A Fan’s Note - March Madness and the Agony of Defeat

By JP Stormcrow

[Very Late Update 04/07/07: An MB post at Pandagon on Chocolate Jesus reminded me that I forgot to put on the list:  October 12, 1980 - Philadelphia 8 Houston 7 (10 innings)]

[Update 3/25/07: Ignore the anxiety-ridden shell who wrote this thread Intro. It is a beautiful spring day, my teams have passed the “Humiliation Barrier” (see comment #30 here, - comment linking roolz!) and maybe, just maybe, a third-rate burglarly has come to light to semi-save us all.]

Please use this thread to discuss the tournament, your bracket, sports in general, or anything else the MOJ you desires. Reading Exley’s A Fan’s Notes and Coover’s The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. recommended, but not required. And in the spirit of those books (as well as my considered reaction to the trials and tribulations of “my” teams in the tournament) let me say this: Let no one deceive you, there is no symmetry or balance in sports fandom. The badness of a bad loss is to the goodness of a good win as the GNF is to a nice spring day. To wit:


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