07:55 – Here’s some cheering news. Our kids are losing interest in participating in team sports. From 2000 through 2013, kids’ participation in baseball plummeted from 8.8 million annually to 5.3 million. But it’s not just baseball. Basketball, softball, and soccer showed similar declines. I hope this hemorrhaging means the impending death of team sports, both in sports leagues and schools. Sports teams are nothing but organized gangs. If we must have kids participating in sports, let it be individual sports: tennis, track and field, weightlifting, wrestling, swimming, martial arts, shooting, archery, and so on. And let’s get sports out of our schools entirely. If schools want to have competitions, let them compete academically in things like science and math, chess, bridge, and so on. The focus should be on individual excellence. Individuals matter. Groups don’t.
I got tired of working on kit stuff yesterday, so I knocked off around noon and started working on the prepping book. I may do the same today.