Had a talk with my 11 yr old this morning about the game this weekend. It honestly sounds like things you shouldn't have to say to an 11 yr old...but he's gotten himself into this position. His coaches have always promoted him as the best player...so inevitably he'll have to play the best player on the other team (center mid vs center mid in soccer). The boy he's about to play has beat out a hundred kids to earn that spot (giant NOLA club), my son didn't even really compete for it.

How do you get the competitive juices flowing? What do you say? Hey boy, tighten your chin strap?

Cheer up, it gets worse.

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Posted by Giantkiller

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Posted on 3/20/18 at 9:38 am to Gaston

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How do you get the competitive juices flowing? What do you say? Hey boy, tighten your chin strap?

It's a tough spot. For every parent that's dropping $10K a year on little Johnny to be the next youth baseball star, there's probably 10 other parents who are like "How the frick did we get into this bullshite?!"

My kids also like Star Wars and Pokemon and Transformers. There were other kids on the team who didn't know who R2D2 was.

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Posted by tigerfoot

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Posted on 3/20/18 at 9:48 am to Gaston

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How do you get the competitive juices flowing? What do you say? Hey boy, tighten your chin strap?

. I’ve told mine. The following “bow your neck, tighten your chinstrap” and other shite. He just looks at me and smiles.

“Sometimes it just ain’t your day” comes after that to end my cliches

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