Soccer fan dies due to lack of sleep?

[MapleLeaf]

Forcing your kid to play that stupid sport should be considered child abuse...

...lay off talking about one's family. Especially his child and the sport he is involved with.

I just think that is out of bounds. It coudl be that his child enjoys hockey and their choices should not be criticized or made a laughing matter.

Just a suggestion.

 

[MapleLeaf]

Hockey is more of a rich white man's sport, that is for sure. Poor people like you can't afford the equipment, the ice rental, club fees etc.

As for the cold much of the year, I didn't know 5 months of the year at most is much of the year but maybe that is Silverbear math.

...expensive sport.

Many of the more serious players in our neck of the woods dropped between 15 to 30 thou is pursuit of their NHL dreams.

I for one am a happy parent that my two boys chose wrestling, football, soccer and track.

I'm unhappy because my daughter chose figure skating which is the one thing in Canada that is even more expensive than Hockey.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

...expensive sport.

Many of the more serious players in our neck of the woods dropped between 15 to 30 thou is pursuit of their NHL dreams.

I for one am a happy parent that my two boys chose wrestling, football, soccer and track.

I'm unhappy because my daughter chose figure skating which is the one thing in Canada that is even more expensive than Hockey.

We paid about 12000 last year to join the private club, hockey schools, equipment, extra skating, spring hockey, 3 on 3 etc. Some paid even more than I did.

We only have the one so it is not a big issue but yeah it is expensive that is for sure.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

How bout this fellas. Let's not bring children or family members into this discussion at all. No need to introduce them into the discussion or comment on forcing them to play hockey etc.

 

[silverbear]

repeating the same argument over and over does not give it more weight

It carries all the weight it needs by virtue of being absolutely true... toddlers can and do skate quite naturally... just as some little anklebiters are on skis almost before they can walk (having worked at a ski resort a few seasons, I have personal knowledge in this area)...

And of course, watch a 3 year old try to throw a ball, or hit a ball, and you'll quickly see how completely asinine your claim that these things come naturally to us...

They don't, they're a learned skill...

 

[silverbear]

Yeah I force him so much he begs me to take him skating at every opportunity he can.

You are so easy to bait, you really ought to reconsider the way you play the contrarian in here...

 

[silverbear]

Hockey is more of a rich white man's sport, that is for sure. Poor people like you can't afford the equipment, the ice rental, club fees etc.

Chuckle... nice try, but utterly full of crap...

Take a look in my golf bag sometime, and you'll see a set of sticks like you might find in a tour pro's bag... I've probably got 3 grand worth of clubs and bag, and another grand worth of "spares"-- drivers, wedges, putters...

I've probably got 1500 bucks worth of bowling equipment, too... I have all the big boy's toys, in the sports that interest me...

Again, it's gratifying to know how easily I can bait you...

 

[silverbear]

...lay off talking about one's family. Especially his child and the sport he is involved with.

I just think that is out of bounds. It coudl be that his child enjoys hockey and their choices should not be criticized or made a laughing matter.

Just a suggestion.

Actually, that was a generic, comic slam at the sport of hockey... if there was an insult that CCF could take personally, it would be aimed at him, not his kid...

Reading comprehension is your friend, David...

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Chuckle... nice try, but utterly full of crap...

Take a look in my golf bag sometime, and you'll see a set of sticks like you might find in a tour pro's bag... I've probably got 3 grand worth of clubs and bag, and another grand worth of "spares"-- drivers, wedges, putters...

I've probably got 1500 bucks worth of bowling equipment, too... I have all the big boy's toys, in the sports that interest me...

Again, it's gratifying to know how easily I can bait you...

Me, I can't even get a knew Cozy from which to drink beer.

:laugh2:

 

[silverbear]

How bout this fellas. Let's not bring children or family members into this discussion at all. No need to introduce them into the discussion or comment on forcing them to play hockey etc.

Again, I see nothing in what I wrote that was aimed at CCF's kid... but if you're offended, I'll respect your role as a mod, and try not to make your job more difficult...

I might also note that he was the one who brought his kid into this... if he doesn't want his kid discussed in here, perhaps he should be the one who keeps him out of this forum...

My bottom line is I have watched CCF adopt a number of contrarian positions, even outrageous positions, and I have become convinced that he does so because he likes provoking negative reactions... so I have decided that in this instance, I'd give him a little taste of his own medicine...

