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| Nov. 29 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | Wascaweey Wabbits An old pirate friend of mine who'll go unnamed but not unrecognized told me that sometimes guys use the same pseudonym on this website to "have fun" with and or make comments. Like a tag-team in Pro Wrestling and sadly as disingenuous. This web-site system of SSUSA invites 2 cultures and maybe more. One is and the great majority of posts, over 80 per cent of the posts in fact, are from identifiable senior players (despite whatever stats OK might generatea) They/we talk to one another with the mores of respect, responsibility and accountability fully intact from American Culture securing and undergirding all communications and relationships. The other culture is one that is based in fiction, non-reality, characters and has no rules or mores but whatever some creation who has no accountable identity might think or say for whatever reason or effect. This can generate dangerous, reckless and non-responsible behavior in and among the senior community as we have seen. Maybe there should be 2 boards. One with real identifiable members of SSUSA and/or the senior community and another for characters, writers, clowns, comedians, n'eer do wells, actors and whomever to use because at important times these cultures don't mesh/blend especially on critically important/sensitive subjects and could be the means to generating unwarranted conflicts and antagonism intentionally or otherwise. |
| Nov. 29 gary c 418 posts | r I agree with you einstein but there should be one for CHEATERS also. WE WILL MISS YOU |
| Nov. 29 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | r Who should listen or care when nobody talks? No one, that's who. One can be a nobody on this site, slander and hang but not with us. |
| Nov. 29 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | r People with character don't listen when some anyone charges or slurs. We don't. The accuser has no credibility in a charactered, valued setting this is true American culture. "Innocent until proven guilty" undergirds our judgments and values. The lack of values that has sadly grown in American culture has produced a gotcha mentality and an unaccountable voice that have found a place where before, in better, higher minded, respectful times, they had none. Loudness or being first doesn't make anyone right or worthy of recognition and credibility in a civilized society. They don't. That's a reminder that we are better and know better regardless of the setting or the rules or lack of rules in any setting, even this one. |
| Nov. 29 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | r We are senior softball players. We've been through it all. We know who we are and aren't. We're freedom loving, value oriented, inner directed fair-minded and concerned for the well being of others, first and foremost. We obey no one and nothing just because it is written or said. It marks and identifies us. Makes us proud of ourselves and who we TRULY are. We recognize ourselves everywhere, too, when and where ever we play, live and travel. We recognize also when someone is not of us or is 'out of character'. We know when someone is fighting fairly and when he/she is not. We don't meaningfully cheat and only respect truly fair fights. We are bound by our own code, first and foremost more deeply than than the code or anyone or anything outside of us. You can't run and hide yourself from us. Not now or ever 'cause Nobody can resist the truth and our truth. Save it for the kids, the fools and the ignorant. They're more easily and readily entertained. |
| Nov. 29 mad dog Men's 65 4191 posts | r please the VI is at it again,need cliff notes for his crap,i don't/can't read drivel.... |
| Nov. 29 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | r Passion is the mark of profound truth in life. Jesus was passionate. Beethoven was passionate. JFK, MLK, Malcolm X, FDR, George Washington and Gandhi all were passionate. When sacred things are violated by others passionate people can react passionately to preserve and protect themselves and what is most important to them. Jesus did when he came back from fasting and found "money" people desecrating the temple and he went off on them. This a good thing, if radical, confrontational and disturbing at times. We are passionate about senior softball and will defend our hearts and the heart of our game from outsiders, clowns, pretenders and entertainers. It's what we're supposed to do. Get used to it and us. |
| Nov. 29 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | r Often make comments on stuff you don't read or understand, Rob? That would make sense given what you usually have say. |
| Nov. 29 Omar Khayyam 1357 posts | r Stats are generated from truth. Einstein should do what I did which was to go back to the last 100 discrete posters (or last 200, for that matter). Look each moniker up. He will find that more than half (the vast majority) do NOT identify themselves. Oh, sure, some are Mike from Texas (helpful, huh?) and some are from California (but no name), but more than half choose not to identify themselves. And some who do identify themselves, like mad dog, wish they hadn't. Am I wrong? All einstein has to do is go back over the same 100 posters and give us the full name, division, and location of 85 of them ("over 80 per cent" he says). Simple. Then I will admit that I was wrong. And, of course, it has to be that EVERYONE can identify them, not just einstein saying HE knows who the person is. Maybe einstein knows who 800hitter is, but if I don't, there is no meaningful conversation (according to einstein). |
| Nov. 29 taits Men's 65 4548 posts | r Its so so much easier to ignore the ones anyone feels is worthless. And so much more rewarding knowing you didn't contribute to the nonsense. That includes the nameless...Look how many years it took before dirty came out of the closet. But at least we know who he is, where he is and other info. |
| Nov. 29 taits Men's 65 4548 posts | r Omar, You should know that stats can be geared to reflect the outcome by the wording of the author. The only ones who really know about this site are the webmaster and the powers to be. Does it really matter anyway? |
