Nik said:
You could throw the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, and the Cleveland Browns into that mix. Up until recently the Cubs were known as the lovable losers for good reason.
I understand the advice you are giving, and I wish that I was good at letting things go. It's just that this is the area of sport that I struggle the most with. I have what used to be called Asperger's syndrome. Now it just means that I am on the autistic spectrum. My super power is that I was born without a filter for my emotions, and that I want everything to be black or white. Of course I live in a world that is one giant shade of grey.
I enjoy watching sports. I love to see the plays that people make as they unfold at this unnatural speed to culminate in an achievement. I think of the Lemieux goal against Boston when he deked out Ray Bourque, or Carter hitting the home run to win the world series, or the Leonard shot that bounced 4 times. These are awesome things to witness as they unfold before you.
For me, a game boils down to wins and loses, and then from there I try and make sense of it. What sets me off is when people are hypocritical or completely biased in their breakdowns of how they see something taking place, because I strive to push things into a black or white category. So a fan base that complains about penalties that aren't called when they lose, only to cheer on a team that wins by playing that style seems wrong to me. If you didn't like the fact that you lost when a team beat you because the refs didn't call the penalties, then you really shouldn't take pride in the fact that the team that you cheer for now wins by playing that style. That's the sort thing that really irks me. I understand that the whole basis of sports talk radio is built on hypocrisy and biased "takes", so I try and stay clear of it. It's just in todays day and age it's really hard to shut it all out.
Like I really dislike Jack Edwards. I really don't go looking for information on him. If I never hear another word from him my life would be just dandy, but inevitably, if the Leafs play the Bruins, someway, somehow, I will be exposed to one of his tweets, and it will make my eye twitch. I get that is the whole reason that he is doing it, which is why I think it is wrong, because why do you want to make someone angry? I hate when I am angry, because of that whole no filter thing, so I avoid getting angry like I am Bruce Banner. I go out of my way to try and decompress situations, and here are these people that will just openly lob grenades into fanbases just to watch the world burn.
