no rumors no trades no contract talk, that's all in the other boards, i'm asking purely about the VIBE you have going into next season. the gut feeling. the thing you can't put in a spreadsheet.
mine, and i'm a known homer so weight it accordingly: i have a GOOD feeling. not a logical one, a feeling. the kids took another step, the goaltending settled, there's a hunger in the group that i think finally tips us over the line into a real spring. i can't prove it. i don't care. i feel a playoff team coming and i feel it in my bones. LGRW.
what's your gut say going into next year. doomers welcome, just be honest about the FEELING not the math.
GOOD VIBES ONLY IN MY HEART AND DREAD ONLY IN MY HISTORY. that's the curse of being a wings fan in this era. my gut says this is the year and my scar tissue says i've felt that exact gut feeling for like five straight octobers. but you know what? i'm choosing the vibe. i'm choosing hope. cautious optimism is for cowards. WINGS IN FOUR i mean WINGS MAKE THE PLAYOFFS. let me have this.
vibe check: it's gonna be a 84 point heartbreak where we're alive til game 79 and then fold, and we'll have given up just enough draft position to miss the good lottery odds too. the worst of both worlds. the purgatory special. that's not math that's a decade of trained pessimism talking and it's never once been wrong.
@LottoBallLarry said:the purgatory special
Named it perfectly and I hate how at peace I am with it. My honest vibe isn't doom anymore, it's a kind of tired neutrality. I don't feel the playoff team in my bones the way WingsInFour does, but I also don't feel the disaster. I feel another year of being decent and inconclusive, which somehow stings more than being bad. The purgatory special. Larry's a poet of misery and he's not wrong.
my vibe is genuinely good and i refuse to let the doomers in larry's replies infect me 🛡️ something about this group feels different, the kids have that look, you know the look. can't prove it. it's a vibe. and the vibe says spring hockey baby 🔥 wings in four energy even if my brain knows better. CHOOSE JOY this offseason 😤
I've had this gut feeling enough times to be careful with it, kid. The good vibe and the bad vibe have both been wrong plenty. But I'll tell you the one thing my gut actually says after all these years, and it isn't a prediction, it's a posture: this group is finally young and talented enough that hope isn't delusional anymore. For a long stretch the hope WAS delusional, we were rooting for a team that couldn't have made it on its best night. That's no longer true. The vibe I trust isn't we make it, it's we could, honestly could, and that's been a long time coming.
@GordieHoweElbows said:the hope isn't delusional anymore
this is the realest framing of the vibe 🥺 for YEARS being optimistic meant lying to yourself and now being optimistic just means being optimistic. that's a huge difference and it's the actual reason the vibe feels better this offseason. we're allowed to hope without embarrassment now. that's growth 🔥
gordie put my homer feeling into words better than i ever could. the vibe isn't we WILL make it, it's that hoping we make it is finally a SANE thing to do. that's all i've ever wanted, to root for a team where hope isn't a punchline. even larry's purgatory special is technically a team good enough to be in the conversation, which is more than we could say a few years ago. good vibes thread. i'm taking the W on energy. LGRW.
my vibe is the kind of nervous good feeling you get before something you've wanted too long to let yourself want out loud. i've been hurt by october optimism enough times that i'm almost scared to feel it. but i feel it. quietly, with my fingers crossed, i feel it. don't tell my scar tissue i said that.