Key Highlights
- High highs are treated as confirmation of destiny; low lows are framed as evidence of collapse and despair.
- In those moments, everything feels absolute.
- Perspective disappears, patience evaporates, and entire seasons outlooks are reduced to whatever happened most recently. The Shaman was created to stabilize the emotional extremes that tend to define sports fandom—slowing the emotional spirals, reminding readers that perspective is the key, and that the future is unknowable until it arrives.
- So in those bleak moments during the seasons when it became easiest to lose perspective, The Shaman was there to restore it. What makes his arc so memorable, however, is how perfectly his lessons aligned with what the Guardians were living out on the field.
- At each turning point, The Shaman offered reader’s perspective, and the team’s historic run became living proof of persistence, belief, and presence in action. In the sections that follow, we’ll revisit the season at the moments each article was written, examine the lessons The Shaman shared, and see how a season many called doomed instead became one for the record books. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe Shaman Speaks (June 29, 40-42)The first Shaman article, The Shaman Speaks, was published on June 29, at a moment when the season felt as though it was slipping away.