What's Killing Youth Soccer in America
Study shows youth baseball, softball participation on the rise
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From my point of view and my skill lever as a 22ish handicap golfer, golf is 60% skill and 40% luck. Last week I did horrible. Every bad shot went into a sand trap and every sand trap I was on a down or uphill or sidehill lie. Every freaking bad shot I got penalized.
In golf you can hit bad shots that come out not bad. Last week I even had great shots that turned out bad. Hitting a 3 wood 210 yards (where the hell did that come from) and over running the fairway so I'm on a steep downhill slope and so forth. It was a nightmare round. I shot a 55 (I'm happy with a 47 to get some idea). I'm not sure I hit one shot straight. LOL
THEN after golf I get home and have an issue. Our homebrew club was in the beginning stages of putting a benefit together with a few other breweries to help the Barr family in Sun Prairie and I get a few text messages. I mentioned our benefit on facebook and was feeling pretty good about this. . . . . and I got some remarks
deleted - it was just an angry vent
Well OK then. I actually was NOT having a good day but thank you for hoping I would have one now! Not actually what we were thinking of with a benefit. Add that to the list of wonderful things happening to me last Wednesday night.
Thursday morning I had a tooth pulled from a failed root canal from 30 years ago so the 24 hour period was just wonderful.
HOWEVER - LAST NIGHT in league on Hole #1 I started with a "B" drive and a "C+" approach shot that was just off the green by 15 yards. Looked like a "easy" chip shot to get close and I was feeling good.
I use my 8i to get some elevation and chip the ball. The ball flies toward the hole and for 1/2 second confidence is high. Gravity takes hold and the ball is falling as it should and then BOING!! It hits a plastic cover for a sprinkler head and bounds over the green and down down down the other side of the green. WTF?
I make a great chip back and drill the putt for a welcome bogey. I shot 45 with great putting. My bad shots left me in good shape and my putting was rock solid.
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| Looking back up the hill at the guys on the 5th green at the Oaks |
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BTW - I want to thank former alderman Clark for volunteering to help with budget time in absence of a 2nd alderman in his district. I don't think the Mayor should appoint anybody that does not agree with his philosophy and should wait for an election to fill the seat.
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Since I am typing this there was a survey about how many spaces after a period. One? or two? The under 30 demographic there is a 40 point margin of victory for ONE space after a period. Overall (including the OVER 30 demographic) 47% like one space, 36% like 2 spaces and the rest don't care and have no opinion. HOW CAN YOU HAVE NO OPINION ON SPACES AFTER A PERIOD.
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Wet weather is coming. Look for rain starting this afternoon and continuing all day tomorrow and into Saturday morning.
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I see Scott Walker (one of 3 conservative governors seen hugging a Russian spy) is bragging about how he is pro education. Really?
2010 - pass Act 10 which takes away collective bargaining for teachers (did you know that Columbus only has 2 substitute teachers this year?)
2015 - weakens tenure protections for professors for the UW.
2016 - cuts millions in funding to the UW system
2017 - gives $800 million to voucher schools while ignoring public schools.
and now he calls himself the "education governor"?
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HA - those cave kids. Seems they were worried about their bikes and how they would have to ride them back when they were rescued.
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The Supreme Court - by 2026 there is a less 50% chance of all 5 conservative justices still being alive. By 2023 there is a less then 50% chance of all 4 liberal justices still being alive.
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It's been 4 days since the Brewers lost a game. Feeling pretty good. No losses!
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Running shoes - seems Nike's Vaporfly shoes really do improve your performance according to 500,000 long distance runners data. 3 to 4% faster. 68% of racers that switched to the Nike Vaporfly have had personal highs. WELL - for $250 I would HOPE they run faster.
Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make YouRun Much Faster. What if That’s Actually True?
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Who is the biggest advertiser on Facebook? Out President has spent $274,000 on facebook ads since May. Oh oh - remember how trump canceled the military exercise off the coast of North Korea saying it would save 12 million dollars? That is how much his military parade will cost on November 10th. What luck.
At least we now know for certain that Russia has stopped attacking America. Trump said so. Putin told him.
And now we see why everybody hates me :-)
Nuff said.
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