so should we hate the guy and pray that we draft some suck ass player who is a saint instead of potentially the best prospect in at least a decade(yes, even above strasburg)
wtf happened to the "i dont like nice guys" spidernat?
WTF! What are you talking about? When did I ever post anything remotely saying that I don't like nice guys? Who doesn't like nice people? It's only in some people's minds that the idea that I don't like nice guys exists. I guess saying it enough times makes it a mind fact and also it's something convenient to accuse me of. For the umpteenth time, I am on record that I don't want players on the team for
the sole reason that they are nice guys. I want a team with the best, most talented, skillful players that can be assembled and I don't give a crap whether they are nice guys or jerks. What matters to me is ONLY that they produce and help my teams win games. I don't care about their personal lives. The only thing that concerns me is that they don't do things that will jeopardize their on field eligibility and performance. I don't care that a player is an jerk and won't sign autographs or is arrogant or cheats on his wife and all that type of crap. What do I care if a player is a nice guy as long as he is making it happen on the field. I do care about players using PED's but that's another topic and it covers both "nice" guys and jerks. When Joe Gibbs suggested that nice guys is the first thing he looked for in a player (and talent was fourth and last on the list) I puked as if I had just spotted Debbi Taylor.
Also, I'm not even sure how you derived from my post that I was insinuating Harper is a bad person and that I would rather the Nationals draft a "saint" type of player.
My post was about people who talk crap about certain players on other teams because they are arrogant or because they are perceived as bad guys but when a perceived similar player (attitude wise) is about to become a Nationals player he is hailed as a hero. I'll give you a perfect example, whenever a player does something like flip a bat after hitting a bomb or celebrate a K people go freaking crazy about the player being an jerk. But when one of our player does the same thing it is seen as swagger and it's called awesome. Just go back and read some of the posts that talked about what they hope Harper (a 17 year old kid) will do by charging the mound and beating up this and that player. What if a Philly fan said that about one of their players beating up some of our players, how do you think some would react to that? It would probably be labeled thuggish behavior. Or what if someone on the Mets charged the mound to beat up one of our pitchers, how would that go over?
