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@Pepsi You're responding at length to every point I make, so it does seem as though you're taking this debate this just as seriously as I am. After all, wasn't it you who prodded me with your "how many old threads are you going to bump?" (showing that you really do care about what I post) comment instead of just letting it go and ignoring it (which is what you would have done if you really didn't care).
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Don’t get confused: I don’t care about convincing you. But I enjoy having the conversation and I enjoy the topic. And I respond at length to everything. If you’re following my posts as much as you suggest you are you’d know that I waste tons of time and space! Take it less personally.
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Then your "mayyybe it is" comment was clearly you mocking me for saying the opposite thing earlier in the thread.
Then Jiri misinterpreted a comment I made, so I offered a clarification. Then it resulted in a pile-on against me from multiple posters.
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I just knew the thread was bumped after every bad goal. So I bumped it after a good game. Had nothing to do with you. The reason people piled on was probably because you thought it was about you and then you made it about you. I don’t know how else to explain to you that you are less of the main character here than you think you are. I didn’t even know it was you who I asked about bumping the thread until you pointed it out.
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A serious, long form debate was never my intent here. But why should I say nothing as people are misinterpreting my comments and trying to make me look as foolish as possible?
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Nobody is trying to make you look foolish. Nobody cares whether you look foolish. You don’t have to say nothing, but you could ease off the gas.
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You paint me as "taking this all too seriously" and "not responding like a human being" while you're the "down to earth" one with the "chill" attitude about all this. But that's simply not the reailty of the situation.
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It is, though. You’re proving it right now.
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Let's start this over from the beginning. My position is simply this: the team's goaltending situation isn't looking promising, and while I'd love to be proven wrong about this, it seems more likely than not that the Flames will have significantly inferior goaltending from here on out compared to other teams that have Cup aspirations. If this proves to be the case, it almost certainly means no deep playoff run this year. Disappointing considering the team is in a short win-now window.
Is the only thing to do to shrug and pretend like it's no big deal? Maybe the answer is yes. But in that case I would have to ask what the point of being a fan if winning/losing means so little?
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The point would be: fun. Enjoying the actual game of hockey for the entertainment that it is. It’s pretty cool.
You say you’d “love to be proven wrong” and maybe you would. I’d rather take the opposite outlook and be disappointed if I was proven wrong. That ok with you if other people see positives in Markstrom’s game and enjoy watching the games? Mind if we watch the season play about instead of moping about missing the playoffs in November? That’s what we’re here for, after all.