Monday, July 24, 2006
I'm not gonna pass the ball to Malady
by Anonymous at 5:12 PM
When an athlete is perceived to be difficult to get along with, they always call him a clubhouse or locker room cancer (Jeff Kent and Terrell Owens come to mind). But isn’t that a little bit harsh? Is he slowly killing people in record numbers with no known cure? Does his mere presence require radiation treatments or chemo? Does he damage DNA or cause cell division? All highly doubtful. Okay, maybe Sammy Sosa did all those things, but he was just one guy in an otherwise long list of difficult athletes that never caused the death of any of his teammates. That’s why I think we need to modify our metaphor a bit for athletes who are difficult to get along with.
From now on, I think we should call them “clubhouse maladies”.
