Still, after all the intervening months, Arena's decision to dismiss Dwyer from the Gold Cup team was as strong a warning to us as possible that whatever crack Arena was smoking in his last year and a half with the Galaxy had sadly whacked his brain. If we still trusted him into the Hex, after מנא מנא תקל ופרסין was flashing neon on the wall, then it was our own damn fault for keeping our fate in the hands of Belshazzar.