Here's the thing: I don't want Boogie to fail, for a variety of reasons. If he is going to try to just do the full on superstar bit and try to singlehandedly right this ship and get us playing like winners again, I want to see him succeed. And we probably want to see him succeed -- I have several times remarked about how if I was his legal side I would be preparing his way out, and this most recent nonsense just confirms that that might end up being in my client's best interests. Remarkably, the national media and public seem to have suddenly got it with Boogie after years, even into last year, of just fighting it tooth and nail. But now all of a sudden, they didn't forget that hot start. They aren't tagging him with this most recent example of losers in charge. That's great. But it also means this: Boogie is now officially in the process of outgrowing us. If we as lovable losers married a chubby chick who didn't take care of herself and considered flip flops high fashion, well 5 years into the relationship, she has really cleaned herself up, gotten into shape, and turned into one of the beauties of the county. She's becoming the belle of the ball, and everyone is going to start flirting with her. And if you just keep on slouching around your couch with your beer gut hanging over the waistband of yesterday's rumpled clothes, a 3 day old beard, and a can of cheap beer, you're going to lose her.
We do NOT want Cuz to start to see his own suddenly expanding horizons limited by our incompetence. We do NOT want to see him miss the All Star game again and look at us. We do NOT want to see him suffer through another 50 loss season and look at us. If he's truly ready to become a superstar leader dictating his team's style of play and success, then you want to see that go about as well as it can.
