Great talent wasted at mediocre professional/premier teams.
Jul 7, 2023 9:22:51 GMT -5
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jul 7, 2023 9:22:51 GMT -5
Seems to happen across all sports across the World. A great talent would emerge and they drafted/contracted to a team .. and despite that players great talent the team never goes anywhere..
They may get some close calls, but never win the sport’s biggest prize come end of the season. Like for example Shohei Ohtani.. been watching this guy play recently and man this guy is a freak .. simply awesome. Probably the biggest star in all of Baseball today.. and he plays for L.A Angels a team that has been languishing in their division for some time now. They last made the playoffs in 2014, nearly a decade. There is still time and with some good fortune they could make it this year.. but for a team to featuring arguably the greatest current day player,.. just seems like such a waste of talent. Plus there is rumours he is leaving at end of the season, so in the end it looks like have this guy will yield the them 0 team championship’s.. well nothing to put on a flag at their stadium anyway (although he would have been good for merchandise sales, game attendance and tv ratings)
OK going more local for me and Australian Rules Football. Now this was back in the VFL days while players were not paid a professional level (pretty much all of them had regular jobs during the week) it was covered like a professional league. Anyway this was back in the 60’s there was player called Bob Skilton who won the Brownlow medal three times in his career (the Brownlow is the AFL’s highest individual player award, say like the NFL’s MVP award) .. all while playing for the South Melbourne Swans (now the Sydney Swans).. this was during the Swans decades spanning premiership drought, in fact the Swans only played in the Finals once during Skilton’s time there. Like Ohtani above the Swans had the best player in the league and that’s all they could boast. This did weigh on Skilton and he famously said he would trade in any of his medals for a chance to play in a Grand Final (he said this before the only Swans finals games he played in)..
sure there is a lot examples.
They may get some close calls, but never win the sport’s biggest prize come end of the season. Like for example Shohei Ohtani.. been watching this guy play recently and man this guy is a freak .. simply awesome. Probably the biggest star in all of Baseball today.. and he plays for L.A Angels a team that has been languishing in their division for some time now. They last made the playoffs in 2014, nearly a decade. There is still time and with some good fortune they could make it this year.. but for a team to featuring arguably the greatest current day player,.. just seems like such a waste of talent. Plus there is rumours he is leaving at end of the season, so in the end it looks like have this guy will yield the them 0 team championship’s.. well nothing to put on a flag at their stadium anyway (although he would have been good for merchandise sales, game attendance and tv ratings)
OK going more local for me and Australian Rules Football. Now this was back in the VFL days while players were not paid a professional level (pretty much all of them had regular jobs during the week) it was covered like a professional league. Anyway this was back in the 60’s there was player called Bob Skilton who won the Brownlow medal three times in his career (the Brownlow is the AFL’s highest individual player award, say like the NFL’s MVP award) .. all while playing for the South Melbourne Swans (now the Sydney Swans).. this was during the Swans decades spanning premiership drought, in fact the Swans only played in the Finals once during Skilton’s time there. Like Ohtani above the Swans had the best player in the league and that’s all they could boast. This did weigh on Skilton and he famously said he would trade in any of his medals for a chance to play in a Grand Final (he said this before the only Swans finals games he played in)..
sure there is a lot examples.
