(07-29-2021 12:29 AM)banker Wrote:  Yeah, gym flippies are way more dangerous than running a crossing pattern with your head not in the game.

Her mental issue is that she can’t handle failure. Rather than publicly fail, she quit.

You are talking out of both sides of your mouth. If you know that you aren't at your best, isn't it better (and more noble) to let your teammate who is compete instead?

(07-29-2021 08:01 AM)MonarchManiac Wrote:  I love all the overweight middle aged men on here going all macho and telling the world class athlete how they should operate and perform. That girl has accomplished more athletically than 99.9 percent of anyone on this earth ever will. Some of you guys are so twisted.

Bro, they played little league ball. They know how it is.

(07-29-2021 07:43 AM)b2b Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 07:33 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I was mediocre in football and baseball, and horrible in basketball, even though I am a pretty big guy. Whatever playing time I ever got in any of them was because I was incredibly competitive. I found a sport I could play in golf, and ended up lettering two years at university, although anything beyond HS was really a reach for me, even in golf. I remember starting a match against TexasU par, par, birdie--match play, and I was 3 down after 3 holes, and had lost one hole by 2 shots to somebody who ended up on the PGA Tour. I knew then where I belonged in golf.

It was hard on me because I went to the same school as my father had, and he had been a star athlete--good enough to be recruited to play football and baseball at West Point. He was doing a year of prep school when Pearl Harbor happened, so he never made it to the Point, went into the Army Air Corps as a pilot, flew B24 missions in Europe (mostly the Ploiesti raids) and was back home training for the invasion of Japan when Truman dropped the bomb and he came home, married my mom, flew for a few years, and then took over my maternal grandfather's ranch. So he had basically three jobs his whole life--football player, airplane pilot, and cowboy--the three things that every boy wants to be when he's 10 years old playing in the back yard. And I wasn't a good enough athlete to be the football player, my eyes weren't good enough to fly military, and I learned early on that there was no money in ranching. So I was never going to be the hero that he was in the eyes of many. But that never stopped him from encouraging me like I was Babe Ruth or Jimmy Doolittle. And I was able to win a golf tournament here and there, do 22 years in the Navy and Navy Reserve and retire as a Commander, and have a pretty decent life all around. Probably my most significant athletic accomplishment was coaching a women's rugby team that made the national Sweet 16. What I learned from that experience is that I'm a lot better coach when an all-American player shows up.

I guess my point of this ramble is that no matter whether your kid is Babe Ruth or Babe Smith, encourage him or her to be all that he or she can be, every step of the way, and he or she will surprise you very pleasantly.

I appreciate that. I'm 5"8" and taller than both if his grandfather's. My grandmother was under 5'0". Lol, not really good genes for football or basketball. I'm going to get him a keyboard for Christmas.

One thing is for sure he's incredibly smart. When he was in Kindergarten they out him in a 2nd grade reading class. Testing out at 95% plus in math and reading so far. He's also in Spanish immersion and doing better at it than some of his Spanish 1st language peers.

Problem with that is he doesn't view academics as "cool" it's just something that's easy for him. He just wants to be good at sports so bad so it's kind of hard to watch at times. I don't push him at all. I do help where I can but I don't want him to feel pressured to be more than his best.

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Get him into Golf, running and basketball. Golf (older) and basketball (younger) are great networking sports and a good way to size up another man's trustworthiness.

(07-29-2021 12:29 AM)banker Wrote:  Yeah, gym flippies are way more dangerous than running a crossing pattern with your head not in the game.

Her mental issue is that she can’t handle failure. Rather than publicly fail, she quit.

See I'm gonna disagree here.. She knows something's wrong with her mentally, she can't get her head in the game altogether.

Although I Heard it the other way around, as she wanted the easier routine, as she hadn't been feeling right, and not the harder routine that the coach was asking for. (although that's just one story, and it could be the other way around).


Rather than harm the team any further, she basically admitted there's something "Not quite right".

Someone said that would you be this kind to Brady or Jordan if they simply stepped out because they're not playing their best. If their backup could perform better on that given day, then yes i would.

US earned a gold medal by her stepping aside....maybe it was the right thing to do? (although Lee was going to be in the individual all-around regardless). Could have removed some distraction from the team. Either way - its her body, its her life, she should be able to decide what is right for her. You think it is easy to step down when millions (billions?) of people are watching you and have such high expectations?

Here's what we don't know in this situation at this point:

1) Did she join the team and travel to Tokyo knowing she had an issue that could hurt the team performance?
2) Is she going to compete in her individual competitions?
3) If #1 is Yes and #2 is No, did she deny someone else the chance to compete in the Olympics by refusing to acknowledge her condition when it became apparent?

I know that the US Women's Gymnastics team was expected to be front-runners for a gold medal and that they were there holding silver ones instead. What I don't know is how much Biles' personal decision making played into hurting their gold medal chances.

If she still wants to compete in 2024 she had better prove it on the floor and not rest on access with her previous success. A lot of folks inside and outside of the US Olympic Team will be looking very hard at how she recovers from this.

(07-29-2021 08:16 AM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 08:01 AM)MonarchManiac Wrote:  I love all the overweight middle aged men on here going all macho and telling the world class athlete how they should operate and perform. That girl has accomplished more athletically than 99.9 percent of anyone on this earth ever will. Some of you guys are so twisted.

Oh wow, so today is your first day ever to have anything to do with sports. Thats incredible. Ill let you in on a little secret, sports has always been a bunch of middle-aged men nitpicking world class athletes... It is also those middle aged men that drives the money train that puts the world class athletes in positions to you know, be world class athletes.

