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Were you picked first or last for the sports team?
I spoke to my 11 year old sister today on the phone, (she lives in Australia, I live a long, long way away). She told me that she got picked first for netball today. I was like;
"What, they nominated two kids to be captain and then you all stood in a line and got picked one by one?" "Yep. And I got picked first!" "That's great," I said, but inside I was seething. I never got picked first, if anything I was the last pick. Which is funny because after school I was the only one of my class to make a living from sport. I had assumed that the school system would have phased this sort of stuff out by now. If anything is designed to make kids feel like a piece of [censored] it's watching all the other kids being picked, desperately hoping that the little bastard who is captain is going to pick you, until finally you're picked because there's nobody else left. And then you play like crap and confirm why you're last pick. So were you guys first or last pick? And were any of you the captains? Oh man, to be the captain and GET TO PICK! That was a dream..... |
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Re: Were you picked first or last for the sports team?
I was almost always the captain, don't know why. Guess the gym teachers loved me.
I was usually picked among the first, I don't think I was ever picked first though. Good enough to get picked first, not popular enough to get picked first. |
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Re: Were you picked first or last for the sports team?
Always last. I would be picked last today. As able-bodied young men go, I must be in the bottom tenth in terms of athletic gifts, which makes the fact that I am a serious amateur athlete particularly odd.
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Re: Were you picked first or last for the sports team?
Am i the only kid who went from last the 1st day, middle the 2nd day, Then 1st(top pick) the rest of the year?
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Re: Were you picked first or last for the sports team?
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Am i the only kid who went from last the 1st day, middle the 2nd day, Then 1st(top pick) the rest of the year? [/ QUOTE ] Me too I usually went in the top 50% the first time playing with a group. After that it was top few slots. |
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Re: Were you picked first or last for the sports team?
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Am i the only kid who went from last the 1st day, middle the 2nd day, Then 1st(top pick) the rest of the year? [/ QUOTE ] Nah, That happened to me my first day of school after moving. 4th grade, and lucky me, we played dodgeball (different from Hawaiian style DB) during gym. I got picked last, obv, who wants a chick that no one knows about on their team?? Guys didn't know this girl could sidearm a 4 square ball, suckas!!!!! From then on, I was never picked last on any team for any sport. |
#7
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It definitely puts a chip on my shoulder when I get picked in the later rounds for basketball (my height prevents me from ever being the default kid), makes me play harder though. [/ QUOTE ] lol, this is always quite satisfying. Being 5'10", white, and looking more like a linebacker than a basketball player really screws your draft position. Little do they know I shot %53 from downtown my last two years of highschool basketball. |
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I was almost always the captain, don't know why. Guess the gym teachers loved me. I was usually picked among the first, I don't think I was ever picked first though. Good enough to get picked first, not popular enough to get picked first. [/ QUOTE ] Same here. |
#9
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Re: Were you picked first or last for the sports team?
Soccer - First
Baseball/Softball, Football - Middle Basketball - Last I'm pretty athletic, but have always sucked at basketball. It didn't help that I didn't hit my major growth spurt until high school (I'm now 5'9"). I'm also surprised they still do things like this at school. |
#10
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Re: Were you picked first or last for the sports team?
Somewhere in the middle usually, but it depended on the sport.
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