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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 1967565, member: 37"] And fans from most programs have been saying it their entire lives. Loved the Cubs winning it this year BTW. Sometimes the problem is with players and coaches. But there is also a problem with fans who just don't know how to handle adversity. The cleverest amongst them pc things with their statements such as THIS IS UCONN, people should insist on excellence, there is no excuse for failure. That is they turn the subjective, the difficulty or inability to handle something going wrong, into the objective - a player, a team, coaches and/or the fans who defend them. In some cases these posters need to have something outside themselves change because they are unable to fix the discomfort within themselves. Certainly this is not a problem for everyone who assesses things and make critiques or recommends changes which provides convenient cover for those with the type of problem I describe. I seldom have a problem distinguishing rational critiquing from emotional outburst. On the other hand I can never be absolutely certain from a poster's negative emotional response if it is therapeutic, that is by expressing it they let it out and can move on, as opposed to the poster who struggles with adversity. But there are some posters who default to negativity, and more telling have a need to blame. I would suggest that those who do this more frequently and more adamantly than the rest of us might want to consider focusing on themselves and less on the outcomes of games, players and so on. I would further suggest that a rational discourse with anyone responding emotionally is irrational. As is using logic with someone who is in a default emotional mode. Which of course means it's illogical that I'm posting this to you. :cool: Just kidding. Well maybe there is a little seriousness. Nevertheless married to someone for more than forty years who is far and away more intelligent than myself and most of the people in these forums, who has elevated the emotional/rational game to an elite status (yes [USER=1047]@August_West[/USER], the tau of wife) such that it reduces the most extreme debates in these forums to the facile, I felt like enjoying some easier pickings to start off the new year. [/QUOTE]

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