Thank you Jon Cooper.
Mea culpa. I suck. I dont know hockey.
Thank you for everything. You are an amazing coach and I'm a moron.
Go bolts...I'm still crying
This is awesome. Of all the gameday-thread negative nancys I've muted, you were the hardest because outside your absolute Coop hate you tended to make interesting posts.
Seriously folks, I haven't lived in Tampa since '95, but I've been a fan since Kontos's hat trick at the Expo Hall, and I still enjoy hearing about my Bolts (and adding a comment from time to time) -- and this site has the richest conversation.
But so many of you f***ers seem to just be here to shit on the team when things go wrong, like you've gotten so invested in being a better hockey mind than the coach and the players that you'd rather see them fail and prove you right than see them succeed. At that point, why even follow the team -- the whole enjoyment of the game thing has totally gotten away from you.
Maybe it's because I was raised on the Testaverde Bucs and then did college at the smallest and worst D1 football school in the nation, but sports are just games, y'all. Root for your team, enjoy the successes, shake off the disappointments, and if it's not fun anymore then there are tons of other hobbies out there.
I'm sure I'm being a dick, but a couple bourbon sodas in the afterglow will do that to me. So, an olive branch: