Retiring without a championship

Well, thanks to lacklustre performances by my team in the Yahoo pool, I will finish 3rd or 4th despite finishing 1st in the regular season and earning a first round bye. I had the semi-finals won, with a tie score midway through the week and 10 more skater games than my opponent. Then, I go out of town and I check my pool expecting to see me easily advancing to the finals, only to see that I lost. It seems as though my 10 extra skater games produced absolutely nothing, while my opponent's team scored like crazy. The final nail in the coffin was Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks scoring with 57 seconds left in overtime on the final game of the week for my opponent. Because of that goal, he beat me after having to go to the 2nd tiebreaker. If Patrick Kane doesn't score in overtime, I advance to the finals.

I promised my wife that this would be my last season in a Yahoo pool because I get so frustrated, yelling at the computer screen or the TV. At the time, I thought I would win the pool and walk away a champion. No such luck. I'll retire with a 3rd or 4th place finish, not a bad thing considering it's a 12 team league, but not good enough for me. This is truly the worst humiliation in my storied sports pool career, but I'm sure I'll top it in other pools - just not Yahoo pools. And so, to Yahoo pools, I bid "adieu", and thank you - for not giving Peter Forsberg a LW eligibility, even though he should have had it dammit. Thanks, morons. Thanks also to Mats Sundin and his stupid groin, Sergei Zubov and his stupid foot, and Ray Emery and his big head that was stuck up his big butt most of the season.