With Patterson, we wouldn't have It's Patterson. Not sure I'd want to give that up.
Yeah, but think how much lazier and creepier he'd be if he'd gotten that right. He could fall back on that for close to a decade and be sick and tired of covering KSU even more than he is now while freeing up his entire life to twitter.
It's a double edged sword.
On the flip side, had It's Patterson not blown up and completely destroyed all remaining shreds of his journalistic credibility and reputation, he actually still might be trying. It's like that day broke his spirit. And it's been a slow downward spiral ever since.
At this point he appears to have simply embraced the jester routine ala John Daly and just show up to the course in his rv, play some half assed golf and dress himself up like a clown suit for the entertainment value.
Things
could have been different...............