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In <199710231711.MAA05853@wire.insync.net>, on 10/23/97
at 12:11 PM, Eric Cordian
I've just uncovered a massive plot to destroy our nation's competitiveness and inculcate its young people in the collectivist mentality.
The tool? Youth sports!
This morning's AP wire reports that two football coaches are suing a youth football league after being banned for life because their 11 and 12 year old players won by too large a point spread.
Apparently, and I find this truly shocking, it is a common practice in youth sports today to have a rule limiting the number of points by which a game may be won, with horrendous sanctions for violating it. Winning by more than that, it is argued, is "demoralizing" to the other team, and (Gasp!) UNETHICAL!
Once the designated point spread is reached, coaches must order their players to deliberately lose, play badly, and act retarded.
I became aware of this idiotic practice after I mentioned the AP article to several people, and rather than throwing up their arms in horror, they volunteered that their own local teams had such rules as well.
It's time to check closely, to make sure such shenanigans are not afoot in your town, polluting the entrepreneurial spirit of your very own children.
Imagine if Ross Perot had played on such a team, or Bill Gates, or Adolf Hitler? The entire course of history might have been changed.
This is nothing new. It the same old socialist philosphy of "equality of outcome". You see it everywhere in the country from Wefair, SS, EEO, outcome based education, ... It is a discusting philosphy that rewards incompentance and punishes achevment, the ultimate in "politics of envy". - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNFB3eo9Co1n+aLhhAQGoYgQAh21o1T1mG1u9F+vD8EZ2DYyj2op1qi7T bj8yTbrd1QO4c0uo6FvfaNTbsErhkNnGCMUmUtTA3g1HqxbfCkCvwrKnX/Wtq1O2 VX2ua/DkPNmZ7OY0nY9BogWFRQBte5oPV1QLk+teyQN3crfdKatJ5VjGgADheoXN 3qfp5hs4fqY= =8oCL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----