The How Many Times Can Ram Be Wrong Thread

[bdoughty]

in other words your cognitive dissonance renders you unable to reply.

He pointed out what most would consider a fact. No NHL series is going to get ratings in the US, no matter how hard you think the NHL is trying to shape a Stanley Cup to achieve them. The Big Bang Theory RERUN had more viewers than Game 5 in the essential 18-50 demographic. This is not cognitive dissonance on Bill's end. Just some common sense and years of history showing a pattern even a preschooler could piece together from Wikipedia. If you are going to play Jr. Psychologist, try and get the terminology right or at the very least the actual person it belongs to.

Here is the definition of Cognitive Dissonance.

noun: cognitive dissonance

In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, performs an action that is contradictory to one or more beliefs, ideas, or values, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values

This is your post.

Well,well, look at that.
The Sharks make the Stanley finals.
How the hell lucky can the SF, north Cal. Region be the last 3 years in every major sport?
But notice how they made sure they are playing a team the nhl fans are more interested in,Pittsburgh, than Tampa.
Can't have a Sharks vs Lightening series. That wouldn't get viewers
got to have a Star like Crosby in there.

The NHL needs to have a Star like Crosby and Pittsburgh in the Finals. Because ratings.
The ratings are lower than the 2015 series that included Tampa Bay.
Which is the team you claim NHL fans would not want to see. Even though Pittsburgh has never had a great track record, even when playing back-to-back Stanley Cups against Detroit. Two series with more stars on the ice than the show, "Stars in the Ice!" Both of which had less viewers than the 2015 Tampa Bay Cup.

Contradictions. Check!
Incompatibility. Check!
Mental Stress. Check x Infinity!
Discomfort each time you get banned and have to come up with new user names. Check!
Cognitive Dissonance exists but it ain't Bill.