Polonius Rex

I have opinions just like everyone else.

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@bocs_army Was he always like this or is he bottoming out? Or both?

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@CraigStem This was a better way to say it.

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@InfantryFriar Well said sir. I’d add that he as only in over his head at the moment. Long run he’ll be fine and no worse for the wear.

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He should find it validating. If Friartown had met coach Kim at 38, and not 34, it would have been different. It just wasn’t meant to be at this moment in time. But he’s smart, gave it his all, and will profit from everything because he really does have a winning “mindset”. Both parties will profit from the last three years.

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Apples and oranges. First of all I think it’s slightly higher - 72 players. But you mixing team accomplishments (teams make the LLWS) with individual player accomplishments. Let’s do back of envelope math 10,000-13,000 total players competes in LLWS and 70+ made it to MLB? That’s like 30-50x the rate of someone in general population. Agreed that we don’t need an over fixation on youth accomplishment and that late bloomers are a thing. But your argument proves the opposite of anything. But I don’t need a twitter argument to tell me what my own career and my four sons’ have shown my lying eyes: the best of the best were typically always the best. Doesn’t mean that lots of 11 year old average players don’t end up making their varsity teams - happily, they do. But the ones who go D1 or pro? Most of the times it obvious from the get go.

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And yea, I think Hopkins took PC for a $2m ride last year too. But my life is 10% what happens to me and 90% what I do with it. I’ve moved on as a fan. From the Hopkins thing and from whatever personal problems drove Cooley out of town. Too far in the past and I don’t see a pattern in sports or life where successful people draw their energy from hanging on to past wrongs. The best players, coaches and fans cheer “for us, and not against them.” Saying otherwise and wallowing is an anti-pattern.

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Because he tackled him on a layup attempt and then stood over him and flexed. And because two wrongs don’t make a right. And because the 11-15 situation following the 12-18 situation is turning into a goat rodeo and it’s time to put some decorum on things as we head down the stretch of the season, which will likely contain more failure and frustrations before it ends.

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There are late bloomers out there for sure, my own kids included. And coaches / trainers like you who have the patience and skills to help that group reach their potential are worth their weight in gold. That’s the Grecian ideal of sports as part of a balanced education. But in the main, the best are typically always the best.

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Is your group chat talking about bid stealing? A Big East Basketball flowchart:

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@Stephen12725 @JustinKatzRI @ProvidenceCol That’s not a good answer. But there is some truth to it, Peter Griffin.

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I mean, a little pepper in a BE game with a subplot like this is fine, and there no doubt was a huge entertainment value on this play. I’m not pearl clutching - but I am hard pressed to think of a hard foul like this in recent history where the fouler then got up and flexed over the guy on the ground. That is borderline goon behavior. If it’s not, what is?

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@darkpeterpinnis Love your love of the team and devotion week in and out. But I can’t agree with that take.

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Eh. I think you represent about 5% of the fanbase here. You can rationalize bad behavior all you want with the excuse of “I’m frustrated” and get some mouth breathers to applaud you on twitter. But the truth is: you’re the weak, St. John’s is the tyranny of evil men, and the PC coaching staff and administration should have stepped up and tried hard to be the good shepherd during the debacle - but they didn’t. Underscoring that change is needed at the top.

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@walterkirn Funny. I just read them two weeks ago and couldn’t believe how funny he was. Told everyone I could. Nobody cared except me. And now you.

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@LJMaximo @CoachSwit I didn’t realize you were talking about high school coaches. In that case, I withdraw my negative remark and raise a glass in your direction. Because yes that happens a lot.

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@LJMaximo @CoachSwit To deal with parents it should be their per game rate.

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@LJMaximo @CoachSwit I’ll take things that never happened for $600 Alex. And things that never happened multiple times for $800.

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@moneylinemac_ Why?

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@darkpeterpinnis I noticed that. Stuck out to me.