It Is Scapegoat Time of Year.

[huskiesNhoos]

Fishy was already hanged. Rehanging the hanged is like reheating leftovers. You don’t feed the mojo reheated leftovers.

Everyone knows you don't microwave fish in the office

 

[tzznandrew]

I'm pretty sure it was @william shea in 2014. I remember he started a thread calling the team gutless and we got a ton of mojo from that.

That's right. Multiple cell phones, all that.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Everyone knows you don't microwave fish in the office

Not everyone. A (briefly employed) member of my firm about eight years back did just that, overcooked it to boot.

The kitchen area smelled like (I'll be polite) for about five weeks.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I was actually hanged already - I think 2004 or some year around there. Pretty sure it was the year after we hung deep and swami.

Yep, that's where I got hamstrung under traditional protocol, but we both acknowledge that some with less historical knowledge brought the topic up, and not without some sense of its applicability.

I've laid out elsewhere a plausible angle akin to point guard by committee.

I invite you and others to step down, step up, and step in, rather than contributing to the counterproductive contrarian clamor of the nattering nabobs of negativity. Any damn fool can do that. Heck, even I could. I want more, and I don't see a better path.

This team ranks very high in its assisted baskets ratio. Scoring can take a back seat. So long as points exceed those by the other team, we should do OK.

I don't care if ratings stunk or many many described it as a snooze fest, 2011's 53-41 result looked like a beautiful game to me. So did 2014's 60-54. Gotta go back 40 years to Lorenzo Charles to find a similarly respectable score.

 

[Waquoit]

I recall a classic Wizard of Id strip that may fit here (couldn't find it):

King: What did the spy say before he was hanged?
Rodney: I regret that I have one life to lose for my country
King: Dig him up and hang him again!

 

[Hunt for 7]

Can a person nominate themselves. I am certain I have offended the good old boy BY network, by pointing out that we don’t do well in close games. Also we are not particularly clutch. When you get your two best three point shooters four open looks at a three to win the game; percentages say one should have fell. I have been a UCONN BB fan since my first game that my dad brought me too in the old Field House with the leaky roof. But I remember Bobby Dulan who I think still holds the record for career FT %. Tony Hansen and Big Jon Thomas and they were easy to root for. Before the dream season and the comeback against Hofstra only to lose to a Rutgers team that had Phil Sellers. But this new crowd that likes to avoid being critical of their team in a forum that exists for the most part so fans can share their thoughts good, bad, indifferent or clueless. But don’t let me start getting negative because we need to surround our players with metaphorical pillows so we don’t damage their psyche. Bottom line this team needs to stand up put their big boy shoes on and believe with every fiber in their being that they are going to win each game that they are about to play in for the next three weeks.

 

[Fishy]

We're not all that dumb. If I actually still had a laptop with a graphics program, I'd have put Tom's face over Abe Vigoda's in full Wapiti ceremonial garb. But I'm on a Chromebook

Really underrated comedy.

Absolutely was.

 

[CL82]

Bumping this up to the top