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Archive for December 9th, 2007

Disappointing, but not all that surprising.

09 Dec 2007 @ 8:45 PM

I was rather expecting that loss, given two things:

1) The WhalerCanes’ record at the Nexus of Evil (winless streak going back to 1989)

2) The continuation of the win-lose-win-lose-win-lose pattern that goes back about a month and a half.

I didn’t bother watching the video stream of the game–thanks, I already know that Ken Daniels and Mickey Redmond are under a standing order to never say anything nice about my team as long as Pete Karmanos owns them. I don’t need to have it shoved in my face, and monitors (not to mention ER visits for gashed-up fists) are expensive to replace anyway. Of course, that little factoid didn’t stop other Hurricanes fans from watching it and commenting on the aforementioned never-saying-anything-nice. Really Mickey, bringing up Eric Staal’s bachelor party escapade? Can we be a little more bush league, please? Seriously, I’m wondering here.

So, I listened to ChuckandtheletterK while playing some World of Warcraft. Vented a little to my guildmates (who are mostly Sens and Oilers fans, for the record), went on a couple Shadow Labyrinth runs, and I felt better. Marginally.

And the Wings fans are still pretending they know me better than I do. Quelle grande surprise–at least they’re one up on the average fans of the Buffalo ASBOs in that most of them understand hyperbole when they encounter it.

And at least on Wednesday we’ll be playing a team with civilized fans.