You know I respect you, but this categorizing people as either slurpers or mopes is polarizing.
There is a group here that is consistently miserable and negative and no amount of any good news, even glimmers of hope, is cause for even momentary joy. They’re not cutesy “mopes”, they’re miserable fūcks.
There’s a much much smaller group that I would even categorize as “slurpers.” Who are they? How many are there? I don’t see too many people extolling Manny at every turn. The opposite happens dozens of times a day, hundreds of times every few days, thousands of times in a two week period.
Because somebody hopes that somehow, some way, despite evidence to the contrary, that Manny figures out his deficits and corrects them doesn’t make you a slurper.
It makes you someone who doesn’t want the program to continue on its unproductive cycle of hiring, firing, rebuild.
There are plenty of people like myself, who can become infuriated with Manny after his faceplants, but who also continue to hope the few positive trends in recruiting, beating most teams we are supposed to beat, finally winning some close games, continued facilities improvement, paying more for assistant coaches, and now a bright glimmer of hope from King, becomes part of a course correction for this program, maybe it’s not even necessarily with this particular staff, but at least it is a positive trend.
If people call that slurping, I feel sorry for their state of mind.