Songs For The Back Of Your Head
May 17, 2008 by Run Up The Score!
Three rare Wilco tracks in case the Iowa boys (not them) stop by.
Also, look at the big brain on me:
Under the terms of the plea agreement reached today, Baker pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor simple assault — one count stemming from each incident — and a misdemeanor count of defiant trespass in connection with the Meridian II incident.
Slightly more thoughtful edit: References to “douchebag prosecutors” aside, my problem with this goes back to the “just a fight” principle that M1EK loves so much. If you’re going to potentially ruin a kid’s life with felony charges, there better have been some serious injuries / loss of property involved. Okay, fine, scare ‘em straight at first. That, I understand. But this case dragged on way too long.
I’m still not 100% sure of the details of the HUB incident other than:
- Someone was frontin’ on someone else
- A former Temple football player was righteously stomped
- Knowledge Timmons showed why he’s not a wide receiver, after fumbling his iPhone
…but it eventually became clear that Baker wasn’t that involved in whatever happened there. So let him get back to school and get on with his life. I’m not forgiving the stupidity of that night, but enough is enough.
Great news. The superhomer in me hopes that Baker has learned his lesson so that he can add more depth to an already impressively deep DL.
Not sure on the logic here. Quite often a plea bargain is for lesser charges than we all know the dude did - just to save the state (and the victim, and maybe even the perp) the cost of a trial, right?
I don’t see it as that clear at all. What we know now is that a plea bargain was offered and accepted. Again, isn’t it quite common for the charges in the plea bargain to be substantially less serious than the ones the state believes to be justified in order to make the deal attractive enough to take?
You seem to be assuming that the plea-bargained charges were pretty much what happened. Am I reading you wrong?
Partially. Throw in a little “what do we absolutely know happened?” and “what can actually be proven?”, and I think that would sum things up. With respect to the first incident, we know that a bunch of players clearly left their brains at home and stormed an apartment party. Injuries of the minor “treated and released” varieties occurred. To be clear, what the players did was fucking moronic and they needed to be legally punished. And it’s just my personal view of things, but if I’m the prosecutor in that jurisdiction, I can’t look at those circumstances and think that felony charges are appropriate. That’s my main criticism of the process, outside of the idiocy that led to these circumstances.
Admittedly, another part of this is just story-fatigue. As a fan, I’m done with it.
Don’t get to say this too often, but I hadn’t heard that version of “Leave Me Like You Found Me” yet. Thanks, RUTS. In honor of your brilliance, I promise a full 24 hours without a Paterno joke (though I have no editorial control over OPS and JHC).
Your Leman “Freedom Squad” piece is thanks enough Hawkeye State