Pants and KC, thanks for being reasonable in the softball thread. I don't care why this coach threw the game, even if it was to guarantee him a seed in the semis. What he did was against the rules. Why is okay to cheat? Because people do it at the college or pro level it is okay to do it with a team of 12yr olds? Play to win and let the chips fall where they may. Quit trying to justify that is is okay because he was just trying to secure a spot in the semis. Glad that karma all worked out against him and the people who were in on the decision (because it wasn't a singular decision)
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haven't been in that thread for a while - are people legit trying to justify a coach of a 7th grade(ish) team cheating?
Well at least you had take in lunches. My folks made us always eat school lunch. Only time we ever got bag lunches was field trip days. Didn't matter what was served just eat your lunch.
I may not be a big fan of kids, but I still was one that played sports, and as cliche as it seems, I do believe at that age it's about learning more than it is winning or losing. Do you WANT to lose? Of course not. But there is quite a bit of education to be bad in a loss as well.
Oh, after kindergarten or first grade, it was all school lunches (free, too, because we were so poor! You saps all paid for this kid to become a porker!)
It's still feels weird to me that it's called babcock since that was the name of a res hall at Wooster.
An I imagine it is. on my way back I walked up towards the observatory and that was gorgeous. And so was that large garden (can't remeber the name now). UW just has a really beautiful campus
Yep, hopefully that'll change this year, and maybe WDSM can give me a few pointers.
But I did feel kind of strange walking over in that area. Partially because I still don't feel like Wisconsin is my school yet, partially because I'm now a law student, and because I'm also a year older than I should be.
pants, I'm getting sassy again. My friend went on about how he excels at math and logic and I just couldn't even. Haha. I'm still laughing.
Yeah, but Iowa state is also really high on that list, and honestly I prefer a campus like Iowa state over one like UW
Isn't he outside in Cowgirl's tree? If anyone should give me pointers about seeing in windows, I thought it would be him.
Nah, but that would have been cool. My reasons are much more boring. I was somewhat near the line for what year to start (my birthday's in may). My parents didn't think it would hurt me any to start late, and my mom and aunt are twins and my cousin is 10 months older than me. Therefore they kept me back so we wouldn't be compared as often and we'd each have our own year. (They could celebrate his graduation, and decision on where to go to college one year and then my graduation and decision on where to go the next)
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00, were the parents under 40? I've noticed the younger you are the more attached to your phone you are. I know generalization so those of you who can leave your phone alone please forgive me. It also kind of shows that they are more concerned about themselves than their kid.
Yeah, I'm 39, and I'd guess they were younger than me...I presume most people with kindergartners are younger than me :embarrassed:
Yeah, that's why I kind of bugged me. I saw it at tee ball games and stuff and just kind of rolled my eyes, but with this, I wanted to be like "CAN'T YOU JUST BE HERE, NOW, FOR YOUR KID RIGHT NOW!"
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