dekedangle_rpfanon | #24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Looks like the Sharks are the team I end up hating because of Twitter this year!

I hate them because of twitter, but I've hated them for a few years now.

Oh no. The team's twitter or just people on your feed?

Mostly people I follow. A couple of their big-name fans are unbelievably smug, and they seem to be the analytics crowd's "But how can you not root for them!" team this year. All that plus Toronto fans losing their minds over James Reimer is making my contrary side kick in.

NA

Funnily enough, I have the opposite problem - all of the Sharks fans I follow are really doom-and-gloom about them whenever things go the slightest bit wrong, and it makes me wonder if they just really like wallowing in misery when they really don't have much to be miserable about. But then the Blues people I follow are more on the persecuted/"woe is me, everyone hates us, the refs are especially against us, it's so hard" side, so it's a wash.

NA

I sort of feel like both the Sharks and Blues fans somehow expect both teams to lose this series and the Kings/Hawks to magically reappear and go to the Final.

Lol, yeah, I mean, I can understand that feeling though.

It makes a bit of sense, lol, they've both got chips on their shoulders. It's exhausting to read about, though. I've had to unfollow so many people who I initially thought were unusually pleasant and reasonable because they got so bitter about their own teams.

DA

Blues fan, and I'm pretty sure that's the case. Both teams' fans are just too used to failing spectacularly, so we're not sure what to do with success. Other Blues and Sharks fans on meme can probably back me up on this.

Yup, as a Sharks fan there's definitely a feeling that anything that goes well is just temporary and it'll all get ruined sooner or later. There's also some desperation because of how old some guys on the team are. But geez, this is literally the closest they've ever been! I wish more fans on my side would just learn to embrace what's good in the present instead of always looking forwards to the gloomy future.

AYRT

I wish the same for fans on my side of things. I know it's hard and I suffer from not wanting to be too optimistic myself, so I totally understand the impulse, but you have to loosen up and enjoy it a little bit, too. And the Blues beat the Hawks and the Sharks beat the Kings, so both teams have already managed to slay some demons this off season. These are good things! Enjoy it!

na

The last time I believed in the Sharks was after game 3 of the first round in 2014. It's pure self defense; they've done nothing but disappoint people their entire existence, and I don't like being let down. I'd also rather read people being funny and cynical about their cursed and unsuccessful team than whining about bad calls and injuries and people not respecting their superstars enough (::cough:: Pens fandom). Sharks fans generally just accept no one will care and their team will probably lose.

DA

For me, the Blues fans on my TL are just born eternal pessimists, whereas the Sharks fans are trolling for sympathy. And I can't stand that kind of whininess.

NA
All the Sharks fans I follow remind me of Red Sox fans pre-2004. They don't have a made up curse but they might as well considering how convinced they are that the universe is conspiring against them. I get it, I live in New England, that mindset never quite goes away no matter how well your team does, but some of them seem almost afraid to say anything good about their team lest the hockey gods strike them down. Blues fans are kind of the same way though, and I don't really fault either team's fanbase for it.

Strangely, Cubs fans aren't having that kind of trouble this season.

Maybe Cubs fans have been subjected to so much constant misery that they don't even care anymore. The baseball gods can do what they want!!

something something Ottoman Empire.

I think being the best team in baseball (and having a bunch of super charismatic players) is helping, lol. The baseball gods have given them Kris Bryant's eyelashes!

Blues fans think the refs are against them? Wow, that is some...seriously biased thinking considering all the non-calls they've gotten.

I think fans of every team tend to think the refs are against them, honestly. The refs in this series have missed some pretty obvious calls on both sides, though, so it's been pretty even in that regard.

The Blues radio guys (who I've never listened to before) have been the whiniest whiners that ever whined about the refs all series long. It's getting old. I'm thinking about switching to the Sharks feed even if they did knock my Preds out of the playoffs.

Kerbs and Chaser are pretty big homers. They get on my nerves a lot of the time and I'm a Blues fan. Our TV guys are pretty great, though, which is why being stuck with either CBC or NBC in these later rounds makes me sad.

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Losing their minds how? Because I'm all for Toronto fans being miserable when their whipping boys go elsewhere and do well.

No, they're excited about it, like they can claim Reimer for themselves just because he was chased out by their toxic waste repository of a media market. Same for Kessel.

At least, the ones of them that haven't mysteriously become Raptors fans after showing absolutely no interest in basketball for half a decade of Twitter following.

I hate the Sharks too and it's only partially because of Twitter.