Stuck on Repeats

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

No. Baseball is a blue collar sport, generally.

Lacrosse?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

No. Baseball is a blue collar sport, generally.

basketball isn't as "blue collar" as hockey? or you mean in rich suburbs? hockey has more hits, but no way it is as blue collar.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Lacrosse?

NASCAR is a blue collar sport but it's really expensive to participate in the races.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Lacrosse?

That one's tough to figure out for me.

Seems more cultish than anything else and generally the parents seemed unusually subdued. Maybe because none of us have a clue what the fuck is going on.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

basketball isn't as "blue collar" as hockey? or you mean in rich suburbs?

Correct. Of course the dichotomy is that suburb basketball is generally spaz basketball while city basketball is something to behold.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Apropos of which, Iceland seems to be an odd place.

I think if my wife got one look at that trophy case she'd be at JFK flying standby.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

No. Baseball is a blue collar sport, generally.

So, on your planet, it's a contact sport because yuppies avoid it?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

That one's tough to figure out for me.

Seems more cultish than anything else and generally the parents seemed unusually subdued. Maybe because none of us have a clue what the fuck is going on.

Or care. I watched a lot of lacrosse games in high school but was always drunk. And usually unsuccessfully hitting on the best friend of the girlfriend of the team captain, which is why I was there in the first place.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

And don't talk to me about "contact" in soccer and basketball. Yes, I grew up in Brooklyn and certainly know how to put a body on someone going for a layup. But in the 'burbs, such contact is abhorred.

I grew up in the stix, and we tried to avoid human contact in our favorite sports. Shoot the game, not your drinking buddy, was the motto.

They really ought to have a bambi shoot as an olympic event. That would have US gold written all over it.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Apropos of which, Iceland seems to be an odd place.

wait a minute. Isn't that RT's bedside table?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

1- i need Bk neighborhood advice for where my kid should live. PM .

when? I have friends who will soon have an apartment to rent in their now being renovated brownstone. I can't remember the exact neighborhood, but can try to remind myself if I decide I want to put in the word for you.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Lacrosse?

Cake. Eater.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

Correct. Of course the dichotomy is that suburb basketball is generally spaz basketball while city basketball is something to behold.

I get what you are saying. But I think you are talking about not serious bball players.

my guys were a collection of well off white kids (actually kid), or well off mixed race, and poor black and mixed race, but all suburban. They all thought themselves cold blooded. When they started being in tournaments (in middle school) with Detroit kids it wasn't a talent difference, it was a desire difference. Detroit kids were playing for it on a whole different level. First tournament my guys lost, but then they realized they could stand down or step up. They stepped up and were much better players for it. Of the 7 core players, 5 are playing at some level of college.

I read a biography of Jud Heathcote, Magic's coach at MSU. He was talking about one of his players who grew up in rural (read lily white) Michigan. the kid had stats enough to be the State's Mr Basketball. Jud said a white kid can't just play against white kids and have any future at the college level. But that was in the 80s. today any serious ball player is on AAU courts from March until august. For real players the suburb/city distinction is fading (although the reality of city kids having nothing else is tough motivation for suburban kids to overcome)

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

1- i need Bk neighborhood advice for where my kid should live. PM me?

Are you paying? If so, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, or Park Slope. Dumbo works too. If she likes Hipsters, obviously she should move to Williamsburg. If she isn't afraid of black people or is paying herself, Prospect Heights (and anywhere else).

TM

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