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Originally Posted by eyebooger
Who are your mortal enemies in other sports?
So far you're 2 for 2 this year in those teams making it to the finals and not winning.
Well, the Astros, who at least stopped making it to the World Series for one season. But it doesn't feel far removed from their last title. And of course Texas isn't a particularly preferred alternative, but that's just sort of a general baseball problem for me where I like almost nobody in the AL (but would have been happy to see Baltimore go further) and am ignorant of most NL teams.
Also the Thunder even though I mostly ignore the NBA since the theft of the Sonics in 2008. I see that they're back in decent shape now, which is unfortunate. They're in a whole other "have no right to even exist" category that goes above and beyond normal sports hate.
As a newer NHL fan I can't claim a true mortal enemy yet. Oilers tend to be my least favorite so far, but the Kraken just haven't existed that long yet. There's more actual rivalry with the Avs at this point since we knocked them out of the playoffs and there's actual bad blood between the fanbases already stemming from that series, whereas I assume we barely exist to Edmonton so far.
Niners getting to the SB and losing is a fine season to me if you assume that the Seahawks can't do it (which obviously I didn't expect; it was another "hope we can be a marginal playoff team" year, this time falling short). UW even getting to play games and be viewed as human beings is a massive loss. Them getting as far as they did was just an escalating insult to anyone with taste. Yes, it could have been even worse, but what happened was an abject horror as is. There's been no worse sports season ever. In any sport at any level. It broke my brain and made me like sports in general less.
Thankfully WSU basketball is coming out of nowhere with a very solid chance to make the NCAA Tourney for (I think) the fourth time ever. Or at least the fourth time of my lifetime for sure. It's been good medicine for my sports funk. I expected absolutely nothing out of this season. Can't help but think that someone is going to wake up and poach Kyle Smith really soon and we'll be back to the drawing board with a lesser coach, but in the meantime this has been a fun season.