Hi Gang,
So here it is--Fall is upon us, and winter is around the corner. This time of year, when it is dark and gray--and so very cold, I find it difficult to go swim.
Maybe it's the getting wet or the getting cold, but I just lack the motivation to get myself going.
So, if/when you all have days (God forbid weeks) like this, how do you manage to overcome it, and get yourself swimming?
:D Jerrycat
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Ooh, the Fightin' Plutocrats win again. There's a headline to make me doze off with excitement.
Meanwhile, I have to spend another season listening to Sox and Cubs fans pontificate on suffering. Let me tell ya something, as a Tigers fan, with a soft spot for the Pirates on the side, try having two favorite teams that have had not so much as a sniff of a pennant race after the All Star Break since the early 90's (as in before the Strike). In other words, I'm not talking about actually making the playoffs; my teams haven't had so much as a mathematically significant chance of making the playoffs at the half way point in the season. My Tigers are sooooo bad, they lost 100 games in 2002, and then went out the next year and challenged the major league record for losses, set by an expansion team in its first season. I ask myself, why hasn't the entire front office, including and especially the "scouting" department, been given pink slips. That kind of sustained incompetence can not be laid at the feet of the big league coaching staff; you need one of the most God-aweful minor league systems to ever walk the face of the planet to be that bad for so many years. Meanwhile, I see playoff rosters repleat with former Pirates and Tigers, and I ask myself, is the former Iraqi Information Minister the Tigers' General Manager? A chimpanzee making trades at random could do a better job of evaluating talent. Well, at least I can take some solace in the fact that the Tigers drew higher average attendance than any other AAA minor league club, assuming of course that they were good enough to compete at the AAA level. That is as yet an untested assumption. My proposal for contraction, since Montreal and the former owner of the Twins are so keen to get rid of their ball clubs, is contract the Tigers, then move the Expos or the Twins to Detroit. In reality, though, I realize I will probably have my falls (and summers and springs) free to enjoy many passtimes other than major league baseball, so that could be good news for my swimming, or bad news for participants in these discussion threads.
Matt
Ooh, the Fightin' Plutocrats win again. There's a headline to make me doze off with excitement.
Meanwhile, I have to spend another season listening to Sox and Cubs fans pontificate on suffering. Let me tell ya something, as a Tigers fan, with a soft spot for the Pirates on the side, try having two favorite teams that have had not so much as a sniff of a pennant race after the All Star Break since the early 90's (as in before the Strike). In other words, I'm not talking about actually making the playoffs; my teams haven't had so much as a mathematically significant chance of making the playoffs at the half way point in the season. My Tigers are sooooo bad, they lost 100 games in 2002, and then went out the next year and challenged the major league record for losses, set by an expansion team in its first season. I ask myself, why hasn't the entire front office, including and especially the "scouting" department, been given pink slips. That kind of sustained incompetence can not be laid at the feet of the big league coaching staff; you need one of the most God-aweful minor league systems to ever walk the face of the planet to be that bad for so many years. Meanwhile, I see playoff rosters repleat with former Pirates and Tigers, and I ask myself, is the former Iraqi Information Minister the Tigers' General Manager? A chimpanzee making trades at random could do a better job of evaluating talent. Well, at least I can take some solace in the fact that the Tigers drew higher average attendance than any other AAA minor league club, assuming of course that they were good enough to compete at the AAA level. That is as yet an untested assumption. My proposal for contraction, since Montreal and the former owner of the Twins are so keen to get rid of their ball clubs, is contract the Tigers, then move the Expos or the Twins to Detroit. In reality, though, I realize I will probably have my falls (and summers and springs) free to enjoy many passtimes other than major league baseball, so that could be good news for my swimming, or bad news for participants in these discussion threads.
Matt
