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Originally Posted by Textcritic
But this is precisely the point I was trying to make in my first post: It doesn't really matter whom is a "better person" (how does one even determine such a thing?) when speaking of public persona. People will earn reputations based on their performances in public, and Martin Brodeur has developed a tonne more social capital than Roberto Luongo. I find it difficult to cheer for Luongo because of the reputation that he has constructed for himself, whereby he is often perceived as arrogant, truculent and something of a poor sport.
For more on this phenomenon of social memory, I recommend reading Gary Alan Fine's Difficult Reputations or Barry Schwartz's Lincoln in the Forge of National Memory.
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Just curious what exactly this has to do with the starting goalie in tonights game? Or did you just want to show off that you've read some books
