little has gone right,
very little … what’s gone wrong?
multifaceted!
In his 1965 book, The Hustler’s Handbook, Bill Veeck (as in wreck) writes about the New York Mets:
The Mets established a certain stature from the first. They were, after all, the team that was on its way to losing more games than any other team in the long and meticulously recorded history of baseball. You weren’t just shuffling around rooting for a lousy team — which anyone could do — you were rooting for the most goshawful team ever.
According to the article in the Guardian today, The Pistons’ dismal journey to become the NBA’s worst-ever team” by Alex Kirshner, “The Detroit Pistons finally, formally made history on Tuesday night. Detroit lost their single-season record 27th consecutive game, the latest coming at home by a 118-112 score against the Brooklyn Nets. By falling to 2-28, the Pistons built more cushion in a perhaps inexorable quest to become the worst team in league history.“
The City of Detroit has experienced this sort of streak with all its professional sports teams.
The fans of the professional sports teams of the City of Detroit have lived through this before.
There is a word for it.
Infracaninophile.
Infracaninophiliac.
Infracaninophilism.
One who loves and roots for underdogs.
Veeck continues on the Mets, “The beautiful part of it is that once this kind of thing picks up momentum, every failure becomes an asset. Once you’ve got everybody in the frame of mind where they’re expecting something ridiculous to happen, then ridiculous things have a way of happening.”
I don’t understand how any team can manage to lose 27 games in a row.
Once you’ve got everybody in the frame of mind where they’re expecting something ridiculous to happen, then ridiculous things have a way of happening.
Even you tried to lose, it seems you couldn’t lose 27 in a row.
Once you’ve got everybody in the frame of mind where they’re expecting something ridiculous to happen, then ridiculous things have a way of happening.
Mr. Kirshner writes, “The The Pistons are 2-28 because they have been cartoonishly, cataclysmically bad on the margins.”
Cartoonishly, cataclysmically.
Typically, even the worst team in such games wins 25 or 30% of them, but the Pistons cannot buy a victory in crunch time. Arithmetic and spirituality suggest that the Pistons eventually get a break when it matters most, but faith is hard to come by.
Arithmetic and spirituality.
If you could string that all together because once you’ve got everybody in the frame of mind where they’re expecting something ridiculous to happen, then ridiculous things have a way of happening, what would you get?
Cartoonishly, cataclysmically, arithmetic and spirituality what would you get?
Infracaninophile.
But faith is hard to come by.
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