RDOilerfan wrote on Fri, 18 June 2021 13:30

Mike wrote on Fri, 18 June 2021 13:12 RDOilerfan wrote on Fri, 18 June 2021 15:46 There you go. It will be interesting to see what the people who enjoy complaining about the Oilers 365 days a year will do if they ever win the cup. I am sure they will find something. Would you believe me if I told you Adam used to be even more of a homer than you? I used to call him Pompoms. The team could do no wrong. And then they broke him. There is hope for you yet I am not a big fan of being called a homer or an apologist or whatever else I get called. I know you aren't trying to insult me, so please don't think I am upset. I am not. But this is a sports team. I love the Oilers. They are by far my favorite team of all the sports. I follow them the most out of any of the sports I like to watch. I want the Oilers to win just as badly as everyone in here. When they lose, I hate it. But it's a sports team. If the Oilers never win a game again, I won't be happy, I will be pissed off but it's not life or death for me. My family will survive if the Oilers lose a game. So I do not see the point or value in my life to be overly negative about them because all it would do is ruin my mood. If a person wants too, they can go find something negative about every single thing out there. Life is too short to be miserable about something all the time. So if people in here want to be negative and miserable about the Oilers all the time, have at it. But just because I choose not too be miserable about the Oilers 365 days a year doesn't mean I blindly accept what they do all the time. It's a sports team, it's not life or death.

Is it negative and miserable though to point out super obvious destructive patterns of a team you want badly to win? I think it's also comedic at this point because of how ridiculous it keeps being. It's like a cousin that keeps screwing up making the same mistakes no matter how many times his family tells them how to clean their act up. You still care for them, but there's a point where you're just going "oh...there's ____ being themself again!" and it's funny, unless they are seriously hurting themselves of course.

There are degrees of caring I suppose? There's the caring where you just so badly want to hope everything will work out you just ignore all the bad and make excuses for the failures on behalf of it. I guess that's fine, and maybe it's annoying when people point out that you're in a cycle of seeing failure and making excuses that the thing you're cheering for doesn't really deserve the benefit of.

Then there's caring there you can't help but to recognize all the mistakes being made and it annoys you, especially because you have zero control over fixing the problem. You have to find various ways to cope with having to witness the same mistakes over and over again, maybe laughing the stupidity of it, or venting about it with others that see the same issues, etc...

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