Re: Cowardly Writers

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

Doug, come off your high horse.  Those are my choices,
agreeing with Ryan or standing up for talent against
team play, maturity, blah blah blah?  We all know that
Antoine is immature.  The point is that Ryan HATES him
and excoriates the guy in print out of all proportion
to his misdeeds -- or for that matter what seems
appropriate in a public context.  

--- Douglas342@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/25/1999 6:06:42 AM Pacific
> Daylight Time, 
> josh_ozersky@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> > Man, did Antoine sleep with Ryan's sister or what?
> 
> >  The guy just hates Antoine.
> 
> Here goes (he prepares for flames)  IMHO, Ryan comes
> from another generation, 
> one not far removed from my own.  He evidently feels
> that no athlete is 
> worthy of unqualified praise unless he also shows
> some degree of class and 
> dignity, along with a willingness to subordinate
> himself to the need of the 
> greater entity - the team.  He sees Walker as a
> tremendously talented player, 
> but also as a typical 90s basketball star, anxious
> for the big bucks and that 
> ephemeral quantity known as "respect."  I think it's
> a generational thing,a 
> cultural thing.  Bob Costas was quoted with similar
> feelings a few weeks back 
> in Sports Illustrated, where he voiced his opinion
> that today's showmanship, 
> taunting, spiking the ball, etc., are really nothing
> more than (IIRC) 
> "loutishness and a lack of class."  Some may think
> that basketball talent is 
> the SOLE criterion. Ryan doesn't.  The choice is
> yours, and neither is right 
> or wrong.
> 


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