For those of you who haven't checked it out yet, the Jugganautz dance remix of "Sophie" is up on our MySpace page. I know some of your are still "rolling" from your Tuesday night "raves," so you should feel right at home grinding on each other and getting really into the texture of your velvet pantaloons. Oh, I know the "happs."
So Adam Vinatieri is on the Colts now. Everybody just cooooool out! He's just the kicker, people. So he doesn't get to finish his career as a Patriot. So freakin' what? He'll be back at retirement time to be inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame and cash in on those sweet New England Pizza Hut advertising dollars. Then, we'll all be able to relive the memories. Until then, we'll get someone more affordable. It's time to move on.
Here's the thing I don't get about sports fans: everyone complains that athletes are overpaid and spoiled and blah blah blah. But when our team refuses to overpay a player we happen to like (Vinatieri, Johnny Damon, etc.), we act like our parents just sent our puppy out to the great dry cleaners in the sky never to be heard from again (my parents weren't very good at the "dog dying" excuses).
You can't have it both ways, fans. You either have an organization that falls in love with its players or falls in love with winning. I think both the Pats and the Sox are doing the right thing by taking the latter approach. If a player is no longer cost-effective, they're out. If Tom Brady starts sucking, he's gone. If lovable Big Papi Ortiz loses his ability to hit homeruns, replace him with someone who can do the job. For me, an infectious smile ranks way below slugging percentage as a desirable quality for a designated hitter.
What can I say? The Red Sox and Patriots got me addicted to the W's. I want some more and I'm willing to say bye bye to some really swell guys to get them. Anyone disagree with me?
So Adam Vinatieri is on the Colts now. Everybody just cooooool out! He's just the kicker, people. So he doesn't get to finish his career as a Patriot. So freakin' what? He'll be back at retirement time to be inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame and cash in on those sweet New England Pizza Hut advertising dollars. Then, we'll all be able to relive the memories. Until then, we'll get someone more affordable. It's time to move on.
Here's the thing I don't get about sports fans: everyone complains that athletes are overpaid and spoiled and blah blah blah. But when our team refuses to overpay a player we happen to like (Vinatieri, Johnny Damon, etc.), we act like our parents just sent our puppy out to the great dry cleaners in the sky never to be heard from again (my parents weren't very good at the "dog dying" excuses).
You can't have it both ways, fans. You either have an organization that falls in love with its players or falls in love with winning. I think both the Pats and the Sox are doing the right thing by taking the latter approach. If a player is no longer cost-effective, they're out. If Tom Brady starts sucking, he's gone. If lovable Big Papi Ortiz loses his ability to hit homeruns, replace him with someone who can do the job. For me, an infectious smile ranks way below slugging percentage as a desirable quality for a designated hitter.
What can I say? The Red Sox and Patriots got me addicted to the W's. I want some more and I'm willing to say bye bye to some really swell guys to get them. Anyone disagree with me?
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I think for a lot of people it's a case of if they didn't have sports to bitch about, they'd have nothing to talk about at all.
When Erica was waiting tables in Providence during college she waited on Mr. Vinatieri. She asked him for his autograph ("I get a kick out of you Erica, Adam Vinatieri").
He promptly had his agent ask her if she would like to come back to Mr. Vinatieri's house. Twat.
You either have an organization that falls in love with its players or falls in love with winning. I think both the Pats and the Sox are doing the right thing by taking the first approach.
you mean latter approach.
Shit, sorry. I'll correct that now.
And a fond farewell to a friend of the Scamper Podcast, Bronson "Six String" Arroyo.
May there still be Pearl Jam fans in Cincinnati.
Let's not underestimate the infectious smile. Players' happiness and chemistry has a lot to do with winning also. If you have a team that's happy to be around each other, it shows. I'm not saying that I'd rather have a smiling idiot that can't hit a ball, but if I had to choose with having a good player with good personality, or an asshole slugger, I'd take the first. But maybe that's just me.
Then why do you never hear of losing teams with "great chemistry"?
Good chemistry is a product of winning, not a cause of it.
Then why do you never hear of losing teams with "great chemistry"?
Red Sox 2003
Good chemistry is a product of winning, not a cause of it.
You're a douchebag.
Red Sox 2003
You consider going to Game 7 of the ALCS a "losing team"? High standards, eh?
You're a douchebag.
You smell like cow ass.
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