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Around SBN: My First Fight: Diego Sanchez

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Jazz fans turn from lovers to haters in minutes. Everybody loves DWill now, but in few years when his contract is over and he snubs Jazz to sign $15M a year, this loving crowd will turn into an angry mob.

Other teams aren't doing the same. Memo Okur doesn't get booed in Pistons (I thought Detroit had the worst fans). Boozer's case is definitely different. He betrayed Cleavland. He disrupted team chemistry by declaring that he wants to leave the team during mid-season. He is a greedy bastard and so I see a reason to hate him.

AK demanded a trade few years ago and the fans have not forgiven him since. He had his reasons. The coach (and perhaps the PG) didn't involve him in the offense. He was the center of all critiques. Put yourself in his shoe, you would do the same.

Imagine this! Your boss didn't give you any good projects despite your work in the past. You try to force into a project hence making visible mistakes. You are being criticized all the time. Wouldn't you want to change your job? At that point if you had enough money, wouldn't you take a pay cut to change your job?

Besides, players demand trade all the time. Kobe did a few years ago on live TV. I don't see Lakers fan throwing pop-corns at him.

About Milsap, everybody has a monster season right before the contract year. Hedo Turkulo did. Boozer did. AK did (Many even thought he was going to MVP within the next 3-4 years). Arroyo did. And so did Milsap Hopefully Milsap can keep up the performance. So I say, don't hate the players who make big bucks just for the reason they make big bucks. And please don't hate him if he chooses 8mil over the Jazz over the next month. (Same reason am expecting BIG from Brewer this year, hence trading for a SG is a bad bad idea).

Hence, my point is that we shouldn't hate players if they make more money. Make the Millers open write more checks. In most cases, bigger payroll = better players = better team = championship (except for Knicks).

All comments are the opinion of the commenter and not necessarily that of SLC Dunk or SB Nation.

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You misunderstand the metaphysical reality of pro sports: this is a soap opera for bored males. The whole point is to get overly emotionally involved in a low-stakes environment. For example, we can experience love, hate, betrayal, anxiety and jubilant release without any real effect on our real lives. One should not restrict the cathartic potential of this arena with the social mores that govern our actual lives – things like generosity, tolerance, patience, compassion. No, a man’s relationship to his favorite team is his respite – his recess – from the exhausting travail of practicing real-life virtues.

(The problem is when a person lets their pro-sports-fan persona interfere with their rec-league and little-league and UHSAA sports persona. Their must be a wall of separation…)

I'll make it coach.

by MTN on Jun 30, 2009 11:43 AM MDT reply actions   2 recs

holy crap

Wow. Just… wow. Didn’t expect that. :)

Uh, do you think you could draw me like a ninja?

by Shums on Jun 30, 2009 11:56 AM MDT up reply actions  

lol

I'll make it coach.

by MTN on Jun 30, 2009 11:59 AM MDT up reply actions  

the real mtn:

where have you been hiding?!

by moni on Jun 30, 2009 5:04 PM MDT up reply actions  

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