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Sports parents are the worst. Just go there and watch the fucking game.
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I think everything is thriving at baseball's expense because baseball--particularly played by kids--is about the most boring fucking thing that has ever existed. My kids started soccer at 3, basketball at 4, and my son tried two seasons of tee-ball. Very first tee-ball game, I got through three batters, turned to my wife, said, "Fuck this," and headed across the street to fill a couple growlers and grab some keg cups. Ten minutes later, every parent on my son's team is chugging and I'm a hero. "Thank god!"BayDawg said:
I'm sure your right. I know nothing about LaCrosse. I just know its thriving at baseball's expense. I assumed it was like soccer.GrundleStiltzkin said:
You can't hide as a bad player on the field in lacrosse. The offense will find you.BayDawg said:
Soccer doesn't have a best part. It may have a few tolerable part. Maybe. No, fuck it, it doesnt.GrundleStiltzkin said:
That's the best part (only?) about soccer, requires next to nothing to play. Good compromise is rugby.whlinder said:
I also really like that you don't have to start at age 3 to be good. You can pick it up in HS or college and be good because physics is physics.YellowSnow said:whlinder said:So for Grumble, 100% true story from a NYE party last night. Ran in to a couple we used to be close friends with but have rarely seen in the past ~3 years. Their daughter and our daughter also used to be close friends but drifted apart. They are still in the same grade at the same school, HS freshmen this year. No hard feelings, just kids being kids. Their kid went with lacrosse as her sport. We've heard she's pretty good, and her older sister and cousins also played it.
Asking the dad how much he golfs, cause we used to golf together, he says he hasn't played golf in 3 years. Always something with LAX on the weekend. Complaining about tournaments in the Carolinas and other places. Said he just booked $1500 in hotel rooms for 3 big tournaments in the summer and had to do that now because the costs are even worse closer to it.
I'm just like, oh man, that stinks, we only had 2 of those for tennis this past year.
Then he proceeds to show me a recruiting video made for the girl which is on YouTube. Showing highlights of her in tournaments. The girl just turned 15 years old and has not played a single minute of high school varsity LAX since it is a spring sport.
If that is the girl's passion and she loves it, ok, cool, that's really awesome she found it and has the talent and her family has the means to support it. A recruiting video prior to your freshman season??? Come the fuck on, that's all on the parents.
Row boat is the best HS sport of all time. I wish I did it. 5 or 6 races in spring. A few in the fall. That’s it. No recruiting videos. Put a good 2 k score on record and call it good. Physics is physics.
The one problem with row boat is the amount of infrastructure and support required for it.
About once year I make this rant. Look at the sports that are on the decline in HS. They tend to be un PC and require the most mental toughness. Football, wrestling, baseball. Lots of failure, lots of tough stretches. No one wants to deal with that. Now look at the sports that are on the rise. They tend to be sports where you can hide and nobody really knows if you failed. Run around for awhile, slide on the ground a couple times and Gramma thinks you did great. Soccer, LaCrosse. I coached HS baseball and football for 15 years. I never saw anyone eat an orange wedge. Ever.
This country is steadily becoming France.
Otherwise, agree.
And I was talking about chinfrastructure.
And maybe I meant Capri Sons. But still.
My wife grew up in a baseball family, and she played softball her whole life. She's hoping my son plays baseball instead of soccer in the spring. Every time she mentions it, I change the subject. Never. Again.
Baseball was great when the alternative was pushing a hoop down the street with a stick. Nowadays, they make high horsepower dirt bikes for four-year-olds. There are five pump tracks for mountain bikes in my small town alone. Football and hockey are more violent than ever due to pushing the boundaries of physics. Video games melt brains they're so good. And I'm supposed to get my kid to enjoy standing in a field scratching his balls for three hours? And enjoy watching that myself? -
My dad wouldn't let me play little league baseball
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Dude I have the prestigious UW education. I thought this falls under biologyYellowSnow said:
That’s what I said. Molecules are laws of physics.FireCohen said:
Genetics is genetics, either have it or notYellowSnow said:whlinder said:So for Grumble, 100% true story from a NYE party last night. Ran in to a couple we used to be close friends with but have rarely seen in the past ~3 years. Their daughter and our daughter also used to be close friends but drifted apart. They are still in the same grade at the same school, HS freshmen this year. No hard feelings, just kids being kids. Their kid went with lacrosse as her sport. We've heard she's pretty good, and her older sister and cousins also played it.
