tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post8973361689410925985..comments2024-03-15T23:25:52.517-07:00Comments on the joy of sox: "Why Purposely Choose To Be Miserable?"allanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-18350443446005394582011-09-27T14:41:00.857-07:002011-09-27T14:41:00.857-07:00My range of thoughts of late - VERY perplexed... a...My range of thoughts of late - VERY perplexed... a little letdown and disappointed... somewhat nervous... quite hopeful.BZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13505669977952284222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-40741866095974499722011-09-27T10:55:58.601-07:002011-09-27T10:55:58.601-07:00The collective "What have you done for me lat...<i>The collective "What have you done for me lately" mindset of many of the fans (and the sports media growing a collection erection over being able to write about how horrible the team is) makes me madder than the current state of the team. ...</i><br /><br />A thousand times this.<br /><br />Still watching and hoping here, too.Tom DePlontyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04131969835612594121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-78003067329341871102011-09-27T09:21:48.022-07:002011-09-27T09:21:48.022-07:00Is it ok to quote myself here? If not, you can del...Is it ok to quote myself here? If not, you can delete, no prob.<br /><br />I wrote <a href="http://wmtc.blogspot.com/2010/05/on-giving-up-believing-and-what-it.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> in May 2010. <br /><br /><i>Some people are very heavily invested in being right. They're after putting some kind of cosmic "I told you so" on the world. Sometimes it looks like fans would rather say "I told you so" to the more optimistic fans than see their team win.<br /><br />These "I told you so" fans seem to think they're more savvy, more worldly-wise, more in-the-know. Optimism is for suckers. You naive fools can get your hopes up for a sunny day. I'll sit here scowling in my dark corner predicting rain. Then when it rains -- as it always does at some point -- you'll see that I was right.<br /><br />Of course, once it rains, we'll all get wet. But some of us will have enjoyed the sunshine all that time. <br /><br />. . . <br /><br />How many of us thought the Red Sox would come back to win the 2004 ALCS? I'd be surprised if anyone can honestly say they did. We weren't just down three games in a seven-game series. We were about to be swept. In the historical context of The Rivalry, and especially after 2003, unimaginable heartbreak was on the horizon.<br /><br />But we kept watching, and we kept hoping. We were going to watch and hope until the final out. When that final out turned out to be in Game 7, after the greatest comeback the sport has ever seen, we were rewarded - for some of us, after a lifetime of heartbreak. We weren't rewarded for our belief, but for our loyalty.<br /><br />That's what shows we didn't give up. Not what we believed - because what we believed didn't matter. We might have thought the Red Sox would lose the 2004 ALCS, because at some point, that seemed the only possible outcome. We didn't know the impossible was about to happen! So belief or lack of belief is not the issue. Pessimistic doomer or pollyanna optimist, we didn't give up. We kept watching. We kept hoping.</i>laura khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05524593142290489958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-51130015446612368602011-09-27T09:16:44.259-07:002011-09-27T09:16:44.259-07:00Many thanks to Toeing the Rubber and to you for re...Many thanks to Toeing the Rubber and to you for re-running the excerpt here. <br /><br />I choose to believe. <br /><br />If I'm wrong, so be it. Costs me nothing.<br /><br />People think if they somehow don't get their hopes up, it will hurt less. Has that ever worked? Did it ever not hurt to lose?laura khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05524593142290489958noreply@blogger.com