Gym Class Day 3: Volleyball
So in my gym class today we played volleyball. I love the game, Jon Bolt truly ignited my passion (hey Jon!)
When the class starts we all break off into groups of 5 to 7 people and we play a little "knock around". Now I am into the knock around, it warms me up and gets the blood flowing.
Of course, there is segregation between the athletes and the rest of us.. so the eventually dictated what the teams would be. A group of athlete boys came and played the men that had no affliation to baseball or soccer.. We did have Alex, a cross-country runner and a quite good one too, but I digress.
We were playing the athlete boys and they went up 7-0 right off the bat, and then they had a bad serve. Okay, now our turn. So we grabbed a couple points on our serve (this isn't rally scoring of course). So it was 7-3. Then they went up 8-3 and serve went back to us. We scored a couple, and this continued... but when the score should have been 10-4, they announced that it was 11-3...
Now this didn't bother me because hey it's gym class, who cares right? But this sordid method of scoring continued for the ENTIRE gym class. The boys were actually shaving points off our score, and overstating their marks. Which led me to believe that there were people that were not only passionate about gym class volleyball, but passionate and so driven to win the game that they actually cheated on the scoring.
Now I don't know where this pattern of behavior begins, whether they're born with it or they get it from certain baseball coaches who at one time held a higher position here.. but this abomination will not stand.
I guess I just wanted to share that with people who might feel a little confused, as I was, by the whole situation. Are there other people out there, maybe even you, who care about winning so much that in a gym class game of volleyball will cheat and shave points of the opponents score? Is this some bully tactic that they acquire over the years of being conditioned into a false sense of superiority?
Well, maybe the last day of class will be a rousing game of GPA Comparison, and my false sense of superiority will be stroked.
Either way. We were let out at 10:37.. we are even getting time shaved off our courses that we pay for, I guess that's the only thing I care about. I like gym class, why cut it short?
When the class starts we all break off into groups of 5 to 7 people and we play a little "knock around". Now I am into the knock around, it warms me up and gets the blood flowing.
Of course, there is segregation between the athletes and the rest of us.. so the eventually dictated what the teams would be. A group of athlete boys came and played the men that had no affliation to baseball or soccer.. We did have Alex, a cross-country runner and a quite good one too, but I digress.
We were playing the athlete boys and they went up 7-0 right off the bat, and then they had a bad serve. Okay, now our turn. So we grabbed a couple points on our serve (this isn't rally scoring of course). So it was 7-3. Then they went up 8-3 and serve went back to us. We scored a couple, and this continued... but when the score should have been 10-4, they announced that it was 11-3...
Now this didn't bother me because hey it's gym class, who cares right? But this sordid method of scoring continued for the ENTIRE gym class. The boys were actually shaving points off our score, and overstating their marks. Which led me to believe that there were people that were not only passionate about gym class volleyball, but passionate and so driven to win the game that they actually cheated on the scoring.
Now I don't know where this pattern of behavior begins, whether they're born with it or they get it from certain baseball coaches who at one time held a higher position here.. but this abomination will not stand.
I guess I just wanted to share that with people who might feel a little confused, as I was, by the whole situation. Are there other people out there, maybe even you, who care about winning so much that in a gym class game of volleyball will cheat and shave points of the opponents score? Is this some bully tactic that they acquire over the years of being conditioned into a false sense of superiority?
Well, maybe the last day of class will be a rousing game of GPA Comparison, and my false sense of superiority will be stroked.
Either way. We were let out at 10:37.. we are even getting time shaved off our courses that we pay for, I guess that's the only thing I care about. I like gym class, why cut it short?