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Finland...
F*O*A*D wrote:
On 2/22/14, 4:51 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 2/22/2014 4:42 PM, F*O*A*D wrote: On 2/22/14, 4:31 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 2/22/2014 3:28 PM, F*O*A*D wrote: ...a sparsely populated somewhat socialistic state defeated the USA in Olympic hockey and is taking home the bronze medal. Apparently our highly paid professional hockey players weren't up to the test. Norway, another socialistic state, at the moment has more gold medals than the USA, which has nine, the same as much smaller, population-wise, as Canada. Must be the fault of global warming, eh? Man, are you an instigator. Most of us are proud of the performance the American team has done. I think it absurd to take national pride in a profe$$ional $port$ team, just as I think it is absurd when a city takes pride in its NFL, NHL, NBA or baseball teams. I am impressed, though, that very small countries without the professional sports budgets we or the Soviet Union have, are cleaning up at the winter olympics. It just proves that money can't buy everything. We go to a few pro baseball games in season, but we don't care who wins...we go to watch the game and hope it is closely contested. I was delighted to see Norway's Marit Bjoergen win the womens' cross-country skiing event, followed by two of her countrymen. It again is a very small country, population-wise (about five million), and like Finland, it uses its resources on its people. They are all people ... humans ... regardless of where they are from. The smaller countries may not have the structured professional teams that we have but that doesn't mean they don't spend months or even years playing together and practicing. You are entitled to your views on professional sports of course. Only thing to remember though is that your views are in the extreme minority. Me? I like baseball because it's old and has a lot of tradition. Many find it boring, but unless the game is a total blowout by the sixth inning, there is a lot of strategy that goes on. The most interesting games are extended innings when both teams run out of pitchers in the bullpen. It's a hoot when they move a center fielder to the pitcher's mound. I love baseball for the same reasons you do, and because it is a slow-paced game for the most part and for a team sport, there is much to see in individual and team abilities and finesse. The drug/steroids scandals in baseball really distressed me. I got to see Sandy Koufax play in the late 1950s, and I got to see Mickey Mantle play, too. My dad and I would go to at least a dozen games of the Dodgers or Yankees each season, starting earlier when I was about eight years old. I don't know how they met, but when my dad exhibited at the New England boat show in Boston, I got to meet his "friend," Ted Williams, who had a contract with Sears in those days to promote its sporting gear. Sears had a huge tank set up in the show place and Williams would demonstrate casting techniques with various gear. Sure. |
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