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BlackIce:
--- Quote from: KitFisto on Thursday May 17, 2018, 09:10:40 AM Eastern ---
Yeah, maybe that's because we've never experienced anything different. Win ONE and that will immediately change forever for me.
--- End quote ---
Then you are weak.
Back to the 2004 Red Sox. That year they lost the first 3 games of their best of 7 ALCS series to the Yankees, the 3rd game by a score of 19-8. It was an embarrassment. One commentator referred to the game as a "steaming pile of baseball." Fans were on chat boards excoriating the team up and down and declaring the Sawx would never win a championship, they'd never beat the Yankees, the team was a heartless, gutless bunch of losers, etc.
In the midst of this, I made what I thought was one sort of neutral comment. I said that one interesting thing about being in this position was that it gave the Sox a chance to become the first team in major league baseball history to come back from a 3-0 deficit in a best of 7 playoff series. I was absolutely RIDICULED for even suggesting such a possibility.
The Sox never lost another game that fall, either in the Yankee series or the World Series.
That fall taught me that one NEVER knows what is going to happen in sports. NEVER.
alta:
The Sox crewed themselves in '04. Before that they could blame The Bambino, now they just suck :raspberry:
maybe hollywood will show up and take over an entire section and screw the fans to film a dumb movie :wackysmile:
KitFisto:
Edited...not worth it.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: BlackIce on Thursday May 17, 2018, 09:41:20 AM Eastern ---
Then you are weak.
Back to the 2004 Red Sox. That year they lost the first 3 games of their best of 7 ALCS series to the Yankees, the 3rd game by a score of 19-8. It was an embarrassment. One commentator referred to the game as a "steaming pile of baseball." Fans were on chat boards excoriating the team up and down and declaring the Sawx would never win a championship, they'd never beat the Yankees, the team was a heartless, gutless bunch of losers, etc.
In the midst of this, I made what I thought was one sort of neutral comment. I said that one interesting thing about being in this position was that it gave the Sox a chance to become the first team in major league baseball history to come back from a 3-0 deficit in a best of 7 playoff series. I was absolutely RIDICULED for even suggesting such a possibility.
The Sox never lost another game that fall, either in the Yankee series or the World Series.
That fall taught me that one NEVER knows what is going to happen in sports. NEVER.
--- End quote ---
Dude I am a LIONS fan. . .
The first team to go 0-16. The team that hasn't won a playoff game since 1991, let alone been to a NFC championship, or a Super Bowl, with their last champion ship in 1956.
The team who had the most incompetent owner, hired and kept the most incompetent Pres, VPs and GMS EVER (which is a lot coming from a Caps fan).
The team that drafted three WR in 3 years and where all flops.
The team that refused to, and/or couldn't not support the greatest MLB, RB, and the greatest athlete to play WR so they all walked.
Sox and Cubs fans can kiss my ass compared to The Lions (though Browns fans may have an case).
What I've learned, is you can know with a high probability, whats gonna happen in sports,through just basic objective observation, forecasting, analysis, combined knowing the history, trends, and typical results.
But what has the single lowest success rate, is blind optimism and hoping for dramatic divine intervention, and Hollywood/video game endings.
While I admit it doesn't have a 0% failure rate, neither does the the lottery or hitting on 18 when the dealer has a 2.
alta:
yea, see, the kind of luck I have is I'd hold on the 18 as the dealer draws a 10 and 7
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