On Admitting To Mistakes - Part 2
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posted by garrett @ 10:05 AM
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POSTS ABOUT Harvey & Eck
- The Final Three Days
- Day Nine
- Day Eight
- Day Seven
- Day Six
- Day Five
- Day Four
- Day Three
- Day Two
- Day One
- Introduction
- Part 2
- Part 1
- On Admitting To Mistakes - Part 1
- On Invitations That Should Have Been - Part 1
- BREAKING NEWS ... BREAKING NEWS
- On Colorful Expressions - Part 1
- On Property Rights - Part 2
- On Secret Weapons - Part 1
- On Fuzzy Math - Part 1
- On Channeling John Denver - Part 1
- On the Little Green Men and Global Warming
- Dew or Dew Not. There is no Sprite.
Posts From Days Gone By
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
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41 Comments:
Most National League Pennants
2nd to the Yankees in World Series victories.
Tied in World Series game victories with Chicago Cubs over past 20 years.
Always play fair.
Go Royals.
Go Cubs, I mean White Sox, I mean Braves, I mean Red Sox, I mean Yankees, I mean Astros, I mean Cardinals...I mean TBA. Is there a doctor in the house?
I can't wait to see who he backs in this year's NFL campaign, since the Pats suck.
I struggle with the same issues. I lived my entire life as a fan of the Cubs, then moved to Arizona and became a Diamondbacks fan. Then, that dreamy Johnny Damon came along and disrupted my life. I still don't like the Red Sox, but I am a huge fan of Johnnny Damon's mullet.
I suspect you - like me - were tempted to the Diamondback (dark) side around the same time they were winning the World Series?
Now who do you like, Fairweather??
The more I think about it, the less it really matters to me.
The way players change teams and teams trade players in this day and age is revolting to me. Your comment regarding the Diamondbacks has somehow crept under my skin and put me onto this rant.
Yes, I was a D-Back fan when they were winning the World Series and defeating the Yankees and I would like to be now. But Randy Johnson left (he had a good mullet periodically) and Schilling left, and Finley left, etc. How can you maintain loyalty under these conditions??
Those of you taunting Garrett for changing bandwagons repeatedly should cease immediately. His blatant flip-floppery is no reflection of his character but is actually a pointed statement about free-agency and the lack of team loyalty in MLB.
I blame Rosenblatt.
Now we are getting to the heart of the matter. Good show, Flamingo1 (a/k/a gnome-lover). Although you have totally overlooked the most important point.
For me, being a successful sports fan is like investing generally. You will do better, in the long run, if you invest your time and support in something successful.
Any person who, season after miserable season, continues to invest their allegiance in a long-losing franchise deserves what they get -- a life of disappointment and misery. Just as any person who invests their money in an industrial enterprise that is destined for more losses than profits over the long run deserves what they get -- poor investment returns.
In short, a "fan" who transfers his support from team to team as one team's star rises and the prior team's fortunes decline is simply an intelligent investor.
Of course, as in the world of financial investing, those stubborn fools clinging to the hope that the Cubs will someday again win the World Series are akin to those bankrupt investors in the 1920s and 1930s, desperately holding their stock certificates to their breast in the hope that the automobile (i.e., the Yankees) were a passing fad and that an anachronism like horse-travel would once again be the dominant mode of transport.
They're just jealous.
Misery may love company, but happy people tend to spend their time on yachts, brandishing their championship banners of whatever stripe is the color of the day, not huddled over an ancient pot-bellied stove in the basement pining for the glories of last century.
Changing twice in one day is the problem. No players were traded, he changed to the team that won. Disgusting.
day-trader was a revered occupation in late 1990s.
come on, man.
get on board.
this is how it is now.
Go Cubs. That's it.
Garrett is the "day trader" of MLB fandom.
MLB wants you to day trade your allegiance. Don't you understand that? Increased merchandising opportunities. Do you know how expensive it is to buy all these team-specific jerseys, hats, pennants, drink coolers, and lawn chairs. You should see my e-bay store.
I should just buy 30 hats, one for each team, and wear the hat of the team that wins that day.
Loyalty is dead? What's next monogamy?
What is monogamy?
Try watching a NASCAR race using the "Garrett System."
I suggest growing a mullet first.
I think it says something about our civilization that this is the first post on this blog where the comments have stayed on topic throughout. The wound from the burr in the sock of our greatness has become infected. It is only a matter of time before the nascent deflationary depression crushes our collective hopes and dreams like a windshield to a june bug.
More on that in an upcoming post.
Stay tuned, sports fans.
That'll attract em like buzzards to a gut wagon.
I don't think you understood that expression, flamingo. Buzzards like guts. Humans generally don't like bad news. Even when it's true.
You have fallen into the sarchasm...which is, of course, the gap between the guy being sarcastic (me, in this instance) and the guy that misses the point of the sarcastic comment (aka -you).
To Bill Brasky!!
There's no room for sarcasm on this blog, Flamingo. This blog is for seekers of truth. It is a place of truth. You scoundrel.
You guys need to get laid.
San Dimas High School footbal RULES!
Go Colts.
Monogamy.
How can one create maps of polynesian island chains on the same canvas? It is absurd.
I also like USC
You volunteering this love? I like the "cubies".
I always have. Ever since I went to undergrad there.
I got more play than nintendo there too.
I voted for Bush
I only date men in Chicago.
Get real.
Who said anything about a date? I just want to get laid!!!!
I don't know why I bother.
You all are disgusting.
get to know me!
Sounds like a yeast problem.
AWY1, conquering Avain Flu in a location near you.
Seriously, this love, call me. We'll have lunch.
I'm very important. People know me.
I'm sort of a big deal.
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