I am completely perplexed how any of the subjects could be offended by the content on this site.

Yes, we’re losers. EVERYONE on the planet earth is a loser in one way or another. Some of us humans are fabulously successful in our careers and our family life and are blessed with an abundance of character and personality. But that doesn’t mean that even such brilliant and talented men don’t sometimes fall victim to, say, a bad photograph. Life is hard that way.

Kurt Vonnegut once said, “Jesus is particularly stimulating to me, since he noticed what I can’t help noticing, that life is so hard most people are losers or feel like losers, so that a skill essential to most of us, if we are to retain some shred of dignity, is to show grace in defeat. That to me is the lesson he taught while up on the cross, whether he was God or not.”

Grace in defeat. That to me is also the point of this site: it takes the age-old dilemmas of the human spirit and makes those conflicts young and fresh again using the modern mythology of our age: the athlete. The athletes who fail. The athletes who fail but somehow try to maintain their dignity in the face of these defeats.

If you get so angry about an honest discussion of defeats, that you miss noticing the grace expressed within that defeat, you miss out on something not just productive, but vital to the human soul. And that is the worst kind of defeat of all.