Yeah but he just creamed you with that world class virtue signal......

(07-29-2021 08:41 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

"What a crappy teammate."

STFU.

(07-29-2021 12:06 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  Except poor mental health in gymnastics can get you killed. Can’t really let Jesus take the wheel mid Yurchenko double pike.

This isn’t fake pro wrestling..

The team was chosen like 3 weeks ago. She should have not attempted to qualify for the team if that was the case. She did it for the endorsement deals and money for herself, and screw the 3 other girls.

And she can rip that f'ing goat off of her jacket.

(07-29-2021 11:09 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 12:06 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  Except poor mental health in gymnastics can get you killed. Can’t really let Jesus take the wheel mid Yurchenko double pike.

This isn’t fake pro wrestling..

The team was chosen like 3 weeks ago. She should have not attempted to qualify for the team if that was the case. She did it for the endorsement deals and money for herself, and screw the 3 other girls.

And she can rip that f'ing goat off of her jacket.

Is that what she told you? STFU.

(07-29-2021 11:11 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 11:09 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 12:06 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  Except poor mental health in gymnastics can get you killed. Can’t really let Jesus take the wheel mid Yurchenko double pike.

This isn’t fake pro wrestling..

The team was chosen like 3 weeks ago. She should have not attempted to qualify for the team if that was the case. She did it for the endorsement deals and money for herself, and screw the 3 other girls.

And she can rip that f'ing goat off of her jacket.

Is that what she told you? STFU.

cry more b*tch...

(07-29-2021 11:13 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 11:11 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 11:09 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 12:06 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  Except poor mental health in gymnastics can get you killed. Can’t really let Jesus take the wheel mid Yurchenko double pike.

This isn’t fake pro wrestling..

The team was chosen like 3 weeks ago. She should have not attempted to qualify for the team if that was the case. She did it for the endorsement deals and money for herself, and screw the 3 other girls.

And she can rip that f'ing goat off of her jacket.

Is that what she told you? STFU.

cry more b*tch...

Ha from the b*tch crying about a gymnast! Reeeeeeeeeeee!

(07-29-2021 11:20 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 11:13 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 11:11 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 11:09 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 12:06 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  Except poor mental health in gymnastics can get you killed. Can’t really let Jesus take the wheel mid Yurchenko double pike.

This isn’t fake pro wrestling..

The team was chosen like 3 weeks ago. She should have not attempted to qualify for the team if that was the case. She did it for the endorsement deals and money for herself, and screw the 3 other girls.

And she can rip that f'ing goat off of her jacket.

Is that what she told you? STFU.

cry more b*tch...

Ha from the b*tch crying about a gymnast! Reeeeeeeeeeee!

If you are going to get butthurt every time a woke person or entity blows up in failure, then you're going to need to order a pallet of ass-salve.

Funny how libs and conservatives are split down the middle on this. I wonder if libs would feel the same way if it was Tonya Harding or someone of that ilk.

When do the self-righteous pricks around here stop caring about The Olympics again?

(07-29-2021 12:34 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  When do the self-righteous pricks around here stop caring about The Olympics again?

Soros' soyboy Tom has spoken......

(07-29-2021 06:45 AM)b2b Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 05:12 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  Hey Stinky, my grandson is also a stud baseball player and he's only 8. Last year at 7 he hit three over the fence homeruns as they shellacked the other team. We started feeling badly for them but it is what it is. Anyway, when he was smaller he would really take it bad if he even only got to first base and would hang his head down and when he strucked out he would cry a bit and his father got on his case and told him to man up or he'd never play ball again. He did and last week his team got their seventh tournament championship and now he's got 7 rings championship rings and he a couple of MVPs to boot. I have an eye for talent and not because he's my grandkid but if he continues like that I might have to forgo boycotting the major leagues because he'll be on their lineup.

Honest question. What would you do in the opposite situation? My son is consistently the smallest on his teams even when he's one of the older ones. He is mediocre at best in soccer and baseball. He wouldn't be able to hit a home run if his life depended on it. I cheer him on as if he's Babe Ruth when he does something good but at some point I'll be faced with a conversation I'd rather not have with him. I'm really not looking forward to it.

He's my oldest so I'm genuinely looking for advice here. Yes, I practice with him.

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Well, my honest answer is to not let him give up. Even though he might even realize that he's not as good as some of the players or as good as any of the players the important thing is that he's learning social skills and how to compete. If playing sports is giving him joy that's what matters. It's true that the other players might moan when he comes to bat but heck it's little league and not one of them is good enough to pass judgment on anyone. Let him play and your job is to encourage him at every turn and when he does something good don't stop the praise, I'll guarantee that he'll remember that you were there for him at every turn even until adulthood. I still remember getting praise from my Drill Instructor (in front of others) in the military and that happened in 1967.

So stick with it, you won't regret it and neither will he.

(07-29-2021 09:46 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  Here's what we don't know in this situation at this point:

1) Did she join the team and travel to Tokyo knowing she had an issue that could hurt the team performance?
2) Is she going to compete in her individual competitions?
3) If #1 is Yes and #2 is No, did she deny someone else the chance to compete in the Olympics by refusing to acknowledge her condition when it became apparent?

I know that the US Women's Gymnastics team was expected to be front-runners for a gold medal and that they were there holding silver ones instead. What I don't know is how much Biles' personal decision making played into hurting their gold medal chances.

If she still wants to compete in 2024 she had better prove it on the floor and not rest on access with her previous success. A lot of folks inside and outside of the US Olympic Team will be looking very hard at how she recovers from this.

From what I've see she isn't going to compete in individual competitions. IMO, doing so would have raised many more eyebrows.