Time to change...

[tjxu97]

Wow, I created quite a stir!

I would love to write a story, however, I am overseas and have been all season. The only games I saw were the tourny games.

I just think that the homepage should reflect the best season in X`s basketball history a little better.

Good luck guys!

[Mr. Neutral]

Faith only gets you so far, Wise. A lot of White
Sox kept thinking their team would turn it around last season, based on the 90 wins the season before and the World Championship the season before that. The team, even with all this "faith", ended up 72-90, a perfectly miserable year that any idiot could have seen coming a mile away, but the true believers kept wishing it wasn't so.

See, the Pollyanas are never wrong. If they say the team will have a good year, and then the team does, they say "see, I was right to have faith in them".

If the team has a disappointing year, the Pollyanas pretend it never happened and say "they'll be better next year" and give dozens of reason why a 17-13 season was REALLY a 23-7 year.

Same thing with individual games. We don't lose games, or lose games badly; we either got screwed by the refs, "would have won if only we'd made more shots", or were beaten by hoodlums who could never play at our noble institution.

I'm getting better at acknowledging X's good play; I just wish the Pollyanas could say (when justified) "we sucked today, and if we continue playing like this, it will be a tough year". But it's impossible for them to make that statement, even if true.

And it's "ever". I'll talk to management about getting a spell-checker installed for your benefit.

[Wisexuowl]

Actually, in lieu of a spell checker, I'd much prefer new eyes, and if that is asking too much, just one good one will work.
I'm told "you know you're going blind, but we've talked about this before haven't we," is what the greatest eye doctor in the world told me, the she, yeah she, said, "but we're not going to let that happen are we?"
Easy for her to say, but what the hell.

[Mr. Neutral]

With any luck, that (continued vision loss) won't happen, and if it does, then the other senses sharpen up (or so I've heard).

My optometrist told me that (at least sometimes) distance vision actual gets better with age, even while your near-vision gets worse.

Either way, a lot of this is out of our hands. If we could control the aging process, we'd all be taller, thinner and younger, which ain't the case.

[muskieman]

With any luck, that (continued vision loss) won't happen, and if it does, then the other senses sharpen up (or so I've heard).

My optometrist told me that (at least sometimes) distance vision actual gets better with age, even while your near-vision gets worse.

Either way, a lot of this is out of our hands. If we could control the aging process, we'd all be taller, thinner and younger, which ain't the case.

Now if I only had Love's arms I could read that newspaper without glasses.

[Wisexuowl]

<distance vision actual gets better with age, even while your near-vision gets worse.>

That be true. Was a time I had trouble following the flight of the golf ball. Don't anymore ... but then it doesn't go as far either. Lands in the same area, but then I ain't plying the Blues any more either ... and we don't have the "Senior Tee's" ... yet!

[Mr. Neutral]

<<Was a time I had trouble following the flight of the golf ball. Don't anymore ... but then it doesn't go as far either. >>

I'd rather be in-bounds short than OB long.