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A little cricketing history lesson

October 21st 2008 23:33

The funniest thing happened the other night...I was watching some old cricketing videos on youtube and surprise surprise surprise guess what I saw? Dennis Lillee having an on field spat with Kim Hughes. Imagine that! Now when I turn to cricinfo the other night I read exactly the same thing about Lee and Ponting. The main quickie having an argument with the captain.

Can you imagine that Kim was leading a team that was eerily similar to Pontings? They were an older side whose time was coming up and where the captain would get savaged both inside and outside of the team? I would think that if they don't want history to repeat itself, (barring rebel trips to South Africa...these days it could be rebel 20/20 players) the team needs to know how to spot the danger signs of a team that could very well implode.

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What's so wrong with a good old fashioned whoopin'?

October 15th 2008 02:59

On MSN sports today there was a story about an US football high school team that got beaten 91-0 by another high school team (obviously!). I don't have a great problem with any team losing, but when parents start to complain about why so many points were needed to win, I get upset. Here's why.

Life is all about learning and improving. Now if you play someone better and they whoop your backside, then maybe that's good simply because it then means that there's improvement to be made. You should know where you went wrong and try and make adjustments for the next game. The opposition is there is to do one thing...and that is not surprisingly to win, and not to cuddle and comfort the losers when they've been thorougly beaten. I don't remember my team getting comforted when we played football in school and getting thrashed 50 odd to next to nothing. In fact, if my memory serves me correctly all we got were extra and harder training sessions.

Is it embarrassing to lose 91-0? Sure it is. Not a doubt about it. But what parents need to understand is this...young adults need to lose to become stronger and better players. Having a close game is exciting, yes, but you can't always have games that will be close. There are going to be games that are lopsided. How long can a parent protect their children from the pain and the hurt that life and losing in football (or any sport) brings? They can't.

If a child is prootected from losing and/or losing badly then all it does is create an illusory picture of life for that child who expects that everything they do, they'll be winners and when they aren't or get whooped, the tears and tantrums will come simply because they don't know how to handle defeat.

My suggestion if a team is to lose badly, then let them lose badly. Chalk it up to experience and move on.

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Who's really running for President?

October 11th 2008 19:41

So, we have two guys who are purportedly running for the job of President of the United States of America and to me it seems that there's only one who's actually running by himself.

I have nothing against Barack Obama, but the talk is all about him and him alone. The issue that I'm raising has nothing to do with the media or the airtime that each gets. The problem that I can't get over is that this man who will most likely win the Presidency on November 4 is the same man who has surrounded himself with great advisors, whereas Mr. McCain has done everything basically by himself. My sugeestion is why are these two running at all? Why don't we just vote for the advisors? They are the ones who do most of the work. In fact lets go a step further and just elect a "council" who will just run the country with Mr. Obama as head.

If, as I believe, Mr Obama is hiding behind his team of advisors, it speaks volumes about his experience and his ability to not show you how much he doesn't know. At least we all know what Mr. McCain doesn't know.

God Bless America. The only country where almost anybody can be President.

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Why Palin is bad for McCain

October 11th 2008 13:43

When Palin mad her first appearance for John McCain, the world went crazy for this mystery lady that the majority of the American people knew nothing about. Then the questions started...and they kept going. Sarah Palin has said she's just an ordinary woman and mother. she certainly has proven that she's ordinary...very ordinary. She seemed to breathe life into a campaign that was faltering and in the very same vein is seemingly sucking all the breath out of the same campaign.

She has been highly criticized for not giving interviews to the media and the few times she has (eg Katie Couric) she has been a public embarrassment. So McCain has decide that she can now only do "softball interviews" on Fox. So those who are fans of Sean Hannity, you'll be seeing a lot of Mrs. Palin. Apparently they won't even risk her on O'Reilly

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