The Great One's Great Mistake

[jtwcornell91]

Greg Berge wrote:

Which is not to say we don't deserve our 15 days of self-stroking-- we do.  But I don't think the rest of the world finds it rivetting watching us do it every night.  I've heard they get the real stuff on public access TV in prime time, anyway.

You should have been in on Saturday's Lynah Chat. :-P

[Greg Berge]

> As for our "self-stroking", how is this different from 1984 or 1996?

Well, I won't disagree with you that we're as ignorant, blindly parochial, and xenophobic as most other bunches. ;-)

[gtsully]

Well, he didn't really help his case much by stocking his team with older players and ignoring the younger studs (like, I don't know... Joe Thornton?).  Did anyone else really think that a team that old could keep pace in the Olympics?  I know they could still win it all, but the Great One seems to be merely a Good One when it comes to being a GM.