Play ball! Or, um, not.
Jul. 17th, 2010 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieDear Brain,
Why do you insist on coming up with fic ideas concerning subjects about which I know nothing? Kidfic is bad enough; adding in baseball and hockey just magnifies the torture.
I have already written about my lack of experience with kids. My relationship to team sports goes something like this:
In high school, I earned the ire of everyone on my team in PE because I would duck rather than try to bat the volleyball over the net.
In fourth grade, I managed to kick the kickball into my own face, nearly break my glasses, and then quickly get tagged out by the unsympathetic hooligans I was playing with because I'd stepped off the plate.
We're not even going into the time in high school when someone backhanded me with a badminton racquet and knocked a lens out of my glasses, or that other time when a low-flying frisbee smacked me in the teeth, because at least those were not my fault.
Let's just say I'm probably lucky that HS only required a year of PE, and that I could substitute dance classes for it during much of middle school. So brain, why are you doing this? At least the idea doesn't require extensive knowledge of either sport to pull off, and I can cover the gaps with research, but...argh. You can't pick something I know about, or at least could lie convincingly about?
With raised eyebrows,
Me
Why do you insist on coming up with fic ideas concerning subjects about which I know nothing? Kidfic is bad enough; adding in baseball and hockey just magnifies the torture.
I have already written about my lack of experience with kids. My relationship to team sports goes something like this:
In high school, I earned the ire of everyone on my team in PE because I would duck rather than try to bat the volleyball over the net.
In fourth grade, I managed to kick the kickball into my own face, nearly break my glasses, and then quickly get tagged out by the unsympathetic hooligans I was playing with because I'd stepped off the plate.
We're not even going into the time in high school when someone backhanded me with a badminton racquet and knocked a lens out of my glasses, or that other time when a low-flying frisbee smacked me in the teeth, because at least those were not my fault.
Let's just say I'm probably lucky that HS only required a year of PE, and that I could substitute dance classes for it during much of middle school. So brain, why are you doing this? At least the idea doesn't require extensive knowledge of either sport to pull off, and I can cover the gaps with research, but...argh. You can't pick something I know about, or at least could lie convincingly about?
With raised eyebrows,
Me
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Date: 2010-07-20 11:42 pm (UTC)The way things are set up now is that there are two conferences, Eastern and Western, and each of those have 3 divisions of 5 teams each. The elimination goes Quarter Finales, Semi-Finales, Finales, Stanley Cup. Each round is best of 7 games. (So by the end it's possible to play an additional 28 games after the end of the regular season. The Stanley Cup playoffs are also generally considered one of the most brutal playoffs in sports as by the end everyone is injured.)
I'm not sure how that would change for an Earth Alliance league. The NHL has 30 teams currently and there are a number of European and Russian leagues.
The thing to note about the Stanley Cup is that Lord Stanley's Cup is the only trophy. The same trophy used in 1892 is the one used today. The original trophy is the bowl on top and various bases have been made over the years. The names of everyone on the winning team (including coaching staff and such) are engraved onto the cup every year. The winning team gets to host the cup for that year and each member gets to do whatever they want with the cup for a 24hr period. This has ranged from taking the cup to a children's hospital to taking the cup fishing.
And I've probably gone on long enough. Feel free to ask more questions.
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Date: 2010-07-21 03:22 am (UTC)I think--considering this is going to seriously be about two lines of dialogue--that I might just have them tease each other about going nuts during "playoffs," which would also take care of the possibility that their chosen teams wouldn't necessarily make it to the final rounds of each championship every year. (This is meant to be a long-standing thing between them.)