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ASU’s Motivating Pre-Game Fight “Was Fun”…Nevermind Dumb as Hell
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It isn’t very often that we as sports fans get an opportunity to discuss actually what’s an important element in the world of sports…And that is motivation tactics. Too often it goes unnoticed the fact that every single coach, no matter on what level of athletics, are always searching to come up with a way to either inspire their team or light a forest fire under their asses, (without holding a match close to their bunghole and waiting for a supersonic fart to light it) in hopes of the adrenaline carrying over to the venue of play, giving their respective players a little bit more incentive to win one for the Gipper. These tactics have no limits…Ranging from speeches and words, to any kind of action a coach can think of. They can be thought of on the spur of the moment or can be planned out for a period of time.
Some can be very creative, while others can be, senseless! I’ve both seen & been a part of senseless. It was in my college years as a student assistant basketball coach/manager…Playing our arch rivals later on that night at home, coach comes in the locker room, (not the smartest person to begin with when it came to bball) with a box. Tells the team, "We got a package from Florida Southern this morning…You want to know how much they respect you, (upon reaching in the box)? This, this is how much they respect you, (and he subsequently pulled a tampon out of the box). Going on to add, "and there’s one for each of you in here!" Now I know, this is one of the oldest tricks in the book…I wasn’t made aware of what he was going to do, but I knew what the hell was in the box. I thought, "Okay, that was a good idea to pull." Just one small problem, when you leave the locker room, take the box with you. Why? Well, the address label was filled out, just one small issue…The handwriting was that of the assistant coach, yeah, not smart genius!
Anyhow, that lame ass experience I experienced is nothing like the shit the Arizona State baseball team pulled with their season on the line no less in a winner-take-all elimination game against Fresno State. Okay, I get that it was a tense time, hello, that’s why they’re called elimination games…But hello, you play baseball for ASU, which last time I checked was one of the top collegiate baseball programs in the nation. So lets see, just because you dumbshits can’t take the pressures of what it takes to be a Sun Devil, and who are pissing themselves like a water main break…Dumb & Dumber, (ASU teammates Brett Wallace and Ike Davis) decide to take it upon themselves to break the tension in a Three Stooges kind of way. By what else, but having a fight, much to the surprise of Sun Devil fans & Fresno State Bulldogs alike. In hopes of somehow this well planned out Moe & Curly tactic would distract the Fresno players. Simply awesome, simply impressive, simply inspiring…Now there’s a motivational move, straight out off a Beavis & Butthead episode. Let’s have two numbnuts duke it out before the game on the field so ESPN cameras can catch the ludicrousness, (Video can be seen here) and then when you lose 12-9 and not advancing the ASU baseball program can be the laughing stock of the country!
So, why stage a fight before the most important game of the season?
"We wanted to do it to loosen up the team a little bit and maybe get the other team to think about other things," Davis said after the game. "It didn’t work, but it was fun."
Think about things, yeah that really worked, now didn’t it! Yeah, they really thought about things! It’s more like they laugh at your sorry, loser asses! You’re one game away from advancing to the CWS and you dillweeds have to pull a stunt that Little Leaguers don’t even pull to get your sorry asses motivated. Makes perfect sense to me! But, I’m glad you had fun while doing what it! Man, I don’t know why more teams don’t think of doing this. Since it’s so much "FUN"! And since it was so much "FUN, and considering you’ll be sitting home on your asses during the Erin Andrews College Baseball Classic, perhaps you may want to hit up CBS…See if you can get a cameo on EliteXC Saturday Night Fights. I’m sure Kimbo Slice will have FUN giving you "cauliflower ear"! Now that would be "FUN!"
Here’s more about Dumb & Dumber’s from the EAST VALLEY TRIBUE about the all planned out punch out.
