Can you lease schadenfreude?
Chris Pronger, in The Hockey News (quoted by David Staples):
I heard people say, ‘You were our player.’ Not a chance was I your player. I play on a team in your city and I’m here to entertain you and you don’t own me. And the team doesn’t own me. They lease me for the length of my contract and I can be moved if they don’t like my lease, but I can’t ask for a trade?
What’s totally awesome about this quote is that it comes from a guy making $6.25 million a year, who leased his furniture, including his baby’s crib.
Now, what he said may be the unvarnished truth (the team doesn’t own him, it’s just a contract which can be traded, yada yada yada). Makes you wonder how his teammates feel, though. He’s the team captain, but you know, he’s just on lease.
On an unrelated by entirely satisfying note, last night the Captain of the Mighty Ice Hockey Team of Anaheim Named for a Bad Disney Franchise played a large role in getting the team gloriously ousted from the playoffs.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:32 am
In other words, Pronger’s year on skates is verpfuscht. Gee, let’s organize a giant pity party or something.
Pronger will eventually tire of the Quackers, and will have a falling out with their fans, too.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:09 pm
If the Ducks fans (all 12 of them — ZING!) are smart, they’ll keep the big douchebag at arms’ length. Be glad to have in on your team, sure, but always remember that he doesn’t deserve your affection.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I think he must have hired Whitney Houston’s personality coach.