Jousting

Don Grose
There was a time when I could hold my own in a verbal joust with my oldest
son..now to find out - after all those years - he just let me win.
Can't hold a candle to him anymore...that's okay - he's still no match for me
on the golf course even with his nice Wilson Deep Red II Tour irons and woods -
and that very expensive putter he's got...He won't beat me again until April at
the earliest - when the snow goes away -

" Candles flicker, shadows cast, I drift back into dream...
Your voice it calms my stormy seas, I rest safe on the shore.
Chasms bridged and battles won, fears are quashed - worries none -
I'll be with you, once again when the day is done.." from " You Are " A poem for Charlene 2002

So , back to the NBA...I'm not a huge fan...at 5'7" sports for tall, thin, mobile people
have never held much allure...But as a sports fan I have to tell you I support King James
turning his back on the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest. Gawd ! The NBA should ban Slam Dunking...
not from the All-Star Game - but ban it...anybody caught slam dunking should immediately
have both legs amputated at the knee. I cannot beleive that there is enough fan appreciation
for hot digging at the potential expense of your team to offset the cost of potentially missing a key basket...Am I alone here ?!? The useless theatrics that I associate with the
NBA are everything I hate about Pro Sports today." No Dunk " Carter making a basket and then suffering immediate upper body paralysis with his hands at either side of his head is the basketball equivalent to stupid end zone celebrations in the NFL...all of these things had
their place when only the very gifted performed them occasionally...next we'll see baseball
handing out awards for the most sensational outfield basket catch of a routine fly ball...
or the NHL awarding the player who can use his stick to pole vault across the centre ice
face off circle after an offside. While I'm at it...there should not be a ticket to a pro
sporting event that costs more than $ 75.00 and players should all be paid a Base Salary of
$ 500,000.00 with incentives, personal and team making up the balance of their remuneration.
There personal incentives should never equal more than 25 % of the team incentives. Now, if
everyone else could just see things my way then we'd all be very happy.

So that's it....Advertising Tip of the Day....Business owners and managers are uniquely
unqualified to make decisions in a vacuum...they are too, too close to it...they fail to
see their businesses from their customers' point of view...Before you make any decisions
study your market...find out what the value of your product is...find out what your product
is up against in terms of competition...who is going to buy your product and what are they
replacing with your product ? The more information you can gather - the better your chances
of being successfull.

Happy Trials O'Possum !