What is best in sports? To crush your enemies, to see their coaches driven before you,
and to hear the lamentations of their parents.
Posted on 06/10/2010 9:14:56 AM PDT by walford
Why don’t you just call the game at that point. In my son’s Little League football, 45+ points automatically ends the game. Winners get the win.
They look like us.
They talk like us.
But they're really not at all like us.
They are very, very different.
As a coach, I would strive to lose every game this way and dare them to have an awards ceremony :D
We had a 9 run rule in little league. A team with a 9 run lead at halfway was the winner.
Take light rail to the ballgame,
Take light rail with the crowd. (It's bustling!)
Buy me a latte, some tofu and sprouts.
I don't care if our team all make outs,
'Cause we root, root, root for both teams.
If someone wins it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes -- keep trying!
At the new ball game!!!!"
ITA
My son’s baseball league has a rather liberal “mercy rule” - if the opposing team is ahead by 10 & scores more than 5 runs in a given inning, the game is over - and the team ahead wins.
What kind of message does an automatic loss handed down teach these kids?
At the end of the season, the all the teams in the league would be tied for first place, and everyone would get a first-place trophy.
Everyone goes home happy.
(/s)
I can see a coach telling his team to score lots of goals for the opposing team.
Well, in my son’s league, the boys will fight VERY hard not to be “45ed”. I have seen several teams about to lose to fight back and start playing like they should. There have been a lot of games that were getting close to the 45 - 0 only to have the loosing team put together a drive and finally score.
That is a much more reasonable solution, but I would add a modification: Once a lead gets to a certain point, the refs calls a time-out. Then the coaches on both sides are consulted to determine if they wish to continue.
If the “losing” coach wants to allow his team a chance to come from behind — or give them an opportunity to experience a hard lesson — then the game will go on.
Or if this coach’s team is having a losing season and going through another crushing defeat would do nothing but demoralize the team further, he could ask for the opportunity to concede defeat and take his players off the field.
Having a winning team penalized for being ‘too successful’ is downright immoral.
OK, so if it’s an important game (like any of these are really important), and the other team is winning by 5 with a minute left to go in the game, and I really want my team to win -—
I just take the ball and kick it into my own goal. The other team gets a point, they are over the limit, and we win.
The guy is obviously a Liberal. Canadian has nothing to do with it. It is the creeping of PC into sports where they try to brainwash everybody with from feel-good Where Caring Happens NBA propaganda to sideline crawlers in European soccer that pounds out the message of Say No to Racism.
Good point. In business, you better learn to NEVER GIVE UP. A humiliating loss is a silver lining too, builds character. More is learned from losing, than winning. And losing certainly is more revealing of character, or the lack of it, than winning.
moral of the story:
if you strive to succeed, you will be punished.
What is best in sports? To crush your enemies, to see their coaches driven before you,
and to hear the lamentations of their parents.
That works even better.
this from a country where junior hockey players are taught to slew-foot and spear people in the groin...
Can you put your goalie in the opponent's goal to keep them from scoring that last goal for you? Johnny, if you block this kick, we'll lose 10-4 and thus win the game.
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