[Hugh Heifer]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

OK. Lemme see what I can do to this boob tube.

There is no identifiable fan in here


But I sprayed the inside off with compressed air and put it back together and it seems ok.

But in the process I misplaced a screw for the case. I have no idea how. They were all there and the next moment one was missing. I am certain there is an ever changing pile of stuff in another dimension. A pile of stuff that when you look for it someplace it is not there and you look again and it is there. I bet Monnie's voice is there right now.

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by thorvald

I know, everytime I check the gap is either the same or wider

I post one, and Yooper posts two

[Hugh Heifer]

Originally Posted by yooper

turns out it's too smart.

Over qualified.

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

There is no identifiable fan in here
Attachment 270991

But I sprayed the inside off with compressed air and put it back together and it seems ok.

But in the process I misplaced a screw for the case. I have no idea how. They were all there and the next moment one was missing. I am certain there is an ever changing pile of stuff in another dimension. A pile of stuff that when you look for it someplace it is not there and you look again and it is there. I bet Monnie's voice is there right now.

could you look for my Ipod in that pile? I seemed to have misplaced it

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

There is no identifiable fan in here
Attachment 270991

But I sprayed the inside off with compressed air and put it back together and it seems ok.

But in the process I misplaced a screw for the case. I have no idea how. They were all there and the next moment one was missing. I am certain there is an ever changing pile of stuff in another dimension. A pile of stuff that when you look for it someplace it is not there and you look again and it is there. I bet Monnie's voice is there right now.

oh and there's some other stuff I'm missing but I can't remember what it is

[Hugh Heifer]

Originally Posted by yooper

Speaking of Halloween, I just received a really scary picture of some guy that snuck into HH's bathroom. Luckily Hugh saw the guy in the mirror and punched him twice, once on each side of his chin. Here's the bruises.

Attachment 270988

That is the risk of shaving after not for 10 years

[Mars]

Wife's on the way home. Time successfully wasted on the interwebs.



I guess I better get moving.

[Hugh Heifer]

Originally Posted by thorvald

could you look for my Ipod in that pile? I seemed to have misplaced it

Just look for it again. Fer sher it will be some place you already looked. That is how the pile works.

Ever put something in a drawer, go back to get it, open the drawer and it is not there? Open it a few minutes later and it is there. That is how the pile works. It is full of screws, nuts, bolts, washers and tools. Unfortunately, because the pile is so huge, I am certain a few things get buried in it and never make their way out.

[Jman]

Originally Posted by semlin

maybe because your team has all the good players. if i ran a league i would mix up the teams if there was many results like that. in the cloudtown league i coached for several years there were a lot of unhappy parents because the league let coaches stack teams based on requests for kids to play together. the result was that two or three teams actively recruited the better players. the rest of the teams had few good players which demoralized their players and also held back kids who might have improved if they had the chance to play with better players. i refused to play the recruiting game and concentrated on teaching the kids skills and explaining to them that life wasn't fair. they learned a lesson from it, and we actually had fun playing pure defence against the totally stacked teams to keep them from running up the score on us too much, but it was still a stupid way to run a soccer league for kids of that age.

The league has tried to keep the teams competitive, but it is hard. No doubt, our star is the best player in the league, and we do have one loss--when the star wasn't there. If you move him to another team, then that team becomes unbeatable. Unless you move him to a totally sucky team, which means that, because he's so good, he gets sent to soccer hell.

This league is 7 and 8 year olds. It's a tough age, because at that point some of the kids begin to understand strategy, and they really stand out against the majority, who just sort of kick the ball around.

None of the other coaches are complaining; in fact, they have commented on how well our coach as done in instructing the kids, and have said it's a pleasure to watch them. The coach doing the complaining is my son's assistant coach from last year (the team with the 1-12 record). I didn't think a bad thought about other teams who totally creamed us last year, although I envied some of their talent.

One thing the league could do is change its stupid mercy rules. Last year, if a team was ahead by 6 goals, they were not allowed to play offense. The result? They all hung back on defense! The other team had NO chance of scoring now. This year, if a team has more than a 7 goal advantage at the end of the game, the coach gets fined $50!!! WTF? If keeping the game close is so important, they should do it in a way that keeps it interesting for both sides. Say, if a team gets a five-goal advantage, they need to take out a player; six goals, another player; etc. Eventually, enough players would be taken out so that it would again be a challenge for both sides.

