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Winning is Everything
A good friend of mine was inspired to create this video and post it to YouTube yesterday:
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It's not just the sort of video you should see: it's definitely one you'll want to show to your kids. There's a great lesson to be learned here -- by kids and adults alike.
Still, I'm not sure I agree with the lesson Don imparted at the end -- that "Winning is much more than the final score: it's how you feel at the end of the day!"
I think most people would come up with a different lesson than Don did. What would you say the lesson is from this amazing display of sportsmanship?
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Posted by Bill, Potomac, MD on May 10, 2008:
Wow! What an incredible display of sportmanship (sportspersonship?). Your friend is right in that actions like this by our college student generation bode well for the future of our world.
My only cavil is that the narrator should know a little bit more about the sport he is telling us about - those are "runs" not "points."
Posted by Josh in Colorado on May 13, 2008:
For those wondering about the technicalities of this.
A home run is indeed a dead ball, but home plate is not "awarded" to the runner. "Awarded" bases are those given in cases such as balks, walks, and interference fouls- the opposite of awarded in this sense is earned. A home run is an earned base. During the course of a homerun, all normal baserunning rules apply, except that obviously there is no way for the opposing team to tag you out. It is possible (and indeed has happened) for the runners to get "out" in several ways- touching a teammate is one of them.
In the event that a runner cannot finish the base run during a dead ball (this includes ground rule doubles too) the play resumes with that runner at the last base touched. In this case, we can assume the poor girl touched first as she collapsed in pain (since she missed it first pass). Any pinch runner put in for her would have begun the next play on the last base touched, ie first base.
Posted by Tiffany, Philippines on May 16, 2008:
Well -- results are everything. I'm sorry to say but it's true.