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Originally posted by ulfie@Nov 1 2002, 09:33 PM
I bought a box of full sized kit kat bars and didn't have 1 kid show up. Part of it was the weather but even my next door neighbors didn't bring their 2 kids over and they always do.
It's depressing to not see kids playing sports anymore. When I was a kid our parents used to have to drag us off the field/ice/snow now I rarely see any kids outside. I had a pitchers mound on the side of my house that I used to spend hours every day practicing on. I painted a strike zone on the block wall and worked on hitting the corners of it with a tennis ball. Once the ball came off the wall I praticed fielding the ball. It taught me a lot of life lessons being involved with sports and also gained me a lot of perks. How many 16 year olds get a trip to Europe to play Nintendo? I played in 3 Rivers Stadium, the old mets spring traing stadium in FL, hit a home run off John Burkett, etc. Things I will never forget. It would be truly sad to have your greatest childhood memory being that you got to level 19 on some stupid video game.
Enough ranting, back to work.
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Ulfie -
I see a LOT of kids around here playing football - but no pickup games - all the pee-wee leagues, etc. I was amazed as soon as I moved to Miami how there seems to be after-school organized football at every level all over the place.