Os Fast…Creates Optimism

27. August 2007 by Crys.

I took a whole weekend away from the Orioles. I wasn’t able to watch a game Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. I couldn’t even get the scores. I am in such a good mood, I can’t believe it. Was it the beach and the ocean waves lulling me into a state of well-being, or the Orioles fast that did it?

I don’t have fantasies of bludgeoning people anymore. My violent tendencies have disappeared. I’m chipper and feel a strange sensation…I vaguely remember…what is it called…it’s on the tip of my tongue…begins with an O…OPTIMISM! That’s it!

Two words that are incompatible: Orioles and Optimism.

My once crushed spirit emerges light with cheer. Amazing.

To feel better, some people avoid the news, cut-out the drink, take anti-depressants. Me? I just need to turn off MASN.

That said, the Os are still my team and I can’t wait to watch them tomorrow. If nothing else, their never ending losing streak, season after bloody season, year after year, is teaching me a valuable lesson about overcoming hard times through sheer force of will, never letting yourself get too beaten down by life’s slings and arrows.

Also, it presents more proof of the ridiculousness of “The Secret.” If my thoughts were powerful enough to create an outcome, the Orioles would be in first place and the Ys, so far back they’d have set a record for number of losses in one season. It would be they who had lost 30-3, not my Os.

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