jim tomsula...

When he gets fired as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, will he ever get another chance to be a head coach in the NFL?   I say, never, ever...

4-10 in his inaugural season and perhaps his only season with two games left.  I hope the Niners lose their next two games- next week at Detroit and end their horrible, horrible season at that wasteland in Santa Clara which is about 50 miles from my apartment in San Francisco.  Oh, the season finale is versus the St. Louis Rams who may or may not return to LA or the LA area.   Going off on a tangent- the Rams have the most overrated coach in the NFL; Jeff Fisher who makes $7M a year.  Twice what Ron Jeremy/Tomsula makes.   26-35-1 as the Rams head coach.  Let's not forget that tie against the Niners in 2012.  Wow!

This blog post is supposed to be about Tomsula, but I need to write a bit more about that lousy coach Fisher.  St. Louis could win their next two games and finish 8-8 which would be his best record as the Rams head coach.   Those three 13-3 seasons with the Tennessee Titans are ancient history...   It could happen, but it ain't gonna happen.   St. Louis faces the hottest team in the league- the Seattle Seahawks at the home of the NFL's 12th Man.   My prediction 7-9.   A loss in my hometown of Seattle and a win at Santa Clara before a sparse crowd of perhaps 28K.   Fisher still has one more year remaining on a $35M contract.  Will he be back next season?  I hope not.

Back to Tomsula.  He's a fucking rat and cockroach.  How does he survive through the coaching regimes of both Mike Singletary and Jim Harbaugh?  I believe he ratted on both Singletary and Harbaugh.  Tomsula was even the interim coach for one game after Singletary was fired.  I remember when that happened and I was thinking- who in the fuck is this guy?  Now, I'll never forget him; which is a bad thing...

The Niners under Tomsula are lucky to be 4-10.  That road win in Chicago was lucky, lucky, lucky.  Robbie Gould the kicker for the Bears gifted the game to San Francisco by missing a 36 yard game winning field goal as time expired.   What gets me is that the Niners got cocky after that win and got spanked by the lowly Browns the next week.

Numbers speak for themselves.  Even if the Niners finish 6-10 and I highly doubt they will, that still is a shitty record.

I saw San Francisco defensive lineman Ian Williams interviewed after the game by that midget on KPIX.  Williams was disappointed in the loss because he believes his team is talented.  What parallel universe is Williams living in?   If Williams believes his teammates are underachieving in games and then it's on the coaches and especially that former butcher- Jim Tomsula.  Okay, he wasn't a butcher, but I believe he was a meat salesman.  I will say that linebacker NaVorro Bowman has fully come back from his hideous injury.  He was all over the field.  Great, great linebacker.   Bowman is tied for the lead in combined tackles at 136 which includes assists.  And is leading the league in individual tackles at 100.

A loss is a loss.  There are no moral victories in football.  Yes, the Niners were down 24-0 at halftime against the Bengals and came back to lose 24-14.   Cincinnati was playing with a backup QB who has never started in the league.   So is losing with dignity acceptable?  I think not...

Do I feel sorry for Tomsula?  Not one iota.  He's making $3.5M a year and no other team in the NFL would have considered hiring him as a head coach.  I don't think they'll even hire him as a defensive coordinator.  He's suited to be a defensive line coach- that's it.

But we all know who put Tomsula in the position he has no business being in, but that's another story...

derek fisher...

My prediction, he won't last the 2015-2016 season as head coach of the Knicks.  Why Phil Jackson hired him in the first place is beyond my comprehension?  

Steve Kerr is a very smart man for reneging the Knicks offer for Golden State and we all know what happened- an NBA Championship for the Warriors for the first time in 40 years.  The Knicks haven't won a championship since 1973.

And won't win one in the foreseeable future.   

Fisher has been on my shit list since he weasled his way out of contract with the Utah Jazz to be closer to better treatment for his daughter who had eye cancer and subsequently re-signed with the Lakers.  The doctor who performed eye surgery on his daughter was in New York.  LA isn't closer to NY, than Salt Lake.  Plus, the Salt Lake region is well known to have great medical facilities.  

He also weasled out of a contract with Dallas and then signed with OKC.  I believe Mark Cuban is still pissed at him...

My buddy used to coach a high school team in the Bay Area and the team was lucky enough to watch a Lakers practice in the City.  After practice almost all the Lakers including Kobe stayed around and took pictures.  The only player that left was Derek Fisher...

By January 2016 Fisher will be fired, but still owed about $18M left on his $25M deal.  

Phil Jackson has proven he can coach, but at this point in time- he doesn't seem to know how to run an NBA franchise.  

albert tanimura...

He was my Auntie Patsy's husband.  A good man who left us a few days ago.  

He was married to my Aunt for over 50 years.  

One memory I had of Albert is he suggested I go to Punahou while visiting his home in Manoa in the 70's.   It sounded like a grand idea at the time- but realistically, my parents probably couldn't afford the tuition and my home was in Seattle.

At least I saw Albert about four months ago at my mom's 90th birthday party.  

Rest in peace Uncle Albert.  

ellen pao...

I wish she'd just go away...

I've read much about her in the past six months- too much.  

Don't understand her marriage to Buddy Fletcher?  I have never seen a picture with her and the man who allegedly took millions to satisfy an over the top lifestyle.  

Pao more than likely lives in the Bay Area. I'm guessing Buddy Boy lives in New York?  One of those bicoastal marriages. 

We'll see if Reddit fires her as interim CEO...

no one in the know calls san francisco- San Fran...

Only idiots who thinks it's cool.  It isn't.  It shows a lack of awareness. We who live in San Francisco and in the Bay Area call San Francsico the City or San Francisco.