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After Saturday's loss I found myself (like most of you I imagine) pissed off and hating life a bit. I tried to sleep it off like a headache or bad hangover, but the wife wasn't having it and told me to get my candy ass out of bed because we we're doing dinner and a movie. I thought to myself that just may do the trick. Seeing a movie that the wife wants to see just may be be so unbearable that it just may get me to forget how bad the loss was.
We get to the movie, and the guy in front of me in the ticket line notices my shirt with a big WuShock on it and goes, "Hey, they lost today!" and proceeds to let out a giggle. I then found myself setting this guy on fire in my head. My wife instinctively knew that this was the absolute worst thing and the worst time that could be said to me. Knowing I'm DEFCON 2, She pinches my back, thus reminding me I'm trying to get right with the Lord.
Coming to my senses, I brushed it off with a "Heh heh, yeah UNI had their number today. Thanks for reminding me." This incident reminded me, we're a lot like a boy named Sue. We were left with a basketball, empty bottle of booze and stuck in the Valley.
"Experts" like those goons at CBS (Specifically Palm, Gottlieb) are going to throw out any stats or buzzwords to skew things to justify why WSU shouldn't be in the dance. The Shocks could literally sh*t gold and Palm would be on his twitter feed saying "Well, although it is gold for the most part, it contains 5% zinc." Did the Shocks get exposed a little and get dusted? Sure you bet. If Wessel and Brown had hit a couple of shots period, everybody would be singing a different tune.
With the last couple of seasons I think the world, and we as fans have had superhuman expectations when it comes to this team. With the perfection we have witnesssed past couple of years and with our two All-Americans being seniors it has only amplified. Fact is, the best of the best lose games. The true experts know this, and they know we don't have the luxury of racking up "quality losses" due to our league affiliation. This year has certainly been no exception. Although I don't believe there are really any moral victories in losing, I believe that an ass kicking (if you can call it that) will be great in waking this team up. We will be in the dance and will do some damage.
We get to the movie, and the guy in front of me in the ticket line notices my shirt with a big WuShock on it and goes, "Hey, they lost today!" and proceeds to let out a giggle. I then found myself setting this guy on fire in my head. My wife instinctively knew that this was the absolute worst thing and the worst time that could be said to me. Knowing I'm DEFCON 2, She pinches my back, thus reminding me I'm trying to get right with the Lord.
Coming to my senses, I brushed it off with a "Heh heh, yeah UNI had their number today. Thanks for reminding me." This incident reminded me, we're a lot like a boy named Sue. We were left with a basketball, empty bottle of booze and stuck in the Valley.
"Experts" like those goons at CBS (Specifically Palm, Gottlieb) are going to throw out any stats or buzzwords to skew things to justify why WSU shouldn't be in the dance. The Shocks could literally sh*t gold and Palm would be on his twitter feed saying "Well, although it is gold for the most part, it contains 5% zinc." Did the Shocks get exposed a little and get dusted? Sure you bet. If Wessel and Brown had hit a couple of shots period, everybody would be singing a different tune.
With the last couple of seasons I think the world, and we as fans have had superhuman expectations when it comes to this team. With the perfection we have witnesssed past couple of years and with our two All-Americans being seniors it has only amplified. Fact is, the best of the best lose games. The true experts know this, and they know we don't have the luxury of racking up "quality losses" due to our league affiliation. This year has certainly been no exception. Although I don't believe there are really any moral victories in losing, I believe that an ass kicking (if you can call it that) will be great in waking this team up. We will be in the dance and will do some damage.
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