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Friday, July 09, 2010
Lebron James and puppy dogs
When Guy Lafleur’s playing time was cut down dramatically because his former linemate, then head coach (Jacques Lemaire) didn’t like Lafleur’s skills in his system, Lafleur asked to be traded. Serge Savard, also a former teammate, then GM, told Guy that he couldn’t trade him because Montreal would kill him. Lafleur was beloved in Montreal. So Lafleur retired. He was elected to the Hall of Fame three years later. And then he unretired one year after that. (That’s a 4-yr gap.) He played for three more seasons.
Seven years ago, Cleveland obtained a local piece of property that was deprived the chance of choosing another city in America. Now, that piece of property has decided to go somewhere else. Be it a dog, or a child, or a hammer, if you invest your emotion into something you obtained, you can’t expect that property to be a slave to your life.
This is a business deal where emotions are invested, traded, and used. This is not a love affair that both sides entered into willingly, that both sides equally bared their souls.
I remember being in high school seeing Lafleur on the Montreal bench, being deprived of playing. I remember that press conference in Montreal, where Lafleur, one of the greatest players of all-time, was practically forced and begged into retirement at age 33 because people’s emotions would not let him do anything else. I remember the Gretzky trade.
Let these guys do what the f-ck they want. They didn’t ask for your love. They didn’t promise their souls to you. It’s a business arrangement whereby they give you an emotional high and you give them your money. It’s not love.
I remember seeing a comic strip a few months ago. It was two dogs talking to each other. And one dog explains: “We give them unconditional love, and we get the occasional backrub. That’s the deal.”
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