So every year I amazed by how well I can under achieve at winter league. Now I'm not talking about compared to how good an ultimate player could be, but compared to how good I can be on average. There have been days where I keep losing the disc in the white ceiling, days where the hard ground feels jarring to me, and days where the dry air makes me feel like I might just want to pass out, which is roughly where tonight falls. This isn't my excuse. My best excuse would be that I'm just there for fun and it isn't really all that important if we win by a lot or that we win by a little. I do not like losing.
Tonight we won. Tonight I got hand blocked twice and I got foot blocked once. I threw a couple incomplete passes and I probably got more D's than the number of turnovers I caused. It's all just ridiculous to me. I would much rather be useless than to play well and play bad.
So I might come up with excuses for things.....Interupt this story to also mention I dropped a disc on a new born baby's head... but really I think I'll be quite a bit more happy if I just go to winter league and try and kill the other team. It's my nature to try and win. I need to care about a game to not embarrass myself.
I will give my team credit for never holding my mistakes against me, and letting me play how I choose to play. I wish I could look at the team's goal of winning as the most important factor, but I guess I'm kind of ego-centric when it comes to sports and I expect more from myself than I would expect from the team.
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How about this for a thought...Kill the team until you are ahead by enough and then have fun?
I mean winter league should be fun, but i know what you are saying. If you are sucking it up how can it be fun? All you can do is go out, play and well hope all comes out well!
I like the relaxed feel to winter league, but the kill mentality? okay who am i kidding the kill mentality for me is calling a foul on somebody then hugging it out. But i say this... Kill Jimmy KILL KILL KILL.
:)
I have way more fun trying to play my best than I have trying to play lazy ultimate.
My choices are play lazy and funny or play hard and fun.
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