This is a pattern with Mangini. Word on the street is that if not for Lerner, he would have been blackballed as a head coach because he violated an unwritten code by finking on Belichick. Somebody oughta teach this Pillsbury Doughboy a lesson before he receives a fist in the face.

However, the browns and eric mangini have every right to hold coaches to their contracts. These coaches are still getting paid and if they are let go they still will get paid. If they catch onto another gig for a lesser salary the browns will have to make up the difference. And if they are quality coaches they will land on their feet even if there is a week delay. The Browns are not toying with theses coaches lives like mcmanamon suggests, they are holding them to an agreement that they signed.

They are now putting up a stone wall around themselves, literally painting out past history (albeit this is silly anyway, since it's history from a totally different franchise, but that's not the point), and then firing a bunch of office employees and using a totally bogus storyline about money to justify it. (Did they find free Sherwin-Williams premium paint on Craigslist, or what?)

By the way, what I found very funny in a very unfunny kind of way is that the royal jerks at the top of the food chain fired the accounts payable person. However, they left the accounts receivable person alone. That should tell you all you need to know about the creeps now running the show.

There's a fine line between sarcasm and cynicism. I agree with those who've suggested you’ve crossed it and that it reflects poorly on your objectivity. Give this new leadership team a chance.

Besides, the Northeast Ohio sports media has forever been Pansyland. The newspapers and the writers who write for those newspapers hop in bed with the very people they cover. It's pathetic.

So who cares if a local sportswriter is being sarcastic? I'll take a billion sarcastic columns before a take one more kiss on the butt cheeks column from any of Northeast Ohio's finest. The closest any of the current local sportswriters out there has ever come to biting the hand that feeds them is Bill Livingston. So long as it's on-target, we need more sportswriters with a nice touch of sarcasm, and less "I'll pray for Paul Byrd" cotton candy folks impersonating sportswriters.

The next green beer is on me, Pat.

Long time reader. I hear what you're saying, and I agree with your sentiment. Reduced access is stupid — this is entertainment! How are you supposed to be entertaining when closing out your fans? It is dumb.

However, I want to encourage you to stop reporting on the Browns for a while. You're angry, and it's coming through in your writing. Any time you're reduced to sarcasm ("burning books") and veiled potshots ("if I could tell you"), that's beneath you as a writer. Again, I agree with your points, and there's no question the Browns organization is a mess. But you've got to be far enough above the fray that your writing sounds compelling and not just frustrated.

Still a big fan, –Bryan

I think he should have the guts to spill the details of what he's suggesting or don't bring it up at all.