And I agree about the pure defense part. The reason my son is such a good mid-fielder is because most of the time last year he was playing defense. He really got a kick out of taking the ball away and denying the other team. He wanted to play goalie half the time, because that player was always in the action.

[monniepoo]

Originally Posted by yooper

Speaking of Halloween, I just received a really scary picture of some guy that snuck into HH's bathroom. Luckily Hugh saw the guy in the mirror and punched him twice, once on each side of his chin. Here's the bruises.

Attachment 270988

What the heck was he using? My razor It feels free to be hairless!

[monniepoo]

I mopped and cleaned inside... Now for the yards...dang mowing edging and hosing just is not sounding very fun right now...

[monniepoo]

Im eating left over nachos

[Jman]

Originally Posted by yooper

I'm not whoring, you are all slacking. Don't blame your slackerness on me!

Exactly my point about the soccer! The other teams wouldn't be losers if they didn't suck so bad.

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

Just look for it again. Fer sher it will be some place you already looked. That is how the pile works.

Ever put something in a drawer, go back to get it, open the drawer and it is not there? Open it a few minutes later and it is there. That is how the pile works. It is full of screws, nuts, bolts, washers and tools. Unfortunately, because the pile is so huge, I am certain a few things get buried in it and never make their way out.

I'm sure it will show up.

I was looking for my stapler the other day, and I must have looked right at it and didn't see it.
When I looked the second time it was right where I had already looked

(or, supernatural forces had been using the stapler the first time and were done with it when I looked the second time )

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by monniepoo

I mopped and cleaned inside... Now for the yards...dang mowing edging and hosing just is not sounding very fun right now...

mowing seasons pretty much over here

[Hugh Heifer]

Originally Posted by monniepoo

What the heck was he using? My razor It feels free to be hairless!

Actually. That is why I have not shaved for so long. My facial hair is very very coarse, flat, kinky and curly. I often suffer from ingrown hairs along my jaw line and just below the edges of my mouth. It is quite painful sometimes. This sounds a little gross but I have to dig them out with tweezers. I have actually pulled ingrown hairs out of my face that were well over two inches long. It feels like having splinters of metal in my face at times.

So there you go. A little something about the life of the Heifer.

[Hugh Heifer]

Originally Posted by thorvald

mowing seasons pretty much over here

My next chore.

[stinkyfj60]

Originally Posted by monniepoo

Im eating left over nachos

I had three tamales, fried, covered in cheese and green chili. YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[surfpig]

Originally Posted by surfpig

Soccer games cancelled, too much rain...

Originally Posted by surfpig

We ended up playing...



Great fucking game!

[Jman]

Originally Posted by thorvald

that's cool, I think the most imortant thing to teach the little ones is skills and to have fun. the whole competition thing seems out of place especially in grades K-5.
yet, you still hear adults yelling stupid comments that lets you know where it all comes from.

in itty bitty soccer, some guy yelled to his son, "don't let a girl beat you"

Here's the thing, though--so far, in this league, no one has a problem with any lop-sidedness except the one coach. I know half the players on the other teams, as well as their families. I was cheering on both sides today, hanging out with the other team's sponsor, whose daughter was playing goalie the second half (and shut my son's team down). The other team's best player is on my son's baseball team, and I gave him and his dad a ride home after the game. For the most part, everyone is happy with the idea that the kids should enjoy themselves, play to the best of their ability, and not worry too much about the score. Which is what we do.

[Jman]

Originally Posted by valentine

It's the weekend. Shit happens.

[Jman]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

There is no identifiable fan in here
Attachment 270991

But I sprayed the inside off with compressed air and put it back together and it seems ok.

But in the process I misplaced a screw for the case. I have no idea how. They were all there and the next moment one was missing. I am certain there is an ever changing pile of stuff in another dimension. A pile of stuff that when you look for it someplace it is not there and you look again and it is there. I bet Monnie's voice is there right now.

