From
where I sit it looks like the CFL has some very sensitive players...
Nobody
likes to be criticized. Particularly publicly. It's embarrassing.
It's humiliating. It happens. Deal with it. Simeon Rottier was the
only member of the Eskimos O-Line to be called out by GM Ed Hervey.
Frankly, that was unfair. Everyone should have been. They are all
awful. But, that's beside the point. They are professional
athletes. Sure, they aren't making as much as the guys in the NFL;
none the less they are being paid to play a game. So why should they
be immune to criticism just because they're athletes? Players
already get special treatment the rest of us can only dream of and
now coaches and managers can't publicly call out anybody? What about
the coach screaming at his players on the sidelines? I guess that's
fine as long as the mic doesn't pick up and names. Suck it up kids.
You won't get much sympathy from anyone.
NASCAR
is coming down harshly on Michael Waltrip Racing...
I
don't entirely agree with what they're doing. Assuming Boyer's spin
was intentional that punishment is fully deserved. In fact I would
be fine if it was doubled. There's no place for that kind of
dangerous crap in any level of racing. But, then there's the rest of
the penalties. As Formula 1 discovered it's impossible to ban team
orders. That leaves two options...either a farce pretending orders
don't exist, or letting teams strategize. What's wrong with ordering
drivers to pit so a teammate can advance? NASCAR created a 'playoff
system' to decide the champion. NASCAR will throw a red flag to
stage a green-white-checker finish, even if that means extending the
race beyond distance. But team orders is beyond the pale? You can't
create championship playdowns and artificial finishes, then complain
when teams act on their own ideas. NASCAR has to accept that orders
are a part of any team game or continue to have ridiculous scenes
like we saw on Saturday.
At
least that's how I see it...and I sit in the cheap seats.
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