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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More crushing, the Cleveland debacle came one night after the Thunder blew a 16-point third-quarter lead at home and lost by one point to the Phoenix Suns.
This thrilling near-victory offered renewed inspiration to the sagging spirits at the Oklahoman, which responded with a barrage of optimistic riffs on the order of "that was more like it" and "seems like old times" and even christening the game "Re-opening night."
Yes, only two games after Clay Bennett, Sam Presti & Co. showed Peter J. Carlesimo the door, the turnaround was at hand. Yes, "things are different under the new regime" of interim coach Scott Brooks.
And then, a mere 24 hours later, deflation by Lake Erie.
Gone was the sunny outlook of "Re-opening Night," replaced by "Thunder sinks to new low."
To date, the Boomers have lost 13 in a row, and are now 1-15. That brings them dead even with the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers, who lost their first 15, totaled nine wins for the entire season and earned consensus honors as the worst team in NBA history.
At least there's something to shoot for.
It took only seven home games for the notoriously patient fans of Oklahoma City to crack under the pressure of abysmal basketball and rain boos on their new heroes. A 15-point lead over the Los Angeles Clippers became a 15-point deficit as the Thunder went on a 42-12 run in reverse. Those mighty Clippers? They now own the NBA's second-worst record at 2-13.
Yes, it's bad, and on the rutted, pothole-laden road to worse.
Oklahoman columnist Jenni Carlson, in her obligatory "what am I thankful for" video, waded through a laundry list of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State players, from the football to women's basketball to men's hoops, before she put on a brave face and mumbled something about how wonderful it is to have NBA basketball in town.
Yes, it seems like you're StolenSonics are becoming something of a laughingstock in Oklahoma City.
From the It's Getting So Bad That Dept.:
At halftime of the Cleveland game, the Cavs put on a skit in which several fans were afforded the chance to share their reasons for thanks with the crowd.
And one young smart aleck stepped to the microphone and lowered the boom on the Boomers:
"I'm thankful I don't have to watch the Thunder every night."
Happy Thanksgiving.