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To: MEGoody

Yes, because some of us male types are unable to comprehend that the games are simply played differently.

I have a daughter playing Division 1 lacrosse in the Big East, and yes, a 14-16 boys team would kick their a$$e$ if the game was played according to the men's rules. If the boys played to the women's rules, I'd be surprised if they scored at all (no pockets in the sticks, very different rules about defense around the goal, and so on).

And I have also watched a few high school baseball players attempt to stand in the batter's box with a pretty fair softball pitcher on the mound. That was a funny sight.


61 posted on 01/05/2006 7:08:36 AM PST by dmz
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To: dmz

If the games have significantly different rules, then you cannot really use sport for comparison: it seems to me that the legitimate comparisons are in sports where the rules do not significantly differ. I noticed in the hockey game cited in this article, they played pretty much by the girls rules.


66 posted on 01/05/2006 7:13:58 AM PST by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: dmz
And I have also watched a few high school baseball players attempt to stand in the batter's box with a pretty fair softball pitcher on the mound. That was a funny sight.

Was she 46 feet away, or sixty feet away? This argument has always intrigued me. Yes, softball pitchers throw extremely hard, but for a true comparison you'd have to let a baseball pitcher throw from 46 feet. Which I don't think anyone could hit.

74 posted on 01/05/2006 7:29:43 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Defeatism may have its partisan uses but it is not justified by the facts.")
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