGAS BILBO's TAVERN... supposedly has great food and killer plasmas worth checking out havent been there yet but ill let you know sunday

BILBOS TAVERN

8699 WEST CHARLESTON 

1 block west of durango on charleston

wow we went through my greatgrandadd's attic today.. He had boston braves season tickets for 40 years before they moved.....crazy trip back in time all the old dusty stuff.... heres all the braves stuff we found so far won't list all of it but heres the ridiculously awesome ones

BOSTON GLOBE OCTOBER 14, 1914-- the day after the Miracle Boston Braves of 1914 won the worlds series

some leather thing-- dont know what it is saying braves champs must be from 1914

some old boston braves matchcovers with players on them look to be from 20's and 30's 

crapload of old cards found a 1935 babe ruth his last year was with the braves

a ball my granddad got at spring training in 1947 signed by the whole team

1948 nl champs pennant  

1948 world series programs for the game in boston

48 series nl pennant pin that says SCALP EM GO BRAVES---- how crazy un-politically correct is that scalp 'em

old boston globe with headline right before start of 48 series "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain" the old poem about the boston aces

some old baseball magazines--- look to be late 30's- mid 40's

FIRST EVER ISSUE OF SPORTS ILLUSTRATED WITH A YOUNG EDDIE MATHEWS ON THE COVER

a boston globe with the headline SAY IT AINT SO DONT GO BRAVES from 1952 right after news broke of the move to milwaukee

some boston bees programs and minibats from when they were the boston bees for a couple  of years

so thats just some of the stuff... will post pictures of everything tommorow still a bunch of boxes of stuff to go through.... granddad says that somewhere there is a ball signed by a young casey stengel but still looking

i love reading about the 57 m-braves but therre is a crazy story of how they didnt loose game 3 to the yankees because a guy was supposed to be out but he grabbed the ball and showed the ump the shoeshine mark on the ball from his freshly polished shoes and the ump awared him first base and we won the game... my dad listened to it on the radio and i have never been able to find video of this-- it was 1957 the world series was on tv nationally by that point i cant believe it would be that hard to find video of it but if anyone has ever seen it or knows where i can find it say something please... and if you dont know the story i suggest you look it up it'll blow your mind

just got back home to vegas after a hell of a series in san diego.... Petco Park is absolutley amazing, one of the best places to see a game for sure.  Couple of things of note-- The place was packed with braves fans I dont know if anyone else on here was there, but let me tell you it was about 60-40 for game one and 70-30 the last two.  I can't get over what an amazing place petco park is, not a bad seat in the house, today was two for one tickets in the bleachers and it was honestly better than the down the first base line seats we had the day before.  Ok enough about petco,a few things i noticed live that don't come through on the tv.  First our right field defense is horrendous, in a big park like petco matty d and church have way too much ground to cover for them to get to should-be catchable balls, there were at least two lead off triples in the series both two right field.  though hell of a throw today by ryan church. Nother thing noticed live is that tony gwynn 2 and nate do not like each other at all it almost came to a fight at one point today dont think the cameras caught it though.   Second Chipper IS HURT, not injured enough to miss time, but something is definatley wrong especially after swings and misses he was grimacing a lot, and didnt have any real pop on the ball at all.   And third Yunel escobar missed some makeable throws, just didtnt seem to have the zip on his throws like he normally does which cost us a few doulbe play opps especially in game 1, hopefully it's just a remnant of the hand injury (on a side note-- diory should not be playing in the major leagues, i know he's our only back up ss, but seriously he couldnt even come close to hitting any breaking pitch whatsoever and his defense is sub par as well),  AND I COULD THROW A FASTBALL PAST GREG NORTON I SWEAR TO GOD BRING BACK INFANTE ALREADY

ok so my brother has this longsleeved sweat shirt jersey thats all burgandy with gold numbers, no name on the back, with a redskins insignia on the front and it's number is 32.... as far as we know no one really good has worn 32.... if anyone has any clues as to what player it is or what jersey line it is thatd be great... it's really comfortable and awesome and very unique, but for to people as knowledgable about the skins we feel ashamed we don't know who it is. ill post a picture later if i can find it.  The greatest redskins for every number thread series would help a lot, but their only on 22