
New York Vinnie has told you from Day One that Pro-Athletes should not be role models; and if you are a parent that uses one as an example of what your child should aspire to be then shame on you! The only thing your child should learn from a Pro-Athlete is how to play the sport they play, certainly not life lessons! These are not community leaders or learned men; they happen to be able to perform a physical feat well enough that they get paid for doing it. Dwight Howard’s views on the economy are not worth a rat’s behind to New York Vinnie; that is not his area of expertise.
Would you tell your child that R&B star Chris Brown is a good role model? How about Lindsay Lohan is that who you want your daughter to grow up to be like? These people are entertainers and they earn a lot of money at a young age and some handle it well while others do not. Pro-Athletes are in the same boat young men who are talented enough to get incredible Frickin money to do what most men in the USA would love to do for free; play a Frickin game.
Unfortunately all too often these young men allow the moment to master them rather than them mastering the moment. They get frustrated with a situation and they start verbally lashing out or complaining; the problem is there is usually a member of the media around and then it becomes public knowledge. Athletes live under a Frickin Magnifying Glass and what you or I could say at our jobs could be on the back page of the tabloids when an athlete says it.
The Boston Celtics had high aspirations going into the 2009-2010 NBA season and many thought including New York Vinnie that they had a very good chance of winning their second NBA Title in the last three years this June. Injuries derailed the team somewhat in January but they seemed to have dodged a bullet with Paul Pierce; as there were reports of him possibly breaking his left foot Tuesday. It turns out it was just s strained foot and his status is day to day.
When a team plays below expectations they get frustrated; they can handle it one of two ways. The proper way of handling it is to keep any problems in house and present a united front to the public via the media. You win and lose as a team that is the Frickin bottom line. If you have problems you handle them behind closed doors.
The other way of handling it is to allow the situation to get the best of you and start airing your dirty laundry in public. That sadly is the case with the Boston Celtics where All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo started airing his grievances to the “Boston Herald.” The Celtics have been a tight knit bunch over the past couple of seasons but according to Rondo something is different this season.
The Celtics guard said “In the locker room, you can feel it. You don’t feel like it’s the same continuity and camaraderie in the locker room as it was the first year. The first year, it was a crazy spirit in the locker room. But now it doesn’t feel the same. It’s not the same right now. We’ve got to find a way to get that back somehow, some way. It’s a different team this year. That’s our problem. A couple of years ago, we didn’t have the same team. We had the same main guys, but it’s still a team effort, from the first guy to the 15th guy.”
Yo Rajon, things do not stay the same forever and especially not in the modern era of Pro-Sports. Now please tell New York Vinnie exactly what was positive about opening up your Frickin Yap to the media? Do you expect that now that it is out in the open everybody is going to embrace and have a good sing-along around a Frickin camp fire? Because New York Vinnie believes the only smoke you will see My Man is coming from the ears of Doc Rivers and Danny Ainge!
You have a problem you talk to someone who can solve the Frickin problem. Now New York Vinnie has been reading Herald reporter Steve Bullpett’s stuff for a long Frickin time and he is a great writer. But he does not set the Frickin tone in the Boston locker room. Rajon by doing what you did you may have set the Frickin tone for the next few weeks; and New York Vinnie does not think it will be pleasant!