While some in the game say Hard Knocks's distractions ruin teams' seasons, that shouldn't be a problem for the Dolphins, whose season was ruined months ago when their players didn't magically trade themselves for different, better players.
But where most owners have recently distinguished themselves through their huffily John Galtian militancy and vicious avarice, the Wilpons are playing a different and goofier game, spinning cascading failure, proud delusion, and unrelenting and imperturbable clownishness into what's less a standard Shitty Owner Ruins Team story and more like a strange, sprawling satirical novel.
Perez feared one more flub might ruin his team's wild-card chances.
If Goodell really wanted to ruin your team in 2012, he could have suspended your coach through only mid-December.
Quarterback Greg McElroy completed 16 of 24 passes for 229 yards and 2 touchdowns and, as usual, did nothing to ruin his team's chances to win.
"When you ruin a team like that, you do things to peoples' families, you release people, you trade people, you get rid of good players who build something with the community, with the fans, with the kids – to have a guy come in and change up the team like that, I just believe in karma," Jackson told The MMQB.com.
There's no reason why remote working has to ruin the team dynamics you have in place.
My only concern is ruining our team chemistry.
But give it a few weeks, and you'll find that somebody somewhere is complaining about how the tournament disrupted training camps and ruined some team's season before it even began.
But again, it won't make a difference what people think of the Wilpons if Alderson can do for them what Gene Michael and colleagues did for George Steinbrenner when the Boss was under suspension from baseball for unethical behavior in the early 1990's and most Yankees fans were wishing him gone for good — though mainly because his meddling had ruined their team.
"But you've ruined our team now".
