Wednesday Would You Rather- Win Titles Playing For the Team You Despise or Have a Mediocre Career With the Team You Love?
First Would You Rather KFC has me doing and I’m immediately thrown into the lion’s den. Fuck this is hard. As a die-hard Yankee fan, am I choosing to play for the Red Sox and win numerous titles, or am I playing in the Bronx for a perennially shitty Yankee team? Think mid-80’s Yankees when there were like 4 fans in the upper deck telling each other “you get this foul ball. I got the last 3.”
Obviously when you’re really in the situation, you play for whoever drafts you or pays you the money. But if you had the choice, money and what not aside, what do you choose? Play in your hometown for the team you love, or go down in history as a Boston legend? As much as it kills me to say this, I think I’m selling my soul on this one and playing my career out in Boston. Personal stats aside, if it’s strictly coming down to championship rings, I just can’t pass up the opportunity to hoist that World Series trophy several times throughout my career. Do you know what kind of perks come with winning a World Series? I think the law is something like one girl per ring that you can walk into a bar and just point at and demand sex from. If I’m rocking a fist full of rings, I’m looking at a pretty solid, Magic Johnson Wilt Chamberlain lifestyle. And who knows… maybe I’ll just get numb to the fact that I’m doing it with the Red Sox and eventually forget what team I’m even playing for. Bobby Abreu does it. Why can’t I?
At the same time, I’m most likely waking up every morning and feeling sick to my stomach that all my success has come from playing for the enemy. Looking myself in the mirror and just sobbing. Judging myself, calling myself names, some real messed up, self-deprecating shit. I’d probably develop a complex by my free agency years knowing that under this stupid pact I made with the devil, I’m stuck in Boston. Then I would inevitably drink myself into a beer bellied, early retirement. But then I would just throw on one of my rings and head to the local bar for a night of debauchery and weird fetish shit. I can only assume my interest in fetishes will develop in my later years.
What about you, stoolies? Yankee fans, are you constantly winning the ship with the Red Sox and vice versa for Boston fans. Vote 1 for I want that ring and vote 10 for I can’t turn my back on my boys.
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You’re fucking autistic if you don’t choose rings.
great question. tough call too. i can’t even IMAGINE playing for the Jets. honestly, i can’t imagine playing for ANYONE but the Patriots. i think my love for them would be too strong. i’d probably mail it in if we played against them, and secretly be happy if they won, haha. probably lived too long as a fan at this point. honestly, if i HAD to play elsewhere, it’d be about WHERE i was at:
Top 3 (all sports):
1. Miami
2. LA
3. Phoenix (proximity to ASU bitches)
Bottom 3:
1. Salt Lake City
2. Green Bay
3. Buffalo
Rings all day. It would suck but I don’t think you can pass up being a champion.
I couldn’t imagine living in shitty ass Boston. I’ll take mediocrity in NY all day long. Plus if you win in Boston they chase you out of town a few years later and make up stories about you. So its not like you would be king of the town for that long.
whichever one pays me more
Really cubs win? Out of all people you are the one who wouldn’t care to win
yeah “!!!!” — because i’m a cubs fan i’m supposed to want to win some rings with the cardinals? fuck that, i’ll just get paid instead, with or without the cubs or the rings
I mean I’d want to just win no matter what. I’d win the Stanley Cups in a Habs jersey and I’d party my fucking ass of with my friends back home with the cup. I’m sure they enjoy my victory more than their bruins winning it
Strasser if you said you would choose to play for the yanks and not win shit you would have 5 times the comments from boston stoolies calling you an idiot/liar etc.
i’m not saying winning a title wouldn’t be awesome…i’m just saying whichever gets me paid – if winning the cup gets me my big contract, i’ll take the ring…if being the lone star on some shitty team gets me my big contract, so be it – i’m pretty sure my buddies are going to enjoy the parties when i’m loaded regardless if i have the cup in my hands or not
I’m as DieHard Sox fan as they come. But for the chance to Hoist a few World Series Trophy’s, Party harder than ever, be the Fucking absolute toast of the City… I’d Tatoo my body PinStripe, Winning trumphs all…
If I had to play for the Canadiens and win Stanley cups for them… with my only perks being French Canadian whores and Molson? Fuck that, I’ll be a mediocre B’s goalie, like there haven’t been enough of em in our history (Im lookin at you Raycroft, Shields, Grahame, Potvin, Hackett, and Toivonen)
You can’t be this stupid. The entire premise of your “would you rather” sucks, but if you are going ask it, at least make sense: as a Yankee fan, would you rather play for the ’86 Yankees (who sucked) or the ’86 Mets (who won a ring)? Same city, same lifestyle, same era, the only difference is that you jerked off to the Yankees as a kid and not the Mets. (Obviously, any one with a dick picks the ’86 Mets, but at least the question makes sense.) Everything you write about Boston vs. NYC in his blog is about your preference for the city of NYC…in other words, a lifestyle choice. Only a true asshole of a pro athlete would make career decisions based on which team he rooted for as a kid. Lifestyle and region matter, obviously, but only because that’s where you live…not because of the fucking team you cheer for as a fan, you douche. Do us all a favor and kill yourself.
i would choose those rings and soak in that NY love.
Deadspin did it 1st.
this is disgraceful KFC and I just lost a significant amount of respect for you. A real fan stands with their team every day of the week and twice on Sundays
Paul Pierce grew up in Inglewood, despising the Celtics and now he’s found a home (even after being stabbed in Boston as a rookie). As a competitor, you play to win and grow to love the team you are on. Every pro athlete cares about one of two things: winning or money. Doesn’t matter where they grew up and who they rooted for. They either want the biggest paycheck or the best opportunity to win. Guys like Dustin Pedroia and Donald Driver take low contracts to stay and win, guys like Jayson Werth and Peyton Manning go get paid in Washington and Denver where there are no real pieces around them because they took the whole salary cap. Then there are the rare guys who get the opportunity to do both: Texiera, Lebron, Asomuga, etc.. In the end, it doesnt matter who they grew up rooting for
ya what halftimeshow said, if you’re a real competitor like Paul Pierce, you can go to the team you grew up hating to be a champion.
Mysafeword…seriously, I hate when people are like “DEADSPIN SHOWED IT FIRST.” But whoever sent this question in to the stool did it to deadspin too. He got BOTH of you fuckers!!
Yes, and so would you. You don’t think there are scores of professional athletes who ended up getting drafted for a team they grew up hating? It happens all the time, but I’ve never seen a pro athlete openly refuse to play for a team because of that. Once you’ve reached that level of excellence, your allegiances go out the window. Staying loyal to your old team at that point is juvenile at best and fucking stupid at worst. You’re not a fan anymore. You’re inside the industry. I think that, once players are drafted, they don’t see the game the way you or I do. They’re too close to it. You may hate the Cowboys your whole life, but that changes once they hand you a check and you develop relationships with players and coaches on the team that you like. Fanaticism takes a backseat to professionalism, and that’s fine. I’d be alarmed if it didn’t. You play for the team that pays you.
THIS should be Norm MacDonalds twitter picture.
add loyalty the list of things youll never have pizza bagel…