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Post by minx on Apr 20, 2020 8:06:38 GMT -5
Starts this Thursday at 8pm. I have to ask if anyone really gives a crap right now. (well maybe some of the teams do)
Just seems very stupid to me.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Apr 20, 2020 11:15:33 GMT -5
I got nothin.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Apr 25, 2020 10:02:39 GMT -5
Okay well this was good news, fredericksburg.today/2020/04/24/chancellor-high-schools-yetur-gross-matos-drafted-by-the-panthers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chancellor-high-schools-yetur-gross-matos-drafted-by-the-panthers&fbclid=IwAR3Z-WGUH09oaS_pScj4Xh5sNeUVQonJ4-uEFS5Zx38XcRxLrpalSbmvsxsYou all might remember the 2 boys struck by lightening at the Little League game a few years back. One boy survived and the other did not. That was one of the longest days of my life because I was President of the league at the time and never in a million years thought I'd be the one talking to families, answering questions from the papers.. let alone ever losing a child on my watch. Anyway, the kid in the story is his Chelal's brother, Yetur. He turned out to be a beast at sports and really excelled at football in High School, got into Penn State (I think) and now a second round draft pick in the NFL. One thing I did not know was that those two boys had lost their biological father in a drowning accident where he saved one of them but not himself. The mother remarried and the stepfather, I think he was a Capitol Police Officer, took care of them as if they were his own. I had a few problems with him for being, let's say being "overzealous" for what we were trying to accomplish in our league and he was "one of those" that you hear about as far as that goes but he wasn't the only one. When it was decided to get the league back to playing, my team played his team in the re-opener. Honestly, I don't know how he did it. I could barely do it. But it was a special day and one I won't soon forget. I'm very happy to see that this young man's dream is coming true and happy that his family has something extraordinary happen to them, for them, that they can look forward to rather than always and only back upon.
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Post by minx on Apr 26, 2020 7:09:58 GMT -5
That is good news indeed John. I'm glad that they have something happy to look forward to after all those years of tragedy.
And I remember that lightening strike - such a terrible and freak thing to happen, and all I could think at the time was 'what if....?'. Simply because so many bad things happened at exactly the wrong time. What if the storm had come in 30 minutes earlier? What if they had played at a different field? What if the rain had actually started?
And I always think of both boys parents - the sky was clear, and the rain hadn't arrived yet so where was the harm in letting them fool around a little? I can't imagine the guilt they must carry.
The little minx swam in the RSL from the age of 6, and there were many lightening calls over the years. And unless it was actually raining, or you could tell the rain was imminent, there would always be parents saying "Oh it's just heat lightening". Um, we're all standing in water around a larger body of water with wet children. Perhaps moving elsewhere would be a good idea....
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NFL Draft
Apr 26, 2020 12:04:54 GMT -5
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Apr 26, 2020 12:04:54 GMT -5
What if the league had taken the advice of the league president and cancelled all games that night?
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Post by minx on Apr 27, 2020 9:33:44 GMT -5
I am so sorry John.
I was the RSL rep for our team one year - such a royal pain in the ass. One of your responsibilities is to call the meet for bad weather. So often, the other rep would refuse to call because they were the away team and didn't want to make their parents travel again the next day for a reschedule. Pleeeeeze. It's not the Olympics.
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