Subconsciously, I’ve been practicing my “I’m not mad I’m just disappointed” face all week for this game. I desperately didn’t want things to end this way. I wanted the title for this recap to be “BIG MOOD.” I was going to plaster this post with Sofia Huerta GIFs and lines of “CASEY SHORT IS FASTER THAN YOU” in H1 formatting. I wanted a trip for the Finals. I wanted the players to finally get their reward for years of hard work.
But sustained hard work doesn’t count for shit in this game. You come up big in the big moments, or you go home.