100 - 0 win. Winners apologize?

Fifthfiend · 01-23-2009, 09:27 PM

First moving to General because HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL.

Second dude guys I don't know how much some of you follow high school sports but inasmuch as I've had anything to do with it on any level in pretty much any situation like this yes it is the winner's responsibility to not turn an unarguable win into an ultra-douchey blowout, it's like Rule 1 in the Not Being A Douche Book of High School Sportsmanship. It's like you know how in Boxing if one boxer punches the other boxer until he can't get up anymore? Well what he generally doesn't do after that is get on top of the other boxer with his knee to the other man's throat and continue punching him in the skull past the point of unconsciousness. This is sort of like that.

I mean if nothing else once you decide to go ahead and make that your reputation? Pretty much what's going to happen is every other team you play against is going to say "Hey guys look its Team Asshole" and light you the fuck up any way they can, because people tend to take unkindly to the prospect of being on the receiving end of that sort of thing. If a team knows once you've hit fifty damn points over whatever score you have, you're going to go ahead and run up fifty more? You're kind of taking away any incentive they might have had not to elbow you in the face at the first opportunity.

And hell, sugarcoating? At the point of say, fifty points to zero, what all amount of sugarcoating is going on? What point are you making about your relative athletic capabilities by scoring your second fifty points, that you didn't make when you scored the first fifty points (while ensuring that the other team scored zero points)?

01-23-2009, 09:27 PM	#18
Fifthfiend for all seasons Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,409	First moving to General because HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL. Second dude guys I don't know how much some of you follow high school sports but inasmuch as I've had anything to do with it on any level in pretty much any situation like this yes it is the winner's responsibility to not turn an unarguable win into an ultra-douchey blowout, it's like Rule 1 in the Not Being A Douche Book of High School Sportsmanship. It's like you know how in Boxing if one boxer punches the other boxer until he can't get up anymore? Well what he generally doesn't do after that is get on top of the other boxer with his knee to the other man's throat and continue punching him in the skull past the point of unconsciousness. This is sort of like that. I mean if nothing else once you decide to go ahead and make that your reputation? Pretty much what's going to happen is every other team you play against is going to say "Hey guys look its Team Asshole" and light you the fuck up any way they can, because people tend to take unkindly to the prospect of being on the receiving end of that sort of thing. If a team knows once you've hit fifty damn points over whatever score you have, you're going to go ahead and run up fifty more? You're kind of taking away any incentive they might have had not to elbow you in the face at the first opportunity. And hell, sugarcoating? At the point of say, fifty points to zero, what all amount of sugarcoating is going on? What point are you making about your relative athletic capabilities by scoring your second fifty points, that you didn't make when you scored the first fifty points (while ensuring that the other team scored zero points)? __________________ check out my buttspresso