Undeserving

I thought the movie Unforgiven was powerful, but too violent.  The movie Unbroken is also violent, but even more powerful; I recommend it highly, but the book was even better.  Of similar movies made since Unforgiven, I didn’t see Unbreakable, Undead, Undiscovered, Undisputed, Unearthed, Unfaithful, Unleashed, Unstoppable, Unthinkable, or Untraceable (the last one because I never figured out where it was showing). (All those are actual movies, according to the internet.  I never heard of most of them, either.)

John and I talked about this at church this morning, and I think I can speak for him when I say:  we feel like we’re in the middle of the next Un-movie:  Undeserving.  The Wolverines do not deserve to be in a tight pennant race. They’ve stunk pretty steadily for the last three weeks.  On the other hand, the Dragons have been just as bad, so it’s not like they really deserve to be in first place, either.  We have the Unfortunate situation of  our top teams seeming, at the moment, to be highly Unqualified for the position which one of them is about to secure.  Unless something dramatic happens today (and maybe tomorrow), we find ourselves in the Undesirable situation of having to settle for an Uninspired , Unsatisfactory result to our pennant race.  Since pennant races are Uncommon — if one gets ruined you don’t get another one for at least 12 months — it’s highly Unpleasant to have one go to waste.

Perhaps one of the frontrunners can put on a spectacular finish today and win some shred of pennant race honor — but the way they’ve been playing, this would be Unexpected.  Perhaps Portland could rush  in  from the cold and rescue the season with a stunning two-Tornado-rocket surge — but that’s so crazy it’s essentially Unconceivable (if I understand the meaning of that word).

Well — I’d better move this along before I have to rename this post Underwhelming, Uninteresting, Unending, or even Unconscionable. On to this morning’s standings.