During this frustrating time, I encourage all the citizens to use the FanShots as a place to vent, as Citizen Eagleace has done here. Steve

Hey Guys,

I don't post much, but I read all the time. I'm at my breaking point and I thought I'd share it with you guys. I hope that it echoes the thoughts and feelings of a few of you:

I don’t represent the casual basketball fan, the one who will be able to ignore the labor talks and the loss of games that we now know is inevitable, I am a fanatic. A fanatic stands an obsessive step above the fan. A fanatic analyzes the more obscure and less understood statistics, a fanatic lives and dies with his team on a nightly basis and won’t feel whole again until the next opportunity for a win presents itself.

I am the fanatic that finds the middle of July through the third week in September the hardest part of the year. Those are my months without basketball, those are my months without the game I love most.

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