THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Thursday, September 27, 2007

We love cheaters!

So says Peter Beinart:

Editorials called Belichick a disgrace. And us fans? Well, when Belichick’s mug appeared on the video screen just before the Pats’ second game, the hometown crowd cheered so loudly and so long that Belichick actually waved… In the abstract, fans oppose cheating… But fearing the consequences of cheating is a far cry from opposing it because it’s wrong. When the refs go to review a close play, fans don’t sit there thinking, I hope they’ll make the right call. They pray that the call goes their way… So by all means, penalize Belichick… He doesn’t care about being fair to the other team; he doesn’t even really care about his own players. He just wants to win. He’d make an excellent fan.