Reporting live from the toilet...

[Mr. Scot]

...we go to Ron Borges of The Boston Herald.

Lawyers, like boxing promoters and used car salesmen, work in the dark place between the truth and what they can turn it into. They are like foundry workers. Both get paid to bend things. One gets paid to bend iron. The other gets paid to bend facts.

Sometimes, however, they can’t avoid the truth. This especially is true if they think no one is listening, which is what made the words of NFL attorney Bob Batterman interesting Tuesday.

Batterman walked into a bathroom at the Roosevelt Hotel with another league official just after the annual NFL owners meetings concluded. Commissioner Roger Goodell was headed to a ballroom to meet with the press, but not all media members were there yet.

One was sitting on a commode behind a closed door when Batterman’s distinctive voice asked his colleague if he was flying back to New York “on Roger’s plane?”

The unlucky fellow wasn’t, so the conversation turned to the owner-imposed lockout of players that has turned the NFL into the No Football League.

“Now we settle in for the long battle,” Batterman said. “I thought we had a chance to avoid it a couple of weeks ago, but it didn’t happen.”

The truth of the matter had been revealed next to a porcelain commode:

“Now we settle in for the long battle.”

Flushing out the truth

[Mr. Scot]

It's about the lockout.

So...yeah :sosp:

[Mother Grabber]

Coincidentally, I read this on my phone while taking a big gruntski. It's like I was there!

[Mr. Scot]

Ridiculous circumstance aside, I really don't like what he heard Batterman say.

The sad thing is he's probably right :(

[vorbis]

[blackcatgrowl]

WTF is this stupid poo?

WTF????

[Mother Grabber]

WTF is this stupid poo?

WTF????

No sht, right? That had creepy, midwest inbreds written all over it.

[R0CKnR0LLA]

Who has a name like Batterman anyway? What are you some gay baseball super hero?