
“Perception is reality in our game and the perception I have right now is we’ve folded it up,” Collins said in a passionate postgame news conference. “You want to see intenseness? You want to see me be intense? You guys are going to see it. I won’t play that game. You come and play the game right. I don’t care what the situation is. I don’t care about anything but playing the game correctly. That’s all I care about. Our fans should be upset. I don’t blame them one bit.” (via ESPN)

The wonderful image above from The Apple, winner of the 2010 Mazzilli Award for blog of the year. Read it every day but don’t follow him on Facebook until I catch up in followers. If you want, you can follow him on Twitter @readtheapple, he’s a good 1500 behind and I feel cocky.

It was good to see Colactus embrace Man Up and Play Better:
And I’ll tell you what, as I’ve said many times before, I’m responsible. I’m the manager of this team and I’m responsible for it.
Terry, bloggers everywhere thank you.
