How not to be seen
It’s been a good few months since I’ve posted here. Since May, I’ve only had one post. It’s a far cry from the hey-days of this blog when I posted multiple times a week. I didn’t think anyone noticed that I wasn’t blogging much anymore (or maybe they did notice but didn’t want me to start up again).
Last night, someone on another team asked me why I hadn’t posted in a while and wanted me to start posting again. There are a variety of reasons why I stopped – lack of personal time, lack of motivation, lack of new material, other stuff that I’ll not get into in relation to blogging about our league/rink – but I’ve missed writing about our little world of hockey.
I also had a conversation with another player in our league about the frustration this person felt in the direction of the league and sandbagging talent-level disparity just-having-fun-let’s-all-be-friends issue in Silver B. We discussed how it’s a sad state of affairs when even the referees (yes, several) recognize and comment on certain players who are blatantly sandbagging and yet nothing is being done about it. Despite my silence on the blog in recent months, I’ve not stopped bringing the sandbagging issue up to the other captains or the league’s administration, and I continue to work in that regard. It’s an uphill battle but I feel things will only improve if we don’t give up on the issue.
It also just so happened that I coincidentally received an e-mail from an anonymous source this morning on the same topic. I just had to post it on the blog. This individual sent me a video called “How Not to be Seen“. It could easily be called “How to Hide Your Ringer”:
In the rec hockey world, you hide your ringer on defense and hope that they don’t rack up enough stats to catch anyone’s attention. But, even then, sometimes a player is so talented that such a strategy is still not enough to hide their talent.
For better or worse, I’m back.
Singh10.
