10-15-2019, 11:33 PM
(10-15-2019, 05:41 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I remember a certain "realist" in the gameday thread who said Dalton would throw a pick in the end zone at the end of the Cardinals game. Know who I am talking about Reuben? His comments had nothing to do with reality.
For a few years there were a lot of "realists" who were proven wrong when they said the Bengals would not make the playoffs.
There is nothing "realistic" about saying nothing good will ever happen.
So there are "optimists" and "pessimists", and neither side has a monopoly on reality.
No, I don't know who said that, guessing Joseph List?
Making the playoffs is nonsense to me, winning the superbowl is something. Greg Popavich attitude. Pessimism: Andy Dalton will not win a superbowl (no reason), Realism: Andy Dalton will not win a superbowl (given these reasons), optimism: Andy Dalton will win a superbowl (why, no other reason than "I'm optimistic"). Pessimistic people are always negative. Realistic people are positive when the time calls for it, or at least should be, but when it comes to sports, facts and emotions get mixed into subjectivity. There is nothing optimistic about an 0-6 team, so now a realistic person comes off as pessimistic. A realistic person is probably more pessimistic than not, I would say, but I could be wrong about everything in this post, lol. The general field of work someone is in probably affects their outlook on the world. As a programmer, I am more pessimistic than optimistic. If i were optimistic, everyone would be breaking my code without any unit tests.
