What do you mean I won't touch it? It's a fact. Do you want me to throw a temper tantrum about it? Pay your $5K sure bet to shizzle--not to mention the untold thousands you offered to bet others who wisely dismissed your usual bluster--and then tell me who is the mark.
I've said all along, as many Giants fans acknowledge, that I'll still take Eli because he almost always gives you a chance to win, even while recognizing that he also usually gives you a chance to lose. Yesterday was the extreme end of that example, but we've seen that movie before. You want to have one without the other and that is understandable, but not reasonable imo based on history. It's also the exact opposite of "you take the good with the bad," which was my point.
There is a line in a favorite Tom Waits song of mine, "Please Call Me, Baby," that gets to the essence for me, and I find that it applies to most humans (myself often included), especially high-performing ones in my experience:
If I exorcise my devils
Well my angels may leave too
When they leave they're so hard to find
That's, "you take the good with the bad." You obviously try to limit the damage caused by your devils, but you have to realize that a lot of the same qualities cause both the good and the bad, and on balance I still believe that Eli's good outweighs his bad. I also realize that we need to get another QB in line, but it ain't gonna happen this season or next, so I am still dancing with the one who brung me, so to speak, while you want to kick him to the curb and bend over for every other pretty face.
