[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

The Flames keep getting brought up because contrasting your argument here against your arguments in the Flames banner thread just underscores how self-serving your position is...

Ah, yes. What was that argument?

Originally Posted by Textcritic

I get the disappointment of the early playoffs exit, but what was wrong with how the regular season ended? The Flames won top seed in the West with games to spare, and they played some excellent hockey down the stretch including a textbook road game in SJ to clinch.

Originally Posted by Textcritic

..."overshadowing" the memory is entirely different than revising it altogether. The fact is, the Flames played a very good second half—definitely not as good as the first, but also not anywhere near the debacle that some people seem to misremember. The disappointment should come exclusively from what happened in the playoffs, because the regular season—from start to finish—is rightly characterized is pretty spectacular...

Originally Posted by Textcritic

...At issue here is not how we should feel about the totality of the 2018–19 season, but rather how should we feel about the second most impressive Regular Season in franchise history...

So, in the end my recommendation continues to be this: If you are going to be disappointed, then be disappointed about the Playoffs. I don't see how any useful purpose is served to use that frustration to exaggerate the truth about the Regular Season, which is what was taking place in the post to which I responded in the first place. My problem is with the exaggeration, not the disappointment.

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

You often come off as an unabashed promoter of the Flames organization, which is fine, but you shouldn't act so surprised when people call you out on your inconsistencies.

That would be fine where inconsistencies preside, or if they were unexplained. I don't see any here, where I am not content to join in the weird infatuation with the SJ Sharks, and to propagate the myth about Joe Thornton's passionate desire to win a championship at all costs.

In one thread, you were trying to ignore the fact that the Flames crapped the bed against Colorado to focus on the regular season. Then you turn around here and argue that the only thing that matters is playoff success - and then ignore just how much playoff success the Sharks have had.

Wrong. In the other thread I stated SEVERAL times that the 2019 playoffs were a disappointment, and that we are all unsurprisingly disappointed by them. My problem there is with how that disappointment has affected some posters memories about the regular season, causing them to rewrite the history of what actually happened in 2019.

As for the Sharks and their own playoff success, I am not the one who brought it up, and I fail to see why fawning over the history of a rival team is something that we should lionize here. I am a Flames fan and I hate the SJ Sharks. I will make no apology for that.

So yeah, the inconsistency of your arguments has raised eyebrows because the only way you can position the Sharks as "perennial losers" is to cherry pick exactly one factor and take the most extreme position on it possible. It's also literally the only way you can present any kind of claim that the Sharks are worse than the Flames. That's not a reasonable position. And to be perfectly honest, no one can save your argument. No one.

I'm not making an argument. I am expressing an opinion borne of my very strong contempt for one of the rivals of my favourite team. The fact of the matter is that as fans we are all helplessly biased, and all our pretentious attempts at objectivity and "reasonable positions" are irreparably impaired by our prejudice. I am happy to own mine, and again, I make no apology for continuing to assert with every breath and keystroke that THE SJ SHARKS SUCK, AND THEY WILL ALWAYS SUCK.