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Originally Posted by bubbsy
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While Rome was burning, Peter Chiarelli played his fiddle.
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While Pete was playing that fiddle he wasn’t just ignoring the waiver wire.
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There is no urgency to get better…unless we’re talking about all that fiddle practice.
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Originally Posted by handgroen
this guy does not understand the phrase "nero fiddled as rome burned"
this word "fiddled"

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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Wait, what do you think it means?
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fid·dle
ˈfidl/Submit
verbinformal
past tense: fiddled; past participle: fiddled
1.
play the fiddle.
"he fiddled with the band from 1949 to 1951"
2.
touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way.
"Laura fiddled with her cup"
synonyms: fidget, play, toy, twiddle, fuss, fool about/around; More
he writes the article like nero had a howdown as rome burned