[blackdog]

I was cut during tryouts for our little league ball team two years in a row before I made the team. If you were not good enough you sat in the bleachers and worked on your game until next year. My dad's involvement was to get me to join the little league football team in the fall so I could smack the crap out of the same baseball kids who were "better" than me. It felt good and kept me in the upper tiers of the pecking order. Self esteem counseling consisted of a good forearm block to the chops.

[xzins]

Yep, some baseball kids were lousy at football and vice versa. Some were good at both. Some were good at neither.

The same with academics. We gotta teach our kids to live with it.

I'm always amazed, though, at some of the 'average' joes who go out and get filthy rich. Couldn't throw a ball; couldn't make a tackle....but WOW could they make money.

Life is one strange ride. Only God knows how all the strands come together.