\”Winter Olympics is my SHIT!\” – Ross Grogan.

Looking at today\’s standings, if you were planning to make a medal run, you should probably start it fairly soon.  A good example of someone who should start their turnaround is God-King Ross Grogan of the Grand Unified Sovereign Emirates of Groganzola.  He is pictured at left in Early February, already boasting about his prospective Winter Olympics Fantasy season at his \”Ross Will Win the Olympics Fantasy Game Black Tie Affair.\”  At the time, the celebration seemed premature and perhaps a bit excessively expensive, but his hope was so touching.  It seems so poignant now, looking back, as he is tied for twenty-second with a guy who only picked Luge teams. His self-appointed nickname \”Freeze\” may not be the chilling sound of our doom so much as the chilling awkwardness people feel around him because his team is doing so badly.  

I ran into Ross earlier, just after he\’d looked at today\’s updated standings.  I noticed he was showing a lot of emotion and I asked him what was going through his mind.  He said that a lot was, obviously, and that it was a long struggle coming here and he\’d had a tough ten days.  I watched him wipe away tears and thought about how sad it was because I knew he wanted to be here with Early February Ross experiencing these games and how much it would mean to him to come up with a good performance for the rest of the games.  I showed him this picture and I said, \”When you\’re looking up in the sky at the start of this game, I see you there, and it just looks like you\’re talking to somebody about what a great fantasy season you\’re going to have.  What\’s going on there?\” And he just put his head down and sobbed.  Poor little guy.