Pre-match: Columbus Crew vs Who Shot J.R. FC | Match 3 - Mar. 16, 2019 2:00 PM ET

Been to Houston and Dallas and never to Austin or Waco but...

Joanna Gaines 100 x greater than Precourt, therefore....

Waco wins!

 

Good question. Thanks for asking. So I tried to give this some thought. I'll try to answer for myself as much as for you.

After more than half a century of listening to myself, some things have started to become clear. I am an emotionally charged person. Emotion is power and energy. It can be wielded for good or bad. It can also do the wielding.

With so much negativity in the world and business, my personal entertainment choices tend to gravitate to the positive, happy, optimistic. So I come here, of course.

I will try to explain. I am good with the banter and debates. "Tony Tchani is great" vs. "Tony Tchani sux." "Pipa is god" vs. "Pipa sux." "We subbed the wrong guys at the wrong time." On and on. Its all good. Its fun. Make your case and be prepared to defend it. But I get fatigued with perpetual "glass half empty" mindsets. While our new team owners are ultimately responsible for saving our team, I believe they would not have taken the leap had it not been for the hopeful optimism of our fan base. Believing in something with a positive outlook doesn't make it true, but bitter pessimism is usually a self fulfilling philosophy.

I don't hesitate to get nasty when things are bad. I even go over the top and can be downright vile. But if I can figure out a way to get hopeful and excited about something, the dopamine is just too addictive for me to pass up. But it has to be real. It has to be plausible. If it is, I suppose I am often guilty of "convincing myself." Something that happened to me over the years in sales I guess.

I also tend develop a real affection for individuals on this team. Whether Gregg, who produced a remarkable product with a very limited payroll or guys like Harrison, who I watch bust their ass every single game. I get tired of hearing them get unjustly trashed. I expect some of that. But sometimes I feel as if I am on an opposing team's board or we are overrun with trolls. When that happens, I get bored. And, I gather that other people tire of what they consider my Pollyanna takes. I suppose I subconsciously decided to give us all a break from each other.

Gotta go now. Heading to the game. Thanks for asking. I believe that we will win!

 

I'll pick up an extra one at each game and can keep them for you. I'll miss a couple of games though.

 

I totally get this. I have to take a break from the internet at times as well, it just becomes too much sometimes. Ditto with the news. I really don't understand how anyone watches any American news channels, they are so shockingly terrible, all of them.

 

Your 2 year old will distract you on two of our goals and you'll be in a sneezing frenzy for the third one.

 

Thanks for responding. With that tweet I definitely wasn't sure about this week,but at least I know I can go in via Hiawatha in the future. Thanks again.

 

Your liver

 

“Something something ambition.”

 

If anyone isn't in yet, it's $5 parking if you say you're for the Beef Council.

 

LOL. Beef Council.

 

KHT