Some random thoughts while taking the kids to Snow Camp.
-Locals in Northern Indiana, take note. Something special is happening at Elkhart Christian Academy. The Boys basketball team owns wins over Elkhart Memorial and Mishawaka this season. The seven seniors on the roster may be something truly special, worthy of competing at the highest levels of 1A basketball. I won't drink all the Kool-Aid just yet, but watch their upcoming matchups with Triton, Warsaw and Senior Night with Elkhart Central. This team could put a State Championship Banner in the rafters. As eighth graders, some of these kids put a National Championship team together as travel players.
-Watched Once in a Lifetime: The Story of the New York Cosmos last night. I have seen this movie before and was amazed at how prophetic Dick Young turned out to be. He denigrated the signing of Pele by the Cosmos saying it would signal the death of his beloved baseball, which he wrote about for 44 years around the New York area. The murderer was not Pele, it was Baseball itself. Let's keep paying mediocre top level players exorbitant salaries (can anyone say Shin-Soo Choo?) and the game will swallow itself in a sea of red ink.
-The wrong football replaced baseball. American (NFL) football has pervaded every level of consciousness. The NFL did a masterful job of controlling salaries through the collective bargaining agreement, then promoted itself shamelessly. How the NFL handles concussions and the next collective bargaining agreement will determine it's place in American consciousness. Baseball could learn a few lessons.
-The NHL prepares for an outdoor game at The Big House in Ann Arbor on Wednesday. I love the idea of the outdoor series, but find it interesting that they plan to do this in Los Angeles, when the Ducks and the Kings play at Dodger Stadium. Players around the league complain about the ice in Southern California enough without taking it outside. I hope the technology is good enough to make this work the way it needs to for a regular season game.
-Thank you, Snow Camp! Glad to get the kids out of the house for a few days and just be who we are without being parents all the time. I really admire the parents who will work with these kids over the next four days. They are incredibly committed to our children.
So...am I off base?
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