2019-2020 "I'm not going to jinx it" thread
I just noticed that there isn't yet an "I'm not going to jinx it" thread, so I thought I would remedy that situation.
For those unfamiliar with the concept, I'll give you a primer. You might be watching a game in which, say, Kentucky is down by 6 or 8 points to, I don't know, maybe Georgia or somebody. You are excited that perhaps Kentucky will lose the game. So you come to DBR and post something like "Kentucky about to go down!" As soon as you do that, Kentucky storms back, destroys Georgia and wins going away. What happened? You jinxed the game.
A few years ago somebody came up with the brilliant idea of having an "I'm not going to jinx it" thread. The idea is that when you see Kentucky is down by 6 or 8 points to Georgia, you bring that situation to our attention, but in a subtle way that won't jinx the outcome. So, for example, instead of posting "Arkansas is going to beat Kentucky!" or "Kentucky is going down!" you might post something like "Dogs chase cats, right?" (or perhaps something a lot more clever but that conveys the same idea). This tells everybody that Georgia is ahead and that an upset might occur without putting a jinx on the game.
Anyway, that's the idea. We have had an open thread going throughout the basketball season for several years now. I was surprised to not see one already started. I apologize if starting the thread was somebody else's job (might have been Tripping William that started the original thread years ago, but don't quote me on that).
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust