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I posted before I read Steve's and Tim's recent contributions. Hear, hear. Santayana's words had occurred to me, too.
At least in soaring, I can't charge it off to most of our crowd being too young to have lived through the mistakes of the past. ![]() Chip Bearden |
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I posted before I read Steve's and Tim's recent contributions. Hear, hear.
Santayana's words had occurred to me, too. And to me as well, as noted previously not a contest pilot but merely an interested observer. At least in soaring, I can't charge it off to most of our crowd being too young to have lived through the mistakes of the past. ![]() Given the acrimony directly expressed and inferrable from this thread-to-date, it's good to know senses of humor can still find expression. ![]() And writing as one NOT too young to have lived through the mistakes of the past, it's also good to (apparently) learn - from the posts of Steve K., Tim T. and Chip B. (none of whom I know, but two of whom I could pick from a lineup) - that something previously only guessed at seems to be the actual case at present, i.e. (re-)introducing personal preferences into U.S. Team pilot selection. Neo-geezers like me well remember the brouhaha from the mid-/late-70s in "Soaring" mag accompanying the leaving off of George Moffat from the U.S. Team when he was at the time (if memory accurately serves) the existing (two-time) U.S. World Champion. So far as I could then tell, the only positive aspect I could see flowing from that whole unfortunate - apparently (from an organizational perspective) self-created - situation, was Mr. Moffat's grace under the circumstances (Moffat being another individual I could pick from a lineup). Kids can you spell, f - o - o - t - s - h - o - t? Assuming that I am accurately assessing the general aspects of the US Team selection process that have led to the present situation, I find myself in slack-jawed disbelief that the present situation - ill-grace being "merely" an incidental accompaniment - was not entirely predictable - and therefore avoidable - at the time the decision to "revisit the past" in a selection sense was taken...reGARDless of how that decision was undertaken/implemented. Understand I intend here to express no opinion on the *quality* of that decision - noting again, I have no dog in the fight - but rather/"merely" upon its *nature"...and its predictable results. Sheesh... Respectfully, Bob W. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
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