What a life! We have such a loyal and forgiving fan base that often seems to embrace or at least accept and even make excuses for mediocrity.
We finally achieve elite status in a sport, finally get some hardware in a cobwebbed filled trophy case- and we hire someone to take over the reigns who has zero head coaching experience and the trend over the last 3 years is clearly down and going down at a steeper rate each year and we just got off a weekend where the team was absolutely embarrassed in a sweep and yet we still have fans making excuses and arguing to stay the course. It seems like we will stay the course until baseball is just as mediocre as basketball.
Man, I'd love to be a coach here- I'd buy a nice house on Lake Murray, get a boat of course and maybe a jet ski or two or three, go on great, exotic vacations during the off season, buy my wife and family expensive gifts, myself a nice car, make enough money to still not have to work much again despite all these purchases.... and have almost zero accountability when it comes to job performance and responsibility.
I wonder what comes first? Is the trophy case for the department so empty because of this unconditional love? Or has this unconditional love grown because everyone feels for an underdog?
But man, wouldn't that be something- a life where your salary is 20 or more times the national average and you get paid that much to watch young folks play games and you are a local celebrity among a fan base that works overtime to make excuses for your performance and seem just fine and dandy- for the most part- with average results.
This post was edited on 4/14 8:32 AM by CapHillCock
This post was edited on 4/14 8:34 AM by CapHillCock
We finally achieve elite status in a sport, finally get some hardware in a cobwebbed filled trophy case- and we hire someone to take over the reigns who has zero head coaching experience and the trend over the last 3 years is clearly down and going down at a steeper rate each year and we just got off a weekend where the team was absolutely embarrassed in a sweep and yet we still have fans making excuses and arguing to stay the course. It seems like we will stay the course until baseball is just as mediocre as basketball.
Man, I'd love to be a coach here- I'd buy a nice house on Lake Murray, get a boat of course and maybe a jet ski or two or three, go on great, exotic vacations during the off season, buy my wife and family expensive gifts, myself a nice car, make enough money to still not have to work much again despite all these purchases.... and have almost zero accountability when it comes to job performance and responsibility.
I wonder what comes first? Is the trophy case for the department so empty because of this unconditional love? Or has this unconditional love grown because everyone feels for an underdog?
But man, wouldn't that be something- a life where your salary is 20 or more times the national average and you get paid that much to watch young folks play games and you are a local celebrity among a fan base that works overtime to make excuses for your performance and seem just fine and dandy- for the most part- with average results.
This post was edited on 4/14 8:32 AM by CapHillCock
This post was edited on 4/14 8:34 AM by CapHillCock
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