Maybe that screw was made out of that rare element, Collapsium?

[surfpig]

Originally Posted by surfpig

We ended up playing...



Great fucking game!

Thursday we got emailed that all the games today would go, rain or shine. At 0800 we get the call that they're cancelled because of the rain.



Coach Tim calls the head of the league and says, "We're playing: the opposing team is on their way and they have to drive an hour to get here."

He says OK, go. Now we gotta get our team to show up...

[surfpig]

Originally Posted by surfpig

Thursday we got emailed that all the games today would go, rain or shine. At 0800 we get the call that they're cancelled because of the rain.



Coach Tim calls the head of the league and says, "We're playing: the opposing team is on their way and they have to drive an hour to get here."

He says OK, go. Now we gotta get our team to show up...

We had nine players.

[Jman]

Originally Posted by surfpig

We ended up playing...



Great fucking game!

Did the losing coach start complaining to the parents of the other team's players about how unfairly they played?

[surfpig]

Originally Posted by surfpig

We ended up playing...



Great fucking game!

We lost.

[Jman]

Originally Posted by surfpig

We had nine players.

Works for me. Let's play. . .

[Jman]

Originally Posted by surfpig

We lost.

You need to start making phone calls. That' not right.

[surfpig]

Originally Posted by Jman

Did the losing coach start complaining to the parents of the other team's players about how unfairly they played?

No, and he didn't get kicked off the field for screaming at the ref either!

[semlin]

Originally Posted by Jman

The league has tried to keep the teams competitive, but it is hard. No doubt, our star is the best player in the league, and we do have one loss--when the star wasn't there. If you move him to another team, then that team becomes unbeatable. Unless you move him to a totally sucky team, which means that, because he's so good, he gets sent to soccer hell.

This league is 7 and 8 year olds. It's a tough age, because at that point some of the kids begin to understand strategy, and they really stand out against the majority, who just sort of kick the ball around.

None of the other coaches are complaining; in fact, they have commented on how well our coach as done in instructing the kids, and have said it's a pleasure to watch them. The coach doing the complaining is my son's assistant coach from last year (the team with the 1-12 record). I didn't think a bad thought about other teams who totally creamed us last year, although I envied some of their talent.

One thing the league could do is change its stupid mercy rules. Last year, if a team was ahead by 6 goals, they were not allowed to play offense. The result? They all hung back on defense! The other team had NO chance of scoring now. This year, if a team has more than a 7 goad advantage at the end of the game, the coach gets fined $50!!! WTF? If keeping the game close is so important, they should do it in a way that keeps it interesting for both sides. Say, if a team gets a five-goal advantage, they need to take out a player; six goals, another player; etc. Eventually, enough players would be taken out so that it would again be a challenge for both sides.

And I agree about the pure defense part. The reason my son is such a good mid-fielder is because most of the time last year he was playing defense. He really got a kick out of taking the ball away and denying the other team. He wanted to play goalie half the time, because that player was always in the action.

the mercy rule in our old league involved either adding or subtracting a player with a 3 goal lead and so on as the lead gets bigger. semlinson doesn't have one any more.

if it is just one player i can see the problem. my view is that many leagues have their own agenda and they stack teams on purpose. they know that most kids will drop out of soccer by 12 so they choose to let coaches collect stronger players to try to keep them interested and involved. it happened blatantly in both leagues in cloudtown and it happens here as well. what you end up getting is not necessarily the players with the most talent but the early bloomer kids with the most aggressive competitive parents. i am 100% certain i could do a better job than any of the leagues i have dealt with of creating an atmosphere in which more kids would thrive.

i do have some sympathy for your annoying opponent coach guy. my first year coaching the team i was a late fill in when they got a bunch of late applicants and they just swapped semlinson over from his assigned team and gave me those applicants as an extra team. half the kids were add and none of them except semlinson could play soccer and several had never kicked a ball. they were hardly ever at practice. we didn't win a game all season, or even score in the first five games.

i can also say as a coach it can really suck having the parents chirping about the teams being unfair. the last couple of years i spoke to the parents and kids at the first practice and told them how it would be and that they should be prepared for it.