Yea – BJD – we did. We all enjoyed the hell out of it…but the bottom line is that if you’re say “We’re going to celebrate tonight!” – You damn well better take care of business the next night or people will blame it on that short term thinking.
Mickey Mantle may have had just as many injury problems if he wasn’t hitting the town and raising hell all the time, but he was and when his body broke down, people naturally concluded it was a result of that behavior.
I’ve also seen interviews with Gottfried. He’s huge on “making the tournament”. Making the tournament is a minimum goal. It’s the equivalent of showing up to work sober at a school that’s won national championships.
Again – I have no problem with celebrating. But it’s similar to what I said about Larry Fedora – if you’re going to brag about your six pack of abs, you darn well better produce on the football field. Else, people will think you care more about the results in the gym than you do the results of your team on the field.
I’ll put it this way – if we lose out – which is a damn possibility (but unlikely) – how will his post-game dance look? It will look foolish, and we’ll all rightly point to that as “the Todd Maranovich” moment. “Hey, look what we did – this is good enough!”
