"A Parable"
Once upon a time there were a couple of cooking organizations called the Association of Beef Artists (ABA for short) and the National Beef Artists (NBA for short). They had a great product, one that any person would pay to sit down and be served. There were franchises in practically every major city. And the cooks that they had were incredible, Cousy, Russell and Chamberlain just to name a few. The franchises that they cooked for knew how to work as a team to put a great meal before you. Back then young cooks actually went to college to learn their craft with the hope of cooking in the ABA or NBA. In the early seventies a young cook from California named Lew Alcindor brought a new dish called the "Sky Hook" to the NBA and everyone was amazed by how great this new dish was. With it Alcindor's cooking franchise, the Bucks (Best Unity of Cooking Kings Seen) made it to the top of the cooking world. Although Alcindor was the head cook he had plenty of support from cooks like Robertson, Dandridge and McClocklin. They all worked together to put the best meal forward that they could for the paying customer. In the early seventies the ABA was having financial troubles and losing many of their customers. It was decided that some of the cooking franchises from the ABA would merge with the NBA. The NBA was introduced to a wondrous new talent named "Doctor J" whose real name was Julius Erving. And boy could he cook. In fact he brought cooking to new heights.
In the 80's another wondrous cook arrived in the NBA by the name of Michael Jordan. He led his Chicago franchise to the top of the cooking world on numerous occasions. His cooking talents were so immense that they led him to believe that he could cook in the MBL (Major Beef League) but he discovered that the heat that the MBL cooked with was a little too hot so he wisely returned to the NBA.
Also about this time a lot of cooks decided that they didn't need to hone their craft in college cooking schools and could jump straight to the NBA. Now many of these cooks were in fact, excellent cooks, but they didn't know how to prepare a meal if you know what I mean. They realized that they weren't quite ready to cook with the big boys but by forgoing college they had blown their chance to learn to cook correctly.
In the year 2005 it was decided that maybe if the dishes being served were dressed up a little the customers would be more willing to see what's cooking. The NBA wanted to clean up its image after a nasty food fight from the year before between the cooking franchises in Detroit and Indiana. This apparently is imposing a hardship upon many of the cooks as many of them are very unhappy with the new changes. The lowest base salary for cooking in the NBA is $385,000 but according to some lame chef named Brevin Knight that is not enough to insure that the correct dressing will come with your meal.
What is the moral behind this simple parable? Easy. You can take a pile of sh*t and dress it up any way you like it. Shape it into a patty, grill it, put some ketchup on it, a lot of mustard and what do you have? That's right, a pile of sh*t. A crappy product is a crappy product no matter how you dress it up. That's what the NBA is trying to do with the new dress code. I don't care how well dressed the players are, if they can't play ball who wants to watch them?
As always, good luck in your matches.
Jerry
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