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Message ID: 1074
Date: Thu Dec 16 16:45:32 GMT 1999
Author: Robert Hillyer
Subject: Rules Changing
All rules are subject to change.....
Let's take professional sports as an example. Players on pro sports
teams make friends on the team that they only see when they are
playing/practicing. They only talk to them on the sidelines/in the
dugout/at practices. It's still just a game, not a way of life. And when
the rules change, and they do every so often, the players don't quit,
they find ways to deal with the rule changes and the game goes on. No
one quit being an offensive lineman when Football changed the rules and
made it illegal for offensive linemen to use their hands (they used to
be able to grab defensive linemen with their hands, now its called
holding...). No one quit pro Basketball when they made it illegal to
stand under the basket as long as you wanted or help guide a shot in (
you used to be able camp out under the basket as long as you wanted and
guide anything in, now its a 3-second violation and offensive goal
tending, thanks in a large part to Wilt Chamberlin using both these
tactics to score 100 points in a single game...). No one quit Baseball
when they added the DH nor did they quit Football when they added the
forward pass (it used to be illegal to throw the ball forward, I'm sure
lots of defenses were P.O.'d and thought the game was ruined, but they
kept playing and found ways to deal with it...) Lots of things will
change in life, and some will seem very unfair, but whinning never
solved any problems, and I know of no one who won anything by
quitting...
Tymbyrwulf
Solusek Ro