MikeIsGood wrote:Stop watching. Seriously. It's really difficult for a while, but you eventually put it out of mind. You can still be a fan and not want to deal with the bull that being so puts you through IMO. I think europa and I are on the same page here; I hadn't watched a game, until tonight, in about a month. I just can't bring myself to care anymore. Yet tonight's game infuriated me in a strange way. I was pissed, yet I also was able to acknowledge that we're one of the worst (or the worst) franchises in sports so it was almost just comical. I've really just given up. But it's less stressful.
Yup. I hardly post here anymore and I barely watched the Bucks at all this season and hardly ever after the trade deadline. I still have a passing interest (obviously or I wouldn't be here at all) but I simply don't care about this team the way I have for most of my life. Far too much damage has been done and I've waved the white flag. I still hope for the best with the team and new management (starting with a new owner) could enable me to become re-invested again but for now I can't bring myself to care as much about a team that is run so incompetently from top to bottom and makes so many clearly unintelligent personnel decisions that are doomed to fail from the second they are made. I wouldn't have posted in this thread at all but I saw on Twitter that Tobes was going off last night and so I checked the box score and was laughing so hard I had to post here.
I know the front office and PR folks with the Bucks watch this forum because they know that, warts and all, this is by far the most passionate and loyal segment of the fan base the team has anywhere online. They have very much cared about our feelings about the team in the past (I know that as they spent a considerable amount of time trying to track me down
) so they are definitely aware of the apathetic nature many here now have about this team. Of course, the golden 8th seed will enable them to overlook all that. They'll point to the playoffs and say all is good and wipe everything else under the rug, no matter how filthy the stench.
But from a fan's perspective I agree that not watching as much and not caring as much is the best way to deal with everything. It may not be easy at first but trust me it does get easier and it will allow you to laugh at this team's continued horrendous modus operandi as opposed to being constantly pissed off about it.
Nothing will not break me.
