Our Hearts of Darkness

04/09/2016 at 10:16am EDT

We've live blogged the last few games together. Kate did the heavy lifting all year and I get to come in when it's easy, when the words come naturally because the stress is so real. Live blogging a collective descent into insanity is not hard. Live blogging a game against Winnipeg in January? That's hard. So thank you, Kate.

Today? What ditty describes us best? Oh, I think you'll agree that Joseph Conrad was put on this earth for this very moment.

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”

And so we shall be.

The fact that we're quoting that book, on this day, in these circumstances, among this group...it just makes too much sense.

You, we, I...have all gone completely insane and we have only ourselves to blame. We've set ourselves up for it. We created the conditions for our own insanity. We are not hockey fans. We have no affection for this league. Most of us will not watch a single minute of playoff hockey once the Wings are eliminated, or if something happens this weekend that is so unspeakable that I won't even type it.

We will deal with Tampa when Tampa is real. Right now, they are not.

There is nothing fun about today. Nothing.

Get it done. Get it over with. Clinically. Then, we can think about what baby Jesus told us we deserve: the playoffs. Get in. Get this part of our lives over so we can move on to what we're owed.

LGRW

It's a Live Blog, bitches.

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