THORNHILL, Canada—Enraged, I stood up in the middle of the York Lions Stadium stand and bellowed out, “This joke is a league!” I promptly sat down. Embarrassed for a moment, I quickly broke into a long, self-deprecating laugh at my own mistake.
When I get excited, I sometimes get tongue-tied: it happens to the best of us, right? And few things in life excite me more than feeling that my team on the field is getting the short end of the referee’s stick. But I’d like to think that the intensity of my inverted outburst reveals that the words I intended are categorically untrue.