Was pointed towards a little nugget of joy by Tom C. of Phillies Breakdown yesterday, found on Huston Street’s MLBlog.

We can all agree that the officiating in this particular series was awful, with bad calls going both ways. At this point, it has been beaten into the ground by the blog chatter, the radio and TV outlets, the mainstream media, conversations with your Pop, the watercooler, the senior citizens’ mixers that some of us go to when we’re looking to spice up our love lives, etc.

All you can do is stop whining about it. Take it from Zen Master Street:

You can either spend time thinking about what’s unfair, or you can spend time thinking about changing your situation. So any energy spent on feeling sorry for yourself is wasted energy.

Sound final thoughts from a top-notch* closer, especially after he spent the three preceding paragraphs bitching about the controversial Chase Utley foul-ball/infield single that made Howard’s ensuing sac fly possible during Sunday night’s 6-5 victory over the Rockies:

The single by Chase Utley in the ninth inning should have been a foul ball. He hit it, and the ball definitely hit his leg. The umpires didn’t see it.

I also thought he was out at first base, but they said my throw pulled Todd Helton off the bag… Now we have to win to stay alive.

We can argue all night long whether the ball hit him. We can argue all night long whether he was safe at first base. Actually, there’s not much of an argument. It’s right there on video.

As long as you don’t spend too much time and energy dwelling on everything that you want to scream about … You’ve got to move past it. You have to be stronger than the situation.

Just because you’re not openly calling the umps “no-good shit-for-brains fucktard morons” (like most of us were) doesn’t mean you’re not bitching, Street. And as much as you spout off half-baked Tony Robbins bullshit in an attempt to sound calm and collected, you should keep in mind that plenty of shitty calls went against the Phillies this past week, too. *coughStairscough*

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