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Dan Lewis
Pessimism Moot: The "Holy Shit!" Edition
Dan Lewis · 8 October 06
During both Tigers wins in Detroit, I felt like we were losing until we went up 5-0. You have to realize what last weekend’s Royals games did to me psychologically. Rogers and Bonderman put it all to rest though. They put the entire Tigers team, the crowd, and my bulging negative psyche onto their backs and carried us over the finish line.
And another thing – I’ve made an ass of myself enough as to the job Leyland has done, so I think I had better cut my losses and make my peace with the man. It’s a little easier to do when I see him from this angle:
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Comment
- yeah this is the guy who said you were dumb for giving up on the tigers, and said you were even an bigger idiot for bashing leyland.
and your still an idiot.
the tigers are champs now, and i laugh at your poor ability to stick with something you believe in.
“so I think I had better cut my losses”
you should just stick with bashing the tigers…that will be your punishment.
i never come on here unless the tigers win and i wanted to see your response, but you disgust me, and obviously my disapperance wont bother you a bit, but i will never take my time to read your thoughts, and I WILL BASH people who take their time to consider your thoughts valuable.
YOU SAID THAT THIS WOULD PROVE TO BE “THE FALL OF THE TIGERS,” and now your rooting again for the Tigers?
I got a name for you.
BAND WAGON FAN
HA
— mike haines Oct 8, 6:58pm # - I just wanted to post your previous article on your post season predictions.
-Dan’s Playoff Pre-pick-tions-
Detroit Tigers vs. New York Yankees
Who I want to win:
I don’t even know anymore
What will actually happen:
Yankees in 2
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Now this is my prediction
your looking at this and laughing
i know i am.
no hard feelings pal,
but your predictions mean SHIT to me guy.
— mike haines Oct 8, 7:11pm # - DAAAAAAAAMN!
— j Oct 8, 7:33pm # - (...wow, that Mike guy’s really angry.)
I admit, I came here to see what your reaction would be to success, too. But I never held all the gloom against you. It was fun to read; I just found it sort of comforting. I’m a glass-half-empty type myself. I sort of kept thinking “I know this looks bad, but it can’t be as bad as that Lewis guy says it is.” It worked!
— Matt Desmond Oct 9, 6:14am # - ZOMG I 2nd that YOUR a idiot. So their we pwn you’re fagy ass ROFL.
Hope to see you on Friday at the house that Philip Morris built, not routing for the Tigers of course.
— StealthMuscles Oct 9, 2:24pm # - To “mike haines,” “StealthMuscles” and whomever may be reading and thinking of posting: PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SPELL “YOU’RE” CORRECTLY. It’s a contraction, morons, just like the first word of this sentence: two words joined together by an apostrophe. In case you’re not aware, you’re saying something about what Dan is doing, has done, or will in the future do, i.e., a subject and a verb, not a poessessive pronoun. Please, your profound grammatical and punctuational ignorance is killing me; if you’re going to write, please act like you made it past the seventh grade.
— Todd Oct 9, 6:35pm # - Todd, brother: correcting spelling and punctuation in the comments of a sports blog is a heroic lost cause—baling on the Titanic. But this English major salutes you. Also, boss use of HTML; I can never remember how to do that.
(Next week—there, their, and they’re. E.g. The Tigers? Oh yeah, they’re the ones who handed the Yankees their collective ass back there in Detroit. We can all agree on that, right?)
— Matt Desmond Oct 9, 9:08pm # - Allow me to clear some things up here, gentlemen. Todd, you spaz, StealthMuscles is an old friend of mine, and his use of “YOUR” was a jab at Mike Haines, as signified by its (not “it’s”, of course) capitalization. Get you’re head out of you’re ass!
Also, I have a confession to make. Mike Haines has made an astute point. I am forced to admit that I am a bandwagon fan. God, it just feels good to get it off my chest! Thanks for the valuable input, Mike!
As for Matt Desmond, thanks for chiming in. This sort of turn of events ties a pessimist like me in knots, and it’s good to know that there are some out there who understand. Luckily, I can turn it on and off, being a bandwagoner and all.
— Dan Oct 10, 11:10am # - Good grief. Maybe if I’d thrown in a few characters with diacritical marks, the iröny would have been more obvious. Sorry to add to the cacophony.
Check out some more boss html below(though my copy’s on my desk of course):
— English majors serve me lattes every morning Oct 10, 2:33pm # - Touché! We must coöperate.
— Matt Desmond Oct 11, 12:04pm #
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