data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.hockey.53548 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Sam S. Wong)
Subject: Re: Mogilny must be benched.
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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[email protected] (Deepak Chhabra) writes:
>Actually this stuff from Mogilny doesn't surprise me all that much. About 4
>or 5 weeks ago I read in the Toronto Sun a quote from Alex; it went something
>like [sarcastically]:
>"Yep, Patty's the man. He's responsible for the team's success...I'm a
>nobody around here."
>I was going to post it at the time...I must have forgot since nobody else
>Gee, kinda like Alex's spot on the team, isn't it?
How can you assume it was a sarcastic remark?
For someone whose first language is not English, I would interpret
that comment to mean that he believes Pat is the MVP on the team and that
he is just one of the other normal players. Quite modest I might say.