Asking the dad how much he golfs, cause we used to golf together, he says he hasn't played golf in 3 years. Always something with LAX on the weekend. Complaining about tournaments in the Carolinas and other places. Said he just booked $1500 in hotel rooms for 3 big tournaments in the summer and had to do that now because the costs are even worse closer to it.
I'm just like, oh man, that stinks, we only had 2 of those for tennis this past year.
Then he proceeds to show me a recruiting video made for the girl which is on YouTube. Showing highlights of her in tournaments. The girl just turned 15 years old and has not played a single minute of high school varsity LAX since it is a spring sport.
If that is the girl's passion and she loves it, ok, cool, that's really awesome she found it and has the talent and her family has the means to support it. A recruiting video prior to your freshman season??? Come the fuck on, that's all on the parents.
Row boat is the best HS sport of all time. I wish I did it. 5 or 6 races in spring. A few in the fall. That’s it. No recruiting videos. Put a good 2 k score on record and call it good. Physics is physics. -
We are made of matter from exploded stars. Physics is the study of matter and how it behaves.FireCohen said:
Dude I have the prestigious UW education. I thought this falls under biologyYellowSnow said:
That’s what I said. Molecules are laws of physics.FireCohen said:
Genetics is genetics, either have it or notYellowSnow said:whlinder said:So for Grumble, 100% true story from a NYE party last night. Ran in to a couple we used to be close friends with but have rarely seen in the past ~3 years. Their daughter and our daughter also used to be close friends but drifted apart. They are still in the same grade at the same school, HS freshmen this year. No hard feelings, just kids being kids. Their kid went with lacrosse as her sport. We've heard she's pretty good, and her older sister and cousins also played it.
Asking the dad how much he golfs, cause we used to golf together, he says he hasn't played golf in 3 years. Always something with LAX on the weekend. Complaining about tournaments in the Carolinas and other places. Said he just booked $1500 in hotel rooms for 3 big tournaments in the summer and had to do that now because the costs are even worse closer to it.
I'm just like, oh man, that stinks, we only had 2 of those for tennis this past year.
Then he proceeds to show me a recruiting video made for the girl which is on YouTube. Showing highlights of her in tournaments. The girl just turned 15 years old and has not played a single minute of high school varsity LAX since it is a spring sport.
If that is the girl's passion and she loves it, ok, cool, that's really awesome she found it and has the talent and her family has the means to support it. A recruiting video prior to your freshman season??? Come the fuck on, that's all on the parents.
Row boat is the best HS sport of all time. I wish I did it. 5 or 6 races in spring. A few in the fall. That’s it. No recruiting videos. Put a good 2 k score on record and call it good. Physics is physics. -
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Yeah and my tall Viking, logging camp libs kicked their fucking asses.GrundleStiltzkin said:
You know who made youth sports a national priority...PurpleThrobber said:History will ultimately note youth sports as the largest contributing factor to the fall of western civilization.
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Lynden?GrundleStiltzkin said:
You know who made youth sports a national priority...PurpleThrobber said:History will ultimately note youth sports as the largest contributing factor to the fall of western civilization.
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FTGs1to392831weretaken said:
Lynden?GrundleStiltzkin said:
You know who made youth sports a national priority...PurpleThrobber said:History will ultimately note youth sports as the largest contributing factor to the fall of western civilization.
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Number guy gets it. He studied harder than you @FireCohen .1to392831weretaken said:
