The tyranny of fandom

Last night was rough for Mets fans everywhere. I won't detail the pain and the anguish this team puts me through on a yearly basis, but suffice it to say that last night was the nail in the coffin. Deep down I knew that they weren't making the playoffs this year, and it doesn't upset me much that I'll spend another October watching someone else's team celebrate- because I know that this year's Mets are not a playoff team. But why lose in such a way? I think I would rather they leave the flair of the dramatic at home and just take their beatings quietly, because this just hurts more. A good friend of mine (one who will remain nameless to protect the innocent) wrote this following last night' s game:

friend: I am currently reading a criminal law book

friend: we are studying what circumstances mitigate a case from murder to manslaughter in general, you need to have sufficient provocative conduct that inflames passions, it has to be sudden, it has to be in the heat of the moment before passions have had time to kill, and there has to be a causal connection between the provocative act, the passion, and the fatal act

friend: which begs the question

friend: if i killed braden looper, right now, would it be manslaughter or murder?

'nuf said.