Monday, February 06, 2006
Seahawks
F***!
Ah, to hell with it.
FUCK!!!!!!!!!
I'll tell you two things that kill me about that game, other than the fact we lost. One was how we lost. It wouldn't have been so bad if Pittsburgh had just blown us out of the water. Losing sucks, but losing to a clearly better team happens. But we didn't lose to a clearly better team. Pittsburgh played a good game and we didn't play the kind of game we could have, the kind of game we'd played so far through the playoffs. Pittsburgh won because they were the better team yesterday, and yesterday is all that counts. But that's a game we could have won.
Still, we didn't win. Congrats to Pittsburgh, because they got it done when they had to. A well earned, well deserved win.
The other thing that gets me, and this is more irritating, is the reaction of Seattle fans. "Aw shucks" we say. "Well, we had a good season," we tell each other, and from now on we'll spend the next twenty years talking about the great run we made in 2005-06, much like we continually talk about the Mariners in '95, a season in which we DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE WORLD SERIES, much less win it. To hell with that. Anyone who knows me knows I'm no fan of the Yankees, but I'll give them and their fans this: they don't talk about seasons in which they "played well" or "did their best". They talk about seasons in which they won championships, and all the rest don't matter. Remembering seasons in which you played hard and made the playoffs but didn't win the championship is like remembering a romantic night you spent with your cousin: nothing good should come out of the memory other than a promise never to do the same thing again.
Now I'm going to go be grumpy.
Ah, to hell with it.
FUCK!!!!!!!!!
I'll tell you two things that kill me about that game, other than the fact we lost. One was how we lost. It wouldn't have been so bad if Pittsburgh had just blown us out of the water. Losing sucks, but losing to a clearly better team happens. But we didn't lose to a clearly better team. Pittsburgh played a good game and we didn't play the kind of game we could have, the kind of game we'd played so far through the playoffs. Pittsburgh won because they were the better team yesterday, and yesterday is all that counts. But that's a game we could have won.
Still, we didn't win. Congrats to Pittsburgh, because they got it done when they had to. A well earned, well deserved win.
The other thing that gets me, and this is more irritating, is the reaction of Seattle fans. "Aw shucks" we say. "Well, we had a good season," we tell each other, and from now on we'll spend the next twenty years talking about the great run we made in 2005-06, much like we continually talk about the Mariners in '95, a season in which we DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE WORLD SERIES, much less win it. To hell with that. Anyone who knows me knows I'm no fan of the Yankees, but I'll give them and their fans this: they don't talk about seasons in which they "played well" or "did their best". They talk about seasons in which they won championships, and all the rest don't matter. Remembering seasons in which you played hard and made the playoffs but didn't win the championship is like remembering a romantic night you spent with your cousin: nothing good should come out of the memory other than a promise never to do the same thing again.
Now I'm going to go be grumpy.
// posted by Dan @ 8:34 AM 
