As a swimmer from a backwater LMSC that virtually never has enough people at USMS meets to field even the slowest of relay teams, I would like to see team orphans like myself be allowed to aggregate with others of my ilk to form a rag-tag band of misfit style "Pick Up" relay teams at masters meets.
I personally believe this would foster camaraderie and new friendships as people like me, who practice in Amish mudholes, would be able to swim on a relay team with, say, Cayjuns from Baton Rouge, who swim in oil-slickened bayous littered with oxygen-starved crawdads.
I would furthermore and personally like such relays to "count" for Top 10 consideration, provided they were made up exclusively of unattached swimmers--or people who are the sole representatives of their "teams"--i.e., bona fide hardship cases, like me, who truly have no other options for swimming relays at most meets.
What say ye? Please take my simple poll; USMS bigwigs, please take note of my simple poll, especially if it comes back (as I hope) with a resounding and enthusiastic endorsement of the hopes and aspirations of mud-and-oil-coated misfits throughout the nation!
Jim- perhaps the underwhelming response to this poll is due to the unfortunate juxtaposition of 'pick up' and 'Jim Thornton' at the start of the thread...
Peter, I am beginning to think you may be a half empty glass kind of a fellow.
Nothing wrong with that!
Personally, no matter how much water happens to be in a glass, I always suspect it is a mirage and that there is, in fact, zero real water there.
That said, I must take issue with your characterization of my latest wildly popular poll.
It has been less than three full years since I posted this early yesterday (or the day before), and already 68 people have voted, the vast majority of whom second my cry for freedom!
I dare say if I had not carefully juxtaposed the phrase "pick up" with my by now legendarily attractive Woodstock avatar, the very jaundiced glimpse of which is rumored to trigger muscular twitchings in the dystaff Kegel regions, well, if I had not done this, I doubt even four people would have voted.
I say four, because I only have three identities, plus my twin brother, with which to give my vlog 5 stars on a regular basis. Fortunately, I have not had to recruit all these alter egos to vote (in my favor, I must again add) on this wildly, wildly, to the point of lunatic popularity, popular poll.
This glass, sir, is brimming over with mirage water! Of that you can rest assured all your laughing way to the bank!
Jim- perhaps the underwhelming response to this poll is due to the unfortunate juxtaposition of 'pick up' and 'Jim Thornton' at the start of the thread...
Peter, I am beginning to think you may be a half empty glass kind of a fellow.
Nothing wrong with that!
Personally, no matter how much water happens to be in a glass, I always suspect it is a mirage and that there is, in fact, zero real water there.
That said, I must take issue with your characterization of my latest wildly popular poll.
It has been less than three full years since I posted this early yesterday (or the day before), and already 68 people have voted, the vast majority of whom second my cry for freedom!
I dare say if I had not carefully juxtaposed the phrase "pick up" with my by now legendarily attractive Woodstock avatar, the very jaundiced glimpse of which is rumored to trigger muscular twitchings in the dystaff Kegel regions, well, if I had not done this, I doubt even four people would have voted.
I say four, because I only have three identities, plus my twin brother, with which to give my vlog 5 stars on a regular basis. Fortunately, I have not had to recruit all these alter egos to vote (in my favor, I must again add) on this wildly, wildly, to the point of lunatic popularity, popular poll.
This glass, sir, is brimming over with mirage water! Of that you can rest assured all your laughing way to the bank!
