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To: chowder who wrote (16907)	9/30/2011 6:11:04 PM
From: Mark Mandel	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29239

Pressure, my .... Adrian CHOSE to play there. He opted for the BIG bucks. Put up or shut up Adrian.

To: chowder who wrote (16907)	9/30/2011 9:10:13 PM
From: JimisJim	Respond to of 29239

<Adrian wasn't held accountable by the press and the fans in San Diego.> Not sure I agree with that... he was the face of the organization in SD and in fact was expected to bring in hordes of hispanic fans from just across the border... he carried the team here for several years and was written about almost daily in the local press. However, your point is well taken... there is just more media in the NE and more microscopes... My post was more about how I'd never heard Adrian out and out whine about something like Sunday night games before and felt little sympathy for the guy considering the amount of money he gets to play Sunday nights compared to what he got in sleepy SD where there is rarely national media coverage and he made 1/10th as much money. Jim

To: chowder who wrote (16907)	9/30/2011 9:46:09 PM
From: JimisJim	Respond to of 29239

Here's the direct quote from the SD Union-Tribune today and not very complimentary about Adrian... so I suspect he's catching worse in Boston? "This probably isn't what Red Sox Nation wanted to hear from their rich first baseman. "'I'm a firm believer that God has a plan and it wasn't in his plan for us to to move forward,' Adrian Gonzalez said after Boston's Choke of the Century (AL version) was complete." "Gonzalez continued: 'God didn't have it in the cards for us.'" "Then again, Gonzalez said, maybe it was ESPN's fault." "'We play too many night games on getaway days and get into places at 4 in the morning,' he said. 'This has been my toughest season physically because of that. We play a lot of night games on Sunday for television and those things take a lot out of you.'" "When a Boston Globe reporter noted both the Red Sox and Yankees have long had these challenges in their schedules, Gonzalez replied, 'Why does it have to be? They can put the Padres on ESPN, too. The schedule really hurt us. Nobody is really reporting that.'" "Maybe because it's such a lame excuse." That last comment was a SD writer's closing comment in his column -- first time I've ever read anything local that dissed Adrian. And I have to say, I agree... Adrian made the choice to accept gobs of money to go play under a microscope and he should have kept his mouth shut and not whine about night games and ESPN, blaming them for the collapse when perhaps players like Adrian were more responsible for their collapse than ESPN's TV schedule. At least that's my opinion and one apparently shared by sports writers who used to worship Adrian when he played here... I won't say what I think of those writers... <ggg> Jim