PulpExposure wrote:That begs the question; did everyone consider John Kent Cooke as a miserable failure also...because after he took over for dad, his winning percentage was even lower.
Also, I have to say, requiring people call him Mr. Snyder really is the hallmark of a total douchebag.
That BEGS the answer: YES !!!
John Kent Cooke was the failure his father always thought he would be !!!
The failure of Snyder is NOT a miserable failure. According to the Merriam dictionary (too lazy to look it up in the Oxford Dictionary)
Main Entry: mis·er·a·ble
Pronunciation:\ˈmi-zər-bəl, ˈmiz-rə-, ˈmi-zə-rə-\
Function:adjective
Etymology:Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin miserabilis wretched, pitiable, from miserari to pity, from miser
Date:15th century
1: being in a pitiable state of distress or unhappiness (as from want or shame) <miserable refugees>
2 a: wretchedly inadequate or meager <a miserable hovel> b: causing extreme discomfort or unhappiness <a miserable situation>
3: being likely to discredit or shame <his miserable neglect of his wife>
As such, I do not feel that such extreme adjective is appropriate. In fact, I feel it is counterproductive and easily defeated in a debate.
Let us define more narrowly what must be meant by failure:
When I use failure in my signature, I mean, for example:
1) failure to succeed as an owner
2) failure to field the best team possible,
3) failure to avoid mediocrity,
4) failure to recognise HIS limitations,
5) failure to provide inspiring leadership,
6) failure to recognise the flaws of his ego,
7) failure to select the best possible people to do the most important job at the top.
failure to recognise that he has never been one or two players away from a Superbowl,
9) failure to recognise that good economic business is not good sports business necessarily
10 failure to persuade the fans to believe in his actions and decisions.
Those are a few failures. But they are not miserable failures. Snyder can be acused of running a team with mediocrity and incmpetence from a sports perspective.
He ceratinly can not be acused of, for example,
a) lacking business sense to profit IMMENSELY from a well established sports franchise regardless of the final results every season
b) lacking the marketing sense to reinvent this franchise over and over every offseason to renew the interest of the fans
c) attract enough attention in the media and the faithful through splahsy player acquisitions
d) lacking 'love' of the franchise in the way HE understands it through expensive acquisitions without a severe negative impact on the salarycap.
He is a mediocre owner with mediocre vision with mediocre leadership with a mediocre team obtaining mediocre results. The adjective MISERABLE is inappropriate notwithstanding how some of us feel at the end of many seasons.
He wants to win. He just does not know how.
Perspective Canes. Perspective.
