HANOVER -- The Optimist really likes a story the fellow who does this Green Alert thingie tells about a high school football coach he got to know while covering the preps for the local newspaper some years back. It seems the coach came into this particular fall thinking his team was going to be terrific, only to see the season collapse horribly under the weight of great expectations.
Apparently this Green Alert guy covered the last game of the season that year and in an empty locker room, amid discarded adhesive tape, crushed paper cups, soggy towels and dashed hopes, he heard the throughly disheartened coach say something along the lines of, "I'm through. It's over. I don't want to do this anymore. I'm resigning Monday," and the rookie reporter guy believed him.
A few days later the writer ran into the coach in the underwear aisle at K-Mart (OK, that's part's probably not true) and all he wanted to do was talk about this new-fangled offense he was going to install next year and how it was going to make his team unbelievably hard to defend.
After listening patiently to the mildly interesting story, The Pessimist asks how that pertains to the business at hand. The Optimist says it probably doesn't, but it's a pretty good story, huh? The Pessimist just shakes his head, something he does a lot.
The Optimist, like the high school coach, can't wait for next year.
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