What we learned against Sporting Kansas City: Yikes

There’s a word I’ve found myself repeating more often than I’ve been comfortable with over the last few months: “yikes.” It’s become my own personal catchphrase. Almost dropped something? “Yikes.” Got caught doing something embarrassing in public? “Yikes.” Responding to a friend talking about how rough their next week is going to be? “Yikes.”

It’s come to mean something far beyond an exclamation of fear. It’s a lighthearted belief that things could be worse and they will get better. It’s a recognition that things are bad now, but in the grand scheme of things, our day to day problems are as silly and goofy as saying “yikes” regularly.

This game made me say yikes.

I believe that there are three…