Tis the season to be patient

Posted Dec 27, 2006

The very meaning of being a sports fan or media member is to coach from the sofa or press row, second guess the team and scream 'Why, oh why?' when the team falls short of perfection or the point of progress one deems appropriate for the moment. Few of us mean anything malicious by it. We simply live in a world of instant gratification, one energized by a flame fueled with a country-wide bellows called the Internet, mainstream media and one's own vicarious desire to win.


(Carolina Blue)

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