Comments on: Cutting off your nose to spite your blogger http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/09/28/cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-blogger/ Media, Baseball, Boston, the Red Sox, Music, Literature, and Mnookins Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:13:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Nordberg http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/09/28/cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-blogger/#comment-1054 Nordberg Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:38:08 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/09/28/cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-blogger/#comment-1054 Hey, Seth. Where are those Pedro apologists now? Hey, Seth.
Where are those Pedro apologists now?

]]> By: StuckAtTheCask http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/09/28/cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-blogger/#comment-1040 StuckAtTheCask Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:52:38 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/09/28/cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-blogger/#comment-1040 Great perspective and words to live by ... thanks for the fantastic comment/post there, Bill Pratt. Great perspective and words to live by … thanks for the fantastic comment/post there, Bill Pratt.

]]> By: Bill Pratt http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/09/28/cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-blogger/#comment-1039 Bill Pratt Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:53:05 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/09/28/cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-blogger/#comment-1039 It is best to resist the shoulda coulda woulda stat tracking of former players and more so prospects. It’s a no win situation. You get bummed about the Jeff Bagwells and feel sorry for the ones that brought you to the Promised Land. It all balances out anyway. Imagine getting the first captain since Yaz who is the all time leading franchise catcher in games caught AND the first pitcher to win the clinching games in three successive series EVER for just one guy? Not to mention who the guy is or was. It is great to wish the best to all the former Red Sox in the brotherly spirit of the BDD "Keeping up with old friends" links by seeing how they are doing in current games. Baseball is at times simple then complex and other times easily predictable and then a stunning surprise. It is so much like life it is fascinating. Yet, how much of your life are you missing while you mull through the scenarios of how things would be different if you stayed with this girl or that girl? Or what if you partnered up with your college buddy in that little firm you talked about after graduation? Would you have been happier with the other woman or richer with another business associate? Who cares? Do your work today and make sweet love to your wife tonight. Unless you want a nooner. After taking 6 months off from work on two separate occasions to help my folks to the end with hospice, I learned one thing. Make your decisions and live without regret (unless you hurt someone and need to mend a fence). Everything else is a waste of time. It is best to resist the shoulda coulda woulda stat tracking of former players and more so prospects. It’s a no win situation. You get bummed about the Jeff Bagwells and feel sorry for the ones that brought you to the Promised Land.

It all balances out anyway. Imagine getting the first captain since Yaz who is the all time leading franchise catcher in games caught AND the first pitcher to win the clinching games in three successive series EVER for just one guy? Not to mention who the guy is or was.

It is great to wish the best to all the former Red Sox in the brotherly spirit of the BDD “Keeping up with old friends” links by seeing how they are doing in current games.

Baseball is at times simple then complex and other times easily predictable and then a stunning surprise. It is so much like life it is fascinating.

Yet, how much of your life are you missing while you mull through the scenarios of how things would be different if you stayed with this girl or that girl? Or what if you partnered up with your college buddy in that little firm you talked about after graduation? Would you have been happier with the other woman or richer with another business associate?

Who cares? Do your work today and make sweet love to your wife tonight. Unless you want a nooner.

After taking 6 months off from work on two separate occasions to help my folks to the end with hospice, I learned one thing.

Make your decisions and live without regret (unless you hurt someone and need to mend a fence). Everything else is a waste of time.

]]> By: crimsonohsix http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/09/28/cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-blogger/#comment-1038 crimsonohsix Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:43:36 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/09/28/cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-blogger/#comment-1038 Cmon, prospects are in the NL, and superstars are still in the early years of very long contracts. You're writing on tilt. Cmon, prospects are in the NL, and superstars are still in the early years of very long contracts. You’re writing on tilt.

]]> By: HFXBOB http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/09/28/cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-blogger/#comment-1037 HFXBOB Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:20:03 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/09/28/cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-blogger/#comment-1037 Wow...Sox fans, including me, have a full-fledged obsession these days watching the scoreboard of former players. Another kick in the head last night on the Beckett deal. The way Hanley Ramirez, Anibal Sanchez, Josh Bard and Cla Meredith are playing is the killer. Lowe and Damon I can handle. Pedro, I don't relish seeing him get humiliated, but I do take some consolation in the fact that this confirms the risk factor in these moves for all concerned. As for Nomar, no matter what, Theo can never be faulted for that move, because without it we'd be talking about an 88-year drought now. Wouldn't it be fun to know what John, Larry and Theo are thinking these days. I sure hope they are stoked for the offseason and that it is one hell of a lot better than the two before it. Wow…Sox fans, including me, have a full-fledged obsession these days watching the scoreboard of former players. Another kick in the head last night on the Beckett deal. The way Hanley Ramirez, Anibal Sanchez, Josh Bard and Cla Meredith are playing is the killer. Lowe and Damon I can handle. Pedro, I don’t relish seeing him get humiliated, but I do take some consolation in the fact that this confirms the risk factor in these moves for all concerned. As for Nomar, no matter what, Theo can never be faulted for that move, because without it we’d be talking about an 88-year drought now.

Wouldn’t it be fun to know what John, Larry and Theo are thinking these days. I sure hope they are stoked for the offseason and that it is one hell of a lot better than the two before it.

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