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#4,527
#4,527
Yankee_Vol said:
Exactly. You aren't supposed to lose games after being up 3-0.
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Definitely had the wrong mindset coming out for the second, the world knew that Chicago was going to come out balls to the wall, but for whatever reason Nashville more or less ceded the initiative to them in an effort to withstand the tide and hold the lead. Saw it countless times in the Tortorella days in NYC, it's a horrible thing to watch.
 
#4,529
#4,529
That was a really deflating loss. I'm buying into the pessimism. It's not over, but I'm watching the rest of the games with a really defeatist attitude.
 
#4,532
#4,532
TLDR; Henley is a hipster, should time travel to the 70's....man, and posted a novel.


I am trying to be positive. It's a couple dozen millionaires / multimillionaires who are playing a sport for the entertainment of those who watch it. With their boss(es) goal to draw as many eyeballs as possible, of course usually is dictated by wins, big acquisitions, etc. Their compensation and job security correlates with their performance and results, so they are competitive, emotionally invested, rightfully being emersed and obsessed.

I've made a real effort in the last two years to remove the large majority of the emotion. Turning my stomach, ruining my work day, throwing remotes, having to take a walk, isn't worth it. I try and enjoy sporting events. That's all. Why watch 4-5 different teams, year round, just to constantly be miserable?

I got chills up both arms and smiled when Wilson scored the first goal and the crowd erupted through my headset. It was awesome. When Keith shoots or assists the game winner, of course I was disappointed, but it's a 7 game series, and teams blow multi goal leads in the playoffs every year. A three goal lead given away to Chicago really really sucked, but based on how we've played down the stretch, it isn't surprising.

Flame away.
 
#4,533
#4,533
Mr_Henley said:
TLDR; Henley is a hipster, should time travel to the 70's....man, and posted a novel.


I am trying to be positive. It's a couple dozen millionaires / multimillionaires who are playing a sport for the entertainment of those who watch it. With their boss(es) goal to draw as many eyeballs as possible, of course usually is dictated by wins, big acquisitions, etc. Their compensation and job security correlates with their performance and results, so they are competitive, emotionally invested, rightfully being emersed and obsessed.

I've made a real effort in the last two years to remove the large majority of the emotion. Turning my stomach, ruining my work day, throwing remotes, having to take a walk, isn't worth it. I try and enjoy sporting events. That's all. Why watch 4-5 different teams, year round, just to constantly be miserable?

I got chills up both arms and smiled when Wilson scored the first goal and the crowd erupted through my headset. It was awesome. When Keith shoots or assists the game winner, of course I was disappointed, but it's a 7 game series, and teams blow multi goal leads in the playoffs every year. A three goal lead given away to Chicago really really sucked, but based on how we've played down the stretch, it isn't surprising.

Flame away.
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When living vicariously through others, you can choose to enjoy success while laughing off defeat. Your primary weapons are a cosmic perspective and a pessimistic outlook:


If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.
― Daniel C. Dennett
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. -George Will
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
― Carl Sagan
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This applies to life in general as well, I think most human suffering comes down to imagined self-importance and faith that reality will somehow be influenced by what you want to happen.
 
#4,549
#4,549
That was a call that has to be made. it wasn't "the sixth guy had his right heel still on the ice", that was "there are six players on the ice, and the newest one just scored".
 
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