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Bad Behavior in Michigan

Posted By: Coolrey
Date: Tuesday, 7 July 2009, at 1:08 a.m.

In Response To: Bad Behavior in Michigan (Jason Lee)

Hey Jason, I am sympathetic to your plight here. I am quite sure that you did what most of us have done, (and probably many people have done with me), which is to just absorb the abuse and wait for the sweet moment of victory that is pending. When it doesn't come, that can be particularly disconcerting and I don't blame you for calling over the directors.

One thing that you may not know is that Greg Merriman probably feels worse about this than you do already, but even if he doesn't if he were to read it he would be ashamed. Without a shred of a doubt. Greg is an impulsive player with little patience and he is anxious. He likes to win like we all do, and after losing his first match must have been feeling like a pissing post. Noting the fact that you were not responding as he pushed the envelope with his sarcasm, he was encouraged both by your lack of resistance and by his continuing bad luck until he went beyond the limit of good sportsmanship. Greg is the type of man that would just be appalled at his own insensitivity and selfishness because he was caught up in his own obsessive compulsive behavior. It is a good thing that you named names here, but someone ought to forward your post to him in an email. I know that Frank Talbot and I have learned that Greg is a high class person that just gets a little obsessive compulsive OTB. With Greg, the good surely outweighs the bad... You just haven't seen his good side, is all.

Also, in that I used to complain about my luck until I realized it had the potential to make me embarrassed about winning after all that whining...

Which may or may not be the case with Greg, who you say yelled fuck YES when he got his last joker at DMP, apparently. Anyway, that is the problem with whining... because the luck doesn't always stay one sided and the trailer only needs a little luck to overcome a rather large dose of bad luck earlier in the match.

I got to a point a couple of times where I got match winning shots after a lot of complaining about my luck earlier in matches... and it was kind of a confusing feeling to want to hit them, but to feel at the same time like I didn't deserve to, and almost wished I wouldn't! Imagine the tirade one has to take broadside when he has spent the whole match complaining about his bad luck only to ultimately win it! (?)

I am sure on some level Greg had some regrets and he probably was too embarrassed to approach you about it.

I hope for two things here:

1. You don't give up on backgammon

2. Greg gets another chance to modify his behavior.

I was a guest of Greg's at this event, as was Ed Bennett. Greg is a very generous guy. Once in awhile you have to put your foot down to alter his attitude, that's all. You did that.

Stick around, Jason, it gets better than this.

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