Sports Related Problems in Your Day
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 12:59 am
Hello everybody. I started this thread for people to post any bad situations that occurred recently to you that were caused by sports but are not really significant enough to start a new thread about. I apologize if a similar thread exists. I suppose many of the members likely won't have much to say because a lot of them are out of high school and are done dealing with immature jocks, but I suppose some of these people still face occasional problems caused because of sports.
Well, today, as I mentioned in another thread, we were playing baseball in gym class, which is a sport I really dislike because it forces you to bat while everyone in the entire game is watching you, so if you mess up, you are ridiculed and even physically assaulted just because you aren't as good as the rest; also, as Earl mentioned in another topic, you get very little physical activity in the sport, and exercise such as weightlifting can provide much more physical activity. I was standing somewhere between 1st and 2nd base when the ball came towards me at a very high speed and I failed to catch it, which caused the ball to continue far away. I even sprinted to retrieve the ball as fast as I could, but the teacher was so mad that he yelled at me and made me run laps around the track for the rest of the class. I ended up running at least 6-8 km with no stops just because I wasn't that good at the game. The reason why he was so upset is because in games, usually one gym class faces the other, and my gym teacher was tired of losing so he took his anger out on me just because I wasn't as good. This teacher was my science teacher last semester. I got the best mark by far in his science class, and he knew I was a hard worker, yet just because I failed to catch a ball I had to run a very long distance. He never made anyone run laps in his science class for missing an answer on a test. I guess I preferred running laps instead because I did actual physical activity without doing a humiliating sport (even though being forced to run laps was also quite humiliating), but still, I felt it was quite unfair. I was even tempted to grab my bag and just leave for the class because it was unfair punishment, but I decided it wasn't worth it. When the class had to run an 800 metre lap around the track and the vast majority walked while I ran around the track and was even the second to finish even though I was one of the last to start, the teacher did not yell at his favourite athletes in the class who were walking, yet even though he knew I ran as fast as I could around the track at the start of the class, he still punished me for not catching a ball in a pointless sport.
Well, today, as I mentioned in another thread, we were playing baseball in gym class, which is a sport I really dislike because it forces you to bat while everyone in the entire game is watching you, so if you mess up, you are ridiculed and even physically assaulted just because you aren't as good as the rest; also, as Earl mentioned in another topic, you get very little physical activity in the sport, and exercise such as weightlifting can provide much more physical activity. I was standing somewhere between 1st and 2nd base when the ball came towards me at a very high speed and I failed to catch it, which caused the ball to continue far away. I even sprinted to retrieve the ball as fast as I could, but the teacher was so mad that he yelled at me and made me run laps around the track for the rest of the class. I ended up running at least 6-8 km with no stops just because I wasn't that good at the game. The reason why he was so upset is because in games, usually one gym class faces the other, and my gym teacher was tired of losing so he took his anger out on me just because I wasn't as good. This teacher was my science teacher last semester. I got the best mark by far in his science class, and he knew I was a hard worker, yet just because I failed to catch a ball I had to run a very long distance. He never made anyone run laps in his science class for missing an answer on a test. I guess I preferred running laps instead because I did actual physical activity without doing a humiliating sport (even though being forced to run laps was also quite humiliating), but still, I felt it was quite unfair. I was even tempted to grab my bag and just leave for the class because it was unfair punishment, but I decided it wasn't worth it. When the class had to run an 800 metre lap around the track and the vast majority walked while I ran around the track and was even the second to finish even though I was one of the last to start, the teacher did not yell at his favourite athletes in the class who were walking, yet even though he knew I ran as fast as I could around the track at the start of the class, he still punished me for not catching a ball in a pointless sport.