Jalen Ramsey, Who Has Never Before Skated, Said He'd Need 6 Months Of Training To Be NHL-Ready8/31/2018
I hesitate to say this, as words like "stop" and "no" only stand to encourage the subject in question, but don't do it...don't you do this Jalen Ramsey. I'm not what anyone would consider opposed to arrogance in sports, but let's try to keep it within the realm of reality here. Not that the Jaguars' contentious, All-Pro corner would ever try to be someone he's not, but if he's going to keep running his mouth nonstop then I'd prefer it keep up with the standard set by Joel Embiid, as he's far too talented to be falling back to the level of LaVar Ball. While I love the cockiness, it's just not nearly as effective when it's based on absolutely nothing. Like, the beauty of Jalen Ramsey's trash talk is that it typically makes you think, if not nod along in agreement. Him proclaiming he could play in the NHL six months after teaching himself how to properly lace up a pair of ice skates does neither, as it's nothing more than spewed nonsense for the sake of shock value. People like Jalen Ramsey's animosity because he says what his peers are afraid to, not because he says what his peers are too intelligent to. Again, I love the shit talk, but I'd prefer it not be annunciated directly from his ass, if only to avoid him being confused for one of Ace Ventura's speech pathology patients. For a man so rich with validated confidence, this was a cheap headline grab, as hovering around 6-feet tall and being predominantly white doesn't make NHL players any less remarkable or more replicable as professional athletes that needed to master one sport to even have a chance to become the best at another. He surely already knows that, but the always thick-skinned hockey community doesn't know that he knows that, so he's on his own in dealing with the online mob he undoubtedly incited for no reason other than seeking attention he was already getting regardless.
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