cuebald
06-12-2007, 10:15 PM
The biggest problem with sports today is that they have all been taken over and ruined by obscene sums of money.
Pickup baseball was a kid’s paradise in my youth and played with any number of players who showed up and whatever equipment could be scrounged. You haven't lived until you play softball in a pasture with fresh cowpies for bases (Yes, I HAVE done it. It gives a whole new meaning to 'sliding into home').
Today's kids can’t play unless they have regulation bases, a lined field, a Louisville Slugger, two dozen new baseballs, fluffy gloves, cleats, uniforms, and herds of busybody parents standing around screaming who make life miserable for all involved on both teams. Ditto football.
We need to invent a new sport, a PEOPLE’S sport, a sport that can be played anywhere by participants at any skill or physical fitness level with minimal equipment in almost any amount of available space.
All the truly ridiculous balls have been invented already, and to use a puck requires a certain amount of compromise with the playing area as does curling. Bowling with frozen turkeys is a nice novelty, but how can you take part in a game during recess at school or on your lunch hour?
Are we smart enough and creative enough to come up with something? Any ideas?
Pickup baseball was a kid’s paradise in my youth and played with any number of players who showed up and whatever equipment could be scrounged. You haven't lived until you play softball in a pasture with fresh cowpies for bases (Yes, I HAVE done it. It gives a whole new meaning to 'sliding into home').
Today's kids can’t play unless they have regulation bases, a lined field, a Louisville Slugger, two dozen new baseballs, fluffy gloves, cleats, uniforms, and herds of busybody parents standing around screaming who make life miserable for all involved on both teams. Ditto football.
We need to invent a new sport, a PEOPLE’S sport, a sport that can be played anywhere by participants at any skill or physical fitness level with minimal equipment in almost any amount of available space.
All the truly ridiculous balls have been invented already, and to use a puck requires a certain amount of compromise with the playing area as does curling. Bowling with frozen turkeys is a nice novelty, but how can you take part in a game during recess at school or on your lunch hour?
Are we smart enough and creative enough to come up with something? Any ideas?