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To: Polybius
No attempt was made to intentionally run up the score. It just happened.

Makes no sense. Forty-nine runs in baseball don't "just happen".

the coach kept his first string going all-out against a school of special needs kids

Not accurate. In the basketball game, those were not special needs kids.

Mostly I've seen moonbats defend the firing of the basketball coach, but once in a while I see a conservative do so. I'm always surprised by it.

7 posted on 04/03/2009 7:24:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (American Revolution II -- overdue)
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To: ClearCase_guy
No attempt was made to intentionally run up the score. It just happened.

Makes no sense. Forty-nine runs in baseball don't "just happen".

It happens at the college level where a team starts 7 young freshmen. Hell, it happened all the time at the top of the 9th inning when Bobby Ayala used to be the closer for the Seattle Mariners. ;-)

the coach kept his first string going all-out against a school of special needs kids

Not accurate. In the basketball game, those were not special needs kids.

As I recall, they were Special Ed kids. Not the sharpest pencils in the box.

Even if they weren't, what adult leader would deliberately run his first string, pedal to the metal, until a 100 - 0 score was achieved? (After it was, no further points were scored.)

Mostly I've seen moonbats defend the firing of the basketball coach, but once in a while I see a conservative do so. I'm always surprised by it.

As I pointed out in my post, the Coach did not get his arse fired for running up the score.

He got his arse fired for repudiating his boss in public.

How many conservatives would NOT fire an employee after the said employee repudiated them in public?

My guess would be "Zero".

10 posted on 04/03/2009 7:40:51 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: ClearCase_guy

The problem with the 100-0 game was that it was a Christian school that got the 100. To a Christian school that actually has a mission and tries to live up to it (i.e., not “Christian in Name Only”), winning is not the only, or even the primary, goal of the athletic teams. He may not have realized it at the time, but in the span of an hour, that coach effectively ruined the school’s mission. I would think that any employee who, through his boneheaded efforts, makes national news demonstrating, or at least allowing a national audience to conclude, that his employer’s values aren’t what they purport to be should expect to be fired.


19 posted on 04/03/2009 2:23:44 PM PDT by Burma Jones
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