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I found this while dealing with a different kind of loss...but...if it helps someone now or later.. As for grief, you’ll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you’re drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it’s some physical thing. Maybe it’s a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it’s a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive. In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don’t even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you’ll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what’s going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything…and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life. Somewhere down the line, and it’s different for everybody, you find that the waves are only 80 feet tall. Or 50 feet tall. And while they still come, they come further apart. You can see them coming. An anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas, or landing at O’Hare. You can see it coming, for the most part, and prepare yourself. And when it washes over you, you know that somehow you will, again, come out the other side. Soaking wet, sputtering, still hanging on to some tiny piece of the wreckage, but you’ll come out. Take it from an old guy. The waves never stop coming, and somehow you don’t really want them to. But you learn that you’ll survive them. And other waves will come. And you’ll survive them too. If you’re lucky, you’ll have lots of scars from lots of loves. And lots of shipwrecks. -anon-

Not suggesting the team shouldn't aim for first...just wondering if, perhaps, keeping up first string intensity right through to the eventual end of the season might be more beneficial. The narrative is that with a break the guys will come out rested and healthy when in fact they seem to come out flat and lacking any real rhythm/intensity.

Thinking out loud... Does anyone else wonder if locking up playoff spots so early actually hurts us come playoff time? Granted there are guys need to rest and heal but surely it has to mess with the rhythm of the team when we sit starters just to keep them safe/fresh. Collaros mentioned lacking rhythm in his post game and I can't deny that the team seemed to be lacking rhythm in the playoffs this year and last.

And that is how the dynasty dies...not with a bang but with a whimper And that's what hurts the most

The fat lady just sat back down

Wow...wtf happened to this team?

Ugh

Ignored

Put me in the shithouse. I'll take the blame for that miss. Sorry Legs 😢

Holy ****!!!!!!

Especially if he and the boys have to perform at the Regina Legion tomorrow.

Legs solid today. Love to see it.

TOUCHDOOOOOOWWWWWN!!!

Here we goooooo!

Brady's gonna be a legend

That's NOT the ****** way. Zach is a bit schizophrenic today

That's the ****** way!!

All the girls in the touques, I guess

Wow...talk about versatile...MBT singing during the halftime show.

And Suitor says "Parker is sending a message with that hit". What's the message? He should take up knitting?

Now a 2 and out followed by more points and we're stylin'

TOUCHDOOOOOOWWWN

Jeffcoat in beast mode tonight

What a wonderful end to a wonderful regular season. How unfortunate it was marred by an embarrassingly obsequious display by TSN. I swear if one simply listened to the game recap you wouldn’t even know who BC played. When your entire highlight package consists of plays by the losing team I’m pretty sure you’ve lost the fn plot…especially when you’re ignoring the best team in the league and the league MOP That’s not even mentioning the fact that the broadcast booth would have no problem with bringing in Keith Urban’s dog walker for a 20min interview during the Grey Cup but can’t fit in Joe Pop for a few words when he’s honored by the team and fans at home. Absolutely inexcusable bush league garbage.

I would have thought a flop like that would have been an unsportsman-like penalty