Question of the day

I’ll go with experience.

So I’ll go with knowing. But goddamn that would be tough.

Okay read it early this morning then went about doing stuff and finally made a decision. It does no good to have experienced any of it if it turns out your memory is wiped and then the season is canceled anyways. Makes the whole experience false since it never happens.

So with that, I’m going with knowing. Even with the text msgs you are allowed to receive, you will feel joy or sadness and that in itself is an experience.

Knowing is the right answer. Since I work nights this is how playoff games often go down for me – I have to keep checking my phone to see the final score. It’s nowhere near watching the real game, but it’s still exciting and still feels good when they win.

And the tennis racket is actually signed by Andre the Giant, but otherwise you are spot on about the time machine.

I would rather know. A three minute highlight video can bring tears to your eyes too :)

….but a great question.

I’d go with experience. Hockey, as in life, is about the journey not the destination. Drinking from Lord Stanley’s cup is not as sweet without the marathon of a regular season and ever amplifying sprint of the playoffs. There is no way to replicate the emotional highs and lows of watching the game via text message, and having lived that emotion is what will make the moment when the cup is finally lifted above the Sharks’ heads so immensely gratifying.

Although not remembering anything and having another lost season of hockey cancelled would be brutal. I never want to experience 2005 again.

100%

but I would have to say know. What is the point of experiencing if you can’t remember it?

and say what’s the point of the experience if your memory is wiped and the season is canceled anyway? Sure, the experience would be great, but knowing is an experience also. With knowledge come the highs and lows of following your team, as Megalodon says, because no matter how you’re following the team and the games, I’m still excited when the Sharks win and saddened when they lose. Emotions are one of the best things about being a sports fan, and I’d like to remember them.

Initially I thought experience. Seeing the boys in teal live raise the Cup over their heads would be amazing. But since you can’t remember it, I’d rather know something awesome had happened.

A Stanley Cup win would do so much for the city and the franchise, enough that I would assume there would be another win in my lifetime that I could experience.

At first my reaction was to go with “experience”, especially after attending Game 5 vs Detroit, which I believe might have been my first playoff game if not clincher, but thinking it over I have to agree that the experience has no value if you can’t remember it or it never existed.

Mostly because of the reasons stated above. A combination of…

Angy:

It does no good to have experienced any of it if it turns out your memory is wiped and then the season is canceled anyways. Makes the whole experience false since it never happens.

And TCY:

A Stanley Cup win would do so much for the city and the franchise, enough that I would assume there would be another win in my lifetime that I could experience.

I mean, if I’m not going to remember it, what’s the point? I’d much rather ensure the Sharks at least get one Cup…even if I can’t experience it, persay, it’d make my future fandom pretty awesome. And then the next season I could go to the home opener for the banner raising ceremony, which would be a pretty epic experience.

But mostly neither. Cause fuck mayo…

Honestly I couldn’t handle another PO’s until next year. Maybe I’m getting old but I need my summer off too. Camping, hiking, fly fishing in the mountains… a guy needs to restore the soul. Not to get all sappy but I think I need to grieve a little too before I can get ready for another season.

And it’s a great time to bring this up.

I’ve said this before a Sharks short PO run and now I’m saying it after a long PO run. The PO’s are too damn long. They allow too many teams in and it totally negates the reg season. After two rounds you should be playing for the cup.

I know it all about $$$$ and ain’t ever gonna happen. But fuck it… I don’t like it.

I was thinking of experience, but like sme people have said, if you can’t remember what happened then what’s the poing? You would never know you experienced it. 3 minute hightlight videos can be really intense and emotinal as well so I could be able to live with that.

experiencing does no good if you can’t remember it.

Text and a quick highlight vid and I’m elated for life. I’d rather not go batty like Jim Carey’s character in ‘Sunshine,’ having erased an experience.

What good is an experience if you don’t remember it at all, and it never actually happened? It’s no different than a dream, except at least you can remember those; and i dream about the Sharks winning the cup every other day already.

Good, bad, or indifferent, knowing is half the battle. Or at least that is what GI Joe taught me.

Because this isn’t about me or what I want, it’s about my love of the team and wanting them to succeed. If experiencing it means it never really happens for them then that doesn’t appeal to me at all.

Wait this is still Fear the Fin, right? I feel weirded out, that’s all.

But anyway!!! I’ll go with knowing. Only because I don’t want the ‘10-11 season cancelled for any reason. I think it would be too hard on the guys. Perhaps this is a strange answer, but I’d rather have hockey go on without me than to experience something that never actually happened. I don’t acid-trip much, can you tell?

as mentioned, i had to work through many of the games already and had to check it on my phone when i wasnt busy, granted the phone does tell me power plays, hits, shots and stuff like that so i would know if the boys came back. if there is a hockey heaven it would be the above experience over and over again, so ill just wait til i die for that lol. This question was a mind fuck for me at first…

I would rather know. A three minute highlight video can bring tears to your eyes too :)

totally agree with this lol. most of the video fan posts give me chills anyways

Then I’ll experience AND know ;)

Knowing sticks with you… it puts a hop in your step, makes the cloudy days seem brighter, makes the cheap celebratory drinks taste finer, makes joy stick with you for a least a few months, knowing you support the defending champions, even if the suck the next year. With knowing you can celebrate it every day for a year if you so chose. With knowing, no one can ever take it from you.

Knowing.

Knowing the Sharks had won the cup and that I hadn’t been there, and would never be able to fully understand the whole journey would feel empty and unsatisfying.

At least in some twisted alternate universe I would be able to experience the blissful highs of victory or the gut wrenching bittersweet pain of failure.

Hockey fans are not spectators. They are participants.