You might note that he apparently doesn't like being treated the way he treats this board... anyway, the truth is I don't care about hockey one way or the other... I don't like the sport, but I don't hate it... all ofr my comments in this thread were designed to get CCF worked up...

Worked like a charm, too...

 

[silverbear]

Me, I can't even get a knew Cozy from which to drink beer.

:laugh2:

Well, I haven't spent any money on my hobbies in a while, but that's mostly because my rotator cuff won't let me play the game... no sense in spending money on a sport I can't currently play...

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Again, I see nothing in what I wrote that was aimed at CCF's kid... but if you're offended, I'll respect your role as a mod, and try not to make your job more difficult...

I might also note that he was the one who brought his kid into this... if he doesn't want his kid discussed in here, perhaps he should be the one who keeps him out of this forum...

My bottom line is I have watched CCF adopt a number of contrarian positions, even outrageous positions, and I have become convinced that he does so because he likes provoking negative reactions... so I have decided that in this instance, I'd give him a little taste of his own medicine...

You might note that he apparently doesn't like being treated the way he treats this board... anyway, the truth is I don't care about hockey one way or the other... I don't like the sport, but I don't hate it... all ofr my comments in this thread were designed to get CCF worked up...

Worked like a charm, too...

I have all the confidence in the world in you Bear that you can champion your position without bringing kids into it. I don't dispute what you are saying but just the same, you don't need the kids and I appreciate you respecting this.

 

[silverbear]

I have all the confidence in the world in you Bear that you can champion your position without bringing kids into it. I don't dispute what you are saying but just the same, you don't need the kids and I appreciate you respecting this.

A great Scottish poet once wrote "oh, what gifts would the gifties gi'e us, to see ourselves as others see us"... I know that when I wrote that, I had no intention of insulting CCF's kids-- I'd never bring an innocent kid into my arguments-- but it seems some of you took it that way...

That's my cue to back off, because I don't want to be that guy...

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

A great Scottish poet once wrote "oh, what gifts would the gifties gi'e us, to see ourselves as others see us"... I know that when I wrote that, I had no intention of insulting CCF's kids-- I'd never bring an innocent kid into my arguments-- but it seems some of you took it that way...

That's my cue to back off, because I don't want to be that guy...

I don't think your that guy Bear. I do, however, think you might be the guy quoting Scottish passage to me in a Kilt and no damn underwear.


:laugh2:

 

[silverbear]

I don't think your that guy Bear. I do, however, think you might be the guy quoting Scottish passage to me in a Kilt and no damn underwear.


:laugh2:

What, you're not big on comfort??

 

[Cythim]

The one sport I don't get in to and probably never will is lacrosse. It's like rich white kids needed their own sport because they can't hold a spot on any real sports and ended up at lacrosse.

 

[Yeagermeister]

The one sport I don't get in to and probably never will is lacrosse. It's like rich white kids needed their own sport because they can't hold a spot on any real sports and ended up at lacrosse.

Tell that to Jim Brown

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

The one sport I don't get in to and probably never will is lacrosse. It's like rich white kids needed their own sport because they can't hold a spot on any real sports and ended up at lacrosse.

actually up here, it is a poor man's version of hockey as the registration is cheap and you only need half the equipment.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Again, I see nothing in what I wrote that was aimed at CCF's kid... but if you're offended, I'll respect your role as a mod, and try not to make your job more difficult...

I might also note that he was the one who brought his kid into this... if he doesn't want his kid discussed in here, perhaps he should be the one who keeps him out of this forum...

My bottom line is I have watched CCF adopt a number of contrarian positions, even outrageous positions, and I have become convinced that he does so because he likes provoking negative reactions... so I have decided that in this instance, I'd give him a little taste of his own medicine...

You might note that he apparently doesn't like being treated the way he treats this board... anyway, the truth is I don't care about hockey one way or the other... I don't like the sport, but I don't hate it... all ofr my comments in this thread were designed to get CCF worked up...

Worked like a charm, too...

yet they didn't, go figure

problem is you take what is written on webboards seriously, I don't because nothing that is written here has any relevance to anything

if you think I am abusive to my son, who cares, if you don't like me, who cares, certainly not me

to me you are but a name on a webboard, one of which I don't even remember 1 second after reading your post

 

[baj1dallas]

That's ********, I watched every World Cup group stage match minus 1.5 games and I didn't miss any sleep at all.