| Nov. 29 Omar Khayyam 1357 posts | r taits, you are correct. How do we really know that einstein is Joe Rinaldi, especially if we play ball in Mississippi, for example? Only the webmaster has access to email addresses. I hope the webmaster doesn't let the same person post under different pseudonyms, but if they have two email addresses, that is also possible unless they are traced to the same computer (and if he has two computers and internet connections???). I just get tired of einstein and his evoking of the "vast majority", especially in this case where any knucklehead can take the time to go back through the postings to 100 unique pseudonyms, click on each moniker, and see how many really identify themselves. Does it matter? Probably not. Not to me as I'm happy interacting with others, whether I know whom they are or not. Going to Palm Springs in February? P.S. In light of the supposed fact that Dirty never plays in SSUSA tournaments, has anyone actually met him? Talked to him? Had him pull out his driver's license for identification? Maybe Gary Sommers from Ohio is an alias and he is really an 80-year-old grandma from Miami? Just a thought. |
| Nov. 29 Dirty Men's 50 1371 posts | r Omar, I played in three tournaments this past season. Nice try, though (well, not really). And maybe I have missed something, but who exactly might you be? |
| Nov. 29 Omar Khayyam 1357 posts | r Dirty, as might be discerned from my posts, I am an old geezer with home run power due entirely to the special senior bats you mock so much. I join you in your crusade against these composites introduced less than a decade ago. I remain anonymous specifically because of YOUR warnings of about three years ago. Congratulations on playing at the tournament level. Keeps guys from dissing you as a rec league only player. Hope you did well. |
| Nov. 29 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | r OK. This is the kind of stuff I was talking about. You don't see the forest for the trees. Dirty is Gary S and Einstein is Joe R. (Hey Gary) There is as much likehihood that these are false as the moon is made of cream cheese. Truth is a human concept, OK. Takes reality and runs it through being human as it colors, defines and grounds everything of meaning and essential to and for us. We aren't functions of our intellects subject to the intellectual uncertainty and ramifications of the always next thought. Truth is alive and lives forever, defining, liberating, limiting and guiding us toward better, more civilized living. |
| Nov. 29 gary c 418 posts | r Anyone who thinks that you must identify to have an inelegant point of view is someone who is wrong most of the time and just wants to talk to people who will shake there heads yes and not challenge them. I have asked this before WHY MUST YOU KNOW? You want to fight like school yard children or send thousands of e mails and try to drive people off the site? I have all the friends I need if you don't then I suggest you go to a site to meet people. I don't want to know you I just want to read your ideas and points of view. If you think because I don't want to be your friend or talk to you at tournaments or on the phone or thru e mails that my opinion is no good then DON'T READ MY POSTS. Thank You, GC |
| Nov. 29 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | r Nobody's talkin' and no one is saying anything. |
| Nov. 29 curveball Men's 65 705 posts | r Omar: What does this mean? I'm missing something. "Going to Palm Springs in February?" If you are, take some BP with us while you're here! |
| Nov. 29 gary c 418 posts | r Nobody's talkin' and no one is saying anything. Thanks best einstein post ever. |
| Nov. 29 Omar Khayyam 1357 posts | r curveball, don't know at this point if our team is going to go or not to Palm Springs. If we do, we have a gung-ho manager who always finds fields for BP. Thanks for the invite, though—it's real neighborly. |
| Nov. 30 curveball Men's 65 705 posts | r Omar, hope you guys play here in Feb. As it gets closer, I'll get some info so I can sat hello, maybe catch one of your games.............. |
| Nov. 30 taits Men's 65 4548 posts | r Omar, I've know Joe ( aka einstein) for 13 years, used to play against him back then. That is his moniker. ÊI also correspond with him on occasion. He isn't afraid of posting his addy, nor am I, mine is all over as is my #. I'm only aware of 2 t's Dirty has played in SSUSA T's some years ago, roughly '07. Not sure about the 3 mentioned here but it doesn't state SSUSA either. He does live in OH. I also know his address unless he moved within the last 2 years that is & his email. The latter is posted on here somewhere, by him.... As for someone actually knowing him, I believe there is one but that was awhile back but I forget who. As for monikers, I've said I don't care as long as info is worth while. Which as I believe you would agree not all is for the postings, either way. Perhaps its viewed as giving more credence to the post is slightly more valued or believable. You gotta believe; a lot lately, isn't. |
| Nov. 30 Omar Khayyam 1357 posts | r taits, amen. |
| Dec. 1 Dirty Men's 50 1371 posts | r We played this year in Lansing, Indianapolis, and Columbus, a mixture of SPA and SSUSA. No, we have not moved in 23 years. |
| Dec. 1 taits Men's 65 4548 posts | r Gary, Glad to read you spent the $money$ and went to a few. Down side very,costly, upside, playing & meeting the players, evens it out. All ya need is the white picket fence. Happy Holidays. |
| Dec. 1 Dirty Men's 50 1371 posts | r Scott, the other downside I learned a few years back is we often saw the same teams over and over. Just not that many that seem to play travel. And usually each weekend had the same results. Just pretty repetitive and predictable, I guess, as long as you play all the time in the same part of the country with what seems to be the same competition. Yea, no fence yet, too busy paying for multiple colleges. Happy holidays to you too. |
| Dec. 3 taits Men's 65 4548 posts | r Gary, The same holds true here as well, in respect to same teams attending your pitted against. With that in mind each new year does change the make up somewhat and it starts over again for a somewhat positive new look for the game. May you and your have a great holiday season also, thanks. |
