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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4884631, member: 181"] Fair enough, particularly with your candid admission that you "...couldn't help but react..." By nature and, I suppose, experience, I [B]can [/B]temper myself from reacting. It's easy for me to regard that as 'better,' but it's really just the way that I play out being a fan. I do put a lot of stock in following each season a game at a time, but present-centeredness has its challenges. I am influenced by some famous person's claim that well over 90% of what we worry about never comes true, so why bother. Even so, I wouldn't be so foolish as to dispute that other programs might bid for Hurley's services. Additionally, the prospect of his leaving would be bothersome if I gave it my attention. In many comparable situations, I do ask myself if such attentions are needed "right now," and I've found it helpful toward deriving clear answers from such questioning when it arises. It doesn't, however, give me automatic license to devalue your feelings of concern. Perhaps more responsibly, I could invite you to stay engaged with what's going on now more so than down the line. And I'm sure you were doing a lot of that today. At least I hope so. It was awesome. [/QUOTE]