With the continued growth in USMS membership, I would submit that it's time to eliminate the regional teams at Nationals. Case in point: NCMS sent a "team" of 123 swimmers to Atlanta, enough to enter A, B, C, and D relays in many events (e.g. the mens 35+ 200 free relay in which our club team placed 13th behind eight regional teams). It's been argued that the formation of regional teams allows more swimmers to participate in relays, yet local clubs from North Carolina sent as many as thirty or more athletes and could have entered relays on their own as our club (with eight swimmers) did. Swim with the guys you actually train with.
Oh sheez... fine Jim - ruin my reputation on the forum!
Now I'll never have a crack at a spot on the Snotty Forum Poster relay :(
Ahelee! First of all, profound apologies for spelling your name wrong.
Secondly, you are welcome anytime to join the Jim and Rich World 'O Inappropriate Jocularity. In fact, we were kind of hoping to release a calendar...
Who will give me 10 to 1 odds that Rich, at the nanosecond he has a chance to read these recent posts, will throw me completely under the bus, disavow any sort of kinship whatsoever with the type of ribaldry HE INAUGURATED and to which I ONLY RESPONDED and, in fact, recommend that another strike be affixed beside my name on the roster of "three strikes and you're out" life time banning list?
Ahelee, can I put you down as a character reference if, and when, the lifetime banning authorities show up at my door? I am pretty sure that being a medically certified eunuch is a defense for my actions (and yet another reason why I should be allowed to swim in women's non-cheating cheating suits like Leslie, though perhaps this is fodder for another topic entirely.
Oh sheez... fine Jim - ruin my reputation on the forum!
Now I'll never have a crack at a spot on the Snotty Forum Poster relay :(
Ahelee! First of all, profound apologies for spelling your name wrong.
Secondly, you are welcome anytime to join the Jim and Rich World 'O Inappropriate Jocularity. In fact, we were kind of hoping to release a calendar...
Who will give me 10 to 1 odds that Rich, at the nanosecond he has a chance to read these recent posts, will throw me completely under the bus, disavow any sort of kinship whatsoever with the type of ribaldry HE INAUGURATED and to which I ONLY RESPONDED and, in fact, recommend that another strike be affixed beside my name on the roster of "three strikes and you're out" life time banning list?
Ahelee, can I put you down as a character reference if, and when, the lifetime banning authorities show up at my door? I am pretty sure that being a medically certified eunuch is a defense for my actions (and yet another reason why I should be allowed to swim in women's non-cheating cheating suits like Leslie, though perhaps this is fodder for another topic entirely.
