A Team in a Slump

For some peerless who is non much of a sports fan as he claims himself to be, Richard Cohen is the most unlikely psyche to write about the parallelisms of a Knicks season and the Iraq War.For Cohen, a game and a war must two be won. He disagrees with Vince Lombardi with the latters famous quote that lovely is not the only thing. He is more in agreement with hydrogen Ford about learning more from failures than in successes.Cohen cited the New York Knicks as having the highest paid players in the league, including those who sit it out in crucial games. The judicatory warmers have $53 million contracts. He thinks the figure to be slightly expensive for a ball club finishing at the bottom of the inning notch of the Eastern Conference.Cohen likewise called to mind Gil Hodges of the Dodgers who performed below expectations in 1952 and was for an self-conscious length of time on such a sudden decline, or on a slump. Hodges was well-loved, extremely good and quite strong. But as mos t people would say then, things happen. Things were not always within ones control.The Cohen essay is also about George W. Bush once the owner of the Texas Rangers. Owning a ball club before, Cohen believes that Bush should have known that as in the case of the Knicks, money nor power, does not a winner make. In Iraq, even with all its resources America is ineffective. It is like the Knicks on a slump.Cohen wrote, Its not the bench that needs to be replaced. Its the front office. The undercoat for the defeat is not because the players or the soldiers be not that good, it is more of the person owning the ball club or the commander in chief from whom the orders are coming being incapable of leading his group to victory. What it takes to win, the man in charge should know.This may be a different way to facet at the much-debated Iraq War, at a sports angle with a sports analysis on the side. Richard Cohen, from his own admission is an occasional sports fan.For the most part of his essay, one would not easily find a connection between a team in a slump and a protracted war, between a former ball club owner and a president who calls the shots in Iraq. For the average American who has a home team to root for he would understandably like to separate his sports from his politics. As for Cohen, he should shoot from other angle.Works CitedCohen, Richard. A Team in a Slump. 20 April 2006. Washington blank space Writers Group. 15 May 2007