Oh, I didn’t mean it as a back-handed complement. I remember you were more negative but I honestly wasn’t referring to your past takes or anything.
It’s just funny to me that lots of posts are people are people running around with their hair on fire and your measured responses have been killing it. Everytime you post it’s
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I’m actually pegged as the pessimist in my family, with my brother being more optimistic and my dad being cartoonishly optimistic.
I don’t consider myself pessimistic, which seems more of an emotional reaction to me, more just realistic.
I did get hung up on people people being negative, when I know I should probably see it as venting, because 1) I didn’t see how it helps 2) they were at times irrationally negative with terrible arguments 3) I hate complaining (I was raised by stoic Eastern European woman, it’s just how I roll.)
(The only thing that really broke me was the goaltending lol.)
I get frustrated during this losing streak and got elated during win streak but some people have run to extremes with it that I’m not capable of this early.
We were Stanley Cup Contenders and now we’re teetering on the brink of missing the playoffs.
I personally believe a lot negativity doesn’t make things enjoyable for other people. If people are genuinely despairing over this, I don’t think they should, just statistically speaking.
But I can’t make people do or believe anything and I don’t pretend to know what will happen either (that’s sports for ya).
Hell, I thought we weren’t going to make the playoffs at some points in 2017-18 (I thought we kind of blew it) and I didn’t think Hall had any chance to win the MVP until late. I’m actually not that big on hope.
This got very rambling.
