Jay Mariotti on Rex Grossman
Guess it's not quite whipping season yet for the baseball teams in Chicago, as Mariotti goes back to a favorite topic from the season just past. Rex Grossman. What's up with that? Quoth Grossman in Baltimore to receive an award:
"What I've noticed in this league is that it's exaggerated in both ways. The media would never tell you if you're just good. You're either great or you're terrible. People have a short memory, especially if you aren't established in this league. In some of those games, I was bad. I had 13 or 14 games I'm extremely proud of and five or six that were really bad. After those really bad games, they wanted to kick me out of the league. And it wasn't that long after I was Offensive Player of the Month. The swings of criticism were much bigger than swings in my play.''
Writes Mariotti in response:
"Not to call him delusional or anything, but a Britney Spears mood meter displays more stability than a Rex Grossman performance chart."
It would definitely help Grossman, to be sure, if he would stop displaying an Alex Rodriguez-like sensitivity to what is written and said about him. Because, to be sure, a LOT is going to be written and said about him starting with the first snaps of camp next August. If he insists on baring his soul, Rodriguez-on-Mike-and-Mad-Dog style, well, it's not going to be be good for him in the long run.