Pints&union leaves town, and naturally, places limits on who can comment about it.
On Sunday, Pints&union took to the airwaves for a final round of self-congratulation before decamping for Louisville.
From beginning to end, the symmetry between Joe’s abandonment of New Albany and Athletics owner John Fisher’s “wheels up” from Oakland has been almost majestic in both scope and snark.
Leaving your customers behind, whether bound for Louisville or Las Vegas, after years of promises that it’s all been about them, takes a special kind of deftness that neither Phillips nor Fisher possess.
Rather, if it’s ham-fisted narcissists you’re seeking, and with Fisher being far, far away, look no further than someone who writes these words, utterly allergic to irony: “The ones that lashed out, we love you too cause that meant you cared.”
That’s right, Colonel.
You need to believe that, as ludicrous as the sentiment remains.
They (they’re your customers) cared, you screwed them over by leaving, they “lashed” out (read: asked questions, expressed grief, pursued lines of thought that elude your limited understanding), and now you rationalize the reaction from these folks you’re abandoning by insisting that yet again, it’s all about you and the degree to which you’re being loved.
(Although I’d be remiss...
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