Not everyone gets a prize...
A by-god-he's-right post from Julian Sanchez:
A little while back, I heard a band that introduced me to a new and particularly tragic category of artistic badness: They were exactly good enough to suck...
Read on, dear friends, read on...

The football coach Bill Walsh used to refer to certain players as "Just good enough to get you beat." It's the same phenomenon: a player is good enough so that the coach puts him in the game at a crucial position at a crucial moment - and he then messes up and costs the team the game.
Posted by: Jim Barnett | August 14, 2007 at 07:15 PM