Cooter wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 7:57 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:42 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:09 pm
Peter Brown wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:04 pm
DMac wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:00 pm
Peter Brown wrote
You guys have this weird fetish to know about other people’s kids and it’s repulsive.
Oh bullschidt, you're just way over exaggerating and being an overly sensitive puzzy about the whole deal.
What's the BFD about someone asking you if you or kids played lacrosse on a lacrosse site?
I played and all three of my boys did. That was absolutely painless...now is that TMI about me and my kids?
It’s perfectly fine IF YOU BRING IT UP FIRST
In My Dishonest Opinion
When someone asks and you haven’t said schiddt, they can go eff themselves so far as I’m concerned.
Fixed it.
His issue is that he didn't play and so far as we know his kids (if he has kids with his Dem wife) don't play...so, the question he may really want to avoid is what's he doing trolling around on a lacrosse forum?
Such baloney.
This is
fanlax. Lots of fans of any sport didn't play it serious.
Given that lacrosse is a growth sport lots of fans come from regions where lacrosse wasn't played when they were growing up. Some ended up going to a college with a top lacrosse programs like JHU, UMd, UVa, and developed a liking for the game.
hey, Cooter, it's not an issue to me. The trolling, however, is.
I'm just saying that it explains the defensiveness when asked a question that's actually relevant to the discussion. It's not that he needs to be defensive, it's just that it seems obvious that he is. If one hasn't played the sport, nor any sport at the college level, nor have a kid who has done so, it's sure more difficult to speak with the same credibility about what that experience actually is like. That doesn't mean that fans have nothing to offer, just be clear whether a comment is from a point of view of someone who is simply a fan or someone who has additional expertise or experience.
For instance, I have opinions about the FO in our sport, but if we talk about specific FO techniques and equipment, it matters whether that was a role I personally played or my son played when the discussion goes to specific techniques, etc.. And when we played may matter as well. My opinion certainly has validity, but it does not have the same degree of information as those with more direct expertise.
Likewise I have opinions about the medical issues we discuss about COVID, but I asked a fellow poster whether he is a cardiologist when he said something I, as a layman, found surprising about heart impacts with COVID. He is not actually a cardiologist, but he provided an extensive medical background which includes cardiac knowledge, which greatly added to the sense of his knowledge basis...he then went into granular detail to explain his views...very helpful and interesting.
So, when you made comments about the dynamics of a team of college players, both lacrosse and then basketball, it made a lot of sense for TLD to ask about the basis of your perspective. Where you played, what sport, what era, all can provide some context...or that you hadn't played at that level at all.
