There can be no REJECTIONS!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by Brian Beatty, Engineer on team #71, Team Hammond, from Hammond Schools and Beatty Machine.

Posted on 3/29/99 5:43 PM MST


In Reply to: ''I just want to play ball'' - Shoeless Joe
posted by Raul on 3/29/99 1:56 AM MST:



My last message was not intended to stir up controversy. I'm with you Raul, I want to have a good time. However, my totally sleepless night came on Friday after the first day of Q-matches. After all the pre-alliance BS that Baxter, Motorola, and Beatt
y had to go through, I was not having a good time. Hopefully, FIRST does make a modification to the rules to greatly reduce the awkwardness, game-playing, and discomfort of the selection process. That is the intention of these messages. But if the rules a
re not changed, that's OK. We're with you Greg(Baxter)and Raul, we are not going to play the political game at Nationals. If we're fortunate enough to play in the E-matches and
it's the 290th seed, that's OK, we're going to have fun and try to win.


As for throwing matches, I did not intend that to be the main reason for changing the rules-the selection process is the #1 reason. There are all kinds of messages now of people reacting to the obvious potential for us to throw match 6 for a sure high pic
k. What concerned me was the first person to mention it on Friday(I'm naive) was our soon-to-be valedictorian driver. He is a fine young man, and probably would never have done it, but it was there. While this sort of thing occurs in sports all the time(
future draft picks,ect.), it should be minimized if possible. Agreed, under my proposed idea, it will not be eliminated.

Enough for now, my head is also spinning(especially since I just finished watching the game films of #47 vs. #111-WOW!!!!)

Thanks
everyone,

Brian Beatty