Steve Kelley for February 18, 2022

I don’t get it.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!!! Did I miss something??

/SHNARK/

Mom has a distinct point, although why Skelly is using a swimmer to make it is beyond my ability to understand. But what I’ve noticed about good parents is that they AMPLIFY and DIRECT what the kids want to do that could be good for them, and they DEFLECT the stuff that’s not so much so. And it’s very clear that the athletes who compete at the top level are monomaniacal hard workers about their sport, as well as having bodies that are way outside the norm. They’re weird… but it sure is fun to watch them excel!

I suspect Kelley was trying to make a point about transgender athletes here, and completely missed the mark. There is a legitimate debate on such issues, but Kelley has no interest in participating in it — nor is he competent to.

Because the only reason to play sports is to win win win and Mommy won’t love you if you don’t.

Kelley doesn’t understand real Athletics and Sports.

My money is on him being yet another beer-guzzling American Football Sucker.

A male swimmer at the U of Penn, who swam as a male for 3 years, now identifies as a female and is shattering all the female records. He still has male private parts, which he displays in the women’s locker room, but alas, he “identifies” as female. No one will call him / her out for this ridiculous story.

“Because it’s a wasted life without the gold, which YOU can never hope to win.”

Hey a silver is a silver it’s still good so is bronze stiggie implying that anything lesser than gold is lesser, is completely stupid

Or not………

Or you could study, follow your intellectual passion, apply your skills and talents, devote yourself to a meaningful career in which you positively affect people’s lives, find love, and have a fulfilling life in which you engage in sport purely for fun.

Ummmm…so what?

That way of all the loser you will be the first.

When recreation becomes a business.

I always thought just going to the Olympics itself was its own reward. To medal is icing on the cake.

And what about when transgenders start competing in boys’ sports? What then, Mr. Kelley? Stand up for your Y chromosome!

Now what’s got SKelley’s knickers in a twist?

Or, it could be referencing the idea that a doped-up competitor from the “ROC” will win gold.

Much -ado about silver.

If I understand Kelley’s intent here, it seems that he’s belittling any goal (or even life?) “less” than being the one and only number one “winner”.

And somehow, the implication that she could someday earn the second highest award in the sports world is meant to show how hopeless it is for her? Ridiculous.

This notion, that you have to aspire to world championship to motivate yourself, is patently absurd and sets young athletes up for disaster. It gives them unrealistic expectations, leading them to give up when they start to get some real competition, because they’ve never learned how to cope with failure.

Newsflash: almost no athletes make it to the Olympics at all. That is because there are lot of people much better than them. But do they give up? No! There was a future Olympian on my brother’s high school swim team. Nobody had the slightest chance against him. But did they all throw in the towels because they weren’t going to get first? Of course not. They swam their best, and their best kept getting better. They worked hard to see how fast they could go. Nobody was writing letters to the school board complaining that this private school student was being allowed to compete in the public school team and beating everyone (by multiple laps).

Karen is a loser.