Trials, Tribulations and Personal Achievements: Unlock the Inner You, Yes It's Possible and Here's How!

Rec’d. This fanpost moved me. Hopefully this means you’re back for good.

like an editorial to a newspaper

Didn’t we just already have a post that was comparing the Suns to food, weird?

And then this will be me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4F6b_199dQ

Until then I support this frustrating stupid jerk franchise through good and bad.

This post also serves as notice that I have exercise my option to rec RMason’s contribution to the blog.

I’ve missed you. And Recc’ed you. Great, great post. I think people get too wrapped up this stuff, to the point where it affects overall happiness – and that’s just silly. You’ve given us a nice perspective.

on a side note…Do you think D’Antoni is going to let you get any playing time this year…?

Yep, you haven’t missed a thing RMason.

Allow me to contribute to your article. I live in Omaha. We have a college basketball team, and take part ownership for a college football team located in another city. The basketabll team is a mid-major team and will never win anything, and the football team hasn’t been close to winning anything since I’ve been old enough to know what’s going on. That’s it, unless you want to count our zoo. Be grateful for the fact that you live in a professional sports town, regardless of how crappy those teams have been.

And, of course, this piece kicks ass too. I just take one exception.

I view BSOTS as a semi-responsibility of life, right up there with washing one’s self and giving people compliments. Ok, so it’s obviously something that doesn’t have to be done every day.

Hold on. I’m supposed to wash myself and give people compliments? Hmm, novel concept. I guess I’ll consider it, but I can’t guarantee anything.

Is it rec season in BSOTS?

damn damn

It’s kinda funny every time I realize someone’s been out for a while they pop back in. hope you get more scratch to go with all the new responsibilities, I hate it when companies want to give you a “promotion” which really means they want you to deal with more shit and stress for the same pay.

missed ya…glad your back to share the lowe

Then drink a beer, have a pickle, do whatever it is you do to add to the enjoyment of your Suns game, because you know that you can’t help but follow this team.

Haha… When you said the words ‘have a pickle’ I giggled

And I even laughed out loud a few times!
I am on a phone right now but as soon as I get home, I’ll be running upstairs and hitting the rec button on this one.

We may never see true glory. How many Red Sox fans died as old men before 2004? If you want to be a happy fan, enjoy Nash and Hill. Watch some videos of Walter D and Charles Barkley. Check out game 5 versus the Celtics in the 1976 Finals if you never have before. Don’t make your love for the Suns contingent on the success or failure of the future.

But I unfortunately do not.

When I look back over my lifetime as a Suns fan I can definitely say that I enjoyed the intervals of success more than those of turbulence (or worse the the periods of irrelevance – although there have been few of those). The years where the team was a contender (or I could at least fool myself into believeing they were) were more exciting than the years of mediocrity or inferiority.

I am a fan, so I eat at the Suns table every year regardless, but this year feels a lot more like peanut butter and jelly than prime rib and a baked potato. I want the Suns to be better because my life is more enjoyable as an end result. This is what I do for fun. Live and die with this team.

This year won’t disappear into oblivion like a couple lost seasons the Suns have had, I fear. This one I will remember, but for a malevolent reason. I have a feeling that I will be looking back at this year as the season where the Suns let one get away.

The Amare departure will go down as one of the tragic twists in Suns history in the same parallel as the coin flip, suspensions, drug scandal, etc.

This wasn’t missed promise (Dumas), or catastrophic luck (Vanos), but self inflicted (D.J.).

The Knicks appear to be getting with the arrival of Amare what we got with Barkley back in 92 and Nash in 04 (at our expense). Soon Melo or other reinforcements will arrive and the Knicks will be superior to my Suns. I don’t like the tables being turned. I don’t like empathizing with the Mavericks and Sixers fans. So while I will continue to cheer, I will do it with a measure of defiant contempt for the way things have played out.

Thank you for the article.

Even folks in Tucson wouldn’t do that. You had me laughing too. Props to UofA for that nice March run led by Phoenix baller Mike Bibby after years of early flameouts, but it pails to Gonzo bottom of the ninth vs Mo and the Yanks Game 7. Big Unit pitching relief on pure adrenaline! It takes more than 12 Yanks to beat our Johnson! No NCAA title is as big as that. Only a few World Series EVER are even worthy of a comparison.

Also not hard to imagine world without Suns. It’s called 2011-12 NBA season and it’s gonna suck so hard that my gear will stay in the closet and my season tickets won’t be renewed.

I’ll curse Horry and Stern the rest of my life. It won’t eat me up inside or anything. That down payment on a house I could have had from selling a few Finals tickets might eat me up a little. NBA.com using his name as measuring stick for game winners is a disgrace to Larry Bird and Michael Jordan. “How many ‘Horrys’ is a Rudy G game winner over Lebron?” I’d say about infinity or so because that’s ice cold money over 2xMVP and Fat Will Smith never did that.

A player hitting a game winner vs. Suns, that’s just a good play. No reason to be bitter about that unless you have some major loot riding on it.

Best post that I have read in a long time. Really great. Don’t want the quesadilla though, I’ll stick to my shrimp tacos…

Being a long time Suns fan, I am beginning to feeling quite “stuck” at this point having no choice but to root for my Suns. They are frustratingly close and frustratingly so far off the mark at the same time… I’m sure that there are great games and fond memories ahead, but what after that?

At one time, years ago, I could sit back and believe that the magicians in the FO would pull a rabbit out of the hat and make a season-saving trade, or draft the 2nd round gem – or just stand pat and watch the team gel into a contender. They just had the knack.

But now, with so many new faces, I don’t have enough trust in the brand-new FO to be able to just sit back and relax.

So….. ever the optimist. Here’s to hoping in the future!