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Originally Posted by MillerTime GFG
And yes, I'm prepared to see just enough victories over the next few months to get us into 4th place. If this team wins a round, they might get my attention, but I'm not going to allow myself to become too invested again. Though even if we do win a round, if we ever have to play Vegas or Colorado? Yikes. Might close my eyes for that one. And there lies the problem.
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The problem being one you're missing, which is that you are watching a game for the sake of entertainment and can't seem to actually enjoy yourself even in a win.
I will never understand the type of sports fan that is only in it for the wins, let alone those in it for the right kind of wins at the right time where anything less than the biggest prize is unenjoyable. Why do you guys do it? What's the point? Is there some imagined social importance to saying you're a Flames fan even when a playoff birth or winning a round wouldn't bring you any joy? Can you honestly say you even like hockey or the Flames if that's the case? You think putting on a jersey and having an opinion makes you a fan?
These same people talk about "realism" or how some random negative opinion is "correct" because it's negative. The only dose of realism here is the fact that if last night's win brought you no joy and no hope, you need a different hobby because you're wasting your life.
The reason the previously mentioned poster got "piled on" is because most people here are fans of the team, enjoy winning, and enjoy hockey. Hockey is entertaining, and when your favourite team wins? It's a nice little injection of positivity in your day.
You ever have an acquaintance that is constantly negative, a total pessimist? Some fun to be around, right? If negative people want to inject their own negativity into everything around them and pretend they're right to make them feel a little better about wallowing in their own inability to enjoy the parts of their life that are strictly there to increase their enjoyment, have at it. Just don't expect warm receptions from people who are capable of having a good time.