Oh boy... If you thought the situation in my old hometown was bad before...

... you didn't read the piece on Deadspin today on the reaction to the Ray McDonald arrest by coach Jim Harbaugh.

As far as he is concerned:  McDonald is done, fucking done, and completely done in San Francisco if convicted or plea-agreed.

From a statement on KNBR on the subject today (and the article):

""I'll be very clear," Harbaugh said on the KNBR Morning Show. "You ask me how I feel about domestic violence. I can be very clear about that. If someone physically abuses a woman and/or physically or mentally abuses or hurts a child, then there's no understanding. There's no tolerance for that."

When asked if he would not allow a player guilty of domestic violence on his team, Harbaugh answered, "Yes, we would not. We can be very clear.""

Problem is, is he going to have say on that matter?  Ask 49er GM Trent Baalke, who won't even rule out, necessarily, McDonald for the season opener.  (From the same article)

-Q: What's the process to determine whether Ray McDonald plays Sunday or if he ever plays again for the 49ers?

-BAALKE: Well, right now it's a legal matter. There's such a thing called due process, and we intend on letting that play out.

-Q: Is the way you handled the Aldon Smith matter, when he was allowed to play two days after his arrest last year, a precedent for this matter?

-BAALKE: I don't think Aldon's case has anything to do with this case. They are separate issues and they will be dealt with separately.

-Q: Do you and the organization share Harbaugh's stance that there's no room on the team for someone guilty of domestic violence?

-BAALKE:: I think this–this is certainly something that hits home for me. I've got two daughters myself. It's certainly, domestic violence is unacceptable, and it certainly won't be tolerated.

-Q: Will McDonald play Sunday against the Cowboys?

-BAALKE: That remains to be seen. Once again, it's due process.

I'm down with the "innocent until proven guilty" part.

But someone else may not be.  I referred in a previous mention of the McDonald situation to a comment made by Tim Kawakami, currently employed by the San Jose Mercury-News, but, after this set of tweets, may not be much longer, because I cannot see the 49ers putting up with this much longer...

Again, from the Deadspin article, embedded in series, as it was there.

As always, I refer delicate 49ers fans to http://t.co/N4ViA1R8yM for the best stuff (currently pretending McDonald's arrest never happened).
— Tim Kawakami (@timkawakami) September 2, 2014

Note: I've been in Santa Clara County for 20 minutes and Jed York and Trent Baalke haven't summoned SJPD to arrest me yet. Yet.
— Tim Kawakami (@timkawakami) September 2, 2014

He's basically saying that Santa Clara County and the like are going to pull the "Football Town" card and try to keep anybody from finding out the truth about the 49ers -- an increasingly-systematic pattern of this type of behavior which, if exposed, would decimate the franchise.

Am I suggesting that SJPD and the Santa Clara County sheriffs often work very, very closely with the 49ers? Yes, I am suggesting that.
— Tim Kawakami (@timkawakami) September 2, 2014

The 49ers are currently a team-wide embarrassment and they know it. RT @RattoCSN And your answer is?
— Tim Kawakami (@timkawakami) September 2, 2014

And then probably the biggest current one of them all! (Retweeted by Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee, also a 49er beat writer.)

... the players who were at the party say they didn't see anything. There seems to be a team-wide epidemic of willful blindness occurring.
— Matt Barrows (@mattbarrows) September 2, 2014

This could portend a significant number of suspensions and a widening investigation which the local authorities, if Kawakami is correct, might wish to obstruct.

Look out below, Niner Empire!!