Jacob. I am an expert. Today. Making this statement, in and of itself
does not make me an expert. Winning a national champion****p also does not
make me an expert. Writing a book about tactics and techniques does not
make me an expert. Playing on a winning team does not make me an expert.
History will be the judge that I've been an expert of Ultimate long before
2008 so you won't need to worry about the chronology. I'm an expert by
virtue of the fact that compared to the 15 top teams in the country
playing
this weekend in Santa Cruz, my thinking offensively is light years ahead
of
everyone else. Don't confuse thought with obsession. Not that I don't
suffer from OCD but there have been decades of thought that has gone into
my
expertise.
These teams are doing absolutely nothing strategically to have an impact
on
the defense. They run harder and jump higher than ever before but they
are
still *winning* by sheer overpowering their opponent.
As long as the experts in this s****t are defined as those who play on
winning teams, this s****t is going nowhere.
"jacob" <jacobsider@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Frank: Someday Jacob you will be eating these words in a Crow
> Casserole. That is all."
>
> Frank, it is interesting that your response is based upon a
> prediction. If you read my post again, you will see that I did not
> rule out the possibility that you will become an expert in ultimate at
> some point in the future. So, if you become an expert "someday," I
> will not be obligated to eat crow, in casserole form or otherwise. I
> will only have to eat crow in the event that in the future, it is
> somehow established that you were an expert in ultimate as of 2008,
> which will be a very tricky thing to measure.
>
> But this isn't really about whether or not I will eat crow, Frank. It
> is about whether a person can be an expert by their own proclamation
> of expertise. You didn't answer any of my questions about this.
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