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OaklandishBear's avatar

Thanks for ruining my Monday morning, despite (to quote My Cousin Vinny) being "dead-on balls accurate".

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Bowlesman80's avatar

A long time ago, over 27 years ago, before I got married, I bought some stocks. Some of those stocks, including Blockbuster, ended up penny stocks, and then, nothing. One, Corning GLW, held it's value and I hung on to it, because the original prospect was that Corning GLW was tied to a breakthrough in touchscreen glass and would explode....eventually. So far, it has middled and basically is worth about the same as I paid nearly 30 years ago. Middling is a loss, since inflation has surely grown more than that stock.

Six years ago, we invested our emotions and expectations in a new and promising coach and we are middling at best. I am keeping faith, because that's what we Bear fans do, but it's increasingly hard to ignore the stats. While I don't think Cal football is headed for a penny stock, it's definitely on track to middle us to death. IMHO, it's like someone is trying to kill Cal football slowly, by attrition, so, maybe, not entirely JW's fault. Just some thoughts as we continue to mourn, not so much the loss, but how we lost and our continuous middling.

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