If E-Ram takes this continual face-spitting personally, then Skip has created a problem by trying to solve another one (winning games). If Erasmo is okay with it (and views it as "anything necessary to win games" instead of as continuing distaste for him personally), then fine - who cares how I would take it, or how I feel about it on his behalf?
Bill Parcells used to chew up and spit out half the roster on all the new teams he'd take over, because a lot of guys couldn't take the needling and personal abuse that Bill used as motivation.
It worked for him. He'd won stuff before with that attitude. Lloyd ain't won nothin' of note, soooo...
But the rest of the team seems to be okay. As long as there's one whipping boy, the rest seem to be staying pretty loose. If sacrificing Erasmo gets us a playoff run, then I take that. Just as if we'd traded him to achieve it.
But for Erasmo's sake, I hope this is the only year he has to go through this with us, either because a) he gets through the meat grinder and earns a starting spot (and some respect) on the other side with us, or b) he's traded and succeeds elsewhere.
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And hey Doc. :) Had a layoff-and-new-job-thing happening, so I can't really post during the day any more. Today is the exception... so I took advantage.
Playoff chases are fun, aren't they? Been a long drought since 2003, when I believed the team had a legit shot at a Best-Of series...
~G
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