finds it amazing how I keep doing this to myself. You think I would have learned my lesson when I wrote down a sequence of lottery numbers to play, then think, Oh, why bother, they wont come in anyway and have it come in to lose at least $650,000 (potentially $15 million) to never write something down and not put it in. But then I go ahead and fill out a 2nd MLB Postseason Bracket under my Dads e-mail and then think, Oh, the website might not be able to distinguish between my entry and his entry, so lets not put this in. and of course I would have had a perfect bracket on there and would have nailed the 1st 2 tiebreakers dead on and the 3rd tiebreaker would have only been off by 4 total runs. Amazing. Another $10,000 out the window. Its like a twisted version of a nightmare. I keep winning contests, but never actually win. I should have a 2nd national title under my playing career, but instead I suffer the burden that I know I should have won, but can never actually prove it. (since I dont think MLB publishes the winning tiebreaker values) Like it was not bad enough that I had to lose. I had to lose knowing I would have won if I had just clicked submit. A 13-0 Red Sox blowout would have been far less painful. Thanks a lot Mike Matheny. You had to put in your long reliever facing elimination instead of putting in one of your ACTUAL quality relief pitchers. And, what makes it worse, is that this time the mental anguish involves contests I play every year, so I cannot just dismiss it as a funny coincidence. The worst part of it all is that these are the most bizarre near-misses imaginable. I feel like no one could possibly relate to these sorts of bad luck, since the probabilistic chances of these events happening to the same person are astronomical. A rough estimate pegs it at 76.8 billion:1, though it is probably a bit shorter, since the bracket can be easily decoded with actual baseball knowledge. (i.e.: No one really thought the Rays were going to win the World Series, so those combinations were never really viable.) As a person though, I am probably that unique compared to everyone else, so I suppose I get what I deserve. If you managed to actually read this entire status, thanks for caring enough about my thought processes to take 5 minutes out of your day for me and comment on it with your own thoughts. At least the status was not another pointless RED SOX win! status. It contributed something unique to your day. Just like me. Thanks for your time!
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 04:41:23 +0000
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