Happy Thanksgiving?
Around here, it's becoming increasingly tough for sports fans to fight off the twin scourges of cynicism and despair and accentuate the positive.
Everywhere the losses spiral out of control like the national debt and the gallows humor gets a vigorous workout.
The 101-loss Mariners. The 2-9 Seahawks. The 2-21 Apple Cup participants.
Even the Sonics stumbled through a franchise-worst season before having the decency to skulk out of town and hide out in Oklahoma City.
Where's the thanks, you say?
If you enjoy your morning cup of schadenfreude, if the other guy's pain makes yours seem a trifle more bearable, well ...
News is trickling in from the heartland, and it's not pretty.
No, things aren't going so great for the team formerly known as Seattle SuperSonics, who now go by the alias "Oklahoma City Thunder."
It seems nothing's gone right since the team unveiled its uniforms, which you might be surprised to find out are richly layered with symbolism and strength.
Through it all, through the boos and the non-sellouts and the P.J. firing, the basketball literati at the Oklahoman have worked overtime to give the OKC fans happy news.
Columnist Berry Tramel went so far as to bequeath the team a nickname for its given nickname, overdubbing the Thunder as the Boomers
But all that effort has gone unrewarded thus far.
The Boomers fell to 1-15 on Wednesday with a disastrous loss to the Cavaliers in Cleveland, trailing by a season-worst 42 points before losing by 35.
And LeBron James played only 17 minutes.

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